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Ok…so it’s not the most stylish piece of equipment but boy does it perform as advertised. The Garmin windshield mount is better than any on the market but even it has it’s moments where it can fall from the window at a bad time. The Garmin friction mount is simple and works great. I’ve slid pretty fast around some corners in my Silverado and the wife’s Pilot with this on the dash and it stayed right place. Quick and easy to stash in the console vs. the windshield mount as well.
2 Speed Quick Stick

I’ve had this vacuum for a little over a month and have mixed feelings.

When it worked, it was quite loud, but sucked up everything I put in its path (including large paint chips when moving out of an apartment). It had no problem picking up hair from a carpet (handy with two cats) and didn’t require me to stop after completing a room and pull hair out of the belt like my preceding vacuum. No problem with the cord length but had a LARGE problem with the cord attachments. Namely, whenever you use one of the hose attachments, the main vac never turns off, so it’s sucking through the hose and through the bottom simultaneously (even when the handle is locked upright), resulting, sometimes, in dust shooting out of the hole where the hose connects.

The reason it gets two stars is my fiance went to vacuum last night with the hose attachment, went to move the vacuum so she could reach a spot, and accidentally went over the cord with the bottom of the vacuum for half of a second. In that half second, the cord was completely shredded and severed, caused an electrical fire, and burnt our carpet.

A call to Hoover informed us that this is not considered a manufacturer’s defect (even though having the bottom constantly running seems like a pretty big design flaw, idle or not), so we will have to pay to have it repaired ($25-40, depending on the vacuum). Needless to say, we’re not pleased.

UPDATE: Turns out the $25-40 is actually $80-90 with parts and labor. That’s more than it cost to purchase the vacuum in the first place. Hoover just lost a customer.
Farberware 2 Speed Stick

The easiest-to-use, easiest-to-read pedometer I’ve ever tried. Just stick it in your pocket and it records all your steps, even identifying which steps were aerobic and calculating your aerobic time. A great way to track your progress toward getting those 10,000+ steps every day! It also records your daily miles and calories burned and an especially nice added bonus is the memory feature — a good way to see how well (or not!) you’ve done during the previous seven days.Omron HJ-112 Digital Pocket Pedometer
Hi speed Expresscard Cf | bcmushrooms

You need to attend a class to figure out how to use this program. I needed to author a couple of simple three fold brochures, and while having online templates are nice, the formatting issues are very time consuming to work around. I did finish one brochure, using Word 2007, but it took hours. My Software Business Publisher, a simple program that cost $9.95 took 20 minutes to do the same task on the second one, and it is compatible with off-the-shelf office forms from Avery etc. So not real excited here.

I needed to write a sales report. Note: Word 2007, is not a compatible format for people running Office 97, so you need to save it in the older format if your e-mailing the finish document to someone and you want to be sure they can open it. In addition, I found that the software itself lacks an intuitive feel.

These products have proliferated themselves into the business community so I guess it is
required, but in the case of Word, the better software product didn’t win the day, an old copy of Corel’s Word Perfect is still better in regards to tools, ease of use and functionality in regards to writing a document.

In regards to Alzheimer’s, sorry if I am being a little too glib but the software just doesn’t seem to remember my recent documents for more than a day.

Go figure.

Fujifilm 400 Speed Color | aamas2004