Advantages: Does what it supposed to
Disadvantages: Hard to get

...Once more Gatineau are up the front when it comes to helping your tan. This product is called Vitalising Tanning face and body care,before and after sun restructuring.It is best known as a accelerater. Right I will explain to you and all will come clear. This product helps you get the best tan quicker.EG if you go in the sun for 1 hour the accelerator will act as if you have been in the sun for 3 hours ,yes that simple. You would start using it about 1 to 2 weeks before your holiday,then use it as a after sun throughout your holiday and when you get home,throughout the summer if you like.It produces certain chemicals that the sun would bring out bringing them up to the surface so that the skin tans easier,it will help you not to burn and even reduces the chances of pricly heat. I have found I get a better all over tan that seems... Read review

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Advantages: Tan easier without burning or peeling so much
Disadvantages: Can be difficult to get hold of

...A tan accelerator is a pre-sun/sun related product that you start to apply a couple weeks before you go on holiday and you would use it until you return instead of your body lotion. The tan accelerator helps increase the production of of the proteins which produce melanine,(the brown stuff produced making you tan). This means that by the time you go on holiday, your skin is more prepared and will tan a lot sooner (ie the 1st day instead of the 3rd)than you ever had with just ordinary sun products. If you are very fair and burn or don't usually tan this is a product for you. It can be used with ordinary sun creams as well but the fantastic extra I noticed whilst on holiday in Greece is that it totally cuts down the peeling effect caused by dry skin and the tan fading. I must say that this is one of the best sunning products I... Read review

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Advantages: Fragrance to die for, moisturising, gives even tan
Disadvantages: Can be a bit pricey

...A few months back I decided to join a gym, to help me regain my figure after the birth of our daughter (ha flippin' ha). To my delight, as part of my membership I was entitled to 60 minutes worth of Sun Showers. After a few sessions in the gym I decided to try it out and I realised with embarrassment that what I had thought was a pop machine down the corridor, was in fact a Sun Shower … well, I had only ever been in the cradle type many moons ago - it's all change these days. When I booked another session my instructor recommended I use a tanning accelerator and so I bought one of the many sachets that were displayed at the front desk. Emerald Bay - Coconut Colada to be precise. I was surprised and pleased with the result, so I bought a decent sized bottle (265ml) of it online for £6.25 (it does actually retail at £9.99 elsewhere... Read review

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Advantages: protects the skin, stops burning, quicker and safer tan and more long lasting.
Disadvantages: a bit pricey but worth it.

...First of all, even though this is listed under self-tanning, it is NOT a self-tanning product. What it is, is a tan accelerator. It comes in a 150ml bottle and the average price is £18-£19. Though if you take a look at Ebay you may find it on there for around £10! The tan accelerator is applied around 5-8 days before a holiday or a session in the sun, you continue using it as an after sun and throughout the time you are sunbathing. Throughout the summer basically. So what does it do? Well, it has a substance in it that comes from sunflowers which prepares your skin ready for the sun so that it wont burn, you tan much quicker and it wont be red, you’ll be brown straight off. It also helps your tan to last longer especially if you use it as an after sun. Yes, it’s not a huge bottle but you’ll be surprised at how long... Read review

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Advantages: Free, fast and easy to install
Disadvantages: It doesn't work

...Do you remember those dial up days when you could make a coffee while waiting on a page loading? Well it is safe to say those days are behind us but our desire for speed has not changed. We still want our favourite websites loading ever faster and I don't think we will be satisfied until it is instantaneous. So you're kitted out with "super fast" broadband. When you first tried it… wow, but now you want it even faster. Enter Google Web Accelerator. What is Google Web Accelerator you ask? Well, it accelerates the web! It is a little application which can be downloaded from Google with the job of giving you an even faster web experience. As Google says, the Google Web Accelerator "uses the power of Google's global computer network to make web pages load faster". It's easy to use too. Download, install and forget! As if by magic your... Read review

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Advantages: For Fast Downloading Of File
Disadvantages: Some Files do not Support "Resume" for Download Accelerator

...Download Accelerator Accelerates downloads for all Internet connections. Download Accelerator will accelerate the speed with which you can receive files over the Internet using FTP and HTTP protocols by simultaneously downloading several file segments from the same or different servers. Download Accelerator enables you to pause and resume downloads, and to recover from a dropped Internet connection. In addition, Download Accelerator searches for mirrors and implements the downloads from the best or most responsive mirrors. It is configured by default to automatically Integrate into your Explorer or Netscape browser when it is installed, and to self-activate each time a download is performed. No further configuration or action is required on your part - simply use your browser to access the desired site, click on the download... Read review

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Advantages: R.E.M.'s best album since "New Adventures in Hi-Fi".
Disadvantages: ...R.E.M. haven't had a good album since "New Adventures in Hi-Fi".

...R.E.M. "Accelerate" (Warner Bros., 2008) - More disappointing, disturbingly self-referential, placeholding. One of the ironies of R.E.M.'s long career has been their fairly impressive inability to structure their own albums into both coherent and interesting masses, the irony rooted in three remarkable exceptions: the jangling and often menacing I.R.S.-period "Life's Rich Pageant", the nigh-perfect expression of the American plains in "Automatic for the People", and the fuzzy, brave, quasi future-rock "Monster". As an R.E.M. fan you accept that for every hit, there are the near-hits, and the awful experiments, as the band reel somewhat pretentiously from what their last album really cost in spirit, rebuilding their own character through our generous donations to the cause of their emotional stock, so far removed from... Read review

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Advantages: cheap and easy to use
Disadvantages: reddening

...I KNOW THIS IS IN THE WRONG PLACE!!!! I HAVE EMAILED CIAO WHO RECKON THIS PRODUCT IS ON THE SITE BUT I HAVE LOOKED EVERYWHERE AND ITS NOT HERE.I WILL EMAIL THEN IN A FEW DAYS AND SEE IF THEY CAN TELL ME AS THEY SAY THEY ARE UPDATING THE SEARCH ENGINE SO IT MAY NOT APPEAR BUT I HAVE MANUALLY SEARCHED AS WELL.AS SOON AS THEY TELL ME WHERE IT IS I WILL MOVE IT I PROMISE.JUST DIDNT KNOW WHERE ELSE TO PUT IT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUN BRONZE SUNBED SYSTEM-MAXIMISER I am a person that doesn't seem to tan very well and until the kids are older I won't go abroad, so I thought that I would fake it by going in a vertical tanning system to give me a bit of colour. I was originally using... Read review

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Advantages: Speeds up downloads,can resume broken downloads,you can pause downloads,remembers all of your past downloads.Only download application you'll need.
Disadvantages: Can mess up some downloads but this is very rare.

...In the wake of the 'free internet access' many of us will be left cursing at our monitor after an interrupted download, with free Internet access many ISP's have now induced 2hour cut offs. These are to "give other members a chance to log on". Well instead of moaning about these limits why don’t we just find a way round this small problem. And that’s where Download accelerator jumps on to the stage and receives a massive standing ovation, everyone should have this small yet useful piece of software on their machine. It comes in a small download of about 500kb so it will take about 2-3 minutes on a 56k modem, it will be in a self extracting format so you click twice on the icon and wait for it to unpack itself. When installed there’s no doubt you have to enter details but this process is short and you can be using... Read review

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Advantages: Fast downloads, easy layout, free
Disadvantages: has habit of not working somtimes

...To get a good start on the internet in downloading, you will need basically 3 things, a hard drive (simple), a virus checker (most machines come with one) and this little genius piece of software called download accelerator. This is a piece of software which allows you to copy urls from a website and then add them and then download them. this program is basically for resuming big files such as movie files or mp3 music files, also it speeds the transfer rate up a lot using segmented downloading. It also finds the best servers with the best pings, the server with lowest ping will have fastest downloading speed. so you ask, what makes download accelerator so different from the others? well the fact that you can optimize your download speed with different connections, it gets the best out of what you have. layout - - - - The design... Read review

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