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Transferring cassette tape to CD/MP3 - recommendations please!
Hello I have three cassette tapes which I believe contain childhood recordings of me and my siblings, and I really want to find a company to transfer them into a format we can listen to now - CD/MP3, something like that. I've had a look online, but none of the places in the first page or two of a goo gle search seem to…
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IPad security help.
My partner recently bought herself a new iPad, and we reset her old iPad 2 ,for the grandchildren to use,unknown to us her 8 year old grandson put a passcode on it, making access impossible, we did eventually get the code off him and I have removed it. Is there anyway we can stop him getting access to altering the…
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My partners has hearing problems - we would like to watch tv together.
My partner has hearing problems and uses Geemarc headphones through our Humax set top box, so we can both watch tv together - Samsung tv. Is it possible to set up the tv so we both watch it together if we don't use the Humax, as a earphone socket on the tv turns the sound off when we plug in a standard set of earphones but…
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Microsoft office off eBay?
I'm a basic user and all I need is word and maybe excel? I see on eBay they sell really cheap products for like £5 just a download key link for home and student 2016 version, Do these actually work, or will it cause virus/problems with my PC?
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No more plex on NOW tv box
Hi, Not that I used it a great deal, but just found out that its no longer possible to side load pllex on a NOW tv box, as sky have blocked that through an update. Ah well, at least I can get still get it through my roku box.
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Boosting Mobile Phone Signal
I have an old slide phone (Samsung SGH-E520). Outside the house the signal is strong, but inside the house it is weak, sometimes dropping the call. With modern phones, that is a socket where a piece of wire can be installed to boost the antenna. No such socket exists in my phone, but do have any tips that might boost the…
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NAS changed IP address?
Internet went down again last night (STUPID VODAFONE) never had so many dropped connections. Anyway. Network icon by the clock showed no connection and a popup said IP had changed. Only caught a brief glimpse so thought no more when the internet came back on. Until i tried to connect to my NAS and its not there. For some…
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DECT phone batteries
One of our Panasonic DECT phones has died - it needs replacement batteries The existing batteries are 2 off 1.2v Ni-MH 550mAh SHORT - code HHR-55AAAB Will https://www.amazon.co.uk/Panasonic-micro-Battery-HHR-55AAAB-1000mAh/dp/B00SXAS8XU be compatible or will 1000mAh be too much to charge ?
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Philips Hue v Hive Lighting
Just looking for peoples opinions of the above. Which if any do you use, or would you be tempted to use. Thinking of getting Hive when the winter comes, so I guess Hive would be the option, but wondered if anyone uses Philips Hue? tia
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Is "Avast free" .... free ?
After suffering with AVG for too many years, especially with all this horrible ZEN nonsense, I decided to look around. Been using Avira for a few weeks but that suddenly started playing up, even after a full reinstall. I'm now using Avast which seems to be playing nice but already I am getting warning about 30 days coming…
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Purchased new custom PC. Blue screen problems. who's responsibility?
Hi, I recently purchased a new custom PC from a small business (sole trader type person), I am now having some blue screen issues when trying to use some software I have installed. The same error also throws up when YouTube is being played occasionally. So is this something I can take back to the seller? Or is it my…
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Cheapest wat to get an 8gb RAM laptop
Hello, I am looking to get a new laptop that runs on Windows, with 8gb RAM and a disc tray. I would like to spend no more than £350. Where am i best to look? Thank you
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Broadband speed problem
My broadband speed is normally 1.9mbps (EO line and rural) - it's now down to 0.48mbps download. BT Home hub 6. I've run all the online BT checks - nothing wrong. I've spoken to BT technical services, a chap there did all the checks - nothing wrong. He asked me to disconnect all machines from the wifi. He asked me to…
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Sky magic eye help please
We have put a different TV in our bedroom and I have unplugged the aerial and magic eye from the old TV and plug it in new one. The light is on on the magic eye but the new TV does not seem to have Sky anywhere. Any advice on how we can get this working please?
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Sky magic eye thread
We have put a different TV in our bedroom and I have unplugged the aerial and magic eye from the old TV and plug it in new one. The light is on on the magic eye but the new TV does not seem to have Sky anywhere. Any advice on how we can get this working please?
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LibreOffice Calc Sum?
In LibreOffice Calc, im trying to calculate the total of a column using =sum then dragging the area of the cells that I want to add up. However, the total displayed is 0.02 less than when I add up the cells manually using a calculator. How can I calculate the correct total?
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Smartphone overcharged shutdown?
Stupid new smartphone. Worked fine for a week then:- 1. charging on Sat night; got to 100% then screen went off; 2. wouldn't turn on; vol up/down+power nothing 3. plugged into computer - a number of drives opened - the only viewable one being image with lots of modem crap.(s/w). SO phone is presumably powered on but cannot…
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Help!!! Undo a "diskpart clean" command...?
I have a dual-boot PC with Windows 7 and Arch Linux. Whilst trying to wipe and reinstall Windows 7, I accidentally used the "diskpart clean" command on a disk... :eek: Anyway, I tried to boot into Linux and it can't find any of the partitions on that drive. It had a combination of NTFS, ext4 and FAT32 partitions. Is there…
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Make google searches ENGLISH?
Lately i've been searching a few things and the top results i'm getting through are American based. It's very frustrating. Everything in dollars, all advice American based so totally unhelpful to me. I don't remember it being like this. Even when i go Tools & change from Any country to UK it doesn't help.
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Windows 7 system Image
I am pretty religious about data backup, offsite, triplicate drives, fire safes etc but overlooked the actual Windows installation as W7 is so robust, I have not had to reinstall it in all the years since the PC was put together. So got caught out the other day when it truly broke and had to reinstall, a few long evenings!…
