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Shopping online - Advice please!
I just tried to purchase something from a well known website, it was my first time shopping there and when I was checking out my basket, it asked me for all the usual info, I filled everything in, name, address, mobile, email, bank card details, then pressed 'place order' A little spinny thing went round and asked me to…
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Anyone used macback.co.uk before
Hello world, first time poster so apologies if i'm doing this the wrong way! trying to sell an old mid 2011 imac and these guys seems to offers fairly decent and have a lot of positive reviews. Has anyone tried them before? are they legit?
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Which SAT>IP Server?
I am looking at adding a SAT>IP Server to my network, so I can record satellite TV to my server (running TVHeadend). Has anyone got any experience/advice in relation to these devices? Information/reviews are a bit hard to come by but these seem to be the three main options:…
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Is lead in paint nowadays highly unlikely?
I bought a few small tins of paint in a pound shop (not the well known ones) three smalls tins of gloss, one for painting the metal and the other two for painting the wood on a garden bench. What an odour came from them, and you can tell they are not quality paints, made in Bradford I think. The thought crossed my mind, do…
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Basic use tablet, ideas please ?
My wife has never shown any interest in the internet and only uses her mobile in an emergency and never texts. I'm thinking of buying her a basic tablet so I can give her links to newspapers/magazines etc. I'm sure then, she would be able to receive and send text via the tablet. Oh, I would connect it using my home wifi.…
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Tech support scam - Live feed :D
Hi all, iv just stumbled on this and i thought some of you might get a giggle out of it !! It is a live youtube feed of people calling these fake tech support numbers and winding them up.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70G9-1ybz1M Makes for some funny listening :) And dont forget, while these scammers are busy being…
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Dashcam?
Hi, Can anyone recommend me a (cheap) dashcam? I'm clueless 😔 Thank you
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Best tablet for under £100
for general family use.....internet, youtube etc. what is the best bet. was planning on a hudl but they have been discontinued. Amazon fire perhaps? Any other suggestions? thanks
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Own domain and email security
I have a hosting package with 50webs, i use it to store family pictures etc and for popping the occasional picture on a forum. Looking to move all my emails over to my own domain name instead of using all the free options. I have LOTS. I do not give my real details out when registering the various emails and with tighter…
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Electrical-deals.co.uk
Does anybody know about the above, any comments good or bad? Thinking about buying a laptop from them.
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Browser says "Live.com not responding" and "long-running script?"
Hi - a neighbour with Hotmail browser issues; (mine works so assume this is not releated to the recent Microsoft mail issue). It looks like this may be a script running the banner advert that Microsoft includes in its mail pages. If so, just wondering if an ad blocker may be a viable "fix"? Anybody experienced this? Cheers.
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How to remove oven door from AEG DE4003000m
I am having a problem removing the oven door from my AEG DE4003000M cooker. I have looked at various videos on U Tube but none of them seem to have the same of catches as our oven. Any suggestions please.Thank You
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powerline or wi fi
Moving to new house soon, in house now we have Bt Master socket next to pc, and network cable from this to smart TV, all works perfect. In new house at present there is no actual master socket, its a bungalow buitlt in 1974 so very basic phone socket in the hall.So will have to pay BT to fit new master socket for use with…
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Can you tell which apps can be moved to SD card?
My phone has 5GB of internal storage and an SD card slot. I have moved all the apps I can move over to the SD card and everything works fine. Some apps obviously won't move (the basics the phone comes with, which is understandable), but others I have downloaded free or purchased won't move either. After each update, some…
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Error message -rpsystray has stopped working
I keep getting an error message on my PC saying "rpstray has stopped working". What does this mean and how do I correct it to rectify or stop it appearing. Thank you
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Why isn't DAB the future?
Until the last week or so, I've never really been torn either way on DAB. I have a fairly old DAB radio at home that I got from ASDA years ago and has performed really well, but for many, the issue seems to be that on the move, DAB performs pitifully. Well, having bought my banger (that I spoke about in the bangernomics…
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Which laptop
Hi all, can anyone give me any pointers towards a new laptop, basically it will be used just for emails and the Internet,so it doesnt have to be all singing and dancing,my old one was a Medion with 2gb of ram, t5250, 1.5ghz, whatever that means, I've looked at the likes of ebuyer and PCs world and there are a few basic…
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Watch British TV.com
Does anyone have any experience of using this to watch BBC catch up? (We have no licence as we very rarely watch TV)
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Telephone and Broadband Socket
Hi, We've bought a new house and have recently signed up for Sky broadband. After having a look at the telephone site coming into the house, we realised that none of the wires are actually connected. I was wondering if it would be worth buying cable and a socket myself and getting someone to fit it rather than pay BT. I…
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Ccleaner hacked? Fact or fiction?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4894722/Hackers-compromised-CCleaner-free-software-Avasts-Piriform-says.html
