Sean Houlihane

Having lost the instructions for my zanussi ZBS 703 oven, it’s taken me a while to work out how to set the clock on this model. If I write it here, I might be able to find it later
Update 29/12/07: Now I have the instructions, here is a precis.

ZBS 703 Built in Oven.

Controls are numbered 1-10 for the buttons, left to right.

Clock Set: 5,6 together, then set time using 9 or 10.

Auto: Set program, 5 then 9/10 to select duration. Optional, 6 then 9/10 to set end time.

Child lock, 1+3 for 5 sec. Then hold 1 with 8 to allow use.

Hold down ‘cook time’ and ’stop time’ together to enter clock setting mode (the colon in the clock flashes). Use the +/- buttons to set the current time.

After spending 2 hours on the phone to carphone warehouse data support, here is the info I was looking for. It’s still a bit unclear what the distinction is between the different settings.

(and some mobile gprs settings for o2 )
Internet - (02 WAP GPRS)
address: wap.o2.co.uk
username: o2wap
password: password
Proxy : 193.113.200.195
port : 8080

Email - (o2 mobile web)
address : mobile.o2.co.uk
username : o2web
password : password
proxy : 193.113.200.195
port : 8080

MMS centre address:

http://mmsc.mms.o2.co.uk:8002

One of the casualties from my recent trip to France was the plastic tamper which came bundled with my espresso machine, so it was off the eBay.co.uk
for a replacement. I found a nice solid aluminium version and duly ordered it from www.wogancoffee.co.uk. It didn’t turn up, I just got a note from the post office saying I had a letter with insufficient postage. Que a trip into town, and £2.50 extra postage. I mentioned this in my ebay feedback (after ticking the ‘good’ box), only to receive an email apology, a free teabag squeezer and a free espresso machine cleaning brush - which I think easily covered the inconvenience! Best customer service I’ve seen all year!

I recently invested in a reasonably up-to-date mobile, the SE P990. It seemed to be a good choice, given that I feel no need to be buying any more microsoft software than I need to.

According to Lisa@CPS, it’s unlikely that apps like MagicProfiles will be possible on UIQ3, because of SE security paranoia. We’ve already seen that start-on-boot has been taken away from us, and CPS have to do some clever trickery to make Tweak Peaks give us something people have been demanding for many months.

Profiles being missing from the base platform makes me pretty mad. It’s one of the features I thought I was buying when I bought the phone. 9:00-5:30, I’m in the office. I don’t want my phone to ring. I don’t need 6 clicks every morning, and 5 every evening. Why take away a feature which is obviously valuable? Why again make it difficult for someone to write this functionality? All it achieves is more people having an incentive to crack the security.

Most of the included apps on the phone (not free, I paid good money for everything in the box) are fairly shocking anyway - conversion tool being the best example of how not to use a tabbed dialogue I’ve ever seen. Shortcuts for common actions are missing, and the ‘back’ button is rather unpredictable (RSS it’s up, web it’s ‘background’, others it’s ‘close’.

I’m starting to think my next mobile is going to be a real open platform, and I’ll be checking much harder to ensure it is open before I commit to owning it!