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    Birmingham College Of Food And Domestic Arts

    I assume you mean 1966 not 1996. You should be able to edit your post to change it.
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    Transfer items

    Another option, which is a bit more technical, is as follows. Open the old PC case and take the hard disk out (normally easy to do). Buy a hard disk "caddy" and put the hard disk in it. This makes it like an external hard drive Plug the caddy and hard disk in to the laptops USB port. Copy...
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    Transfer items

    Here is an article that may help. The article does seem to indicate you need to install software on each PC, but I am not sure that applies to all bridging cables. Note I have never done this, nor do I know if the article is up to date or accurate...
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    Transfer items

    DONT plug a normal USB cable in to both devices as I believe this can damage the computers. It needs to be a special type of USB cable (a bridging cable) Easiest way (if they both have USB slots) is to buy a USB memory stick, copy the files from the old PC on to the memory stick, move the...
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    Windows 10

    I have done a search on "TouchPad Driver Diagnostics" and quite a few people are getting it (over a number of years). Seems to happen on a number of laptops when a certain set of keys are pressed. What laptop have you got? All the answers seem to suggest the same thing, updating a file called...
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    Forward Statue

    I always hated the stature and was quite glad when someone set fire to it. It was a cheap badly made statue. One of the things I hated was that the man's arm that was held aloft at the front was totally out of scale. If he had put it by his side his hand would have almost reached the floor...
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    Uploading Pics From Mobile Phone

    You can, but not perhaps the simplest thing to do for "non-technical" people. The method I described is pretty easy for non- technical people.
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    Uploading Pics From Mobile Phone

    When you say "upload" do you mean download from a phone to a computer? Any photo taken on an Android mobile phone is also uploaded to Google Photos on the internet. You can easily download the photo from Google Photos to your computer as follows (these instructions for Windows). Logon to...
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    Scanning

    SOME photos are JPG / JPEG files, however there are many image formats. A new format that is slowly replacing JPG as it is designed for the internet is PNG. However JPG will be fine as it is a long standing format supported by all image programs.
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    Good music to listen to on U Tube

    This is pretty amazing. One guy singing all the main songs from the musical Les Miserables (men's AND women's songs). He plays 9 characters, each shown in a little "box" and the video is so well made that while he is singing in one "box" he is often looking at the "box" of the person or people...
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    Arctic Convoys

    There was a program on TV just yesterday (BBC 4 I think) called PQ17 An Arctic Convoy Disaster. More about it here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03n3297 Does not seem to be available on BBC iPlayer but not sure if it is on another "catch up" service
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    Bingley Hall

    Hi Mike, do you mean 1912 edition not 1812 edition?
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    Sandwell Hall - lodge

    More on Dartmouth Park here https://www.westbromwichhistory.com/people-places/dartmouth-park/ More on the monastary here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwell_Priory
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    Ad blockers

    If you have not got a smartphone and mobile phone number you cant run Whatsapp. It relies on a mobile phone number on a smartphone for the initial set up (that's how it connects other WhatsApp users, via a mobile phone number). So no Smartphone no Whatsapp.
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    Curzon Street Railway Station

    The tram line currently is just one "line" (Wolverhampton to Broad Street return) so all trams just go back and froward up and down this one line. However once we get the extra "leg" down to the HS2 station and then on to Digbeth I assume SOME trams will go Broad St, New Street station...
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    Curzon Street Railway Station

    This station is going to be HUGE, running way behind Moor St station, even past the Woodman pub and the old Curzon St station. While the design for the station has not been finalized this image gives an idea of how long it is going to be. You can clearly see it goes past the Woodman pub and...
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    West Midlands Metro trams 2020

    SOME of the roads where the trams run are trams only, other are not, and it is rather confusing for drivers. The problem you always have is that there are hotels or other businesses that need deliveries so some vehicles still need to go up roads where trams run. As I understand it: Pinfold...
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    West Midlands Metro trams 2020

    I realise many of you don't go up to the centre of Birmingham for one reason or another (such as living in other parts of the UK, or even living abroad) but still like to keep up to date with what is going on in the city. So here are a few photos showing the latest section of the tram line that...
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    Curzon Street Railway Station

    I guess it depends where it is in relation to the trains lines and station. If it is under where the rails go that come in and out the station they wont be able to do that "glass floor" option. I was up in that area on Sunday (in the rain) and noticed that part of the tarmac had gone in Curzon...
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    Belmont Row and Cardigan Street

    Funnily enough I went up to Birmingham on Sunday (in the rain) and took a couple of photos of this building and I was going to post them today.
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