I talked to my cable TV repairmen recently, whom claimed this modem is on its last legs. It is about 3 years old. He claimed they are making modems cheaper and with less longevity than years ago and my modem life is about average, I rated it slightly higher than average reliability since it hads not failed yet. The speed is nothing to right home to mother about. It has done a servicea...

We use our pressure washer primarily for our rear deck, pool, and areas around the pool.  The Husky 1800 PSI powerwasher gets lots of use in the summer season cleaning off leaves, dirt, mud, from those areas. It has strong enough pressure to take off lose paint and does a good job on our pool sides areas. It has two nozzles and power settings to give you control of your power washing....

My wife's grandfather coal miners from Greensboro, Pennsylvania. It is a very small historic town on the Monongahela river in southwestern PA.  It is about 60 miles south of Pittsburg. Beside coal mining the other big industry in between 1850s and 1915 was making stoneware pottery. Since the plant was right next door to my wife's grandparents house, she has sentament...

If you want cheap you can go to Barbasol shaving cream for a little over a dollar and seems to last for ever. With the way the product works I wish it lasted a lot less. I have already reviewed a higher end shaving cream which their a number of good ones out there. Here I review Edge lotionized shave gel infused comfort as a in between priced version. I hate the low end products and love some o...

I am a tall person so larger cars are required for me for seating comfort. It is also the family car for hauling and larger groups. My previous SUV was a chevy Blazer but the extra purchase price is worth it. It is a much better value than its much ~10,000 higher priced cousin the Porche Cayenne. The Touareg and Cayenen share numerous parts. It has simple styling, great instrument lig...

My wife has almost 100 cook books including ones from Burt Wolf, Jacques Pepin, Frugal Gourmet, and of course Julia Childs. My favority chef is Bobby Flay of iron chef fame. He does a modern take on cooking with a southwest twist especially pepers but his cookbooks have too many indegrediants and too complex. Gordon Ramsay has some very good british TV cooking shows and a good bu...

I bought a Murray 4.5 Horse Power Mower from Home Depot about two years ago.  It has 20 inch blade and a mulching feature with accompanying bag. I have a small lawn and it replaced a similar lawn mower. Though a simple machine it has had reliability problems like losing parts and is very average on cutting the lawn performance. My previous one was a little higher cost and was self pro...

My work got many of us blackbeery curves 8350i smartphones to improve the office effiency. It looks good has a nice extra camera feature with multiple zooms. My largest complaints is email feature seems to get hung up sometimes then i get flooded with email and it has no coverage when in underground metro even when come above ground a significant delay in getting radio coverage. the internet br...

I have one TV not connected to cable and read the review for the DTX9900 last month in this source.I also read every review I could find on the internet and found them confusing and inconsistent. I think some of the varaition is caused by the recpetion variation of consumers and the subjective expectation for digital TV convertors. I found this one easy to install except getting the universal r...

I purchased the Black and Green solid Golf shirts from Covington at Sears on sale at 9 each or two for 15. Made in Cambodia and large 42-44 size. The shirts material are a nice grade of 100% natural cotton in a tight weave. It is stain resistant, no shrinkage, wrinkle resistant, and resists fading  It has very long tails that will not easily pull out of your pants. I fi...

The grocery store had a half off sale on combined with 1.00 coupon and doubling that week made the 3 pack of Hartz ultra Guard One spot treatment for cats and kittens  a almost free. We own 2 cats one very sensitive to fleas.  We treated them and even with spring weather seems to be working well in preventing fleas. The package contained 3 tubes with treat a cat for 30 days against Fl...

When I first met my wife she owned this two seater sports car convertable in inca yellow.  She used to kid that you had to fold my legs to get in it with my 6'4 frame and this definetly mini car. On the Positive side looks cool, handles real well and had excellent gas milage with its light weight, 4 cyclider engine and standard transmittion. The Triumph like many brithis...

The panasonic ER415 nose hair trimmer was given to me as a gift for Chritmas 2 years ago.  I had a nose hair trimmer before this only lasted about two years. Overall works well and has no problems attributal to the device. I do have problems cutting nose hairs sometime but that has more to do with operator error than the device. I have to be awake enough to realize the mirror is showing a ...

I self published a book on a technical topic in which I had been teaching, speaking, researching, and writing for over 10 years. I researched a number of book self publishing services and found lulu the cheapest. Most of its competitiors tend to have full service packages from $600 to 1500 editing, formating,  printing, and marketing. Lulu is on internet and much cheaper for smal...

I used to be a US Government employee and had various bargain rental car companies for my business travel some very cheap some like avis a top notch competitor but never Hertz. About ten years ago, I joined a Government support contractor whom has a large contract with Hertz for all its rental car usage. Since then, I have used Hertz dozens of  times. Hertz may be more ...

For Christmas I received a pair of Harbor Bay size 14 medium chocolate brown loafers. They go real well for color with a pair of similar color coredoroy pants I also received for Christmas. It is a challenge finding Mens shoes in my size. They have suede leather uppers with the rest are man made materials. The shoes are made in China. They look like dock shoes but feel like Mocca...

We have had these for seven years and they have proven to be high in quality, choice of colors, materials, workmanship, Maintainability. My highest praise goes for there room darkening properties. They are light green but the tight fit and double body constructions makes them the best room darkening shades I have ever seen. I am well qualified to judge room darkening properties because early in...

We originally purchased as the black mitsubishi eclipse as my car and eventually became my daughters car as she got old enough to drive. We gave her the car as a high school graduation gift. It has very good acceceleration, handling and breaking performance, looks very sporty, and average on gas millage and reliability.  We have had continual problems with the convertable power roof&n...

My wife is a florist gives me more credability than just my purchases. The photo attached is a example of Foxglove work on a tropical styled Table piece. They have great custom design, superior freshness and handling, availability of exotic flowers, delivery to the greater Washington DC area,  and exceed any wedding florist expectations. They can do  wedding books book flowers 1-2 mon...

I am a US Chess Federation life member and A  postal chess. I have owned a number of chess computers and chess software. As a USCF member I recently recieved, World Chess Live free for six months but I am really impressed. When my free runs out I plan to pay 4.99 a month. The featuresand flexability  it offers are truly impressive. It offers chess news, a way to play op...