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Real player & Snow leopard
My BBC radio widget no longer works, cant find the plugin? Any ideas my mac friends?
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Special offer on ps3
My local currys has a 160gb ps3 console for £199.99, but there are a few snags : * there is a large scratch across the top of the unit * * the usb charging cable is missing * * the av cable & euro adaptor is missing * * and the promo voucher for the 4 free downloadable games is not included. * the console is ex display -…
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Windows 7 upgrade ??
Have new Vista laptop that qualifies for Windows 7 upgrade, but I was wondering if I could use the disk to upgrade a Win XP machine instead.
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Prism video convertor- what bit rate etc to use?
found a nice (free!) video convertor, and think I have messed up the default seeings.. sound seems to come out before what you see,. anyome know what is the standard setting (for beast quality possible, hopefully!) :beer:
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Help with <DIV> s - cross browser problems
Hi I have a website and I have just reorganised it to work a little better, however, i must have upset the CSS on the index page. So now if I add a closing </DIV> to the end of the content it works perfect for IE. But for Chrome, Opera etc the right menu moves into the content area. If I remove the closing </DIV> it breaks…
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Printer Advice
Looking to buy a multi-function printer - would really like a wireless printer. Which makes would you recommend? Or not recommend? Any suggestions on models - have tried to search online but so many printers!! Any advice will be gratefully received. Thanks
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struggling to watch video clips on netbook ?
recently gone from a 17 inch dell laptop to a medion akoya E1210 netbook which is very beneficial as far as using when traveling around My t mob dongle often gets me 7mbps around the country compared with only 1mbps that i get at home on desktop and previous dell laptop Problem i have is watching things like you tube and…
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AGP Graphics Card
First of all, apologies if I don't reply immediately. I'm looking for suggestions for an AGP 4x card, that's 1.5v I believe. The above is from the motherboard manual. Yup I know it's old. I've been looking on ebay, but am totally confused, not all listings state what type of AGP a card actually is, and I'm not up on…
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Help!!!
:mad: Hi all well the computer came today questions there are no back up discs should there be , we are with virgin internet and it has aol on it can it be taken off , and how do we make the written word bigger. its a HP pavilion slimline
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Wireless 802.11g LAN PCI Card problem
Hi, Here is my problem that i have been putting up with for god knows how long!! When i switch on my PC my card ALWAYS connects to an unsecured signal from someone else in my street. I have to connect to my signal manually. The unsecure signal is weaker than my signal. IS there a way i can delete the unsecured signal from…
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Firefox Resize
Is there anyway I can resize Firefox permanently - on 100% I find it too small even though I have a largish screen (22") When I resize manually - it reverts back to 100% on the next page. I tend to like it at 125% or 150%. Anyone?
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Samsung NC10 Battery
Hey, Just bought an NC10 and i'm wondering about the battery with it. I opted for the 6 cell battery over the 3 cell but the place I bought it from sells both so I'm wondering, short of fully charging it and leaving it to switch off and seeing how long it takes, how can I tell if they've sent the correct one? The way it is…
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toolbar signing in and duplicate files issues
i have two issues i hope to sort out. the first is lately i have noticed that in the google toolbar it signs me into it automatically on the right hand side. i dont know why because i have not set it to do that. it also shows my email address. so why is it doing this and more importantly how can i stop it? secondly can…
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router password question
probably a stupid question but forgot the router password (network security key), its a sky one and cant get it to show characters just the * is there a way of finding out what the password is or resetting it. Thanks
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Help = backing up laptop
Hi We have a new laptop and need to back it up. I have sent someone to a shop to get some CD's to do this with but they say there are loads of different types and we don't know what to buy??! Can anyone help me? The laptop is a: Sony VAIO NS30E/P Laptop - Intel Pentium T4200, 3 GB RAM, 250 GB HDD, DVD+-RW/+-R DL/RAM 15.4…
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PS3 or XBOX 360 Elite?
I have a 16 year old son and am stuck on whether to get him a PS3 or XBOX360 elite, I don;t know much about the consoles other than PS3's can play blu-ray and do wireless online gaming but the XBOX needs adaptors to play online. He won't be doing much online gaming yet, as we don't have a wireless connection, so I don't…
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Lg lh4000 tv divx capability
Hi guys A few weeks ago I bought a 32" LG LH4000 TV. This, unlike the LH5000 series isn't advertised as having Divx playback capability. HOWEVER! There is a tip which makes this possible and it's REALLY easy! If you hold down the OK button on both the handset and the TV panel (on the right hand side of the screen, 3rd…
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Laptop Insurance
Hi I bought a new laptop just over a year ago but now I need to get some insurance or cover plan on it incase of damage or breakdown (which they all do and mine will sometime). I have in the past bought computers or laptops from PC World or Currys where they offer you thouse Whatever Happens cover plans which has always…
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mobile phone-txt message storage?
Hello,, I'm just wondering..on a typical modern mobile phone ,how many text messages can be stored in the inbox before it is full and they have to be deleted? If the inbox is full, presumably incoming messages will be rejected?
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USB 'pen' drive has a virus - safe removal?
We put my USB stick into OH's computer today to get some files, and Avast detected a virus/trojan on it :mad: No idea where that's come from as my computer seems to be clean , as does his, so my only guess is the work PCs. Anyway - he's removed the drive and does not want to reinsert it into his PC for obvious reasons, and…
