Archive for gadgets
December 14, 2007 at 2:23 pm · Filed under gadgets
What do you do when your furniture gets old and ugly?
If you have enough money, you can go buy a new one. But if you don’t want to spend a lot on furniture, replacing the upholstery is an option. Who wouldn’t like to get some nice discount velvet upholstery fabric to give the old couch a new, modern look?
Design Diva Fabrics offers a wide collection of brocade, chenilles, tapestry, embroideries, faux furs, linens, wools and many other types of fabrics, suitable for curtains and upholstery. All fabrics come with a 7 days guarantee: if for some reason you are not satisfied with your purchase, you just ship it back and send an email to Design Diva Fabrics to let them know the courier you used and the tracking number of your parcel, and you’ll be reimbursed your money, minus 15%.
The website is easy to navigate, the fabrics can be sorted by brand, by type, or by style, and you have a shopping cart for your purchases. All items have photos, and they are quite good quality and they can be enlarged, so you can make yourself an idea of how the respective fabrics look like.
If you are still not sure what you want, you have the option to buy some samples first, and to make the real purchase after you see and touch them.
For each product, you have the possibility to ask a question about that specific fabric, simply by clicking a button. Many items have sale prices displayed, together with the validity date.
Shipping is not free, but for the US, the prices are reasonable. For other countries, you have to ask.
The site includes a testimonials page, where you can add your own, in case you are satisfied.
December 11, 2007 at 2:49 pm · Filed under gadgets
Even children today have a mobile phone. My grandmother has one, and she manages to use it pretty well. But how do we choose our mobiles? Aren’t we maybe spending too much on functions we never use?
I can tell you my grandma never used the email function of her mobile. That’s because she doesn’t even have an email address. Or the bluetooth! She has no idea what that is. All she wants is to have all her friends’ numbers in the agenda, to be able to dial them pretty quick, and she also wants the phone to have big keys, because her sight is not fabulous at almost 90 years of age.
Let’s take myself: I pretend I want to use my mobile’s email function, but I postponed getting a subscription since almost three years ago (since the day I bought the phone, actually). I could have got another model, at half price, good looking, and with everything I actually use. Why did I pay the extra money? Just to make sure that if one day I will be able to use those extra functions.
Yesterday I got a new mobile phone, and believe me, it has only the basics. It was almost free, and it has a very nice design, so I suppose I’ll be satisfied with it. Why pay more? Have your say, please!
December 10, 2007 at 9:30 am · Filed under gadgets
Congratulations! you just got yourself a new iPod. It looks gorgeous when it is new, but what will happen when you’ll put it in your pocket, together with your keys? Maybe you should consider getting also an ipod case to protect your beauty.
What if you just hate those mobile phone and mp3 player cases which make the device slook much bigger and which make them very hard to use? Well, you could consider getting an invisibleSHIELD, which is not just another case, or just another screen shield protector. It was initially created by the military, with the purpose of protecting the leading edges of helicopter blades, so you can imagine how protected your gadget will be. Besides, it is almost invisible, so you’ll even forget it is there, and your friends won’t even notice it (of course, if you won’t tell them yourself).
The best part is that if you are not satisfied with your invisibleSHIELD, you can ask your money back during the first 30 days. Besides, if it gets scratched, the producer will replace it for free, for life. I think it’s interesting. However, I’ll have to get myself an iPod first.
This is a sponsored review
December 7, 2007 at 12:21 pm · Filed under gadgets
Toolbars are very fashionable today. Google has a toolbar, Yahoo has a toolbar, lots of other services come with a free toolbar, easy to install and which helps you make use of the provided goodies.
I’ve just discovered three free, specialized toolbars which I want to share with you. If you like any of them and you want to try it, just click on the picture next to it, and you’re done.
1. The music search toolbar:
Features:
- special interest search,
- search features,
- toolbar search,
- auto search,
- error search,
- search assistant,
- search provider,
- marketing buttons.
If for some reasons you don’t like to have so many things on the toolbar, you can disable most of the features.
It is free and it works only for US residents.
2. The video toolbar
Features:
- One click access to view favorite clips
- Toolbar search
- Auto search
- Error search
- Search provider
- Search assistant
The video toolbar is a tool which can save you a lot of time: for example, you can watch top videos from YouTube in a very easy way.
It is also free and it works for US residents.
3. The Recipes Toolbar
Features:
- Toolbar search
- Auto search
- Error search
- Search provider
- Search assistant
This is a great tool, with Christmas almost knocking at our doors. Every housewife wants to impress her guests these days, and a good meal can do miracles when it comes to making a good impression.
It is also free, and it addresses to US residents.
I hope you find these three tools useful. Anyway, in case you don’t want them anymore, you can uninstall them at any time.
December 6, 2007 at 3:45 am · Filed under gadgets
Children like to be in the center of attention. With their family, most of the times they really are, but when they go to kindergarden they get lost in the crowd, as they are like any other children, so they have to do something special to get themselves noticed. As they like to play roles, imagine how impressed they could be if they were the main character of a cartoon movie.
You can offer them this surprize: all you need to do is send a photo of your child to be featured in a Photo-Personalized Cartoon DVD, side by side to famous and cherrished characters like Santa Claus or the dancing penguins.
If you order it before December 10th, the producers guarantee you’ll have it before Christmas, so there is still a bit of time left for you to consider this. The DVD has a discounted price of $29.99.
The offer is available for US residents only. I don’t know about you, but I would have been very amused as a child if I received such a gift.
December 5, 2007 at 12:41 am · Filed under gadgets
Some time ago, there was a kind of fashion: people rushed in to buy Diesel engine cars, because they seemed to be cheaper to run on the long term. Such cars were more expensive than gasoline cars, but they had two advantages:
- A lower fuel consumption
- Cheaper fuel
While the first point on the list is stil valid, the second one has been blown away, now prices for Diesel and gasoline being equal.
Under these circumstances, the difference of price you pay when you get a Diesel car is paid off after more than 10 years of service, which is a very long time. I don’t intend to keep my car for so long, so in my case, it will never pay off.
In this conditions, I expect a shift in the car market trend over the next few years: people won’t be so keen on paying extra money to get Diesel engines. Besides, the new current of hybrid cars seems very attractive, as we all know how polluted our cities are.
Hybrid cars still have a high price because of the novelty, but I expect them to become affordable within 2-3 years.
December 3, 2007 at 6:26 am · Filed under gadgets
I remember last summer, when we’ve spent our holiday in a small Greek resort: evenings were delightful, walking by the sea was a real pleasure, and most of all we enjoyed sitting on a terrace, eating and drinking all kinds of Greek specialties. Very fast, we became addicted to one of the terraces, and the reason was very simple: they had a telescope for their guests’ use. I never imagined until then that gazing at the night sky can be so much fun. Too bad that we could not take some photos of the moon with our CCD digital cameras, so I cannot show you what attracted us, but if you ever have the chance to look through a telescope, don’t miss it.
Nevertheless, since then, I started to search the net for optical devices like telescopes and binoculars, and I even bought a pair of Bushnell binoculars.
One of the sites which offer well known brands, such as Bushnell, Meade or Celestron is Anacortes Telescope & Wild Bird. Not only they offer a wide range of binoculars, telescopes and digital cameras, but they also have a collection of related books, plus a cool gallery of astronomy and birds photos, and even a classifieds section, for those of you who might want to sell their old equipment.
This is a sponsored review
December 2, 2007 at 8:54 pm · Filed under gadgets
By Lance Winslow
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Just when you thought you could not afford an mobile video system for your car or SUV the prices are coming down like never before and there are also many sales going on as well as cheap Chinese knockoffs hitting the market and lowering the price even more. Even for a brand name system you can pick one up for now for as low as $499. This is exciting knowing that you can outfit your car with a new Mobil video system just like you have always wanted.
Tip! With the improvement in technology, accuracy has increased. GPS systems have become more affordable as compared to earlier times.
Of course we also know that fuel prices are also going up and so maybe you can spend time watching videos in your car while it is parked in the driveway rather than driving around in wasting the gasoline. The mobile in car video systems industry is saying that sales are not is robust as they have thought they would be at this juncture meaning you can really get a bargain.
The industry does say that sales are O. K. and more and more people give begin to consider owning an in-car video systems due to a lower prices and then the sales will return and probably exceed expectations. Nevertheless, the cost of a gallon of gasoline does impact the industry as it takes money away from the consumer as they consider purchases for aftermarket auto accessories.
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So, it is recommended that you shop all the ads for in car mobile audio systems and video systems to find the best deal because prices are coming down and this is a good time to buy.
November 29, 2007 at 9:51 am · Filed under gadgets
Did you know that gravity has adverse effects on our bodies? The 9.1g makes our knees support our weight with difficulty, solicits our spine to efforts which sometimes lead to bones dislocation. The Human Touch HT-7450 Zero Gravity Massage Chair is a chiropractic device which incorporates an unique massage technology, the Quad Roller. This system can do percussion, rolling, compression, and kneading, and it offers the possibility to adjust the speed of the massage movements, their intensity, and the combination of massage procedures. The chair is very comfortable, it has a neck-contoured comfort pillow and adjustable headrest and backrest, plus a memory foam seat cushion, to make the user feel really relaxed and relieved of all problems.
Another cool feature is the 8-point pulsating seat massage, which targets the most important pressure points of the sciatic nerve.
And if we add that Human Touch is the only brand recommended by the American College of Chiropractic Orthopedists, you’ll see that this chair can provide you the ultimate massage.
This is a sponsored review
