Posted in WHSmith Kobo Vox e-reader
Android Market
But is it running Android? Yes and no, cos if you look at the settings, about device, it claims to be running a derivative of Ubuntu.....
Posts by Alan Gauton
16 posts • joined Wednesday 12th September 2007 10:17 GMT
Posted in Ten... freeware gems for new PCs
Re: Avast!
You can't have been paying attention - or used an automated installer.
I've installed Avast many times over the years, and it's always asked if you want to install chrome.
Virgin Only
Just checked my Sky e-mail account, also run by Google. They've e-mailed them as well.
Maybe, if they can sort out their ordering system.
Lenovo have had a few good deals on their website - shame the backend is not so helpful.
I recently placed an order, after 10 days not knowing when it was likely to ship, I e-mailed to be told the order was ready, and would be shipped on 10/10/11 (about 2 1/2 weeks later). I asked if it was ready why it was going to take so long to ship, and got the reply it would ship soon, by courier. 20 minutes or so later got another reply saying the order was cancelled. To which I replied saying, yer wot?
So I phoned customer services, to be told that no, the order was still in the system to ship on 10/10. Then I got another e-mail saying that it was indeed cancelled, and I would get an automated reply. Phoned back and was told, yes it had been cancelled.
It took about 2 weeks to get the automated cancel e-mail (round about the expected shipping date), at which point I took my business elsewhere.
They did offer a 10% discount, and said I could place another order through the site, but if this is how they work, they're going to struggle to get direct sales working.
It depends
The thing about Tesco is that they don't publish an easy to find list of everything in their tariff - for example, unless you bundle your data in their PAYG - you'll end up paying 4 quid a Mb for data...
Posted in Apple-branded unicorn spotted at 3
Well, yes, but no
...
Once you pick your plan ...
"White iPhone 4 is currently unavailable for order online or in-store."
... Been like that for months.
Posted in ITV preps pay TV service
STV?
You do know STV still exists - and because of that viewers in Scotland using Sky still can't get an official ITV-1/STV HD channel. (You can add it as an "other channel", but can't record it).
Cherry Coke
Coke recently did a survey on one of their sites - looking for new labels for Cherry Coke - one of them did indeed have "Pop Your Cherry" on it. No idea if it won though.
And the difference with Toshiba is?
Toshiba told their customers it would be December?
Tosh 2
Toshiba are £27.90 for the Win 7 update - which again I find excessive. However, as well at the Windows 7 disc, you also get a driver disc for your machine. Still expensive. Tosh claim it's not just P&P but the cost of a driver disc....
HP did the same last time with XP upgrades to Vista - except, iirc, that time is was £13. They shipped Vista and a driver CD in paper sleeves that time round.
NHS 24
NHS Direct doesn't exist in Scotland - it's a similar thing called NHS 24 (with an almost sensible number 08454 242424). So that's the first thing that's a problem in the UK - different home nations with different numbers for similar services.
Mind you, we've used NHS 24 a few times over the years (pain relief for gall stones, breathing problems with my son and so on), and with one exception they've been really useful and helpful.
As for a national non-emergency police number - Tayside police already have a regional one, which is advertised on the local radio and newspapers.
Posted in Ofcom coughs 3G coverage maps
3 Coverage
3 coverage isn't too bad around Dundee/Forfar corridor - and the piggyback to 2G services worked fine when we were on holiday in Orkney. Don't think I dropped any calls, had problems in the whole 2 weeks we were there.
Posted in Google Street View hits UK streets
Goes beyond the cities
More than the cities - they've done some smaller places, like Forfar, and Peterhead amongst others.
Posted in GCap reaches for DAB off switch
"never really caught on"
I think it depends on where you live - in my current home town, you get poor analogue tv reception (including no channel 5), and poor FM reception - however Freeview and DAB reception is brilliant. It's nice to wake up to a crackle free radio in the morning.....
We'd be lost without DAB radio in the home.
Not sure
I payed for something with Paypal last night - the address was right, but they seem to have moved Forfar in Scotland to Sierra Leone. (-:
Posted in Sun Solaris upgrade snuggles with Linux
And wrong
The comments about containers are out of date - we've been using containers under Solaris 10 (the 11/06 release) for the past few months.
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Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps
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Will they have to drag him back like last time?
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