I have been using my Hewlett Packard Desk Jet 612 C model printer for several years now. Although in general, the printer does accomplish the task that it was designed to do, I am sorry to say that I have had one ongoing problem with it. For …

This is the first digital photo frame that I have had real success with. The menu is easy to navigate and offers a variety of customizable options that allow me to control the slide-show’s speed, transition effects, collage options as well as other options. This digital photo frame also …

If you are looking to purchase a good trimmer I believe this thing is well worth considering. Black & Decker is well known for hand tools so I was a bit skeptical when I saw the brand but I believe it’s a great buy. I found it …

I recently purchased a SL411B Black and Decker led light at Big Lots for $13.50. I was looking for a good hand held light to prepare for the upcoming tropical storm. It gets really dark here in Central Florida when the lights go out. I decided to go …

At last, I was able to configure a Cisco wireless access point. I got the opportunity to take home one of our CISCO equipments so that we can test it and configure it. We have an existing network at home, however, it is not wireless at the moment. I thought …

A couple of months ago, I paid about thirty dollars for a Kensington Orbit Optical Mouse. This trackball mouse is one of the best input devices I’ve ever owned, or so I’ve discovered since I first attached it to my laptop.
I hate laptop mice. My Compaq has a touch …

I have been a customer of NetZero Highspeed Internet for almost a year now. My monthly bill is $15 which includes Norton Antivirus Security. So far, I have not had any major complaints about the service aside from the fact that my connection is always very slow. …

I use Staples CD-R recordable discs all of the time. I use them to save pictures on, for my portfolio, save my resume or other valueable documents on, and music. I even use the CD-R recordable discs save proofs of ads for my customers to be able to see.
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I was in the store to purchase a bottle top opener and I decided to go with this one. I really love this thing and it works very well. It certainly eliminates a lot of hassle when opening bottle caps. I purchased it from Wal-Mart a …

Most people usually just buy any keyboard they can find for their computer because for them a keyboard is just a keyboard. That was something I did until I got hold of the Labtec Media keyboard. The first thing that caught my eye was it’s stylish appearance with all …

I do a lot of model making so last Christmas I was gifted a Dremel 3000 rotary tool. I had a cheap one from Woolworths previously which is still going strong but after I moved to Canada from the UK I needed one with a new plug.

The first impression was …

A few months ago, I wrote about the Poulan Pro Mower and how I had buyers remorse shortly after I bought it. At the time, I wrote I didn’t think the mower would make it through the summer.
Well, I’ll admit this much, it proved me wrong on that point. …

I was desperately in need of a mouse as my earlier one stopped working suddenly. Though mice are not costly so you dont need to bother about selecting the perfect one for you but they matter a lot when we talk about using them for a longer peroid of …

I’m very happy with my DI-524 wireless router, so far it has not given enough cause to throw it out the window. Connection is actually great; my WLAN capable gadgets have never had a problem accessing the internet, except my little Sony VAIO. I don’t want to go into …

Having spent many a late night on my Xbox 360 I stumbled across an advertisement for what I believed to be the ultimate boy-toy! The Pyramat S2500W Wireless Sound Rocket (a bit of a mouthful, I know) is one the newer models in a line of gaming chairs, …

What I like about my Router from Netgear? There are a couple of things that have made me really like this router, but I did not initially feel this way. This was because I did not understand what they were trying to say in their install manual and I …

I was shopping for a wireless mouse and keyboard, and the store clerk talked me into picking up a webcam. The Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 Web Cam he suggested has proved to be a great and exciting webcam. I’m happy with everything about it. Price to performance, this cam …

Hewlett-Packard for many years has been considered the top of the line for printers. With such a sterling reputation, I gave no thought when I bought my HP PSC 1300 printer. The scanning quality is exceptional, providing color copies that truly rival professional photo developing. The printing quality is …

With the threats facing a daily internet user such as me, like viruses, spy ware and ad ware, I constantly have to make sure that all the information on my system is properly and regularly updated and backed up.
I have an external hard drive with a total capacity of …

I do a ton of gaming and I’m always looking for ways to improve my gaming experience. I purchased the GTX 680 after reading about it’s exceptional performance during games. I expected a lot, but it has certainly exceeded my expectations. I want to go into detail …

The music sphere is really the perfect way to surround your room with sound, without actually having to surround your room with speakers. the sphere has three seperate speakers which can be connected wirelessly to three seprate muci devices in your home. You can also connect you ipod to …

Just about all speakers I’ve had for my computer have weakend dramatically over time. These speakers remain quite strong even after months of heavy use. I like to really crank on my speakers and make them as loud as possible, and these speakers both satisfy that desire as well …

This is the ink cartridges that went inside my new Epson printer, the printer that died within a week and it was the bad ink that killed it. Well, these ink cartridges are no better than the badly designed printer. In fact, they are the worst ink cartridges I …

I bought the Microsoft Office Keyboard initially as I was suffering from a mild Repetitive Strain Injury to my wrist. I wanted a keyboard that had a variety of buttons and shortcut keys to help reduce the amount use I make of my mouse.
The Microsoft Office Keyboard is …

This is one of my most prized technical gizmos, not because it is the most expensive or valuable of hardware, but it has a certain mystic image that it comes with.
My Verbatim 2GB USB Flash Drive is literally the size of two of my thumbnails in length and one …

What a marvelous item from Dell-3115cn MFP printer! A true multi function printer that can do both b/w & color printing, scanning, copying, and faxing. It is powered by 400 MHz processor and 256 MB inbuilt memory. The memory can be expanded upto 1280 MB. This 3115cn printer produces …

When it comes to glues the biggest problem I have with them is the waste due to the fact that what’s left in the bottle dries out and hardens, many times right after the first use. This epoxy glue comes in two separate containers and won’t harden until you …

One some occasions I do a lot of repair work and I believe it’s essential to have a very good pipe wrench. I purchase this one over a month ago and I really love it. I purchased it from Lowe’s and I paid only 20 dollars for …

I bought my A4 Tech webcam from a site online that had it on sale for next to nothing! I paid about $10-$15 and paid about $2.00 in shiipping and waited about 2-3 days before it finally arrived in the mail. I opened up the box and got the …

I bought this RAM for RM 160 in June 2010. Kingston is always my trusted brand for RAM and flash drive. My Windows 7 Ultimate edition rated this RAM to be 5.4. The price has dropped until there is little difference with the corresponding DDR2 RAM. This RAM (1333 …

I received my ADSL modem when I first switched to ADSL internet and that was more than 3 years ago. Than I was really happy about it I could install it on both of my computers and I had ADSL internet which was really fast. It was really easy …

Recently I purchased the Lexmark X 1195 all-in-one printer. This is Lexmarks updated version of the X 1185, but without the paper feed defect.
I really like this printer, its ink jet printing is of laser quality, and it prints quickly with very little noise. My printing has never been …

Upgrading from a standard mechanical hard drive to the Samsung 840 Series Solid State Drive was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in terms of computer hardware. Despite my reservations that the SSD could really perform multiple times faster than an HHD, I took the dive and …

It’s been a long time since I wanted a plastic sealer. I remember my dad had one when he had a pet shop but sold it after he closed down. I wanted to get one of these for my baked goods, so I can seal them up nicely and …

Origanly I was planning on buying a Tivo. Unfortunately I was not able to because Tivo was not available in Canada at the time. Another factor was that I could not justify the monthly Tivo fee so I bought the Hauppauge WInTV-PVR USB2 as an alternative.
I bought it …

After the office lost its files from a worn out hard drive, the management bought two Seagate Expansion Portable Drives for back up purposes. The Seagate Expansion Portable Drive model ST905004EXA101-RK, has a spindle speed of 5400 RPM with a capacity of 500GB. It has USB …

The Logitech Cordless Desktop S520 is a keyboard and mouse combo. I honestly love this product mainly because I was upgrading from an old Emachines keyboard and and old Gateway mouse. Even though I love this product there were downsides, but I’ll get to those in the end.
First the …

I have been an optical mouse of Microsoft for about 6 years or so. The best thing about my mouse is, it is still performing like a new one. Since it has been used for a long time, of course it doesn’t look as clean as it was when …

I bought my computer some 10 years back and my motherboard supports only PATA hard drives, recently my hard drive crashed and PATA drives are almost obsolete in the market. I could find a PATA drive and PATA drives are comparatively very slow in data transmission. I asked my …

I’ve always believed that Logitech is one of the best manufacturers of computer add-ons. But I was very disappointed with their notebook quickcam, the small black one that has a clip on. The pictures are kind of hazy and very grainy. When I use it outside the house, the …

Some timed ago I wanted to buy a pen drive. I was confused that which one should I buy & which one I should not. Then I went to a retailer to buy a new pen drive. He showed me Transcend brand’s pen drive. I liked it & I …

About 8-10 months ago I purchased a headset made by HP, I must discourage anybody from buying this $30 rip off headset it had adjustable sides like most headsets do.
I would say it was heavily used about 5-7 hours a day about 5 days a week and 1-2 hours the …

I just bought this pen drive because i had no other option of transfering my data from one pc to another. Though I bought it 2 months back, i have no problems with it till date.The one that I have is of 2 GB capacity, although other storage sizes …

I bought a new set of headphones this weekend specifically for my computer. I got fed up using the Logitech headset because the sound quality was awful. In addition, whenever I plug it in my computer I would get a buzzing noise which does not go away unless I …

Western Digital’s My Book World Edition II series is a networked external storage that tries to make all your data centrally accessible and safe too. I love it’s cool vanilla-colored casing that bears two 1 TB WD Hard disks placed side by side. The casing is probably not the …

PC gamer’s and PC enthusiasts, this card could be for you! Running at $359.99, this card is packed full of features. EVGA’s GTX 770 contains 1536 CUDA Cores and 2GB of DDR5 VRAM. The card comes factory over clocked hence the SC standing for Super Clocked. The effective memory …

This case is fairly decent. It kept most of my parts sheltered from the heat (from being next to a window in Florida) and did a very sufficient job of circulating air. I love having it, but it could have been better.
Let’s start with the cooling system. Boasting a …

The Suncast SC3250 snow shovel is very easy to use and in my opinion this shovel certainly makes snow removal a lot easier. I purchased this shovel for 30 dollars and it’s somewhat expensive but I believe that it’s well worth the price. There were some cheaper …

The Belkin multi USB port allows to plug into it up to 4 usb devices at the same time, each port supports both USB 1.1 and USB 2.0, it comes with a USB extension cable which allows you to place it just about anywhere in the comp room table. …

A couple of years ago, I went on Ebay. Was in the market for a used color laser printer. I won a Tektronix Phaser 350(Xerox product) color laser printer.
I paid $50.00 for it. It was an older model and a little different than most. It does …