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twitter help needed!
anyone? help needed changing twitter's 86444 short code to a normal (UK) mobile number, so I can use some free texts from virgin, this weekend... apaprantly these short codes arent included, though not mentioned in their lovely message.. (750free texts kick in when you top up £10 or more in the week, on a virgin payg…
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Need visioneer scanner fu661e driver
How can I get a free visioneer scanner fu661e driver (I use the 'wonderful' windows vista)? As I had the scanner given to me a few years ago and forgot about it and now want to use it. Andy advice, tips etc.. will be very grateful. Cheers Rockee
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Generic or branded battery for my laptop?
I have an Acer Travelmate 5330 - where the battery life after 2.5 years of hard use has dropped down to just over an hour, which is a huge annoyance for me. Advice please: I can buy cheap generic ones off a number of locations such as fleabay, or go for the more expensive branded one. Is there any advice you can give me?…
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Editing the contents of a folder
Does anyone know of any software that will allow me to edit the contents of a folder on my computer. I have about 1000 or more photos in a few folders and instead of clicking through each one individually to rename them I'm after something that will allow me to do it quicker and easier with a possible drag option. Does…
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Please help - fake antivirus
I clicked on a webpage and it must have been infected because INSTANTLY a fake antivirus programme installed itself and started running this thing and claiming it was scanning my computer. It wouldn't let me cancel and say no. I psnicked and shut down my system. When I re-booted the fake programme wasn't open but I know I…
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best place to get xbox live gold subscription
Am looking to upgrade my live silver to gold to take advantage of sky player and online gaming but have seen loads of different places selling and prices quoted. Where is the best place to get a 12 month gold subs, is ebay reliable? TIA
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Recomment an SMTP sender that doesn't re-brand mails?
My ISP is sky, but I have a couple of my own domains that I want to fetch and send emails from. However, when I send emails via sky it re-brands my outgoing messages as sky.com. I did set the options in my sky account, but it re-brands the mail as "sky.com on behalf of mydomain" and has the return address as my sky.com.…
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HP C4400 series disk?
Hi, I was wondering if anyone had the installation disk for a HP C4400 series printer as I have lost mine and want to give the printer to the local childrens hospice, I can find the drivers to download online but not the actual scanning software or photo editing software. TIA for any help, can pay postage. :beer:
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Macbook HELP!!!
This is such a longer story of how thins happened but I'll try and keep it to the point as best I can. Firstly I'd like to point out that I am not very technically minded (as will become apparent). My Macbook was having some issue with the hard drive being corrupt and it said the best way to fix was to format the drive and…
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HijackThis log. Can someone review please
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 21:46:14, on 15/04/2011 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe…
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HijackThis log. Can someone review please
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 21:03:47, on 15/04/2011 Platform: Windows Vista SP1 (WinNT 6.00.1905) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.19019) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE C:\Users\Home\AppData\Roaming\dwm.exe…
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Some sites can't find internet - help please
Hi, Am having a problem in that when I try to open iTunes store or Spotify, I get an error message to say that there is no internet connection. Have got wireless and have no problems at all, apart from these sites and when trying to register my new Word 2010. Have tried adjusting the firewall to allow these but am driving…
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Crucial UK - ram question.
Checking my system properties it says I have 0.99GB of ram. I went on to the crucial uk website and I got this message Memory Type: DDR2 PC2-5300, DDR2 (non-ECC) Maximum Memory: 1536 or 2048MB Currently Installed Memory: 0MB Total Memory Slots: 1 Available Memory Slots: 1 Can you explain this to me. :o It does suggest a…
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Wireless HD TV?
Is is possible to buy a HD tv with 1920x1080 with a wireless capability? So I can switch between laptop/computer with the wireless USB device. thx
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Very slow download speeds
I bought a new laptop recently and would like to download tv shows and movies etc. I have just found out that my maximum download speed is 1.5 mbps. This is not the fault of my ISP (madasafish) but is something to do with distance from the exchange. I was just wondering if there is anything I can do or is this just a…
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AARRGGGHHHH! The technology is biting back!
Hi - I hope there is someone who can help! My laptop was working beautifully as a tool to browse the web wirelessly and my iphone was great as a piece of handheld technology! However, there's something gone horribly wrong. My Phone kept 'hanging' when trying to load pages and my laptop frequently tells me that pages arent…
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isp removing noise protection pros and cons - is it worth it
my new contract with my isp upgrades my download speed from 8mbs to 12mbs (they use ADSL-2) but I haven’t noticed much change in my speed, I have done speed test and have found that I am only receiving about 1mbs more than my old contract. I have contacted my isp and done all the tests that they have told me to without any…
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Where can I buy a plain and simple copy of Excel 2007
Don't really want to download the program, not really a fan of that!looked on fleabay but I was more confused than ever! so many different variations, just want plain old Windows Excel. Don't want to pay £50.00 though!
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Data recovery on Windows ME computer?!
So I've been doing some spring cleaning and have dug out my old Windows ME :eek: computer. I hooked it up to a monitor and it boots perfectly, had a poke around and it still has some old WMA files and a few pictures, and I was wondering what else could be on there. (you always hear of sensitive data being recoverable years…
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Filming in HD, 16gb SD card only 11 mins!
Hi I have just bought a fuji f300exr, part of the reason I got it was for HD filming capability. I bought a SDHC card (Transcend) 16gb and when I put it in the camera it tells me that it can only take 11 mins of HD film!! Is this really correct? if it is, what the hell is the point of having an HD camera when you need a…
