Partners

We’ve taken a great deal of care in choosing our ethical service partners and suppliers. From Jones’ drinks and Café Direct to KeConnect for Broadband and 2U for mobile products and e-mail services.

Tired of the same old soft drinks? We were. That's why we got together with Jones Soda to supply a unique range of drinks for our customers. With a wide range of flavours, including favourites such as Blue Bubblegum and Twisted Lime, there is something for everyone.

Come into the centre and try a bottle of Jones Today.

When it comes to an internet connection, we need the best – it's what our business is built on. That is why we use KeConnect for our own broadband connections, they offer a fantastic service and exceptional customer support.

Rather than keep this to ourselves we wanted all of you to have the chance of getting a KeConnect broadband connection, so we became official KeConnect resellers. This allows us to sell you the entire range of KeConnect offerings, from home packages starting at just £17.99 to full-blown business grade SDSL lines.

For more information, come in and ask our knowledgeable staff or read more here.

These days it is hard to get by without needing to use email on a regular basis. There are many web sites out there offering a variety of web mail services ranging from free to very expensive. The question is, which one should you use?

This is an especially important question now, with issues of security, privacy and identity theft being very real issues to normal people, how can you be sure that you have chosen an email provider that offers you the best protection?

Here at theaubergineroom we take these issues very seriously and after researching the various offerings we have teamed up with Hushmail to bring you one of the safest and most secure email solutions available. As well as offering all the usual email features, Hushmail offers the ability to encrypt your emails using PGP cryptogrophy (millitary-grade encryption that is officially classified by a weapon by the US government!). This technology is very easy to use and helps to ensure that your emails are only being read by the people who are meant to be reading them.

For more information about what Hushmail can offer you pop into the centre and ask one of our knowledgeable staff who will be only to happy to help you. Or visit the Hushmail web site where you can sign up for your new account right now.

EVE Online

EVE is a massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) set in a science-fiction based, persistent world. Players take the role of spaceship pilots seeking fame, fortune, and adventure in a huge, complex, exciting, and sometimes hostile galaxy.

EVE takes place in a cluster of stars far from mankind’s original habitat, planet Earth. How far away, and whether or not that cradle of civilization still exists, is a mystery. Humans arrived through a natural wormhole and, gazing up upon an alien sky they had never seen, were completely unable to determine where this new world was located. From the New Eden solar system, where the gate of EVE once led to the old world, humans expanded in all directions at a furious pace, exploring and colonizing rapidly.

Then, unexpectedly and seemingly unprovoked, the EVE gate collapsed in an apocalyptic catastrophe of a scale never before witnessed by the human race, ruining the New Eden system in the process. Thousands of small colonies were left in complete isolation to fend for themselves, cut off from the old world. For millennia they endured, clinging to the brink of extinction, and only a handful managed to survive.

Of those that lasted, five were to rise up and become the major empires that, between them, hold the balance of power in the world of EVE. Today, they are known as the Amarr Empire, the Gallente Federation, the Caldari State, the Minmatar Republic, and the Jovian Empire. Additionally, the world is full of several small, independent factions and states.

For more than a century, the five empires have lived together in relative peace. They’ve continually strived to maintain this peace, as each faction realizes only too well the grave consequences of a massive inter-stellar war. Recent technological breakthroughs in FTL travel, and the ensuing increase in space travelers, have shaken, but not broken, the fragile peace... at least not yet.

To try out EVE for 14 days, for FREE, click here. For a FREE installation CD pop into the centre where you can pick one up.

All of our coffee, tea and hot chocolate drinks are supplied by Café Direct, who are a Fairtrade supplier. This means that the third-world producers of the coffee beans, tea leaves and cocoa are getting paid a fair price for their products. Many multi-national companies use their vast buying power to push down the price they pay for these products, the result of which is that the growers often suffer a sub-standard quality of life and even end up selling their crops at a loss.

 

Would you like to join us?

If you, or someone you know, would like to work with theaubergineroom as one of our partners then we would be very interested in talking to you to see how we can work together. Send us a brief email with some details about yourself, how you think we can help each other and contact details so we can get in touch with you easily.