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Laptop advice - best buy for 11 year old daughter
I am buying my 11 year old daughter a laptop for Christmas (mainly so that I can have mine back!) Can anyone suggest a good one to get (up to £400 - less than £300 though if possible) She needs it for school work, internet, photos etc.
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sat nav advice please
Hello guys, I am after some advice please, i am looking to buy a new sat nav, it won't be used much and has to be fairly cheap what with crimbo coming up. i am looking at argos website are any on THIS page any good?
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best pc diagnostic software
Hello... I’m interested to know what software people could recommend for a good free pc diagnostic tool i only used the eurosoft pc check where i worked and it’s very good but very pricey, so if any one has any recommendations for the closest ''but free'' software compared to eurosoft... thank you all.
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Getting an Engineer's Report for Sony PS3 YLOD
My son's 60gb PS3 got the YLOD after 3 years of use. We still had the receipt so phoned up the retailer Argos who we bought it from to enquire about a repair and to my surprise she said if I can get an Engineer's Report stating it was caused by a manufacturing fault we would get a replacement PS3 slim. Most console…
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flatscreen PC monitor to a TV?
I'm after a small flatscreen TV for my son's bedroom but they are a bit expensive. Remembered I have a 19" flat screen monitor in my garage and now wondering if I can use it as a TV. I'm thinking I could get a freeview box and connect it, probably using a scart-vga converter. I need a techie to tell me if my theory is…
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what is the alternative to Apple iPad
I think about buying a tablet comuter around £100 budget, no need 3g, need wi-fi and Android. 10 inches one is desirable. In ebay there are many but not sure would it be same as good as iPad. If you have any ideas please send to me.
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Help! I've installed a GNU on the same volume as XP
Not the animal, but a Linux distro. Well, I didn't mean to; my new (secondhand) PC came with XP Pro installed on the unpartioned hard drive, but I couldn't access the web via Windows because of another problem. Anyway, I thought I would try http://www.slitaz.org/en/ because it runs independently of the HDD. However there…
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facebook photos
hi, can any one explain how can i delete photo from my facebook profile album? thank you
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Msn
Hi Can MSN be uninstalled ? Thanks
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Which Laptop, any advice..
I have been asked by my in-laws to find them a laptop their budget is £400, basically they will use it for email, writing letters and storing photos, mum plays scrabble now and then, nothing more strenuous than that. I have looked at laptops with the new core i3 processors but am thinking the old dual core are just as good…
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Help saving photos
Hi .I've recently got into photography and have decided that I want to keep a record of my work I'm leaning towards disc but do I use DVDS or CDS ,I've never done it before so I'm not sure which way to go and do the files have to be as big as possible ,when I upload to flickr I downsize my files should I keep them the…
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random numbers and letters on blog profiles?
Hi I never come on this board so I apologise if I am in the wrong place :o Can anyone tell me what the letters and numbers mean that people post on blogs/facebook etc? Its driving me mad as I dont know what they mean !!!! For example: 21E2E382 Thanks to anyone that can help me :T
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switch help please.
Looking to start a project which involves switches, but cannot for the life of me remember what the switch I want to use is called. Essentially it controls 1 output from 2 feeds. I'll try my best to describe what it is. I had one on a scart socket box once. The box allowed 3 scart sockets to be plugged in at once, then you…
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Maybe I'm Been Lazy Or Expecting To Much!
I'm wondering if any of you Wordpress guys could supply me with a short-cut :D At the moment I'm updating my creative writers blog; one section of the blog gives information about current contests. The information is given in the following format: Name Of Competition Brief Description Closing Date Entry Fee Organizers…
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Trying to downgrade Windows 7 to XP
Hi We installed Windows 7 on DH's lappy a few months ago as couldn't find the XP disc. We have found a disc, it's not the original one that was used on the lappy, but I had one before I upgraded to Windows 7. I've tried to put Windows XP on and it won't go far as it says that Setup did not find and hard disk drives…
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Ipod screen damage, but it's brand new?
I bought my daughter an Ipod Nano, which we received yesterday. Not one of the new little ones, the one before that. Charged it up this morning on my DAB radio as it has a dock, to make sure everything was working as it should be, and come to the end of the 3 hour charge, there is a mark right in the centre of the screen,…
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Screen up the wrong way??
My other half managed to drop the keyboard off the shelf, when he picked it up again the screen is now upside down. Can someone explain how to get it up the right way again please. I was sure it was one of the F buttons but have tried them to to no avail
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Can you use a keyboard with PS3 ?
Hi, DS likes to message his friends when he is on the PS3. Can you use a computer keyboard to do this? If so does it have to be special? TIA Dx
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Wheres best to buy a business computer
I need to buy another PC for my little business, i recently purchased one from PC world but as it was a home edition i couldn't network it so had to upgrade so i could network. Is there anywhere better/cheaper to buy a PC from than PC World? Looking at the PC world business it is far more expensive for just the PC than it…
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Venture Photography
does anyone know where they source there frames especially the ice plasic type as i wish to buy the blocks
