If the laptop is hanging/freezing that would indicate that it is overheating and you need to clean out the fan / air intakes / cooling fins.

As others have said, extra memory is always the first place to start to increase performance.

I have found Mr Memory to be good.

If you are running Windows 10 there are scripts you run to remove all the default windows apps that take up resources and nobody ever uses. Just search for ‘Windows 10 debloat’

The miaomiao ( https://www.miaomiao.cool/) pretty much turns a Libre into a CGM by sending the Libre’s readings back to your phone / smartwatch without having to manually swipe it

Forget a scooter in a bus – that’s old skool.

How about a drone in a van?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/LEgJBDxr3uU?rel=0

Get over to Pimoroni quick!

They have a 15% off sal using the code ‘jam’ but the sale ends tonight.

They have starter kits and plenty of great projects for the kids try

https://shop.pimoroni.com 

If you need really cool t-shirts with obscure references to popular culture this site is you:

https://www.lastexittonowhere.com/catalogue/category/t-shirts_3/

https://www.cardsagainsthumanity.com/

Failing that, if logging into a website to pay is too complicated, just use one the tunnels and hand over cash

LOL!!

You enter a raffle hoping to win the Christmas hamper.

Instead you win ‘a certain lifestyle device’ that you have no use for.

What are you supposed to do with it? Throw it in the bin?

New PSB UK tour dates announced.

Tickets on sale Friday

Check your date time settings – if they are incorrect https pages will give errors

It looks like Minecraft is coming out on the 3DS

Link

I don’t know if this is any good for you but Humble Bundle are currently doing a photo / video editing bundle:

Link

Morocco – Atlas Mountains for hills, Essaouira for beach.

All Of Afan In A Day[/url]

Epic Afan on Strava

Henry sucks

I have a MINIX box and it works really well.

But it doesn’t work any better than on a Raspberry pi 3 which is much cheaper

Pretty much what Glympse[/url] has been doing for ages

If you head over to Pimeroni their starter kit is really good and is currently £10 off for Cyber Monday

It comes with sd card pre-loaded with an operating system and everything else needed to get going except a monitor/tv!

https://shop.pimoroni.com/collections/raspberry-pi/products/raspberry-pi-3-starter-kit

Big Trak and Raspberry Pi![/url]

😀

Check out the HUKD Sim only thread

It usually lists all the best deals

Thanks Dekerf853,

I always used Superstar Excel Lock On Grips but they haven’t had any new stock for over a year now and are down to the last few unloved colours 😥

The Uberbike ones look like they are just the trick 😀

Oakley Flak Jacket Earsock-Nosepad Kit is £8.99 on Chain Reaction

(the colours available are limited though!)

I had to go a size up with their MTB tops.

Have a look at their Real World Sizing guide.

https://www.orangebikes.co.uk/shop/components/pivot_bearing_kits

https://www.orangebikes.co.uk/shop/components/bolts_n_stuff/shock-mount-bolts

What you need is XPEDO XMX24MC Wellgo Magnesium Pedals the cheapest and lightest pedals (260g) you can get at £30. They have a big platform and are very thin.

If you need extra grip get some Twin Tip pins which are ace

Full suspension mountain bike (apparently) 😀

This may be of some help: Swansea Cycle Routes[/url]

Otherwise just head out on to Gower over to Llanmadoc / Rhosilli and back.

Yeah Jon, haven’t ridden with them for ages!

ferrals – I agree in part but where houses have been built they have been way out of the price range of locals.

For example, look at the development in Llanrhidian on the site of the North Gower Hotel. Do you think that the locals can afford the exclusive town hoses that were built there?

The simple fact is that Gower is a sought after location and relaxing the planning regulations will not bring about affordable houses for the locals – simply drag in people looking for holiday homes in an attractive part of the world.

wrecker – if you are using an add on like Genius, SALTS etc, when you get a list of streams the stream names often end with something like ‘720’ or ‘HD’. Avoid ones that end with ‘CAM’!

jekkyl – you can use an VPN to hide your internet traffic from your ISP like Private Internet Access[/url]

Kodi boxes are sometimes a bit tricky to set up if you aren’t a technical person but there are plenty of YouTube videos and guides on the internet to help you out

Bryn Bettws Lodge is at the top of ‘The Wall’ and is right next to the skiils park and 4x track.

Bryn Bettws Lodge[/url]

1, 2 & 3 are a total waste of time.

4, 5 & 6 are good if you don’t watch the digitally remastered crap where Lucas fills every shot with digitally enhanced shit.

When you boil it all down ‘Empire Strikes Back’ is the only film out of the whole set that is really worth watching.

Gold dance! 😀

I don’t know how useful this would be to your kids but the current Humble Bundle is a bunch of downloadable books for the Raspberry Pi/Arduino

Humble Book Bundle

One other thing – the clasp on the strap that comes with the Sony SmartWatch isn’t the best and it has come undone whilst I have been flying downhill which is quite disconcerting!

I have however just found out that you can turn the screen off and disable ‘touch to wake’ by double pressing the side button. I will try this next time I’m out.

I got one a couple of months back.

They are quite bulky – not a very thin profile at least.

At best ‘Smartwatches’ can currently only be described as remote controls for your phone, they allow you to check notifications without the hassle of getting your phone out of your pocket. If that is something that you fancy then it might be the gadget for you.

I got one to use as a sports tracker. There are issues with this though. I can’t find a way to turn the screen off completely – it wakes when you touch the screen. This might be fine when you are in a warm climate wearing short sleeved clothes but in wet Wales long sleeves will constantly reactivate your watch and then input random things while you are moving. It frequently manages to turn off my sports tracker and having the screen on constantly means that it will run out of battery within an hour or two.

For some reason it also tries to tell me what the weather currently is. It is far easier and more reliable to look out of the window. I have tried everything to prevent weather notifications appearing but they still pop up.

I think things should improve as Google bring out new versions of Android Wear but I think Smartwatches won’t really be worth it for another generation or two yet.

For now my Sony Smartwatch 3 resides in my bedside draw.

Oh, but on the plus side there is an Android app called Whoopee Wear that turns your phone into a Whoopee cushion which you can control remotely with you watch. It is by far the best use of a Smartwatch that I have come across 😉

Aaaah! The Raleigh Mustang – my first mountain bike too.

It was basically the same configuration as a drop bike but with fatter heavier tubing and wheels. The components on it were all shit (probably from a Raleigh drop handlebar bike too) and needed constant attention to coax them to work.

I remember a particularly sketchy moment on mine when the crank snapped mid descent. Had a long push back home that day.

For all it’s faults it got me out of the house and I had some great adventures on it.

Getting the grit out of your chain

Oh and storing all of your passwords in a Word doc is a stupid way to go about things when there are much better solutions about,

if the document is a docx all that you need to do is rename the file to .zip, delete the settings.xml from within the file and rename it back to .docx

I also use KeyPass and store the Data and Key files in separate Dropbox folders to keep them in sync between home computer, work computer and Android.