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Did you definitely save the file as a text (.txt file)? If so then any of the text editors in the Play Store should be able to open it (e.g. this one) ES File Explorer contains a good text editor – it has been removed from the Play Store, but can be found from other sources (look for “ES File Explorer apk”). It might just be that the “Notepad” apps are note-taking apps (e.g. shopping list) and not a text viewer/editor. Double check it is a “.txt” file though
Fair enough – never tried one Dave – and since I’ve been “Type C” am less concerned about b*ggering the socket by forcing the micro usb in the wrong way (which is what made me look at the magnetic option in the first place).
I think you’ll struggle to use them if your phone’s in a case as well as the lug that stays in the phone may not fit.
WoF – not just what channels you watch – but what programmes you watch and as we drift towards US-style political programming I think there is room for concern.
Dave – been Sky-less for a while now – YouView does a much better job of catchup than Sky. My Mum still has Sky and for me they’ve made the level of the Guide too fussy….would be better for me if they had the “old” Live TV menu on the first press with the catchup/box-sets/cinema as a second level option. My TV’s a Sony Android and generally love it – UI can be laggy though.
Interesting Dave – I agree the iPlayer stuff I’ve seen in 4K looks excellent (cup final last year springs to mind). Slight word of caution on TV apps as manufacturers often don’t support them as well as STB manufacturers. Saying that it is easy to fix with Fire/Roku/Shield etc. Completely agree about streaming – not just for catch-up. The Sling offering in the USA offers subscribers a great selection of channels from $25, and easy to add on extras (sport etc). Has to happen here.
I am not a fan of the BBC but recognise that if it is to continue it has to move with the times – and it has been – there have been many collaborations for specific content already. I would also say that the iPlayer app is one of the better ones on all platforms.
My concern about it all is the “big brother” aspect where streaming (versus broadcast) gives a lot of information away about end-users.
Wish I needed one mate! Have one – best streaming device hands down – mine has never played a game! If anyone is in any doubt this is a superb way to get “proper” Android TV. If I didn’t already have this exact bundle I’d bite your hand off at this price. If none of us on here bite I’m sure you’d beat the CEX offer on ebay – even with a short “buy it now listing” – especially when you see what the remote and gamepad go for on their own.
I thought that FAT32 could only handle max 4GB for each file, but the overall capacity of the drive can be (much) higher. If you are saving OS backups on USB sticks – firstly I wouldn’t do it and secondly I I absolutely had to a single backup image to NTFS would be way more reliable? As always stand to be corrected. Itss has been mentioned before on here, full OS back-ups seem a little unnecessary now – as long as your data and settings are backed up. A windows install and update now is so quick that I only keep a full backup (using W7 Backup and Restore) on the local machine if I have loads of space (different disk), luckily not needed it for 5+ years). Anyway, rambling – think 4GB is max for an individual file.
Interesting – a building society account I set up recently populated everything in capitals (online application form) regardless of if you typed lower or upper case. So my email according to them is all in capitals. I can understand that the email addresses are treated as case sensitive, but can only assume email providers would never issue both Me@hotmail.com and me@hotmail.com (answer your example?).
In my case I am getting the emails from the building society – who knows!
I get the preference for vinyl – but doesn’t bluetooth defeat the object a but by digitizing the audio on the way to the speakers?
You’re right, and whilst trying to ensure that Alexa and the turntable can use the same speakers without too much trouble, I’ve gone with wired from the turntable and BT for Alexa, so best of both worlds, now.
Happy Days!
I’ve had mixed results with Android TV boxes running apps not designed for an HDMI-connected device. Can’t remember if the catch-up apps were among them. The FireTV stick, Now TV stick or an actual AndroidTV OS device (as opposed to a box with normal Android stuck on it) would be where I’d be looking.
For AndroidTV I think you are restricted to the Nvidia Shield (great but expensive) or the Xiaomi Mi Box S (much cheaper, same OS, not as slick but perfectly fine for this purpose.)
Free is best so I’d try Ed’s advice first, and then with an Amazon sale (Black Friday) looming the Fire Sticks are bound to be heavily discounted again and may be the next cheapest option. For the Mi Box S there’s 10% off an over £50 spend on anything new on Ebay today (code PRISTINE) -its so popular I can’t get on the site!
I get the preference for vinyl – but doesn’t bluetooth defeat the object a but by digitizing the audio on the way to the speakers?
Interesting – couldn’t see but in settings it was turned off – there – turned it on – it mentioned sharing via Bluetooth and WiFi – I will have a play. Thanks Dave – new one on me.
you can – either through the app or Chrome browser – but for me again the “free” file size limit is the issue – its all big media files I move about. Easiest way is to “pull” from the Ipad rather than “push” from a PC (e.g. loading it up with videos for holiday).
My guess would be that their strategy is to “dumb down” home users and push them towards “the cloud” where it is easier to monetise things.
Agree completely that MS networking is a mess, my laptop detects different things on different days (when the circumstances are exactly the same). It normally detects my linumx STB but other windows decvices is hit or miss.
That said having set it all up I am able to share between the Windows devices, the STB and mobile Android and IOS devices by specifying the IP of each device. It has gone backwards in terms of implementation but it does work (Ipad is a bit different – can push to windows OK but from windows to Ipad have to run a FTP server on the Ipad)
Sorry its been such a chore John – it worked relatively easy for me (static IP, share the folders, set user permissions) but can understand why you want to give up! As a poor man’s version of Dave’s idea, if your router supports USB storage then an hdd connected to your router’s usb could be a cheap “NAS” – especially if you have a usb hdd already.
I still think its a shame as you want to move files, rather than share them, but maybe worth a try if your router supports it?
The IP addresses were examples – I suggested in the first post you give the two PCs a static IP address as this is more reliable (in my experience) than PC/host names. Whatever IP addresses you give the machines is what you need to type. By default PCs will be set to get an IP address automatically via DHCP.
For folder sharing, right click the folder, then sharing is under “properties”.
Thanks all Blacklion where do I type the numbers. Duke the files could be bigger than 25mb Dave I do have and use one drive, not fit for the purpose. The files are on D: E: or F: etc not in One Drive folder, at the time I would need to copy into one drive then pick them up in one drive on the other, to many one drives. I used to use USB PC link not available for 10, I have previously used networking I need to move GB at times. The way I am doing it it via a USB drive, I copy to USB in PC1 put the USB in PC2 and paste. I know networking would save me manually copying & pasting by just passing one to the other, I just can’t network.
John – right click the start button, select “run” then type
\\192.168.1.101
(or whatever you called the second PC)
You can also type it in the address bar of Windows Explorer. Before you do either right-click each folder you want to share and set the share permissions you want (I think “read and write” in your case). Then once you type the IP address in you should see the shared folders on each PC from the other.
Hmmm…if you’re moving big files about rather than syncing a load of content then I still think that networking the PCs is easier/more practical. MS seem to have made it harder in the last couple of years but once set up it works and is quick and direct.
Not sure what John is after moving, but – for example – big media files (GB) will be a lot quicker transferred locally at LAN speeds rather than your ISP’s uplink speed in most cases.
Pushbullet is great but I think 25Mb max file size unless you pay (I think?).
I think its easiest to give each PC a static IP address e.g. 192.168.1.100 and 192.168.1.101. If you then type “\\192.168.1.201” from PC 192.168.1.100, it should open up that PC – and you can see any shared folders. If no folders are shared then you can share them from Windows explorer – I find it easy to add a new user (with read/write but not “full control” permissions for remote access but you don’t have to. Reverse process for accessing first computer from second.
This is all from memory as all mine was set up ages ago and you will probably get prompted to enable file and printer sharing on each machine.
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