After buying software for over 15 years, this is by far the worst I've ever bought.

The buyer will need to pay more money to use some of the features that should be included in the original purchase price. (And who would want to trust this company with their credit card details?)

In addition a hugely complicated activation process involving an overseas phone number that does not seem to be active and an intrusive long and complicated form demanding personal details so that they can harass you effectively to buy more of their awful products.

I was not able to activate this software, and therefore was unable to use it. It is not possible to get help unless you already have the software activated, so no help is available.

There was no reply to any of my emails.

There is a phone helpline which costs £9.99 to use. So after all this trouble they expect to charge you even more money to try to get to work what you have already paid for.

In the end, after hours of unsuccessful attempts where the screen just kept saying `activation unsuccessful' and after getting no help at all from the company, I am forced to give up, throw the software away and lose the money I've already paid.

Amazon buyers............take note. Learn the lesson. Never ever buy from this company.

After buying software for over 15 years, this is by far the worst I've ever bought.

The buyer will need to pay more money to use some of the features that should be included in the original purchase price. (And who would want to trust this company with their credit card details?)

In addition a hugely complicated activation process involving an overseas phone number that does not seem to be active and an intrusive long and complicated form demanding personal details so that they can harass you effectively to buy more of their awful products.

I was not able to activate this software, and therefore was unable to use it. It is not possible to get help unless you already have the software activated, so no help is available.

There was no reply to any of my emails.

There is a phone helpline which costs £9.99 to use. So after all this trouble they expect to charge you even more money to try to get to work what you have already paid for.

In the end, after hours of unsuccessful attempts where the screen just kept saying `activation unsuccessful' and after getting no help at all from the company, I am forced to give up, throw the software away and lose the money I've already paid.

Amazon buyers............take note. Learn the lesson. Never ever buy from this company.

Firstly, A BIG BLACK MARK to the major VCR manufacturers (Sony, Philips, Panasonic etc) for stupidly stopping production of the VHS VCRs.

There must be millions of people in the UK with literally tens of millions of VHS tapes collected over 30 years and more. And guess what..........we want to play those tapes so that we can watch them. And (shock horror) this needs a VCR recorder/player.

Also, although I have a DVD recorder I actually find a VCR recorder/player more convenient to use; and VCRs are a lot cheaper, easier and more reliable in my experience too.

So WELL DONE LG for being more sensible than the more well-known makes. Now.............I think it is fair to review this LG VCR on `Performance' and `Longevity'.

I have just bought two of these VCRs from Amazon and I must say that the record and playback is excellent. I will be buying several more. Although this is not a scientific judgement just a personal opinion, I would say that the LG record/playback is definitely equivalent to Sony and Philips. (I also have four Sony and three Philips VCRs, so I think I can opine objectively.)

On the slightly negative side, the controls on the remote control and the menu etc are a bit different from the norm, and take a bit of getting used to........and the manual is pretty poor.

It is a complicated piece of equipment with many facilities, and these are not explained properly (or in some cases not at all) in the manual. This makes it a bit frustrating to set up (especially if it is going to be connected with say an analogue TV and a Freeview box.........thus three lots of controls/permutations to deal with.)

A tiny niggle also is that the scart sockets are a fraction too close together, making inserting the two scart leads a bit of a struggle. (This remark only applies if the user uses good quality......thus often fat......scart leads........Thor is my case.)

So for `Performance' I am going to give this VCR 9 out of 10. With a mark lost for poor manual.

As regards `Longevity' I cannot comment on this yet. I think that if they last for five years, then I have had fair value. I see no reason why this should not be the case.

I would also like to dispel a couple of erroneous myths:-

Myth 1:- You cannot record digital channels on analogue VCRs.

Truth:- You can record digital channels on analogue VCRs. All you need is to buy a Freeview box and connect it to the VCR. Then you can record (and of course playback) the programme/s. The quality will be excellent and almost indistinguishable from a DVD recorder recording in digital.

Myth 2:- You can only ever record one channel onto a VCR.......the one channel you are watching.

Truth:- You can record as many channels as you wish if you take the appropriate effort to make sure you are set up correctly. My own facilities are thus:-

We want to be able to record up to FIVE channels at the same time. {Don't ask!!} So we have five VCR machines, each with its own Freeview box on top.

The aerial lead is simply split into five, and feeds each Freeview box. Each Freeview box sends (via a scart lead) the correct channel signal (that we have designated) to the respective VCR.

That's it.

If we want to transfer the VCR recording to a DVD then it is simple to do. But usually, the programme is enjoyed and then recorded over.

In practice, we use the VCRs 98% of the time and the DVD recorder only 2% of the time.

Considering the price of these VCRs, and the price of Freeview boxes, this is a very economical set up. It has served us well for several years, and thanks to LG it will continue to do so.

So to conclude: Well done LG. An excellent VCR at a very good price. Buy several: I have!

I very highly recommend this book to all Amazon buyers who have a body and wish to look after it. But................

It is exactly and precisely the same book as 'Body In Action' by the same author. I think this should be made clear on the cover of the book (and not just in small print inside.)

I bought it thinking it was a ''new'' title (a totally new book) written by the author of 'Body in Action'.......whereas it is in fact the old book with a new title.

This was aired on national TV about a week before Christmas 2009 and luckily I recorded it.

It made me laugh, and it made me cry. I have watched it twice since then (rather than going out wasting money or going to boring parties). Both times I enjoyed the film again.

I can highly recommend it, and on several levels. I am delighted that it has been released on DVD so that many more folk can enjoy it.

Each actor really puts in a tour-de-force appearance: Timothy Spall really is exceptional.

Full marks to the writers too, who have understood and given the audience a real insight into a most interesting area of human nature.

Conclusion: buy it and enjoy it and watch it over again. You will be delighted.

Surely the very best, most important and most memorable documentary ever made.

It shows how in Germany the people were lied to and manipulated by the State. It shows how a country's rulers can ruin a whole country......just drag its people down while the uncaring rulers' prosper.

It shows ID cards/papers and other ways to identify individual people were introduced; imprisonment without trial; how the police shot people in the head and got away with it; how civil liberties and freedoms were taken away bit by bit; front doors were smashed down by the State police and people dragged from their homes; how the State rulers lied to the people so that they could invade totally sovereign countries and kill, maim and mutilate countless hundreds of thousands of innocent people.

It shows how men, brave beyond description, fought literally to the death to make certain that nothing like that could ever happen in Great Britain.

I am going to divide this honest, fair and objective review into two parts: `Description of how Roulette is played'; and, `The systems the booklet contains'.

'Description of how Roulette is played':- If you are new to Roulette, perhaps thinking it is played with playing cards or dice or on a snakes and ladders board.......then this booklet will help you a lot. It describes how Roulette is played with a wheel and a ball, and how bets are placed (by players) on a Roulette table using chips previously bought.

There are some nice colour pictures of both the European (one zero) wheel and the American (two zero) wheel to assist the would-be player.

For this valuable information I award the booklet two stars.

'The systems the booklet contains':- I cannot be so enthusiastic here I'm afraid.

Basically the systems are of the `due' variety, whereby the player waits until a chance (usually an even chance) has not appeared for a while and then, (presumably because the ball feels it has been a bit unfair), he/she bets the opposite chance and eagerly anticipates the expected `due' win.

Alas, sometimes the uncooperative ball continues with its `unfairness'. But all is not lost because the author has a solution for this: it is to increase the stakes more and more and more until the ball decides to behave itself and fall into the required slot on the wheel. Then all will be well and a happy and prosperous player will emerge.

There is unfortunately one thing wrong with this wonderful proposed scenario: "What if the ball keeps on misbehaving and the player runs out of money or the table limit is reached preventing further betting?"

Alas, the author keeps the answer to this problem to himself....... perhaps saving it for his next booklet.

So that is my honest, fair and objective review:- helpful for those totally new to Roulette without a clue as to how the game is played. Not so good when it comes to the so-called `systems'.

According to Amazon.UK there are 31 separate genres for written books.

It would be very difficult to select a book for just one of those genres as 'The Most Important, Worthwhile & Special Book Ever Written'.

To make such a claim as for any book as 'The Most Important, Worthwhile & Special Book Ever Written in Any and All Genres' would be almost crazy.

Yet that is what I propose for this book. My reasoning is this:-

Surely the most important worthwhile and special thing in anyones life, and everyones life, is "How You Feel". If you feel wretched, depressed, upset, unhealthy, unenergetic........then what is your life but a burden: a misery? Any costly baubles or trinkets will have little real value.

LIFE is not about how wealthy you are, but how rich your life is.

So if each day is a blessing; a source of joy enjoyed with excellent health, energy, enthusiasm, flexibility, stamina and zest for life.......then all other so-called problems will pale into insignificance.

This is what this book can offer, as no other book can quite do.

In my opinion it is the centre of the universe in terms of Happiness.......and as the Dalai Lama reminds us: "The very purpose of Life is Happiness."

This may look ok to American eyes, but to English eyes it will just appear corny and phony. It is amazing how many of these so-called Masters have had miraculous recoveries from near-fatal car accidents.

Garri Garripoli is no exception.

He was apparently is such a bad car accident that he was in a cast from the neck down and doctors told him that he would be in a wheel chair for the rest of his life.

But.......lo and behold........he used the exercises on this DVD and before you know it........he was literally climbing up the side of a mountain, helping the camera crew with their equipment for this DVD.

To American ears this may sound 'impressive', but to English ears it will just sound ridiculous.

We in England are simply not attuned to this kind of salesmanship, and it just sounds silly, ridiculous, corny and phony.

Even in the most unlikely circumstance that it is true, it is far better for the Master to keep these 'miracles' to himself, rather than burden his students with the scepticism that this is bound to conjure.

One thing that astute Amazon viewers may ask is:- "If he was in a cast from the neck down and going to be in a wheel chair for the rest of his life, how did he manage to stand up and move his arms and legs to do the exercises that were so beneficial to his miraculous recovery?" Alas, there is no answer to this question in the DVD. Perhaps it will be answered in subsequent DVD's?

This impression of 'cornyness & phonyness' is made worse by the fact that the 'master' is siting there giving an interview with black paint sprayed over his head in an attempt to hide his bald patch. Difficult to take anyone seriously when they try that!

This is an important study and a fascinating art. I therefore suggest that if anyone thinks this DVD may be in any way of use to them to buy it. The upside is that it may help you and your health; the downside is that you put it down to 'experience' as I have.

There are other far better DVD's on this subject, although of course, it is a very personal matter as to which of them is 'best'........or more accurately........most suitable for each individual taste.

My own preferences are for Master Lam Kam Chuen and Master Faye Li-Yip. True genuine Masters in the literal meaning of the word (neither of whom have had miraculous recoveries from near-fatal car crashes, as far as I know!)

So that is my review. Definitely NOT for me.......but it may be for you!

I have used Steganos Safe 5 for several years and was delighted with it. But now I have bought Safe 2008 from Amazon.Co.UK and am very disappointed with it.

The main reason I bought it was because the newer version had much larger storage capacity. Amazon sold it for £22.99 which is a very good price.

BUT it needs a complicated certificate downloaded from the Internet to use it. No mention of this in the advert or on the box.

I wanted it to use on my 'old' computer, that I was letting the family use. I did not want them to be able to see my old files. That is what it is for obviously. But this 'old' computer is not on the Internet. So I cannot get a certificate, and it therefore cannot be used. Massively disappointing.

If you want to be able to use this software you have to be on the Internet, and go through the aggro of downloading it.......with firewall, anti-virus problems etc.

None of this was necessary with Steganos 5!

Also, if the company does not give a certificate (for any technical reasons; or because the company has stopped trading for example) you have a piece of software that can never be used.

In addition to this, their so-called 'support' does not appear to reply to emails; and since this is part of what I paid for.......again.......very disappointing.

Finally, it appears that all the contents of the Safe can be lost. If the product is 'uninstalled' (assuming you have been lucky enough to ever get it installed in the first place) all the documents will be lost.

So it is NOT a safe Safe.......it is a very vulnerable unsafe so-called Safe.

Very Very Disappointing.