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Independent write-ups after weeks of end-user experiences and testing.
You may often find indispensible advice here and a no-nonsense attitude to evaluating the products.
We don’t go for the bits-and-bytes approach but aim to address the core factor: value-for-money for the average end-user.
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Appliances
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Written by Kerrie Baker
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Monday, 01 February 2010 16:55 |
 Breville BBM600 Breadmaker
Making bread with an electric bread-maker sounds easy, but when it comes to making gluten free bread I can assure you that it is a totally different world and anyone in that world would appreciate the difficulties experienced. Since being diagnosed with Coeliac Disease some two years ago, I have tried numerous gluten free bread recipes, mostly with little success.
My old electric bread-maker claimed to be able to make gluten free bread, but after dozens of hard, solid little “bricks” being produced, I totally gave up on using the bread-maker and reverted to the conventional oven baked method. However, after using the latest Breville ikon Baker’s Oven BBM600 Bread-maker for the very first time, I have been converted into believing that technology really can vary immensely. My first loaf was a delight.
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Read more... [Breville BBM600 Bread-Maker - Reviewed]
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Miscellaneous
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Written by Paul Moons
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Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:57 |
 HDi Dune BD Prime 3.0 With the sheer number of Network Media Players on the market today, manufacturers are increasingly looking to find a clever angle to distinguish their products from the others. In putting a Blu-Ray drive inside the BD Prime 3.0, HDi Dune's angle is more of a convergence. A convergence of everything HD.
Read on for our review.
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Read more... [Blu-Ray Disc and Network Media Player Inside -- HDi Dune BD Prime 3.0 Reviewed]
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Video
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Written by Paul Moons
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Friday, 22 January 2010 22:37 |
 AC Ryan PlayOn!HD With network media players being the home video equivalent of the iPod MP3 player, more and more variations (of what are essentially the same product) are appearing on store shelves.
Unlike MP3 players however, the network media player segment is yet to be dominated by any one major player. This allows manufacturers to release genuinely different devices in the hope that their unique formula might just catch on and be the next big thing.
Enter the AC Ryan PlayOn!HD.
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Read more... [AC Ryan PlayOn!HD Full HD Network Media Player -- Reviewed]
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Navigation
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Written by Martin Regtien
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Monday, 11 January 2010 12:46 |
 ProNav_PNN_300 in the Box This SatNav is specifically aimed at the professional truckies or anyone driving an oversized vehicle where it is important to know which roads, bridges and tunnels you can safely negotiate with your rig. And, just as important, you need to know where all the truck stops are.
So how does the ProNav PNN-300, which comes in at a hefty AUD 799, fare in the heavyweight league?
Let's belt up and find out.
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Read more... [ProNav’s PNN-300 SatNav for Truckies – Reviewed]
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PC Hardware
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Written by Joe Baker
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Wednesday, 06 January 2010 21:34 |
 Back and Front shots
The VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS 300GB has higher performance than that of the previous generation, WD3000GLFS 300GB and the designers have also changed the fining arrangement to horizontal rather than vertical as shown in the GLFS model.
Following the successful tried and proven build lines of previous WD Raptors with the 3 GB/s interface, we found that with the 16 MB cache the 3.5-inch SATA Hard Drive Raptors can deliver staggering performance. They are approximately 35% faster than the older models but with a commensurate percentage drop in power requirements.
I guess the name “Raptors” came from the prehistoric carnivore that could out run anything on the planet and just hunt the prey down. Well these hard drives are fast, spinning at 10,000 rpm, so it’s little wonder that they benchmark so well. It’s obvious that the VelociRaptor has retained a lot of the performance based on its 10,000 rpm spindle speed.
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Read more... [Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB Single and RAID 0 - Reviewed]
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Memory
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Written by Joe Baker
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Tuesday, 05 January 2010 21:12 |
 Silicon Power Class 10 SDHC
Well good as their word www.Tasco.com.au the Australian Silicon Power distributor sent us a 16GB Class 10 SDHC to try. Mind you the word around the traps was that this new card should solve all our memory card access problems in our High Definition Sanyo Xacti VPC-FH1 Camcorder,
Anyway lets see how it went!.
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Read more... [Silicon Power SDHC Class 10 Memory Card - Reviewed]
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PC Hardware
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Written by Martin Regtien
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Monday, 04 January 2010 09:27 |
 Edubook
Sometimes the real surprising things in life come in small packages. Particularly when they combine innovation, usefulness and amazing value for money.
I'm talking about the Norhtec Gecko Edubook. This is a netbook aimed at a specific market: the same market as the OLPC which aims to bring a laptop to every child in the developing world.
While that is a laudable goal and an immense market by itself, I think the market for this little beauty is even bigger!
I can feel a big review coming on which is sort of ridiculous given the low cost of this product but there is so much to tell about the Edubook which has gotten me excited all right, so hang on!
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Read more... [Norhtec Xcore Gecko Edubook -- Reviewed]
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Miscellaneous
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Written by Paul Moons
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Saturday, 02 January 2010 09:02 |
 Madcatz WGA While Microsoft have released their own official 802.11n wireless adapter for XBOX 360, MadCatz have quite literally built a bridge and got over it.
Read on for our review of the MadCatz 802.11n Wireless Gaming Adapter.
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Read more... [Build a 802.11n Bridge - MadCatz Wireless Gaming Adapter for XBOX 360 Reviewed]
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