Imation Disc Stakka - CD/DVD Management Tool
November 22nd, 2007
Imation Disc Stakka - CD/DVD Management Tool
Never waste valuable time searching for discs or files again. The Stakka is an automated carousel which stores, protects and retrieves 12cm optical discs including data CD’s, DVD’s, music and game discs.
Customer Review: Can go wrong just when you urgently need a disc
I bought a second one of these unfortuantely because I too was initially impressed with my first one. Howver, soon after buying the second one, I started having to open both of them to retrieve discs that the device couldn’t find - they lose track of where the discs are. Worse still discs regularly get stuck inside and can’t get them through the gate to eject. This is commented on now by many owners.
Opening up the device is a pain and once you open it you have to take all the discs out and put them back, one by one, which takes ages. The fact that I have two machines which don’t work, indicates that its not just one defective unit.
Finally, obviously don’t put any boot up driver discs in it for your computer because if your computer won’t start, you can’t access the discs!
To summarise starts off well but will let you down badly just when you need that important disc quickly! Anyone want to buy mine?
Customer Review: Good product if a little fragile
As storage devices these are excellent, though as others have pointed out they can be a little fragile, of the 5 I have one has been replaced and one is heading that way, as others have pointed out if it could connect via the PC to the www and pick up the details of the disc this would be a massive plus though I guess somewhat expensive.
I must add that I have found the support team very helpful when I have had the need to contact them.
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Do-it-yourself Central Heating (Orbis DIY library)
Price: ?6.95
PowerSmart Ni-Cd 2000mAh Replacement for 2607335090, 261091405 BAT011 BOSCH B2300, 3300K, 3305K, 3310K, 3315K, 3500 Power Tools Battery 
Compatible Part Numbers: 2607335055, 2607335090 Fit models: Bosch B2300, Bosch 3300K, Bosch 3305K, Bosch 3310K, Bosch 3315K, Bosch 3500
Handy Andy’s Home Work: A Beginner’s Guide to Decorating, DIY and Maintenance 
Andy Kane, famous as the resident carpenter and handyman on the BBC’s Changing Rooms, has written a brilliantly simple beginner’s guide for anyone new to decorating and DIY. Never wielded a paintbrush in anger before? Hammers are radar-guided to hit your thumbs? Don’t worry, this is the klutz’s friend, the idiot’s handbook. Before he even starts to tell you how to fix anything, he takes you on a guided tour of the average home, explaining how it is all put together and how it is supposed to work. He goes pretty slow, so no one can get left behind:
Your house walls tell you a lot about how they’re built, especially if they’re of plain brickwork. If all you can see are the long sides of the bricks, then you have cavity walls–two separate walls, each one brick thick, set about 50 mm (2 in) apart and held together by metal straps called wall ties. The gap in the middle stops any rainwater that gets through the outer wall from reaching the inner one, and in modern houses it often contains some insulation too.
Having introduced us to the fabric of our houses, Handy Andy then explains what tools we’re likely to need before embarking on concise step-by-step instructions for most DIY and decorating tasks, followed by an A-Z guide to common problems in which he answers, for example, three questions about electrics, three on leaks and overflows, four on locks, and so on. There are illustrations on every page to back up the words and make the explanations even clearer (occasionally even more pictures might have been useful). He takes care to tell the reader what you can do yourself and when you need to call the experts in, and gives numbers and addresses for professional associations and Web sites that will put you in touch with contractors who aren’t cowboys. Finally there are checklists of things you need to look at every six months, every year and every two years. All in all, the book covers most things the beginner could want, although the real enthusiast may want to move on to the more weighty “Reader’s Digest” Complete DIY Manual or The “Which?” Book of Do-it-yourself. –David Pickering
List Price: ?16.00
Used Price: ?2.50
Customer Review: A great DIY book for complete beginners
This is the only DIY book I own and it contains all the information I am likely to need. It has a very brief section on the basic systems in your house (water, heating, electric) just the basics you really need, presented in a way that is easy to understand and the rest of the book tackles all the DIY or decorating jobs you would ever want to do. It tells you what you can do yourself and doesn’t assume you have any prior knowledge of decorating/ DIY, what problems to look out for and when to call in the professionals. A great book for anyone (particularly women) buying a house, it will take up very little space and could save you a fortune.
DIY Encyclopedia
List Price: ?9.99
Used Price: ?4.95
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