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tu 28 Oct
2025

Oxford Brookes @ UEA Pirates Sunday the clocks had gone back so in the middle of Oxford Brookes at UEAPC Tips Pirates we updated the clock on our camera.  DON'T do it in the middle of something, the pix not in chronological order will be very confusing in the edit.

we 22 Oct
2025

Despite the cast we don't get Gavin and Stacey so last year's Christmas special was irrelevant to us.  This year we will be noting in red the Amandaland Christmas special with Jennifer Saunders as Joanna Lumley's sister. Jennifer Saunders as Joanna Lumley's sister

tu 14 Oct
2025

Support for Windows 10 ends Today but you can extend it to 2026 for free. PC Tips

sa 11 Oct
2025

The wonderful Magda from Lead Balloon moonlighting as Dr Marion Boyle in Alan Partridge last night (05:34). Magda in Lead Balloon

fr 12 Sep
2025

Radio 3 Unwind♫ Beeb online station Radio 3 Unwind is now available on digital (DAB) radios.  Reasonably enough it shows on our radio as Radio3U but despite a rescan on a telly it's not yet on Freeview ... perhaps it never will be.

th 28 Aug
2025

Windows 10 Enrol nowPC TipsZooming Sunday night with Big Al who's in Switzerland he pointed out that on his Windows update page there's an Enrol now link to extend security updates for Windows 10.  We looked at ours ... more here

we 20 Aug
2025
recycled tip

The ClipboardReally wish we'd stumbled across this so much earlier.  Keyboard shortcut Windows key + V pops up the Clipboard PC Tipswith copies going back a good hatful.  Click on a list entry to paste it and there's a perhaps overly discrete scroll bar on the right.

fr 15 Aug
2025

PC TipsThe newly formed page more Internet has content some 10 years old and is now little more than an historical document but the tip about daytime power cuts still works and maybe the tip about ebay above it.

we 30 Jul
2025

Windows 10 going in OctoberWe've created a Windows 10 page to mark it's passing in October.

su 29 Jun
2025

PC TipsIf annoyed by the distraction of the film strip at start up mostly of interestCloud icon to Americans you can get rid of it.  Go Settings/Personalisation/Lock screen.  Scroll down to Choose one app to etc click on the icon with a cloud and then click on None ... that could be a bit simpler eh?

we 18 Jun
2025

Life Skills No. 65: It often surprises people that hot dry weather is the poorest for tv and radio reception.  If your DAB portable is blipping and burping try ... more here

mo 26 May
2025

PC TipsIn Microsoft's photo viewer the slideshow option may appear to have gone away but user key f5 will still fire it up.

tu 13 May
2025

PC TipsMichelle Kaye's helpful review of Microsoft ending Windows 10 support this autumn though being Trump's America they will sell you an extension.

tu 6 May
2025
Windows 10

PC Tips WARNING  Trump isn't the only knob in the USA.  Microsoft arePC Health Windows 11 Report ending support for Windows 10 on Tuesday 14 October including security fixes.  To see if your box will run Windows 11 download and install PC Health Check but if your box is more than five years old probably not.  Maybe Trump will make the Windows 12 upgrade easier for us by only allowing Americans to have it ...

sa 8 Mar
2025
International Women's Day

PC TipsLast century it was maybe a year before we realised our first mobileCase 2 useful for racket sports could text.  Similarly we vaguely knew autofocus could be fine tuned but we didn't know two of our camera bodies had these presets.  Tempted to dismiss as useful if all you snap is tennis but maybe we're just fearful of the new ... Pix on that there Facepack

sa 1 Feb
2025

PC TipsOur windmill correspondent Andy Fordyce has pointed out that Apple Maps also functions as a sat nav ... a helpful comparison.

th 30 Jan
2025
sat nav

PC TipsIn Stamford and needing to drive to Norwich the sat nav refused to fire up, panic but in the event it's just follow the A47 and well sign posted but itSat nav on an iPhone helps to know the towns on the way.  In Darren Smith's volunteer role as retail/tech consultant he pointed out Google maps on a mobile will function as a free sat nav.  We half suspected as much and on an iPhone found it fully functioning though it took a little learning and used locally you can hear the voice ... we'll find out when we leave Suffolk what happens at speed:)

fr 17 Jan
2025

PC TipsIn a lifetime of laughter and tears we've encountered picture editingThat there Microscoft being done in Excel and web design in PowerPoint.  Google research may show a prog more suitable for your project, not Microscoft and maybe even free.

th 2 Jan
2025

PC TipsOften a software's new feature/improvement is a solution looking for a problem.  Cruising The Cut talks about YouTube's Stable volume.

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