Current Cost: Review: Electricity Usage Monitor: Installation (95%) (Video)

Current Cost: Review: Electricity Usage Monitor: Installation (95%)It’s Energy Saving Week, so it’s highly applicable that we bring you a device that will help you monitor your energy usage – and through being aware of how much power you’re using, lower the amount you use.

CurrentCost is one such device.

The video below shows what happened when we received the Current Cost and quite how easy it is to setup. The summary – amazingly easy.

Within about five minutes you’ll be watching your pounds drain away on electricity!

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Flickr Pro Photo Hijack: Where Have My Flickr Photos All Gone?

Flickr Pro Photo Hijack: Where Have My Flickr Photos All Gone?I’ve been with Flickr for _ever_. Pretty much as soon as they opened the site, I signed up. Back in those days, you didn’t have an option it was _the_ place to host your photo back then – Site Du Jour … and it was the best executed to boot.

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Ricoh GX200 Digital Compact Camera Review (Part Two – 88%)

Ricoh GX200 Digital Compact Camera Review (Part Two - 88%)In part one, we took a walk down memory lane looking at the Ricoh’s previous offerings such as the GX100 and introduced the GX200.

In part two we continue to review the latter and give you our thoughts on it’s performance.

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FOWA 08: Suw Charman: Psychology And Addition To Web Sites

We’re at FOWA listening to speakers and popping around chatting to people. Suw stepped in due to a last noshow but presented a fascinating talk. It’s slightly in note form, but the essential are there.

FOWA08: Suw Charman: Psychology And Addition To Web SitesSuw looks into how humans (that’s us) become addicted to certain Web sites and services like email.

To build proper social sites, we need to understand how people work – their psychology.

It’s about understanding compulsive behavior.

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Ricoh GX200 Digital Compact Camera Review

Ricoh GX200 Digital Compact Camera ReviewReviewing high end Ricoh digital cameras is turning out to be an expensive business for us.

The first time we took a look at one – their fixed lens Ricoh GR compact – we ended up liking the camera so much we went straight out and bought the ruddy thing (but only after Ricoh had prised the review model out of our cold, snapping hands).

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Spotify Mini Review: (91%): Public Launch of Serious iTunes Competitor

Spotify Mini Review: (91%): Public Launch of Serious iTunes CompetitorFor a long time, one option for the music business to save themselves has been to offer an ‘all you can eat’ option for music – pay a monthly fee and listen to all of the music you fancy.

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MySpace And Facebook Dominate Mobile Social Networks

MySpace And Facebook Dominate Mobile Social NetworksIndustry giants Facebook and MySpace are the most popular social networking websites for mobile phone users, according to figures released by ABI Research.

Their survey found that nearly half (46 per cent) of people signed up to social networks have also whipped out their mobile phones to access the sites.

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MySpace Music: 1 Billion Songs Streamed “In A Few Days”

MySpace Music: 1 Billion Songs Streamed MySpace is claiming that its MySpace Music service has already streamed well over a billion songs since launching on September 25.

The company are being a little vague with the details but it seems that the billion song total was reached only a ‘few days’ after launch.

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