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xbox and mac?
Hoping someone can advise me? I am thinking about getting an xbox with kinect, can you play this on a mac? I know you can play ps3 on the mac (the man at the apple store told me,I'm not that computer savvy!) with a special (expensive) cable. Does anyone know if its possible to connect xbox to mac? and do I need this or a…
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Corrupted DVD?
I think I may have a corrupted DVD which I burnt a year or so ago, I would normally have no problem with this but it is the only digitised copy I have of my wedding!!! I have tried several programs to extract the raw footage so I can reauthorise it on another program but to no avail, I have tried DVD shrink as well. It…
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Banned from Black Ops - Help!
Sorry if I have put this in the wrong place but its technical to me :) My son has been banned from playing Black Op's on line, not sure why but is there a way to get him back on there please? Thanks
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Can I use any mains charger on my Dell laptop?
Can i use any charger/adapter that fits my Dell Inspiron laptop, or does it have to be dell specific? Or will any one that has the same plugs on it work? Thanks in advance
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Low memory on PC???
Help needed please. Keep getting popup saying low memory on pc hard drive. Have tweaked everything I can think of, done diskcleanup etc, deleted any unused programs, minimal stuff on my docs, all pictures are on external drive. No music on hard drive. Capacity 9.30gb / Used 8.97gb / Free 343 mb Through a program called…
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Distance SR + Faulty Motherboard
I recieved a faulty motherboard from an online retailer, set up a return for refund on the 7th day after purchase and posted it the same day, it was delivered 2 days later. It arrived with bent pins (socket 1156) causing memory errors - easily reproducable. I got a text message telling me to contact someone over the phone,…
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PC monitor
My PC monitor somtimes turns blue, has it a problem that could be fixed ?
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Hotmail
Hi, I have had my hotmail account for as long as i an remember. However today I am not receiving any e mails,some of which I know have been sent. Can anyone advise if/how this can be resolved. Thank you in Advance
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best printer for cheapest ink
i'm looking for a printer that gets the best value for money in black ink. i mostly need to print stuff out just for my records (black and white) so i don't need anything special as long as the ink is cheap. any advice out there apprecitated.
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Panda Internet Security 2011 - any good?
I have the possibility of using my friends spare licence for Panda Internet Security 2011 but am a little confused as to what it provides. Antivirus is mentioned on the official Panda website but then most reviews only refer to Mal-ware protection. Can anyone tell me what protection this provides, if its any good and…
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Netbook security
Have just purchased a Compaq CQ10-101SA Netbook (160Gb H/D, 1Gb memory) with XP installed, It comes with Norton (60 days live update) The Netbook probably won't be used that regularly, What security would be most appropriate for it? (The home computer has MSE with the occasional Malwarebytes, CCleaner and Secunia scans)…
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Quad band mobile
Daughter going to S.America soon and wants a quad band cheap phone for emergencies.Carphone Warehouse have an Alcatel ot708 which claims to be a quad, but the stores say that its only dual band.Can anyone confirm whether this phone IS quad band and therefore be used in S.America. Any ideas on other CHEAP phones?
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HP 550 won't start.Any help would be great please.
Hi all.I have a HP550 laptop which all of a sudden isn't starting up properly.Instead of loading up to the password screen of windows,it just goes blank and stays that way.I turned the laptop off then on again and it gives me the option of starting up a 'laptop repair' or 'start windows normally'.The repair takes about 20…
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Creating an iphone/android app
Hi, I have an idea for an iphone/android application and would either like to develop it myself or use a company to develop it for me. The idead is very basic and based around the google maps - just pinpointing places on the maps and navigation eg locating the nearest chip shop to where you are - I have all the addresses…
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Easy Cap working (a feat in itself!) but no sound
After reading all the related posts i managesd to get my Easy Cap working. It only took 3 days:mad:. However, the sound is virtually non existent. The sound is perfect if i play my tapes on the TV, just the Easy Cap is not picking it up. (I do get the "no signal or signal is unclear" message but I capture anyway as the…
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iPhone photo manager
I have just got an iPhone and have put all my pictures on it (14000+). They are ordered in year then event folders. As you are all probably aware the pictures all sit in their respective 'root' year folder. Can anyone please recommend an app that will let me sort my pictures on the iPhone properly but retain the simple…
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Network Card going?
Just looking for a spot of advice - I think it could be my network card but looking for any other ideas or fixes... Laptop is over 3 years old and generally very bad condition - so many things wrong with it. It has a wireless network card - lately my internet just keeps going off, it will loose the network completely and…
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IE Problem Advice Please
Hello people I have a question about a friends IE and I am hoping you can provide me with an answer. When the computer is on IE home page displays but when she clicks on Hotmail a box opens and she is told there is a new version so she started to download and it gets as far as 90% then drops down and informs her the…
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Computer will not connect to Internet Explorer
Can anyone help? A computer was left on overnight as it needed an update, what update I do not know, but the computer will not load Internet Explorer since. It is Windows XP and never gave any bother before. It is connected to the internet and it is displaying the icon to say so. I have tried to get it working again by…
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Norton firewall popup
When my laptop boots up I now get a red windows security cenrte popup saying that my computer is at risk because norton firewall worm protection is switched off.... I don't use norton so I used the remove norton tool and it went away, now the popup says windows firewall disabled, but when I open the security centre it says…
