Posts by terry 15 11 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Aug 2012
That's all well and good but it doesn't replace the functionality offered by the Chromecast audio - fire and forget audio streaming without relying upon the phone connectivity and no notifications interfering.
I'm not aware of any alternative to it that's as easily used.
(I've not received said email from Google mentioned in the article about the issue. Not as if they don't know I personally have one register to my account...)
It would be fantastic if over here, mobile phone manufacturers would actually be held to account on how abysmal stuff like time restrictions on phones are.
Both Apple and Android phones fail very quickly to reliably restrict time usage on children's phones. Too many obvious ways around (including the ridiculous one more minute) that get passed around in the playgrounds.
I wouldn't say that's GDPR hindering you, I think that's more a case of GDPR helping you judge that a website can't be trusted with your data.
Taking an informed view, you then have the choice of using a VPN to access it knowing what data you provide may be abused or just finding an alternative source instead.
I get this a lot, sometimes I manage to resolve, or end up going down the GDPR right to remove route. Other times I end up deleting 'my' account (according to the company/website) as the only possible alternative is to call an american phone number to try to resolve.
Then there's a few medical/financial websites that I've utterly failed to resolve, a couple denying they have a record with my email address even though it's provably them...
Seems to apply to travelodge users too:
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At Travelodge we take the safeguarding of customer data very seriously.
On Friday 29th June 2018 we were notified by Typeform, a third party company who manage customer surveys and competitions on behalf of many companies, including Travelodge, that they have been the victim of a data security incident which has affected the personal data they hold about you.
<blah blah snip>
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I bought an fx-P401 either for my GCSE's or A-Levels (I don't remember which) but I've had it and used it for many years since. I loved the fact that you typed the calculation you wanted (brackets included) then hit 'exe'cute to perform the calculation. It performed the calculation in the order you expected rather than having to second guess order of execution and had all various standard casio functions (include hex/binary/decimal modes).
It was advanced enough to do what I needed but not too advanced so it was allowed during my university exams. (eg the FX-1000G graphical calculator that replaced it and was banned!)
I still use it now in work, I'm not entirely sure how many years ago I replaced the batteries but they keep going and going!
Assuming they're legally bought from amazon, you can sync all the books onto any device/kindle app from the device/app itself.
Once you've got a book on multiple devices; you can get it to sync to last read on all devices thus regardless of what you're reading on, you can pick up an alternative kindle device and continue from that point.
Alternatively you can try using calibre2 to help you transfer stuff/convert them to mobi format for the kindle device.
You say: "All Freeview HD boxes support internet video, though not many of them are connected up yet and implementations are patchy"
Whilst the popular Humax HD FOX receivers support some media from the internet (ie youtube/iplayer); they don't support the MHEG streaming iptv channels as mentioned in this article. Shame really.
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