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In the early and mid 1980s (just after I had moved from London to Birmingham) I went round the Broad St area taking photos while they rebuilt the whole area (ICC, NIA, Brindley place etc). I then went back a few years ago (2010 / 2011) and retook many of the photos from the same place, to get a...

A lot of people don't realise that if you have an Android phone and are logged on to your phone with a Gmail account ALL the photos and videos on your phone are automatically uploaded to Google Photos on the web (depending on settings on your phone). You can logon to Google Photos on the...

Some one at the start of this topic mentioned Faggots as being a bundle of wood or firewood. The term "Faggots" was used in Tudor times to refer to firewood. I read a book a few months ago about Tudor times and when they burned someone at the stake the book said they put "faggots" round the...

Some of you may have seen on the news today (9th April 2019) a UK man put in prison for 6 years for blackmailing people using Ransomware attacks on their computer. Ransomware attacks are very nasty but there are things you can do to protect yourself from them. What is Ransomware? - Ransomware...

To help those who don't understand the technology A "server" is normally a large more powerful computer used as a "central" computer by a company or organization. An "i7" relates to the power of the Intel CPU (Central processing Unit). All computers, tablets and phones have a CPU (the "brain"...

Yes I did say that in my first update at 11:02. They still have the huge "Moby Dicks" sign in their small outdoor courtyard Surely they dont need the apostrophe !

Following on from my TWO updates above here is a photo of the Eagle and Ball pub and what is left of Penn Street. Photo taken in 2014. As you can see from the sign on the side of the pub Penn Street goes off to the left, but only for a short distance and then buildings have been built over it...

Following on from my update above, here is a photo I took in 2014 (from Gopsal Street) showing how much development was going on in the area. All these buildings are for the BCU (Birmingham City University) as they moved from Perry Barr. Note the area in Perry Barr the BCU moved FROM is now...

Here is a photo of Penn Street that I took in Oct 2009 after most of the buildings in the area had been knocked down. Rock Mount would have been about half way up on the the left. The building at the far end of Penn St is a pub (as can be seen in the old map above). It is still there and has...

The station is going to be a long station and some of it will run alongside Curzon St. And while the "front" entrance to the HS2 station will be next to Moor St station I understand the station itself will also have an entrance half way along the station, alongside Curzon Street (near the...

I have a feeling that My Space "lost" all these old files because they could not be bothered to migrate all this old data. This is always a risk with any data stored online or in the cloud. However JUST having files stored in your house on any media (external hard drives, DVD etc) is at risk...

Hi, If you scroll to the very bottom of the BHS home web page you see there is a whole section for Computer Help https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?forums/computer-help.94/ I use a free product called Paint.Net which can do all you want, but not sure if it the best or the easiest...

Looks like they only use Flash now on older computers (Windows XP) or older browsers and now use HTML5. The help says: "There are two media players used across bbc.co.uk (Flash and HTML5). If we give you Flash player by default and you want to switch to HTML5 head over to bbc.co.uk/html5 where...

And of course many older buildings like this are full of asbestos so could not be used "as is". Also they are not easy to update for modern wiring, heating, health and safety and so on. Birmingham was full of many of these type of small factories which are just not needed any more...

Here it is from Google Maps. I have walked past it a number of times when walking round taking photos in the city centre, but must admit I have never really "noticed" it before.

While you can download W10 from that site for free you do need a W10 license (as it says on that site). However IF a computer has already had an official version of W10 on it then you don't need a license to reinstall W10 as Microsoft keep a copy of the hardware specifications when W10 is first...

I doubt it, they could not ship Windows without a browser, if they did how would you go to the internet to download another browser? However it does look like Edge will undertake a major redesign, the internal HTML engine will be changed to the Chromium one (also used in Google Chrome). This...

According to this web site there is built in DVD burning in Windows 10 (as there was in Windows 7) https://www.easytechguides.com/burn-a-cd-or-dvd-in-windows-10.html You can PLAY DVDs (and other media files such as MP4 etc) with the free software called VLC. Download it from here...

Copy all these files OFF the floppy disk and on to your computer hard disk. That way you at least have a "good" copy on your hard disk. However note that inside the floppy disk is a material similar to VHS tapes (soft "floppy" material) and this sort of material can degrade over time so you...

If you created the DVD when W10 was free then this would have been an old build of W10 on the DVD. However you could have download the latest build of W10 "for free" and installed that, Microsoft make the LATEST W10 code available for anyone to download and install on the following website. So...