Root the kindle

Rooting Kindle Fire HD

Many new wireless routers have USB ports for this very purpose

Rescind my recommendation for the Netgear, appears borked in 2.4Ghz mode, wired side works fine as does the 5 Ghz side but no worky on any channel in 2.4 Ghz range :sigh:

Mookbark

Archived flashers

My browser recommendation atm is “Naked Browser”, feature free and a bit fugly but very fast

As Drac said, I lost my big bolt head slidey thingy from my Alien II a few years ago, Topeak importers sent me a replacement.

Bought my daughter a ZTE Blade III (was Virgin exclusive – not sure now) was £80, £10 of which was a PAYG credit which I credited against her sim only deal. Fantastic phone for the money, only real hole in the spec sheet is lack of flash for the camera.

Buy phone and get sim only deal for £7 a month, sorted.

Toyed with Ubuntu, preferred Windows 😳

That is teh awesome

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Tin machine got me into thrash metal :-), :'(

no led notification

Is your’s not working? It’s just above the usb socket

Hmmm, I just get the pulsing white when I get a message – is it meant to do more – never seen the green light.

Apparently there’s a whole world of LED Apps – off to see if mine is borked.

Phew all works, Light Flow is a pretty good app but an eye watering bunch of permissions, which they say they need to have to make the app work for different notifications etc – makes sense I guess

Leant a few things from this video

no led notification

Is your’s not working? It’s just above the usb socket

Hmmm, I just get the pulsing white when I get a message – is it meant to do more – never seen the green light.

Apparently there’s a whole world of LED Apps – off to see if mine is borked.

Edit – I too changed from a Desire which was pretty fine tuned (rooted, etc) and did everything I wanted to do but the Desire is a step up in all regards, the Camera absolutely plops on the Desire’s – so much faster.

Good phone, very fast/smooth, very easy to root downsides are non replaceable battery and non expandable storage and for me no led notification. Phone + Sim only deal over two years will be £20ish a month. Go for 16gig.

Has it been tried and proven to be effective elsewhere? Surely that’s an (but not ‘the’: societies are not all equal) acid (no pun intended!) test?

5 Years After: Portugal’s Drug Decriminalization Policy Shows Positive Results

Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal[/url]

Not a new idea by any means, Karsten have been at it for 30 years and I don’t think they were first. Wish I could afford a one, although if I had the money for Dutch canvas tent I’d go De Waard.

Nexus 4 plus cheap sim only deal = £20ish pm over two years

Bling (open back)

£1700 🙁

(closed back)

£200

(closed back – but not bling – can’t decide

£140

more techno – bluetooth and sound isolating but hmmmm

£330

Edit £249 here

What music do you listen to and what is your source? If you’re listening to Dubstep using your phone/mp3 player and 192kbit/s mp3’s I don’t think it really matters that much

I bought my daughter some Sony headphones from Amazon for about £20 this Christmas and they sound fantastic, which is good news as I’m a recovering and now pretty skint audiophile.

However as the spec is eye watering (?) and mind blowing I’d go for some Audio Technica ATH-M50’s

Edit – oh and a headphone amp too.

Salamon xcr 3d are great trainers

They’re brilliant but not for wide feet I wouldn’t have thought

According to the bloke yelling on the radio “The Big Red Building ON Golders Green Road”, more suit for ya loot, don’tcha know.

I have recently become enamoured with these

I dunno haven’t been doing much cycling for a while but..

Pros – Fast, low/no maintenance

Cons – Just incredibly dull – maybe because I largely ride alone?

As for the Lycra self deprecation, I think some mountainbikers are more hung up on lycra than the general public. Some moutain bikers will look at a roadie and just see the lycra while I think normal spod will see “just a cyclist”.

Sorry I obviously didn’t make myself clear, with new router I have max speed everywhere in my house – 30Mb next to router and 30Mb at the furthest point away in my house – 4 walls/a floor away.

I’ve just put in a version 3 Apple airport Extreme (£50 delivered from eBay) which does simultaneous dual band wireless, 4 x gigbit ports and you can plug printers and/or USB drives in and they become available on the wireless network

N600 (in fact most non basic routers do it these days, couple of hours internetz research and I’m an expert) does all this except the ports which are 100Mbit, £50 is a great price for the spec though.

Billion Bipac 7800n for a few more quid but it’s bullet proof.

I did fancy one of those but beyond my budget.

Bought the Netgear N600 from PC World Outlet. Set it up last night – thought it would be plug and play-ish but it was a wee bit of a faff, used the wizard and it inexplicably couldn’t find the internet connection. Finally found a way out of the wizard and using the default settings it worked.

Couldn’t be happier with the performance, using my old Netgear G router on my virgin 30 Mb connection I got 15Mbit right next to the router, 6 Mb next door in my bedroom and 2.5Mb in my front room. With the new router I got 30Mb next to router, 30Mb in bedroom and 30Mb in front room.

Apols for incredibly boring post.

May be of interest

Hyundai recalls 6,071 more Velosters over shattering sunroofs [/url]

We’ve recently started feeding our dog Fish4Dogs[/url], expensive-ish but no cereal fillers, carbohydrate from vegetables, only food which has agreed 100% with our lurcher’s digestion.

Superhub has been fine since the latest update – was just using it as a Modem prior to that point. Now using it wired and wireless and it’s fine.

Interesting I’ll give it a go in superhub mode, does the R37 firmware fix the pathetic range? I’ve updated and it hasn’t crashed in modem mode since which is an improvement.

Thanks wwaswas but looking for something more of step up really.

Do you get on with the superhub, mine is worse than the Netgear ????#G router it was meant to replace so I modemed the superhub and still use my old router.

zeee chermans are going for it and they think they can make it work, and I wouldn’t bet againt them

Costing the Earth – Berlin’s Big Gamble

certainly an eye opening program – interesting how it’s not big-gov and big-capital driving a lot of the development it’s small/local groups. The down side is the eye-watering bills they’re gonna have to pay for a few years, although if the Russkies turn the gas off they can still be warm.

Check out the table in this wiki article

Renewable Energy in Germany

Can’t comment on what it’s like as a device but i was playing with one in CPW this morning and it’s a very nice object, nicely sculpted rubberised back, pretty much the perfect size for a phone I’d say, smallish bezel, just feels nice.

Thanks again peeps, especially Rooley for your kind offer, I may well take you up on it.

“I’ve never done it before” and “promoting a business” should not go together. With respect, your first ever website is unlikely to be a professional-looking frontage for a business.

I’d agree with this if it was the main driver of the business, but it’s not and probably won’t be, besides those site builder things look fairly straightforward and of the quality required.

Thanks for all the pointers chaps, good idea about LinkedIn – I hadn’t thought of that.

The WordPress stuff looks interesting, as do the site builder options.

Any one used Joomla? Do-able for a semi techy n00b?

I think you can drop the ubuntu onto the nexus (which maybe why I want one to play with)

Interesting, thanks. I’ll look into that.

For years certain sections of the media have told us that a 3.5″ screen was the correct size, anything smaller was “tiny” anything larger was ridiculously large, remember the guffaws when the Desire HD was released? In reality a 4.7″ screen is absolutely fine unless you’re a hobbit.

All the major phones/software have drawbacks

Android can be a bit flakey and is fragmented across devices plus you get Google and a lot of apps spying on your every action – naff off Google

iPhone – weirdly for the standard bearers and democratisers of smart phones they seem a touch old fashioned, maybe a bit rudderless since SJ karked it. Yes it all works (except the laughable maps) but you have to do things the Apple way, oh and of course the Apple tax. I don’t really get the form factor change either – what does it add, seems small these days.

Windows – well WP8 – all looks fresh seems to get good reviews but limited and expensive hardware, small ap store, currently only shipping about 3% of all smart phones (although more in UK) – are windows as “spy-ey” as Google dunno.

Blackberry – dunno never really used one, all the teens love em.

In your situation an LTE iP5 seems the easy choice to make, there really isn’t anything much you’re missing out on with Android other than big screens and customisation, depends how much you like to fiddle

Personally got a Nexus 4 which seems ok and a dirt cheap sim, I’ll look at getting a Ubuntu or Mozilla phone when the Nexus gets tired.

Back to G’n’R could have gone to their first (secret) show in London for free. I don’t think they’d released any material yet but I was sort of “in” with some people at Shades record shop in that Soho in that London town, and they invited me along. Refused on the grounds that they weren’t metal enough, not sure if I regret it or not.

Writing this from mine, things I don’t like, lowish storage, camera not as good as much of the competition (but still the best I’ve had), no proper led notification. Other than that it’s great, altogether in a different league to my old Desire, for the price it’s a steal, amortising the cost of the phone over two years I’ve got unlimited everything for £20ish a month.

Not an Apple fan at all but was looking at both recently, thought the retina display was stunning, possibly best I’ve ever seen (not sure what full HD screens on new gen Android phones will be like, or even if worth it at all) but thought the screen on iPad mini poor, bit of a miss by Apple I think, sure they’ll go retina on next gen.

Thanks all.

I may give that Mushers Secret a go, and hold off on the boots for the moment.

Loved all the dog boot videos, how hot does the camera woman sound on toppers’ link above?