I had not heard of HKC before I saw that Ebuyer were selling the HKC 32D7A 32″ HD Ready LED TV. At £149 it looked a reasonably priced Freeview television. So who are HKC? Well a search brought up the HKC Europe web site and it looks as if they are a Chinese manufacturing company. I have no idea how […]
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Looking at Aldi’s upcoming special offers for 16th November 2014 they are advertising an Outdoor Wall Socket Kit. This comprises a IP66 rated outdoor weatherproof double UK electrical socket, 3 metres of cable and a rewireable RCD plug. The price Aldi are advertising looked pretty good until I did an internet search and discovered Screwfix are selling what looks to […]
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I had an email turn up from Misco today with an offer of a “Full HD LED TV under £200 Inc VAT“. Well it is a whole penny under two hundred pounds at £199.99 but it is indeed a Full HD 32” TV and what the email subject line missed out is that it also a Smart TV so you […]
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Looking through the visitor statistics for this web site I noticed someone had visited using a web browser I did not recognise. There the browser logos, the Internet Explorer blue ‘e‘ symbols, the multi coloured Google Chrome discs and Apple Safari compasses was a bold red ‘Y‘ on a white background. Hovering my mouse over the ‘Y‘ brought up the […]
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Virtually every kitchen has a microwave oven these days. They have become such a part of everyday life that we all take the humble microwave for granted, but have you ever stopped and wondered how exactly they cook your food? Well in basic terms a device called a magnetron inside the microwave oven produces electromagnetic radiation in the ‘microwave spectrum’, […]
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Looking at the special offers on the Lidl web site I see they are advertising a 4W GU10 Livarno Lux branded dimmable LED light bulb that will be available for a limited time from Thursday 13th November 2014. They are pricing it at £6.99 or two for £12. Looking at the image of this GU10 LED spotlight bulb shows the […]
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I am running Windows 10 on my laptop computer. “What“, you say, “Windows 10, you mean Windows 8 or Winows 8.1, that’s the latest version of Windows released by Microsoft“. Well when you talk about buying commercially available versions of Windows, either pre-installed on equipment or as over the counter DVDs, then yes Windows 8.1 is the most up to […]
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While looking at RAM memory modules on sale on the Amazon web site I came across one seller who included among their images a screenshot from a program called CPU-Z which showed the properties of the DDR3 memory I was viewing. What was this CPU-Z? My interest was piqued and I Googled CPU-Z, what I found was an interesting piece […]
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Google have announced their new Nexus 9 tablet computer just after British supermarket giant Tesco launched their revamped and upgraded Tesco Hudl2 tablet onto the market. Now I guess it is no real coincidence that this has happened a couple of months before Christmas and both will be vying for their place on peoples present lists. I thought it would be […]
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Yesterday’s post brought a broadsheet sized sales brochure from Screwfix. Flicking through it among the offers on hammer drills and safety work boots I spotted deals on No Nonsense alkaline batteries which looks to be a Screwfix own brand. The offers are on multipacks of AA, AAA and 9V batteries and so are only really suitable for those who get […]
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