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Cheers Lee – costs are fair – just not a good time for me – will bear in mind the “pop back” option – all the best to you and all the forumites.
I’m going to have to bow out gents – no complaints about the sub costs – fully understand – but having to cut my cloth accordingly at the moment and it is too steep for me. Well done Lee for keeping it going and best wishes to all on here. – been a pleasure – all the best to everyone.
Even later but Happy Birthday Bob – hope it was a goog’un!
Great news Bob – happy days!
I never even noticed it chanced names. I used it all the time as an overlay for Google maps. It still works the same way. I used it last week when helping a friend. Ive never used any other functionality of Tom Tom’s sat nav, just use it for the overlay. my car has a good sat nav (tom Tom software on an sd card) with a speed limit /and speed showing, bit I much prefer to use android auto, sadly I don’t think you can make the overlay trick work in auto, but waze has an speed/limit icon built in and works well. Also on my car it has a digital dash board, so it tells you the road limit almost all the time on the dash if you want it to Funny enough I don’t want it on a daily basis, it bugs me. I think it’s the red ring distracts my eyes. But on drives to places I don’t know I’ll have it up on the dash, and google maps on the media screen. I’m currently surpassed the need for gmaps with an overlay. But my next car may not have android auto, so it will be back to a phone stand and my old approch. Even if it has a built in satnav and media. Rather use the phone.
Pretty sure you’d notice Duke – maybe yours hasn’t updated, new app is called Amigo, and can be made to look the same but for example to get “overlay” on the old app you tapped one of three icons – on Amigo you tap the speed display to go from full screen to overlay. One nice thing on Amigo is at the end of an Average Speed zone it tells you what your average speed was, and it tells you out loud the limit for upcoming static cameras which (I think) the old one didn’t.
The TomTom speed camera app was a great app that gave limits, cameras and (unlike many) also average speed cameras. It had a “overlay” feature which allowed a small small speed display to sit on to of (e.g.) Google Maps. The recent update uninstalled the app and replaced it with “Amigo” which is a full (but not very good) sat nav app. As JC says with a bit of tinkering, the Amigo app can be made to look and behave like the old app, but it was a real chore, and none of your preferences from the old app were carried over. It is all OK again now but definitely a case of them fixing something that wasn’t broke.
Does the router have an ethernet port – if so can you connect your work laptop in to it and see if the problems remain? Otherwise the phone/hotspot option sounds good, and I’d agree that router hardware can be an issue. I’ve had to return a new Asus router recently and my eldest is on Three 4G and his first router was kaput (as a bonus they gave him the better model at the original price).
That looney scotish woman has got on her nutter pedastal again and is mouthing off. I think we need to get DT to rebuild hadrians wall. Tall enough so we cannot hear her as in DT size… 😉
Keith as someone with a good few Scots relatives and even more Scots friends, I have to point out that you are ignoring what Nicola Sturgeon does, and has done, for her people and her country. She has given them pride in themselves and what they are. She fights her corner ferociously on behalf of her country. Doesn’t matter what we think of her down here, it only matters what the majority of Scots think of her and what they decide to do about Independence. The future of Scotland is a matter for the people of Scotland only. Can anyone point to an English politician with that resolve, that belief that what they are doing? Right or wrong, do not make the mistake of calling her “loony”. She is of very sound mind and possesses a fierce intelligence.
Bob – not a level playing field. Anyone English spouting the sort of nationalistic rhetoric she does would not get the time of day – they would be instantly classed as a racist xenophobe. She turns my stomach to be honest – I find her to be a very bitter woman with (in my opinion) some personal issues that she seeks to ease through her continual venting.
The Scots have a far better deal than the English from the UK. Aside from their kids (lack of) tuition fees, they are ridiculously over-represented at Westminster (in terms of MPs per voter), they have their own National Parliament as well (the English don’t) and more inward investment/spending per-head than England.
Despite all that, and despite a recent referendum voting to stay in the UK she is still piping up. I doubt the Scots would be daft enough to vote to leave the UK given the preferential treatment they currently get – and if they did I presume they would have to apply to join the EU independently.
By the way if the people of Scotland are solely responsible for their future in the Union – should that no extend to England, Wales and Northern Ireland – why – using that logic – are the English bound to the Scots until they – and they only – decide they have had enough – why don’t they English get an equal say?
As much as I think you are a great bloke Bob I could not disagree with you more. In my opinion she is a vile woman.
Cheers – imagine what £300 would get you at Apple!
I saw a similar deal on HUKD (via Laptops Direct – same firm?) today. Looks very good for the money. My youngest got the Xiaomi Note 8 Pro for Christmas and its a very nice phone – real premium feel. I might have been tempted by the Mix but for me expandable storage is a must. I know this has 128GB but I keep a whole load of music/video on mine – taht’s just me. This looks a steal at the price though and reviews are very good.
yes very sad. I wasn’t clever enough to get a lot of their high-brow stuff but there was a lot of accessible, genuinely hilarious stuff too. RIP.
Lots of lists on line e,g, link Many schools now start slightly older kids on Scratch – if you have a Pi you can see it there. My own observation with my grandchildren is that they are far more comfortable using Pads, and that there are a lot of very good (some expensive) learning games. However beware there are many that look good but are US-centric e.g. color etc. Apple seem to have the best educational games .
I would agree. I think as full size PCs/Monitors were replaced by laptops, those (laptops) are now replaced by pads and (increasingly) big phones. My two are 25 and 27 and do EVERYTHING on their phones – even when they come back home and a laptop is available.
As handy as phones are, it does feel like everyone is getting dumbed down computing-wise and that is a shame. I’m a bit old fashioned but the mobile/streaming model for me is (a) great/convenient and (b) worrying.
slow cooked liver, bacon and onions – one of my top 5.
Sorry missed this – happy birthday (belatedly) Richard.
Not a sci-fi fan, and not wanting to divert the thread, but for a bit of un-pretentious, simple chuckling “King Gary” on iPlayer is worth a look. It is a portrayal of where I live basically – so not sure if it translates across the country – but it is making most of us in these parts laugh at ourselves and those we know.
John I would do an F-type on the end of each cable and join with an F-Type barrel connector. Stretch and wrap that self-amalgamating tape round it (go a couple of inches either side of the joint) and you should be set fair. If yor not confident practice on an old bit of coax first, but that is the way to do it in my opinion. Lots of videos on youtube for doing F-types – easy once you have done a couple.
Aside from my (probably unfounded) fear that green energy is going to do more harm than good – surely there must be a better way of harnessing wind power than these big, ugly b@stard things? Maybe something more static that had a bigger tolerance for min/max wind speed and were less of an eyesore? Like a natural jet engine? I just don’t buy the wind farms. and they have ruined the view at Skeggy.
My Ipad Air 2 (128GB cellular version which followed me out of work!) is great – only Apple device I’ve ever owned. Not ever noticed any wifi issues – and long in the tooth now, but still works great. I’m Android all the way but have to give that iPad its dues. You have to jump through a few more hoops and pay out a few quid more for decent apps but it is a good bit of kit.
Another vote for Toshiba Canvios. Have two 4TB USB’s here (full of media that streams locally from router and STB – idetical content – they back each other up) – and a 3TB that goes on holiday with us. All rock solid for a couple of years and counting. Very well priced when I bought them too.
OK tell me I am mad: If we take “natural” energy from things like the wind, sun, tides etc, might that not in itself unbalance nature? I probably am mad – all my family and mates think so about this – but if a wind is blowing from A to B naturally, and we take a lot of energy out of it – then it either won’t get to B or will be weaker when it gets there. If we take energy that would otherwise heat plants/earth/water from the Sun then (global warming arguments aside) we are changing the natural warming of those elements. Likewise turbines using the tides.
I know these would have to be on a major scale but there’s already examples where hydro-electric dams are affecting the fish stocks “downstream” – I was in Russia recently and there is a sturgeon (so caviar) shortage which is attributed to the Volga hydro-electric dam.
Cue the men in white coats for me!
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