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7 year old daughter accidentally run up £250 bill for itunes app? *Now updated*
Update on Page 3.....Our 7 year old daughter thought she had downloaded a free app 'Treasure Story' onto to my husbands Ipad. She has been happily playing it until I received an email saying thank you for your purchase for £39.99...we don't purchase anything so obviously I checked what was going on and it seems this game…
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Web hosting
I'm looking to set up a small personal site, I've had a couple in the past, but not got a clue who offers good hosting at the moment. In the past I've used Dreamhost as I got $97 off, so only cost me something like £20 for the year, but I can't do that again. The other company I used are no longer around it seems. I'm…
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SATA Hard Drive on Acer Veriton 7600GT?
Does anyone who owns one of these know if the motherboard has SATA ports on it, and if the standard 80GB hard drive is SATA or IDE please? Trying to arrange to add a second hard drive to one of these without having seen it yet, and the Acer documentation is rather vague as to the actual spec. Some references are to two…
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DVD hack for LG DVX582H ???
Does anyone know of a successful multi-region hack for this DVD player? Have tried a few ways from suggested websites but didn't work - any help very much appreciated!
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Fuji z800
Anyone got any experience of the above camera ? Its 12mp and has the supposedly very high regarded exr sensor I bought the missus one for christmas and the image quality compared to my 3 year old 6mp panasonic digital camera is rubbish, really grainy, even after messing with the settings and Fuji's troubleshooting. Ive…
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Paypal question
Hi, I'm considering purchasing a download from a site that I'm quite sure is legitimate. It's payment via Paypal, and I'd like to know what personal info of mine the site can get? Is it just my email? Apologies if this is in the wrong section, it seems closest to my query.
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Best free You Tube ripping software?
Hi Can anyone recommend a good piece of FREE software for downloading video clips from You Tube? I need them in a format that will play on any computer so that I can then use them in the classroom, where You Tube is filtered.
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Freeview problems
We have been having problems with our freeview reception for the past 4 or 5 days. We got back from being away and loads of channels had disappeared. I have since re-tuned several times and only got 64 digital channels plus 5 analogue (not sure how many I had before, but it was definately more). We now have no BBC1, 2,…
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PDF "printers"
I have found PDFCreator extremely useful, but occasionally it only seems to "save" part of an online printable file. I have recently tried Foxit PDF Creator with the same result. Any suggestions?
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New laptop causing router problems - why?
I have a Netgear router which works fine with the wired pc and my old wirelessly connected laptop, today I bought a new Acer laptop, when I made the wireless connection it caused the Netgear routers' lights to flash and the wired PC connection was also lost. (Husband wasn't happy). I checked with my ISP - Virgin and all…
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Problems with iPod Touch crashing
I have a 3rd gen iPod Touch. Today, when I play music, it randomly crashes back to the main menu screen and the music stops. Its getting frustrating. Has anyone heard of this?
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choosing a new laptop
I am looking for a new laptop to replace my old lenovo...have tracked down 2 that I'm really happy with so far. The first is the lenovo z560…
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Which Laptop? Help!
Hello :) I am looking to purchase a new laptop within the next day or so (preferably before the VAT goes up on the 4th!) and thought I would tap into the MSE forum techie whizzes. The specs I am after are as follows; 17.3 inch screen any HDD size over 250GB Preferably 4GB DDR3 RAM or 3GB DDR3 if not most recent AMD or…
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Cctv
Hi, wanting to purchase CCTV 2 cameras should be enough. Does anyone have any recomendations. Ideally would like it to only come on when something goes past and also like the idea if being able to use through the iPhone. Only really need a range of 5-10 meters. Anyone that can point me in the right direction. Thanks
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Television keeps losing picture
I have an LG 32" crt tv which I've had for 8-9 years and it has started turning itself off. First the screen will go black as I loose the picture and the programme sound will continue for 5-10 seconds before the television turns itself off. I am unable to simply turn it back on again, if I do it just turns itself off…
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Windows Task Bar has Moved to RHS Margin of the Screen !?
My Windows XP desk top used to have its task bar (has the Windows logo at one end for start up turn off etc. and the time at the other, blue, on most systems and shows the programs running) along the bottom of the screen. It has rotated anticlockwise by 90 degrees and now runs up the Right Hand Side of the screen. I seem…
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Searching Through Forums On Google
Hi, Can you search through internet forums via Google in the same way that you can search for specific words in a specific website domain on Google (i.e Vannila Ice inurl:blogspot)? If so, how? :jThanks!
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xbox live
hi, i now have the internet getting installed at home in a couple of weeks! my son wants xbox live. how do i set this up? and instead of paying with a card etc can you just buy like 10 pounds worth or something? also do i just connect the xbox to the modem via a cable or by a special wireless thing? which is best and where…
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DSLR question
Do these have the same lens? http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0020MLKF0/ref=pe_33041_23199081_pe_epc_t3 http://www.jessops.com/online.store/products/78164/show.html and Why is the 550D cheaper than the 500D on amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0020MLKF0/ref=pe_33041_23199081_pe_epc_t3…
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Built in freeview
Im going to get a 32 inch with freeview well i have sky plus tv so can i either stay with them and still use the sky and u get loads off channels, or get rid off sky plus but can i add channels to freeview which comes with the tv ? Also i might get the new freeview recorder as its so handy as the sky plus has it .
