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Hi Barry Yes we made a donation some time ago. Some of the characters helping with the rebuild really go to make the show. the parrot & the dog & the guy with only one leg really stand out for me. Along with the ancient wood working machinery, they really have struggled to get it done. We regularly watch the sailing shows, in particular, the Old Seadog, Sophisticated Lady. Nutshell, La Vagabonde to name but a few. Cheers Rosy.

Hi Again Alex. We did acheive our dream. After owning 3 yachts we sold up & bought a 40 ft yacht in Corsica & for the next 3 years, sailed around the Med. Now, we've swallowed the anchor so to speak & settled for watching other liveaboards in various parts of the world on YouTube. One particular series might interest you is about a young Englishman re-building from the keel up a 100+ year old yacht called "Tally Ho" in America. Him & his team have reached the stage of fitting the bulkheads & mast step. this is after around 3 years of the hardest graft you'll ever see, to anyone interested in yacht building, it's a must. This link should take you to the the latest episode "Tally Ho" Happy sailing Rosy.

Hi Alex55 Loved the concept of the show, however the text slides aren't on the screen long enough for me to read. IMO you need to slow it down. Rosy.

I've had lots of flags from YouTube but I'm not on their monetised list. Invariably the flags are for certain countries usuall headed by the USA. If there is one partiularly commercial track I must have, I have mixed it using Audacity with a selection of non copyright clips from various sources, including Eric Matayas Kevin Macleod & lots of others that are out there. Sometimes I'm lucky & YT don't spot it, if they do & it's a selective flag, I ignore it. The worst thing I've had recently is where YT have restricted a number of my shows to viewing by over 18 year olds. Two in particular were based on Wilfred Owen the WW1 war poet. YT mustn't want under 18 year olds to know what happened to their Grandparents. I did protest but it didn't do me any good. Vimeo is less restrictive, but I haven't found a way of live streaming it to my TV yet, there are guides on YT of HOW TO, but they are above my knowledge base. Rosy.

Nice to see a show mainly compsed of video. Rosy

Hi Barry, that text is fine. Rosy.

Barry I view the forum in the dark mode. In your post it is almost impossible to see the text, I had to switch to the default mode to read it. I don't know if you have used coloured text or HTML? Rosy

I would try to do a trial run using their equipment, that should show up any anomalies of compatabily to your shows. Would you be showing exe files or MP4's or something else. What would you use to transfer your shows to their equipment, DVD's Memory sticks etc.? The people inviting you to do a presentation may not be aware there could be incompatabilities. Good luck Rosy

Hi Wideangle, Managed to delete it but not sure I did it the way you said. Maybe someone will post a step by step instruction with pictures? I can't as I have no messages now. If someone sends me a message I will post pictures of how I did it. Rosy Thinking about that, just wideangle send me a message or I may be inundated. Rosy.

I've got one in my PM inbox from barbara, how do I delete it without opening it? Should I disable my in box? Rosy

Did you receive it as a PTE forum PM or an email addressed to you? Rosy

+1 Rosy.

Send Igor a PM with your details. Rosy.

+1 but never used a card reader as the act of removing the card & re-fitting it into the camera can cause faults. I did buy a card reader when I was into gimbals as the manufacturers wanted to transfer info using one. Just keep it for emergencies now. Have one on my PC & LT but never use them. Rosy.

+1 Rosy.

The last time we went to the cinema was when we were on holiday in Herefordshire couple of years ago to see Elton John's "Rocket Man". I wear 2 hearing aids had to take them out during the film felt like my head was going to explode. Got back to the car minus 1 hearing aid, an expensive night out. Great film though. Cheers Rosy.

Hi Tom Not sure if the Sinclair Spectrum preceeds yours, but that was my first foray into computers. Newspapers we get a weekly freeby, The Champion with local news, I read it this evening, took about 10 mins, mostly car adds. Food we get ours delivered from Tesco's every Thursday, costs £10 a month for the service & we can choose an hourly slot, our prescription we order online & collect monthly from the chemists. Books the local mobile library visits once a month & we can pre order what we want, that's free. My ink ran out on Friday on my Canon printer, as it costs more for cartridges so I had bought an HP Deskjet 4 months ago when the Canon said it was running out of ink. Unpacked it, took me an hour to fathom how to fit the cartridges, had to resort to Youtube, finally got them fitted but the document I was trying to print kept telling me I needed to connect a printer. In the end I ordered some Canon cartridges from Amazon, will be here Monday. The HP I disconnected, may try it again later. Started to compose a letter in Apache Open Office Org the realised I could send it by the company I was going to send it to , their reply wizard, even added pics. Life gets very complicated. Last Night at The Proms is on TV which we traditionally watch every year "Rule Britannia" Cheers Rosy

It's a long time since I heard that mentioned! Last night I visited a web site that had a number of video & still images that could be viewed. When I tried to view one, I got the "you need flash player to view these". I remember in the dim & distant past there was lots of controversy about FP, some said you should have it others said you shouldn't, I looked in control panel & couldn't see it, what does the fprum think, should I have it? Rosy Sorry guys & girls, I should have checked before asking, See - Just in case you hadn’t heard, Flash has officially been retired. Flash has security problems and doesn’t run on mobile platforms like iPhone, iPad, and Android. Modern websites have replaced Flash with modern web standards. In fact, Flash is the last browser plug-in to vanish, following in the footsteps of Oracle Java, Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Shockwave, Apple QuickTime, and others. Official support for Flash ended on December 31, 2020. Adobe has removed download links for Flash from its website and will not be updating Flash with any security updates. Adobe has even included a kill switch for Flash content. Starting January 12, 2021, recent versions of the Adobe Flash plug-in will refuse to run Flash content. While Adobe does all that it can to block Flash content from ever running again on the web, there are still some workarounds. Another case of "Engage brain before putting mouth / pen / finger into gear. Rosy

Hi Wideangle. I use a lot of video in my PTE shows, I'm not sure if switching it off would have a detremental effect?

Thanks Wideangle However, I'm still not sure what Game Booster does, I don't want to disrupt somethg that should be left as it is. Bit busy at the moment, but I'll check with Bullguard when I get a minute & post what they say. Regards Rosy. Had to check before I went to bed, Bullguard says "PC tune up Games Booster" Protects your gaming experience from framerate drop outs caused by other programmes.

Hi Michael & Tom Michael sounds like it's not a problem. Thanks for the heads up. Tom it isn't affecting anything I'm doing in PTE as far as I know, it only appears when I come out of PTE & into my desktop. So at the moment I'll work on the priciple of "if it aint broke don't fix it.. The only thing I have noticed in PTE is when I click the toaster part way through the show, it seems to take longer for the show to run full screen. It is a big show though, over 700MB in MP4 & 123mb optimised exe? Maybe when the CPU's loaded it triggers Bullguard? It only appears on the desktop, so there's no hassle at present. Cheers Rosy Tom Just checked the link & yes it's easy to disable it. Next time I'm in PTE I'll try it both ways see if it makes a difference. Maybe it's a form of parental control? Rosy

Hi Tom Bullguard is my new Anti Virus software. My HP PC was 12 months old last month, it came with Norton AVS which was too expensive to renew so I went with Bullguard which I'd used on previous PC's & laptops without problems.? Regs Rosy.

Hi Igor Where would I find it? It sounds like something Nvidia would install. How do you know it's Bullguard? Regards Rosy.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm that's a bit above my pay grade. Thanks Igor. Rosy.

This last few days I've noticed a PTE notification tab has appeared, anyone know why. See screenshot top right corner. It says game booster, I wondered if it was something to do with my Nvidia graphics card? Rosy.