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Leather Writing Journal

Author Thomas | 10.10.2008 | Category Books, Home & Garden

The leather writing journal is a fun return to the old cowboy style journals. The book is hand-made with acid-free pages (to better preserve what is written).

It’s not a regular book binding, but is stitched. The side flap opens up and can been secured by wrapping the leather strap around the journal.

Digital Photo Keychains

Author Thomas | 11.07.2008 | Category Electronics, Home & Garden

There are a lot of “interesting” digital photo key chains out there, but one trumps them all.  The MX Digital Photo Keychain has a metal backing similar to the ipod (very nice looking). It can store around 100 (re-sized) pictures.

The software is included in the photo frame and works through your computer’s USB port. It also has a calendar and clock features.

Also available in white:

Laptop Cooling Pad for your Lap

Author Thomas | 12.05.2008 | Category Accessories, Electronics, Home & Garden

Remember when the term “laptop” changed to “notebook”? It was probably around the time when people figured out that laptops get really hot and not comfortable to hold on your lap.

There have been many gadgets out there to help return the “notebook” to “laptop” status. Some a big and bulky, while others are so small, they won’t accommodate the larger laptops.

The Lap Mat provides a great solution to the problem. The Lap Mat has a leatherette (i.e., fake leather) top with a nice stitching detail around the edges. The support surface is strong yet slightly flexible. Under the laptop support surface a pillow filled with soft beads helps to diffuse the laptop heat even more and provides a comfortable cushion to the lap mat.

The cushion can be removed from the laptop support (it’s attached by Velcro). I suppose you would do so if your laptop bag was large enough to put the lap map inside and you wanted to use the cushion as a pillow when flying.

The Lap Mat easily accommodates large, 17″ wide screen laptops.

Because your lap tends to slope downward, you might try combining the Lap Mat with the Cool Lift Portable Notebook Cooling Pad (from the same manufacturer).

The Lap Mat is available on Amazon.com (Direct Product Link).

Digital Nutritional Scale

Author Thomas | 12.04.2008 | Category Electronics, Home & Garden

Ever been on a diet that makes you count your calories or carbs? Not an easy thing to do on paper or by reading the product labels if you don’t eat the whole thing. Counting important nutritional elements couldn’t be any easier now.

The Digital Diet Scale counts:

• Carbs
• Sodium
• Fat
• Fiber
• Protein
• Calories

The scale has over 900 different types of foods and ingredients programmed into its memory and tells you the content of each diet element above based on the weight of the food. The manual contains a 3-digit code for each food item that you can track. Find out the nutritional content for ice-cream, candy bars, yogurt, hamburgers, vegetables, fruits, common ingredients, poultry, and much more.

You can zero out the scale by placing a bowl on the scale and then turning the scale on. The scale will then register at zero. Add the liquid or other ingredients to the bowl and the scale will weigh only the ingredients added. This can also be accomplished by using the “Tare” function on the scale.

The scale is very handy in that it will display weights in grams, ounces, pounds and ounces, and kilograms. This comes in handy when you’re trying to convert between pounds and kilograms.

The maximum weight that the scale can take is an amazing 11 pounds.

You can use the scale to weigh non-food items as well.

Leather Photo Album Holds 300 Pictures

Author Thomas | 11.04.2008 | Category Home & Garden

There’s something about holding your pictures in your hand or in a photo album that you just can’t get by storing or viewing them on the computer.

It’s even easier now than ever to print your pictures whether at home from your own printer or through an online photo printing service that will mail your pictures to you (such as SnapFish by HP).

Where to put all those prints? Until recently, we’ve stored our pictures in the paper folder they came in. This photo album has plenty of space to hold pictures (300 4×6 inch photos) and includes room to hold 6 CDs (or DVD’s) that contain your pictures or even home movies.

The inside margin of each page has lines and space to write about each picture. The acid free pages will help protect your pictures and preserve the notes your write about them in the margins. The leather covering and binding are great and should last a very, very long time.

A sleeve in the very back of the binder allows for storage for negatives or extra disks.

The Photo Album is available on LLgco.com as a set of two albums or a single album.

Scott’s Classic Reel Lawn Mower

Author Thomas | 29.03.2008 | Category Home & Garden

Reel lawn mowers have come a very, very long way in the last few decades. A number of factors influenced our decision to upgrade our lawn mower.

1. Better for the environment
2. Extremely quiet compared to gas-powered mowers
3. Hardly any dust is stirred up compared to gas-powered mowers
4. The Reel Lawn mower is easier to push and maneuver
5. Mulches the cut grass back into the grass
6. No more buying gasoline for a lawn mower!!!
7. Less dangerous, in our opinion than a gas powered mower
8. No air pollution
9. Requires little maintenance
10. The blades will self sharpen with a small application of sharpening solution once every 3 years
11. Provides a much better cut, and is better for the lawn. Gas-powered mowers whack the top of the grass. A Reel Lawn mower snips/cuts the grass. We saw a much finer cut with our new mower.
12. Classy golf courses use Reel Lawn Mowers. They’re large and pulled by tractors, but they’re still Reel Lawn Mowers.
13. It’s kinda cool

Compared to our old lawn mower, the Scott’s Classic that we purchased is actually wider than our old mower, so we can cover more ground.

A number of people told us that it’d be hard to push, well, I invite them to come and try. Our old gas powered lawn mower is not self propelled, so I was pushing around 80 pounds or more to get that lawn mower up the hill. The Reel Lawn mower is about 30 pounds in weight.

Scott’s really has it down to a science. The mower has two front wheels and two smaller rear wheels that are used to easily adjust the cutting height.

The Reel Lawn Mower doesn’t like sticks very much, so you need to make sure that sticks are picked up, but other than that, it mowed over the grass just fine.

We purchased ours from Amazon (direct link) which had the best price.