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Archives for July 2012

What speakers to buy
I wonder if anyone can help me. My CD player has given up the ghost after 20 years. I bought it second hand so can't complain. I would like to purchase a docking station for my Ipod + wireless speakers to play my music through. Can you use the same docking station for an Ipod and Ipad? I'm after wireless speakers so I can…
Kindle help please!
I wondered if anyone had contact details for Amazon re my Kindle. I have looked everywhere on their website but to no avail. I have a problem with my kindle in regard to font size. Some recently downloaded books have a tiny font which I need to increase but then I swap to another book and the font is humongous! I adjust…
Wireless thernet ???
Ive just got a new HD plus box for free:j Managed to install it myslef last night. :j I have sky anytime, little on it yet because the box is so new. I can have Sky On Demand for free apparently by inserting the ethernet cable into the new box and into the router, but cant because of walls etc. Sky man says I can buy…
Can you help me lower my telecoms bill?
I pay too much for my telecoms bill, but can I really replace like with like at a better price? I have a Virgin Media cable broadband link which costs me £31.75. I have a BT line and limited calls package which costs £26.50. However, I have to have this type of telephone connection, because for work purposes I have to plug…
Opera Browser
Anybody else use Opera? Since they upgraded from 11.64 to 12.0 I've not been able to drag and drop the url address bar to the desktop. Meaning: If you right click on the icon on the address bar it will leave an icon shortcut on the desktop. You can then click it to go back to the page or keep it in a folder. Since the…
Yahoo Mail
Can anyone help with yahoo problem, when I tred to get my mail it is asking me to agree to new conditions which is not a problem, But when it asks me to agree or disagree with new conditions it will not let me press go ahead so that I can get to the mail, The agree or disagree sign just keeps apearing I do not know much…
navman icn 520
we have a navman icn 520,old i know,not plugged into pc for years,windows 7 only sees it as a plugged in usb. I dont know where disc is. I have managed to put on to satnav smartST. i would like to use it when we go up to the lake district,with some walking maps if possible. any help really appriciated.
Time for a new pc or laptop - help please.
Just a bit ofadvice please. My aceraspire pc has broken after six years, so I’m looking to replace it. It was theone where you didn’t have a big tower, the actual pc was more like the size ofa large book, which was ideal because it fit on my desk. So, if I did get a new PC, I would want onethat was quite slim as we haven’t…
Clickfree drive
I am only doing a back up once in a blue moon and really need to get organised to do them regularly. Not being very 'techie', I need something that is really easy that will either do it automatically to another drive or I can just press a button and it does it. I initially want to copy everything so that if I had to…
Found this YT Video of the infamous Windows scam
http://youtu.be/Xf2d0nBtz_U Hahah, suckers although there's far too much culture in america/canada about suing people for things like this, it's still nice to get revenge on the annoying ones :)
External Hard Drive
My wife and I have been thinking about transferring our CD collection ( 200 discs ) onto a hard drive and then stashing the original CDs in the loft. Trying to cut down on space. I'm looking for some info, maybe some pros and cons. For example how can I play then from the hard drive? Do I need to buy speakers etc. we have…
Thomson PVR recording problem
Parents have one of these boxes (not sure of the model but its the black one, rounded front, silver stripe across front..think its DTI3600). All was well with it until very recently when ANY records started on the box fail to stop recording and then either show as a missed recording or corrupt recording. Going down…
Unable to download security on Vista Laptop
Morning, would appreciate some help with a download problem. I am using a borrowed laptop running Vista and the free AVG security has run out. My friend has asked if I can update and switch to either Avast 7 or MSE. Problem is that the laptop doesn't seem to be accepting any free downloads. It will let me do the inital…
movies on a phone
Hi all, I hope some of you techy bods can point me in the right direction! Im off on holiday soon and would like to know if there is a way I can put my own films onto my mobile phone so I can watch them during the flight. I did take a look at the android market to install a film but they are only for rental so I would have…
Faulty laptop refund?
I bought a laptop yesterday evening from comet. Got it home and charged it etc but it turned off several times and I got so annoyed I haven't even made it past the registering first steps! I'm very disappointed, I don't want it repaired after a day - that's not a good laptop in my eyes. I have been sold faulty goods. Do I…
I'm not sure what I need. MP3/Ipod
I am looking for something to play music and listen to audio books on whilst i'm at the gym. I don't want to spend a fortune on something that will be used for around 4 hours per week, and having looked online i'm confused about what I actually need to do both of these things. It doesn't need to have fancy extras like…
Printer problem
Hi i have an Epson SX425W printer and it has started to miss offthe bottom few lines of text on documents. Yet on the print preview all the text is showing I may have changed something but i do not know what. Help please Thank you
iphone video help pleeeeeeeeeease
I have taken loads of videos on my iphone whilst on holiday when i have uploaded them to pc they are all sideways on, I have no idea how to get them the right way up, please help thanks
new lappie
hi all, I have £3oo to spend on a new lappie which should i choose, any advice appreciated. Ta Smudge
Inspiron 6000 XP/sp3 not booting
This is got me puzzled. When the laptop boots, after the boot screen all we get is a flashing curser. When we enter BIOS everything looks good, the pata hdd etc are showing as they should. It will however boot from the XP CD and from a USB drive. We have checked (on another system) the samsung hdd with the samsung hdd…

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