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My first Spore creature.

By the looks, my last too. I wonder if this game will meet up to the hype?

Guys and Girls,

Just wanted to say that I’ve finally used my voucher that you all got me for my birthday.

I spent your hard earned cash on a really nice Canon MP610 multifunction printer.
First impressions are very impressive. Print quality is excellent and the speed is just unbelievable.
The supplied software is very good and unlike most HP inkjets the total install with all of the options is 500mb. You might think that’s a lot, but believe me, ALL Hp multifunction injects need 1 GB at least. The printer comes supplied with software for 2k, XP, Vista and Mac, so far I have only tested Vista and Mac and both installed flawlessly.

My favourite piece of supplied software is “Easy-Photo Print EX”. The software walks you through 4 easy steps to print your favourite photos. In step one you choose the image, Step two selects the paper size and type, Step three allows you to select how and how many prints go on the page and step four is print. Just the way I like software to work simple and easy for me to use.

The printer itself is very sweet. I like the way it all closes up when you are not using it, this prevents dust, ciggie ash and anything else getting into the working parts. One nice feature I found by accident is that the front panel automatically drops down if you send a print when it’s closed. I thought that was a nice attention to detail by Canon. The printer comes with two paper trays and a printable CD holder. I didn’t realise until I purchased it that it had a plain paper tray located under the printer so this was a bonus for me. This tray is not meant for glossy photo paper though as the paper path would damage the paper. There is a vertical fold out tray at the back of the printer for all types of glossy paper. I have printed on various sizes of paper and paper types and I have been very impressed with all of the results I’ve had. I did experiment with the cd printing and if I had actually had a proper printable cd, I’m sure it would have worked fine. As it was, with my normal cd the results were messy.

The scanner works well, I tested it with both the supplied software and Photoshop and both images imported with no problems. Copying using the scanner is simply a case of putting the image on the glass and pressing either the black and white copy button or the colour copy button. You can specify, using the front panel controls, various setting for the copy process if you wish.

The printer also comes with support for usb, CF, SD, MMC and MS cards. All of these devices can print directly to the printer without the need for a computer.

The front panel controls are clear and easy to use and I had no problems navigating my way around them.

Well I did come on here just to say thanks, but it looks as if I’ve ended up doing a review. So once again thank you all for my voucher.

Here’s that link to my 4GB flash drive. It’s cheap, very small, cheap, fast in comparison to other small drives and cheap!

There’s an 8GB version too for those more space hungry peeps.

Why not get free delivery too?

Not a very exciting post, but if you want some free online colour matching, here’s some links!

http://www.hypergurl.com/colormatch.php

http://www.colorblender.com/

http://www.colorsontheweb.com/colorwheel.asp

Big, yes. A dog? no. Freaky? very much yes.

I can’t help but see this as two disembodied pairs of legs facing each other carrying a heavy load. This is some way cool tech.

Bye bye projector and laptop, every salesman will be carrying one of these bad boys sooner rather than later…

Projector phone

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I use a fair few of these and thought I would share…

Feature: Lifehacker’s 2007 Guide to Free Software and Webapps

My faves are: Launchy, Keepass, Notepadd++

Oh and if you have not already taken a look see at Google Earth, DO! It is the fabbest thing I have played with in ages! My car is parked outside my Mums house! My Mini on Google Eart

You’ll need to install it first, its worth it.

As many of you know, I had to replace the power supply in my media server some time back. It went from a lovely quiet server to a spitfire wannabe. Now that the thing sits just 2 feet away from me I thought I’d get a nice quiet (and cheap) replacement. While ordering it I came across a review of some 80mm case fans that were meant to be quiet. In a fit of madness (they are between £3.40 and £3.99 EACH) I thought what the hell and bought 3.

AKASA 80mm Amber series 3 pin Ultra quiet

Oh my, they make a HUGE difference! I never realised how loud case fans were until I put these babies in. They are completely silent! The noisiest thing in my media server now is the CPU fan!

I had 1 left over so I swapped the top vent fan in my main machine. It’s made a huge difference only changing 1 of the 4 case fans. Next order from Scan or Ebuyer and I’m gonna get me another 3 of these.

My review gives these 9/10 - It would be 10/10 but for the price.

Cheaper on Scan …. linkyloo

But if you’re buying from ebuyer already…. linkyloo2

Each are supplied with screws and cable converters/doublers (and I should coco for the price).

I like this idea! Large screen TV in a bed! £4.99 diy kit from Ikea. Nice.

Cool TV in a bed