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drops geoff

in the tool box. taken 22/8/15 geoff

taken 13/8/15 geoff

congrats to CanonCrissy, another close vote. stand by for a new comp. geoff

so confusing this comp put poll up now geoff

i use three, Samsung 3tb (made by Seagate) and a Seagate 3tb. I found there was around a tenner or so between 2-3tb so went for the bigger storage ones. i use these for photos, films, music & documents. i also have a dane-elec 1tb which i have had for years and store only photos on this one. all three ok but had a problem with the Samsung one so got in touch with help line and had to send it back to Samsung (Seagate) in Holland. they checked it out and it was damaged so replaced it no problems, i had had it for a couple of years. as luck had it it has a 3 year guarantee. but i lost everything (no photos were stored on it though). but i suppose it could happen with any of them. geoff

ooo, stop, my ribs are hurting geoff

I found this fossil a while ago while out for a wander, I sent an image to a fossil site for identification. I thought it was a tooth but they said that it was a sea creature, which was a filter feeder, similar to the way a barnacle feeds. it forced it's way in to the sand and using a long tube it would put out it's feeders to catch small creatures. I have found a picture that shows what it looked like at the time. the age of the fossil is between 350-650 million years old depending on the age of the rock it is in. geoff

spent some time deleting stuff with w10, but some of the windows stuff I know I don't want and will not use won't uninstall. I did find a way to switch some off in settings. to me, if your used to apps or these smart phones then you should be ok, geared up for the younger people and future, but me being an older type gets confused. I like the more basic stuff, easy to use and saves memory. the main thing that put me off straight away, I was told that using edge (for the web) was that everything I searched for or looked at was also sent to Microsoft, not keen on that idea, privacy straight out of the window. there is also something in there that lets some apps read your emails sent & received. that's switched off i'll leave it on the laptop but I don't think i'll download it on to pc (8.1) as the machine is a year old so when I have to change the pc in a few years it (w10) will already be set up on the new machine. geoff

money, money, money geoff

done the laptop (w7), don't like edge and cartina??? or whatever it is called is no good to me, got the aol back on the web, links and old programs seem to be working ok. to me they have auto added stuff that I will never use, but try and uninstall them is another matter. also using up space with stuff I don't need or use, progress I suppose but I think they should ask if you want it and not download as per course. geoff

dates changed, cheers, always get confused over the dates these things run from. thanks to all who voted for my image in the silhouette comp. geoff

Over to you. Entries submitted from Saturday 1st August until midnight on Monday 10th August and voting from Tuesday 11h to midnight on Friday 14th August. Winner announced Saturday 15th August. Hope dates are ok if not please amend) Geoff

Cake Making (30/7/15) geoff