spikey

Thank you gentlemen,

Not an Ebay thing, and face-to-face is not an option due to the distance between parties. I had this vague idea that you could go into a post office, hand over cash, and it would magically get to the seller? In these particular circumstances (only!) I'm happy to take the risk of the seller getting my cash but not dispatching the goods. Cash payment is my idea, not the seller's. It's to do with the maintenance of domestic harmony ... It would be nice to make it work, but I won't cry if it's not feasible.

If I wish to buy an item from a private seller and would prefer to pay in cash, is there a way of doing this so that neither party is exposed to the risk of not receiving either their item or their money? (Both ends of the transaction would be in the UK).

I use a Bluetooth mouse with my Chromebook. Could I use a pair of Bluetooth headphones at the same time, or is Bluetooth a one-thing-at-a-time system?

Oh bless you kind sir. An explanation and a work-round. Mrs Spikey says thank you very much indeed.

My lady wife uses Photos on her Windows 11 laptop to look at her photos, and has just discovered the "full screen" facility which she activates by clicking on the double arrows thingy in the bottom right-hand corner of the page upon which the photo opens. She is now vexed to discover that some of the pretty pictures she's downloaded off her gardening sites initially open "full screen" but then immediately shrink to not "full screen". Can anyone please tell me what's going on? Why is full screen sometimes not full screen?

Problem solved - I've just discovered that I can blog the rebuild and allow comments.

I am engaged in rebuilding an old musical instrument, about which I have (and will keep having) questions to ask of folk who are knowledgeable about such things. I have joined the appropriate FB group which is very helpful to me, but I don't want to bombard it with my questions every few days. It occurred to me that I could document the rebuild on a blog-type thing, upon which I could invite folk to comment. Can you in fact comment on a blog? Or is there perhaps some other way of achieving the same end? Suggestions welcome!

A few years ago I got a couple of reels of red 1" masking tape from Wilko which was to some extent "plasticky": sort of halfway between the paper stuff and electrician's tape.. It still tore easily, but was slightly stretchy and more robust than the usual white crepe paper type. It was the dog's danglers for labelling wires and whatnot. If anyone recognises what I'm on about and knows of an online source of it (any colour), I'd be very glad to know of it.

I thank you sincerely for taking the trouble to post that, but frankly I simply couldn't be doing with all that faffing. At my age, life's too short. I now know that I was thinking of BreezeBrowser, which is exactly what I need. Unfortunately it's no longer free, but at least there's a free trial.

I must be missing something here. I cannot see how with Win 11 and Edge I can drag and drop a folder of image files into my desired order, select all, and have them renumbered for me consecutively such that next time the folder is opened, they appear in my chosen order. How exactly is it done?

OK ... the real problem here is that I used to be a professional snapper, and I can't for the life of me remember the software we used for doing this. Essentially the problem is this: say I have folder containing 5 jpegs. The file names are A, B, C, D and E. When I open the folder, the thumbnails are in that order. What I want to do is drag and drop them into the order C, A, D, E, B, select those five, click on "rename" and Bob's your uncle - next time the folder's opened, there they are, numbered consecutively but in the new order that I wanted them in. We did this all the time, but I don't now know what we used to do it ... 🙄

I need software which will let me view a folder of images as thumbnails, drag and drop them into a custom order, then rename them sequentially so that thereafter they open in that order every time the folder's opened. Is there anything available free which will do that, either for Windows 11 or Chromebook?

Thank you gentlemen. I fear that I was experiencing a brainfart. I'm not sure how I managed it, but I now have Gmail on the Windoze machine - and a shortcut to it. I am much heartened by this success 🙂

It looks like I have made an expensive mistake by having been persuaded to buy a Windows 11 laptop in order to eventually replace one of our Chromebooks. I have spent most of today wailing and gnashing my teeth with the thing, and right now all I want to do is curl up in a corner and whimper quietly. Apart from anything else, it seems to me that in order to use Gmail on it, I need Outlook, and in order to get that I need to buy Office! Am I missing something obvious here?