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MS Office - Want To Replace Office 365
The wife has a laptop which for some bizarre reason she has Office 365 installed on. Now, I don't really know how Office 365 is different to a normal copy of Office other than that instead of paying a one off up front she is currently getting billed £79.99 a year for it meaning she has paid £240 over the last 3 years to…
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Samsung Smart TV - anyone on here use Social TV App
Got a few questions regarding the Social TV app on Smart Hub, anyone here use it? James
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good deal on samsung 10" tablet ?
any of you wise folks found any good deals on a ten inch samsung tablet , or will I find something better when this black friday thing kicks in ? thanks in advance
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App for Printing Photos
Hi Is there a decent app which I can download to my pc or phone for printing photos? I've got hundreds of images which really deserve to proper photos to go in an album. I guess I would just upload the images, pay the fee and then they will be posted to me? Many thanks Terrysdelight
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Intermittent e-mail issue
I've been having some odd problems since yesterday and Plusnet say it isn't because of any fault at their end. I've run every scan I can and to be honest I think my browser has recovered but not my e-mail. I use Outlook Express and I'm intermittently unable to send messages, getting the following error message - I've…
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Wireless printer
Hi Please can I have opinions on the best wireless printer to suit us please We don't use it that often though this might increase. Exit year with sons schooling So don t want one prone to drying up lol i would like under £50 and not ridiculous cartridge prices Any thoughts I'd be really grateful as we havnt had a wireless…
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HDMI/xbox/Projector help please
Im full of cold and usually have a good grasp of these things but i just cant work this out so i need someone to talk to me like im simple :p Can i plug an xbox one into my old non hd projector? would i need one of these? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Converter-Adapter-Desktops-Power-Free-Raspberry/dp/B009CRN810 thanks in…
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HP DV7 Laptop Battery recommendations
Hi all, I have a DV7 Laptop and the battery has gone again. Whether I buy HP branded or no name the battery only seems to last for 12-15 months - it's mostly connected to the power anyway. Any good places to go or avoid, does it matter whether I spend £18 or £60? Thanks in advance!
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Remove searchinterneat-a.akamaihd.net
I believe that searchinterneat-a.akamaihd.net has hijacked my Firefox web browser! Malwarebytes told me that it had blocked this spyware yesterday so I removed Firefox & unistalled it & all it components (so I thought). I restarted my pc & downloaded Firefox from Internet Explorer again. When I opened FF there was no…
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advice on 3d printing and cnc milling
I have a small business that needs occasional mouldings and stuff made (small less than 4cm3) unfortunately getting a 3d cad artist to take these jobs on is a nightmare. I just can't find people to do this sort of work. They're probably interested in larger projects for repeat business. I also have a new business plan that…
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Dipping toe into broadband market!
My F-in_L is looking to join the computer age slightly later than everyone else! He would like a tablet and to connect to the internet but I doubt he will be downloading or streaming anything any time soon. He obviously doesn't have the internet at the moment, he's on Virgin for TV and home phone. They want an extra £20 a…
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Default Prog's in 10 Grrrrrr
Ok I am not totally thick but........ When trying to change the default for what opens photos in win 10 it doesn’t work Here’s what I do Open default – select windows photo viewer – choose defaults – select all – save and close Nothing changes when I open a photo. I have even tried select this prog as default Each time I…
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Windows 7 wants to download windows 10 no get out?
Hi folks, Anyone else encountered this on windows 7? On one of my computers I want to keep it at windows 7 for time being. In the past by hiding update KB30355583 it has worked but now when I go to windows update it insists in downloading windows 10 before it will even download the currents months updates. Once the…
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Web-based outlook: The message can't be sent because at least one recipient isn't ...
...valid (https://outlook.office365.com/...) It's a company e-mail box that I haven't used for a while. After the recent 'improvements' I cannot send a email to some new address that I've never used before. I tried creating a contact with this address, but this didn't help. Nothing special with the address:…
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Windows 7 ISO
My Windows 7 installation DVD is 6 years old and contains the first release. Naturally, when I use this to do a clean install, it takes quite a long time and many restarts to download all the necessary updates that have been introduced since first release. Sometime soon I will probably do another clean install on my…
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Windows 10 installation failure
Knowing there would be many changes I have waited to load Windows 10 onto my Desktop, this is the machine I can cope with failure, my laptop is master, so not being tried until Desktop is sorted. I am getting the 0x8007002C-0x4000D failure on SECOND_BOOT when MIGRATING_DATA I have googled this almost to death, and tried…
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Amazon fire stick
No sure if this should be hear or TV, but it's Internet based. The fire stick I've got will not play anything from Amazon saying low bandwidth, my iPad will stream everything I throw at it, it's not too far away from the sky box so that's not the problem. I've downloaded the YouTube app and stuff plays on YouTube just not…
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Does anyone make money with Youtube Ads/Adsense or Mobile Ads(Admob)?
Hopefully the anonymity of a forum would be a great place for people to get an idea of how much in reality running Youtube Ads on your videos, Adsense and Admob on mobile apps in 2015 generates. Youtube Ads must have seen massive growth over the last few years, I see them on nearly every vid now across both private and…
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Mail problem - GOTADSL
I am unable to send or receive any email I use GOTADSL servers (TalkTalk business) Does anyone know if there is a general problem with these servers today ?
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Password Management
Hello There, Looking for advice on password management tool. Nowadays, we are doing so much online.... From work, from smart phone, from a tablets, from home computer and laptop. Online banking, investment, social website, forum, dating, etc etc etc... How do you all managed your password? Do not tell me you use the same…
