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New PC? - Advice Please
I am looking to get a new PC as my one is really slow and done. It runs on XP. It also appears there isn't much memory to it so I think unless I strip it back completely and don't save or download anything at all it would be ok, but I just can't do that. What desktop would you advise me to buy? What should I be looking for…
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Sorry another tablet question
My 9 year old son really wanted a ipod touch as his friend had one and he wanted to play zombie farm (I know that this is also available on anroid, as I can see it on google play but my phone dosent support it). I have been looking at the ipod touch (but he not intrested in listening to music at all) so i thought this…
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MPEG-4 to Avi
I have some Mpeg-4 files that i wanted to convert to avi to put on my son and daughters innotabs. Now i have downloaded MPEG steam clip to do the transfer but the files after are massive. For instance an 18MB file has now turned into 136MB. Is there a way of getting a smaller file transfer? Now i'm sure that most of you…
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PCIe card or DVD-RW drive wont install
The DVD-RW drive has been installed before. I formatted the HDDs & just didn't connect it up again as i have a blu-ray drive in there too which i was using. Bought a PCIe card as i needed another SATA slot. This one to be exact:…
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Error 324
Hi Guys, Could someone help me please? My computer is doing all sorts of strange things! Basically on Saturday I went to use a website and it wouldnt load in any browser and I got the message: Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connection without sending any data. I didnt think much of it and tried…
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Is there a cheap way to use android phone as GPS in USA?
Hi, Have a samsung galaxy with unlimited data with TalkMobile I am going on a road trip next year around USA and the hire car company are quoting $200 for sat nav Is there any way of utilising my own phone to be able to access GPS cheaper than renting Sat Nav? Thanks
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Watching Sky on two TVs without a coax cable?
I have Sky downstairs. All the packages, new Sky HD box. I'd like to have Sky on the upstairs TV too, but I don't really fancy giving Sky £10 a month for the privilege. The engineer mentioned getting a Sky Eye, which would connect to the box downstairs and let me use the Sky with the TV upstairs, which sounded perfect.…
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Transfer Android apps from old device to new
Looking for instructions on how to take across my substantial catalogue of Apps from my existing HTC Sensation android phone to my new HTC One X+ android phone. Anyone have experience of doing this? Appreciate any feedback.
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yet another thread about printers (all in one colour laser pls :-)
I need advice about an all in one colour laser printer, for business use. - 20-30 pages per day - scanner only used for documents - not used for photos, just colour documents like leaflets etc - print double sided - wireless (to be accessed through different devices) in a nutshell, a laser version of my hp officejet 6500.…
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Firewall help
Hi, Can anyone help, in really simple terms :o as to how to add a program to my Firewall list of permitted programs. I've looked on the Firewall list on my computer and it's not there and I can't work out how to add it. I use Windows xp and want to add apc.exe to my list. It's from Albelli photo books website. I hope…
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New asda facebook scam.
WARNING!! ASDA FREE CHRISTMAS £350 VOUCHER SCAM!! The's a new scam doing the rounds,a old mate just got hit by it.If you click the link it'll take you to a a !!!!!! tube site! I opened the link Sandboxed to protect my PC so I could see if it was genuine,it wasnt!...It took me to a !!!!!! tube streaming site.…
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Rural broadband project
UK's rural broadband project gets EU approval The UK's plans to roll out broadband to rural areas has received EU approval. Such approval was needed because the project is partially state-aided. The green light means councils can now begin laying cables that will bring super-fast speeds to rural areas although many are yet…
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Acer Aspire One 725
Hello Everyone, I was wondering what people thought of this computer?. And also as it does not have a disc drive, what do you do if it crashes as you would not have disc's to restore it?. Also if you wanted to burn a CD to the computer what would you need to be able to do this? Thank You Luckyone xxx
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Spinning beachball
I have a MacBook Air which has just been to the Genius Bar. They had to reinstall the operating system to correct the problem I was having. I put all data on hard drive. I am now putting data back on MacBook and I am just getting the spinning beachball all the time. I cannot even move items into folders on desktop. Many of…
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Packared Bell Lid Cracked
Hello Everyone, My PB laptop became hard to open & has a crack in the lid now, plus at the side it's cracked the two half's of the lid gape away from each other. It is out of warranty so where can I trust to fix it for me? And would this be expensive? Thank You Luckyone xxx
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Been given a Huawei G6151 phone and need advice about Bluetooth Headsets.
I would like to listen to the FM radio on this mobile phone using a Bluetooth Headset if possible (the phone is a 2.1 if it helps - well that's what it says on the box) Would also appreciate any advice on the headset below or any other recommendations and whether there are avoidable pitfalls to using headsets like these as…
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TV broken 13 months after purchase
Hi all, I bought a 43" Plasma 3D TV from Comet on the 22/10/2011 - and this week it's refusing to come on and, if it does (after a long while of waiting, up to 30 minutes), it just freezes so I can't do anything. Then I have to switch it off and that's the end. Please could you give me some advice / advise where I stand on…
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Sd / mmc / ms
Have bought a digital photo frame as a chrsitmas present States it accepts SD / MMC / or MS types of memory card Which is the best out of the above to use?
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Nexus 10 - UK Getting Shafted Again
Price of 16GB version on UK Play store £319 Price of 16GB version on US Play store $399 $399 at today's exchange rate £250 So ... why are we being charged £69 extra exactly? :mad:
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help with blackberry 7 playbook
forgive me but im an old man, i have just bought my son for xmas a blackberry playbook 64gb, but he has an i phone. will he be able to get the use out of the blackberry or should i have bought him an i pad? im totally stumped!
