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Can you use a sky plus box ?
Hi, If I buy a sky plus box, can I just replace my digibox with it and start using it or do you have to contact sky to make it work. There seem to be loads for sale and my video recorder is on the way out. If you can help I'd be very grateful. Also, if it's possible to just swop over boxes, can you suggest which are the…
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Classified advert photo display....
I need to store photos of items for sale for both online and offline selling including ebay. Ideally a site where I can just store the photo but that gives me a small domain link ie https://www.XXXXX.com/abc123 (direct to my photo of that item) I can then use that address in any offline adverts (newspapers mostly) plus…
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how do i record to pc?
i want to take my tv feed and put it in to my pc so i can record programs - on bbc3 and uktv gold - i know the uktv has light encryption but is there a codec to get around this? i have no more room on my sky+ box and need to archive some of the items i have on there. I know that with the encryption they can not be burned…
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French channels on Freesat
I have tried to Google this, but I must be using the wrong search terms because I am getting nowhere. I am trying to add any of the main French TV channels to my Freesat package. But a can't find a list of available channels and frequencies, or even what satellite my dish is likely to point at. Please can someone point me…
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Wireless affecting touch lamps???
I Know probably a silly post but we have three touch lamps in bedrooms, they have been known to turn on by themselves! I looked on google and apparently radiowaves can make this happen, anyone else had any experience of this?
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Pop ups how to get rid of ?
I have got these two little icons that have arrived on my lower tool bar, they seem to be feeding pop ups to the screen as there are quite a few different ones appearing, I am running Blueyonder PC Guard through my Broadband connections and have everything blocked , or so I thought I did, May be this has been covered…
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New mail client?
I am finding Thunderbird a bit boring now and would like a new mail client, what do you suggest? (NOT Outlook/Express)
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AMD Athlon 64 Processor and service pack 2
Hi, I have an AMD Athlon 64 processor and am on Windows XP Service Pack 1. About 6 months ago, I looked into updating to Service Pack 2. I did some research into this and some people seemed to have great problems and others did not. I tried it and it was a disaster. I ended up having to reinstall windows and everything…
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Building own PC - Help with Parts!
Hello I've actually copied this list from someone on this Techie somewhere but since have lost where. Basically I thought this guy knew his stuff so what does everyone else think? My needs will be not too bothered about gaming but may use it a bit. Main use will be multiple tasks at once with fair bit of storage needed for…
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RSS Feeds?????
Can anyone tell me how to go about connecting to the RSS feeds or whatever it does/is? You know, the news gathering service. I've tried once and completely cocked it up - as nothing happened with it. I keep seeing the little orange signs (esp. on the BBC website) and I thought that would be nice to have that. But when I…
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Napster log in
Cant get in to napster to register,just doen the 7 day free trial says my firewall is blocking,adjusted Zone alarm to allow this program still cant get in any help thanks
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Swizzor
I keep getting my virus program showing a threat on my pc,it appears,i ask to delete,it comes up now and again. Is this in my hard drive appreciate advice
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Travel adaptors for mp3 player
Hello all, I'm off on my jollies in a fw days. I have just bought some travel adapters, but I'm wondering if these are ok to use for the adapter that charges for my creative zen touch mp3 player, I just want some reassurance I'm not going to blow it up! The travel plug says on it 7.5 amps and 250v if that's any help, the…
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Proshow Gold help
I've managed to put all my holiday photo's into Proshow Gold with music but I want to put in a movie of the holiday so it can all go onto a dvd. If anyone knows how I can do this could they please let me know in very basic terms. Thanks
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Wireless connection not working?
Could someone please give me some help, i have looked at the wireless section but nothing the same as my problem that i can understand. We have a desk top and a lap top computer which we have recently connected to Linksys wireless router model no WRT54GS We have NTL Broadband, all was going well until a few weeks ago when…
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Laptop Major Crashes
Hi guys I have a packard bell Easy note R4 series laptop 9 months old. recently it has started crashing, when i mean crashing it just powers off, it doesn't close down it just powers off as though the mains has been switched off and there was no battery fitted, it happens on both mains and battery power. i could be doing…
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Best paid anti virus?
It's for a friend, I've tried to tell him AVG or Avast are just as good but he's having none of it. Talked him out of Norton but not sure what to recommend as I've always used free ones. Any recommendations?
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Copying From iPod back to iTunes
Hi, Have a feeling this is not possible, but wanted to run it by folks here, see if anyone had any thoughts. Girlfriend kindly erased a load of my tunes from iTunes, and I want them back! Thankfully, no downloads, all from CD - so all can be replaced manually. However - they're all still on the iPod, so was wondering if…
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Looking for a digital camera...
I'm looking for a digital camera... funnily enough... :) Anyway, I'm looking to spend a maximum of £100, and want something slim. It needs to be slimmer than say... 3cm at very most. Also looking for advice on the best one I can get for the money.
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XBOX360 Dashboard Update on the way...
Probably this week, just in case you weren't aware. Read a bit about it here or here or maybe here :) You can also watch some video footage of the updates in action, on the gamespot site. When I hear about it being released, I'll update this thread, but I'd ask you to do the same too. HTH.
