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WiFi VOIP
I'm trying to help an elderly person looking at going into a care home. Her telephone is her lifeline to friends and relatives. A potential car home has free WiFi but no provision for corded phones in the rooms. Does anyone have any experience with WiFi enabled VOIP phones? It wants to be self contained (or with a…
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Facebook ESET
I get this message when trying to log on to facebook. My computer is clean, so is there anyway I can bypass this, I can only log on if I download ESET and I don't like being forced to do this as it's not necessary. Being a cynic I'm guessing Facebook gets something out of this. Your Computer Needs to Be Cleaned It looks…
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tablet not new
Hi, I bought a tablet for my son for christmas, I've purchased this from a well known high street shop. On receiving the tablet the cashier asked did I mind that it had been checked (therefore the packaging was open) I stated I didn't. Fast forward to christmas and my son was thrilled with the tablet, it looked new and had…
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Printer for high use family?
Our laser printer has bitten the dust & I need to replace it urgently, so something I can get delivered next day or pick up on the high street needed. We print around 2-3,000 pages/year on average so replacement ink cost is a bigger factor than upfront cost. It needs to do colour, wifi & able to print from ipad & windows…
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Home Hub Question
I'm looking to move my old desk top out of the room where it's connected to the home hub, the router is connected to the modem, can I just disconnect it and we still have the same signal all over the house? TIA
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Can no longer save (Wins 10)
I can no longer save pictures to desk top any one have any ideas I have windows 10 on my pc.
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need multi region blu ray player - recommendations?
I have a lot of USA sourced DVDs which I currently play quite happily on my multi region DVD player. I am thinking of buying a blu ray player and want a similar multi region one. Any recommendations? (just to add, I have a virgin cable TV and Internet feed and subs to Netflix and Amazon video so option to stream from them…
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Avengers - Ultron- DVD versus Blu-ray
Not sure where to post this so trying here as i assume some techie nerds will also be Marvel fans. Want to buy Avengers -ultron on DVD or Blu ray for nephews birthday. However on looking up what extras the Dvd contains, some reviews said UK DVD did not have the directors commentary as Joss Wheedon recorded too late to make…
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Buzzing subwoofer. Any way to bypass
I have a stereo which has a subwoofer and 2 speakers. The sub is buzzing/humming. You can even hear it when using headphones. The sub is also the main power source with the stereo connected to it using a 9 pin mini DIN cable. The speakers also plug into the sub via RCA connectors. Can anyone advise how to get rid of the…
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Upgrading??
Hi all, I have a Dell Inspiron Laptop running Windows Vista. I was wondering if it was possible to upgrade it to Windows 7 or similar? Thanks all. :-)
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How Do I Change From BT Home Hub Back To My Old Router
I shifted from TalkTalk to BT Broadband about a month before Christmas. When with TalkTalk I used a Netgear DG834G Router and would like to remove the BT Home Hub 4 and revert to the Netgear. Here is what I've done. First I unplugged the BT Hub from its power source, carried out a factory reset on the Netgear and then…
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HiFi - Bluetooth via USB
Hello, I bought this Sony micro HiFi a few years ago. The description on Amazon says that it can be made Bluetooth enabled by using its USB slot. However, I bought this USB Bluetooth device and the HiFi doesn't recognise it. Does anybody know which type of USB Bluetooth device would be compatible? Thanks, Lenny.
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How to stream music/radio
I bought a Bang and Olufsen BeoPlay A6 speaker and BeoPlay 15 portable this afternoon. It's all being delivered on Tuesday. I hadn't given much thought about what I'm going to stream from other than using my mobile phone. I have a pretty large digital music collection (far too big for my phone) and wondered what my options…
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DuckDuckGo
Can anyone tell me how to remove DuckDuckGO from my IE browser Windows 7 that isn't complicated please.
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Database form
Not sure how to create this, but I want to use a spreadsheet or database of pre-defined data. I want the data to output to a form into specified fields. Everytime the form accesses the spreadsheet or database it will output random, non repeating specified data from the spreadsheet or database I have set up. Or I can run a…
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Xbox 360
I bought an Xbox360 in September for my son's birthday (which was yesterday). We have therefore just opened it, plugged it in and we have a system error which is showing on the microsoft website as needing repair. I bought it online with Argos. What are my rights now?
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iphone 6 - ios 9.2
Have synced it with iCloud so I can open spreadsheets on both iPad and iPhone without having to update both. However, now when I try to open a saved spreadsheet on my iPhone it is telling me I need to update to the latest version of "numbers" which I already have, so I cannot upgrade. Any idea what the problem could be and…
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Photos in My Pictures & Picasa & ipad, now combined in Google Photo's
For years, I have held my photos on my laptop which were in My Pictures then I introduced Google picasa and have used that for years to store and make changes. Rather than have the photo's in date order, I created folders ie House & Garden, Holidays, Grand chidren, Odds & Ends, and more. These folders were in both Picasa…
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Broadband contract
Plusnet offer https://www.plus.net/home-broadband/ Is this an 18 month contract with nothing to pay for broadband at all? Where's the catch?
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Damaged Fire tablet, whats my legal stance?
Hi all Its been a while since I've posted here, so long in fact I've had to setup a new account! We bought our daughter an Amazon Fire HD8 Tablet for her birthday in November, the tablet has since fell off the sofa on to the coffee table, a mere 12" drop and the display has broken, there is no damage at all to the glass…
