STOP…..

Individual iTunes accounts within a family environment are very problematic long term and cost a fortune. There are also some annoying differences between iCloud and iTunes. IMO best to share an account for as long as you can before starting a new one. Some of the best reasons NOT to have seperate accounts are as follows;

– Home sharing only works between iTunes libraries on computers logged into the same account with content either ripped or imported or PURCHASED USING THAT ACCOUNT (very important)
– Apple TV can only be associated with one account. Logging in/out constantly is a PITA
– You have to BUY the same App every time you want to add it to a new device
– You can’t share a single large music library

If you all share the same account you share the same music, apps etc… You only have to make a purchase once and all users get a copy (if wanted). The only reason to start a new account is if you reach the limit of iTunes authorised computers (5) or reach the limit of associated iCloud iOS devices (10). This is only important if using iTunes Match (I think) but as I’ve not tested the limit I don’t know for sure. iTunes Match is an iCould service so bare in mind that if you want to sync data (contacts etc) between devices you can’t also employ iTunes Match if sharing an iCloud account. I suspect this would become unmanageable.

*Remember you can have an iOS device associated with different iTunes / iCloud accounts*

For example; when I bought my wife her iPhone I created her own iCloud account for backup and data sync between iMac and iPhone (contacts, calendar etc…), but logged her into my iTunes account. This meant that every app I had purchased was immediately available for her to download FOC. If either of us buy anything from iTunes it’s available to the other. I have an iTunes Match subscription which allows all [my] devices to sync music via the cloud but as my wife uses a seperate iCloud account this service is not available to her. She doesn’t use music on her iPhone so not really an issue.

My iTunes account is associated with an iMac, MacBook, Windows XP PC, iPhone (2), iPad 1, iPad 2 and Apple TV. I still have two spare computer authorisations and could add another five iOS devices.

If giving Kids iOS devices then definitely keep the same account, keep the password secret and turn off ‘in-app’ purchases. Once the kids get older and start to really drive an iTunes account and have need to sync data then there is good argument for an individual account.

Finally. If you can be bothered try to buy CDs and rip to your computer rather than buy music through iTunes, that or download via other online services. Once you buy content from Apple it’s locked into the account used to purchase it and cannot be used by an alternate account (hence the issue with Apple TV and Home Sharing). If you rip or import to iTunes you can copy between accounts at will. Be aware of this or you’ll end up buying the same content time and time again… Ironically this is what copy protection is there to prevent but…!!!

Went last week and mostly OK, certainly good enough if you know your way around. Stay off the closed trails though as some are pretty trashed.

Thanks Fanatic but a clouded solution is not ideal for me. As you note the library is a little portly and I want to manage it locally…

Stilltortoise, I’ve been rummaging around online this morning and found this information on Apple’s support forum;

Sharing iPhoto libraries

It gives you everything you need to share a library between multiple users. I wish this had been up when I did mine and it would have saved me hours of messing about. It also address’s the permissions (admin) issue I noted above. I’ll be re organising mine today it seems 😳

Cheers PPP oh, and happy New Year too.

I see that we can both log on to the same iCloud account but as iCloud lso manages (syncs) contacts, calendar etc it’s not quite so straight forward – or am I missing something?

I’ve considered Aperature before and will take another look however as I think ‘iPhoto Library Manager’ might be my solution do you know of anything that does the same job with Aperature?

Guys I’ll update this thread if I find a solution, might be a little slow coming though. Slowtortoise It’s fairly easy to share a library between user accounts but there are a few issues with admin rights, I have to use third party software to reset every now and again, I’ll post up how I did it later as need to remind myself…!

Cynic-al is spot on, you’ll never find ‘the best’ from reading or listening to others opinions as most bikes are very good, you’ll just end up with a huge list. There are however a few bikes out there that are ideal for your riding style and one of these needs to be found.

Figure our how you like to ride and where you’ll be riding and be honest about it, you may dream of six foot gap jumps and Alpine adventures but if every weekend you pootle around your local trails with a total climb under 200m then a 160mm wonder bike might not be the most suitable choice…

Once you have the genre more or less sorted go test a few bikes, try different suspension systems and cockpit designs. Some bikes are long, some short. See what works and when you find something that ‘clicks’ you’re there. I tested five and could have gone on but two of them where so good I decided to stop and focus on one of them. Any more and I’d have not slept for months…. It’s great fun hunting and you know you’ve made the right choice 😀

Milacs drop me an email and I’ll copy you in on the next local ride, probably next Saturday morning as a few of us are heading to Swinley on Sunday for a change.

tor5, you must live within shouting distance of me! I’m about a quarter mile from the Mill up towards the Edge. Out today and Sunday so can’t do tomorrow but let’s hook up some time.

BDP, we sometimes head down around Liphook and would be interested in learning a little more. Gave Rogate a go a month or two back and I would love to figure out a loop that includes that as well. Might have to call on your knowledge sometime.

30km local loop then walked into the cafe and received some great looks from drier patrons, felt drowned but very good. Pretty happy with wet / cold weather gear now so unless it’s truly hostile usually get out. Wind is the killer and not too much of that today. Sorry no pics but being covered head to toe in water, mud and sand is no condition for using electronics…

Swinley Sunday 😀

BPD, our night rides usually start at 8pm either from the PB cafe (National Trust car park) or at the Mill Tavern in Camelsdale, depends which way we’re heading. Would be happy to have you join us and a mutual transfer of trail knowledge is always handy 😉

does anyone know what the name of the schools/outward education/nature camp that’s near there? Went there as a kid… Probably closed now. ;(

Are you thinking of PGL? They have a centre in Hindhead / Beaconhill.

tor5 get in touch if you fancy a ride some time, I’m assuming you’re local as well. We went to Afan last April and had a hoot, so much so I’m steering us towards a return visit later this year. If you’ve not organised it yet I can highly recommend the Afan Lodge. Very good…

Hi mate, email in profile. I live in Haslemere and we ride all over the area every weekend, night rides on Thursday’s and the odd excursion to Swinley, Peaslake etc… Don’t listen to Wobbem he must be thinking of somewhere a little further south, no clay to speak of, in fact we just got back from a 30km loop round the bowl and out into the surrounding woods. Great fun albeit very, very wet… muddy in places (lots of places really) but most of the trails hold up quite well.

As mentioned above lots to find and we know a lot of it, still finding new trails though 😀 We ride early as most of us have kids but we’d be happy to show you around. Drop me an email.

Ali.

Only ever been to Alderney and I was about 12 at the time, but we stayed at Fort Clonque,a fort that’s cut off from the island at high tide. Absolutely amazing week and one of my most memorable holidays. Alderney is of course much smaller but I remember we had great fun exploring the place.

Someone please explain to me why Ali is always considered ‘The Greatest’, OK I agree that he was very good in his time and at his chosen sport, but thinking about this I’m not sold… Being very good at beating a man into submission in a sport that draws a small number of participants (in comparison to others) is not enough in my mind.

Take Pele or Maradona for example, I would estimate (without bothering to look up the figures) that football is one of the most participated sports on the planet, as such to be considered by players and fans alike as the ‘best’ surely makes this a much, much harder feat to achieve.

Then there’s the extreme end of sports such as Surfing, Skiing, Snowboarding, MTB etc… some of which don’t even have notable competitions by which to pitch one against the other, anyone who regularly throws a 360 barrel roll of a 100ft cliff and lands it is massively high in my book. OK, so these sports also have lower participation but the things these people do are simply out of this world. Someone mentioned Kelly Slater, have to admit that’s a pretty good shout.

Ali, no… doesn’t get my vote good as he was. Pele, probably because he was astonishingly good in an age of superb players or someone like Seth Morrison (extreme Skier) who is just unbelievably good and, considering what he does, should be dead a long time but continues to Ski impossible lines…

Seems I have too much time on my hands… Got to love Christmas haven’t you 😉

Yep, happy Christmas. Just waiting for the tornado that is children awakening on Christmas morning!

Quite interesting this, I’ve had my eye on a Whyte 829 (discontinued but still a few around) since having a go on Variflex’s one, lovely bike… My father had an original Clockwork when I was a kid, silly idiot left it outside a shop and some thieving scoundrel took the gift 🙄

Anyway, whilst the ‘new’ Clockwork may bare little resemblance to the old it is exactly the sort of bike I’m looking for. Anyone able to compare with an 829 from experience?

Yep, just about perfect that is… On purely aesthetic grounds pretty much nothing I would change, nice work.

Dave, just out if interest how much is the frame only option? Unless I’ve missed something it’s not an option on the website.

Thanks.

HUGE EDIT….

[/quote]Main presents are then opened throughout the day – no more than one each an hour – until about sixish Obviously church in the morning all stop for The Queen and dinner in the afternoon.

I’m more of less with Dogsby. Can’t believe the lack of discipline from some of you lot, I thought it was just my wife’s family but I see it’s much more prevalent than that… The first time I witnessed kids opening all their presents in one opening frenzy I was stunned, how anyone can argue that this is a process that benefits children is beyond me. They spend seconds on a gift barely pausing to say thank you before moving on. Awful and brings out the worst IMO.

We tiptoe downstairs to do the stockings but presents not till after breakfast and we spread them out all day making each present something to yearn for. I still love Christmas for this process alone, the day seems to last forever with a constant drip, drip of prezzies 😀

We even hold back presents from distant family or friends (those not present on the day) until Boxing Day. Ahhh, the constant anticipation, we all loved it and now our kids do to.

OK, this is REALLY dumb, I do apologise:

Not dumb just bloody typical overly complex IT terminology and product descriptions. The every day router supplied by your ISP (think BT home hub for example) is a four-in-one modem, router, switch and wireless access point. You can (if you want) break each out and use four separate devices. The switch is usually only a four port affair so if you have several Ethernet devices you’ll need a bigger one.

As Cletus says get a decent Gigabit switch from Netgear and pop it at your cable hub to connect all your Ethernet devices and you’re prepped. If you spend a little more and get a PoE version you can power any remote access points down CAT5 saving the need to provide a local mains socket, neater too.

We’re getting our house rewired from scratch – currently the walls have been taken back to the studs, with plumbing and electrical wiring to go in. While we’re at it, it seems like a sensible time to consider TV cabling and network cabling.

Absolutely, thread seems to have gone off track somewhat… If you have the opportunity to run wires then take it, better to have and not need etc. If you’re wiring for TVs you should install both CT100 or WF100 (same thing) for antenna reception, plus at the very least CAT5 but better yet CAT6. Wire it all back to a central point and use this as a HUB to patch services to rooms. If you end up with a few TVs this would allow you to switch HD video (Sky etc) to multiple TVs without having to purchase several receivers. From the hub send five CT100 to the roof and make sure your get your master BT sockets located here.

If the house is large then wire CAT5 from the hub to a few discrete locations so you can install Wi-Fi gateways to extend your network. You’ll use Wi-Fi for pretty much everything so additional data sockets are less of an issue these days, but one per room sensibly located would provide for a telephone or hard wired network point. First time you need to copy lots of data across the house you’ll appreciate it.

Think about sound as well. Sonos etc are all great wireless but if you centrally wire some speaker cables back to the same hub you can keep all the electronic clutter out of the way.

Email in profile if you need more help. This is what I do so happy to hand out a little advice FOC to STW readers 😉

Yeh, thought that was a really well crafted route. Joined up all the fun bits and introduced me to a few new trails… Well done and thanks Paul. Have to agree that the biscuits were a bit special too. All in all a nice, easy paced and entertaining ride and always nice to meet STW riders.

Enjoy the rest of your weekends.

That would shake up the dressing room nicely! I’d like to see Trott tuck in, with Cook and KP in seemingly great form that would create a frighteningly confident top 4 to take on the world…

Looks like KP might be waiting a while…

I’d like to join the ‘find everything fun and do it twice’ group… Should be fun, looking forward to it immensely. See you all Sunday. Have we got a head count yet? If it’s quite a few maybe should think about identifying smaller groups now. Boringly anal I know but might save significant faffing on the day, you know what big groups are like…

How about?

Fast
Fun (jumps, labyrinth etc…)
Pottle
SS 😈

my thread on gloves

Here you go Parkesie… really easy to find.

The Look Out Discovery Centre
Nine Mile Ride
Bracknell
Berkshire
RG12 7QW

Should be ok for this. Rich, might join you and ride in for a warm up.

I’d be tempted to say unless you have an iPhone or an iPad I wouldn’t get an apple tv

But by this you infer that others are happy faffing with solutions that are far from intuitive. I hear this all the time and it paints a very misleading picture. What Apple have achieved with iTunes and Apple TV is a closed loop delivery solution that even the most technically challenged can use. Yes it has its limitations but if you’ve not ripped, downloaded or otherwise sourced digital video content it is by far and away the best solution to bring streaming media to the living room.

Another favourite of mine is Western Digital WDTV, it has a really nice user interface but of course lacks the ability to access content for purchase. Brilliant though if you have a library of movies all illegally ripped or downloaded 😉

I can’t understand people who recommend these PC/XBMC/ETC custom solutions on open forums, OK they’re not that difficult to figure out if you’re familiar with computing and are quite cheep, but for most people they would be unfeasibly difficult to set up and a bloody pain to use and maintain.

It’s typical STW style… a bit like recommending to someone who’s stumbled on the forum and asked about a nice bike that they man up and build their own… Cos it’s cheaper 😐

Been with Blackberry for years but…. have had a MacBook for four years and iPad since they were released. Picked up an iPhone5 on Wednesday and thankful my momentary consideration of an Android was overruled by common sense. Most apps purchased for the iPad drop in nicely (and of course free) and the iCould syncs everything perfectly.

Oh, it’s a pretty superb phone to as well…

View along the North Downs towards Pitch Hill at 8am this morning…. Stunning!

Crikey, I was kicking around on one of these…. Had to dig up an image on-line, amazing how I remember it looking the bees knees at the time??? A bit gash by today’s standards but lots of great rides.

Jam bo I think we’ll forgive you that 😉

Missed my ride this morning due to little people playing footy, hopefully I can go get muddy tomorrow too ❓

My god you’ve got long toes…

+1 for B&W

V8, couldn’t see that slip case on their website. Have you got a link?

Thanks for the input. Useful.

Neoprene rocks…

and here

Just keep them on as once removed it takes ages to warm up again. Other that that fantastic, first time I’ve had no hand issues on a cold ride.

Most large companies are pretty hopeless but IME Sky are better than the rest, at least you get to talk to someone within the boundary of our country.If you want to try real frustration go to BT!!!

My Sky router has lost connection before, first time it was the power supply, second time it just started again after disconnecting filter and restarting… weird.

I’d not bother with the RC car, unless you are going for a very, very good one

Ok, so the little boy inside of me is still upset that he never had a ‘proper’ RC car. So maybe, just maybe, I might do that thing and spoil the lad rotten just so I can “have a go”!

What about something like this from Tamiya…

Anyone familiar with these? What sort of operational time do you get and is it a good idea to get spare batteries etc…