[Jayne Osborn]

I get the actual magazine every week, and have never had a problem downloading the results when John's been away.

I'm really annoyed with myself that I can't find my Web ID. Grrrrr! I'll keep looking.

Jayne

[John Whitworth]

Until the last issue I could download the competition easily. But they have 'improved' the website so that it is in any ways worse. The competition is not available at the moment but, according to them, this is not policy, just cock-up. When they have fiixed it I will be able to download. Whenever that may be. Meanwhile I get a print edition tomorrow and I will at least be able to give the results and the next competition.

They keep saying things about apps. What is an app? No. Don't tell me. I don't have to know, now do I? Perhaps it's ap. A Welsh cognomen?One really does need a servant to do this sort of stuff.

[Martin Parker]

I did manage to find the Deadly Sins Comp. this morning after phoning the Speccie who say they have changed some individuals' passwords. I even managed to find the page for long enough to see that Bill Greenwell and I were there representing the Sphere -- the only ones, I think.
But I find that I am now unable to repeat the trail-blazing and therefore am not able to help with your quest!
Jeez, how I hate technology. Good luck to someone else of you with the geekery!

The new Comp. is to write a new National Anthem for Greece. Sounds a real possibility, but what is the use of our collective genius if the results are to be forever buried in the Speccie's labyrinthine new "system"?

[Marion Shore]

Martin, you might still get the quid.

[Martin Parker]

Marion,
Maybe so -- unless we find that all future prize money is to be used to pay for their pestilential and entirely unnecessary new website.
After all, they still owe me a bottle of Cobra lager which should have been in the case they short-delivered to me years ago in the days when the top prize was worth more than their current niggardly extra fiver. So they have already proved themselves capable of major degrees of cheese-paring!

[Brian Allgar]

Originally Posted by John Whitworth

They keep saying things about apps. What is an app? No. Don't tell me. I don't have to know, now do I?

John, an app - yes, I know you don't want to know, but be brave, it'll only take a minute and it won't hurt that much - is a nerd-word short for "application". And in this sense, an application is just a little computer program in some kind of iThingy that does something or other.

What does it do, you ask? Well, depends what it was designed to do, dunnit? For instance, it could tell you what the time is, or the weather, in various parts of the world. It could tell you where your nearest fish-and-chip-shop is. There are thousands of the little buggers that can do almost anything you can think of, although I'm told you'll have to wait for the iPad 4 for one that will bring you your slippers.

If an "app" were a physical object in the real world, we'd probably call it a widget. Or if that term isn't familiar to you, just think of it as a "thingummyjig".

There, now, that wasn't too bad, was it?

N.B. All of the above is based on hearsay, since I don't actually own an iAnything.

[Jayne Osborn]

New thread with the results is up, folks!

Jayne

[Marion Shore]

Originally Posted by Brian Allgar

What does it do, you ask? Well, depends what it was designed to do, dunnit? For instance, it could tell you what the time is, or the weather, in various parts of the world. It could tell you where your nearest fish-and-chip-shop is. There are thousands of the little buggers that can do almost anything you can think of, although I'm told you'll have to wait for the iPad 4 for one that will bring you your slippers.

What doesn't it do?

Although I think it needs to improve its sense of humor.