Nicky Hilton Bids Adieu to Sunset Strip Crib

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SELLER: Nicky Hilton
LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA
PRICE: $2,950,000
SIZE: 4,072 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Hotel heiress, handbag designer and Tinseltown gal about town Nicky Hilton has hoisted her Los Angeles, CA residence on the open market with an asking price of $2,950,000.

Property records (and various reports from the time) indicate Miss Hilton, now pushing 30, bought the large but fairly unassuming 2-story residence just over five years ago, in June 2007, for $2,800,000 and current listing information shows Miss Hilton's house, set a bit above the street with a semi-circular driveway on a long cul-de-sac just above the western tail of the famed Sunset Strip, was built in 1942 on a .35 acre parcel, measures 4,072 square feet and contains total of 3 bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms.

Like her older sister, Paris, Nicky engaged the services of Hilton family friend, lady-decorator and Tinseltown gal about town Faye Resnick, former b.f.f. of Nicole Brown Simpson who once appeared in her birthday suit in Playboy (1995), occasionally appears on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and did up (some but not all) of Miss Hilton's home in a very tightly restrained (and kinda cliché) glamorpuss-a-thon black and white palette with lots (and lots) of chrome, mirrored and white lacquer accents.

Wide brick steps climb up from the driveway to a spacious entrance hall with gleaming, milk-chocolate-colored hardwood floors. To one side of the foyer, the white-walled formal living room has glossy black moldings; a wide window that overlooks the front yard; French doors that open to the backyard; and a sexy fireplace—or "sexy" fireplace depending on your point of view—flanked by a pair chrome and glass bar carts and a pair of kitchy white ceramic dogs that we're not 100% sure where meant to be kitchy.

One one side of the fireplace Miss Hilton has hung an iconic 1955 photograph by Slim Aarons of stylish (and deceased) East Coast socialite and writer C.Z. Guest standing poolside with her son (and a couple of dogs) in front of the wacky Grecian temple at Villa Artemis, her ocean front estate in Palm Beach, FL. On the other there hangs what could be—but may or may not actually be—a Bert Stern-snapped portrait of Marilyn Monroe.

On the other side of the foyer from the formal living room Miz Resnick papered at least one wall in the formal dining room with an appetite-suppressing, Rorschach-ian black and white pattern that was mirrored in the white applique design on the front of a black lacquer cabinet opposite the front door. Did y'all catch that decorative slight of hand, too?

An old-school swinging door in the dining room connects through to the sizable, center island kitchen finished with herringbone-pattern wood floors that look in listing photos to be a reddish-caramel-color and that Your Mama hopes and prays are actually the same milk-chocolate color as in the rest of the house; white, hardware-free cabinetry, some with glass fronts; black, possibly granite, counter tops; black and stainless steel commercial-style appliances including 4 ovens and 2 built-in fridges; a roomy pantry; an upsetting, sage green painted ceiling and an even more distressing industrial-looking pot rack hung over the center island with only a handful of pots and pans.

The walls of the adjacent breakfast room are papered in the same distinctive, Don Loper-designed Martinique banana leaf pattern as is installed on the walls of the fab Fountain Coffee Shop downstairs at the perennially-iconic and impossibly-chic Beverly Hills Hotel, a hotel, incidentally, Miss Hilton's family neither owns nor ever owned.

Additional rooms and amenities, according to current listing information, include a family room/den with fireplace that does not look like it's been given a once over by Miz Resnick or anybody else for that matter; a gym and sauna; interior laundry facilities; and a master suite described in current listing information as "Dramatic" with 2 huge closets and 2 bathrooms, at least one of which has multiple mirrored walls, double sinks set into some sort of burnt orange colored counter top material, and an oval soaking tub.

Many rooms off the back of the house open to a narrow, tree-shaded backyard nestled into a steep slope with meandering, multi-level Mexican paver tile terracing, lagoon-style swimming pool, spa, waterfall and outdoor fireplace.

Current listing information also lets it be known Miss Hilton would is also willing to lease the property at a rate of $15,000 per month.

listing photos: Hilton & Hyland
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
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Nikon Coolpix P510 to favor 42x Optical Zoom

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Tokyo, Japan - 25 optical zoom? 30? Nikon outperformed that superior ability of optical zoom camera with a lot of vendors candidate Coolpix P510 series.

Capability up to 42x optical zoom which is owned by a series in the category of point-and-shoot below. Superzoom camera's center of flooding the market, but with the presence of P510, it seems to be a point-and-shoot with the world's longest zoom.

Problems often arise when using long zoom is image blur due to the occurrence of shocks on the device (camera shake). But Nikon overcome this by placing Redution Vibration technology (VR) image in order to maintain stability.

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Review Archos 501840 Gen9 8 inch Tablet (RAM 512MB, Memory 8GB, Android 3.2) - upgradeable to Android 4.0 / Ice Cream Sandwich

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My partner got me this for Christmas. Seemed like a good tablet, has a mini-HDMI port, 3G USB Stick port (which CAN be used for other usb devices... such as external hard drives, usb thumb drives etc, and can play movies straight off the thumb drive etc) To use a USB device you will have to turn 3G on in the settings/quick settings.

The unit I received had a faulty audio jack, so it was impossible to play sound through headphones. The even worse problem I had was that it would repeatedly click the back button for no reason when holding it in certain positions.

Although I received a faulty unit, Amazons support was FANTASTIC. Spoke to a live chat rep, and he sent me out a replacement straight away via First Class (receiving it today/tomorrow)..............

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Monday, 16 July 2012
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A Look Back: Agyness Deyn Sells Billyburg Loft

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SELLER: Agyness Deyn
LOCATION: Brooklyn, NY (Williamsburg)
PRICE: $2,175,000
SIZE: 2,911 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Listen chickens, it's a bit slow in the celebrity real estate world so, although the matter has already been previously discussed by plenty of other property gossips, we're going to tumble back in time to February (2012) when androgyne supermodel Agyness Deyn—the surprise new missus of actor Giovanni Ribisi, dontcha know—sold her decoratively downright batty but still thrilling and bewitching Brooklyn, NY loft for $2,175,000.

Why talk about it now, after all this time? Well, because we're both vexed and mesmerized by the memorable and unapologetically outlandish day-core.

The two unit combination crib, on the third floor of the so-called Mill Building in the heart of the Brooklyn's ur-hipster community of Williamsburg, was purchased, so the property records show, just a few days before Halloween in 2008 in two separate but equal transactions of $965,000 for a total spent of $1,930,000.

At that time chameleon-like model was in her mid-20s and at her professional pinnacle as part of a new wave of leggy manikins who emerged in the early- and mid-Aughts. In addition appearing in the pages and on the covers of scads of fashion rags from around the world, she's lucratively appeared in countless advertising campaigns for the likes of Blumarine, Burberry, Doc Martens, Vivienne Westwood, Giorgio Armani, Paul Smith and Uniqlo, to name just a few.

The still-busy model, now nearly 30, also dabbles in music—she was in a band called Lucky Knitwear; acting—she appeared in the sci-fi flick Clash of the Titans in 2010 and to positive reviews in The Leisure Society on London's West End in 2012; and design—she designed a line of jewelry with b.f.f. clothing designer Henry Hollandshe and she and her baby sister produced a line of graphic t-shirts sold at Uniqlo.

Listing information from late 2011,when she first hoisted the loft on the market with an asking price of $2,500,000, show Miss Deyn's old digs in Billyburg span a spacious 2,911 square feet with 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. The L-shaped main living/dining space stretches a sensational 60-feet; the kitchen is expensively and well-equipped but oddly configured with the fridge is in an adjacent laundry room; and an Asian-infused mediation nook is accessed through a wacky circular cut out in a fully-mirrored wall (above).
 
Thin-strip hardwood floors that may or may not be original to the building run at a 45-degree angle throughout (most of) the quintessentially lofty loft blessed with voluptuous 13-foot ceilings, exposed iron columns and ceiling architecture, and 10 windows that drop dramatically almost to the floor and extend almost to the ceiling.

The 7-story former factory building requires 25% down payments and offers residents 24-7 door opening assistance plus a live-in super, video intercom entry systems, access to extra storage areas, on-site underground parking facilities, and a furnished roof deck with over the roof top views of Brooklyn and Manhattan. For all that (and whatever other services are provided by the building) the common charges for Aggy's loft run, as per listing information, $1,498 per month.

If you're a little tipsy, prone to dizzy spells and/or otherwise unable to stomach decidedly raucous but painstakingly curated decorative chaos we suggest you move quickly past the listing pictures because you will most certainly be disturbed by this fearlessly flamboyant feast of home habiliment eccentricity. It looks like the sort place Miss Havisham or Auntie Mame might live iffin she were a globe-circling and well-to-do supermodel-musician-actress or, maybe, a portly queen in a kimono who pads around and hums atonal arias

Although hardly decorative minimalists, neither Your Mama nor The Dr. Cooter could ever ever in a million years live amid this onslaught of frippery and finery. Do you see those utterly lurid ceramic flower-stool-things (above, right)? Those alone would surely drive Sober Sally to the liquor cabinet. And if those didn't the home-spun quilt laid over the quilted ottoman surely would.

None-the-less and despite what at first glance appears to be a hot mess of epic proportions—and arguably it is—Your Mama would happily spend hours and hours in boozy haze flopped around in the surprisingly cozy-looking main living and dining areas where a vast leopard print rug was brazenly coupled with raw burlap curtains and room dividers, where velvet brocade settees, ephemera-filled bell jars, and a wack-a-doodle donut-shaped dining table topped with mirrored obelisks and various other seemingly random objet are reflected like boho-Victorian flea market confetti in multiple mirrored walls.

The kitchen isn't the most practical-looking space, just a single strip of counter that can be can be hidden behind painted folding doors of the closet variety. But that's of little consequence, perhaps, since most catwalkers look like they don't eat more than a bit of crudité every couple of days and, of course, many New Yorkers eat out or order in every meal. Back in our New York days of yore Your Mama knew numerous storage-strapped folks who used their ovens not to cook but to stash shoes, sweaters and other odds and ends. Even still Miss Deyn's kitchen was expensively outfitted with top grade accoutrement like a custom-crafted stone sink and a baby blue range identified in marketing materials as a Lacanache but looks to Your Mama more like an equally artisinal and pricey CornueFé 110 in Provence blue (with satin chrome and polished copper trim) from La Cornue. That particular imported cooker, for anyone who might be curious, retails in the U.S. for around $8,600.

The smaller of the two bedrooms (above), a windowless space accessible, according to the floor plan, only by passing through the hall bathroom, has a quartet of corner cupboard storage cabinets and closets, patchwork-style marble and onyx tile floors and a wood bed of the likes we've never seen before set smack in the center of the room. It's fantastic to look at—so crazy—but we can't imagine ever having a proper night's sleep in there. Beyond the indignity of having to pass through the pooper to get to the bedroom, just imagine rolling over in the deep sleep of an early morning to catch a gauzy, booze-goggle glimpse of that bust next to the bed sitting there watching you sleep. Your Mama is quite certain that, with enough gin and exhaustion, we'd most certainly mistake that thing for an intruder, pull the pearl-handled pistol from beneath our pillow and shoot that damn thing until it was dead.

There are two doors between the main living space and the master bedroom, all done up in an under the ocean fantasia that looks a bit like how we imagine a modern-day Marie Antoinette might do up a beach house in the Hamptons. The walls and ceiling are covered in a Tiffany blue color with hand painted, over-sized and multi-color coral shapes; a light fixture fashioned from giant scallop shells hangs from the ceiling; black and white linens that depict a swarm of sea fan and sea anemones (or something) cover the bed; and a couple of histrionic, carved wood furniture pieces with shell motifs are set in front of the windows. The marble columns on either side of the settee might be overkill, but that sort of appears to be the point, right?

A fully-mirrored dressing room—a fun house-like chamber sure drive anyone with even an iota of negative body image issues into cataclysmic spasms of self loathing—was fitted with an unusual light fixture in the shape of a vintage hot air balloon. The children will note the shape echoes the silhouetted hot air balloons on the window shades in the main living spaces. Believe it or not, hunties, is a nice-gay or lady decorator hard at work.

It may look like chaos but there are, if you bother to look, decorative through lines that really do give the room the kind of rigor required of a well-done day-core. It may not be to your taste but that does not, children, mean it's not correct. We're sure we'll take a verbal bullet or two for saying that—and fair enough—but we'd much rather look at Miss Deyn's high camp flea market extravaganza than something safe, stodgy and country-club approved. But who cares what we think...

The ego-abusing dressing room connects the master bedroom to the melodramatic bathroom lined with a mixy-matchy cacophony of mirrors and a variety of marble and onyx tiles from around the world. The floor plan included with listing information from the time of the sale indicates there are two sinks, a semi-private crapper cubby, separate steam shower and a free-standing soaking tub carved from a solid piece of onyx and filled via a campy lion medallion mounted to the wall behind it. Does anyone else besides Your Mama find it both disturbing and amusing the tub looks like it was carved from a giant chub of fat-marbled bacon?

We thought the day-core had a certain Roman and Williams quality about it but one of the children tells us Miss Deyn's day-core was actually done (and done and done) by a fella named Ricky Clifton, a somewhat elusive figure with a courageously madcap sense of design who has worked over (or helped work over) the downtown Manhattan homes of art world luminaries like Stella Schnabel and John Currin and Rachel Feinstein.

Natch, we don't know a garden hose from a tractor trailer so we really can't say if Aggy's decision to sell her Brooklyn loft did (or did not) have anything to do with her recent City Hall wedding to L.A.-based actor Giovanni Ribisi who—celeb property watchers will recall—recently put the Los Angeles, CA home he shared with former lady-mate Chan Marshall—a.k.a. the musician Cat Power—on the open market for $989,000. The property is already in escrow and Mister Ribisi has already procured his next home, a gated mini compound with a 3,886 square foot private residence and art studio in the somewhat unlikely Atwater Village area of Los Angeles for which he shelled out $1,405,000.

listing photos and floor plan: Prudential Douglas Elliman
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Review ODYS Multi Graphic Tablet (Wireless Pen, USB 2.0) - Grey

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Excellent product for home use
This was a Christmas present for a very artistic daughter. She use it for drawing pictures and writing comic books as well as some basic graphic editing. No software issues with drivers or slowing down the PC. We run it under WIN 7. The product performs perfectly for these tasks. For heavy processional users such as photo studios or architects it might also perform but I...
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3.0 out of 5 stars not quite up to the job of mouse replacement
I bought this to have another type of device to use a mouse. I used to use a wacom years ago and was very pleased with it, so I thought I'd try using a tablet again. Sadly it's not quite up to that job. Most of the problems could be fixed with new drivers.

First problem. No equivalent of a scroll wheel or using two fingers to scroll as on a trackpad. It would...

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Review A1CS 7" AWA10 Android 4.0 ICS Cheapest Capacitive Tablet PC - 1.6Ghz - 8GB ROM - Iplayer - Ultra Slim - Flash 11.0.1 - 5 Point Touch Screen - 2160p Full HD by AWA10

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I like this little thing.

I have a macbook pro and S3 smartphone so kind of the best of both worlds in terms of Mac OS and Android. I also have a three year old who was obsessed with the ipad I brought home from work - however to splash out £400 for the latest one (or even £300 for ipad2/ high end 7 inch android tablet) is not yet within my budget and not worth the stress if my lad damaged it. My wife also just wanted something to view family pics/vids and surf the internet. One day I will get an ipad - I'm just selfish and want to keep all the branded expensive technology to myself!

First up, this does not have 3G, Bluetooth or GPS (to my knowledge) But hey, thats what I pay £25 a month for my smartphone for.

The screen is good enough but not spectacular
Loud volume, slightly tinny but better than others I have heard
Instruction booklet is poor if you are not used to Android but I understand that if you email A1CS they can send you a pdf booklet with more info?
Light, solid and portable..................

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Present Latest Apple iPad 2012

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Apple iPad presented the third generation. Competition in the tablet market is also more exciting.Apple responded to the market with a serious challenge. The third generation of targeted iPad can keep its position as king of the Tablet PC market. New iPad device presented ditrektur Apple, Tim Cook in Cupertino, California on Wednesday (7/3) has a better screen, faster graphics processors, can record video in high definition-quality HD and standard supports faster data transfer-LTE.Apple CEO Tim Cook presented New iPad.Apple launched the sale of third generation iPad simultaneously began on March 16. The price remains stable is equivalent to the second generation iPad. Apple is also continuing its market strategies that are well known, the lower the price of the old iPad. With that of competitors in the marketplace Tablet difficult move.The latest iPad device called iPad New iPad instead of 3 or iPad HD as earlier market speculation. New iPad has a 3.1 Mega Pixel resolution monitor and Retina Display has been installed as a feature the iPhone 4S.Market competition more excitingWith third-generation iPad, Apple tried to strengthen its position as the largest market share holder Tablet. Since launching the first series iPad two years ago, Apple has sold more than 55 million tablet device.Apple Tablet and Samsung competing.In addition to inhibiting the rate of competitors using the old Google-Android operating system, new iPad it also anticipates the entry of new competitors.Microsoft has announced it will launch the Windows operating system 8, which will also be used as a Tablet operating system.At the presentation of the latest iPad, Cook also demonstrated Android apps that look worse than the Apple apps.



Pressed tablet PCThe new leadership of Steve Jobs of Apple replacement who died last year, also went on a term that was inaugurated late founder of Apple, "post-PC world". "We are talking about a world, where the PC is no longer the center of the digital universe," said Cook.With the various features offered by third-generation iPad, Apple anticipates the demands of a frequently used device, personal and more cars than personal computers. With Apple also hinting that the next, that over time, will make the Tablet PC is not important anymore.


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Review Ipad 3 (3rd Generation) 16gb WIFI - White

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Apple iPad 3 (3rd Generation iPad) 16gb Wifi - Black (Brand New March 2012 iPad 3)
I have resisted buying a tablet for a long time as I thought it couldn't offer me anything more than my pc or laptop ----- wrong,wrong,wrong ---- i am rarely impressed with anything but this is just the most fabulous creation since the invention of the personal computer.
Being of advanced years I thought I would have to undertake a long learning process to grasp the fundimentals, but you can use this straight from the box - came 85% already charged & is so intuitive to use you can just dive straight in.
As there is no manual I would advise anyone to download this first to help you get the full use of it - but you can learn a lot quickly by just using it.
There are so many free apps to begin with that will keep you occupied for hours before you think about buying any.
If you are considering buying a tablet I would advise you to forget the rest - go for the best, - IPAD3.


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Review Asus nVIDIA SLI GeForce GTX 570 DirectCu II Graphics Card (1.28GB)

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What a nice piece of kit. I've owned a lot of high performance cards over the years and this is very nice. The 3-slot design might be a pain if you can't afford to lose the slots but the cooling you get is amazing. I was previously running an Nvidia 8800 GTX: this 570 GTX runs significantly cooler under LOAD than the 8800 GTX ran IDLE. The only thing to note is that by default the speed of the fans is proportional to the clock-rate and NOT the temperature. You'll need to install the Asus Smart Doctor and switch it to enable "Smart Cooling", which allows you to set specific fan ratios (40%, 50% etc) for specific temperature ranges. That said, even with the fan running at the default speed and maxing it out with Folding@home I still didn't see anything above 65 degrees (this is in an Antec P183 case); with the Smart Cooling I never see temperatures above 56 degrees and that means a fan ratio of about 40-50%. That's just as well since setting the fan manually to 100% makes you realise how noisy the card COULD be.



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I dislike noisy machines and buy silent or near-silent components: my CPU is passively cooled and I have 120mm silent fans etc. I chose this card because it offered amazing performance and was quieter and cooler in online reviews. Under max load, the noise from the case sitting under my desk is noticeable but not obtrusive enough to be an issue since I game with headphones on anyway. When idle or under moderate load, I can't even tell it's on.
If anyone is going to use this with the Antec P183 then note that you WILL have to remove the upper drive cage to accommodate the card; and you will NOT be able to fit it into the bottom-most PCIe x16 slot as the chamber-divider does not leave enough clearance.
I am running with an old Core 2 Quad Q6600 (stock speed @2.4GHz) with 8GB of RAM...................


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Sunday, 15 July 2012
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Review Cheap laptop Apple 11 inch MacBook Air (Dual-Core i5,1.6GHz,2GB,64GB Flash,HD Graphics)

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I am not going to go into any technical details as there are a whole host of reviews that can be uncovered by a simple google search, instead I want to concentrate more on the "feel" of the Air

First impressions are... wow. I had tested one in the Apple store several times, but it is hard to appreciate its size and portability until you own one. I seem to find myself randomly picking it u just to spin it round and marvel at it's size and weight. If any thing it is a little too portable, I took it out for the first time on Thursday, and couldn't even tell it was in my bag. So much so that my paranoia of protecting my shiny new toy kicked in and I found myself opening my bag every five minutes to check I had not been pick pocketed. Hopefully this paranoia will wear off after a few weeks.

Aa a previous Windows fan and Windows 7 user I was a little sceptical about swithching to a mac and not too sure how hard it would be to adapt to using a new operating system. A few days of messing around have proved my fears were unjustified and I have actually enjoyed and still am enjoying the learning curve, infact after only two days of using my Macbook Air I logged back onto my Windows PC and found that I kept trying to use multi-touch which is a part of the new Lion OS.

The model I purchased was the upgraded 1.8Ghz i7 with a 128Gb Hard drive and 4Gb Ram, and compared to my 2 year old 2.13 Ghz dual core Windows laptop this feels a lot faster and more polished. The size of the hard drive was a concern coming from a larger 3.5 inch SATA styl hard drive, however this is easily remedied by keeping most of my videos and music on a small and inexpensive (£80 for 1Tb) external hard drive................

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Review Fujitsu STYLISTIC Q550 10.1 inch Tablet PC (30 GB SSD,Windows 7 Professional and Intel Atom 1.5 GHz)

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Grows on you
I was disappointed at first - in comparison with my HP Slate 500, which flies, the Q550 seemed sluggish and unresponsive. But then I spent a couple of days playing around... recalibrated touch/pen, re-installed some of the utilities, disabled Aero, tweaked the buttons and scrollbars for touch, increased the text size, disabled Indexing, installed MS Security Essentials...
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1.0 out of 5 stars An insult to customers
Some people may wish to spend days tweaking this expensive tablet so that it finally works, personally I think it is a complete dog of a product and virtually unusable.

We have used tablets in the past but this piece of junk is truly awful and Fujitsu and /or microsoft should hang their heads in shame for releasing this.

The machine hangs, leaves...

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Review GAMING PC AMD FX 4100 Quad Core 4x3,6GHz - Asus Motherboard - 1000GB HDD - 8GB DDR3 (1333 MHz) - DVD Writer - Grafik GeForce GTX550 Ti (1024MB DDR5-VGA-DVI-HDMI-DirectX 11) - Audio - 6xUSB 2.0 - LAN - 650W - Cardreader - Wireless LAN - 1xeSATA - 3xLED Fan - Windows7 Home Premium 64Bit English (incl.DVD u.Lizenzkey) - COMPUTER

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Astonishing
Ordered Monday. Arrived Friday. From Germany. Astonishing. Thank you Bedir Shop.

Comes with windows 7 pre-installed. Boots to desktop at startup. There is no bloatware on this pc. It is a clean install. Register windows using the ID key off the supplied windows disk, then allow windows to go through its usual fraught and frenetic updates, then install your own...
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2.0 out of 5 stars not as expected.
At first i was incredibly impressed by this rig, it was everything i hoped for and ran every game and program i threw at it, but a mere 3 days after i received it, the power supply blew up! sparks then BANG! i am still debating as to if i should send it back and wait for a replacement with the same second rate power supply or to shell out the money to buy myself a new one...

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Review New Original Unlocked HUAWEI E220 Pocket 3G Datacard HSDPA UTMS USB MODEM w/ Koolertron Sack

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Compatible with my Mid 7206 7" iPad for 3G data when away from wifi. It being unlocked allows me to pick and choose what service provider to use. I have the latest one from Vodaphone/Huawei K3770 which works fine on my laptop, but the iPad does not support it, hence using the older E220, which works on both...........

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Saturday, 14 July 2012
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Review Galaxy Nexus 16GB Sim Free Smartphone

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A big leap in quality, speed and slickness for Android phones.
I received the Samsung Galaxy Nexus about an hour ago. These are my first impressions & I will add to the review as I become more accustomed to the phone.

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Upgraded to this phone from my Nexus S. I have used Android phones for a while now with the G1, Dell Streak, HTC Desire, Xperia X10, Samsung Galaxy S2 (briefly) and Motorola Xoom.

Firstly Ice Cream Sandwich is amazing. Its a great leap forward from Gingerbread and feels much more like Honeycomb on my Xoom than Gingerbread on my Nexus S. Buy ICS will soon be...

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Review Archos 48 Internet Tablet - Tablet - Android 1.6 - 500 GB - 4.8" colour TFT ( 800 x 480 ) - Bluetooth, Wi-Fi

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Product Specifications
General
Brand:Archos
Item Height :14.3 centimetres
Item Width:20 millimetres
Screen Size:4.8 inches
Memory
Computer Memory Type:SDRAM
Connectivity
Number of USB 2.0 Ports:1
Additional Specifications
Lithium Battery Energy Content:2 watt_hours
Lithium Battery Packaging:batteries_contained_in_equipment
Lithium Battery Voltage:5 volts
Lithium Battery Weight:3.5 grams
Number Of Lithium Ion Cells:2

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  • Hard disk drive capacity: 500 GB
  • Connectivity technology: Wireless
  • Interface: USB 2.0
  • Wireless connection: Y
  • DC-in jack: Y
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Review Apple iPad Tablet (WiFi, 32 GB) Cheap

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The IPad is a brilient item for what it does, and in my opinion is far much better than PSP.

So Ipad is designed for what it does, can i able to use 'youtube? Yes. Can i able to access the internet YES.
Ok it may not have FLASH, but can i able to access the websites that i can buy goods to be delivered? YES!!

If you have got the WIFI version then that's far better cause you saved money from the WIFI+3G VERSION.

You can get your own WIFI Dongle, and this lets you take your own WIFI with you everywhere. Instead of relying on Public WIFI Hotspots such as [...] - [...],........................

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Review Cheap GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 670 - 2 GN GDDR5 - PCI-Express 3.0 (GV-N670OC-2GD)

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The Asus GeForce GTX 670 is ideal for hardcore gamers and anyone who uses graphics-intensive applications, taking frame rates to incredible new highs! Clocked at 980 MHz, the Asus GeForce GTX 670 boasts 2 GB of GDDR5 memory and is totally compatible with DirectX11 and Open GL 4.2 for impressive 3D displays that will jump off the screen! CUDA is available for hardware acceleration, and Physx provides highly detailed, life-like graphics....


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Friday, 13 July 2012
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Best Review Acer Iconia Tab A200

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Review Acer Iconia Tab A200

3.0 stars Good
$299.00 to $329.99
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The good: The Acer Iconia Tab A200 has the lowest price yet of any post-Honeycomb 10-inch tablet. It also has expandable memory options, a full USB port, and a well-designed, grippy back, and is upgradable to Ice Cream Sandwich. While running Honeycomb we saw poor Wi-Fi performance, but performance greatly improved when we upgraded to ICS.
The bad: Other than ICS upgradability, there's really nothing particularly special about the A200. There's only one, low-quality front-facing camera and no back camera. There's also no HDMI. Acer Ring, an app and bookmark hub, is slow to start and doesn't make launching apps more efficient.
The bottom line: The Acer Iconia Tab A200 delivers an appealingly low price, but makes some key sacrifices to get there.
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There's really nothing special about the Acer Iconia Tab A200. Sure, it's ICS-upgradable, but both the Motorola Xoom and Asus Transformer Prime have already beat it to that particular punch.
Also, while it features the bare-minimum capabilities of all other post-Honeycomb Android tablets, it actually loses two features many Android tablet owners take for granted: a rear camera and an HDMI port.
Still, it can be yours for only $330 (for the 8GB model; $350 for 16GB), making it the cheapest noncontract buy-in to Honeycomb/ICS yet.
Whether that distinction actually makes it special enough to buy is up to you and your needs.
Design
The Iconia Tab A200 marks Acer's third major tablet design after the A500/A501 and A100 releases. Compared with the A500/A501, the A200 is slightly thinner and lighter, with a sleeker, less boxy look.


Acer Iconia Tab A200 Acer Iconia Tab A501 Asus Transformer Prime Samsung Galaxy 10.1
Weight in pounds 1.56 1.7 1.32 1.24
Width in inches (landscape) 10.2 10.2 10.3 10.1
Height in inches 6.9 6.9 7.1 6.9
Depth in inches 0.48 0.49 0.32 0.34
Side bezel width in inches (landscape) 0.69 0.77 0.8 0.8
The tablet has a 10.1-inch capacitive touch screen, with a 2-megapixel camera on the front. Unfortunately, there's no back camera, a fact sure to disappoint those accustomed to dual-camera tablets. And by "those," I mean pretty much everyone.
The A200 sports what's probably the most adhesive back I've seen or rather felt on a tablet, doing an effective job of keeping the tablet firmly in my hands. The tablet is available in two different color schemes: a gray-backed version and one with a strawberry-red back.

Dat grippy back!
Tablets with corners that don't dig into your hands as you hold them always earn points on the comfort scale. The A200, with its smooth, rounded corners, is comfortable to hold over extended periods and likely won't give you blisters.
For connections, the A200 has Micro-USB and full USB, and a microSD card slot (for cards of up to 32GB) is concealed behind a small door. It also has a headphone jack, a volume rocker, a rotation lock switch, a power/lock button, and a small pinhole-style AC adapter input hole. Unlike the A500, it doesn't have a Micro-HDMI port, unfortunately.

I like expandable memory as much as the next guy, but does it really deserve its own special little door? Pfft!
Software features
Acer is known for including its own unique software touches in its tablets, and the A200 is no exception. From the lock screen, Acer adds the option of swiping to one of four customizable app shortcuts--useful for getting to those much-used apps quickly.
The A200 also sees the debut of Acer Ring, an app shortcut and carousel-like bookmark hub that appears after you tap the green ring symbol at the bottom of the screen. Each bookmark or app is completely customizable, allowing you to include up to four apps and as many bookmarks as you like.
While this would seem useful, accessing apps the normal way is already so quick and easy that adding an extra step puts you that much further from your goal. To be fair, we're talking about mere seconds here, but it does add up.
Clear.fi and Media Server work in tandem to aggregate media on your network and stream media to and from the A200.
Ice Cream Sandwich
The tablet comes preinstalled with Honeycomb 3.2.1 and is upgradable to Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS). ICS is the latest version of Android and is more of an evolution of Honeycomb than something that feels completely different. There are a few notable differences, however.
UI and widgets: On the home screen, Google has slightly changed the way we access widgets. Honeycomb had a little shortcut at the top of the screen, or you could press and hold the home screen, but now widgets have been grouped with apps.
Tapping the apps shortcut now brings you to a dual apps-and-widgets section, each with its own tab. Also, swiping through your apps will eventually bring you to widgets. This change is subtle; widgets now feel less hidden and more important than before because of it.
One of the most annoying things about Honeycomb notifications is the way they can pile up, requiring you to close each individual one to get rid of them. Fortunately, ICS lets you kill them all in one fell swoop and let the tablet gods sort it out. Also, instead of simply showing you the last message you've received, ICS consolidates all mail notifications into one, displaying the number of new messages you have.
Settings: With settings you'll notice right off the bat that things are subtly different, with no real huge changes, just a few useful refinements. Options have now been split into four sections: Wireless and networks, Device, Personal, and System. Some features that were crammed in with others in Honeycomb now have their own sections.
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REview ViewSonic VA1931WA-LED - LCD display - TFT - LED backlight - 19" - widescreen - 1366 x 768 - 250 cd/m2 - 1000:1 - 10000000:1 (dynamic) - 5 ms - 0.3 mm - VGA - black

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Review Apple 11 inch MacBook Air (Dual-Core i5,1.6GHz,4GB,128GB Flash,HD Graphics Cheap

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First Mac... but will not be my last!!
I am not going to go into any technical details as there are a whole host of reviews that can be uncovered by a simple google search, instead I want to concentrate more on the "feel" of the Air

First impressions are... wow. I had tested one in the Apple store several times, but it is hard to appreciate its size and portability until you own one. I seem to...

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Buyer beware...
It's a beautiful thing, but as a portable device it just don't work. Half the time it won't connect to WiFi at all, the rest of the time it drops the WiFi and refuses to reconnect without a very great deal of messing about. It also seems to interfere with the wireless router and interrupt signal to the other sweet faultless PCs around the house. Assumed it was a one-off,...

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Brit Pop Star Leona Lewis (Re-)Lists West Coast Abode

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SELLER: Leona Lewis
LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA
PRICE: $2,500,000
SIZE: 3,946 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: British singer and songwriter Leona Lewis rocketed to (European) super stardom in 2006 when she won the third season of X Factor, a wildly popular televised singing contest and the British pre-curser to American Idol.

The following year the PETA-friendly and gorgeously tawny-skinned songstress signed a five-album contract with L.A.-based music industry icon Clive Davis, reported at the time to be worth somewhere in the vicinity of $10,000,000. Like anyone else with a brains and bills would do for ten million clams, she packed her bags and crossed the pond to make a record or two in Tinseltown. The Simon Cowel protogee first settled—an informant snitched to Your Mama ages ago—into a rented house in the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles. In September 2009 she opted to sink some real estate roots in Los Angeles and acquired a privately but still conveniently located property in the Nichols Canyon area in September 2009 for $1,850,000.

Like many rich and/or famous folks, Miss Lewis soon caught a mild but classic case of The Celebrity Real Estate Fickle and last summer, not even two years after signing on the deed's dotted line, put her west coast abode on the open market with a substantially higher asking price of $2,500,000. The two-story residence with detached guest suite went unsold and late June (2012) it was de-listed only to be re-listed this week with a very familiar—and, well,  previously ineffective—asking price of $2,500,000.

Listing information shows the architecturally questionable contempo-mock-Med main house—set high up a private, gated drive at the tail end of a private, gated street—was built in 1999 on nearly three-quarters of an acre, measures in at 3,946 square feet and contains 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, and 4 fireplaces. A detached structure creates a mini-compound with single car garage offers additional living space with a bedroom, bathroom and home gym set up.

The mostly monochromatic white interior spaces of the main house have a mix of buff-colored marble tile and chestnut-colored hardwood floors. Most windows, large and small, appear to be fitted with white, heavy-duty plantation shutters. The voluminous living room was anachronistically outfitted with a Chevy-sized crystal chandeliers we can get our decorative mind around and weirdly classical (dentil) moldings that we can not.

Children, this is a mock-Med contemporary structure—whatever that is—and the thick, dentil molding and ceiling medallion make the living room look like its doing bad drag, you know? Poor thing is bustled up and dripping in (fake) diamonds in the heat of a Santa Fe summer when she ought to be wearing linen palazzo pants and a big turqwahz brooch.

Anyhoo, the black, gleaming baby grand in the living room is to be expected—Miss Lewis is, after all, a pop music chanteuse who can surely sing like nobody's bizness—but we're just gonna have to pretend we do not see those gigantic, carved stone angel wings that stand on either side of the fireplace lest we hissy fit ourselves into a decorative conniption of epic proportions.

There's another fireplace and another crystal chandelier in the formal dining room otherwise dressed with little more than a few mirrored candlesticks (or whatever those are) and a half-dozen, white-washed Louis the Something-style cane-backed chairs. A sizable, center island and cook-friendly kitchen has a handy-dandy snack and booze counter and opens to a breakfast area with glittery crystal chandelier hung over a modern, white lacquer Parson's table. The adjoining family room done up in what we might (unnecessarily and cattily) describe as a dash of Marie Antoinette meets a soupçon too much Shabby Sheek.

Based on Miss Lewis's chosen day-core in the public spaces—kinda pared down and decidedly glam-romantic—we weren't even mildly startled to find a four poster bed in the spacious master bedroom hung with gauzy panels nor did it shock us even a teensy bit the roomy master bathroom—with jetted tub and separate, glass-enclosed shower—is almost entirely slathered in beige travertine or marble or whatever.

We're even less surprised—but, we confess, mortified—to find a small collection of kneeling and/or bowing angel figurines set around the swimming pool. Sorry, Charlies. Call us every awful name in the good book but Your Mama just does not think angels and/or angel-related objet are appropriate day-core unless you live in a still-consecrated house of worship.

French doors in both the breakfasting area of the kitchen and the family room open directly out to the backyard entertainment areas that include, as per listing information, a built-in barbecue. The swimming pool and spa are backed by a (probably faux-) stone waterfall and thicket of tropical landscaping. A narrow strip of grass and stone pathway (with fountain) hugs the back of the house and connects a swimming pool area to a small, flat grass pad at the far end of the house, near the motor court, two-car (attached) garage and detached guest house.

We haven't even a wee morsel of intel about whether Miss Lewis plans to keep a crib in Tinseltown but perhaps she's ready to hightail it back home where various online reports suggest Miss Lewis maintains a home base in the London borough of Hackney.

listing photos: Keller Williams / Beverly Hills
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