Month: June 2010

ALDI: Home Automation Kit $39.95

  • Control your appliances remotely via radio frequency out of the line of sight
  • Great for turning on the lights before you enter your home or starting the kettle from the comfort of your lounge chair
  • Includes 5 receivers and 1 remote

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    This was a fantastic purchase, I have four on outside lights around the house and one on the rainwater tank pump.

    ALDI: Taurus Electric Staple Gun $19.99

    You need to be patient using this tool – it jams staples.

    To minimise this I found I have to break off some staples from each row, about 3 or 4 mil. As with any stapler you need to press down firmly to get the staples to bed down.
    Some people have had trouble obtaining staples for this unit but I had no problem at Bunnings.

    ALDI 5.8GHz AV Sender and Receiver $89.00

     

     
  • Send signals from any AV source to a TV or stereo wirelessly
  • Connect to DVD player, cable TV, digital TV or music CD
  • Crystal clear 5.8GHz frequency
  • Connect 2 AV sources at once
  • IR extender for remote control
    • This purchase was a disaster – and I bought two of them!
    I was hoping to replace the existing AV wireless system (<–link here) with these 5.8GHz units.
     
    More to come…
     

    ALDI Bluetooth Speakers $129.00

    * Connect PC, PDA, mobile phone (with A2DP compatibility) to hi-fi system wirelessly
    * Bluetooth 1.2 module integrated into active speakers
    * Bluetooth phone pairing via pin code
    * Reception up to 10m
    * High fidelity speakers with 70W power
    * Extra line-in for non-Bluetooth device with MP3 or CD player
    * User-friendly front panel control

    Comments soon…

    Brother MFC-5460CN

      

     

    • High speed fax modem. Send and receive faxes using the 33.6Kbps fax/modem.
    • Fast colour printing. Speeds up to 30ppm black and 25ppm colour.
    • Built-in Ethernet interface‡. Allows you to share the MFC now or in the future. Just plug it into your wired or wireless router and share it to print, scan, PC Fax and access to the digital camera media cards.
    • Automatic document feeder. Unattended fax, copy or scan up to 35 pages at a time.
    • Media card slots and PictBridge interface. Print photos directly from your digital camera’s media card or from your PictBridge-enabled camera – without a computer.
    • 4-cartridge ink system. With separate cartridges for each ink colour, you only need to replace the colour that’s empty.
    • High Yield Black Cartridge‡. Reduce your running costs with the high yield black cartridge. Prints up to 900 pages at 5% letter size page coverage.

    Purchased this in June 2009, Officeworks were having a clearance sale and this was sitting under a table, no price so I asked someone and the response was $99 dollars – SOLD. I have been very happy with this network ready printer and the prints from ALDI photo look pretty good using $4.00 inks from the market.