Amazon’s new Smart Air Quality Monitor
I’ve been interested in air quality issues for two reasons and so was attracted to this device. The first is due to forest fires – like other western states, Washington has its fair share of …
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Weekly Roundup, Friday 17 December 2021
364 Supporters (unchanged from last week) Target : 400 Please Join Here Good morning I received the long-await huge Amazon Echo Show 15 Alexa screen device at the weekend. I wrote a review …
The Echo Show 15 – Bigger, but Not Better
Amazon has struggled to extend its Alexa audio service into the realm of video. This latest product shows the struggle is ongoing and far from resolved. After introducing the first Echo (audio only) device …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 10 December 2021
364 Supporters (unchanged from last week) Target : 400 Please Join Here Good morning Or perhaps, I could more accurately say, good evening. Yesterday saw the earliest that darkness would fall for the …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 26 November 2021
364 Supporters (+3 from last week) Target : 400 Please Join Here Good morning I hope you had a wonderful Thursday and Thanksgiving. If you flew somewhere, it seems likely that the most …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 19 November 2021
361 Supporters (unchanged from last week) Target : 400 Please Join Here Good morning Have you got your turkey yet? I was reading, earlier in the week, that some of the traditional “fixings” …
Television Buyer’s Guide Part 2 : The Many Aspects of Picture Quality and Everything Else
This is the second part of a two part guide to choosing a good television set, in which we delve into what makes a modern video picture good or not so good. In the first …
Television Buyer’s Guide Part 1 : Size, Placement, Speakers, Amplifier
This is the first part of a two part guide about choosing a good television set. In this part we look at some of the obvious issues, and consider also speakers, placement, and external streamers …
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The Amazon Smart Thermostat
Amazon announced its new Alexa-enabled smart thermostat back in September, and started shipping them this last week. Although smart thermostats, in general, have been around for some time. The Nest, released in 2011 and purchased …
Kindle Buyers’ Guide
Amazon’s venerable eBook reader, the Kindle, was first released in November 2007. Over the years it has evolved considerably, and these days the Kindle range can be found in three main forms – the regular/standard …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 5 November 2021
359 Supporters (+1 from last week) Target : 400 Please Join Here Good morning Happy Guy Fawkes Day to you all. “Remember, remember, the fifth of November, of gunpowder, treason and plot”, as …
iPad Buyers’ Guide
Apple’s single model iPad, first released in 2010, has expanded to a confusing mix of four different families, with differing models over time within those families, and different options for each model. In addition, it …
