Finally bit the bullet and forked out for a Raspberry Pi. Brings back beautifully frustrating memories of the ZX81.

Trouble is I have to wait four weeks.

Lookin at getting the kids a Kindel Fire 7" (not HD) for Xmas

99.00 in Argos (129.00) cheapest elsewhere)


Are they OK?

Yup, very good quality indeed. You are stuck with the Amazon marketplace but that isn't a huge issue.

Cheers, presume you can do just about anything any other tablet can do, Net, bit of music, videos, I Player and games

Yup, basically a decent quality Android tablet that is locked down a bit, the kids won't miss anything.
That price is stunning BTW.

Managed to get the mini iPad 32gb for the missus.

Sounds a fair swap

Where did you end up getting it from mate, if you don't mind me asking?

Does anybody know how/where I can convert a .pxm file to a .jpg file please?

EDIT: Sorted now! I just did 'command shift & 4' all together and screenshotted the bit I wanted.

Not sure if this should be on the phones thread, please feel free to tell me if it should...

So I got conned into letting my youngest daughter swap her old Samsung Galaxy SII with my new Galaxy Ace, then a week later realised that there is something wrong with the SII (she scammed me, what can I say, just like her grandfather).

The SII never stays charged overnight even with a new battery thats fully charged, it also locks up during the day and if you are relying on it then you need to keep removing the battery and restarting it every couple of hours, I deleted a load of apps that she had downloaded in the time that she had it and eventually I did a factory reset on it and just installed the apps that I wanted but I suspect that there is something else running in the background chewing up memory and battery (although he task manager shows nothing out of the ordinary).

Just to prove a point I made sure that the battery was fully charged, removed the memory card and removed the SIM then did another factory reset, the phone has stayed on and functioning normally (in that you can select the default apps and browse the screens ok) albeit without any connection to the wide world, for three days now and the battery indicator is still showing full - this is by far the longest time that I have ever seen it keep working.

So, I want to make sure that I really have removed all of the crap - the reset that I did was "Vol up" + "Home" + "switch on" and then select "wipe data/factory reset", it sounds like thats the correct option but is there anything out there that can check to make sure there is nothing lurking in there ready to start consuming power again and are there any obvious apps or default programmes that do this ?

Does it have a memory (SD) card in it? , If so, you might want to reformat that to clear anything on there (make sure you have everything you need from it saved backed up elsewhere (photos, videos, etc).

I've removed it for the sake of the "test", I now have a perfectly functioning phone without a SIM, the next stage is to re-introduce the SIM without the SD card after I'm sure that there is nothing in the phone that will run in the background, I'm aware of Google taking location fixes for instance which aren't totally necessary, but was just wondering if anything else is left behind by a factory reset that could balls it up.

nothing that eats battery to the extent you were experiencing before the reset. if you go into settings there should be a setting that lets you see the battery use stats. in my android it is settings - about phone - battery use.