I think Picasa has a 'find duplicates' filter on it. I haven't used it for a little while but that does sound familier.

You're braver than me if you use some automated solution to delete images of duplicates though - make sure you have a backup just in case ...

I think the text smileys are better looking anyway ... But I think they are important for the reasons stated above. There is a limit though as some forums I've been on have animated smileys (dancing banana's!), various sizes, hi-res, etc I don't think there is any need to expand on what we already have, infact I'm not sure what half of the current ones mean anyway!

You may not plan on upgrading your memory (or watsits) anytime soon, but it is one of the cheaper upgrades. Even if you plan on going 32bit (which is what I'm running) then with the price of memory these days it's definately worth upgrading to the maximum 4Gb.

Just my 2 cents!

I noticed that Windows 8 will have a 128bit edition! I can't be bothered to work out how much memory that will support!

It looks a bit nicer and security is probably much improved. But as an end user there isn't anything extra I can do with Windows 7 that I couldn't do with Windows XP. I've only upgraded because there is a possibility I will be upgrading my firms computers next year and this gives me a 'heads up'. If I had to pay for it myself I wouldn't have bothered moving from XP.

Maybe in time you will find that later versions of your applications are only supported on Windows 7.

I did a clean install of Win 7 after running Win XP Pro for the past few years. I only really use Lightroom 2.5 for my photography needs, this runs fine as you would expect and as yet haven't found a problem with any of my other apps either (MediaMonkey3, Blurb Booksmart, Cyberlink Power Director 7).

I changed my account with Windows 7 so that I run as a standard user rather than as an admin and this hasn't caused any additional issues as the UAC seems to work very well.

I was pleased with the fact that even though my PC is 3 years old (it has one of the first Intel dual core chips in, the 1.86Ghz e6300) it isn't any slower than it was with XP. Also, (possibly) because my machine is a HP business model I didn't require any additional drivers after doing a clean install of Windows 7, it found all the devices straight away , though I have installed an updated version of the nVidia graphics driver.

Sounds like a good offer to me - the wide angle is worth more than the 16-50 anyway

I had that on vinyl years ago and just received it on CD a couple of days back! Love it!!

The only Judas Priest album I own is 'Ram it Down'

I haven't seen that one yet, something to add to my Christmas list! (71 days to go!! )

Usually rock or metal, AC/DC, Kiss, Lordi , Metallica, Megadeth, etc. Though recently I seem to have rediscovered Iron Maiden, I'd forgotten how good they are

There were some GX-20's available for £299 at one point and that was around April time.

I would guess that price was a grey import so taxes to be added or a reconditioned camera.