I'e used the original Jawbone Bluetooth headset for a long time, and have been a reasonably happy customer. The sound quality was good, and it worked with both my MacBook and my iPhone.

But it had 2 serious drawbacks :

- It could only connect to one of the devices at a time, you needed to fiddle around to switch between them.

- The earloops were difficult to get over the year, and I have broken all of them without applying excess pressure - and they (Jawbone) do not sell spares!

So I have a old and now largely useless original Jawbone - as I have no more earloops, and let wondering if I have strange shaped ears (-;.
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I;m getting closer to getting a RFID doorlock at long last - I just ordered the key component as a Arduino shield:
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Hm. I have a strange problem with the latest Madonna album.

I bought this off iTunes, and downloaded it wirelessly. On my iPod it did not sound too bad, but then again I listened to it on a plane to somewhere, so I may not have been to critical to the quality of the recording. (I have to say that all previous Madonna albums have been produced to a very high audio quality).

So it cam as a bit of a surprise when I played the album on the main stereo at home. (Background: The album now lives on my laptop - which publishes it's music to the local area network, and this in turn is picked up by a iMac living by the stereo - with my old Quad loudspeakers.) The sound quality was so bad that I started thinking that the mains supply to the loudspeakers had been turned off (electrostatic loudspeakers keep the charge for a very long time after you turn off the mains - with the quality gradually getting worse and worse).
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Cambridge Audio seems to have started manufacturing the only multi-room audio/video system I like so far - and they sell it through Richer Sounds as well (there is a outlet in Guildford which is close to where we live), and even better, the price and functionality seems to be right.

Cambridge Audio’s new Incognito Multi-Room Entertainment System delivers audio to every room of the home at a more affordable price than ever before.

Enabling users to access any of six audio sources (CD player, tuner etc.), the AH10 then distributes music and video around the house simultaneously, using just one run of Cat5 or Cat6 cable per zone.
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As we just bought my son a Honda Civic (2001) one of the first questions is of course “How do I connect my iPod to the stereo”.

The car comes with a radio & cassette-player, plus a one-slot CD-player.

So we bought a Harman Kardon Drive + Play 1 off a Amazon.co.uk associate company for less than GBP 50, and will blog the trials and tribulations of installing this.

we also found a excellent site with a description on how to take the Civic's console apart, and off we went.

More later :
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