Excellent piece of equipment. With respect to those who've posted problems I can only deduce that you've either done something wrong setting it up or the PC/control device you use is badly configured and needs attention.

Installation was simple and the DYMO 450 worked straight away after I'd loaded the software. The software itself loads within 3 seconds of launch which is perfectly acceptable as far as I can tell. I'm using Windows 7 Professional 64 bit although I've also tried it on a wheezing old laptop running Windows 7 32 bit, again with no problems whatsoever.

Highly recommended and very good value for money. It's given my business a much more professional look since implementation.

This item did all it said it would. I use it to hold an iPad up and above some musical equipment in a recording studio so I can use it to control various transport and audio functions that would otherwise be mouse controlled.

Sure, it wobbles a bit if you bash the desk it's clamped to but you'd expect that to happen wouldn't you? It's no bother to me for what I use it for.

The construction is very strong and I can't foresee any breakages unless I went at it with a blow-torch.

Why this instead of the far superior "15 Steps"? A shorter edit of that would have done nicely as a single. "Mercury Rising" is the weakest song on "Giants" by some way. A mistake.

I like diversity. I like Killing Joke. I'm not one of those who wants to hear regurgitation of previous triumphs. I liked Absolute Dissent although not all of it. This one, on the other hand, is a different kettle of fish as far as I'm concerned. I have to say that I like all of it, some more than others perhaps but not to the point of skipping tracks.

At first I found "Pole Shift" a bit of a challenge (as I did when I heard it live a month ago) but I get it now and for a nine minute song its skips along quite briskly. "Fema Camp" has a brutal twisty riff, "Rapture" is a slash and burn killer - already a favourite and "Corporate Elect" with the energy it exudes, sounds like a band in their late teens.

However, my favourite three tracks are "In Cythera", "Primobile" and "On All Hallows Eve" simply because, when they get it right, there's nobody to beat Killing Joke for melancholy! Melancholy with beautiful uplifting tunes.

Finally, the track not spoilt by advanced free downloads "New Uprising". A belter lads!

Not a bad song in the deck IMHO. Smashing album!

I've always loved this album, ever since it came out in 1978. Great collection of songs. Admittedly it could have done without "In The Shadows" (already released so a bit of a con) and "Enough Time" can drag a bit when you're sober, but for me there is nothing to touch one track - "Curfew" still makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck 30+ years later. The time signature changes, the incredible mini-moog riff during the verses, Greenfield and Cornwell's harmony sung choruses in total contrast to Burnel's screamed statements and the final crashing, clanging four chords, the heaviest they ever got, even more than the previous year's "5 Minutes" and that's saying something. Buy it.

This booked filled in some interesting gaps in my knowledge of post WWII UK capital punishment. I'd always found the Pierrepoint autobiography to be rather pompous and suspected it was full of self promoting inaccuracies. This book helps to confirm some of my suspicions, namely that whilst Pierrepoint's claim that he was the last official "number one" and succeeded by "two men" of equal rank in 1956 is technically correct, Harry Allen was definitely regarded by the authorities as the premier man following this date with a near 5:1 ratio of executions to his colleague Robert Stewart. Pierrepoint was obviously trying to play down Harry's importance to further his own!

The background to Allen's cases are covered in excellent detail and the selection of photographs is also good. My only gripe is that there could have been a little more coverage of what the man himself had to say although I appreciate that with the biography being posthumous this information may be scarce and difficult to attribute accurately.

All in all, well worth a look.

Another cracking outing for The Skids. Total agreement with what most reviewers have written, my favourite being Woman In Winter (despite the criminal editing!) although One Decree and Circus Games run it pretty close. I also have a soft spot for Goodbye Civilian with its camp sequencers! Anyway getting back to the case in point....one star deducted for butchering Woman In Winter AND not including Strength Through Joy, the free album that came with the original few pressings (not my copy unfortunately). A song from that called An Incident In Algiers still sends shivers up my back and I only have a rather muted version from The Old Grey Whistle Test featured on YouTube to fall back on.....never mind....Hurry On Boys!

PS...

If you're reading this, Barney from Gateshead, I know you had a vinyl copy of Strength so give me a call...soon!

Songs like Animation, Masquerade, The Olympian and Dulce Et Decorum Est are particularly good. Working For The Yankee Dollar is awesome and Peaceful Times (the album's original closer recorded by playing Animation backwards with new words and synth blips) is enough to reduce me (like another reviewer) to tears. Top album and well worth getting.

I lost interest in The Stranglers in 1992 shortly after the release of In The Night, the first post Cornwell album. To be honest I think it had been coming for years with the previous two albums, Dreamtime and 10 being decidely lacklustre. The excuse I was looking for to do this came in the form of the new lead vocalist and seperate guitarist. The Stranglers with five people - not for me.

Norfolk Coast a couple of years ago on the other hand provided a welcome return to some sort of form and I put this down to Baz Warne's inclusion, obviously a far superior songwriter compared to John Ellis' dreary tunes, but there was still five of them and I still couldn't take Paul Roberts affected delivery.

So when I heard that the band had returned to the old format - sans Roberts - of two lead vocalists I was very interested to hear the results. I was not disappointed as Baz Warne has rescued them totally and as a side effect galvanised Burnel's songwriting and the overall musical performance. To put it mildly I was blown away. Warne's voice is fantastic especially on Spectre, Bless You and Relentless (more of which later) and JJ is back to his furious best with Summat Outanowt (BRILLIANT TITLE!!). Jet Black defies his pensionable status and Dave Greenfield - well, put it there Dave, you are the organmeister. The sneering's back, the humour is back and Relentless is without doubt a masterpiece which sends shivers up my back. The temptation to make this song a thrashy affair has been avoided and results in one of the most atmospheric tunes you're likely to hear - absolutely bloody brilliant! As the song goes "You can't wait to close your eyes, fall into the black and disappear"

The Stranglers are back - proper. Keep it up lads, oh and on the next one can we have a weird Dave song?