Flagging emails?

Unless you mean something different to what I think you mean you *can* flag up emails in the WM8 email client?

The price is not right

I picked up a Harmony 555 for £40 three years ago which also can control up to 15 devices but has a monochrome soft-key screen so much easer on the batteries. Wouldn't be without it although it took a while and some patience to set it up way I want it.

I agree that the web interface is clunky compared to the much slicker local app but some things seem to be only doable using the former.

But will it help Arthur Dent ...

... get a nice hot cup of tea?

Wouldn't work on me

For the simple reason I use a wrap around phone cover in normal use and have to let the flap swing free and easy away from the back of the phone to let the dog see the rabbit. :D

Wot? Not 4oD or Demand 5 on launch?

One to keep an eye on for the Christmas after next then.

Crazy idea. DTT is a much more efficient use of limited resources for one to many broadcasting than is the internet for the larger values of many we are talking about here.

If there are enough users with the knowledge and experience perhaps the adminstrator can be persuaded to make the firmware open source?

I have been running three twin-tuner PVRs for several years now. Really is needed for making sure you do not get clashes on late-finishing / early-starting B2B recordings on different channels and for capturing all the F1 and other live sports coverage.

This is surely breaking the standard

Something you have + Something you know

tenet of secure athentification? Unless you also still have to enter a PIN or somesuch as well?

Griffin FM transmitter

Shame this does not work off batteries as well as the aux power socket as when parked up waiting for the next delivery my van turns off the power unless I keep the ignition or sidelights on. I have a cheap far eastern knock off transmitter which keeps the rechargable batteries fully topped up and does the job despite the tacky build quality (the tuning buttons fell off on day 2).

Humax Foxsat HDR remote response / Deleting lots

As well as making sure you have removed both films from the front panel (there is a second one behind the flap) look to see if you have one of the models which has the coating all the way across with no clear hole left where the sensor is. If so you can scrape the coating off in front of the sensor to significantly improve the remote response.

To delete lots and lots and leave it to chug away move all recordings to be deleted to one folder (or to the top level) then Select All in that folder then Delete. Time for lunch.

Warm air does not leak out. Cold air leaks in.

Inputs schminputs

If you need more connectivity then either get an AV amp which will have more inputs than you can shake a stick at or if you really are happy with the weedy audio of flat-screen TV sets then use an HDMI switch.

Only available in black ...

... for us boys who do not like to sport girly colours. :(

A new bottleneck then?

If the computer has to spend so much effort making sense of my muddled thoughts.

Smart TV is a straight-jacket

Who wants the crippled access offered by Smart TV sets? The functionality offered is a tiny subset of what is available using a dedicated open box such as a nettop.

Still crippled after all these years

All these devices (PS3 included) do not give you unfettered access to IPTV content whatever the source, whatever the format. Instead your are nannied into only having what they want you to have by channelling you through their portal. I use a nettop which does not have any of these restrictions.

Does it do audio transcoding?

Needed to get true digital surround through most (all?) AV amps.

Like downloading the internet

Like downloading the internet.

Psion 3 series

I loved my 3c and replaced it with a 3mx but it had to go when the screen ribbon cable failed one more time. A weakness that has put me of flip-phones and slider phones to this day. One thing not mentioned is running it for a month or more on one set of batteries which means you could be away in the wilds for ages which is not what you can do with a modern energy-munching smartphone.

But, but, but

A truly secure OS does not allow any 3rd party software to compromise it.

Buth with a two-stroke ...

... every other stroke is a bang Twice as many as a four-stroke. :)

Who?

As a non-Daily Mail reading music lover with eclectic tastes I have no idea who Nick Cave is. Must be from the 80s - the decade that music forgot.

Why the fuss?

As a delivery driver I have always carried a work mobile and a panic alarm as well as the van being tracked.

Banks uses integer arithmetic ...

... or they should.

The only FP routines in all the mass of code run by the bank I used to work for was in computing mortgage repayments.