Sunday, December 30, 2007
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Free utility to monitor and report hard drive health
Tonight it looked like more hard-drive woes at Phil's house. They seem to have gone away after switching a drive to a different SATA channel, but, as a man with a very poor back-up strategy in place (i.e. almost no back-ups whatsoever) this sort of thing scares me a bit. Have found a utility that can display information that your hard-drive reports to the computer using SMART. It's free. Clickety click.
Monday, December 17, 2007
Christmas shopping... (real shops vs online shopping)
Maplin have some impressive deals on lots of stuff, a lot of it on special offer, half price car speakers, powerballs for £10 (vs £15 at amazon), and lots of other gadgety gift type things. They also seem to have the cheapest twin pack of Mini Remote Control Cars at £15.
If you're looking for paper, for example print your own A6 greeting cards, then staples have the best range, way better than PC World, they also have a surprisingly number of winter car things for really cheap (like de-icer and washer fluid for £1.49). 4gb Sandisk pen drives are £20 at Staples vs £15 at Amazon.
If you're looking for ink for your printer, then sites online like mx2 are still way cheaper, but if you have to buy it in a store then some supermarkets like Tesco / Sainsburys are often cheaper than PC World / Staples.
The Simpsons movie / Bourne Ultimatum DVDs are cheaper at Sainsburys, at £8.75 (vs £10 at Tesco, and £12 at play.com).
Tesco have Kodak digital cameras with optical zoom for £50, which is the same price you'll pay for a similar Samsung camera from Amazon (although admittedly Amazon have an infinitely better range of budget digital cameras and much cheaper memory cards as well).
Tesco are giving customers a £5 voucher for use when they spend £50 or more.
Forget the Wii, why not buy a Pleo instead, only £249!
Have you seen any good deals?
If you're looking for paper, for example print your own A6 greeting cards, then staples have the best range, way better than PC World, they also have a surprisingly number of winter car things for really cheap (like de-icer and washer fluid for £1.49). 4gb Sandisk pen drives are £20 at Staples vs £15 at Amazon.
If you're looking for ink for your printer, then sites online like mx2 are still way cheaper, but if you have to buy it in a store then some supermarkets like Tesco / Sainsburys are often cheaper than PC World / Staples.
The Simpsons movie / Bourne Ultimatum DVDs are cheaper at Sainsburys, at £8.75 (vs £10 at Tesco, and £12 at play.com).
Tesco have Kodak digital cameras with optical zoom for £50, which is the same price you'll pay for a similar Samsung camera from Amazon (although admittedly Amazon have an infinitely better range of budget digital cameras and much cheaper memory cards as well).
Tesco are giving customers a £5 voucher for use when they spend £50 or more.
Forget the Wii, why not buy a Pleo instead, only £249!
Have you seen any good deals?
Thursday, December 13, 2007
If you need another reason why you shouldn't eat at McDonalds...
then this is a pretty convincing argument. Many McDonalds car parks will now charge you £125 if you spend more than 45 minutes in the car park! If you feel like complaining about this, then here's the McDonalds contact page.
Build your own engine...
Haynes sell a "working" build your own engine for £25.
"Build a realistic working model of a combustion engine. Includes light and sound features, light up spark plugs and moving pistons, valvegear and fan belt. Includes a 'Haynes Manual'"
"Build a realistic working model of a combustion engine. Includes light and sound features, light up spark plugs and moving pistons, valvegear and fan belt. Includes a 'Haynes Manual'"
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Thursday, December 06, 2007
Of course you should spend £200 on a fancy keyboard
You can edit the images on each key using software. Imagine that. Coo wee, wow.
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