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Saturday 29th January 2011

Each year we have more and more computers, TV?s, Hi Fi equipment, table lamps, and other equipment around the home and office. All this is great, but it pushes our energy costs up and up. The more of these types of products we have the more we have to remember to turn them all off.

The electricity used whilst in standby mode can add up to significant amounts across weeks, months, and years. Often we just leave our items switched on or in standby mode, this is costing us a lot of money and needlessly using energy. In addition to this, leaving our equipment turned on shortens the life of the product, and also increases the fire risks etc.

Not a day goes by without there being a news article or advert about energy saving and how everyone should try and reduce their energy consumption. So how can everyone help to save energy? well at pcfood we have a great range of products that can help you do this with a range of products by Wattsclever.

Wattsclever products make it easy to not just save energy but also save money and reduce C02 emissions, not just for the home user but also businesses

If you are serious about reducing your energy costs and doing your bit for helping the environment then take a look at the Wattsclever range. Click here

The Watts Clever range of Standby Control products helps people and companies to ensure that they turn all relevent equipment fully off. Our products ensure that this becomes a simple operation and something that will be done automatically, or with the minimum of thought.

The range includes 4 products which can be viewed here

And at fantastic prices it won't take long for the energy savings to pay for the product.

Sunday 30th January 2011

New networking product range from Tenda now added to site, we have some great products at great prices from Tenda and below is a review from productreviews.net on the wireless usb adaptor.

...Today I have been trying out the Tenda W541U V2.0, this is a USB wireless adapter which connects to WiFi b and g networks (IEEE 802.11bg and IEEE 802.11g.).

When you open up the product's packaging you may be quite shocked to see how little there is inside, in fact you get a CD-ROM and the USB adapter, if you want to read the product's manual it can be found on the disc.

The adapter itself has a very solid plastic housing and there is an LED which blinks when there is activity, also on the underside of the dongle there are details such as its model number and MAC address.

When I plugged it into my Windows 7-based computer it automatically installed itself and was ready to go in roughly 2 minutes, on my XP-based computer installation required the CD-ROM and took roughly 5 minutes.

The standard installation installs the Tenda wireless utility, this is useful on older computers which run Windows 2000, however I prefer to allow Windows to manage my connections, the Tenda software can be useful if you want to see full details regarding connections speeds or perhaps set it up as an access point.

In terms of signal strength and connection speed there are no real surprises, using the USB adapter I got roughly the same connections speed as my DLink PCI WiFi card, I used the USB adapter for 8 hours with no connection loss which proves the hardware and drivers are both stable.

There is not much else you can say about this USB adapter, it is cheap, easy to install, well-made and has pretty strong signal W541U V2.0 here.

Product review from productreviews.net click here to link to original article

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Saturday 12th February 2011

New Philips LED lighting range arrives at PCFOOD

So take a look at the range by clicking here

There are novelty night lights ideal for kids bedrooms, floating LED lights ideal for recreating a SPA effect in your own bathroom, or to WOW your guests we have a LED colour changing wine cooler.

Friday 19th February 2011

Philips batteries arrive at www.pcfood.co.uk

Just added to site a great new range of Philips Powerlife and Longlife batteries. These batteries offer great value for money whatever size of battery you are after. Sizes available are AA. AAA, C , D and the 9v batteries in various pack sizes from 4 up to 32.

May 1st 2011

New and just arrived a great range of compatible toners from Inkrite. Offering the same high quality as OEM toners but at a fraction of the cost. Click here to visit the section. We stock toners for most the major brands.

17th May 2011

We are pleased to have recently added a cool and trendy range of skins for a whole range of gadgets from iphone and ipad to gaming consoles and controllers. With great colourful images to give your gadget that new lease of life theres sure to be a design that takes your fancy. Not only will skins protect your gadget from scuffs etc. but they look the business too. Easy to apply with no air bubbles and no residue should you wish to remove but why we don't know unless its to buy another of course!! So click the link below to see the great ranges we have Dr Who and Moshi monsters are also available for thise fans out there. We are still busy adding all the ranges to the site so please check back for further designs and skins for other gadgets. All our skins are by skins4things.

Skins range click here

If you can't find a design you like then we also have teamed up with Wrappz who also make skins but with the advantage that you can upload your own design whether you just upload a family photo or favourite holiday snap, or even if you are a bit of a whizz on graphic designing you can simply upload you design and they will send you your brand new skin with your design on.