Category: Reviews
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PayPal HERE – Damage to reader detected. Contact PayPal for assistance.
I had a PayPal HERE card reader in the cupboard since 2017 and thought to use it for some payments, but unfortunately I received the “Damage to reader detected. Contact PayPal for assistance.” error. This was a pristine PayPal HERE card reader, used once or twice, stored in it’s original box. From everything I have…
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Bad Review of Perth Premier Studio (premierstudio.com.au) and their dishonesty
In March 2016, my dad excitedly let me know he had won a “Premier Photographic Experience valued at $500″ from Premier Studio (premierstudio.com.au) by entering a competition in the HIA Perth Home Show. Given I have two young daughters, he was looking forward to getting some family portraits of them for his home. I took it on…
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Review of Crow Away (it doesn’t work)
Crow Away, the “proven, safe and most humane way to deter crows”. I read the number of positive online testimonials and decided to give it ago. I paid for the full Crow Away Android app from the Google app store. Crows are significant nuisance in suburbia, picking off rubbish from bins, pecking fruit of trees…
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Review of EaseUS Partition Master Professional v10.8
The following is a review of EaseUS Partition Master Professional, I was lucky enough to pick this up for free copy thanks to a posting on OzBargain, keep on the lookout as EaseUS regularly has EaseUS Partition Master Pro free. I have used Partition Master Pro many times previously, it is an established product, well reputed, I have…
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Review of Plunkett – $4.5k down and 1 year wasted
Following up a comment I posted on productreview, here is the timeline of events when I signed the PPA and paid the $4500 fee; 8th Sep 2012 – Signed PPA, Informed verbally by Sales Rep slab down by Christmas. 18th Sep 2012 – “we also need the landscaping plan done for submission to council, a…
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AFS Walling Solutions – permanent formwork concrete walls review
Recently I did some research into the AFS Logic Wall product as an alternative to brick for a development I am working on. AFS is a permanent formwork concrete wall solution, what this means is instead of creating the timber frame on site for the concrete pour, a factory creates a shell which is then…
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Review of generic USB to Serial (RS232) adaptors
Having purchased a number of generic USB to serial adaptors from eBay, I thought I would go over the pros and cons of the types available. Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port (counterfeit) The least expensive of those found on eBay, apparently these have a counterfeit Prolific chip, which limits them to working only on Windows XP.…
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MSI X79-GD65 (8D) and Intel i7 3820 Nightmare and SOIC BIOS replacement
After many countless hours and out-of-pocked expenses I thought I would share the experience of MSI’s X79-GD65 (8D) motherboard and the Intel i7 3820 CPU. The MSI X7-GD65 (8D) was purchased from PC Case Gear for $299, the Intel i7 3820 for the same price. Once it was all hooked up I got the following…
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The nightmare of unlocking a phone on the Optus network
I spoke how easy it was to unlock a phone on the Vodafone network, now what about the Optus network? Well turns out it is almost impossible. Let’s say I acquire a phone locked to the Optus network; Firstly, I need to know the Optus phone number associated with that phone when it was purchased…
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Open letter to Canon Inc – faulty Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM lens
Dear Canon Inc On two occasions I have purchased the Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM lens, and on both occasions there were serious faults causing the lens to not work and perform useless. On the first occasion I got the familiar stuck/locked zoom, and this was repaired by myself. Read the comments left by…