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  1. A town where you are not allowed to die or own a cat.

    Ah an entry from the SUN a "News" paper where the truth is invented daily by "reporters" with single digit IQ's :giggle::ROFLMAO:
  2. Serious photographers - Free Photoshop clone on Wndows --GIMP

    @Wynona .... I have personally found that smaller manufacturer's free options for what is always are going to be a quite complex subject such as image editing have been more difficult to learn to use efficiently. When you look at something such as photoshop, there is a huge range of training...
  3. Serious photographers - Free Photoshop clone on Wndows --GIMP

    I have used it in the past but, decided quite a few years ago to exclusively use Adobe Lightroom for my image management needs - which is a totally different thing to image editing but an essential for serious image management. Some time after I made my decision, Adobe made a decision themself...
  4. Does anyone use idrive?

    Cloud space is just a form of storage, it's just located in a different place to our normal local storage we have at home, either fitted into a desktop or Laptop or in some form of external device. In the same way that 1 TB of space could be made to hold more than 1TB of data by the use of...
  5. Does anyone use idrive?

    If you look at how the initial fresh install works on more recent windows versions ... the installer installs the basic os AND THEN OBTAINS THE MISSING DRIVERS and other variable components online from Microsoft, or the system designer's Web Site. there may be occasions when the drivers +...
  6. Is there a 4K (aka UHD) disc other than UHD Blu Ray?

    I've seen a lot of standards come and go starting from the days of floppys that were actually floppy ;) it's an inevitable consequence of the way that we are part of the rapid stage of development of PC data storage. I now use as day to day transfer, devices in the form of a tiny USB device...
  7. expected so much more from windows 11

    To be totally honest, I am not overly concerned with the way an OS works, OK it has to do what I need it to do, and as long as this is doable it's doing it's job. It's job is to get me working in my applications, these are judged with a practical eye can they do what I need them to do, will my...
  8. expected so much more from windows 11

    Of course if you do not wish to use Microsoft's own subscription based office suite there are several open source alternatives ... two I can personally recommend are Open Office and Libreoffice both of which cover the various components of Microsoft Office at zero cost to the user and are...
  9. Solved USB-C Male to USB-C Male cable for data transfer

    Just in case anyone needs help sleeping the full specification for V2 of the USB-C Cable and connector specification is available for download ... https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/USB%20Type-C%20Spec%20R2.0%20-%20August%202019.pdf all 373 Pages of it
  10. Solved USB-C Male to USB-C Male cable for data transfer

    The phone industry are currently leading the,roll out of intelligent power supplies, which can be a safer alternative to "plug it in and hope" method I come from the industrial automation sector of industry, where a control panel could contain multiple thousands of connections so the use of...
  11. Solved USB-C Male to USB-C Male cable for data transfer

    What you have to consider is that USB-c is not a cable standard, it is a connector standard I have seen and used multiple rated cables terminated with USB-C connectors, some with these connected at one end only via USB-C, with the other end connected to all types of connector. My Laptop only has...
  12. Info-New Malware Steals Online Banking Information

    My bank are on top of payments leaving my account. I get an immediate message on my phone of any "unusual transactions"this applies to any large payments that I had not made them aware of and all payments to a new payee until I clear them. I have very occasionally been delayed in the payment...
  13. Has No pdf preview in Win 11 explorer been solved. I can find no answers.

    I have been using Sumatra PDF for several years without any issues - It does everything that I have used it for so will recommend you take a look . https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/download-free-pdf-viewer
  14. Serif Release Affinity V2

    One word of warning V2.3 is a Beta Version but has been totally stable here for me so far
  15. Serif Release Affinity V2

    Thanks Edwin, I was populating my new system so you posted at exactly the right moment :-)
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