Clever s*ds - help required please!!

[giraffe]

I think I have a solution to the picture frame problem. We have a cheap and nasty camera, which I bought for the children to take on school trips, so that it wouldn't be an expensive problem if they lost it. It is fairly useless as the batteries go flat after about 6 photos, but the memory card fits the photo frame.

So if I delete all the pictures off the card I can then leave it in the frame and just transfer the pictures from the computer that I actually want on the frame. (Assuming I can work out how to transfer them.)

The children can then use my old camera as their camera.

[clvrlad]

lol ill tell you what ill help you work it out next time im in london

[giraffe]

Well there were seven years between my last two visits to London. I really cannot understand why anyone would want to live there.

[Scurra]

I really cannot understand why anyone would want to live there.

Whereas I can't understand why anyone wouldn't

[giraffe]

Just realised I lied. (Unintentionally of course) When I said it was seven years, I was ignoring our annual trip in November. I meant seven years since I went with the children, or seven years since I went sightseeing.

[MBH]

I really cannot understand why anyone would want to live there.

Whereas I can't understand why anyone wouldn't

I love to visit London, and it is just a BIT far away, but I'm less keen on the idea of living there. The North East is a well-kept secret, and that's the way it should stay

[gill216]

The North East is a well-kept secret

It is just a bit MBH- but I'd share it. Seaside & countryside all on the doorstep where we hail from. Bit of shame the weather is rubbish!
I've had to compromise a little . City dweller, seaside caravan.

I could equally lay my hat in the London area. Just a bit too far MBH? I know I'm a teeny bit further south than you but I can get a train to London in less than 2.5 hours. It takes me almost 2 to drive to the homeland. I lie- 90 mins- but that usually includes a speeding fine

[Scurra]

Hey, I can get to Brighton (or "Very South London" as we call it) in about 90 minutes from my front door.

[Bunnylump]

Giraffe, we have one of those photo frame thingies and we just put a USB stick in ours. But than I don't care whether it looks stylish or not (there's NOTHING stylish in this house, so I don't want to spoil the illusion of general shabbiness!)
And being a person who lives about 25 miles from London, I don't visit it unless I have to! But then there are things there which you don't get anywhere else (galleries and museums etc). Our town doesn't even HAVE a museum or a gallery! (We don't have much in the way of "culture" going on here in chav land.)

[giraffe]

It's not so much what it looks like as the inconvenience of the camera being attached to it and the fact that the camera seems to need to be turned on and that flattens it's battery, so that you cant use it when you want to. If we ditch the cheapy camera then I can use the card from that I think.

[clvrlad]

I love to visit London, and it is just a BIT far away

well its about 6 hours on the coach from newcastle
and from about 3 hours by train from newcastle to kimgs cross

[giraffe]

I drove for 45 mins to get to a station with both parking and fast trains. The direct trains from here stop about 15 times on the way and take half the morning to get there, but I drove to Birmingham International (which isn't in Birmingham) and caught a train that only took 1hr 10 mins.

[clvrlad]

well ill be coming via darlington
for some reason a train from there is significantly cheaper than getting a fare from my local station..and faster
or the coach from £6 to get to london aint bad

[MBH]

I love to visit London, and it is just a BIT far away

well its about 6 hours on the coach from newcastle
and from about 3 hours by train from newcastle to kimgs cross

I know - I've been an irregular day-tripper to the Capitol over the years by train... It seems to be getting far harder to stay under my self-imposed limit of £50 these days [Not that I currently have that sort of cash ]

Started off aged 17 or so on the National Express coach... not so easy to enjoy a day trip on that.

I try every way to avoid driving that far, but the Reading trip made much more sense to have the car - and was cheaper than the train was going to be.

I know I'm a teeny bit further south than you but I can get a train to London in less than 2.5 hours. It takes me almost 2 to drive to the homeland.

LOL - not comapring like with like my friend It takes me 2 hours on the bus to get from home to Hetton-le-Hole which is about 20 miles driving direct in the car.

[tricia]

help required -when accessin PB using my Laptop there is a gap between the logo andthe magazines - I have to scroll down almost a page. How can I change this

Tricia

[maisie ladybird]

When that happened to me, I had to click on the Comptibility view button at the top of the page next to the green arrows and red X (refresh and stop), it put everything back together again.

[Scurra]

Yes, this is my fault (well, partly.)
What's really bad is that I've had the fix for months, but haven't applied it (too busy writing puzzles, that's my excuse, anyway.) I shall try and sort it out soon.

[tricia]

thanks it is sorted out now
tricia

[eirian]

I've been using Firefox for a while now, but am finding that it's swallowing up all my processing power and using all my memory. Would it be worth changing browser? I've started using Opera for my Tesco shopping (it got slower and slower with firefox until it ground to a halt. I'd then have to contact Tesco who would blame the problem on BT, but for some reason the problem would disappear... (coincidence?), so I started using Opera, and it seems fine).
At the moment, I have both Firefox & Opera open and they are both using horrendous amounts of memory and my CPU usage is 100%...

Can anyone recommend another browser I can try? (or make other suggestions as to what I can do to stop this d@mn lagg that is making game playing v.frustrating!)

[SparkOut]

I use Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Google's Chrome browsers regularly. They all have good and bad points. I still use IE for most things, and Opera is my second favourite. You might give Chrome a go. It's the nearest I will go to allowing Safari to be installed on my computers as it's based on the same Webkit (there's no way I'm putting Safari on, but then I'm biased). To be honest, lag - and in particular the 100% cpu usage - is probably not connected *so* much with the browser as the stuff on the site that the browser is rendering, or quite likely java.
Emptying the browser cache would be a good place to start. From there on... very tricky to give much more idea without more specifics, and even then, probably not much.