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Archive for March, 2010

Steam cleaning your carpets with this baby and you’ll probably be embarrassed, not to mention, disgusted at what’s removed from your carpets. I’ve steam cleaned carpets before with other machines and with professionals and never saw the results I did here. Maybe my carpets were extra dirty? Dunno, but the buckets of gray/black water I emptied from the cleaner made me a believer that this cleaner works!

I picked it up after doing my research and am very happy with my purchase. I should have known..it’s a Hoover, and I have a Hoover vacuum cleaner going on 12+ years. Read the instructions, take your time, and you’ll be on your way to cleaner carpets!

Not worried about spills or accidents anymore. Worth every penny!
Micro Switch LSZ1A Side

First of all, please bear with me as English is not my first language.

I am not necessarily a big Apple fan.
I briefly owned a first generation Nano and I didn’t like it. I also briefly owned a first generation Iphone and I wholeheartedly disliked it. I am also kind of forced to use a Mac in my recording studio, that I am defintely not in love with.
And having to travel quite a lot, I ended up owning quite a few mp3, mp4 players throughout the past decade.
What ended up convincing me to buy an ipod touch, beside the stunning looks of the item itself, is laziness: being the de facto standard of mp3 players, you have access to a wide range of cool accessories -docks, speakers, covers, skinds, etc- that arent’ surely available for other brands and the Itunes, Appstore thing ended up sounding appealing.

In a nutshell: there are better players out there in terms of sheer performance. I have a chinese offbrand player with an 800*480 amoled whose video quality can’t be even compared to the Touch’s. I have a 320gb archos that in terms of storage space and comfort (drag and drop the files and that’d be it) is miles above the Ipod. And I still also believe that the two philips I own (and the other chinese Nationite one) sound somewhat better than the Ipod. But still, after a couple weeks spent trying to get ahold of the whole Itunes philosophy, I strongly think that I won’t go back. The thing looks awesome, has a decent sound (of course what kind of in ears or headphones you end up using will make all the difference, as the included ear buddies are abysmal, in my humble opinion), battery is just ok (but I bought a Satechi auxiliary batter and I just LOVE the thing) but it’s Itunes, once you get ahold of it, that makes the thing amazing. Organizing your songs, videos, apps is
a breeze. No more wasted space with 193 copies of the same mp3. You can actually surf with the thing without going crazy. Some of the apps are irresistible (plants vs zombies is destroying my social
Ride the Big Red

I’m a fiftysomething guy who has technology problems. The iPod wasn’t too hard to figure out. I kinda had buyer’s remorse for a week or so but now I would hate to be without it. One of my favorite things I didn’t even know about when I got it was the Kindle app from Amazon that allows me to read books. I put all my CDs in using the iTunes program and it caused me to listen to lots of my old music I hadn’t heard for a long while which was a plus. I don’t like the glass front and scratched it trying to keep it clean. So I put a Zagg invisible shield on it which I think is an amazing product but not for everybody. It gives it a feel like the touchpad on a microwave and a bit of an orange peel texture to the appearance but indestructible. If I had it to do over I would. I’m giving it four stars instead of five cause I would have liked to get it cheaper.
Wrong Platform

Very pleased with the product, the service, and the reasonable price from EatSmart. We give this a 5 star in every category.
Bric s Life 28

Great watch to ramp up to from the usual fitness watch/heart monitor. Great to have all dimensions of training, distance, pace, laps, heart rate, time, etc easily accessible all on one watch. Have raced against the watch once and it is a motivator. Have not used much of the download features yet. Great just for daily workouts and accurate when you are working out on a road to help with pace.
Acer EXTERNAL BATTERY CHARGER

StriVectin HC Ultra Concentrate

As an inveterate reader in Australia, I was concerned that a 3 month driving tour of Italy & France would be problematic in terms of finding reading material in English so I bought a Kindle. I had to return it after a few days as it would not keep a charge. Amazon was very good about sending a replacement to my first stop in Rome. The second Kindle was the same as the first except it arrived in “batter critical”condition and also had to be returned. As I am travelling without any particular itnerary it would necessitate staying in one place for a week or so just to get a third Kindle delivered. I decided ónce bitten, twice shy even though I had been bitten twice.

Dealing over the internet was easy in Australia, Amazon would call me. But from Italy I could only prompt a call if I lived in USA (or Guam???).

The attempt to be customer centric seems sincere but in my case it failed miserably. I have bought and returned two Kindles both with the same problem within a few weeks and my faith is insufficient to order another. It’s a great idea and I was really looking forward to reading all the latest plus the International Herald Tribune daily. Too bad.

If you guys sort out the product problem, let me know. Maybe you could test them before you ship?
Charter and By laws

I own an office cleaning business and it’s as good as any vac I’ve used with one caveat…sand and grit get embedded in the hard plastic wheels and scratch hardwood floors – especially if your woods floors are dark. It becomes like “rolling sandpaper.” Bummer, we just installed the floors. GREAT VAC JUST KEEP OFF THE HARDWOOD.
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IDEALDECOR TROMPE L OEIL

Prior to purchasing this product I was reading other reviews and, as always, found myself unsure of whether to spend the money on the Kindle. I had really wanted one for a while and didn’t want to buy and have it be a big disappointment. After reading other reviews, the good, the bad and the ugly, I decided that I have very rarely gone wrong with Amazon.com so I went ahead and ordered it with the full intention of returning it if I wasn’t absolutely thrilled. I recieved the Kindle about a month or so ago and downloaded one of the free books to try it out. I didn’t want to go spending more money on it if I wasn’t going to keep it. Well, I absolutely loved it! No more glasses at night if I started to get tired, just change the font size. The only recommendation I have is since it does read like paper, get a book light with it when you order for nightime reading. Since getting the Kindle a little over a month ago, I am on my 3rd book with my new favorite read being the first free classic book I downloaded to try it “Pride and Prejudice”.
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