Sunday, 26 May 2013

Whos On Heart Winning Names

The Whos on Heart competition running since Jan 2013 has finally been won and a lucky listener of Heart Radio has won themselves £125,000!

The names of the winning voices are:

David Duchovny
Jamie Bell
Belinda Carlisle


Whos On Heart Names of the Winning voices
Whos On Heart Winning Names


I'm sure Heart were very pleased with the competition as I'm sure that it raised more money for them than the cost of the prizes due to the premium rate phone line that they used but one listener has walked away with a great result!

Wednesday, 17 April 2013

Acer Aspire V5 Memory Config - How Many RAM Slots/How much RAM can be fitted?

We've recently bought an Acer Aspire V5 laptop and prior to purchase had great difficulty finding out the default memory configuration to see how many slots for RAM were available and how many were used.

Our Acer Apsire V5 had a Pentium B987 processor with 4Gb RAM installed. This is a single RAM chip that occupies one of the two slots available.

If you want to upgrade the RAM in your Acer Apsire V5 then you can add another RAM chip into the memory slot up to 8GB so giving a total of 12GB. If you replace the original RAM you could go as high as 16Gb of memory in your Acer Apsire V5

Tuesday, 2 April 2013

Google Censorship Protecting Scams

Are you aware how much Google is now protecting scams in the UK by censoring search results?

It is now possible for companies to get information removed from Google so that it isn't visible in the UK but is available elsewhere.

So the UK version of this blog only shows a Google page warning content has been removed.

http://modelling-advice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/luxe-models-review-is-it-free-are-kube.html

But if you are outside the UK and able to view the US version of the site the information is still visible

modelling-advice.blogspot.com/ncr/2013/01/luxe-models-review-is-it-free-are-kube.html

Is this really what we want to be happening in the UK?

Certainly if information is illegal or defamatory there should be a process to get it removed but factual, true information being deleted with no legal process would make even the Chinese government proud of our systems.

Shame on you Google, maybe "Do no evil" doesn't matter when you are now a massive company!

Friday, 22 March 2013

VW Injector Recall for Golf Passat TDI Models

VW are sending letters to all owners of VW Passats with Diesel PD140 and VW Golf 170BHP engines for the injectors to be checked and replaced. Apparently the failure rate of these has been exessively high and when they fail the car engine stops immediately so it is a fairly important safety issue.


VW Passat Volkswagen Golf TDI Diesel Piezo Injector Replacement Recall
VW Passat Volkswagen Golf TDI Diesel Piezo Injector Replacement Recall: Photo credit : 1810martin
My VW Passat 2007 Sport went to the main dealer yesterday and all 4 piezo injectors were replaced as part of this replacement programme. Not bad at all when some owners have previously been charged over £1000 for a single injector to be replaced! Even better when the car has over 125,000 miles on the clock and these should last the same mileage again

I have been very impressed with the way Volkswagen handle warranty and safety related issues on their cars. Some time ago when I owned a VW Golf Mark 2 it was recalled for replacement of the heater matrix. Quite incredible when the car was 13 years old at the time and the original matrix had clearly worked ok for all that time.

More info about the VW Passat injectors can be found here

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Whos On Heart Name Ideas

The first correct guess for Whos on Heart was David Duchovny.

I'm absolutely convinced that another one of the voices is DIDO. She wasn't guessed as an answer for the 2012 Whos on Heart competition and hasn't yet been given as one of the names for Whos on Heart 2013.

If you manage to get through give the name a try - if you win the £20,000 or £125,000 as a result remember you read it here first and a few quid won't go amiss!

Monday, 11 March 2013

New Email Spam Attacks with Weblink, Account Name and Date March 2013

There seems to have been a massive increase in email spam that is getting past spam filters over the last week or so. The messages appear to be sent from compromised email accounts that then distribute spam to all the people in their contact list.

The format of the mssages is a link to a website followed by the account name and sometimes a date as per the messages below:

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http://www.occamobile.com/qeru/smmht/dddcb/ezyig/tli/ywdxl/mbgdx.fng

Pedal Lovers
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http://www.pedeplanta.com/tc/doa/nrbg/hrxp/msfuk/lcna

 3/9/2013 11:02:09 AM
Becky Marshall
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Friday, 8 March 2013

Fujitsu Lifebook AH512 Pentium B960 Laptop Review

Fujitsu Lifebook AH512 Pentium B960 Windows 8 Laptop Review


The Fujitsu Lifebook AH512 with Intel Pentium B960 2.2GHz processor is a bargain priced laptop but with some premium features not consistent with a price of £240 from Ebuyer.com. The standard  Lifebook AH512 laptop comes with only 2Gb of RAM but this is installed as single chip so it is easy to upgrade as there is second DIMM slot free. At the time of purchase I bought an additional 8Gb RAM to upgrade. This was easily fitted - once the rather stiff rear panel was removed - to bring the spec up to 10Gb RAM which is an ideal amount for Windows 8 to use for decent performance.