ValuMouse 2 - Revenge of the Scroll Wheel!!

Advantages: Cheap, reliable, scroll wheel
Disadvantages: A bit clunky in use

...Recently I reviewed the Kensington ValuMouse and bemoaned the fact that it was missing a scroll wheel. Well now I?ve come across a Kensington ValuMouse that has a scroll wheel, hence this new review! This Kensington ValuMouse is priced around £10 so represents good value for money. The mouse comes with an instruction manual and a floppy disk which contain drivers to run the scroll wheel in Windows ?95. Specs As per the standard ValuMouse, this mouse is controlled by a ball mechanism. It has two buttons, left and right, but unlike the standard ValuMouse, sitting in the middle of the two buttons is a scroll wheel. This is obviously a handy addition! The mouse has a reasonably long cord attached to it, as with the standard ValuMouse. However, what is different about the cord on this mouse is that it features an adapter to...

richard_richard 02.04.2004 · Read review
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Review of Kensington ValuMouse Scroll - mouse

The scrolls, briefly

Advantages: Well done as an outline and overview
Disadvantages: -

...I am a fan of the VSI ? Very Short Introduction ? Series done by the Oxford University Press. On literally hundreds of subjects, they provide a survey with enough depth and detail to be worthwhile to the non-specialist, a wide enough range to useful for students looking for authoritative information, and good as a general outline of the fields or subjects as preparation for further study. This particular volume on the Dead Sea Scrolls touches on one of my areas of interest that I have been following for over a quarter of a century (and it pains me to realise that I am indeed old enough to have areas of study that reach back that far). When I first encountered information about the scrolls, one controversy about them was over ownership rights and publication rights ? there were conspiracy theories about why the scrolls were being...

frkurt 07.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Dead Sea Scrolls - Timothy Lim

The Elder Scrolls magic

Advantages: huge and beautiful environment, lots of quests, characters and stories, sounds and music
Disadvantages: Oblivion is already released, characters could have looked better

...Morrowind is the third game of the Elder Scrolls series, but I got to play this one after the fourth one, Oblivion. But still Morrowind was another great experience for me as it just one step behind Oblivion in all aspects. This one is another great work from Bethesda Softworks and it is undoubtedly an incredible experience. This one is another huge Role Playing Game with a huge world to explore. The sequel to Daggerfall of 1996 has undergone a huge transformation from its predecessor. The game is supposed to take place in is a fictional region with the name Morrowind itself which is a part of the vast landscape of Tamriel. Two expansion packs were released for the game, Tribunal and Bloodmoon. MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS * Windows ME/98 * 128 MB of system RAM * Windows XP/2000 * 256MB of system RAM (Windows NT NOT...

existtoinspire 27.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (PC)

Microsoft Official Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel

Advantages: Very robust and firm wheel. wireless
Disadvantages: MAY STRIKE SOME AS "CHEAP" LOOKING

...This wheel comes extremely well packaged and may take you a few mintues to actually get into it but atleast this lends assurance that it will transport well when it was shipped. The packages comes in 3 separate parts: >Wheel >Pedals >Table attachement WHEEL: The wheel itself is covered in a highly durable rubber covering making it very easy to keep a grip on it, which is an important feature if like me yours hands can sweat in the middle of an intense race. The wheel also has all the buttons you would find on a normal controller and they are all intuitively placed. The X,Y, A,B buttons are placed in easy reach of the thumb so when driving they are easy reachablt. The trigger buttons are also present as large levers placed directly behind the wheel so as you can easily use them but with enough room between them and the wheel...

James.Egginton 25.12.2006 · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Official Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel

Wonder Woman's Wheels. . .

Advantages: Great for cleaning them.
Disadvantages: Expensive.

...Well known, and used by the motor industry as the professional cleaning product, also recommended and approved by the majority of motor manufacturers, as well as AutoTrader, What Car, and AutoExpress. In fact, speaking of Auto Express, the Wonder wheels product is the number one selling and multiple award winning alloy wheel cleaner. Wonder wheels has won the Auto Express product honours for eleven consecutive years! OK that sounds like an advert, it is actually. I lifted it from the CarPlan site, have a look for yourself http://www.carplan.co.uk/index.cfm?page=1 Contents of cardboard box are, 500ml wheel cleaner, 1 application bristle brush and a dispensing container. This stuff is now also available in a "trigger bottle". Instructions. To use, firstly I suggest doing this just after washing the car, that way a lot of the dirt...

smudgeybabes 29.07.2008 (07.02.2009) · Read review
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Review of Wonder Wheels Cleaning Kit

The big wheel keeps on turning!

Advantages: A great attraction for Windsor
Disadvantages: none

...A few weeks ago it was the bank holiday weekend and we had friends staying so we thought we would take in some of our local attractions. Windsor is only half an hour away from where we live so we decided to head over there with the intention of taking all our children on the Royal Windsor Wheel - which was a first for us all. I had looked up the details on the website at www.royalwindsorwheel.com We could have booked our tickets in advance but I decided that, because my four year old daughter is sometimes a bit unsure of things and may well take one look at it and decide that she wasn't going on it, to risk not booking. As it was, on a Sunday lunchtime it was not busy, my daughter was quite happy and we virtually walked on straightaway as soon as we had paid. The Windsor Wheel is probably best described as a smaller version...

kingfisher111 22.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Royal Windsor Wheel, Berkshire

The wheels on the Wii go round and round

Advantages: cheap
Disadvantages: see review

...This is a funny old product because, of course, it's not really much more than a circular piece of plastic, yet it feels so good! The Wii Wheel is a driving wheel for use with Wii games that, erm, require you to drive. The way it works is you insert the Wii remote into it (it fits very snug), and then use the whole thing to drive. The Wii remote is not included in the purchase. There is a 'B' button on the back of the wheel, operatable with your left pointy finger. The wheel cost me £6.99 on sopto.net and is the same price in Game stores around the country. Although the price seems very reasonable, it should be pointed out that standard Wii remotes are not at all practical for driving games, and really it's an additional cost that you pretty much HAVE to spend to be able to play racing games and the like, so it would have been...

bruffyboy 24.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of NINTENDO Wii Wheel - wheel

The battle for the scrolls...

Advantages: Interesting reading, sensational in some parts
Disadvantages: A bit out of date in some sections

...This book, written in the early 1990s, had much more punch when it was first written. The Dead Sea Scrolls were still essentially under lock-and-key, accessible as a whole only to a few selected scholars who were selected by unclear and seemingly biased methods ? that bias often being misconstrued as the dictates of the Roman Catholic Church. History has proven something rather different going on, but reading this book is still a good study of what can happen in even the most banal and esoteric of endeavours when secrecy and restricted access to information is the norm. The Dead Sea Scrolls is a name given to a general collection of scrolls found in the area of Qumran, in the desert near the Dead Sea in the West Bank of the Jordan River. The first scrolls from this region were found in 1947/48. Many more scrolls have been found...

frkurt 25.06.2004 · Read review
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Review of The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception - Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh

Six wheels on my Wagon

Advantages: Individually wrapped, taste ok, not too pricey
Disadvantages: Ordinary these days.

...Wagon Wheels are one of those last few remaining treats that I remember from my childhood, and are still around. As kids we would be given a wagon wheel occasionally and they seemed huge taking ages to eat. I know that when we are young children we are usually quite small but I dont think that this is the only reason that Wagon Wheels seem to be so small nowadays by comparison. Still, in line with other such products, as their size has diminished their price has not. They are usually purchased these days in multi-packs such as the one I bought this week that hold 6 individually wrrapped wagon wheels. A wagon wheel is basically a round biscuit that is a good couple of inches in diameter. There are two digestive type biscuits sandwiched together with mallow and the whole concoction is covered in a cholcolate flavoured coating. Notice...

grafter123 22.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Burtons Wagon Wheels

Four wheels good.......Two wheels better

Advantages: Great stories/articles, loads of guest writers, great photography
Disadvantages: Too many adverts - but this is the case with most publications

...Two Wheels is a bike magazine aimed at real bike enthusiasts. It is a monthly magazine that is part of the visordown.com group. The Editor in Chief is Grant Leonard and columnists include ex racer Niall Mackenzie, ex racer Jamie Whitham and the Pitbull. The main features and articles of this magazine are as follows: ****Road tests**** A lot of this magazine is articles on specific bikes and testing them to their limits. The handling is tested, the comfort is tested, the acceleration is tested, the top speed is tested and, most importantly, what they are like to live with on a daily basis is tested. To keep it all legal and above board the bikes are tested on the track (for the speed and handling tests), on the drag strip (for the acceleration and top end test) and on the road (for handling and the ?real life? test...

yackers1 15.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Two Wheels Only