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Category: Reviews

  • Do not use Kashgar Tours

    We recently had a bad experience with Kashgar Tours who also go by the name Uighur Tours during our trip along the Silk Road. We purchased overnight train tickets with them. When it was time to collect the tickets we were informed they had forgotten to grab our passport information, and this was all on…

  • Review of A-PDF Page Cut – software to split a pdf page in half

    I came into the requirement of needing to split the  pages of a pdf in half, normally this is required when you scan a book and have two pages per scan, but my specific example was a Lonely Planet digital publication which for some reason was  released similarly, as I wanted to view it on…

  • Review of USB Safely Remove – the device cannot be stopped right now

    Sick of constantly experiencing the Window’s “The device ‘Generic volume’ cannot be stopped because a program is still accessing it.” message, I decided to give the program USB Safely Remove a test. The first time trying to stop my USB hard-disk-drive I get the following “Could not find any processes locking USB device!”, great, the…

  • RegexBuddy – a solution to the Regular Expressions (Regex) nightmare

    For the last few months I have been using RegexBuddy, software designed to help with Regular Expressions. After using it to create and test more than one extremely complex regular expression, I thought it was time I gave RegexBuddy some ‘big ups’. So what is so good about RegexBuddy, Firstly, it allows you to create…

  • Planning a wedding reception and Tawarri Reception Centre review

    Having recently executed a very successful wedding reception, I thought I would share my experience, and also provide a thorough review of Tawarri Reception Centre. It all started September 2010, we got married and decided we must have a reception next year.  We browsed through a number of well known venue brochures, Matilda Bay Restaurant,…

  • USB Wireless Presenter with Mouse and AutoHotkey

    I bought this USB Wireless Presenter for 12 USD from eBay as I needed to control the music and slideshow at a reception. It turned out to better than I expected, some of the reasons i purchased this was; Radio Frequency technology – no need to ‘point’ it at a receiver. 25m operating distance –…

  • Bad review – Budget Car Rentals (Doha)

    I’ve rented a number of cars from a number of companies, Budget is the first one I have come across that has this policy. I rented a car on the 21st May on a 1750QAR monthly rate, returned it on the 2nd September. All other companies have worked out the remainder days (12 days in…

  • Unused CSS – find unused CSS

    I am no html expert, and my artistic design talent is non-existent, so when I needed to create a login form, contact and RSVP form (will post further details later) I turned to hacking an open and freely available existing website, WordPress to be exact. If you try logging into the admin page, you will…

  • Bad Review – Whirling Dervishes at Hodjapasha, Istanbul

    Recently back from a very enjoyable holiday in Turkey with one bad experience, the Sufi Whirling Dervishes Ceremony at Hodjapasha Cultural Centre. What ruined our experience? All being prohibited from taken photos during the event. Firstly, we realise Sufi Whirling is a spiritual ceremony and photographing the event may even be considered blasphemous, but you…