Posts by Mr_Happy

New Workspace for your WFH office? Nah, it's just Google shooting G Suite with the rebrandogun

Re: Serious question - usability?

We have one blind user in the office, he finds it easier to navigate than MS office

It looks like you want to browse the internet with Chrome. Would you like help? Maybe try Edge? Please?

I'm seriously starting to use Edge over Chrome as it looks like Google are going to hide most of the URL making IT support a nightmare when asking a user what the URL says in the address field and most of it is going to be hidden and getting users to click the address bar to show everything just isn't going to happen

A year after Logitech screwed over Harmony users, it, um, screws over Harmony users: Device API killed off

Guess you are fit and healthy and not stuck in a wheelchair

Wow. Apple's only gone and killed off Mac, iPad, iPhone family... figures for units sold to fans

Re: "It just works"

For me my new Android handset gives me less issues than my iPhone X and for a lot less money. As a bonus I chose how it looks and which app is the default, glad to be outside that walled experience

No, eight characters, some capital letters and numbers is not a good password policy

Meanwhile our admins have made the password requirements so complex and expire every 30 days that everyone has to write them on a post it note and place it under the keyboard to have half a chance of logging in the next morning

Keep yer plastic, says analyst: eSIMs aren't all they're cracked up to be

Yeah that is going to be so much easier at a foreign airport, trying to get through to a number that doesn't speak any of the languages that you do, text messages arriving in a funny script. Far easier to go to the booth at the airport, some generic sign language, hand over some funny notes and walk out of the airport with a working local sim

TalkTalk plans to sell family B2B jewel to Daisy Group for £175m

If you think TalkTalk customer service is bad, you haven't seen anything until you have to talk to Daisy

OnePlus smartmobe brand modelled on 'a religion', founder admits

Where did the IP rating come from, it isn't being reported anywhere else

why do you need an SD card with 256GB of onboard storage

what rivals stick with LCD instead of OLED

why do you need slow battery harming wireless charging, when super fast Dash Charging is available

NASA's zombie IMAGE satellite is powered up and working quite nicely

Re: NASA = SPACEX

What about all those people in certain states whose job allegedly depends on bits of rocket being built there according to congress

For fanbois only? Face ID is turning punters off picking up an iPhone X

Re: Smart Lock rulez

Which of your fingers will they use? You tend to only have one face

Tim Cook's answer to crashing iPhone sales: More iPhones

Fail

Apple will fail in India, far too expensive whereas there is an Android at every price point with support for dual sims which is a must in India

One in five consumers upgraded to Win10 for free instead of buying a PC

Re: Why would they have bought a new PC?

Only a masochist would have stuck with Windows 8.

Apple launches HomeKit app – but where are the products?

Apple Junk Foder Not Required

At last on iOS 10 you can 'delete' most of the apps you don't want instead of hiding them in the Apple Crap folder, and then magically download them again from the App Store even while in AirPlane mode when required

HomeKit is a good idea just not pushed hard enough by Apple, someone had to get all the incompatible systems talking to each other, but why did it take Apple two years to launch their own app?

No Junk Folder Needed

on iOS 10 Apple allows you to hide some of the default apps, no need for an Apple Crap folder, and then 'redownload' them from the App Store when required, magically you can download them again while in AirPlane mode

HomeKit is a great idea, someone needed to get all the incompatible systems talking to each other but Apple isn't pushing this hard enough, why did it take them two years to launch their own app?

World goes SIM-free, leaving Sony and HTC trailing behind

IPhone Redesign

I'm sure the removal of the standard headphone socket is going to be such a major redesign factor that everyone is going to go wow and rush out and buy it.

Smartphones have reached maturity, there isn't much you can add, so price is now becoming the major decision on which phone to purchase

Apple releases iOS 6.1, adds LTE carriers, tweaks security

Finally

Lacking on new features, however the jailbreak should be available on Sunday, I can finally unbox my iPhone 5 and set it free

Virgin close to releasing long-delayed TiVo app

If you have a iPhone then VM already have an app for your phone that you can use to remote record from

Google to axe IE 8 support, cuts off Windows XP lifeline

Lots of Work for IT

Looks like we are going to be busy installing Chrome on our users PCs and then training them to use IE for all our business apps that only run in IE8 and only use Chrome for Google Apps. Getting them to understand to use different browsers for different tasks is going to be a big up hill battle

iPhone 5: skinny li'l fella with better display, camera, software

Not a world phone then

There are at least three models being released all supporting different LTE bands, of which none of them will support the frequencies being used by Vodafone and O2 for their new networks. It will only support the bands used by EE

There is life after the death of Microsoft’s Windows 8 Start button

Re: Waste of my time

Its not about us IT guys refusing to learn new skills, its about having to support 1000 users that can't understand where their start button went, how they have to waggle the mouse at the bottom corners of the screen to get something to happen, how they now have a new feature where every app is now full screen, and when seeing tiles, half of them won't work correctly as we don't use Exchange, and our proxy servers block access to lots of internet feeds

It was hard enough getting them to understand Win 7 from XP without having to now tell them that is is no longer a start button, I know how popular I'd be if I rolled out Win 8 across the company any time soon

TiVo plunges into Swedes after penetrating Virgin Media

Blame Sky

Perhaps if Sky had been more interested when they were offered TIVO, it wouldn't be limited to cable customers

I bet Sweden will get the TIVO iPad app before Virgin who are still promising 'coming soon'

Agriboffins' site downed by DDoS after GM protest

Re: Same old, same old

Hope those third world farmers can afford the inflated prices of that special seed

Apple updates iOS, mum on Wi-Fi, battery fixes

Tethered Jailbreak Remains

Redsn0w has been updated to support this version already, as long as you don't have a iPhone 4S or iPad 3

Virgin TiVo iPad app out in September

A Whole Year

Just to change the colour and add a couple of menus takes VM a whole year, they need to get better developers, I'd be shot if I took that long

Apple eyes ISPs to sell 'iTV'

Fail

So people looking to save money on their cable package are going to rush out and buy a vastly over priced TV

Microsoft copies Google with silent browser updates

Can't Upgrade

Would love to push newer versions of IE to our users but until we can afford to purchase new versions of our software we can't move past IE6, and even apps that now work fine on IE8 still fail on IE9

Home users should be fine, but us business users are stuck on older versions for a reason

Gov: DAB must battle on, despite being old and rubbish

Fail

“What really jumped out to me was that the majority of those who responded stated that they would not buy a car in the future without DAB radio."

Only because they have heard that FM MAY switch off in 2015 and their current radios would be white elephants

Can't receive DAB even though I live in the capital city so they have a long way to go before I'd switch to DAB

Amazon solves wait-at-home-for-deliveries problem

Great Idea

Beats receiving the failed delivery card and them telling you they will attempt delivery tomorrow in the full knowledge that you are at work again so it takes you two days before you can drive to the depot and pick your parcel up

This way I can drive to my supermarket that evening and pick it up straight away

Virgin Tweets a sorry for TiVo series link snafu

You Don't Buy The Box

You only rent the box from VM so when your contract expires, it goes back to them

Also all failures are repaired free unlike borken Sky boxes

News of the World TO CLOSE

Trinity Mirror Owns Local Papers Too

There is already is a Sunday Sun up North , the registrant gives it away 'Newcastle Chronicle and Journal' which is part of Trinity Mirror

Office 365: Can Microsoft replace Microsoft?

Meh

No macros in the web version, no use to our 7000 users then

BT vs Sky vs Virgin

VM for me

A true 50 meg broadband service none of this upto 20meg rubbish

VOD on your TV, you don't have to sit upstairs on your PC to catch up TV

TIVO possibly the best DVR on the planet

OK so the bundled phone service is a bit expensive but with VIP most of the calls are free anyway

The only downside on the TV side to watch Sky Movies and Sky Sports in HD you have to pay and extra £7 for each box due to Skys silly rules, otherwise no extra charges to watch the HD channels on VM

Dixons prices up Motorola Xoom for Blighty

Hurry up 9th April

After trying to get excited about an iPad with the same interface as the ipod touch, Can't wait for the Xoom with its full web interface and a decent looking OS

Dixons prices up Motorola Android 3.0 tablet

Can't Wait

Got the money ready and waiting, any 10.1" tablet is going to be better than either iPad I or iPad 2

Carphone Warehouse wins Moto Xoom exclusive

Are you sure

Are you comparing the same spec iPad to the Xoom, as I make them out as being the same price but the Xoom gives you the full internet

Hurry Up

Get the wifi only version out, the last thing I need is another 3G data plan

Toshiba shows second-gen tablet

The Full Internet

Replaceable battery a plus

Full internet not Apples restricted no flash policy, no matter what Apple and their fans believe flash is still important to get the whole of the internet

Ports to attach to the TV and plug usb device in plus

Bulk isn't much of a problem if it feels comfortable