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My old wedding rings

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My rings
I married my first wife, Karen, in April 1996. She died in May 1996. Since then I have worn both our wedding rings on my right hand, together with a ring that she always wore.

As you can see, I've put on a little timber since then and the rings are now far too small to remove. I getting to the point now where I think my finger may be getting too big to leave the rings on any longer. But that will now mean having them cut off and I don't think I'm ready to do that.

It's either that, or a drastic diet and I'm unlikely to be able to pull that off.
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How to close (shut down) Apps on the HTC Desire (and other stuff)

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HTC Desire

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Over a month ago, I blogged about having lived with my HTC Desire for a week. And my overall impression was positive.

Now having lived with it for 6 weeks I can say that I love it as much as it is possible for a man to love a small inanimate object without straying into the realms of perversion.

Since then, one of the main search engine queries that has lead visitors to that page is "HTC Desire close down apps".

This issue is not specific to the HTC Desire but common to all phones and computing devices running Android. Android, unlike Windows or Windows Mobile, does not appear to require or assume that Apps will be closed down when you have finished using them. When you get used to this, it's actually quite liberating. Most apps will simply sit in the background consuming little or no resources ready to pick up where you left off when you come back to them.

With the HTC Desire's 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon it quite happily copes with a high number of most well written apps without slowing down, hanging or crashing.

However, there are people (mostly Windows users) who feel a crippling, OCD like compulsion to close down apps as soon as they're done with them. And then there's the people who download the dodgy, badly written apps that will hogg resources and slow their devices down.

The answer is simple:
 
Open Advanced Task Killer

It has both free and paid versions, but I've found the paid version does more than enough for my needs. Open it up and it will list open apps with suggested apps for shutting down pre-selected. You can change this list to close just the one or ones you want. Then you hit the huge "Kill Selected Apps!" button. It really is that easy.

There are alternatives to this App. But it was the first I've downloaded and I've had no issues with it so I've never looked at any other.

More tips to follow as I feel the need to upon your request.

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