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Internet laptop things

Alright?

You know those netbook/Chromebook/small laptop things you can get these days – are they any good?

I quite fancy something with a proper keyboard that is portable that I can chuck in a messenger back that doesn't cost the earth.

I'm an Apple fan but blowing £1000+ on an Air or 13" MacBook is a little out of my budget these days so I don't mind sacrificing OS X if I'm only really using it for internet and basic document creation/editing.

What do you peeps say? Anyone got one?

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Small, portable video camera

We are after a small, portable video camera that does at least 720p HD and doesn't cost the earth.

We've use a FlipCam mino HD in the past and they are a bit rubbish so we want to step up our game a bit.

What have you lot used? Recommendations would be great. Cheers.

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Auto-play video file

Hi all,

We've got a video (.mov currently) and we want to have it on a CD that automatically plays the video when it's inserted into a Windows computer.

Is this possible, and what is the best file type to convert the video file to?

Hope that makes sense! Cheers.

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Gov.uk wins...

...Design of the Year Award.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entert…

-- Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic said the site was "the Paul Smith of websites".

-- Design of the Year jury member Griff Rhys Jones said the website was "a clear winner".

That's right – Griff Rhys Jones – the famous designer/creative director/agency CEO.

A usability award maybe, but a design award? Thoughts?

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Best Windows plain text editor

What's the best free plain text editor for Windows?

Thanks.

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Broswer notepad

Cut and paste this:

data:text/html, <html contenteditable>

into the address bar.

Developers – you're welcome.

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NIVEA rebrand

Tried the filter, found nothing.

Go to town boys and girls...

http://creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2013/01/nivea_logo_detail_0.gif

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Google...

What have you done?!!

Where are the easy to use search options on the left of the page now?

Why... WHY???

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Adobe Muse themes

Anyone got any good links for free Adobe Muse themes?

Cheers.

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HTML5 question

I've put together a holding page using Adobe Muse and when I use a HTML5 validation page, I get the following warning and error to say it's not compliant:

1. Warning: Using windows-1252 instead of the declared encoding iso-8859-1.

2. Error: Internal encoding declaration utf-8 disagrees with the actual encoding of the document (windows-1252).
From line 5, column 3; to line 5, column 69
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"/>

Can anyone help with what it means and how I can correct it?

Cheers.

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Pub/bar logos

So it looks like I'm going to be working on a basic brand for a pub.

What are your favourites?

Cheers.

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Brandon Generator

I'm probably going to get an epic timeline for this, but if there is anyone that hasn't seen this – you are probably going to like it...

http://www.brandongenerator.com/…

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Safari + PDFs

So Apple issue a new version of Safari which fixes the PDF issue.

Mine still doesn't display PDFs.

Bastards.

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Record TV

Hi,

What is the easiest (read: free) way to record TV and get it onto my computer in a format that can then be uploaded to YouTube.

It's for a legitimate purpose (in as far as it's a representative from our company appearing on a TV program), but I'm not sure of the legalities surrounding TV on YouTube (although there are plenty of clips of TV programs on there – surely YouTube would remove them if it were illegal?)

All help appreciated, as usual.

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Apple Developer Program

What do you get if you enroll as an iOS developer?

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Calendar app

Is there an easy to setup and easy to use calendar app available for OS X which uses 'the cloud' to sync the calendars?

So, for example, colleagues here can broadcast and view each others up-to-date schedules in the office and when they are out of the office with an internet connection.

I know there is iCal, but I'm not sure you can sync it over the internet without a Google account, and for the luddites here I need to make it as easy and as quick as possible.

Thanks for your help.

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iPad 2 cases

Just bought myself an iPad 2.

What are the best cases/sleeves/bags/protective 'things' for these?

I don't really want to spend £35 on the Apple smart cover thing – especially after reading some pretty negative reviews.

Cheers.

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PS3 flashing red light

My PS3 is broken. I was happily playing CoD when it had a freak out and suddenly switched off. Now when I try and turn it on it beeps a bit, turns off and I get a red flashing light.

From looking on Google I see it is a fairly common problem with the older models (I've got a 60GB early model).

Anyone here had any experience with this?

It's seem pretty terminal and from looking online I can get it fixed by Sony for £160, which is a crap deal because I can practically get a Slim for that.

There are some dodgy fixes involving heat guns etc and all that just seem like a lot of effort for what appears to be only a temporary fix.

I'm fairly happy to buy a new one, but what bothers me the most is losing my saved games and trophies etc.

I never backed it up (yeah yeah, my bad)... it looking like everything is gone.

Anything I do?

Sorry to rant, but it's annoying!!!

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Which Mac browser?

Which browser do the Mac fanboys here prefer?

I'm torn between Safari and Chrome.

Both have recently been updated, and now Chrome is 'official' it seems a safer choice than before.

I just can't seem to decide. Anyone got any hard evidence that one is better than the other?

Oh, fanks!

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OS X filenames

My bosses laptop restricts her filename length to 31 characters. When existing documents are opened, edited and saved it shortens the filename to 31 characters (she gets the numbers/letters combo at the end – you've probably seen it).

I know it's something to do with HFS+ or something, but it's OS X 10.5 so it should just 'work'.

What is up with that?!

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