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So Amazon just forked Android and have now effectively killed the rest of the Android tablet market. This is brilliant, I'd love to be hearing the conversations going on in Google HQ and other android tablet hardware makers.

Depends what you do with the screen. Up until lion, using Xcode on a 13" MBP was a pain in the ass, to the point of being so frustrating it was unusable. The full screen mode and the changes in the way spaces work made a massive improvement and turned it the other way and it felt much more...

Re: 2011 MacBook Air 11" If you have to lug even a 13" MBP about regularly, then you'll realise just how heavy it is. The Air is significantly lighter. If you have to lug around 2 13" laptops regularly, then you'll definitely realise how heavy they are. Plus the Air has better resolution...

I've lost count of the number of times I've seen time machine backups get corrupted. Mounting sparse bundles over a network just doesn't strike me as the best of ideas, even with the AFP extensions that are supposed to prevent these sort of corruptions from happening. Rysnc over a network...

Not in this case. Terrible product. I wouldn't even trust it to look after a p**n collection.

Just speak slowly and clearly, because you'll be speaking to "virgin India". Once they sort out the current set of bugs then it'll be good. The hdmi one is a pita. You have to switch the box off and back on again to get rid of the bloody message.

Switcher with TiVo will be fun, there's bugs in the current software which cause it to bring up a hdmi warning box a lot if the hdmi connection is "broken".

I'd get the 13". I have both a 15" and 13" and find the 13" is still "too big" to cart about with me..... When I was getting the 13" I was tempted by the air, but at the time I wasn't too hot about the processor specs and didn't like the fact that the illuminated keyboard had been removed. A...

+ it'll retain resale value. My ancient powerbook still commands a decent second hand value considering its age.

Yes. Be careful with boxing in the TiVo unit, it would appear that a lot of the hardware problems (resets, lock ups, dead...) people are having are due to the units getting too hot.

Like I said, I never used reminders for anything other than live stuff, that's where they were useful. Set a reminder for when the programme starts and then go off and watch something else safe in the knowledge that if you get engrossed in it, you'll be reminded when the live event is about to...

Nope. Why do you need it when you've got 3 tuners. Don't you know that people with PVR's never want to watch things live! (That's virgins take on it)

I never use them either, but I can understand why some people use (and now miss) them and why this is such a cause for complaint. (That and the fact that TiVo was advertised as doing everything that the V+ HD box did......)

The problem with that is that the moment you record something, you're giving it the equivalent of a "thumbs up", which means that it's then used for future suggestions, this may not be what you want, I *may* have wanted to watch something once, but it may not be a programme or genre that I'm...

Red button - is coming. Timed reminders - umm...virgin say "why bother when you've bot 3 tuners", so undecided if they'll ever implement this. Parental Controls - slightly broken in this release, but you won't ever be able to turn them off, virgin have stated this. It's to do with Ofcom...

No, you can pad them individually if you want (*need) to, but because there's no global default, you can't say "I always want an extra 5 minutes at the start and end". As a result of this, you basically cannot record anything from BBC channels (without manually adding the padding) because the...

It is painfully slow through some of the menus, especially on demand content. It's also a pain in the ass to find anything in on demand because it's all grouped by day, would be nice for options to group by station or category etc. The menus aren't that logical either. That said, we've got 2...

If anybody is thinking of doing any app development, I wouldn't start work on any new developments that didn't specifically target iOS5 (pay for a developer account), there are some changes to the development workflow that make developing iOS5 applications much nicer than previous iOS versions.

All build to orders are shipped directly from the factory in China.....unless you cannot avoid it (MBA memory etc) then never buy anything other than a "base model" because it takes ages to get here!

Your Skype account has almost certainly been terminated for beach of terms and conditions. You can get this when you have multiple active Skype sessions from a single IP address (think, a few iPhones all running Skype). We've had this before, contacted support only to get the following...