Suck your air out and triple the storage

Advantages: Storage problems solved easily
Disadvantages: None!

...JML VacPac Vacuum Seal Storage Bags Why I bought them... A large quantity of bedding, clothes and other odds and ends that needed to be transported over two hundred miles from home to my narrowboat in readiness for my next cruise was causing me a real problem. Since retiring to enjoy my boat and freedom, my income has dwindled to nil and downsizing is the name of the game. My car has downsized too, now a little Ford KA, great for shopping but pretty useless for anything involving luggage or bulk. I needed a cheap way of cramming as much into the car as humanly possible, hiring a vehicle was out of the question so I came up with the idea of Vacuum Storage Bags as a method of transporting my gear. What they do.... The idea is that you pack your items for storage in the plastic bag and then seal it with the aid of a little...

brittle1906 21.03.2008 (09.04.2008) · Read review
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Vaccum Storage Bags

Advantages: Space Saving Ideas for Home and Abroad
Disadvantages: None I can think of

...I love this idea, whoever thought this up is a genius. A lot of families have storage problems my main pain in the backside is lack of room for excess bedding that i keep spare for guests and what not, So this is magnificent, how the air can be sucked out of the bag with any pipe vacuum cleaner and reduce the size of package to less than a quarter of the size. Brilliant for duvets and pillows i might add and to top it all off it keeps all those bugs away and when you do unpack them they smell as good as the day you washed them and put the items in there. Excellent I would rate these to anybody you can even use them for going abroad and storing your much loved items and reducing space which we all know must happen when traveling on a plane think of the goodies you can bring back !! Although I have never tries them in my suitcase while...

funkychic123 14.08.2007 · Read review
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Microsoft Digital Media Pro Keyboard

Advantages: Great Keyboard, For casual and excessive users.
Disadvantages: Took a while to beable to use it.

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Leigh36295 12.08.2008 · Read review
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Virgin Media - Getting better...

Advantages: Basic sky channels are back!, Some good VOD content, good unlimited internet packages
Disadvantages: VOD reliability not 100%, webmail reliability & mailbox size, customer service rather 'hit or miss'

...believe wasn't so good and it was one of those pretty pained phone calls my mum could have done without but we got it fixed in the end and other times if you phone, you get someone in the UK and you can get ok responses, its a bit 'hit or miss') **Edit 22/10/08:- Ok im editing this review as I want to add more about the Virgin webmail/email service, see the 4th bottom paragraph about that for the updated information** I must say it feels like alot has changed with this cable provider over the last year and its not for the better. I'm not very keen on Virgin Media (which were originally NTL or Telewest depending on where you lived but then they merged into this company and paid to use the Virgin brand name, from what I've read on a digital TV discussion forum), after whats happened I'm left feeling suspicious. Its the cable TV...

IzzyS 26.07.2007 (16.11.2008) · Read review
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virgin media

Advantages: TV till you drop and good internet.
Disadvantages: Poor customer services, poor prices,

...Virgin have gone down in my expectations and i am currently thinking of leaving them. When i first joined virgin media it was called telewest, i signed up to a large tv package and the internet at a cost of 40 pounds per month. This worked fine untill virgin media took over, Although they did bring better and more chanels to the table the prices went up and the customer service went down. When virgin took over they rang me to say i would be better off if i got the whole package which included xl tv, 20gb broadband and a phone line with free weekend calls as it would take my bill down to 35 pound a month, i also pay for disney cinemagic aswell so it would basically be taking 5 pound off my bill which i thought was fair enough. Since then the bill has went up and up and up! I still have the same package to which i had 4 years...

vikkiz 19.10.2009 (20.10.2009) · Read review
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Virgin Media

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: Freezing tv channels, unhelpful staff

...Virgin Media took over Cable (not sure exactly when), They offer sevices such as Broadband, tv and the phone, their bills are on a monthly basis. The reason I chose Virgin I signed up with Virgin approximately 6 months ago, the reason I decided to sign up with them is because my family are all customers of Virgin and I thought it would be cheaper on the phone calls, also I prefer the monthly bills rather than quarterly bills like with BT. Arranging for installation I had a leaflet from Virgin with their phone number on, so I phoned them give all the details they needed and they give me an installation date which was approx a week later. While on the phone I arranged to pay by Direct debit. Day of installation I recieved a welcome letter stating the date and time of my installation, the following Monday was when I was to...

jenny967 08.01.2008 · Read review
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Virgin Media Mayhem

Advantages: eventually my account was sorted for the better
Disadvantages: too much ringing round.. customer service team awful

...Since i started with Virgin Media I had nothing but problems, thankfully everything is all sorted now and touch wood i won't have to speak to them again, however the first problem i had was my landline. I went to use the phone one day and basically i had no dial tone... i rang customer services and it stated on a automated message that if you were experience problems in the ST3 area, the engineers were aware of it and were working to rectify the problem. I thought nothing of it and assumed that my line would be working pretty soon. The day after i tried it again and still no dial tone.. so i rang them again and on this occasion there was no automated message i got straight through to an advisor who ran tests on my line and said there was nothing wrong with it. Well surely if i have no dial tone and no one has touched it there is...

blondgem 24.09.2007 · Read review
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The Truth About Virgin Media

Advantages: Good package prices, ability to haggle against competition, fast broadband
Disadvantages: System errors and downtimes can happen from time to time, may have to monitor your account regular

.... Warning: When calling some of their hotlines, you may be charged for the call. If the numebrs are 0845 or 0870 - check my recent review of saynoto0870 where you can convert these premium numbers to landline numbers. It is worth doing this early on, as you may end up needing to call support at least once every couple of weeks during a bad time. All-in-all, Virgin Media are a decent company to choose. But have caution when dealing with their representatives and make sure you monitor your services and accounts from time to time to make sure you have not been charged for something that was caused by an error in their system. If you are looking for a package for telephone, broadband, digital television and mobile phones you won't find another company who can handle them all in a bundle, with decent savings to be made on all combined. This...

Lehen 15.06.2009 · Read review
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Bose SoundDock Digital Music System Review

Advantages: Superb Sound, Very Loud, Ideal for Ipods
Disadvantages: not go to travel with, Extremely Expensive

...Bose SoundDock Digital Music System I happened to get this as a gift and it turned out to be quiet interesting Summary: This dock is used mainly for ipod and allows you to connet mp3 players to it and listen to high quality music via speakers. It is idle for homes and small gatherings, although I would not run a party off these. Pros: This system has terrific sound and can go very load despite its relative small size. As with almost all Bose speakers the quality is amazing, so long as the source you are playing it from is high quality it will allow the speakers to each its potential. I have a surround sound Bose set up in one of my rooms but now prefer to use this product as it is very simple to operate. Just plug the mp3 player in and press play and your set. Can't get much simpler. It also runs off a wall...

plunt 05.04.2008 · Read review
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SlingMedia's SlingBox SB150-120

Advantages: "Free" TV from the other side of the world... where-ever you are!
Disadvantages: Really none I can think of that concern the device itself

...This review is actually based on my use of the Japanese version of this product, SlingMedia's Sling Box SB150-120. The UK model is the SB150-110, and as far as I have been able to establish (from friends actually using it on my advice), the UK model differs from the Japanese model only in respect of the TV Tuner. The UK Model * I am told * features a TV Tuner that is DVB/FreeView capable (which would not work in Japan anyway) and is of course based on the PAL TV system (whereas Japan's model uses NTSC like America). The device itself is smaller than you may expect, and most definitely ugly, but you can't really hold that against it, particularly when there is no reason why it has to be on view (there are no IR remote sensors on the front, for example). It comes with all the cables, software, and instructions you will require...

ThePuss 22.07.2007 · Read review
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