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I’ve been with Orange now for 9 years, and every year or so I like to upgrade my phone.  I do it, usually, just for the sake of it, rather than any real need to upgrade, but this year i had my eye on a particular phone and couldn’t wait until i was out of Contract, so I could get it for free.

The phone i opted for, in all it’s beautiful magnificence, is the LG Viewty.  How could i no fall in love with a mobile phone boasting a cracking five mega-pixel camera, with flash and high quality video feature?

As you”ll soon see, i opted for the Purple version, although given the choice i’d definitely have gone for black, but there weren’t any left at Orange and i didn’t want to wait any longer. 

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For the last 10 or so years, i’ve consistently used Epson printers, finding them both reliable and of a high quality.  Best of all, i’ve been able to buy compatible inks, thus saving myself a bit of money in the process.

However, i had the great misfortune of buying an Epson R265.  Epson decided to quash the compatible market with this printer, by making it really difficult for manufacturers of cheap inks.  The plan was to add the known chip codes of compatible cartridges to the printer itself, thus not accepting said discs and leaving the owner of the printer to pay for full Epson cartridges. Read More »