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You can download the file (using Kindle For PC), but it's DRM'd.

Instructions on downloading and stripping DRM using Calibre/Kindle for PC: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/10/drm-be-damned-how-to-...

>It takes slightly longer for the browser to decide if the text is a URL or not

I had the same problem which forced me to enable the search bar. But I've since discovered that if the text you entered into the search bar starts with a "?" character, Firefox immediately assumes it is a search query.

The Pi with OpenElec (XBMC) automounts USB drives. The onboard audio is supposed to not be great (crackles when there is USB load? Not sure if this is fixed). But if you're using the audio over HDMI to play through your TV, it should be fine.

OpenELEC also supports CEC so you can use your TV remote to directly control XBMC.

I completely agree. I would not have discovered the joys of hiking and hillwalking if it wasn't for my four years at Durham (and "relatively" easy access to the Lake District).

Overall, my love of the countryside trumps cheap access to live plays/concerts/public transport/museums/etc; that's why I moved out.

My point is just that there are definitely reasons why people would choose to live in the city (reasons I did not fully appreciate until I lived in London)

Swings & roundabouts, as you say :)

I used to go to the Globe pretty much every week (it's open air, so plays were only on in summer). One thing that I did not mention is the fact that the £7 tickets are actually "standing" -- I kindof prefer that as it means you're up right next to the stage. I always bought tickets on the day and they're pretty much never sold out (popular days/weekends could mean a fairly tight view :)

About scalability, as someone already said, there are so many venues available that pretty much whatever you wanted to do, there was always available seats for you -- just perhaps not in your first choice of venue (even after restricting your ticket price to £15 or less) Heck, as you're already in London and the public transport is free (you've got a travelcard as you have to commute to work anyway), you can go and do/watch/listen to something for free every night of the week.

Point taken about CD's in the library. But somehow even though I had the opportunity to take them out of the library before, I never made use of it. I guess I never knew I'd like classical music. But as the live performance was so cheap, I tried it and found I really liked it.

And now I live on the outskirts of London. I pay about the same in rent (bigger place) but hardly ever go into London. Mainly because I used to live about 12minutes from Waterloo and now it's more like an hour and a half (which means all trips have to be planned for weekends; as I can't really be bothered to head out after a full day's work)

Would I rather still live in London? Possibly not. But I'm definitely happy I lived there for a couple of years.

>>You'd be surprised what a couple extra thousand dollars per month adds up to in the long run

Well, like I said, there really is no change in my rent (but I now have a two bed flat and not a one bed), and I now own a car (additional expense). I've also stopped eating out, as restaurants are nowhere near as cheap as they were in London (expensive restaurants were a lot more expensive, but I've never found places that do £2.50 mains like in Tooting, for example) -- on the flip side I always enjoyed cooking, so this isn't a big deal for me. I am also living closer to work (as I work outside London now), so I guess my quality of life is better & the commute is less stressful (and the pollution is lower).

I'm just not as ready as you are to dismiss all the benefits of living in a city. But hey, we're all different. Just saying that I had a point of view very similar to yours until I was forced (SO's job change) to live in London for awhile. Now I understand the delights of living in London (but I can understand why others may not -- just wish people would give it a try :)

As someone who went to Uni in Durham and loves the countryside; (but still loved his two year stay in London), I can give you another reason: The sheer variety in cheap cultural things to do. I'm not saying Newcastle lacks decent culture, just that it's not cheap.

When living in London, I used to make frequent trips to The Globe (£7 tickets), National Theatre (£12), Sadler's Wells (£15), Museums (free) plus other great Opera's, plays, contemporary dance, etc all over the city, all for around £15 (usually a lot less) or free.

I've since moved out of London as I started missing the countryside, but don't be so quick to dismiss everyone who does not make the same choices as you do. The grime, overcrowding, noise & smoke of the city is more than compensated for by the amazing public transport and world class cultural events (again, for <£15 -- Newcastle has great cultural venues but even if they are of the same standard I could not afford to go regularly as it was more than twice as expensive)

I would never have discovered my love for Classical music, Ballet or Opera if the opportunities weren't so numerous and the tickets so cheap.

No need to be sorry. Thanks for setting the service up and trying! I'm sure it's helped lots of people.

As for my site; I'm sure I have backup's (somewhere :) of the really valuable data. It's just more for taking a look at My First Website and reeling at the horror more than anything else.

Well, how do you work around the issue of the New User Registration form telling you that the username already exists?

I think it's better to assume usernames are publicly available information and atleast get your UX right for the Login Form.

Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but I get a "page not found (yet)" (when I attempt to get to my old site) which suggests that you're still in the process of restoring pages. Is this still the case? Or do I assume that my data is long gone at this point.

Edit: Even if my data is gone, I really appreciate what you've done; and I'm sure others do too. Wish Yahoo had shuttered it more gracefully.

Is that definitely right? Most metro apps should snap to 1/3 or 2/3 width allowing two apps side-by-side.

Edit: OK, so apparently you can[1] snap the default pdf viewer, but I can see it's not going to be a very nice experience having either a video or the pdf viewer occupying 1/3rd of the screen.

[1] http://www.eightforums.com/general-support/17670-how-snap-pd...

Using imo for skype is far from "ideal" -- you give your skype password to a third party, and I don't think you can call landlines with it. You might say "just use google voice", but you're out of luck if you're not in the US.

I've toyed with giving my parents a chromebook, but the lack of skype is always the sticking point.

OT: Speaking of the G300, I'd recommend moving to CyanogenMod9 on the G300 -- I think it's much better than the default ICS it ships with (CM10 and above are still quite shaky, although it's fine for my needs).

I understand if you'd prefer to not to mess with your phone and use the default install, but if you feel like getting your hands dirty g300.modaco.com is the place for alternate ROMS.

Best £70 (PAYG, but I guess there is still some operator subsidy in that price) I spent on a phone.

OffTopic: Any recommendations for a small, good UK based ISP?

Google Tasks supports sub-tasks. I use "Tasks" on android for phone sync (weird that android has no native task app to sync with google tasks -- atleast I've not found one)

Bookmarklet to force firefox to remember any password, even on pages that have autocomplete=off (like outlook.com)

https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html#remember_...

Drag that to your bookmarks toolbar and run it once before submitting the form on the website you want to remember passwords on.

Drag down from the top to 'close' an app.

He was just responding to your comment:

> The fact that you have an ability to run a program like office on a tablet class hardware

Well, current ARM platforms vastly outstrip the performance requirements of, say, OfficeXP so "tablet class hardware" means nothing.

So the question is why do you find it impressive that MS got Office working on SurfacePro? In fact, it would be surprising if they couldn't. Sure, if they were emulating x86 code on ARM then it would truly be impressive for it to perform as well as it does. But this should be a straightforward port.

In fact, here's Win95 running on an N900 (5 year old ARM hardware emulating an x86) http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=42195

I use spideroak as well, mainly because of it's flexibility (partner uses same account, only syncs the necessary folders) and the fact that it's cheap (at the time I signed up; especially considering many people can use the same account)

But man, is it slow! (OK, I realise it's encrypting locally, but even accounting for that it just "feels" clunky compared to the competition)

Also, I can't seem to view pictures using the online account file browser. It seems to suggest that thumbnails will be visible before downloading, but it never seems to work :(

Otherwise, it's really good! (I also have a skydrive, GDrive & a dropbox account that I use for quick sharing, save game backups, etc -- They've all got their strengths)

To be fair, I did say this was in Chrome where you get find-as-you-type results.

And secondly, your ip address is not logged. The data sent to Amazon is via Canonical and it's anonymised. If you don't trust Canonical, why are you concerned about using a distribution from them?

Edit: I'm not saying there is no problem and I'm fine with all of this. Just that I wish better arguments were put forward (I'd personally like the functionality made explicit during install/upgrade)

Firefox: Nothing transmitted to Google until you perform a search.

Unity: Nothing transmitted to Amazon until you perform a search

Sure, I'm not agreeing with the default out of the box functionality, but other than the fact that user expectation is that a local search does not transmit information to remote servers (same issue as chrome's omnibox for typing URLs) it is exactly the same. But maybe Canonical should make it explicit what the default does (maybe they do, I don't know)

Install the OS, Click on gear icon (top right), settings, privacy, turn off online results

Point is your specific criticism can be levelled at firefox as well

>>Instead of hitting start and fumbling with the mouse to find a certain app, you just start typing the app name, press Enter and done.

Isn't this exactly the same as in windows 7? Hit start button and start typing? The only real difference is that the start menu is now full screen and the small icons have been replaced with constantly updating "tiles".

I'd rather I had the choice of a traditional start menu, but then you always have the option of booting direct to desktop and pinning the common apps to the taskbar. So not really sure what the fuss is about.

Middle click the icon in the taskbar to open a new instance of the app. It does mean you need to pin the app to the taskbar or open it first from the start menu, but that's what you're doing anyway. Just saves you navigating the start menu for subsequent launches.

Does middle click not work? It does in Win7 (and Ubuntu/Unity too) and I'd be very surprised if they removed that feature

€1.5bn hole? Last I checked they had €4.2bn in the bank?

http://press.nokia.com/2012/07/19/nokia-corporation-q2-2012-...

Edit: €1.3bn loss in Q1, €800ml loss last quarter. I guess that's what you meant. Still, not a "hole"... just driving straight into one :)

Better than GM because: Download maps on country basis (multiple countries at a time if required). Search works offline (not as good as google IMHO). Turn by turn nav works offline. Voice guidance works offline. GPS fix times are better when offline than android (with no AGPS assistance or WLAN/cellID based positioning available)

I was a Nokia user for years. Got have a Nexus7 and an android phone now. Still use an old Nokia in the car for nav as it's better! No setting off on a route, hitting a detour in a place with no signal and finding GM can't navigate anymore.

About your assertion that the 4inch iPhone is a Tim Cook idea, I doubt it. It was probably in the pipeline for 18months so I'm sure it was signed off by Jobs. Next years products are going to be the first under Tim Cook's reign.

And Steve also said that video on iPods was a stupid idea.... a year before he introduced a video iPod (so Apple must've been working on it even as he made that statement)

Err... What? Teleatlas is owned by TomTom who is currently in bed with ...Apple!

What Google does have is that they partner with whomever has the best available information in the area of interest (check out the copyright info when you scroll around the world on google maps on the web) and augment that with streetview, Yellow Pages, crowdsourced info from Android, etc (and vetted by hand)

That's not true. I don't own a kindle device yet I have books I purchased on the Kindle store (when Amazon had a sale in the past) appear in the Kindle app on my Nexus7.

Maybe it's just that the app does not allow purchasing (never looked)?

From a comment further up:

http://hwe.ubuntu.com/uds-q/dellxps/

Well, it's kindof nice to get high resolution satellite photos when you're getting walking directions in a city you've never been in. Atleast I found this useful on Android.

Not a dealbreaker, I guess, I'd just be mildly annoyed if I lose that