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Are you a garage person or a shed person? Do you like your garden or your vehicle more? If you liked your garden more, you would have lots of gardening gadgets in there in order to make your gardening life simpler, so why not stock your garage up with gadgets for your garage, if you prefer to spend your time with your car.

The kinds of gadgets for your garage on hand would be those that can be used in the garage and those that can be taken on the road with you in the vehicle or the truck. Specialized tools are some of the most common gadgets to have in the garage and the vehicle.

One of the most popular gadgets for your garage or vehicle is the distance sensor or parking sensor. This gadget can be fitted to your garage rear wall or fitted to the front and back bumpers of your vehicle. These sensors are wonderful if your vehicle has blind spots, if the light is bad or if parking space is tight.

These parking sensors are very easy to install and can be fitted DIY by practically everybody who can use an electric drill and twist a screwdriver. When the device senses an object at the limit of its range, it emits a beep, but as that object comes closer to the sensor, the beeps get louder and more frequent. With a little practice, you will soon be able to park your vehicle inches from a wall or another car.

An electric garage door operator is another notable labour-saving device, particularly on dark, wet or stormy nights. Women in particular are often frightened of getting out of the car to open the garage door at night, so this gadget for the garage door can also be considered a safety gadget as you can secure the garage door behind you as well before getting out of your motor vehicle.

If you or the children have bicycles, they can account for a great deal of storage space and you can easily back over one of them with your car. Unless, of course you hang the bicycles on the walls around your garage. These gadgets for garages are fantastic space-savers.

If you need still more storage space, you can get storage devices that can be pulled up to the ceiling and dropped back down again for access to them. These gadgets for garages are particularly useful for storing items that you do not use very frequently, but cannot bring yourself to throw away.

Then there are gadgets for the garage that have more to do with your means of transportation. An air compressor is extremely handy. It can be used for driving power tools and cleaning off the engine and blowing the mud out of the wheel wells. Needless to say, you can also inflate your vehicle and bicycle tyres with it too.

A temperature gun is also useful for testing the quality of your brakes and tyres as well as bits of your engine for undue wear and a radar detector is handy for those who just cannot keep the pressure off the throttle.

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I don’t know whether you have ever used a handheld, indoor bug zapper, but I think that they are wonderful. I?m talking about the handheld sort that looks like a child’s plastic, toy tennis racquet. They come in two basic sorts. I rather the rechargeable bug zapper, for the reason that batteries end up up costing more than the indoor bug zapper itself, although you could always buy rechargeable batteries, but then they are costly too.

My wife and I like to spend time in the garden. We meet friends there, dine there and in general loaf about outside, as do most folks about here, when they are not working. What’s more, it?s much cooler outside than inside. A comfortable chair, a few snacks, a cool drink and a book or a companion and life does not get much better. In fact, it’s idyllic.

That is until about six or seven o’clock when the first wave of mosquitoes have judged that the sun’s rays have lost enough strength that they will not evaporate and they come out searching for blood. Some evenings are worse than others, of course. Usually, the mosquitoes are pretty tolerable, especially seeing as I have discovered the indoor bug zapper. (I don’t know why it is referred to as an ?indoor bug zapper?, it is just as effective outdoors as in).

It’s not that I want to kill things, but I find it difficult to have sympathy for mosquitoes. Nevertheless, I do get a certain amount of enjoyment from seeing and hearing mosquitoes and other bugs literally blow up with a flash and a spark as they come into contact with the electric and ground wires of the indoor bug zapper. These electric bug zappers are capable of packing quite a charge, especially if the batteries are new or the pack is wholly charged.

The other day, I found a new use for my handheld, indoor bug zapper. I’ll tell you how it came about. I was in the garden, as normal, and my bug zapper was close at hand as the first squadron of mosquitoes was expected. I had my book in one hand and the bug zapper on my knees, when my wife asked me to go to the store for her. No problem, therefore, I set off on the five minute walk.

I was half-way there when I noticed that I had the indoor bug zapper in my hand, but it was not worth taking it home and beginning the journey again. Anyhow, on my return journey, I had my small bag of groceries in one hand and the indoor bug zapper in the other, when a local tyrant of a dog came running out of a garden directly for me. This has happened often and, although he has never bitten me yet, it is rather menacing. He stood there glaring at me with teeth bared and his ‘pack’ of assorted local pals came out to encircle me and join in.

I don’t actually know what the best course of action is in this situation. I have tried holding my ground, but the intimidation just continues and I have tried to continue walking, but he gets worryingly close sometimes. This time, I suddenly lashed out with the indoor bug zapper and just hit him on the snout. Well, I’m not sure whether it hurt him, it did not appear to too much, but it gave him a very nasty shock in more ways than one, I can tell you! He leaped about four feet into the air as if he were on a pogo stick and then fled for all he was worth with all his friends behind him. It was very gratifying after six months of persecution from this dog.

Nevertheless, I don’t take my indoor bug zapper everywhere with me, but I will in future, if any more local dogs trouble me. I know it works a treat. I have seen that one since, but he stays well away from me and doesn’t utter a sound. I think I would take my indoor bug zapper with me, if I were wandering in an unknown part of town or the park though.

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The common indoor bugs we see all over the world are flies, spiders, fleas and beetles. No-one likes to have insects indoors, so most people go to just about any extremes to eradicate these common indoor bugs. Less common indoor bugs may be woodlice, earwigs, scorpions and millipedes or centipedes, although they are not less unwelcome.

No matter where you are in the world, it is very hard to keep these common indoor bugs outside, unless you go to the extremes of keeping all your windows and doors closed all of the time, which is obviously impossible. I now live in Thailand and I know for certain that this is not an option.

So, what on Earth can you do? Well, let’s deal with all the flying bugs first, because of all the common indoor bugs, I find them the most obnoxious indoor bug. They are very annoying, buzzing around your head and mosquitoes and other flies can create painful sores and besides that, all flies spread disease. I cannot bear to see them walking on food, knowing that they have probably just come off some dung heap somewhere and now they are spitting on my food to taste it with their stinking feet!

My first line of defence is fine-mesh door and widow screens. They are not dear and can be fitted retrospectively to any window. My window meshes slide, so they can cover only one half of a window at a time, but I do not think that’s a problem. You can still set up cross-winds, by opening two or more windows at opposing ends of a room. I just love to see the flies on the mesh trying to get in by day and the mosquitoes doing the same by night. At night, it is wise to burn as little light indoors as possible so as not to attract these common indoor bugs.

My second line of defence is natural predators – lizards, like Geckos (Jin Jok, in Thai). Some people don’t like them in the house much either and I can’t say that I’m all that keen on them indoors myself, but they are difficult to keep outside and they do consume hundreds, if not thousands, of indoor bugs every day. I particularly like to see them lying in wait on the outside of the mesh, ready to jump on any bug trying to struggle its way through the wires.

My third line of defence is an indoor bug zapper. You know, the electric, handheld bug zapper that looks like a child’s tennis racquet. The come in two forms: battery and rechargeable kinds. They are fantastic at catching and destroying any flying bug. The bug literally explodes and vaporizes on contact with the fully-charged wires of the indoor bug zapper. If you haven’t tried using one, you really ought to. They are most gratifying. These three defences will keep your house pretty much free of flying insects.

The crawling common indoor bugs are less of a problem really. Door screens on self-closers will keep 99% of them out and the Geckos will help too. Spiders can get in pretty very easily, but then, I don’t mind them too much as long as they keep out of my way, as they eat other bugs too. They are on our side to be honest. However, for those who can not bear to trap them and put them outside, the handheld indoor bug zapper works a treat on spiders too.

Fleas can be a problem, if you keep cats or dogs, but then if you wash or dust the animal once a month, you should be able to keep those common indoor bugs under control fairly easily. However, there are two final methods that we employ. Every week, before we go out for the day, we spray every room with fly killer and every six-months we spray any rugs or carpets with an insect killer containing permethrin, which will survive washing and vacuuming for that long without losing its ability to kill common indoor bugs on contact. If you stick with these measures, you will be able to keep your home or office quite free of the most common indoor bugs and any less common indoor bug too.

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If you aren’t already familiar with the electronic insect killer, you are really going to love it and if you have used one before, I’m sure you’ll welcome it back like an old pal! The handheld insect zapper does just what it says it does: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, really well.

Any insect that comes into contact with the hand held bug zapper is electrocuted. Smaller bugs like gnats and mosquitoes are vaporized with a very satisfying flash and a crack. Larger bug, like house flies and wasps die, but don’t explode like the smaller ones.

Just how many times have these flying bugs taken the edge off an otherwise enjoyable evening in the garden? Or how many times have you not been able to get a good night’s sleep, because you know there’s at least one mosquito in the bedroom. It has happened to me dozens and dozens of times, I know! It is very satisfying to get one’s own back with the handheld bug zapper.

I don’t like killing things unnecessarily – I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they can die. And the electric bug zapper does it without any more ado. No waiting and hoping they’ll fly into the ultraviolet light and into the mesh. No, one sweep of the electronic insect killer and the mosie’s gone and you can hear whether you got her or not. (I say her, because the sucking mosquitoes always are females – I assure you, I wasn’t being sexist).

There are two basic kinds of handheld insect zapper. There’s the battery operated bug zapper and the rechargeable electric bug zapper. Both work on the same principle, but I prefer the rechargeable kind, although I guess you could use rechargeable batteries too. (I bet they would be more expensive that the bug zapper in the first place). Anyway, I have had a hand held bug killer of the rechargeable sort for five years and I am very happy with them.

These days, I spend a lot of time in northern Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your life that my handheld bug killer gets a good work-out practically every evening. We usually eat in the garden in the evening and all socializing is done outside by tradition, especially in the rural areas, where we live, so it comes in real handy. I also use my electric insect killer to ’sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we retire at night, just like a secret agent.

The electronic bug killer seems to get better every time I buy one, which makes it difficult to give you definite specifications. The electric bug zappers I bought four or five years ago, often failed after six to nine months of purchase, although their ability to hold a charge was less after four or five months.

However, the latest electronic insect zapper will easily last 9-12 months and still be formidable after nine months. My newest model even has a strong light called a headlamp incorporated into it. I’m not sure what it’s supposed to be for, but if you think that vengeance is sweet, you can attract mosquitoes with it and then zap them with your electronic bug killer.

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One of the most annoying things you can go through in life is being lost while driving and having no idea where to go. About a decade ago, if you got lost you had to pull out a big map and see if you can find your way back home with it. Do you remember how frustrating that could be?

Thankfully, technology got better and we have now developed GPS systems. But are all GPS systems the same or is one better than the other? That question seems to keep getting asked, so we decided to research it and we have discovered something.. After doing plenty of tests, Magellan GPS systems came out on top.

If you don’t know your history about GPS systems, here is a quick review. As of now, there are twenty four GPS satellites going around the globe. These systems use to only be available for military reasons but technology has developed enough to allow us to use them in our every day lives.

Actually, the majority of cars today come with built in GPS systems. This is great news for those of you that can afford a car with one. But for the rest of us, money is tight right now so we need to find a GPS system you can take with you wherever you go.

One key benefit we found with the Magellan GPS systems is that they have a great choice of portable ones that you can take anywhere. Obviously, if they are built into a car you won’t be able to take them with you

Magellan also makes a series of hand held GPS systems in case you love the outdoors and want to go on a hike. Getting lost in the woods can be a scary thing if you don’t have a GPS system with you. Also, for those of you that love to go shopping, this can come in handy if you go shop in a mall you aren’t familiar with. Just plug in the name of the store and you will be able to locate it within seconds.

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Where am I suppose to turn?!

Do you find yourself saying those words often? If so then you should probably consider purchasing an auto GPS system. By using one of these systems, you can really make your life stress free on the road. Most people think that GPS systems only get you from point A to point B. However, they do much more than that. If your car broke down you can get roadside assistance, they will help you find food based off your preference, and some will even tell you entertainment around your area tonight. The new systems will even give you live traffic updates to help you get out of a traffic jam.

The POI’s (points of interest) are probably the most important thing when it comes to GPS systems and it is the first thing you should look at. For the most part, all the newest systems have a great number of POI’s but you should still check just to be sure.

The next thing you will want to take a look at after the points of interest is the size of the screen. You need to decide whether you want to go with a big screen or a small screen. A screen that is somewhere between five to seven inches is perfect if you would like it to be big, if you want a smaller one then look for a screen around 2.5 inches.

Some GPS systems allow you to play music through them. However, these are more expensive and most likely not worth it because most cars can already play iPods and radios.

When purchasing a GPS system, you need to decide what you are going to be using it for. If you are in a situation where you have to drive around a lot it may be worth it to spend some extra money on one that will give you live traffic updates. You will not be needing this feature if you do not drive often or you are just interested in getting the directions to a place.

The benefit of purchasing one of the newer GPS systems is the fact that they have a “text to voice” feature which means it will verbally tell you what street to turn on rather than just saying “turn in 500 feet”. This will allow you to concentrate on driving rather than having to look at the screen all the time.

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