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You don't have to worry about lenses being too slow! Usually I can't stop them down enough without diffraction to get a slow enough shutter speed to get some motion in the wheels. If its a bright day I usually use f/8-f/11. Personally I'd get the 100-400 incase you cant get close and need more...

You want to take some better pics of your dogs so you're thinking of getting a 7D and 70-200L?! :bonk: The 40D is perfectly capable of what you want to do, but megazoom lenses aren't the fastest with focusing. If you can afford the Canon 70-200L IS f/2.8 then its a fantastic lens and focuses...

Just did it, can't say I notice any difference. It still works with my 3rd party battery from 7dayshop too.

No one in the UK seems to be selling them for under £300: http://www.camerapricebuster.com/Tamron_17-50mm_F2.8_XR_Di_ll_LD_Aspherical_IF_pc.html

Just got my cashback cheque within 2 weeks of posting it! No sign of the warranty yet though.

You can use 12.5mm height drives in new unibody MacBook Pros. Itss not advertised, nor does Apple use any themselves AFAIK, but they fit in my GFs 13" MBP.

Gmail if you can, the web interface is actually better than most desktop clients IMO (including Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail) and you don't need to install anything.

Stuff breaks, no matter who they're made by. Getting HTC/Android phones won't make that any better, in fact the backup options on Android are not clear to say the least, its much easier to backup an iPhone. Personally I use Google Apps so my mail, contacts, and calendar are synced with Google's...

Unless you're going to be away from a computer for a long time, the 16GB iPad is probably enough storage as I'd want to stream media to it as much as possible.

Amazon have a Western Digital 1TB external HD for £55, probably the best £/GB right now: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002E7HEVU/

IMO a decent IPS or PVA panel is worth the extra over the budget TNs, I find colours are much more accurate, viewing angles better, and its generally more pleasing to look at. The U2410 is a great monitor and I wouldn't read too much into the troubles pseinor1 had with his HP as the vast...

All PS3s can play PSOne games :D. Not sure how accurate this list is, but it doesn't include Singstar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_3_backward_compatible_PlayStation_2_and_PlayStation_games

The correct way to do cross-platform mobile app: http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/google-voice-for-iphone-and-palm-webos.html No need to follow any App Store regulations.

Download iStat and see if you notice a process using up more resources than it should do.

If you use Wordpress or other CMS for your blog you shouldn't need any php tinkering, just some CSS skillz.