Yeah sure, winter’s really good fun if you’re into skiing downhill at unfeasibly high speeds or you enjoy hurling lumps of ice at people’s faces for a laugh, but for the rest of us it’s a disaster. All that icy rain and brain-sapping wind chill makes it hard to get out of bed, let alone slog about doing boring stuff like work.
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Do you remember when shopping meant spending hours wandering around crowded stores to pick out the week’s necessities? Well the Internet changed all that by offering almost unlimited choice at the touch of a mouse button. We may still shop, but we’re now better informed and less inclined to accept retail prices at face value unless we have done an online comparison first.
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If you like to keep things looking neat and tidy, you probably want to keep your desk, table, and other flat surfaces relatively clear. However, there are some things that you can’t live without such as music, but you don’t want to clutter up your space with a docking or speaker system. If you want to listen to tunes without a bulky sound system sitting around, why not hide it in a lamp?
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Need to practice your archery skills so you can outdo Legolas? Archery takes some time to be proficient at, but picking up a compound bow and some arrows doesn’t mean that you can have at it anywhere you please. If you have absolutely no idea how to fire a decent shot, and don’t want to worry about injuring someone, there are projectiles that may only be able to harm a fly…and nothing else.
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There’s one thing that you absolutely must be concerned about when taking photos: light. If you don’t have enough, it isn’t apparent what you were trying to take a picture of, but too much will have things glaringly white. When it comes to phone pictures, you’re often found in situations where the lighting is sub par, and your flash is almost always too bright.
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O.K., so we may not have our flying cars yet – where are they anyway? – but at least we’re starting to see some other examples of sci-fi tech reach our homes and gardens. And no, we’re not talking about that solar powered garden gnome you bought for your short sighted Peruvian aunt.
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There’s been a huge amount of fuss rasied about Google shutting down its free Reader service, and for good reason. Whichever way you cut it, this is a real wake up call for anyone who’s using online services to store their data. The reality is, these cloud services can shut down on a whim and there’s nothing we users can do about it.
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Everything is all fine and dandy until you go and drop your phone into a bowl of water, the toilet, the pool or your cup of coffee at that nice cafe next to the art gallery. Then it’s all aargh and yikes and help and stuff.
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It’s a beautiful day outside, and you’ve decided to bring along your camera to capture the glory of nature. Just when you raise the camera to your eye, it dies. It’s always the time that you need them most that backup batteries are nowhere to be found. You can get try and hunt for a way to charge it, but why not just use a camera that doesn’t need batteries?
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When reading a book, you will likely ending up shifting around to more comfortable positions to continue reading. Of course, all you’re really doing is changing up how you hold the book, because your hands can get tired of holding it open. If you want less strain on your hands and wrists, then why not opt for a little assistance?
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If you are a PC gamer, you’ve likely played one or two games that require some quick thinking while hitting a LOT of different keys. It can be somewhat difficult to remember key placement in the heat of battle across different games, so it comes as no surprise that hitting the wrong key is a common incident. To make things easier on yourself, why not spread the keys out a little further?
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Here’s a quick round-up of Red Ferret posts from the past week for those who missed them. Enjoy. Remember Rings will make sure you don’t forget an anniversary – Some people are bad at remembering… Dash Grip – definitely our favorite car mount by far [Review] – Cell phones and cars are natural… The Art of Making – could this be the start of a people revolution? – The Institute of Making had its… Faith in Humanity – and how’re…
Read MoreGaming can be a solitary enterprise. Just you, your console and the dim lights in the basement. But there are also times when you get that once in a blue moon moment which is worth sharing with your mates, if only to prove that you’re better than they think.
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We admit to being a little fascinated by these tiny TV PCs…Android dongles which add computing and Internet power to your conventional flat screen television. We last looked at one a few months ago, and concluded that it was under-powered but a great idea. Well the latest models have been given a big performance boost, so we thought we would take a look and see whether they’re ready for prime time now.
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Coffee lovers LOVE their cuppa joe. Espresso lovers even more so. But it can be tricky to make. A new crowdfunding project called the Nomad could turn this into child’s play. This small manual espresso machine will let you make espresso anywhere you go. Lightweight and travel friendly, it’s perfect for on the road or back to Nature journeys. And it lets you brew a perfect shot of espresso anytime regardless of your barista skills. Its innovative proprietary True Crema…
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