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Mini-PCIe SSD for the OS?
One of my Shuttle SFF PCs has got a Mini-PCIe slot that I've never used, and wondering if I could make good use of it. It seems that you can get wireless LAN cards (no interest to me - it's on a Gig LAN) and also SSD cards, which are actually relatively cheap - around £23 for 16GB if you buy direct from HK. It also seems…
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Why can't I transfer anything to my ipod anymore?
I have an ipod (touch: 4) I had to swap it over in the apple store about a month ago when the initial version was faulty. The ipod I have as a replacement seems to otherwise be fine. I can't though transfer any music to I tunes! I'm not sure if its the new ipod or any new software, I have spybot and windows essentials as…
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Ipod for granddaughter birthday
I know my granddaughter wants an iPod for birthday. I am not sure what you can do with an iPod, is it a telephone or just for applications....not sure... Can anyone enlighten me what an iPod does and what is the best one to get that is not too expensive please. :T
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Can't view this site in new firefox 11
Hi all, I upgraded to firefox 11 yesterday (as suggested by firefox) and now cannot view this site very well, it's all green bands and white spaces. All other sites are okay. Any ideas please? :o
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SIM issues - are all numbers lost?
I was having problems with my phone, so I contacted my provider. They got me to ensure phone and sim option was selected for saving my numbers and got me to restore factory settings. They told me if this didn't work they would need to send my phone to Nokia. A few days later, I was still having problems but was told by…
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MacBook Pro battery charging
I'm hoping you can advise me. How often should you run down the battery in a MacBook Pro to then fully charge it back up? I've searched google, but can only find conflicting answers. Many thanks for your help.
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free spreadsheets
remove pls
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free excel
oops deleted
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Samsung Smart TV LAN
Hello Does anyone know if you have to use the Samsung dongle or will any other usb wireless dongle do ? If it has to be the Samsung one ............... can anyone better around £40 on ebay or Amazon ? Cofion David
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Problems with installing Nero in windows 7
I have just got a new computer which runs windows 7 (I usedto have windows XP) and I seem to have a problem with installing Nero 7 on it. Every time I try to run the installer it partially installsNero 7 but it crashes before the end with an error message telling me that Nero7 is incompatible, I have also tried running it…
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Ripping CD's
I'm busy ripping the last of my music collection into iTunes. But why is it, that some cd's rip really fast and others crawl at a snails pace:( I have tried other software such as WMP, media monkey and even winamp and they're all the same, really slow:(
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Primus Broadband - Router / VPN problems
I recently signed up to Primus, but I've been unable to connect to my work VPN. (Nortel Contivity VPN). I believe this is an issue with the router they supplied (Technicolor TG582n) so I'm trying to connect with an old router of my own (Belkin F5D7632-4), as yet without success. I phoned Primus and a very helpful woman…
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recommendations please i7 laptop
we are going to be purchasing a laptop for my son in the next few weeks and he wants a i7 laptop minimum spend £800 any recommendations? thanks in advance
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Samsung Notebook spec query
I'm after some advice please folks, can any one tell me the difference between the Samsung N130 and the Samsung NC10 netbooks I looking to buy a second hand one, hence the query, I had a Samsung N130 any advice would be appreciated, Thanks
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Thinking of joining "FON"
I have unlimited broadband with Sky at my home. My daughter is currently away from home in hospital staff accommodation with no internet or telephone connnection available. I have read about FON and was wondering if anyone has experience of joining this (not via a partner like BT) and how it works. Ease of set up is…
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Old printer
Can you throw an old printer away or would it need stripping incase it stores info on already printed items.
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iPhone restored instead of updating!
Hi, when I plugged my iPhone 4 into the laptop on Saturday I wanted to put some music on, it asked to update to ios5, then said there was a problem and restored the phone....initially I lost everything. Now, my iPhone is on ios5, my iPad has all my music on, but the iPhone has none, it keeps saying error when I try to…
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Documents onto website - help needed
Hoping someone can help. I am trying to upload several documents (Minutes of meetings) onto a website. The documents were created in Word 2007 but I’m still using Word 2000 (I know, dinosaur!:o) I don’t know if that’s relevant, but thought I’d mention it. My problem is that when downloaded from the website, the documents…
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I need anti-virus software help
I dont know anything about computers and I am abit worried I dont have enough anti-virus software. I have AVG free edition 2012 anti-virus. Because of my work I need to go on alot of websites, some of which may be unsafe, and if I get a virus, I wont be able to work, so I need to get sorted. I read the threads about which…
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Update of why my computer won't boot up
After having experienced several blue screen dump crashes today my computer now won't come on, the hard drive tried to kick in once after this but I received a long continuious beep and now the green power button lights up and the cd drive kicks in but that's it nothing else happens, up until today I could at least use my…
