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Top Tips

Never use Latin expressions unless you know what they mean, and vice versa. Any other useful life tips?
04:27 Sat 26th Nov 202230 answers, last by Milo2 21:49 Tue 29th Nov 2022
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Crossword Setting Live!

Hello all Earlier this year Mark Goodliffe created a YouTube channel where he regularly uploads his solves of cryptic crosswords. I thought it was a brilliant idea but, as a setter, naturally wondered...
12:42 Sun 09th Sep 201811 answers, last by buytwitchviewers 11:21 Thu 08th Dec 2022
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Gender Acceptance

I've no idea if this will end up as a question, an observation, or just me venting. My daughter is at uni. She came up and spent a week or so with me up until Christmas Eve, when her mother collected...
15:47 Tue 06th Mar 201810 answers, last by bednobs 18:15 Tue 06th Mar 2018
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Mortality

OK, a slightly maudlin topic for the time of year (apologies)... but it was just something that popped into my head. I'm in my mid 50s and reasonably healthy. I don't FEEL old, actually very young at...
22:58 Tue 26th Dec 201738 answers, last by bainbrig 13:45 Fri 29th Dec 2017
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Youtube Lag

Hello old friends. Not been around for yonks - life and all that - but back with a question. My default browser has been Firefox for a long time. Then I started to get annoying lag on YouTube. Every 4...
20:37 Sun 19th Nov 20173 answers, last by HansUrbancka 09:42 Mon 20th Nov 2017
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Want To Know About Cryptic Crosswords?

Solvers/setters regularly meet up for what we call 'Sloggers & Betters', but these are usually only announced on the crossword blogs. We're trying something new this Saturday 8th July at the Snowgoose...
14:40 Wed 05th Jul 201731 answers, last by Mamyalynne 17:11 Wed 05th Jul 2017
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Smart-System Care

Has anyone installed this? It's a £40 product - general PC maintenance thing - and what concerns me is that you have to dial an 0800 number to gain the product key. That isn't the problem (free...
08:46 Mon 15th May 201712 answers, last by fender62 00:05 Tue 16th May 2017
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Really Bad Idea?

I've been approached by someone who intends to publish a puzzle book, but with four different types of puzzles from sudoku to cryptic crosswords. They want me to supply the cryptics. It seems like a...
10:54 Fri 17th Mar 20178 answers, last by jno 11:12 Fri 17th Mar 2017
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Locking Taskbar Win 10

It's happened twice in a week. I have the taskbar on auto-hide, and sometimes it decides to stay hidden - doesn't pop up when I hover over it. Is there a keyboard command that forces it to appear? So...
21:16 Wed 15th Mar 20171 answer, last by Bertrum 22:21 Wed 15th Mar 2017
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Sounding Out An Idea

Most of you will be unaware, but in crosswordland we have occasional get-togethers, usually 3-4 times a year, where solvers and setters meet. These are typically at favoured pubs, and to be honest are...
00:10 Wed 15th Mar 201721 answers, last by anaxcrosswords 21:18 Wed 15th Mar 2017
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Sheet Music

Would love to take credit for this but can't - borrowed from a Twitter friend: Nice offer on Amazon at the moment. Buy all of the Adam & The Ants sheet music, they'll throw in a stand and deliver....
21:14 Mon 06th Mar 20175 answers, last by Patsy33 22:39 Mon 06th Mar 2017
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Video Editing

I'm using Cyberlink PowerDirector on Win 10 to compile a montage of very short clips over a piece of music. I'm downloading fairly long clips from YouTube then trimming them to the 3-4 seconds each...
16:05 Thu 02nd Mar 2017
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Live Monitor Recording

Can anyone recommend a good programme for live recording of what's on my monitor, in particular YouTube in full screen mode? I have Tiny Take but it won't work in full screen - the key-press to start...
19:25 Wed 01st Mar 20173 answers, last by anaxcrosswords 20:34 Wed 01st Mar 2017
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In Tears

Blimey. Looking forward to Mamya's Night Night song tonight. We gamers are eagerly awaiting The Last Of Us Part 2, and after finishing my crosswording work this evening I was browsing YouTube for...
21:17 Thu 23rd Feb 20171 answer, last by Mamyalynne 21:19 Thu 23rd Feb 2017
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Answerbank And Windows Phone

Just want to mention something that happened this morning - wondering if it's happened to anyone else. While I was out this morning I accessed AB on my Windows phone and checked one of Mamya's Night...
22:57 Fri 17th Feb 2017
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Canon Camera Settings

The specific model is the EOS 700D. I'm no photographer and my gig pictures prove it - wondering if anyone here has tips (especially for this camera) regarding modes and settings. Daylight shots are...
16:15 Mon 16th Jan 20177 answers, last by Answerprancer 14:11 Thu 26th Jan 2017
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You Tube Performance

Evening all. Wonder if anyone is having problems with YouTube? For the record, I'm using Firefox and this issue has been around for several months. In most cases, video playback is fine, and this even...
19:30 Fri 13th Jan 20179 answers, last by anaxcrosswords 14:07 Sat 14th Jan 2017
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Google Rankings

I've asked my webhost to block bots/crawlers from my clue-writing forum as they were eating data (the forum has been offline for about a week because we ran out of bandwidth). Obviously, a result of...
12:09 Fri 30th Dec 2016
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Proud Camden - Tube

Hi all. Last year I asked about a suitable North London car park for taking the Tube into London and you were very helpful, so I have another one! Tomorrow I'm driving from Manchester for the Camden...
19:27 Fri 16th Dec 201612 answers, last by jno 11:19 Sat 17th Dec 2016
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Printer Is Fine But...

...it isn't. It's a Kodak ESP 5200 which is about 2 years old. Hasn't been used to print anything for about a month, and now it refuses to play ball. For reference, it's a model with separate...
21:59 Tue 13th Dec 20165 answers, last by anaxcrosswords 22:16 Tue 13th Dec 2016

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