Many thanks for your helpful advice last week re transfer of Humax recordings to USB/DVD. The instructions were very easy to follow and the outcome was perfect. Your help was much appreciated.
I'm not a technophobe, but I [i]am[i] a technoprat! On that basis, can anyone tell me, in childishly simple terms, if it is possible - and how - to transfer programmes we have recorded on a Freesat...
Michael Foale was born in Britain to a British father and American mother and subsequently raised and educated here, including graduating from Cambridge. He has dual British/American nationality and...
(I refer to plumbers, not entomologists!) Our Glow Worm hxi is playing up at the moment. It simply switches off for no apparent reason and shows a red light with "Fault 12" in the window. At the same...
For Ichkeria and Mikey especially... http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1426599-2.html It seems that the big Q at the in/out EU referendum might well be virtually word for word the one I...
A friend and I, both getting on a bit, are convinced that - at one time - a pub HAD to stay open during licensing hours or risk losing the licence. I know it does not apply now, but was that...
There is a company called Reglaze My Glasses. If you have a favourite specs-frame, you can send it to them, with your lens-prescription, and they will return it suitably 'reglazed'. Does anyone know...
Any idea what the liquid that dental hygienists use to reveal gumline decay is called? It's sprayed on and discolours [i]if[i] there is any such problem. Is it available to buy for mere mortals and,...
Bearing in mind that I am technologically illiterate, can anyone advise me on whether I can use the 'audio out' on my Panasonic Viera TV to connect to my old - but still very effective - Coral...
I posted an entry entitled High Time in the News section recently and have since then certainly not - unless by touching something inadvertently - chosen a 'Best Answer'. However, I now see that one...
According to Sky News this morning...the ticker-tape strip at the bottom of the screen...Julian Assange is thinking of leaving the Ecuadorian embassy. If he does, I hope his feet scarcely touch UK...
It doesn't have to! "Patrick Dunleavy, a politics professor at the London School of Economics whose research was used to come up with the figure, said that it overestimated the cost by a factor of...
Boris Johnson, in his Daily Telegraph column today, described Ukip and similar political groups in Europe as (quote) "pitchfork-wielding populists" who are on some sort of "peasants' revolt". Now, I...
“The prime minister rejected calls from Eurosceptic Tories to form a pact with Ukip before next year's general election. He told Sky News: "We are the Conservative party. We don't do pacts and...
Please bear in mind that I am a computer illiterate, if you answer. Recently, every time I open AnswerBank and wish to scroll down on a page, I have to wait for some time until that becomes possible....
I had never heard of Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary until seeing a reference to it in a recent newspaper. Here’s what it says for ‘Conservative’: “n. A statesman who is enamoured of...
It seems that the font used for the advert on the Home Office’s vans in London recently, telling illegal immigrants to “Go home”, was itself used illegally! As an individual, anyone may download...
A fortnight before the Australian elections, Assange's party has started to disintegrate. Not to worry, though, he lost touch with his party's leaders solely because he was intent on: "Trying to save...
This is an update on a Tora thread from a few weeks ago about Nigel Farage's reception in Edinburgh. He was there at the time to promote the UKIP's candidate, Otto Inglis, in the upcoming by-election...