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Danby Deluxe Compact Refrigerator (4.3cu.ft.) Average Customer Review:  Kitchen list price: $149.99 US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Features Reviews (12)
Asin: B0000667EE |
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Great if you like warm food...
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Torchiere with 5 Gooseneck Arms - Steel Average Customer Review: Misc. list price: $29.99 US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Reviews (56)
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Great Idea, yet poorly carried out!
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Cuisinart TTG-500 Two-to-Go Coffeemaker Average Customer Review: Kitchen list price: $80.00 -- our price: $29.95 (price subject to change: see help) US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Editorial Review Perfect for preparing coffee at home before dashing out the door, this coffeemaker brews through the lids directly into either one or both of the 14-ounce travel mugs accompanying the machine. The stainless-steel mugs have rubber, nonslip grips, fit most vehicle cup holders, and are 6-3/4 inches high, with 2-5/8-inch-diameter rubber bottoms. Lids keep coffee hot in the mugs and are deeply indented and sloped toward the drink hole to contain spills. Both mugs and their lids are dishwasher-safe. The coffeemaker uses disposable paper filters (two included), automatically shuts off after the brewing process, and can also be used to heat water for tea, hot chocolate, and instant foods like oatmeal and soup. Made of gleaming black plastic, the coffeemaker measures 13 inches high, 5-1/4 inches wide, and 8-1/2 inches deep, and carries a three-year warranty against defects. --Fred Brack ... Read more Features Reviews (58)
Asin: B00005M1VF |
$29.95 |
I just love this coffeemaker
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Hamilton Beach 45351 Automatic Electric Kettle Average Customer Review:  Kitchen list price: $59.99 US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Editorial Review On your kitchen counter, office desk, or dining table, this powerful 1500-watt, 10-cup electric kettle brings water to a boil in minutes. Tea, instant coffee, bouillon, hot chocolate, and other hot beverages are just moments away. The kettle's every feature is designed for convenience. Windows on each side reveal the water level at a glance. The kettle sits on its power base at any angle and lifts off for cord-free pouring, while the cord wraps inside the base for clutter-free use or storage. The on/off switch is on the thick, comfortable, stay-cool handle, where all it takes is a push of the thumb to start or stop. (When the water boils, the kettle shuts off automatically.) Inside, there's a stainless steel heating element that comes clean with a wipe of a sponge or a cloth, and that's all the hard plastic exterior needs, too. --Fred Brack ... Read more Features Reviews (45)
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Bissell 3300 Go Vac Deluxe Cordless Sweeper Average Customer Review:  Kitchen list price: $49.99 US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Editorial Review Ideal for an apartment, dorm room, or child's room--and perfectfor touch-up cleaning--this ultra-lightweight, 156-watt vacuum has acharging base for cordless operation, and it quickly converts to a handheldvacuum for cleaning stairs, upholstery, and auto interiors. It's alsobagless, with a dust cup that twists off and on. Pushing a button andpulling out the handle coverts the Go Vac to a handheld. The changingbase (7-1/2 inches wide, 5 inches deep) has a 6-1/2-foot power cord andan indicator light that blinks off when the vacuum is charged--offeringat least 12 minutes of cleaning time. The revolving 7-inch-wide brushroll ensures deep cleaning of rugs and carpets, and the vacuum readilyslides under furniture. To turn on the power, merely lower the handlefrom the vertical position. Assembly is simple and requires no tools.The Go Vac carries a one-year warranty against defects. --FredBrack ... Read more Features Reviews (102)
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iRiver SlimX iMP-350 CD/MP3 Player with Ultraslim Design Average Customer Review: Electronics list price: $129.99 US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Editorial Review With its beautiful sound quality, royal good looks, and simple operation, the iRiver SlimX portable MP3-CD player sets a new standard for future portable units to follow. The SlimX is one of the most adaptable players we've encountered. It rolls upgradable firmware, eight-minute antishock protection, ASF (Advanced Streaming Format) and WMA (Windows Media Audio) compatibility, ID3 tag support, and the ability to play standard audio CDs, MP3-encoded discs, CD-Rs, and CD-RWs into an ultratrim (0.6 inches thick) player. And the sound is deluxe, delivering crisp highs, discernible mids, and bass thick enough to make low-end aficionados nod their heads in approval. Since we had yet to fully investigate WMA, we felt compelled to dig into the format. At first we were hesitant: how could WMA compress music files to half their size--at, say, 64 Kbps--and still sound good? After dumping an entire, 100-song playlist onto a single CD-R, however, we were humbled. The procedure was painless, and the sound was incredible. The iRiver SlimX completely fulfilled our demands; using the gorgeous inline remote, we easily skipped ahead 10 tracks at a time, used fast-scan to hear a particular verse, and made a customized playlist on the fly. In fact, the remote lets you operate every function (save changing a disc) without having to dig the unit out of your backpack or its carrying case (included, but frail), and it also includes a hold switch that prevents accidental playback. After the WMA-disc success, we switched over to an MP3 compilation made by a friend. While reading the different ID3 tags (MP3 file markers that feed song, artist, and album names to your player), we first played the songs whose titles intrigued us most, like "Nannari to Naru Deshou" by the excellent Japanese female duoPuffy. That's why ID3 tags are so cool--they allow you to search by name, not track number. Next, we took the SlimX out on a long walk to judge its portability. Unless we made silly, Pete Townshend-style windmill movements, each disc played satisfactorily. We noticed that standard audio CDs popped more than anything we burned off the Web, which was strange. We also sampled the five equalizer presets, although we noticed only subtle differences in sound at low volumes. While listening to any Web-audio disc, the SlimX fills up its antiskip buffer with the eight minutes of music. Essentially, this means the player doesn't have to read the disc as much, which results in prolonged battery life, and ultimately the SlimX delivered on its promise of up to 23 hours playing time. To get these results for yourself, just make sure the two flat NiMH batteries are fully charged, and pop an extra pair of AAs into the external battery pod. It's that easy. For those new to ASF, MP3, and WMA formats, you may be disappointed by the SlimX's user's manual, which is skimpy at best. OurGuide to Making MP3 Files will familiarize you with the basics and help you turn your computer into a virtual jukebox. For those of you who are considering upgrading to the iRiver SlimX--or are looking to pick up your first player--we highly recommend this player. In fact, we miss our test player so much, we're going to buy one of our own. --Arno Kazarian Pros:
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Asin: B000063574 |
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Still Kicking it around
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary) Average Customer Review: Hardcover (1998) list price: $25.95 -- our price: $22.06 (price subject to change: see help) US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Editorial Review The 1998 10th edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary marks the 100th anniversary of this distinguished and popular reference standard, and this is more than just an interesting statistic--it means that Merriam-Webster brings years of experience and reams of citation files to the creation of this latest edition. Improving on their last dictionary, they've added more than 100 pictorial illustrations and supplemented the synonym paragraphs with examples. Along with the English dictionary, which forms the heart of the reference, the editors at Merriam-Webster have included a brief introduction to the English language and a history of the English dictionary, a guide to pronunciation, and a series of appendices that include chemical element abbreviations and symbols, foreign words and phrases, extensive sections with biographical and geographical names, signs and symbols, and a handbook of style. But getting back to the book itself--it's impressively comprehensive for a collegiate dictionary, with more than 215,000 definitions. Each item includes a pithy wealth of information, with first usage date, etymology, and pronunciation, and clear, precise definitions. In addition, there are often usage notes, synonym cross-references, illustrative quotations, variant spellings and pronunciations, regional labels, and information on capitalization, function, and inflections. Then there are the extra touches. Under bible, for example, there's a chart detailing books of the Old Testament, Jewish Scripture, Protestant apocrypha, and books of the New Testament. Under months is a table listing the months of the principal calendars--Gregorian, Jewish, and Islamic. And wonderful line drawings illustrate terms such as mackerel, lyrebird, hedgehog, and the ancient Celtic stringed instrument known as a crowd. All this makes it a valuable reference--detailed enough for editors and writers, accessible enough for students and casual definition seekers, updated with the new vocabulary of technology, and rigorous enough for the linguistic perfectionists. --Stephanie Gold ... Read more Reviews (78)
My first choice of dictionaries is the 20 volume OED for depth and breadth of coverage. Some disadvantages of the OED are the price and the size. My second choice of dictionaries is the Shorter OED, which is smaller (2 volumes) and cheaper, but has about 1/3 of the entries (roughly 500,000). My third choice of dictionaries is the "New Oxford American Dictionary," which is easy to carry and use - it has roughly 250,000 words. The NOAD is handy because it has definitions arranged in order of most common usage - "core meanings" followed by related senses. It does not have the extensive literary citations that the OED and shorter OED have. My fourth choice of dictionaries is probably the Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, which has about 450,000 words. The disadvantages of this dictionary are that the main text has not been updated since 1961 (although an 89 page addenda is added at the beginning), the layout is hard to follow, and it's a bit unwieldy. Which brings me to my fifth choice of dictionaries, which is the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate dictionary. This dictionary has roughly 200,000 words, so it loses some breadth and depth of coverage. However, it's very useful for everyday use, and a nice balance between portability and breadth and depth of coverage. ... Read more Isbn: 0877797099 |
$22.06 |
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Merriam Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus Average Customer Review: Hardcover (01 January, 1994) list price: $18.95 -- our price: $12.89 (price subject to change: see help) US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Reviews (5)
The Webster’s version is a thousand times more convenient.If you look up a specific word you’re guaranteed to find about a dozen or so of the most common synonyms right there (funky, stinky, rank, etc.).This first entry is probably all you’ll need and it constitutes the main time-saving benefit of this edition.But there’s more.The real verbomaniacs among us get referred to the main entry of the concept.Here you’ll find the mother lode of words, often numbering into the dozens and ranging from the most commonplace to the ridiculously obscure (e.g. mephitic, olid, or stenchful).You’ll also find related terms (vile, rotten, pestilential), contrasting terms (deoderized, fresh, clean), and antonyms (fragrent, sweet) all in the same place, just as you would in Roget’s conceptually arranged International edition.Like I said, most writers are sure to find what they need on the first try. The only other thesaurus that approaches this one is the Random House Collegiate, but I don’t think that one has definitions; this one does.I’m also pretty sure this one has more words than Random House, Roget’s 21st Century, or any other.It’s [inexpensive] for a hardcover, too,..., so how can you lose? ... ... Read more Isbn: 0877791694 |
$12.89 |
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