UK Amazon Kindle Forum discussion

What do you lot reckon?

http://m.imgur.com/gallery/BUgcd

Cc cleaner's good bit of kit, provided you're confident that you won't delete anything you shouldn't / want to keep.

I don't know what I want to keep - you ought to see my wardrobe!

This is an excellent programme. I use it in conjunction with KeyScrambler, which is also free, and protects against keyloggers and more.

CCleaner is ok on general crap and also the registry. It might sound scary, but the registry should be cleaned also if your computer's running slow or taking a long time to boot. ALWAYS create a restore point before running programs that alter your registry.

The paint program sounds ok if someone wants to dabble creating their own book cover, or just cleaning up a photo.

CCleaner - yup
Flux - used by Sophie, likes it
CCCP - prefer Klite myself
Notepad ++ - What?? When are you going to use that?
Malwarebytes - yup
Spyshelter - Never used it, never needed to.
Chromium - Up to you if you feel paranoid enough. If you're going to use that then you need DuckDuckGo as your search engine (duckduckgo.com).
Paint.net - Never used it.
FAR Manager - pointless. If you want DOS go to eBay and buy an old computer. And a dot matrix printer while you're at it. Oh, and a dial up modem.
qBittorrent - never used it. Moved to Vuze as I used a proxy. Dumped all that and now use a seedbox. Brilliant, you'd never go back.

Now, let's go back to basics. Patti, what's the problem that you are trying to solve?

She was googling for some spec wipes and saw C Cleaner!

But this is really what she was looking for : http://bacontoday.com/bacon-apps-for-...

Yeah, that sounds more like her.

I just came across the list and thought I'd share it.

And now I must download some bacon apps.

Geoff (G. Robbins) (The noisy passionfruit) wrote: "CCleaner - yup
Flux - used by Sophie, likes it
CCCP - prefer Klite myself
Notepad ++ - What?? When are you going to use that?
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I use Notepad++ to format my work to upload to Amazon. What do you use? (Maybe I should point out that I don't use Microsoft Word.)

Sorry Lydia, I'm a geek not an author. If you are looking for an alternative to Word, I would recommend the excellent freeware alternative, Open Office. All the features of Microsoft Office without the cost. Also, it has a high degree of MSO compatibility.

As a geek I tend to see Notepad++ as a programming text editor rather than a word processing system.

Ooh, a TLA!!!

Tim wrote: "Ooh, a TLA!!!"

I'm a geek, dammit, what do you expect?

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I just came across the list and thought I'd share it.

And now I must download some bacon apps."

A word of warning : the apps are NOT edible!

Nor are they scratch and sniff.

That's disappointing.

Tim wrote: "Ooh, a TLA!!!"

I'm more of a MFLA man myself

Maryland Foreign Language Association or Master Farm and Land Appraiser?

Jim wrote: "Tim wrote: "Ooh, a TLA!!!"

I'm more of a MFLA man myself"

Multiple Fleecy Land Animals?

Mystical Floating Lambent Artichokes?

Meaningless four letter acronym

TLA, of course stands for Transient Lost Animal.

I thought it meant Three Llama Army.

Three-legged Ants. All kids know that.

Here it is, just for Patti:
http://www.getjar.com/mobile/743773/b...

Live wallpaper of frying bacon, complete with sound!!!
How will you resist licking that screen?

Geoff (G. Robbins) (The noisy passionfruit) wrote: "Sorry Lydia, I'm a geek not an author..."
Apologies - I did wonder after hitting "Send" whether I'd made an assumption. True, as a word processing programme it would be horrid. But if you've converted your word-processed document to HTML, Notepad++ is good for making it a cleaner file.

Does anyone know Windows 10 at all????
I am trying to get my email. I used to just click on the mail tab but that does absolutely nothing since changing to Windows 10!! It is driving me insane

Emma (Queen of the weirdo's) wrote: "Does anyone know Windows 10 at all????
I am trying to get my email. I used to just click on the mail tab but that does absolutely nothing since changing to Windows 10!! It is driving me insane"

On a thread somewhere recently I was lambasted for saying I was holding on for a year before installing the (irrevocable) Windows 10. Since then I have seen on the bookshelf magazines dedicated to nothing else but removing all the hidden Windows 10 spyware, adbots and stuff that only benefits Microsoft. I have seen another dedicated to explaining how to get Windows 10 to actually work the way it should.

I'm still hanging on, so sorry Emma, can't help you except suggest you go direct to your ISP to view your emails.

Yeah, that is what I am doing! Thank you :-)

Emma (Queen of the weirdo's) wrote: "Does anyone know Windows 10 at all????
I am trying to get my email. I used to just click on the mail tab but that does absolutely nothing since changing to Windows 10!! It is driving me insane"

I'm using Win 10, but I never use the Windows app things, so I have no idea. Sorry.

I presume your email is set up in the mail app and all that?

I've used Thunderbird for email for so long, I have no idea how anything else works these days.

I clicked the "Get Windows 10" button on my Mac's Bootcamp thingy, about a month ago. All that happened was I got a message saying we'll think about downloading it to your PC in the next few weeks.

So I unloaded Bootcamp and went back to OS X. At least when Apple releases a new OS, it's an immediate download.

Pete wrote: "Emma (Queen of the weirdo's) wrote: "Does anyone know Windows 10 at all????
I am trying to get my email. I used to just click on the mail tab but that does absolutely nothing since changing to Wind..."

http://www.webuser.co.uk/latest-issue
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/lates...
http://uk.pcmag.com/operating-systems...

Yup -I think I'll wait a little longer!

Is anyone else trying Vivaldi? What do you think? (I know it's still at the Beta stage).

If I knew how to introduce a handle onto my postings it would probably be 'technologically challenged'. It took me quite a while to realise (intuitively?!) that, because there's no 'Go' button on the Vivaldi address bar, you have to hit 'enter' to access a site..
.Apart from that, it seems a lot less irritating than Edge - yes, I 'm using Windows 10, but have gone for Libreoffice.

Elizabeth wrote: "Is anyone else trying Vivaldi? What do you think? (I know it's still at the Beta stage).

If I knew how to introduce a handle onto my postings it would probably be 'technologically challenged'. It ..."

Yup -I think I'll wait a little longer!

In all probabilities this may be a little on the hopeful side, but here goes. Recently purchased a Amazon Fire advertised with Alexia or Alexanderia and her imminent arrival. Only there is no sight of her, so wondered if anyone had heard of any unofficial chatter amongst their gossiping circles as readers seem to be more keen on these assistants.

Need Alexandria to define a few words for I without getting in the way of my read.

Alexa, gosh that was embarrasing, anywho still no trace not even an Alex around.. sigh come on geeks help!

I'd try to help but I have no idea what you're talking about.

I had no idea either, but I googled it and found this:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...

and this

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/amazon-al...

Apparently, Alexa is an app which manages alarms, music and shopping lists. You can download it from Amazon, but it is not supported by Kindle Fire (1st Generation), Kindle Fire (2nd Generation), Kindle Fire HD 7" (2nd Generation), and Kindle Fire HD 8.9" (2nd Generation).

It seems to be similar to Apple's Siri or Microsoft's Cortana.

If your Kindle Fire has Alexa, my guess is that you would need to switch it on somehow. I use Siri on iphone and ipad by holding down the home button. Maybe it's something similar?

First it might be sensible to see if Alexa is listed on your apps list.

Geoff (G. Robbins) (merda constat variat altitudo) wrote: "Sorry Lydia, I'm a geek not an author. If you are looking for an alternative to Word, I would recommend the excellent freeware alternative, Open Office. All the features of Microsoft Office without..."

I thoroughly endorse Geoff's recommendation.

Will wrote: "I had no idea either, but I googled it and found this:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...

and this

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/amazon-al......"

Thanks for looking Will, my first step in the search for her was to get the Alexa app for Fire 8HD 2016v (only one version of app on the Amazon servers) but as you have rightly guessed Alexa refuses to turn on, app couldn't detect her either. Think its high time I stopped scrapping the barrel and swallowed my diy geeky pride and asked around in a straight forward manner amongst the Amazon.co.uk community. My best approach rather than flooding any other fan board for fear of losing face.

Apologies, as I was so consumed in the tech, I over looked the newbie geek. Yes, Alexa is a voice assistant; not only to work over internet protocol but also on the device itself to control various features such as alarms and calender etc.

It is similar to Microsoft's Cortana and Apple's Siri, but I have no-experience with these. I have used "hello Google" feature on an Android mobile in the past before its demise (mobile's, was a cheap unregisterable Chineese device, not my smartest move - given what these data magnets collect) my only other experience with a voice assistant but the always on mic got a tad creepy. I was hoping just to activate Alexa for a few pages at a time, so not to be a drain, but aless.

Just been rooted around from America to Phillipines in attempting to gather an official response to the appearance of Alexa on Fire, took upto 80 mins on the shitty return call back voip. It seems she hasn't come to stay, and only uses the Fire as a remote pad and her real home is some drop device £50 or Echo speaker at £150 a piece via bluetooth. Talk about fussy, declining the fine hardware in my Fire.

Read some more unoffical reports, which rumored no she is coming to the Fire device. Anyway, I shan't miss a beat either way. Seems all humans must be hooked to some dirty sensed humor line, which all of my messages on here are but to entertain, sigh sick world. Leechers got to eat i suppose, can't believe we share the same earth though.

It is 2016, a few years on since when the first Kindles (electronic-readers) were introduced, I am not on a Kindle device but a Amazon Tablet which can run Kindle ebooks (Fire 8HD).

In all these years, I am suprised customers haven't pressed for a logical page numbering system to the ebooks. Perhaps, I am missing something, can anyone explain this to I? In the early days, when I first started using a Kindle, the device called 'Kindle-keyboard', I put this annoyance down to: just an issue to be improved and the crease to be ironed out in a simple, software update. Yet, it seems the difficult-to-understand page numbering has continued and become a notorious feature, as has the percentage calculator on the reading progress. Surely if one can calculate a percentage, would it not be easier to display the sum? I click next page, and it jumps in values of the hundredth for instance, but then even if I am able to deduce a pattern, the one-page incremental turns do not stay proportional in their value between each turn and remain an illogical puzzle...... Yet my reading speed can be calculated.. sigh.....just 1,2,3.. really not asking for much..or being too difficult if consideration is made as to the context; man will few options but to bring out the paperback-Emma out again on his commutes, much to the distress of the social norms around here. Sitting on a bus passing by a girls school at home time, some grumps think you are being a perv, (and the frowning authority deliberately sends some hoops your way wanting a comment)...no need.....put this up your cloud... cos your suspicious ways are frowned on by my authority.

I am doing the best to find some sense to your norms; in your books, in your acts, in your topics of converse, in your world order outlook; you got to work with I not against I. You asked for data to be clouded, this user will send data up, read away, don't try to restrict.

Not sure why you feel it necessary to use such convoluted language to ask your question, Saad.

Most books now use page numbers. You need to set your reading device to recognise them.

Allow I to make you certain, of any annoyance rightly conveyed in the chosen manner of writing. I am in the process of having my data wiped clean over an erroneous rogue error in Wordpress app, that won't do as instructed and delete my data despite giving the impression it has. Sorry if the writing is right to convey the annoyance with tech. Out of respect to such companies or brands we are told to avoid calling them out per say, so not to harm their business or trade, so techniques in writing maybe developed to skirt around the skirt board, or perhaps let one annoyance affect another in writings expressed when really all it needs is a pulling out of a nail exactly where its been incorrectly whacked..... any better?

I will re examine the page numbers thanks.

Gone through all the settings, just as the convoluted nature of my writing is unknown to you, and you have the opportunity to ask directly, without fear of extortion, I am afraid the same cannot be said in my case. I have to ring around voip-ing with cs agents for simple questions, to settings that should by all sensible reason arrive as standard. The 'setting of page numbers' you mention without any steps is more convoluted to follow than any in-depth-annoyance I make you privileged to.

Minor remark with respect to the excellent free-ware alternative to Micro$oft Office. As a result of fall-out from Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems, the program you want is now called 'Libre Office'. The same thing, but improved, and without Oracle's paws anywhere near it. "Oracle" and "Free" aren't words that can comfortably co-exist in the same sentence.

Hip hip ho ray... no shoot,

Haha, fired the fire up a council recycling facility getting robbed of my gadgets, but 9 months on and able to enjoy eBooks on a Windows 10 gaming tablet.

Good to be back on here, good bye to fire, inverted windows touchscreen tab is a beauty to read, got Cortana to define too.

Now I know my king James from my good news, let the good times role..with a powerbank or two.