The Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse 3000 is one of the most popular wireless mice on today’s market. It’s currently TigerDirect’s #1 best-selling wireless mouse, and with its quality design, high-resolution scrolling, and affordable price tag, it’s not hard to see why. Keep reading to get the scoop on Microsoft’s Wireless Notebook Mouse 3000.

There are a ton of great things about this mouse. For starters, it only requires one AA battery, and seems to get a fairly good battery life as well (6 months is typical). It also supports both Windows and Mac (and requires no software) for maximum compatibility, and it comes in a variety of different colors so you can match your other equipment, or your personal preference. Plus, its ambidextrous design makes it comfortable for both right- and left-handed use.

Further, the technical specifications of this mouse are outstanding, especially for a wireless mouse in its price range. It has excellent resolution scrolling resulting in very smooth operation. With its High Definition Optical Technology, it is more precise, more responsive, and delivers smoother tracking than most other mice in its class. And, its customizable third button can offer you quick access to the programs, files and media you use most frequently.

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ImHosted claims to offer superb quality web hosting with a very high uptime guarantee and excellent customer support, all at an extremely affordable price. We, however, found that to not be the case. Read on to learn the issues we took with the subpar web host and who we would recommend instead.

Surprisingly, ImHosted has actually received a few awards, which along with its very attractive pricing was what initially drew us in to them. The company doesn’t hesitate to plaster its web site with the badges for the awards, though they are so small that it is virtually impossible to read what they are for. However, at a deeper glance, many of the ImHosted awards were given on the basis of popularity, not necessarily quality. Further, the company is lacking some of the more prestigious awards and accreditation that many other web hosts have, including acknowledgment from the Better Business Bureau (BBB).

In addition to its few (and surprising) awards, ImHosted boasts of phenomenal uptime statistics and excellent customer support, neither of which accurately describe the company’s services at all. In our experience with multiple ImHosted servers (as we requested to be moved more than once), the uptime provided was much lower than their 99.5% guarantee. And, even if the server itself was up, one or more of its features or services (e.g. PHP or MySQL) were down quite frequently.

Consequently, we spent a lot of time interacting with the ImHosted support team, which, as you might have guessed, was not impressive either. As we learned, they spend most of their time telling customers like us that that problems we were experiencing were not really happening, were our fault, or had been resolved, advising us most commonly to clear our browser cache and that everything was now fine (or always was). Of course, often the problems they told us they had fixed (or never existed) were still around, or broke again so quickly we couldn’t have told the difference.

In conclusion, we would have to agree with much of the online buzz about ImHosted. The consensus seems to be that ImHosted farms out their servers far too much for them to operate in a stable or reliable fashion, and we would have to agree with that theory. Web Hosting Jury gives the company an overall 1.7 / 5 rating, but we felt that even that was too high. We award the company a mere 1/5 rating, and only because it did have occasional (but rare) moments where everything worked as it should. Further, we highly recommend against using ImHosted web hosting or any other services the company provides.

If you are looking for a web host, we highly recommend that you consider HostGator, as we have found both their services as well as their customer support to be top-notch.

Homedics SoundSpa AM/FM Radio Our rating:

The Homedics SoundSpa Clock Radio is designed to create the perfect sleep environment with soothing nature sounds, radio and alarm features, and a projector that can display the current time right on your ceiling.

The SoundSpa’s many features make it a very nice alternative to a traditional alarm clock. Not only does it produce a nice calming environment for when you’re trying to relax, but it also makes a much more pleasant alarm clock and provides convenience with a time projector. With six different nature sounds (waterfall, rainforest, spring rain, thunder, summer night, and ocean) the Homedics SoundSpa creates an incredibly relaxing environment for trying to fall asleep or meditate. It can also gradually wake you up to nature sounds rather than a loud and startling ring or buzzer. The quality of the nature sounds is fairly decent, although some seem a bit too much like white noise rather than live sampled audio.

The other outstanding features of the SoundSpa make the minor audio quality concerns almost unnoticeable, however. The easily rotated and focused projector can project the current time right on a wall or ceiling so that you can see it while lying down without ever having to move. The reception of the radio antenna is phenomenal. The SoundSpa is also a very nice compact size and fits easily on a nightstand or table. And, even though it’s nice and compact, the buttons are still large enough and easy to use.

Overall, the Homedics SoundSpa is a very high-quality clock radio with some very nice features. Minor audio sampling concerns are all there is to say negative about it, and even those are barely significant enough to mention. Priced quite reasonably, it’s a great buy for anyone, and especially those who would enjoy or benefit from its very calming and relaxing ambient sounds.

Acer 22″ LCD Monitor X223WBD Review Our rating:

The Acer line of LCD monitors makes great, high-quality screens extremely affordable. The 22″ X223WBD model in particular, with its impressive display quality and equally impressive price tag, virtually screams “Buy me!” from the shelf.

Featuring both VGA and DVI inputs, you’re safe buying this monitor whether your computer is brand new or years old – PC or Mac – even if you don’t know which input type it uses. It also sports a phenomenal 5ms response time, 1680×1050 max resolution and 2500:1 Contrast Ratio that makes it optimal for gaming and action. With outstanding features and no problems whatsoever with the several Acer LCD models we tested, there’s not a bad thing to say!

And we’re not the only ones raving. The Acer 22″ LCD is a 5x Winner of the Customer Choice Award and recipient of a 4.5-star rating on Newegg. It’s also received a 5-star rating on TigerDirect [See for yourself]

Currently, this great monitor is priced the cheapest on TigerDirect, at only $139.99. Don’t miss the sale – grab one now!

With so many companies offering domain registration services, it’s hard to know which are reliable as well as a good value. Many domain registrars offer very low-priced packages, but the quality of their service is absolutely atrocious. Others offer very high-quality and reliable services, but are extremely costly.

We recently discovered a company called Netfirms that we felt meet up to our expectations in both areas. Not only were we extremely satisfied with the quality and speed of their registration service, we were also very impressed with their pricing. Netfirms’ registration fee was one of the best values out of all the registrars we looked into, with our test domain costing less than $6 for a one year registration.

Further, Netfirms allows easy changing of WHOIS information for each individual domain you register as well as the option for private registration, even after the domain has been registered, at no additional cost. The outstanding control panel made it very easy to review and change these as well as all the domain’s settings and features.

To wrap up, we highly endorse Netfirms for your domain registration needs and feel that it exceeded our expectations while offering an incredible value.

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Logitech X-230 Speakers Our Rating:
Another excellent product from Logitech comes the X-230 speakers. These have several features which make them top of the line. The product itself is two speakers and a subwoofer. The subwoofer has individual volume control so the bass can be cranked up to the max when nobody’s home or turned down when necessary. On one of the speakers is an overall volume control and power button as well as a headphone jack which is very convenient. The speakers also have the cabability of being wall mounted which gives them nice versatility. They are very easy to set up and can be used with any PC or MP3 player. And of course the most important part, the sound quality, is excellent – which has come to be expected of any Logitech product.

LAN Adapter for Nintendo Wii by Datel Our Rating:
This third-party adapter for Nintendo’s Wii console is a convenient solution to the lack of ethernet port on the Wii.  It creates a high speed LAN connection via USB.  For most people, this product will probably work exactly as it should.  It is definitely more convenient to find than Nintendo’s official LAN adapter which can only be purchased online at Nintendo’s official website.  However compared to their first-party solution, this offering from Datel does have some problems.

First off, the first unit tested was defective.  That is not to say that Nintendo’s adapter is infallible, but it does not say a lot for this product.  After finding a replacement, there are still a few shortcomings for this product.  If you are on a secured network in which all devices’ MAC address must be allowed by your router, it is much more difficult to obtain the MAC address of this product.  The address is not printed anywhere on the device, and because it is not officially made by Nintendo, the address does not appear when the Wii’s system settings are accessed.  To find the MAC address of this device, it has to be connected to a PC, have drivers downloaded for it, and then have an ipconfig run.  More than an inconvenience.

Overall this product should work fine for most people, but it may cause problems and frustrations if the network is configured a certain way.  The official Nintendo Wii LAN Adapter is a more recommended solution.

Canon ImageCLASS MF 4150 Our Rating:

The Canon ImageCLASS MF 4150 MultiFunction printer simply is one of the best values in its category.  A medley of awesome features not expected on a device of this price range also serve as very pleasant surprises.  Offering duplex printing, automatic document feeding, and a miniature bypass tray so you don’t have to remove your standard paper to print envelopes or index cards, the MF 4150 is a must-have for any home or small office.

We’ve been testing out this machine for nearly a month and it has yet to jam or malfunction.  The print quality is superb and pages print quickly with a surprisingly minimal warmup time.  The controls are very easy to use for making copies or sending faxes, both physically on the printer as well as in its software.

In conclusion, we have yet to see a reason why anyone would not want to buy this printer.  So, if you’re thinking about heading out to the store to grab one of these, our best advice would be to hurry up!

Samsung r400 Slider Phone Our Rating:

After some very bad luck with the Kyocera Strobe, our lead reviewer Chris decided to move on to a Samsung, thinking He would be much more impressed.  Unfortunately, that was far from being the case.  He concluded that while Samsung does have some very nice phones currently on the market, this is definitely one to steer clear of.  Here’s what he had to say:

First of all, one of my biggest annoyances of cell phones was true of this phone as well – the “silent” mode is not 100% silent.  When the battery gets low on this phone, even if you’ve got the volume turned off, it’s going to beep at you.  Certainly not the way I want to find out when I’m in the middle of a meeting.

Actually, a lot of the software on this phone was very unimpressive.  There’s no way to change how the slider works, so it will always hang up on your call when you close it, even if you don’t want it to.  The ringer doesn’t turn on automatically when you plug the phone in to charge, and the volume controls in general are very confusing.

The phone seems to be cheaply made as well.  The slider seems weak and flimsy when compared to other phones on the market.  The battery does not hold a very long charge either.  Also, on the original as well as a warranty replacement of this phone, the signal seems to run into lot of dead zones, even though it is not generally weak.  Perhaps there is some sort of problem with the antenna getting interference.

At any rate, if you’re in the market for a slider phone, you’re probably going to want to keep looking.  This is yet another phone that is definitely not getting raves from us.