Dare to Share

Forget vacuum cleaners, have you seen the Dyson Airblade Hand Dryer? If not then get down to your nearest public toilet and see for yourself! So why am I getting excited about going into men’s toilets? Well, James Dyson, the man who changed the way the good old vacuum cleaner worked has now re-invented the incredibly loud and frankly useless hand dryer. Read more »

There’s already a nice selection of ringtones on the iPhone but if you’d like to create your own or already have another one then read on and I’ll show you how to get it on your iPhone easily and for free! Read more »

Times are hard and you might need to sell and downgrade your car or get a bike instead! Whatever the reason you need to know how much your car is really worth so you can advertise it for sale. Here’s how… Read more »

If you book via this link www.nationalexpress.com/mirror up until the end of January there are loads of fares from only £1 each way. That’s just £2 return, which could potentially take you from Aberdeen to London! A total distance of 1070 miles at a cost of 1p every 5 miles. Now that is a bargain. Read more »

Make sure you factor in your fees when you come to selling stuff on eBay. I’ve made this mistake on a number of occasions and it’s cost me dearly when it comes to the auction ending and working out the amount of money I’ve actually made from my sale.I’ll be devoting a post to selling stuff on eBay at a later date but in the meantime I just want you to understand the fees that are charged. Read more »

When buying a used car make sure you’ve got proof that you’ve paid your deposit. Should anything untoward happen at least you’ll have proof that money has been exchanged, should you need to take the matter further. Download this handy car deposit form which contains all the information you’ll need.

The mobile phone market is an absolute minefield so it’s no wonder we all just stick with whatever network we’re with and pay whatever they decide to charge. The thing is there’s a lot of great mobile phone deals out there but you really have to hunt around. I’ve done all of the hunting around for you so if you only want to spend £10 a month on your mobile phone then read on and I’ll attempt to unravel the deals out there. Read more »

Click through to the “Magazine Group” from either Top Cashback or Quidco and search for “The Week” magazine - from there you can get 6 copies for free and receive £5.80 in the process. Read more »

Thankfully I’ve, so far, not needed to use this method on my iPhone but there was a time back in the day of the 3rd generation iPod where we had a spate of broken iPods: I had one, my friend had one, a work colleague had one and weirdly enough I managed to fix them all! Read more »

Our good friends over at daretothink have a useful little application for counting the amount of characters and words as you type. Comes in very handy when writing website titles and descriptions where you have limitations. You can also save the Word and Character Counter page to your local computer for offline viewing.