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Share Your Seeds!

Share Your Seeds The BBC's Gardeners Question Time raised a dual issue common to virtually all small-scale gardeners: how to economise on seed-buying, and what to do with your leftover seeds. Some gardening websites feature 'seed swap ... (more)

How much oil is really in my tank??

So you check your "tank level" regularly, right? That's good, but how do you know just how much oil is remaining in the tank? You might get a feel based on previous fill-ups, but that's still not really much of a reckoner. As long as you ... (more)

Know How Much Electricity Your Appliances Use

The Kill-a-Watt is available from the REUK.co.uk shop, for £19.99 plus £1.95 UK mainland postage. You plug it into a mains socket, then plug an appliance into it, turn it on and it tells you the voltage, current and power consumption ... (more)

How Much Capacity?

The number of bikes chained to the wire fence at our local primary school (population 340 kids) varies enormously over the seasons. On the warmer, settled days there will be anything between 20 and 40 bikes. On cold, windy days there will ... (more)

Tracking online campaigns with UTM variables

In homage to its previous existence as Urchin Stats, Google Analytics supports URL tracking options using the prefix utm_, which stands for Urchin Traffic Monitor. There are five of them in total, and all you have to do is add them to any ... (more)

How Good are Low Energy CFL Spotlights?

We have had all sorts of problems with a pair of B&Q low-energy kitchen lights that we bought back in February 2011. To save other people the bother of buying lights that keep failing on them, we're documenting the issues here. Light ... (more)

Online Shops

The June issue of Railway Modeller features the following advertisers with websites: GaugeMaster Tel 01903 884321. Arundel, West Sussex. Station Master Tel 01733 266959. Peterborough PE3 8BA. The Signal Box Tel 01634 826370. Rochester ... (more)

Living

Living John is quite a keen gardener so we have written loads of info about gardening. Julii spends way too much time on family history. Her most documented names are Brainard and Bacon: but she has way more info than time to put it all online ... (more)

ITV Video Online

Blinkx has released a video search engine based on ITV footage, and liberally paid for by advertising. It's at http://www.blinkx.tv/, but be warned - it may crash your browser! (more)

The 'iPhone 4 ready' online guide

This is all about getting your iPhone fully up and running. 1. Getting started on the iPhone 4 2. Setting up Wi-Fi on your iPhone 3. Using Wi-Fi on your iPhone Visit the Phones and Devices Uncovered section on Vodafone for ... (more)

Search for Cycling Stuff

Cycle Shop Search Find your bikes bits using this Google search engine that only shows results from the top online bike shops in the UK: (more)

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