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Which AI tools do you use?
Which AI tools do you use to save money, boost your income or organise your finances? Let us know your success stories (how much did you save? What did you learn?). Does your bank offer any AI tools and if so, are they a help or a hindrance? We'd like to hear of any duds you've tried too. Thank you. ___________________…
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Techie Stuff sticky
🖥 Useful thread from the Forum: * FAQs - Techie Qs & As (Some of the information in the links may be out of date, so please do check the dates of posts first). If there are any other useful Forum threads on this board that you think we should add, let us know 🗣 🖨Other helpful content from MoneySavingExpert.com: * Best free…
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Firefox, Android phone, entering about:config
Ok, it's a dumb question that everyone who uses their Android based smartphone all day every day will think of as obvious: After a recent automatic update, my phone has started receiving notifications from "Hello You" about news items that it thinks I should see. I don't want to receive these notifications, but an internet…
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Solutions to Doomscrolling?
I saw this advert on Facebook (ironically) for a device called 'Brick' available from getbrick.com. I liked the premise of it. It cost £50ish for the product but the app is free. I am really bad for doomscrolling after i've gone to bed. The way it'd work is you pick which apps you want to block (Facebook, Instagram etc)…
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How much needs to be spent for a noticeable PC upgrade & would it be worth it?
PC is really quite old. A few components have been upgraded along the way but Mobo & PSU are certainly the same as day 1 in 2010. By noticeable upgrade, I can look at stats on a screen all day long after someone tells me "go google" but that's all they are - numbers on a screen. I'm talking about a noticeable performance…
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Change text from lower to uppercase in word FIXED
So I have made a mistake which I did google but can't fix. I have written speech in a long document in a mix of styles e.g She said , “of course." And She said , “Of course." Now I think the second is correct so how do I change all "lower to "upper I could do a search for every letter - but I am hoping there's a more…
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4K Player
Hi, I bought a new TV earlier in the year (LG 43" Nano80A6B) and had been thinking of getting a 4k disc player - I currently had an oldish blu ray player which I'm using with the TV. I wondered if anyone knew much about them and if the combination of TV & player would be enough of a jump in quality to justify the cost of…
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Video door bell , which is best
What is the best budget video door bell? Do they all operate with wifi.
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Android phone cant get Greggs App
Hi, I wrote to Greggs about this but no reply. My Android phone (bought new in 2018) won't get the Greggs App. It downloads it but when asked to "create account" it gives me an error message saying "you have not filled out all the required fields"….but i filled in everything i could. Its a Samsung SM-J330FN. It uses…
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soundbar for music and tv?
hi just looking at ideas, whether a soundbar is suitable for both music (streamed from phone) and also as the tv speaker (due to poor internal tv speakers) it would be nice to just have one device but i dont want to compromise on the music audio quality, welcome any opinions!
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Password question
When I go into my Google account > manage your Google account > security and sign in - it says my live.com (Hotmail) password is weak and has been compromised. I changed my Hotmail password and made it very strong but still on my Google account it says it's compromised and weak. Anyone know why that is and what I can do?…
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Storage on my phone
Morning all. I have a Samsung A20e (bought around 3 years ago so not ancient) but it keeps telling me I've got hardly any storage left, less than 1%. I have a phone which has 32GB of storage. I hardly keep any pictures, never download films or big files etc. but have about 10 apps (BBC, banking, FB, Airbnb, airlines etc so…
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How to erase a partition?
Got a second hand drive. It came partitioned. I want to make it as one but can't. I had this once before with a used drive but forgot how I sorted it. I remember it taking me a bit of faff back then too. Probably only because I don't know what I'm doing. I have Googled this, which said to use cmd or powershell. As the step…
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Apple Pay: iPhone 17 won’t add new Mastercard cards but Apple Watch will
I upgraded to an iPhone 17 in February 2026. Apple Pay works normally with some cards already on my phone, including Mastercard cards, but I cannot add certain new debit cards. The problem: My Starling Mastercard debit card will not add to my iPhone 17. I get: “Card not added – Contact your card issuer.” The same Starling…
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New laptop or repair for a careless teenager
My daughter's starting 6th form college a short train journey away from September. She needs a laptop to take into college. She fairly recently broke the screen of her MacBook Air (2022 M2). I'm weighing up a repair (est £500-600 at the local Apple Approved) or a replacement £630 for an Azus Zenbook 14, Core Ultra 5 225H,…
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Compromised hotmail account
My mother has a Hotmail account. Mid-morning today I got a scam email from her. The Reply To field had a letter different from her usual email address (e.g. … ick … became … icck …). I also got a notification (I am her recovery email) that: Newsletter Software SuperMailer connected to the Microsoft account XXXX If you…
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Laptop advice - good for streaming/simple photo and video editing.
Hi, as above I need a new laptop and it's come at a time when finances don't allow a brand new top of the range model! I use it for general browsing, streaming from apps like Sky and Youtube, photo editing and now want to start making short videos. I am happy to use a Windows or Apple machine and an older Apple model with…
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How do I make an "interactive" PDF - NON-interactive ?
I have tried "printing it TO" my desktop - but this doesn't make any difference - it is STILL editable (interactive) - there must be a way ?
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Edit pdfs fixed sort off
Is there a free or cheap (i.e not paying £5-10 pcm forever) to edit PDFs? The output doesn't have to be in a PDF. The reason is because I often have to read PDFs with coloured text which causes me headaches. Sadly the people who send me PDFs won't provide text in black and white (I have tried) I have tried converting my…
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Google selfie video account recovery option
Google have introduced a new account recovery option for use when all other account recovery options have failed If you record a selfie video now and need to recover your account in the future you can basically identify yourself by this method and get your Google account back…
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Proposed soundbar - check
I have an old Sony Bravia TV KDL-32EX524, which i'd like to connect a soundbar to, in order to perk the sound up. Here's the specifications of the TV. I have in mind the Sony HT S2000 soundbar. Not because it's a Sony, but becaue the reviews seem good, I can't go any wider than 80cm, and it doesn't have a subwoofer (I have…
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Wix alternatives for websites?
I have run a website on Wix for a number of years now but their hosting is costing me a lot. Now they want £201 for the next two years and this is killing my pocket! Is there a cheaper way of hosting my website and what would the alternatives be. I also have my own domain but this is not supplied by Wix. Many thanks.
