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Using Canon Digital Camera as a webcam
I've recently bought a new Canon digital webcam and would like to know how to use it as a webcam too. I can't find any help on this in the camera manual and google hasn't helped much yet either. Surely such a simple thing is possible?? Many thanks! P.S The camera is a Canon S3 IS
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XPeriencing confusion!
Hi , I'm new to the world of XP and I'm missing a couple of things I found useful about ME. The first was a tray at the bottom next to Start where I could put shortcuts to favourite programmes. The second is one of the shortcuts I had in there that once pressed shrank or hid the open programmes so I was back to my desktop.…
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Tv Tuner Card - Advice Needed
Hi there I am thinking of buying a new computer with a tv tuner card so that I can use the computer as tv and get rid of the tv - as I need the space. Anyway I have sky tv as you cannot get a signal from a rooftop aerial. So is that possible or do you have to have an aerial to use a tuner card. If anyone could help, I…
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Formmail "required" problem
This may be a little niche, but... I'm trying to get a little more extravagant with Matt's formmail, but I'm having problems with the "required" field, where you list mandatory fields in the form. Works ok for simple type "text" but I can't get it to work for <input type="hidden" name="required" value="cars"> Have you a…
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Laptop current deals
Hi - I want to purchase a new laptop, can anyone advise me of any deals going? I have all the software already. Ratty
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Internet explorer problems
I downloaded firefox but it caused all sorts of problems so removed it, it had been my default browser but since removing it I have been unable to click on any links in emails, doesn't work by holding the control button, I need to pay a paypal invoice not from ebay and can't do it....thanks in advance
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Would this send out a wireless signal from my pc to connect with my laptop
Hi, i am going on holiday in the summer for 4weeks and going to take my laptop with me, im staying with family and they have a pc with 2mb broadband. i was going to buy a usb ethernet adaptor(i dont think they have a ethernet card in) so i could use the internet at the sametime as someone else using it. I was browsing ebay…
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Safe mode problems
When I try to boot to safe mode then instead of getting the options as usual, I am asked if I want to boot from the hard drive, floppy drive, cd drive or dvd drive - I can't get to the safe mode options at all. Whats gone wrong and how can I sort it? Thanks
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Please help me..my computer keeps restarting!!
i was using the computer and the hard drive starting making noises and the whole thing got stuck so i had to turn it off by the power button ..i switched it back on and i get the start windows normally / safe mode/safe mode with networking screen.. even though ive tried to click on each 1 of them ..it takes me to the…
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Help printing photos
I am trying tp protinout some ictures with my epson cx3200 printer. I have photo paper which is 4 by 6 inches, with a 1.5 cm perforated bit added onto the 4 by 6, if you see what I mean. The printing options include a bit for 4 by 6 without a perforation, but doing it just 4 by 6 the photo ends up in one corner of the…
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Sky+ in another room ... advice please!
Good Morning oh knowledgable ones ;) Well the World Cup has started and as much as I love football, a whole months of missing Big Bro was too much (Sad, I know). So, I decided to run an ariel cable from the living room to the portable in the kitchen so that I can watch a decent pic. This morning I have done this and get 1,…
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External Hard Drives
Im looking for a decent Hard Drive I have found 250 GB for under £100 on pc world just wondering which I should get if some one can help. FREECOM - 250GB USB 2.0 CLASSIC SL EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE - SILVER EDITION £90.84…
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office outlook as mail client
Please pleaes please can somebody help me. I am trying to set office outlook 12 as my mil client on blueyonder but I have no idea how, I used to use outlook express 6 and that was easy. I have rung telewst but they dont know Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks for all your help in advance
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regarding power meter on ispiron 6000 (dell)
Hey hey Just formatted the lappy using the official dell cd. Using the dell support site i downloaded most the applications and drivers for the Inspiron 6000. Downloaded Quickset which shows me the power if i press Fc and F3 together but before there was an icon which would actually let me know how much powe rthere is but…
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Free partition manager software?
Can anyone recommend any free software similar to Partition Magic please? BarGin
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Firefox problem
Whenever I'm on a website and open an attachment (usually via Adobe Reader 6.0, PDF File) everything seems to lock up; I have to close down Firefox (I get a message saying "not responding") and re-open the browser. However, I've discovered that when I use IE I don't get the problem. Any ideas please? (Apart from using IE…
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Technika 103 DVD player - widescreen help
Hi Bought one of these from Tesco today - works nicely with DVD+Rs and JPEG disks. One problem: I used to use a PS2 to play DVDs and it always stretched the picture to fill the enitre screen (my telly is not widescreen). This Technika 103 won't, even though I have set it to "Pan Scan" in the Preferences menu (the…
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Pop Up Blocker?
Can anyone recommend a decent, free, pop up blocker? Thanks
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Virus or spyware?
I have a new{unwelcome} icon in my tool bar.It flashes between green and red.Every so often it produces a small pop up to tell me my puter is infected.Ran AVG and anti spyware software but it is still there.Any thoughts please?
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I need a special laptop!
Hello! Ok, here's the thing. Im looking for a laptop, one that is going to be powerful enough to play the sims2 and call of duty with no problems whatsoever, and is going to be grapically good enough to do some photo editing and have enough hard drive to store my photo's/music etc. It would be nice to have windows media…
