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I am listening to near silence after swapping out my laptop hard drive with a Solid State Drive! Nice and quick, quiet, cooler (both heat and geek wise) and better for the battery! ......Winning!

Hitting F8 is somewhat of a skill, you have a very small a precise time window in which to get it, we recommend tapping F8 repeatedly to ensure it loads, then once you are in those menus you have to use Enter once you have selected the correct options.

Although it depends on what you want the outcome to be, repair your computer will bring up a set of options with repair tools to fix start up errors etc. Not really used to restore the machine to factory settings, you'd want to choose Reinstall Windows, which shows as an option, although remember to back up all of your documents.

Gmail Not Working For Some iOS Device Users; Google Working On Fix.

Google has acknowledged the issue and is working on the fix:

"We're aware of a problem where Apple Mail IMAP users are unable to sync with their Gmail account and are seeing a username and password error. We have found that a vast majority of users are exceeding IMAP bandwidth limits and are continuing to investigate"

There is a thread about this open on their product forum:

Google Groups

Independent web analytics firm StatCounter confirms milestone as Chrome overtakes IE globally for first calendar month

After weeks of speculation, Google's Chrome has unseated Microsoft Internet Explorer to become the world's top internet browser for the first time for a full calendar month in May, according to StatCounter, the independent website analytics company. The firm's research arm StatCounter Global Stats says that Chrome surpassed IE for the first full day back in March and the achievement of the weekly milestone was widely reported on 21 May.

http://gs.statcounter.com/

Finally Google have release a native Chrome browser for the IOS devices (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch)
It provides syncing of your bookmarks from your desktop version of Chrome, and is very speedy!
You can download it from here... enjoy

I have come across this before and is a great little tool.

Our site comes out with pretty bad scores, but because of our business its almost a must that you have a computer to view our site!
Although our site looks very nice on the iPad and other tablet devices, but I must admit we do get a lot of visits from mobile devices according to our analytic.

I would definitely say that if you were running an online store of forum, it would be a big advantage to optimize your site for visits from all devices.

lol, we never looked like winning, we made hard work of Sweden!
My wife is Spanish so I am hoping that they don't win again, she turns into football fan when ever Spain are playing in a tournament, yet won't let me watch the premier league matches in peace!
I am sure the in-laws will be calling soon to gloat!

I had yammer at an old company I worked for and it's a complete rip off of Facebook just minus the apps.

It looks almost identical and has most of the main functionality, surprised they haven't been sued into oblivion by the might Facebook!

I didn't realise how popular it was, certainly wasn't well adopted at my old place that was for sure

I think Microsoft had to do something like this, Windows 8 is squarely aimed at the tablet market and to avoid a load of issue with hardware compatibility and to ensure that the devices are considered reliable and stable they have ensured that they have their own hardware, basically following the Apple model

It works for tablets because you are less likely to treat a tablet like a PC and expect to need to re-install an operating system on it, or take out the hard drive in the future and then need to re-install the OS, many of the problems from a PC will not follow across to a tablet platform. They will be more locked down and more disposable, the biggest issue will be the warranty and support, having stores gives Apple the edge, but if MS had a smart and easy system to pick up and return like a lot of the hard drive manufacturers have in place, then it would be a good option.

And to be honest Windows 7 is rock solid, I can't remember the last time it crashed or gave me any problems

Google's main problem is the fact that to save space on their servers, they convert almost every item uploaded to HTML and this causes a lot of issues with formatting. I think for some documents it's not that noticeable and forgivable, but others will mean you'll have little choice but to look elsewhere.
I think that Google drive will use the same policies and technology, although I may be wrong.