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Perfect for simple backups, 16 May 2013

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I got this for my Mum to use to backup her documents from her laptop. I'd been on at her for ages to backup her files but she's not that PC literate. She lived the simplicity of the stick and the fact that its so easy to backup her files. I installed the free SyncToy tool from Microsoft so she can control the copies and off she went. The cover is a bit

Classic stories, re-told by a master storyteller, 6 May 2013

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A year or so ago I decided I was going to read the collected fairy tales of the brothers Grimm in their original form. I started with good intentions, but the many variations on familiar themes gradually became irritating, as did the clunky translated storytelling.

What Philip Pullman has done is collect the best 50 of the stories and re-tell them in his own voice. What's exciting about that is that Pullman is one of the best storytellers of this, or any time. Very few writers can engage the reader in a story so well as he can, whether through his own short stories or novels such as the Sally Lockhart adventures and, of course, the masterpiece that is His Dark Materials… Read more

OK but there are better presenters of the same information, 6 May 2013

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Self Help books are a huge industry attracting lots of people who fancy themselves as life coaches, trainers, gurus or consultants. There is no doubt that there are skills required to be effective in the workplace or in our everyday lives, skills that most of us aren't taught at school. However there are only so many ways that the same information can be re-hashed or re-imagined in an attempt to be different, and in so doing diluting the message. Let's use to-do lists as an example.

"Are you tired of the same old time management tips and techniques that simply tell you to make goals and to-do lists?" asks the back cover of Get Productive! Well you shouldn't be, because to-do… Read more