FIVE UPDATES - NEWS

Advantages: Short and sharp
Disadvantages: Lack of detail - when are they showing ?

...Channel five has little to offer in terms of competition with the other 4 main channels. Five updates along with the regular film slots could be a little more. WHAT ARE THEY? UPDATES are short broadcasts offering a quick review of the major news items from around the day. These might be addressed during the major news slots of the day (12.00 and 17.00) or week - some indication is given during the update. The broadcasts are often less than 5 minutes. FORMAT Often a toolbar appears at the base of the screen - these offer written text on a scroll bar giving some indication of the items being outlined above with statistics. And some items not being mentioned verbally (normally those for review on the major news broadcasts later). I?ve noticed five updates broadcast in the morning, afternoon and I?ve just seen one (11.15). They...

JeffreyB 18.02.2005 · Read review
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Review of Channel 5 - News Update

The GI Diet: Demystified

Advantages: Clearly explained diet that's certainly not a fad
Disadvantages: Not for everyone, some annoying comments

...contains more calories, but not a huge amount and it's the most nutritious and flavoursome part of the egg. If you're eating one or two eggs at a time, the extra calories aren't going to make a huge amount of difference to your weight loss. It also seems wasteful to discard the yolk. THE BOOK ITSELF I am reviewing an updated edition of The GI Diet that was first published in Britain in 2004 and written 2 years after the first edition. It obviously makes more sense to buy or borrow this updated version, as the food charts have been updated and it includes recipes that weren't in the original. The tone is friendly and informal, making the reader feel at ease rather than confused by jargon. Everything is explained clearly and the charts are very clear and colour-coded, so you shouldn't have any problems understanding it. Gallop explains...

DoubleFantasy11 09.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of The GI Diet (Updated Edition) - Rick Gallop

Updating the Ark

Advantages: Low purchase price, versatility, good results
Disadvantages: It's noisy, not really for the serious photographer

...a device to digitalise slide photographs and negatives and I was curious about the results these devices delivered. I did some research and discovered the overall opinion was somewhat mixed, however the general consensus amongst people online was to try to get a decent scanner which could deal with photographs, slides and negatives. I appreciate much of the photography terms I use here will go over the head of younger members whose only experience of family photos is the digital camera, but in my lifetime I have seen lots of different formats in photography come and go, so it really was time to update all these formats into the modern jpg file! The Scanner My budget was limited and I was also aware of the fact that I wasn't going to be dealing with amazing photographs here - they were nearly all family snapshots that whilst priceless to...

rosebud2001 02.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Epson Perfection V300 Photo

an update

Advantages: -
Disadvantages: -

...I've been absent from Ciao for such a long time.. more than a year now. And a lot has changed in my life, so I thought I'd give all my old friends on here a bit of an update. Well, there's that, and I also like talking about myself :p Last time I was around on Ciao, I was just sitting my GCSEs. I got them last year - 4 A's, 3 B's and 2 C's and got into my chosen college, which was nice... although I hate the place now! I take English Lit, English Language and Politics; having dropped Psychology for my second year. I get my AS results a week today. I'm planning on doing English Language at uni next year... University College of London or Kings College London if I get in, but if not, Nottingham, Lancaster, Manchester or Durham. It's all very scary but quite frankly, I can't wait to get out of this place... I've lived in dreary Wigan...

j3ssica 10.08.2006 · Read review
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Review of Everything that starts with U ...

Noise Cancelling? Yes Please! *UPDATED!*

Advantages: They really do cancel sound, amazing bass and clarity
Disadvantages: Sometimes they can hurt a bit.

...like without them now- actually, probably very noisy and infuriating to listen to music! If like me you need noise cancelling headphones, I would strongly reccomend this brand AND model. I'm happy with my purchase, and even though I paid more than others, I still think they are worth every penny. UPDATE: Okay, so that was then. Why the update I hear you ask? Well. The earphones were perfectly fine, doing their job as usual and with me sitting happily listening to my music without ambient noise. Untill on of the headphones broke. I wondered why I could hear every noise as clear as day- and my headphones wern't as clear and loud as they had been! That was the problem. One of the 'phones had gone completley mute, with sound only coming out the left side. Nothing from the right. obviously I have had a good long look at them, and everything...

Leopardskinny 04.02.2007 (16.03.2007) · Read review
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Review of Sennheiser CX 300

*UPDATED* The name's Bond...

Advantages: Good graphics. It's Bond.
Disadvantages: Doesn't match up to other big games

...deathmatch', 'Capture the Flag' and a few other special modes, like the popular Golden Gun mode where one player can carry the Golden Gun until someone kills him/her and takes it for themselves. Unfortunately, the Golden Gun kills in one shot so it's not as easy as it sounds! To even things up a bit though, the person carrying the Golden Gun can be seen through walls by the other players. **UPDATED** Having played the multiplayer game a bit more now, I'm pretty disappointed. It is hugely inferior to COD4, it's hard to believe it's the same engine. The maps are poor, the characters look like they're floating slightly above the ground and the "feel" of the multiplayer game is just far inferior, I can't say anything else. General The game is slickly presented, the graphics are very good (very sharp, especially on HD) and the enemy AI seems...

psirac 12.11.2008 (20.11.2008) · Read review
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Review of James Bond 007: Quantum of Solace (Xbox 360)

UPDATE

Advantages: fast money
Disadvantages: poor customer sevice, no proper communication

...*****UPDATE: We have now cleared the arrears and a deferment form has been sent to us. As I am still angry with this SLC I wanted to share once again my frustration with you and moreover making you aware of the low service they offer. To resume, Stuart phoned in order to make sure we don’t owe anything from the arrears and the person at the other end of the phone said we are clear as of today. he also asked for a deferment form so the lady checked our details and guess what, they were wrong. The address she had on the screen was 2 years old. No wonder why Stuart never received anything in the first place. but the consoling side is that being meticulous I kept all the correspondence we sent them and have letters of the SLC acknowledging our changes of address. And one of them is hand signed by a head manager. So why is our new...

alexandrapontecaille 29.05.2001 (26.06.2002) · Read review
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Review of Scottish Education Authority Student Loan (SAAS)

Team Fortress 2 (updated)

Advantages: good team play, fun graphics, constantly updated and improved
Disadvantages: hard!

...Since Team Fortress 2 has been updated alot lately, i only think its fair i update my review. TF2 is a first person shooter, online multiplayer fiasco. Its like Battlefield 2 took some drugs with Walt Disney and then got in a washing machine and set its self to rinse. The graphics, as you can see, are very cartoony, as was the case with TF classic (so im lead to believe). But dont let that put you off. They are awfully good graphics and its quite a pretty game. Its worth mentioning that like the battlefield series of games, (and others) TF2 has "classes". There's the scout, Pyro, heavy, demoman, soldier, medic, spy, engineer and sniper. Unlike other games though, the classes here are very very different. The difference between the Scout and Heavy for example are astronomical. The scout has only 150 health, a bat, a pistol and shotgun...

AgeUK 23.09.2008 (16.04.2009) · Read review
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Review of Team Fortress 2 (PC)

Hell's Teeth !!!! (Updated)

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Will help you sleep

...I recently looked at some of my early reviews, geez they where poor. I have updated a few. Here is one of my first book reviews, UPDATED and hopefully improved. (Certainly by 100 words!!!) Hell's Gate. = Author - David Weber. Introduction *************** This will be a short and sweet, or should that be "bitter" sweet review. Being a Sci-Fi reader I should have realised a hybrid of Sci-fi meets Fantasy would be an awful abomination of a read. Now I know. The Story ************ The basic story line is a universe where Magic actually works! Arcana, meets universe where technology is supreme, Sharona. The Union of Arcana has journeyed through portals linking parallel universes. (Basically worm holes) In that time its soldiers and Sorcerers have laid claim to one uninhabited planet after another but all...

Maximus-Qualitus 22.01.2008 (10.12.2008) · Read review
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Review of Hell's Gate - Linda Evans, David Weber

UPDATED FEB 2001 Best Bookstore on the Web

Advantages: Easy to navigate, low prices, huge stocks and super fast delivery
Disadvantages: None

...UPDATED/REWRITTEN Feb 2001 If you're looking for books on just about any subject at an affordable price, then you might just want to check out www.amazon.co.uk (or www.amazon.com for non UK). The site is beautifully presented and stocks an enormous array of titles on just about any subject, including some rare to find or out of print editions. The search facility on the site is excellent, very thorough and very fast but the best thing about Amazon are their prices, which are incredibly competitive and you are almost guaranteed to get savings on just about every title stocked. I've found titles with as much as 80% off the list price!! Amazon (UK) have also recently added new items to their range to include films, DVDs, software and video games and although at present the range available is fairly limited, Amazon are promising...

Squiggles 27.07.2000 (11.02.2001) · Read review
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Review of Amazon.co.uk