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Rip audio track from dvd
Is there a free program that will enable me to rip the audio from my own (legally bought and paid for ) music dvds to mp3 so that I can play them in my car? All the ones I have found so far are demo only and only rip the first 5 minutes
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Good Desktop PC Under Around £500
Hi good folk of MSE. I am seeking your greater knowledge about buying a PC for about the £500 mark. I am happy buying any brand that has a good reliability and would apprecitae it for general use although my son will use it for gaming although nothing extreme (Age of Empires/Civilisation). I have noted previous comments…
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Acer Aspire 5920 what do you think?
I know it is out of stock (currently), but I've been tempted by something seen in Martins newsletter, it is the Acer Aspire 5920 at a penny under £380. If anyone has this model, what do you make of it, does it have any faults (in your opinion),? does anyone know of anything equal?. I've been thinking of replacing my old…
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Any Public Domain CSS Templates?
Hiya, I'm about to buy a domain and am looking for a public domain (ie no link-back to designer required) css template for my website that I can modify any way I like. I've spent a few hours googling, and for the benefit of anyone else who may be interested, here is a search results page which gives a whole list of the…
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help wanted with cpanel please
hi i have just brought 2 sites and want to remove ads that are on them, and hes signed up to cpanel and as im new to all this stuff just wondered if someone could talk me through the site as to where i will find the html to remove as there are about 5 on each site on each page and i want to add my own and sell the space…
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Dictation software
Hey folks. Not sure if anyone can point me in the right direction. OH's mum wants me to do some typing for her from home. She dictates inventories for empty houses and needs them typed up. I have Windows XP Home Edition. I need some sort of dictation software. She emailed me an attachment which opened up in Windows Media…
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should I buy more RAM?
My heart says yes, my brain says no. I've had a few glasses of wine and my heart is winning. So I thought I should leave it overnight and see what you guys say :-) I run XP Home and do nothing more demanding than email/browsing and the odd bit of Excel and Word. Very basic image editing for a website I run. I have 512MB…
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Microsoft Update
Has anyone else found this. Yesterday my computer (Running XP Pro)downloaded 3 updates from Microsoft as my computer is set for automatic updates and as soon as they were installed it blocked my Internet Access. I then did a system restore to a day earlier and turned off updates for a couple of weeks - hopefully Microsoft…
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Help finding firmware, (using internet archives?)
Hello there, I don't often ask for help, but this time I'm desperate... I have 2 x Aigo A215 1Gb Mp3 players (thank you bigpockets.co.uk bag of crap!). These Mp3 players had HORRIBLE firmware when they were released, and the product was pretty much withdrawn from sale in the UK after a mass of returns to stores nationwide.…
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Bought a new laptop but can't get it to connect to wireless router
Evening all I have bought a new laptop (acer aspire 5920) and am trying to connect it to my existing router. The computer is picking up the wireless network but will not connect to it. I have got the network key etc in front of me but it keeps saying it is wrong. I already have my old laptop connected to the router so…
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Wireless Router Password Problem!
I have forgotton the wireless router password! and now I am trying to connect a new laptop and obviously cant. My router is connected to my main pc and I have one laptop hanging of the connection wirelessly. How can I reset the password or find out the original one?...a friend 'who knows about computers' originally set…
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kicking off the internet
hi there when on the internet i show an internet connection all the time but it keeps kicking me off. any ideas thanks
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Using joystick on laptop
Hi i've downloaded my fifa 08 disk fine onto my acer aspire laptop,i've plugged in my controller( it's a tesun double shock controller but it's not working) i told the buyer that i had vista and he said no problem, he sent me a usb driver which has windows vista on it, with usb-706 , i put it in and got pictures in my…
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Help with ipod software please
Hello all, I have a 80gb ipod and lots of songs on it from cd's I have borrow or passed on or had saved on my pc as well as purchased songs. My pc broke this week and I had to restore it thus deleting the ipod library. I have not got a recent backed up disc for the purchased songs and lost a lot that were saved to my pc…
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Email Inbox and Sent Items wiped!
I use AVG free edition and last night whilst I was surfing the net I left my email Outlook Express Open whilst I was doing it, and was surprised to find when I returned to it that my entire Inbox and Emails Sent box had been wiped completely clean of emails. No doubt I should back up my emails, which I don't. This is not…
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Sky Television Help
Dont know exactly which board to put this in. I was with Sky many years ago however i still have the box in my bedroom and still currently get the normal freeview channels. Now i dont really want to join with sky because the free channels are just what i need. The problem is i want another box in the kitchen without having…
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MS Access, Calculated Date Field
Hi All This may be to specialized for this forum but I was hoping that someone may be able to help or even point me in the right direction of a forum that would be able to assist I am developing an application in Access that is using calculated date fields. I have placed the code below in the "control Source" of a control…
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Win 2k latest security update.
Immediately after the latest round of updates which covered Xp and Win2kpro I have lost connection to the net. Connection is made and stats available on the wireless card program but no internet. I have uninstalled the file which caused the zonealarm probs in xp, saw this suggestion elsewhere, but no help. Uninstalled the…
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Wireless/Vista/Netgear DG845G
Sorry if there's an answer lurking around the forums but am at the end of my tether at the moment! I just bought an Ei Systems 1201 laptop and according to the sales blurb it has a wireless connection built in. I am trying to hook up the laptop to my partner's wired broadband but am not having much luck. Obviously the…
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iphone 3g activation
:o I bought a new iphone today and just can't get itunes to recognise it. the connection keeps timing out. is anyone else having problems? does anyone have ideas on what to do? i'm not normally so technically incompetent but this is really annoying me and any help would be great.