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24 May, 2019
Nice Stripper - but Tricky up a Ladder
Hi! I was fitting LED lighting into my ceiling and moving a few wall sockets and saw this product recommended on You Tube as helpful for fitting Wagoboxes. It's a nice, robust wire clipper. I found it particularly helpful stripping through the 1.5mm and 2.5mm cable sleeve without damaging the enclosed insulated live/ neutral wires. The wire clipping action worked fine. To strip back the insulation on the wires themselves you have to press down on the stripper flanges (see pic). I found this made it a two-handed operation - a bit cumbersome to use on ceilings up a ladder. A robust stripper can't exactly also be super light - indeed it wouldn't be fair to call this stripper heavy - but it is quite big and not so easily manouevrable as the smaller strippers available. Also, you move a little red tab (see pic) to vary the distance of the cut. Swinging about up your ladder it was easy to knock this and inadvertently vary your selected cut. It was great and easy to use for the (off-ladder) wall sockets. In summary, I liked this stripper and found it very easy to use at ground level but it was a little less handy on ceilings up a ladder when I finished up using an old trusty stripper for the overhead connections. I liked it - but it was a bit gimmicky!
05 Apr, 2019
Neat and Functional
I bought this case as a cheap, neat, white leather case to protect my 5th gen. (A1136 model)iPod and wasn't overly concerned about its looks. The iLuv i106B fits the bill nicely. There seem to be very few options for covers for these old iPods on e-bay - I could only find silicone or open-flap models - and this was the one I opted for. It's exactly as described and it certainly didn't disappoint. The iPod fits the case snugly and the various cut outs for the ports etc. are spot on 'though if your earphones have a thick jack, you might find the plug-in a bit of a squeeze. The tight fit makes the slippery iPod quite difficult to extricate once in situ (but then who'd want to keep removing it?) There's no screen protector with the delivery. The front flap has a cheque card sized slit with a vertical elliptical cut out. Not sure why - ?for your address? A little magnetic strap keeps the item closed. A two-position pop fit strap at the rear could clip it to your (slim) belt or stand the iPod up. For me (mostly listening to music) the pocket and strap make the case a bit fussy and, as you might see from photo 4, make the whole bulky - in fact twice as thick as the iPod itself - so if you're concerned about the slim clean aesthetic of the iPod this might not be for you. I don't know at this stage how the white case will last but would expect some discolouration/ staining over time. I bought this cover primarily to protect my iPod. It seems robust and it looks OK so for me it certainly fits the bill.
22 Apr, 2018
Great Little Portable Drive
Sometimes, there are rainy nights when you’re on holiday abroad, stuck in a bedroom with bored children and nothing to do. You’ve got your iPhone and iPad but the internet is poor and (although you’ve paid for the service!) Amazon and Netflix won’t work. That’s where this little portable hard drive with its own wifi really comes into its own!
It’s a light, compact, sturdy portable hard drive with its own wifi. Only slightly bigger than an iPhone it’ll slip easily into any side pocket - so it’s no problem to cart around. I’ve never failed to get it’s wifi to log on to my iPhone or iPad (so long as you’re not more than 5yds or so from the unit). It takes a minute or two to log on. If you wish it can hitch on to an existing internet too (you can password it for better security if you want) so you don’t have to toggle between two wifi signals. It packs some punch - it’s 2Tb capacity packs 500 movies, 40K of pictures, 25K of songs and all the documents you need to work on whilst you’re away and there’s still room for plenty more! You download a little Seagate app to watch your movies.
It charges using a handy little plug with adaptors for use UK and abroad. A detachable USB lead goes into this (or your computer) and the lead connects to the unit itself by way of a queer non-standard plug. When using the drive, I tend to leave it plugged in - but it certainly lasted a couple of movies on battery alone when I didn’t. A couple of people (maybe up to four - but I haven’t tried that!) can watch different movies at the same time.
Downsides? Well of course you have to load it before you go and that takes time. I think it comes loaded for windows as default but files have seemed easily accessible on my IOS devices too. (I IOS-formatted its 1Tb predecessor with little difficulty). I’ve found it easy to load with files from my iMac (as a simple hard drive) and haven’t found any indexing delays as some reviewers have reported - but I have to concur with those reviewers who say it’s sometimes a bit dicky to switch off when a stubborn LED remains on. Then, switching the unit on and off again seemed to put it firmly to bed but maybe this is something Seagate should look at and fix.
I’ve only once been let down by a Seagate portable - and that by its 1Tb predecessor - when it tried automatically to upgrade itself in an area of poor internet; then I couldn’t get it to switch back on again. (You press the on/off switch for 30 seconds or use the tiny hole under the unit to reset it, but you might need internet then).
I’ve said the unit is good value for money. I certainly think so - but at around £150 from E-Bay it doesn’t come cheap. But then again, I guess there’s a price to be paid for carrying around most of your entertainment in a device little bigger than a cigarette packet!
I’m just an ordinary Joe Soap with no particular computer savvy. I think this is a brilliant little piece of kit and I wouldn’t like to be without it. If this review tips you into buying one I hope you find it as useful as I do!