Yes, but probably a bit late for this year!

skinny,i have had my ASUS tablet for about a month and have to admit i am using it more these days than my main puter,i can do all the essential stuff and so much more.Have tried the E-Reader once just to show the wife how it works and was pleasantly suprised.

It will be one of the biggest selling presents this year and going forward,the sales of tablet will even take over the role of laptops for very day use.Both of those brands that you have suggested are nearly the same i would have thought,but the Hudl would be the one that i would part my wonga with.

Thanks Mega - I'll have a look over the holiday.

I don't really want to buy a high end tablet as I have enough current technology kit so may spend a bit more when the next generation becomes mainstream.

skinny,what i done is i went into a shop and actually held one and found the best one for me then went on Ebay and bought the same item for well over a 1/3 off for the same item.

Out of principle i wont buy a high end one made from Apple when another brand like Asus who make the Google Nexus can do basically the same thing for half price.

Maybe its because i am tight with my money :o)

Can anyone help???, using windows XP obviously old on my Pc. Of late had messages from various sites saying need to upgrade to a faster browser so downloaded CHROME and everything fine until I get to STOCKWATCH here on money am where I had to enable java , java 7 update 45, and this is working fine except I cant get the NEWS N articles to open out on the individual stocks, eg, today DXNS reported but when I click the N at side of epic nothing opens out, nothing happens.

I used to before get a message at top of page saying something like click if you trust this site but not getting that now.

Can anyone help please?

GF - you might find some help (no guarantee) here.

cheers Skinny, its a bit puzzling, well for me it is.

Skinny,

I was given a Kindle by my kids for an Xmas gift.

The major draw back for me was that I like to scan 1 or 2 pages at a time and then re-read more slowly.

(If I have an article longer than half a page to read, I prefer to print it out and read the hard copy.)

I found doing this difficult with the Kindle, but found it more comfortable and easier on larger flat back.

Probably down to age and I know that the Kindle is used by my Kids (in their 50s) for reading travelling to work and they are very happy with them.

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The idea is good, but it would be nice to have a screen like a book which you can open to 2 pages.

Skinny, I've bought myself a Barnes & Noble Nook HD which you can get from Argos - only a dual core processor but the screen res is superb. 16Gb version cost me £99, cover was £10 and I've stuck a 16 Gb micro SD card in for another tenner. It's a bit low for intensive stuff, but the kindle app is excellent, you can get Google Play on it for all the other apps. Limited if you want to keep updating the OS.

Fred/Seymour thanks for the input - Fred can't you just rotate the screen to landscape?

My daughter showed me how, by using my finger tip, to drag a whole Samsung phone screen down from the top to the bottom, thereby revealing another (or even more) open screens underneath. She said this was 'standard practice'.

Hmmm? Well, not for me it wasn't. But it is now.

I can now surf and have more open screens on as well, duly opening then with this finger drag trick as and when I need to refer to them.

It's a real cream sick trick. Innit.

Exec - and I thought I knew nothing! :-)

I recently showed my 27 year old how to close running apps on her Samsung - she hid her indignity well!!

Skinny,

Yes, but I still found it irritating.

Perhaps, I like holding the book.

Good luck.



PS,

My original idea was to download books I thought of reading for I was in the van, instead of carry cupboards full of them, because I am to lazy to give them away.

Why not, borrow one of a few days and try it out.

Hi, I'm running windows 8, can anyone recommend a good anti virus thats not too resource hungry?

Microsoft essentials is fine on W8/W8.1.

Thanks Skinny, it came with Norton which I'm still trying to uninstall. Keep getting pop ups saying my computer was once proteceted by them and to click to renew...

As a BT Infinity customer, (as wot I am) you get BT's NetProtect Plus included for Free as part of the package. The service is supplied to BT by McAfee.

My expericnce is that all the AV stuff appears to be all done automatically in the background. It won't let you do a download without checking it. It won't let you go to a dodgy web page without blocking it and giving you a warning on it. Updates are also automatic.

I see it provides me with:

Security Center
Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware
Personal Firewall
Site Advisor
Parental Controls
and also a Quick Clean and Shredder

You can set it up to regularly scan in the middle of the night. Importantly, if you don't have it set up like this and it starts scanning whilst you are using your PC in the daytime, then it does seem to take priority over everything else and will slow your machine down to slower than a crawl. This is easily sorted.

Shortie, Perhaps that is your main problem? You just might need to change the time when your existing AV software does its scan?

McAfee must be good for BT to first choose it and then also stay with it. For Non BT Clients, you can check their quite good and current 2014 deals out at:

http://www.mcafeeprotection.com/UK/1/index.asp?source=002_mcafee_UK&tid=002&gclid=CJaS--b54bsCFW_MtAodC38AgA

If you shop around, you might be able to improve on those a bit too

McAfee is gods, but it slows up your PC quite a bit. I just use Comodo for the firewall and MS Security Essentials for the AV, both free. I also run Malawarebyte once a week again free.

A bit more, all as part of my PC Housekeeping:

1. I regularly use CCleaner (Free) to clear out my machine and get rid of all the rubbish files that it seems to collect.

2. I regularly scan with a program called Secunia PSI (PSI = personal software inspector) to easily keep ALL my software slap bang up to date.

3. I also do the odd Defrag.

4. If you want to make sure all your Drivers are up to date, you can use a Free program called Driver Booster from IOBit. You shouldn't have to mess about with this very often. Once a year or so should suffice.

Take care with any of the above downloads by carefully reading what you are about to download. Sometimes prgrams like these are sponsored. The downloads may try to make you include:
a toolbar addition
changing your homepage
changing your default search engine
adding in another third party program(s)

So.....Please watch the installation carefully to opt out of any of the above and tick (or remove the tick) in the accompanied choice boxes as the download proceeds to installation under your control. You do not have to take these things if you don't want.

5. I also use another Free program called KeePass to store all my UserNames and Passwords and the associated URLs. It also has a 'Notes' facility when you need to store any needed pertinent extra information for particular sites.

This is stored on my machine in a highly encryped format and is accessed by a 'complicated, high number of digits, uppercase/lowercase/alphanumeric master password'.

Anyhow, that's about all wot I do. :-)

And despite all that, I have picked up a piece of shit which seems to be able to even launch my default browser by itself every morning and try to take me to malware sites as well as other more legit ones.

First of all this seemed to be based on a marketing activity from a URL called:

static.homesweethomejax.com

This has now recently amended itself and the activity now seems to now originate from a new URL called:

static.providinginternetnow.com

If anyone can provide me with information as to how I can stop this browser hijack from happening every day, then I would greatly appreciate it.

All that I can do for the moment is 'close it down'. It just happens once each morning and, as the browser opens, usually after a period of inactivity on my part (eg, leaving the machine and, say making a coffee) it moves to about three different web sites. Two of these will be to blatant malware sites (eg, "Your PC is running Slow - Check it now" - type stuff) and which obviously might try to instal a Trojan (I'm not sure whether McAfee would actually allow it to happen - but I am not going to let it get that far anyhow) and the third site would be to a more legitimate web site:

such as say (today's):

www.qtrax.com

or yesterday's:

www.reimageplus.com

I find fighting this sort of thing to be very hard. You do have to be constantly alert to the many scam perpetrations on the Internet these days.

Some of them are blatantly so stupid and easily dealt with, eg: An e-mail from Barclays Bank telling me my Lloyds Bank Account has been suspended. Ridiculous or wot!

Others are very, very much more sophisticated and extemely difficult to spot and deal with. Anyone who hasn't been caught yet by at least one of them, is either extremely lucky or extremely fortunate.

Not everyone reads the Terms and Conditions associated with an Online Order when they are doing one. Not to do so, is one of the easiest methods of getting yourself scammed. You do need to do more than look for little Padlocks and an https.

This is not such a foolish thing to miss. I'm sure there are lots on here who, say, did not read ALL of the Post Office IPO Prospectus but just trusted it not to be dishonest in any way and readily sent off many thousands of £££s with their Application for shares.

That was at one end of the scale. Others at the other end of the scale, generally try to catch you out with 'offers which are too good to miss'. They are more easily recognisable.

And then you have the ones in the middle..............

For instance, have a read up about 'Subscription Scams'.

........and these have nothing to do with malware or spyware!