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fr 23 Mar 2018	Five years ago we didn't bother backing up to BT's Cloud as it didn't retain the source file structure. Given time even mega organisations sort ... more here
fr 9 Mar 2018	We've banged on about rechargeable batteries before. Recently we bought eight Eneloop AAs for a sizeable £20 but boy they made our flashes fly, they recycle faster than we've ever seen before. Then we found this YouTube vid proving that the half the price Ikea LADDAs were even faster, but do they hold a charge well when not in use?
fr 23 Feb 2018	Wish we'd found this sooner, you can stop those bloody annoying animated gifs in Twitter auto-starting. Click your Twitter profile pic top right, go Settings and privacy, halfway down unselect Video auto play and then Save changes. BE WARNED you may have to enter your Twitter password to confirm the change(s).
we 7 Feb 2018	TODAY around near the coast Freeview will need re-scanning if it doesn't do it for itself. No advantage to near the coast, the great and the good are moving some frequencies because they think they can make some money out of it.
su 14 Jan 2018	If you right click/Save Image as... on a small pic in a Twitter feed you will save the source usually bigger pic. If you click on the small pic to see the source pic then Save Image as... comes up with the unhelpful file extension jpg_large and with multiple pix Save Image as... goes away completely.
fr 29 Dec 2017	We recently transferred a twenty year old S-VHS tape to DVD using a nine quid USB capture adaptor from eBay and then made three copies of the DVD. At nine pounds we didn't really expect the hardware and software to work, it did but it took some three days of fiddling about. This video very much helped with the copying.
fr 8 Dec 2017	We upgraded one of the four hard discs in a Netgear NAS (Network Attached Storage) from 1Tbyte to 2. The NAS did recreate the data on the new disc from the original three but it took nearly two days.
we 22 Nov 2017	It seems that Microscoft have been pratting about with the photo viewer in the latest Win10 upgrade. The slideshow icon has disappeared but user key f5 will do it; and there's now a different response to the magnifying glass zoom so useful to know that Ctrl + mouse wheel will zoom a pic.
sa 4 Nov 2017	With our admittedly elderly iPhone 5s we've found that turning Bluetooth off reduces battery drain. After a recent ios version 11 upgrade we found Bluetooth was on again, so we turned it off ... again.
su 22 Oct 2017	Our HP laser printer stopped picking up paper from the horizontal paper tray. We cleaned the pickup roller with a micro-fibre cloth, no difference. Oh poo, gonna have to buy a new printer. An online H-P maintenance page said to clean the roller with water ... that did it!
th 28 Sep 2017	It's taken three attempts for BT to actually dispatch a router/hub, hopefully it will arrive today. Worth tracking online and complaining sooner rather than later, we complain via the online chat.
th 14 Sep 2017	When upgrading a hard or solid state disc Acronis is really useful for cloning the old disc to new and these days the software doesn't have to ... more here
fr 25 Aug 2017	pc tips/the Internet has spawned a social media page.
th 24 Aug 2017	It worried us for quite a while that the Windows 10 accent system colour kept changing all by itself on a desktop. It was happening because we'd set the background to slide show and when the graphic ... more here
th 27 Jul 2017	Although there's no mention of it on their website Freeviews's channel on Freeview (100) says Wednesday the children's, news, text and streamed channels are moving. If like us you ... more here
we 19 Jul 2017	Embarrassing how long it took us to work this one out <blush>. SPAMFighter's Block/Unblock/Empty Spam Folder buttons suddenly greyed out so they couldn't be used. Uninstalled- ... more here
tu 27 Jun 2017	We have a couple of laptops here still running Windows XP. We've given up trying to persuade no longer updated browsers Explore and Chrome and email client Outlook Express to run and replaced them with the still maintained and free Firefox and Thunderbird respectively.
su 4 Jun 2017	Here's a bit of good clean fun. Whilst holding down the Windows key press and release R. This will pop up the Run window. (The Windows key is usually second left ... more here
th 11 May 2017	Should have ignored our own advice, connected two different (admittedly by the standards of flat screen elderly) tvs as a second monitor on a desktop, some the of the screen lost at top and bottom and an image sufficiently soft that though it didn't matter much with graphics it made reading text very hard going.

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