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Streaming video - advice needed
I am very interested in "extreme" weather and am signed up to a couple of websites in the States where they stream video from storm chasers out in the field. I am having great difficulty getting a consistent signal. It is not merely that they move out of range, they can be stationery and it suddenly goes off line. One…
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dark pc screen
ive got a packard bell imedia mc1538 computer with a samsung syncmaster 713bm moniter. over the past couple of days when i start the pc up the screen is dark you can still see the words but its like the contrast has been turned down. after about 15 minutes it goes ok on its own then dark again then ok again. ive played…
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OpenOffice software
OpenOffice document writer (Words alternative) has Times New Roman as a default font. I know that in Words you can change the default font easily, but I cannot work out how to do it in OpenOffice. Does anyone know?
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TVs, Games consoles, and Hz refresh rate confusion
We're looking at replacing our TV, and have found one that's pretty much ideal. Only problem is, it's got a 50hz refresh rate, and I know from experience that some games require a 60hz tv (due to owning a Gamecube in the past, and having to play Rogue Squadron in black and white :p ). My question is, will a PS3 and 360…
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Kaspersky...going round in circles!
Does anyone else have problems with Kaspersky? I logged onto pc today, and told Kaspersky needed to update/databases obsolete...did this, rebooted, got same message, again and again. Ive done full system scan, etc. We have Kaspersky booting up on start up, but is really annoying as it slows down pc. This happens daily..am…
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music download sites?
hi could anyone tell me a safe and preferably cheap/free music download site that i can use instead of using limewire because i know it has caused a lot of problems for my friends computers, and i keep getting warned away from it, although i have been using it on and off for 6 years my pc has had a lot of viruses cleaned…
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Photo Printer
I have an epson r200 but would like to get a new photo printer and give this one to my grand kids can anyone reccomend a decent photo printer that will not cost the earth? Many thanks
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Laptop monitor dulling
Hi, Last year we bought the wife a HP550 laptop from Ebuyer. She only uses it on and off as her usual workhorse is her work laptop. Anyway, recently she has noticed that if she is using it running off battery, the screen dulls and she can't get it to re-illuminate by the usual methods, and has to restart it. I have…
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Dell Inspiron1420 DEAD
My Dell Inspiron 1420 is dead all of a sudden..........I dont have a recovery CD Tried booting up from InternalHDD but no luck! Any help is much appreciated
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Help connecting please?
Hi all sorts of problems over the weekend tried to change to Sky from Virgin (didnt work but after 8 hours had enough and am sticking to virgin!! - dont ask!!) but now I've gone back to virgin cant get connected to the internet says limited connectivity what do i need to go onto to get connected again direct connection or…
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Music Magpie
Hey All Decided today with the wonderful world of technology and lack of space i would sell my vast collection of DVD's !! I went onto Music Magpie where 7 of my special edition discs would have netted me a miserable £5.00 Is there any sites online that actually offer you a reasonalble price for your discs ?
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Excel forumula help
Hi, Hopefully some of you Excel guru's can help me. I have a number of tabs in a spreadsheet, with one particular column listing the date somethng was received (Column A1 eg.) To save trawling through a number of tabs to check I want to make a summary sheet which returns the argument if a date is input then "yes", if no…
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Active Desktop Recovery update with malwarebytes now email problem please help
Hi,my computer kept freezing but after running super antispyware,ccleaner malewarebytes it started working a lot better (all came back with no threats) then i found that microsoft security essentials had turned itself off. in the meantime because i had to keep turning off when freezing my screen went white and Active…
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Sky remote
Hi everyone. I have a Sky HD plus remote. can I set it to work my Sky plus box, not HD?
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Excel Spreadsheet Help!
Morning peeps, I wonder if anyone can help me. I have a price in one column (£1.44563...) and a quantity of products ordered in another (say 11). Excel is rounds up my price to £1.45 which is what I want and is fine. However, when I look in my total column after multiplying the figure by a quantity of 11 it comes up with…
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Canon Scanner
Can someone please help me? I have a Canoscan Lite 2.0 which makes copies ok but when I scan to file or Desktop all I get is a page of Hyper Language (or simular). What has gone wrong?
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any deals around on dell mini please
as above , looking at the dell mini can anyone link me some good deals or discount codes etc thanks
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Page size help please
Suddenly, my page size thingy isn't doing its job. I refer to the centre of the 3 top right squares. I click this middle one to reduce page size, if I want to refer to other desktop ikons, but now, although the page symbol alters, it doesn't actually happen. Any help will be much appreciated, although i won't see it until…
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cheap sat nav?
i am after a cheap sat nav. i have never had one before so don't know what to look for. i don't need an all singing all dancing one, just a basic one. i know how to work them as i have used other people's but the time has come for me to get my own! i have seen one in argos (can't remember the brand) for £59.99. is it best…
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laptop has lost settings
Suddenly my laptop does not remember some settings such as date, time etc and I have to reset them everytime I boot up. I get a message during boot up saying configurations not set and asks me to go into f10 but when I do I cant seem to see any reference to this anyway. when I switch on now it comes up with the name of the…
