Advantages: Looks Great - Very Stylish, Compact & Very Light.
Disadvantages: Not Bright Enough At All

...The Toshiba TLP-S30 Projector This projector is very aesthetically pleasing, it looks very modern and and the face of it looks to be a great projector. There are several important factors to look at when considering buying a projector and that is the brightness. This projector boasts a 1400 lumen lamp. For those of you who aren't used to projector terminology, lumens are just a unit for the measure of how bright the bulb in a projector is (and lamp is just the correct term for a projector bulb) Now this isn't an amazing brightness, but the Sanyo PLC-SU20 (just as an example) works comfortably at 1200 lumens and around 1500 lumens is really what somebody new to projectors should probably be looking at. So the brightness of this projector is good then you woul think. Well actually no; On paper the projector should perform very... Read review

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Advantages: sweet rattle
Disadvantages: none

...Zebras, I've noticed play a fairly big part in little boys clothing. Before Scarlett was born we didn't know her gender so we brought some gender neutral clothes and some reduced blue sleep suits and vests, which featured zebras in various designs. Little girls are bunnies whilst little boys are zebras. Whilst looking round for Christmas presents for our little one we found this cute little zebra rattle. The zebra has blue and light blue stripes, small children must get a strange idea about animals! It has a smiley face and a playgro logo on the middle of it. It has a velvety, soft texture to it. Attached to the main body of the zebra is a clear plastic ring, with half of the ring showing and the other half in the zebra body. In the ring are six fairly large balls of the following colours, green,purple. Red, blue, orange and yellow... Read review

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Advantages: size of an A4 piece of paper
Disadvantages: replacement bulb cost

...This review is for my other projector (gotta love Ebay) the Toshiba TLP-B2 now if you want the specific specs then please also look at the product information tab. This review is about how I feel about the performance of this unit and then some hehehe. The Advantages: The Projector: This unit is VERY small (size of an A4 piece of paper) and very light and because of this I have no worries that it is going to fall out of the ceiling where it is mounted currently. When I bought mine it came with a very nice carry case that could hold the unit, remote and still had enough room to hold any papers or presentation materials you may have to use. The picture produced by this machine is GREAT with its 16million colors plus combined with a light bulb that produces 1000 lumens and lasts for 2000+ hours you don't need... Read review

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Advantages: A good story with no horrors
Disadvantages: Cannot put it down

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Advantages: funny, heartwarming, fantastic characters
Disadvantages: a little "scrappy" in places

...I'm already a fan of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, so it's no surprise that I like the 8th addition to the family - The Good Husband of Zebra Drive. As usual, there are superb characters with a decent narrative holding them together and a lot of humour; pretty much what I've come to expect from Alexander McCall Smith. In fact, the only criticism I have is that the narrative isn't quite as good as some of the other books in the series and it's a bit "scrappy" in places, not flowing quite as well as it should. This isn't my favourite novel in the series, but it's certainly an entertaining and worthwhile read. Alexander McCall Smith also writes the 44 Scotland Street series (incidentally, my favourite of his works) and a series featuring philosopher Isabel Dalhousie, among others. He is a Scottish author and those two series... Read review

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Advantages: Plenty - like not getting run over
Disadvantages: They're useless if you don't bother to use them!

...I thought long and hard before writing this. I can't claim to have all the facts and I can't claim to have any experience in caring for children, but I think I am right on this one, and I am going say why. This Saturday my boyfriend (Phil) and I went to a large supermarket just outside of town to do an emergency shop... you know the kind. Putting aside my reservations about supermarket shopping on a Saturday (me versus the great unwashed and their uncontrollable children is not an experience I relish), we drove through the carpark looking for a suitable spot. This supermarket has a very large car park in which the path from your car to the front entrance is marked clearly by zebra crossings, one in the middle of each 'lane.' To get from your car it is necessary to walk (with due care and attention, of course), along this path... Read review

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Advantages: Enjoyable action, good cast, some amusing lines.
Disadvantages: Never really surprises, some poor sets and effects.

...Commander James Ferraday (Rock Hudson, PILLOW TALK, TOBRUK) of the US nuclear submarine Tigerfish is ordered to take his boat to the North Pole to mount a rescue of the scientist of Ice Station Zebra. The rescue mission is, however, merely an excuse to go as Ferraday and his crew are joined by the mysterious David Jones (Patrick McGoohan, SILVER STREAK, SCANNERS), Russian Borris Vaslov (Ernest Borgnine, THE BLACK HOLE, GATTACA) and Captain Leslie Anders (Jim Brown, THE DIRTY DOZEN, 100 RIFLES) with his team of marines. It soon becomes apparent that the real reason to get to the Pole is to recover film of defence information vital to both the Russians and Americans from a crashed satellite. The race is on to get there before the Russians but a saboteur is determined to stop them. Directed by John Sturges (THE GREAT ESCAPE... Read review

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Advantages: A durable, washable and versatile toy
Disadvantages: A bit opinionated and vain.

...Well, hello there! Scoot the Zebra here, I just thought I’d have a go at writing one of these Ciao op thingies. Everyone seems to be at it these days (writing I mean, tee hee, you naughty people). The Mistress is upstairs tap, tapping away on the computer til all hours, the oldest poppet is learning to write her name and even the two younger darlings are scribbling on every available surface! So, I thought to myself, how better to get one over on that snooty rocking horse in the front room, than to write an opinion on myself!! Such a worthy subject and so very interesting too, I’ll tell the world and earn a few useful pennies into the bargain. Anyway, I managed to persuade one of those dippy Barbie dolls to climb up onto the bookshelf and grab a pencil and piece of paper, honestly you’d have thought I was asking her... Read review

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Advantages: safety
Disadvantages: when an accident does occur

...on Friday the 29 th February I did as I always do and picked my kids up from school, it was around 2pm and we were going to the local library to renew our books. The weather was`nt the greatest , it was dull and wet but nothing new in Belfast, arriving at the zebra crossing a bus stopped to let us cross the road, (the bus was on the right hand side of us) form the left there was traffic coming towards us at quite a speed, so I waited till they had stoppped before attempting to cross the road. The traffic on the left did stop and the bus had stopped , so myself and kids slowly stepped onto the zebra crossing, needless to say we were all holding hands. I checked the traffic at the other side of the bus and it had also stopped. So it was safe to cross the road or so I thought, we walked about two more steps and the next thing I... Read review

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Advantages: Nice!
Disadvantages: Too nice for some

...Life is treating Precious Ramotswe well. Business at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is booming, and marriage to Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, proprietor of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, with which the agency shares its premises, is turning out to be very satisfying indeed. Their modest home in Zebra Drive, shared with their two adopted children, is a happy one, but sadly, not everybody is currently sharing Mma Ramotswe's contentment and peace of mind. Over at Tlokweng Road, there are signs of restlessness: aspirations are mounting, ambitions are being stirred, and feet are becoming decidedly itchy. Mma Makutsi, buoyed by her engagement to furniture shop proprietor Mr. Phuti Radiphuti, and the resultant improvement in her financial circumstances, wonders whether a woman in her position really needs to continue to work, when her time could... Read review

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