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The IFA 2013 live event coverage here in about two hours: http://live.cnet.com...ked_at_IFA_2013 Live Stream here: http://new.livestrea.../events/2359921

No, you simply run it again and again until your system is clear. Has never installed any "extras" on my system, but perhaps that's because I read all the install screens (except the licence agreement of course! ). If you really have got 834 other problems maybe you should pay them the mungy - or do a clean o/s install? It will generally find some annoyances that AVs will ignore, and it does have good rep which they aren't going to endanger. Have to agree with Adam, Norton is an infection in itself! Lost count of the number of times I thought I'd removed it from my system but the Symantec Updater was still clinging on in memory. The instructions on the Symantec website for the "removal tool" didn't work. I think I'm free of it now but it took hours of poking through the system files. To add insult to injury it's in the ROM of the tab I just bought and you can't remove it. I've disabled it but it's still lurking and taking up storage. Try Avast! - it's free if you play canny and don't want all the unnecessary bells and whistles. Been using it and recommending it for several years and no one has come back to me and said "bad idea" yet! BTW Avast has a Browser Cleanup Tool which removes unwanted toolbars etc.

This simply shouldn't have been necessary! As well as good AV software (not Norton/Symantec please!) it's always useful to run malwarebytes occasionally to see what might have sneakily installed that's not technically a virus. http://www.malwarebytes.org/ The freebie version of course!

Anywhere in the err... Galaxy? There seems to be no truth in the rumour that Uncle Clive is preparing to sue! http://www.ledwatche.../blackwatch.htm And... in case you've forgotten Clive's ground-breaking Wrist Calculator: http://www.vintageca...calculator.html If only this had been available some eight years earlier mankind may never have got to the moon! I've always wanted to ask him who it was who decided that the sharp corners projecting above the display were either ergonomic or durable.

Rumours of the imminent launch of the Samsung Gear smart-watch are reported confirmed by a senior Sammy executive:- http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2013/08/133_141776.html So - with the launch of the Galaxy Note 3 too - a week tomorrow will be an interesting day!

Sometimes finding a manual for your gismo on the internet can be a hard slog, and you often have to jump through hoops, suffer spam, or open your computer to virus infections in the process. Wouldn't it be nice if there was just one a one stop shop that you could navigate simply, and that didn't try to extort $$$ from you at some point? Well so far this one looks VERY promising: http://www.manualslib.com/ Did it work for you? Report back here please.

Support officially ends on 14th April 2014, but M$ will still be supporting it - if you pay! http://www.computerw...tors_picks=true Advice: XP users should give Ubuntu Linux a try. It's not a flavour of Linux I use personally but it's the one where you will get most help. And, if you recoil at C> (in Windows), it's surely the best way to go. If you don't want to fully commit just yet you can boot it from a USB stick, or even from inside your existing Windows installation whilst using the existing Windows file system. If you are buying a new machine then make sure you at least look at Chromebooks. They are incredibly good value and far easier to maintain than any Windows machine. They also have a very low cost of ownership. You are unlikely to see them feature in computer shops so don't be sold by a slick salesman on commission! It seems the latest commission driven up-sell is Symantec/Norton Anti-virus, which you shouldn't even take for free!

So the initial "Internet Honeymoon" is over, and you now realise that you've given too much of your personal information away. Or maybe you've just grown-up a bit? How do you pull back and get your account information removed from sites you never now visit? Always, of course, assuming you have the remotest idea of the data trail you've left. A couple of British lads have set out to help with an extremely simple concept: http://justdelete.me/ The buttons are colour coded to indicate the degree of difficulty you are likely to experience in getting your on-line account deleted. Maybe checking with justdelete.me before you create a new on-line account anywhere is the wisest thing to do.

Caution on this one I think - it's all politics! A Falklands style crisis would suit Cameron hugely (but it needs careful management to crescendo at the right time), and right now the Spanish lot are in deep doodoo and need a distraction from their own domestic troubles. The threats of "economic war" are laughable. Spain is in no position to wage an economic war with Bongo-bongo (a Clarkian term I use mainly to wind-up Guardianistas - as does UKIP ) let alone a major world currency. So, this is all mutually convenient. Joe Average, and Mr Floating Voter*, would do well to keep the Union Jack inside for just now, ignore the jingoism in the "popular press", and watch things develop with detached amusement. ____________ *Explanation for Guardian readers: this sexist grammar - in it's historically accepted form - implies the full, fair and non-discriminatory inclusion in the democratic process of Josephine Average and Ms Floating Voter.

A cheaped-up phone with a larger screen to be announced on 10th September say the rumours. It's interesting that this US article is bemoaning the lack of competitiveness in the US mobile space, and implies that Europe and particularly the UK is way ahead. It seems that Apple aren't going to rock the US carrier's cosy boat either by selling the 5C there. Obama's recent presidential decree to quash Samsung's patent victory against Apple whilst not intervening when the boot is on the other foot reeks of protectionism. It illustrates how introverted the US is becoming in technical matters, just as it already is in geopolitics. This is not healthy for the US.

Thanks to whoever tweaked the streaming, it's no longer distorting and now very listen able. Some great stuff, but when are we going to get it back for good? Anyway, a really really great community effort that everyone in Bedders should be pushing hard for. Congratulations to everyone involved.

Proposing a new class of member - Blockfinder General - with Maggie as #1. Keep the torture down a tiny bit please, and ensure you cut the nude scenes from the Bedlington release!

Pity they didn't ask about Balls. Quite how the architect of the current economic disaster is being offered up as our next chancellor never ceases to amaze me. It's like proposing Harold Shipman for treasurer of an old peoples trust. At least Gordo did the decent thing and crawled off into well-deserved obscurity. Either Labour think their voters have extremely short memories or they have a very very low opinion of their intelligence. ...and Cameron is by far the most popular leader - god help us! Maybe we need a US-type presidential system where the leader of the opposition can become PM? What do you think?

It could have been more convincing without the Aussie accent!

So, really, Uncle Clive's 21st century try was only slightly ahead of his time? www.envirotech.com.co This one is rather expensive, but there are some interesting performance electric scooters/bikes (800w-1Kw/h) now coming onto the market for not a great deal more than a half-decent push bike. Unfortunately it's highly likely that they aren't at all road legal. Want, anyway! I like the off-road bit here at about 4:00, you wouldn't get away with that on a noisy motorbike. It rather looks like the braking system puts some energy back into the battery.

All sorts of interesting stuff coming from the strangest directions these days! It even has a microSD slot - Google designers please note! The nipple is almost borrowed from the IBM/Lenovo ThinkPads, so maybe they should have - cheekily - named it a GoPad. The 3000mA battery (if genuinely rated) should give it a reasonable battery life. http://www.notebookc...ay.90650.0.html

Governments have always been in two minds about tobacco - they feel they need to social engineer but are hooked on the huge revenue it produces. I think smoking is pure crazy, but when it comes down to civil liberties the nanny state has gone too far and needs to get off the backs of people who still chose to. The revenue needs to be ring fenced to go into the NHS and I think smokers should be made to contribute to NHS costs directly related to their smoking (maybe by extra insurance). But all this packaging nonsense needs to stop, as does the ads and the lecturing. Teach kids at school about the dangers and leave it at that! Stop the moral crusading politicians, we don't need you to tell us how we should live our lives; just set a better example yourselves, like in the old days when politicians had to show a bit of backbone. Maybe make a start by doubling all the prices at the HoC bar - that's a bit of social engineering that would get my support!

Pity no one here was listening to Neil Kinnock on the radio last week. He entirely blames Scargill, and his refusal to hold a ballot - like every other dispassionate observer. He details his problems in getting rid of the same left wing militants who were trying to hijack the Labour Party and is very honest about the mistakes he made at the time. Detached from all the party political malarkey he comes across as a really decent guy. You can't review history through modern eyes and expect to arrive at anything approaching the truth. It's bad enough trying to pull things together at the time; later on it's so much easier to cherry pick what you choose to believe and what you chose to disregard. There was right and wrong on both sides, but at the core was a strike started undemocratically by someone who's sole aim was to overthrow a democratically elected government. Kinnock says that without Scargill the matter would have been settled by the usual compromise and without bitterness - as it had always been done. He's in no doubt about that, and he's right! Reliving the past - with rose coloured spectacles, or second-hand from what you've been told to believe - is a recipe for repeating the same mistakes. Mrs Thatcher rescued this country from total industrial collapse, and she certainly wouldn't have supported everything done by government henchmen - she was very pro the individual, and individual liberty. On the other hand Scargill has done nothing in his life but cause misery and dissent, and still tries to sponge off the NUM. Demonising one and choosing to overlook the pure evil done by the other is plain silly. Look at how reliving the past (by people who were never there but who have indoctrinated their children just as they themselves were indoctrinated) has destroyed Northern Ireland. The precise truth you will never know, even if you take the time to seek it out - which you obviously won't! The one big truth is that it should never have happened, and would never have happened if the NUM had not been so badly misled!

The Chrome (or Android) device doesn't stream the content to the Chromecast, it simply controls the Chromecast. I have Chrome on several devices but rarely use it; its lack of menu structure to do what I want to do is frequently infuriating. Interesting link. Illustrates the long drawn out death of M$, and the slow bleeding of Apple. I got really interested in the MS Surface until I looked into the software. Seems like most people who bought on looks (and sales pitch) now feel cheated. By contrast the Chromebooks look set to grab much of what Microsoft (and dinosaur Balmer) is throwing away. How long can he stay in control? Who will get the boot first Balmer or Cook?

Wasn't thinking about little SBCs in that context. There are dozens of little Android driven dedicated MCs now. OK they are mostly priced a bit more than $35 but they are vastly more versatile than Chromecast. With Chromecast you need an Android or Chrome device anyway to control it. So it's not a standalone device, and Google are a little naughty in showing it without the very necessary USB power lead. They also anticipate you will need to fiddle to get a decent WiFi signal as it's shipped with a short HDMI extender. i.e. nothing is THAT simple! I think it's another fail, to rank with Apple fails in the sector, but we'll see. They might rescue the project by near giving them away, but to the thinking person it's no substitute for a proper MC, and just another way into your wallet or purse.

Got to be "Fulfilled by Amazon" I think. Think that means you send all your goodies to their warehouse, and they don't charge you too much for storing them. If you are a little seller they tell you how much you have to charge for shipping, which can be ridiculously high for small low-cost items. Bigger sellers don't have this drag, but, yes, they have to pay Amazon a fixed fee per month. Win win all the way for Amazon!

Ah, 37p for 'World Cup Fever' beats my 83p! Good find! Who will be the first singer/band to work out that producing a six-figure quantity of CD's in China for pennies each, and selling them on Amazon at 36p, will automatically result in that much cherished chart topper? I'd call the album "Super Saver"!

pcDuino update: Not the fastest computer in the world, but I'm still very impressed. A few silly design decisions like fitting the microSD socket on the underside of the PCB, meaning I've had to remove one of the redundant mounting pillars on the case just to be able to swap the card without unscrewing the PCB from the case every time. But the software support is impressive, even though there are bugs in the Bluetooth preventing recognised devices to pair properly. This has prevented connecting a Bluetooth keyboard/mouse so far. The stock Ubuntu image comes with XBMC as a load option, and I've had that spooling movies from the local NAS at reasonable res, though it has problems with real HD stuff. Got it running a minimal webserver in minutes (lighttp). Full ARM GCC++ on-board is very impressive, and they've provided access to quite a lot of the I/O pins and on-chip peripherals through the file system. I'm not bothered by the Arduino "compatibility", so that's a bit of a waste, and it pushes things in a direction I don't want to go. But I suppose for someone with minimal hardware experience (and whose sole experience comes through Arduino modules) it could be a big plus. My main beef with this is that they've only pinned-out a sub-set of the A10 I/O to the Arduino connectors. I very quickly filled the balance of the 2GB of on-board flash, resulting in an O/S that wouldn't boot. Perhaps I shouldn't have downloaded a full length movie to it before running the Synaptic package manager to add to the storage bottleneck? Solved by preparing a Ubuntu (lubuntu) microSD and booting from that, then cleaning the on-board flash. The O/S from the on-line image is more complete, and there seems to be little overhead from running out of the microSD. I haven't created a dual boot Linux/Android system just yet, but I will when more cheap microSD cards arrive. Anyway this has fired me up with enthusiasm for tiny Linux SBCs, and I've just ordered an A20 Cubie Board with case and all leads for a tad under £50 including shipping. There'll surely be hours of endless fun connecting things to the pcDuino before the Cubie arrives from China, and some of the "projects" may get published. I'd say to anyone thinking about a RasPi: look further afield, there's now far better out there; better faster chips, open architecture, and more memory, for the same sort of money. Just seen a RasPi and case offered for slightly more than I paid for the pcDuino and case, which is silly.

At first glance it seems a very attractive proposition, an HDMI dongle that turns your TV into a smartTV for $35 (UK price yet to be determined). But look more closely and you see it for what it really is: an Apple-type trojan to enable control of your living room and ensure *all* revenue streams flow through Big G! Most of the engineering seems to have gone into making it a API platform for third party providers, and of course all this is heavily locked down. Give me one and I might just use it now and then ("free" is the usual Google proposition you can't say no to), but to ask people to pay for the privilege of helping to establish another media empire, well... only for Appleheeds! There are plenty of little Linux/Android boxes with HDMI making fairly decent Media Centres for not much more money, and they aren't nagging to get into your wallet all the time!

Amazon have scrapped "Super Saver" delivery on small items under £10. Quite often you'll be asked to pay more for shipping than the item costs! Tip: Look for a cheap CD (you can find some for 83p), and add it to the order. Then the whole order qualifies for "Super Saver" again.