Ask JackTechnologyWhat's the best tablet for a photographer with a DSLR?Tim Locke edits photos on a laptop and would like to show them on a tablet. Should he use an iPad or a Windows 8 convertible?I take pictures with a Canon DSLR camera, and use Canon software (EOS Utility, Zoom Browser and Digital Photo Professional) to edit them on a 4.5-year-old Toshiba laptop. The laptop is still reliable (though slowing down) with a decent screen and still enough oomph to do the editing.

Toad and Princess Peach in Easter potato form. Photograph: Courtesy of Joel SnapeToad and Princess Peach in Easter potato form. Photograph: Courtesy of Joel SnapeEasterNothing brings a family together like decorating root vegetables. At least that’s what I tell my five-year-old Would you paint a potato? Don’t worry, this isn’t some mad dadaist take on those old “You wouldn’t download a car” ads. America, apparently, has been gripped with potato-decorating fever, sparked first by memes about how expensive eggs are getting in the run-up to Easter, and then a concerted effort by Potatoes USA to get everyone’s favourite root vegetable briefly trending.

24 hours in pictures: September 24 2007 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Wed 26 Sep 2007 17.22 BST First published on Wed 26 Sep 2007 17.22 BST Luton, UK: A full moon next to a floodlight prior to the Carling Cup third-round match between Luton Town and Charlton Athletic Photograph: Clive Rose/Getty Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rangoon, Burma: A protesting Buddhist monk sheds tears for other monks arrested by police Photograph: STR/AFP

OpinionMental health This article is more than 10 years oldAmanda Bynes and the crass media treatment of 'troubled starlets'This article is more than 10 years oldHannah Jane ParkinsonThose genuinely affected by mental illness are not helped by a buffet of schadenfreude about 'the latest slice of crazy'Question: when does a Mail article about a celebrity posting nude selfies on Twitter transcend from banal lechery to something truly, irresponsibly odious? Answer: when the subject of that article is somebody displaying signs of mental illness.

Other livesEngineeringObituaryPeter Seaton obituaryMy father, Peter Seaton, who has died aged 91, was a senior design engineer who started his career as a shipwright apprentice and went on to work on several landmark defence projects, including the Thunderbird missile and UK-3 satellite. Born in Gillingham, Kent, the son of Henry Seaton, an electrical engineer, and his wife Ellen (nee Bonnick), he was one of four children: an older sister, Pat, older brother, Harry, and younger brother, John, who was born the day after Henry’s death following kidney surgery.