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yeah likely to make them lose business not increase it. Alternative to NowTV would be Roku (which will do Plex/RarFlix and NowTV among others. Alternative to NowTV…..not all that much legit, NowTV itsef is pretty good.
Roku’s can be had pretty cheap, the “Three” is still the best UK model, the 4 can be found but is noisy and hot. The new “Ultra” can also be found and is apparently very good. I think even the streaming stick would handle it.
thinking about it not sure if NowTV will run on Fire TV/Stick – don’t think so but if it does that is another option that would also support Kodi.
Up to you of course John – but if it aint doing what you bought it for I would request ideally a refund but at worst a replacement – you may just have a bad unit. Can’t see any feedback for the one you bought so hard to know.
The detachable front panel is likely so cost a fair bit more. Filtering Amazon results on “Verified Purchase Only” helps, but even those are getting diluted by people who have “got them at a discount”.
Out of interest have you tried pairing a different bluetooth device (even borrow one) to make sure the issue isn’t linked to the phone/compatibility – it may be an issue (shouldn’t be I know). When I ran Cyanogen on my S5 there were serveral versions where bluetooth was very erratic.
Regarding the folder display, my current (Pioneer) unit displays the folders as you want – but only one level (so you can have one folder per album/playlist but not sub folders within each folder. I’ve found I had to use a FAT sorting utility to get the stereo to see the folders in display order rather than date the files were created.
The previous unit I had was a “Sendai” from Halfords that was about £50 with free fitting. It had bluetooth, USB, SD card, Aux – and worked really well – the folder display was as per the pioneer (so OK).
I remember on the old MM forum someone linked an Aldi unit that was I think a tenner with similar functionality (their deals are never permanent though) so you can get decent, cheap head units.
Based on “Verified Purchase” reviews on Amazon this one looks worth considering – especially if you are in time to return the current one. No CD player but I haven’t used the CD slot in mine for the last 3 stereos.
….apparently a wise old Hammer told you to use the A20…….. ?
To be fair to the BBC the “so called” with “Islamic State” is used I think to avoid acknowledging it as a legitimate State or Organisation. That is the name of the group though and I think they are right to use it – just as they called the IRA by name rather than anything else.
I completely agree about the alignment with Nazi principles, Hitler had no trouble raising Islamic SS divisions in the Balkans on his anti-semitic mandate. There also used to be an Islamic propaganda stall outside Upton Park station on non-match days. Swastikas and other Nazi references were plentiful. Very clearly a specific sect of the wider religion but an issue that the media likes to ignore (Nazis must be bad white people in right wing groups).
Ireland is not a good comparison to draw. Most Unionists are nominally protestant and most Republicans are nominally Catholic. Their primary squabble though is about land and sovereignty not religion. You can actually make a logical argument both ways…..whatever your opinion.
Islamic terrorism doesn’t have a territorial goal (like United Ireland or NI stays in the UK). It is about trying toe reinforce a 7th century religion – using the weak, vulnerable and those with ow self esteem as easy converts to canon fodder – the aim is to impose a backward, intolerant, hateful, racist, sexist, anti-homosexual doctrine on everyone.
When I mentioned difficult choices, I was referring to the terrorist watch-list – and the fat that it is probably time for a lot less monitoring and a lot more detention and deportation.
Bit more to worry about on London roads today unfortunately. At least three victims murdered – murderer also dead which I suppose is a small blessing. Those who govern us have some big decisions to make.
Duke if you kept your helmet when you got demobbed I’d put it on mate !
I would have women drivers in 4x4s at the top of my list by a country mile – both sides of the road are solely for them, they by default get 2 parking spaces per car, can’t/won’t reverse and don’t think indicators were ever invented.
At school run time they go in to overdrive and think parking their tanks on the pavement/zigzags close to where kids cross is fine because their little cherubs are OK, never mind none of the other poor little sods can see if it is safe to cross.
Grrrrrrr……
Amen to that (M11) – I drive up to Cambridge once a month and that 2 lane section after Stansted is a nightmare. I remember they trialled a single lane for lorries (at certain times) years ago then dropped it. If they are bringing it back an making it permanent than praise be. Normal practice as you say is they overtake each other at a snail’s pace, and then often – after several miles and minutes of trying – give up when they get to a hill and pull back in.
Drezha what version of Calibre are you on out of interest?
Also in my edit above, the link mentions if you have an older Kindle registered you can get round the issue even with the current Kindle4PC. Either way I think we are all set fair.
Hmm had a quick check with a Kindle Freebie and Kindle4PC downloaded the AZw and Calibre converted to epub AOK – I’m on 1.17 (Kindle4PC) though
Will do some digging
EDIT: yep looks like you need to stay on 1.17 – install link in this thread – and turn off automatic updates as soon as you install it. Pretty sure Calibre will catch up but this work-around should do fine in the mean time.
I’d go for an Ereader over a tablet for reading all day – much kinder on the eyes, better battery life (by a mile) and lighter. I have a Kobo (forget which but broadly same as Kindle Paperwhite) – horses for courses but prolonged reading on the ereader is fine, the same on a tablet would give me a head/eye ache.
As always the superb Calibre pogram and ApprenticeAlf plugin make all the ebooks and ereaders platform independent. I get 90% of mine from Amazon/Kindle and convert in seconds to read on the Kobo.
Regarding the original post, Calibre would also be a good belt and braces way to safeguard (backup) the existing UK content before you dabble with the US Kindle store
Yep I naturally prefer the Firefox UI but it is getting slower and slower. I stick with it mainly because of the VideoHelper add-on which is excellent for grabbing stuff from YouTube (I DL lots of documentaries to watch when travelling).
I notice more and more FF doesn’t display a lot of sites properly (e.g. the Sky TV guide here). I still find FF a very good mobile browser but on the Desktop under Windows it needs a kick up the @rse.
The crossing itself is generally much better since they got rid of the toll booths, but north to south over the bridge generally fares better than south to north through the tunnels.
Regarding the route if you come over the bridge A20 (junction before A21) then south circular would be how I’d drive to Beckenham.Hope it goes as well as possible
Nice one – and Amazon do it
Cheers
I look at Office 365 as an Office suite thrown in with 5 x 1TB cloud storage Accounts. As Dave says if you use OneDrive it is great value – if you don’t and don’t need the five users, I’d probably have a punt on one of the £5 – £8 Office 2016 licences on ebay – shot to nothing really at that price.
On 365 – not sure if it still works, but you used to be able to get 365 personal, “stack” extra years on it (very cheap codes on ebay) then upgrade to “Home Premium” – the 5 user one – for one month at £7.99 – and it upgraded all your stacked years too. I did that and am half way through 4 years Home Premium for almost nowt
Even if not you can normally stick another year on much cheaper than the money MS want – Tesco ebay often have a year Home Premium year code for £50. When you think that is 5 1TB cloud accounts and full Office it is very good value.
Oh and by the way, Ubit Menu work fine with 365/2016 if like me the Ribbon makes you want to top yourself.
March 15, 2017 at 5:52 pm in reply to: Win 10 Cumulative Update KB4013429 (OS Build 14393.953) #5225Took 40 minutes on my Asus S200 (3rd Gen I3, 4GB, SSD) – I had just done a “Disk Clean Up” and wonder if wiping out all the update files made it take so long. For me the “Preparing to Configure” was 25 minutes!
I must try some of this Prime Video. For me the delivery alone is worth the fee – Prime Video and Music are a nice bonus, must give some of these shows a go.
Was at my mum’s earlier (60 miles away) – she needed some C-cell batteries – I ordered them on Prime to be delivered to my mum tomorrow (have her’s as one of my addresses). Do most of my non-food shopping on there and the fee (about £1.60 per week) is well worth it even without the extras.
Are there any decent alternatives to Windows Explorer – ideally a desktop program rather than an App? Never felt the need but if ads are coming I know that will get right on my thru’pennies.
I remember there was concern raised about the voice control on Samsung TVs – one of mine has it and doesn’t seem like you can turn it off. I suspect the worst of it is no worse than the permissions we all accept each time we install an app, or use Google free services for example.
Its right to question things and not blindly accept, but in this day and age I think you just have to run with a certain amount of it or miss out all together.
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