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Looking for home cctv kit
Hi as the title suggests id like a cctv kit for home pref with 2 cameras and a recording facility , would like to spend £100 - £150 if possible does anyone have anything like this or could recommend a setup ? Many thanks .
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Converting Ipod videos to AVI(XVID)
I've recently bought an Intenso Video Cruiser MP3/4 player. Whilst the MP3 side of it works a treat I can't get the videos to play at all. It did come with a video conversion programme but sadly it just crashes on my PC. I've got a lot of video clips that are on my Ipod that I want to transfer to this. It says that the…
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Large Buttoned Clock Radio
Does anyone know where I can get hold of a clock radio with large (and preferably very few) buttons on it. It doesn't really matter about the number of buttons as such as long as there are very few on the top. At the moment he has a DAB radio alarm clock and almost everyday we have to re-set it as he's pressed a wrong…
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Any good offers for MS Office Home version?
Hi, first time doing this and wondering whether anyone know of any offers for MS Office? I've googled some and softwareforstudents are offering them for £39. Is the website reliable?
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can i get extended warranty on a laptop from currys
I have an advent laptop from currys, and its still in standard 1 year warranty. Can i extend this warranty now or is it too late ie. should have got it at start? thanks
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Looking for Desktop: Budget £500
I'm looking for a good desktop for about £500, I already have an LCD monitor, so it's really just a base unit. I am thinking of having it custom-built but don't know of any reliable places/websites that do this. :mad: Also, is this overpriced or decent or what? http://www.ebuyer.com/product/186623 or this…
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Norton renewals
Any Norton customers coming up for their annual renewal date consider buying a new disc rather than following through the on-line renewal process. I have Norton 360 on my 2 computers. With 30 days to my subscription renewal date I start getting reminders to renew. The cost to carry on for another 12 months is £65. PC World…
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Doing a Factory Restore, What Should I Keep?
Obviously the major things like my photos and music, but I'm looking for ideas on some of the things I might forget. What sort of things are useful to keep, that I will most likely forget to transfer onto the external hard drive? Qny ideas on what you might have forgotten or have remembered at the last minute to keep?…
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top up tv question
Ive got a new tele that has a CAM slot, I am thinking of buying a CAM and a top up tv viewing card. If i plug it in will i be able to get sky sports without having to get a freeview plus box. I realise ill have to pay for the initial fee and then monthly for sky sports. I just want to make sure i can get it without getting…
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Recommendation For Cheap Laptop That Will Play Sims 2
Apologies if this is in the wrong place. My daughter wants to buy a laptop to play the Sims 2 on, but she has limited funds of £200. I don't know enough about computers to know if this is possible or not. Are there any laptops around for that kind of money, that will have good enough specs to play the game? As I don't want…
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Advice wanted Re: laptop keyboard
When my son types something on his Acer Laptop certain letters make it go back to his screen saver so he can never complete a word only some of the letters do this such as the L or the R. This happens all the time when doing a search on google. I would be very greateful if someone can help. Thanking you Drinda.
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Where can I buy 1.2V 40mAh Ni-MH batteries?
I need one for a dead electronic timer. Thank you. :)
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standard DVI to VGA cable support 1080p?
I've recently bought a new computer and I am curious to whether a standard DVI to VGA cable will support the 23" 1080p monitor I have bought with it? I understand that I could purchase a HDMI cable it would most definately support HD movies on the screen. However, I don't want to go out and buy one if I don't need to. :D
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Resurrecting an ancient laptop - Linux distribution?
Hey, I've just inherited a fairly old laptop (it has Windows XP but also a floppy disk drive so I'm not exactly sure how old it is), it runs very slowly though I'm hoping that because of the volume of rubbish software on it. I read somewhere once about a version of Ubuntu that was specifically stripped-down for use on old…
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Where to get Vista from?
I've decided to start a fresh with my PC, my Vista is buggy and programmes crash constantly. I guess the viruses and gernal use has finally taken its toll. I want to wipe everything and start again, I have a 1tb external drive to transfer everything to, however my PC came with Vista pre loaded and no Vista disk. Where…
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Trojan Horse-mega awful - please help!!
can someone please help!! We have major problems here - am passing this over to my OH and my son (his computer - affected big time): (Has affected his wrk) Trojan Horse SHeurAQRA. Seems associated with all Adobe progs. AVG has picked them up, but unable to remove.
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Laptop for 12 year old son under £350?
I've posted this elsewhere on MSE but someone suggested I post over here too so hope you don't mind. My son is twelve next week and has asked that he gets money for his birthday so he can purchase a laptop for school and social use on the internet. Could we get a laptop that he could use for school work and other use that…
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BEWARE of callers claiming to be from Microsoft
Half an hour ago, I had a telephone call from a foreign sounding man, claiming to be from Microsoft and he would sort out my problems. Politely I told him my computer was fine and to go away. I posted this elsewhere and within minutes someone told me their mum had been scammed and gave me this link.…
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My Electronic Timers are "dead"
I've got a couple of electronic timers. One of them is almost identical to this: http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/9822911/Trail/searchtext%3ETIMER+SWITCH.htm I haven't used them for a few years. Tried plugging them in, and an appliance in the timer socket. The appliance works, but there is no display on the…
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How Can I Block api.ak.facebook.com?
Ever since that stupid facebook et al block appeared to the right of the first post in a thread, I've regularly had big problems with pages downloading. So much so that I've just seen the red mist and decided the block the f3ck3r. I get "waiting for api.ak.facebook.com" in the status bar, so figured there must be a way of…
