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making iphone battery last as long as possible
Hi guys, I'm about to go on a charity walk which will last 8 days and will be walking around 11 hours a day, I'm going to be using my iphone 5 mainly for music, occasional text and call and maybe gps should I need it. I have a 5ah dewalt battery and usb adaptor which will give me around a dozen charges so I'm confident…
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Can an Android App run on a Windows PC?
I am thinking of buying the Drayton central heating controller miGenie. It appears to provide for operation via an Android App: http://www.mi-genie.co.uk/#theapp But there is no mention of its running on a normal Windows PC. It is a shame that Schneider / Drayton have neglected PC users Can an App be run on a PC?
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Are Radeon R7 graphics as good as a dedicated card?
As in the title, in essence. Lad wants a new gaming PC for Christmas and some of those I'm looking at have AMD Radeon R7 integrated graphics as opposed to a dedicated graphics card. I know that integrated graphics have been generally not as good as a seperate GPU so is this still the case these days? He wants to be able to…
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massive speed drop when using wireless??
Hi, I have a question on wireless speeds against hardwired connections. I have BT infinity 2 (had it just over a week) with my office PC connected via Ethernet cable direct to the Home hub and on test shows download speeds of around 75MB and upload speeds of around 12Mb but when I do a speed test on any of my wireless…
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Printer problems
Hi all. Having some problems with the printer over the last few days. All worked ok but now getting this message: SPLWOW64 exe bad image. c\windows\sys32\spool\drivers\x64\3\e_iaudle.dll: error status 0xc 000012f. Have tried SFC plus MWB, system restore and printer reinstall, but still no joy. system is W10 and has been…
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How Long Should a motherboard last?
Hi All, My daughter has just started Uni and is having to deal with stuff by herself! Last week her laptop died - it was playing music and suddenly stopped, the screen went stripey and then it went off and wouldn't restart. She bought the HP Laptop is 22 months ago, so it's out of warranty. In a state of panic (lecture…
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Vuescan
I have had to have my old laptop taken back to factory settings because of corrupt Windows files. This laptop will primarily be used for slide scanning my huge slide library with a Plustek scanner. It is Windows 7 and I will probably not update the operating system. Before the reset I had Vuescan software on the machine…
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Office 2016
Has anyone upgraded? Received email from MS a few days ago pointing towards : https://support.office.com/en-us/article/How-do-I-get-Office-2016-ee68f6cf-422f-464a-82ec-385f65391350?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
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What's an acceptable difference between wired/wireless speeds?
I moved house 6 weeks ago and now have Virgin Media cable, accessed through a Super Hub 2ac router. A wireless speed test that I ran a few days after installation on 7th September showed download speed of 90 Mbps and upload 6 Mbps - fantastic! Just lately things have felt a bit slow so I ran some more tests, and I wonder…
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Packard Bell EasyNote TE Sound
Let me first acknowledge that this is an economy laptop and as such won't have that many bells and whistles . That said the sound level on the machine is woeful. Even at maximum it is very low; you certainly couldn't watch a DVD on it or listen to music. Put on headphones and the sound is great. From what I've read on…
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Help on Moving from Wordpress.com to Wordpress.org
Hi all, I've had 40k views on my foodblog since February and although it may not sound like a lot to many, I would like to start getting paid for it if possible using adsense etc. To my knowledge, this means I would need to get my own webhosting, domain name & wordpress.com's plans are far too pricey. Can anyone firstly…
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Your Free £10 Credit for Apps & Games from Amazon
Had an email from Amazon saying I'm afraid I'm not too well up on all this modern stuff. What exactly can I spend this on and how? What is the Amazon Appstore? Is that where you buy apps for an Android tablet?
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Desktop Laser Printer
Can anyone recommend a decent desktop laser printer that can print up to A3 borderless? I'm a graphic designer and generally use printers for running out black and white copies of layouts for review... so colour reproduction not essential. I do need borderless though. Any thoughts? ps: I'm on a MacBook Pro with wireless
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Updating browser
Hello Technophobe asking for help regarding browser. I have used the same version of Internet Explorer for a few years. However, I am finding that an increasing number of sites are saying they no longer support my browser & give options to update to a newer version. I want to update to the latest version of Explorer but…
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Which Laptop?
I currently own a Sony Vaio VPCEE2S1E Laptop, it's done well but it's time for me to buy a new one. Some of the things I haven't liked are the short battery life & I have had many problems with freezing issues. I look at new laptops available and feel lost, there are so many to choose from. My budget is around £450 max.…
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Hello 21st century
I have just discovered that THREE have upgraded our area mobile phone signal to 4G - Measured at 20/15 Mbps using speedtest With a Fibre speed of 70+ Mbps - these speeds were just pipe dreams 12 months ago (when I was limited to ADSL) - isn't technology brilliant ? I remember 20 years ago, downloading on a 56kbps…
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Old Nokia phone
I have an old Nokia mobile and the charger has stopped working. Problem is,I don't know what model it is to be able to try and find a new charger.I tried looking on the battery for a model number,but there is none:o Any suggestions?
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New computer?
Looking at the bottom right computer as it appears to be able to get Windows 7. Main differences I can see are HDD, (I don't need 1TB), and the processor, the dearer one also has a 2 year guarantee. All prices exclude VAT. If none recommended, when looking for a computer I understand the main component is the processor, if…
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Facebook -video resolution
I have just uploaded a video to Facebook. When it plays, it is expanded and looks lower quality. Can I upload the video and fix the size, so the video is not expanded ??
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You Tube not playing, woe is me, lol
Hi all Another technical hitch going on here. I used C Cleaner on my computer as it was going a bit slow. It's sped up, but now You Tube vids won't play. Can anyone with some brain cells tell me what I've most likely got rid of. Flash Player, or something like that? Thanks!
