balletballet, my wife and a ballet shop...

So, here is a little "shout out" for my wife. :-)

Karley has just started a new venture, as both our children are going to school now. We've (I'm tech) have just created an on-line ballet shop. She sells some great quality but affordable ballet shoes and dance-wear. The shop can supply dance classes in the BS20 and surrounding areas.

Have a look if you have a budding baby ballet star, or if you need to refresh your current outfit.
Thanks.

tqv

New Facebook Android app and sorting News feed by recency

Have you lost the ability to sort the new Facebook Android app by the recency of News feed.

Is it defaulted to Top Stories? Do you want it back? Or at least an easy way to switch?

I think I've got a little solution....

Click the menu button (it's that one with three bars) - you may have to press it twice if you don't get the "options" page first time.

Below your Facebook profile picture you should get a set of FAVORITES

What we want to do is add News Feed recency to those favorites. It's called "Most Recent" on the Facebook app.

So whist still on that options page scroll down to nearly the bottom and the section labelled SETTINGS.

Click Edit Favorites in that SETTINGS section.

Scroll down to FEEDS and click on the star to select "Most Recent" and confirm you want to add that favorite.

Make sure you press the "Finish Editing" at the top to save your settings.

Then scroll back to top and you should see "Most Recent" at the top of this menu/options page.

You can know click on Most recent and your normal viewing for news feed recency has returned.

The Android Facebook app seems to remember this setting when you switch to other tabs. Pressing the menu (three bars) returns you to the most recent news feed.

Pressing again and it take you back to options if required.


NOTE:
If this works for you DON'T deactivate the "Most Recent" from "Favorites" as it then seems to remove the option to re-add (after removal). I removed mine to create a better screenshot for this post and then lost the option to re-add completely. Restarting my phone brought the "Most Recent" option back.

tqv

Update on discount train tickets by splitting journeys

I wrote a previous post about using the Martin Lewis' Money Saving Expert Tickety Split website/app but I found that it didn't always give the best results.

When checking to go on the same journey the results from the app weren't consistent. However, it does say that the app is Lite and clause 8 applies:
"Why is it TicketySplit Lite? This is a three-month trial of the technology and is currently free. However, every time you search we have to pay. Frankly, we have to see how popular and well used it is. We're willing to foot the bill up to a certain level; beyond that we'll have to do some careful thinking. We called this 'Lite', so you'll know it may change."

Therefore I found a way to do my own testing of the best prices once I knew of the journey split details.
You can run queries on the National Rail website and save the urls for later.

e.g.
Bristol Parkway to Clapham Junction (full journey)
http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/service/timesandfares/BPW/CLJ/tomorrow/0545/dep

Bristol Parkway to Didcot Parkway (Part A journey)
http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/service/timesandfares/BPW/DID/tomorrow/0545/dep

Bristol Parkway to Clapham Junction (Part B journey)
http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/service/timesandfares/DID/CLJ/tomorrow/0630/dep

By using the second two journeys it works out to be a 42% saving on the full journey cost.
:-)

Try them out yourself?

tqv