Can anyone tell me if Channel 5 has an iPlayer please. I want to watch the Butterflies Christmas special of yonks ago shown last night. Thank you in advance.
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Lazy bugger! - http://www.five.tv/watch Although can't see Butterflies.
If I log into eBay or Paypal on one computer, and then log out, another computer refuses to believe my password. I can change it, but then the first computer doesn't recognise it. What's going on?
Try clearing cookies on each computer?
I am looking for a gadget via which one person can communicate with another quickly, discreetly and clearly.
Ideally with noise, e.g. 1 noise for urgent help, a different noise for non-urgent help and a short text facility.
I would need one unit for the primary user to keep and a second unit that can be used by any other person.
Something discreet and portable, perhaps to fit in a pocket or clip to a belt.
Any ideas please?
Your local council will have access to facilities whereby an aged or disabled person can have a gadget on a neck chain which when pressed uses the phone to call an emergency vetting service, who can then call out ambulance or police or whatever.
Quote: billwill @ January 20 2011, 12:15 AM GMTYour local council will have access to facilities whereby an aged or disabled person can have a gadget on a neck chain which when pressed uses the phone to call an emergency vetting service, who can then call out ambulance or police or whatever.
thanks Billwill.My husband is called Bill and my son is Will so your name always looks a bit odd to me 
I don't want a community alarm as they are called as it is not portable, you can't text on it and I don't want it just for emergencies, as sometimes assistance is needed but it is not urgent. I was thinking more like those things Doctors have in hospitals - I'm not sure what functions they have - just that they beep and maybe the doc gets a message or the beep means phone someone or come urgently. That's a bit of a messy description, I don't know how else to describe it. Almost like a walkie talkie I suppose, but without the talkie and more discreet.
Quote: Loopey @ January 19 2011, 8:29 PM GMTI am looking for a gadget via which one person can communicate with another quickly, discreetly and clearly.
Ideally with noise, e.g. 1 noise for urgent help, a different noise for non-urgent help and a short text facility.
I would need one unit for the primary user to keep and a second unit that can be used by any other person.
Something discreet and portable, perhaps to fit in a pocket or clip to a belt.
Any ideas please?
I hear these new "mobile phones" are quite good 
Quote: Loopey @ January 20 2011, 12:08 PM GMTI was thinking more like those things Doctors have in hospitals - I'm not sure what functions they have - just that they beep and maybe the doc gets a message ....
They're pagers. But mobiles have made them a bit obsolete now, haven't they?
Quote: Lee Henman @ January 20 2011, 12:26 PM GMTI hear these new "mobile phones" are quite good
I haven't yet found a mobile that will send a coded noise or text to another at the touch of one button ie, no selecting of noise or number to send it to. It won't be used for anything else, no speech needed.
Quote: Griff @ January 20 2011, 12:56 PM GMTHow would phone A send two different types of call to phone B so that phone B rings with the two different ringtones for urgent/non-urgent that Loopey is wanting? (This might well be possible. I don't know much about mobiles).
You got it - I was typing my reply to the other message while you were posting this. It explains what I am trying to say more clearly than I did. I want unit A to communicate withunit B and B will be in the hands of different people, depending on situation. A will always be with the same person.
Quote: Loopey @ January 20 2011, 12:08 PM GMTthanks Billwill.My husband is called Bill and my son is Will so your name always looks a bit odd to me
I don't want a community alarm as they are called as it is not portable, you can't text on it and I don't want it just for emergencies, as sometimes assistance is needed but it is not urgent. I was thinking more like those things Doctors have in hospitals - I'm not sure what functions they have - just that they beep and maybe the doc gets a message or the beep means phone someone or come urgently. That's a bit of a messy description, I don't know how else to describe it. Almost like a walkie talkie I suppose, but without the talkie and more discreet.
As they have said, those were called pagers, but generally they worked by a person using an ordinary phone to call a specific number that was the pager. Some had text facilities, most just displayed the phone number of the caller.
They are effectively obsolete as a general facility I suspect, replaced by mobile phones. The Doctor ones you saw on telly would have been a local facility with a small transmitter in the hospital. I suspect those too have been obsoleted by mobile phones.
I suspect that what you need is simply a clever mobile phone with facilities to program those desired alerts by simple key presses, which send preprogrammed txts.
Maybe the cleverness has to be in the receiving phone as well, eg. on receiving text "XYXX" make sound A.
Quote: billwill @ January 20 2011, 1:02 PM GMTAs they have said, those were called pagers, but generally they worked by a person using an ordinary phone to call a specific number that was the pager. Some had text facilities, most just displayed the phone number of the caller.
They are effectively obsolete as a general facility I suspect, replaced by mobile phones. The Doctor ones you saw on telly would have been a local facility with a small transmitter in the hospital. I suspect those too have been obsoleted by mobile phones.
I suspect that what you need is simply a clever mobile phone with facilities to program those desired alerts by simple key presses, which send preprogrammed txts.
Maybe the cleverness has to be in the receiving phone as well, eg. on receiving text "XYXX" make sound A.
So far this issue has been looked at by the council, assistive technology and health and they haven't come up with any ideas, having decided the phone idea wasn't possible. I wondered if they were looking for something too complicated and thought there may be an easier option in the general world of technology that they hadn't thought of rather than in their specialist fields.
I thought there was probably a simple solution but as you can tell, I don't have enough techno knowledge to know how or where to look. What you have just suggested sounds along the right lines.
Quote: Loopey @ January 20 2011, 1:56 PM GMTSo far this issue has been looked at by the council, assistive technology and health and they haven't come up with any ideas, having decided the phone idea wasn't possible. I wondered if they were looking for something too complicated and thought there may be an easier option in the general world of technology that they hadn't thought of rather than in their specialist fields.
I thought there was probably a simple solution but as you can tell, I don't have enough techno knowledge to know how or where to look. What you have just suggested sounds along the right lines.
Regrettably, I've not studied mobile phones in enough detail to be able to give more than the idea.
Android (the operating system in quite a few new smart phones) is a version of Linux, so all sorts of Apps should be possible. Look (or get hubby to look) for relevant magazines in Bookshops for more info about what smart phones can do.
Quote: billwill @ January 20 2011, 2:18 PM GMTRegrettably, I've not studied mobile phones in enough detail to be able to give more than the idea.
Android (the operating system in quite a few new smart phones) is a version of Linux, so all sorts of Apps should be possible. Look (or get hubby to look) for relevant magazines in Bookshops for more info about what smart phones can do.
Thank you. Much appreciated.
Quote: Loopey @ January 20 2011, 1:56 PM GMThaving decided the phone idea wasn't possible
You can do an awful lot with even the cheapest phone. What about using 'templates' to text? Allocate different ringtones (or bleeps) to each number incoming? This is easy on 10 year-old phones.