Archive for April, 2010

Bargain Buy – Western Digital TV Mini Media Player

Bing Lee had this on sale yesterday for only $39 and I got Dick Smith in the city to price match! JB Hi-Fi had them for $78 but wouldn’t discount. They claimed their cost price was $68, but if Dick & Bing can sell for much less, JB should have a serious talk with their [...]

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Bargain Buy – Logitech Portable Speaker S125i

A few weeks ago, Kmart had this on special for $29 and @nawtee & I went to JB-Hifi and got them to price match! YAY… Audio quality fairly decent, and there’s a bit of oomph with the bass boost on. There’s also an aux input so you can connect any other mp3 player using a [...]

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Bargain Buy – Logitech Ultimate Ears MetroFi 220

Bought this from logitechshop.com.au for $25 when they went crazy a few weeks back with the bargains. They’re an older model so they were being cleared out. I used to buy expensive earphones but always end up damaging them. Somehow I’d lose the sound to the right earphone (every time)! YAY… Some noise isolating features. [...]

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Sole Protection: To Toe Tap or Topy?

Following on from my earlier post on how how to care for your new shoes out-of-the-box, here’s another thing to consider… sole protection. On quality leather shoes, the soles are made of leather and are stitched on. They can be replaced if worn out. However, this is quite labor intensive and your cobbler will charge [...]

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Caring for New Leather Shoes

Having recently bought a new pair of black C&J Lowndes, I thought it’d be a good opportunity to post about how one should treat brand new fine leather shoes. There are many different ways of caring for shoes, and while I do not claim my methods are the best, they work for me. The biggest [...]

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Content Overhaul to Come

This site is in need of a major content overhaul. My apologies to the few loyal visitors who still come back regularly hoping for updates. My interests over the past few years have changed. I have grown less interested in the gadgets & electronics, and have instead acquired a new passion for looking after clothes [...]

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