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Best Laptop Under £500 ??
It's a minefield I know but I am looking for a new ( or refurbished ) laptop. Requirements are. Under £500 ( as far under as possible ) 16 inch screen Battery life not really important as mainly used at home Windows 10 & available to upgrade to Win 11 SSD Full size traditional keyboard Wi-Fi required Mainly for internet /…
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Mi Smart Band - Bluetooth
I hope this is a simple question to answer! I have my Mi fitness tracker paired to my ipad. I would like to link it to my android phone as well. Can I do that? Or do I have to stop the pairing to the ipad first? At the moment, when I open the Mi app on the phone it searches for the band, and then says it can’t find any…
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Is it possible to stream a firestick app over a network to a different room.
As the title says (though I doubt this is possible ) to stream a firestick app to a different room in house or even better to control a firestick from a different room, so that the firestick GUI will appearing on the receiving TV? I know its not that expensive just to buy another firestick but just wondering if the above…
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DOE Free Laptop for schools
My son was given a laptop to use in lockdown from school, which came from the government as part of Get help with technology programme for the DOE. once lockdown finished we got a letter to say he can keep the laptop to continue with his course work and after the it will be his to own. He left school in July and we have…
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Samsung Cloud storage ending - what do I need to do (not even sure I have anything on the cloud!)
Please excuse anything in this post that doesn't make sense - I am so untechnicaI it's ridiculous. I have a Samsung S7 and all the pictures I've taken with it seem to go to my Google account. I don't recall ever having anything to do with a Samsung Cloud. Can anyone tell me what will happen when the Cloud is finally…
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Broadband charges
I moved to the country 4 years ago, and I found out how slow broadband can be with the suppliers. This year I went to VM (First time in 10 years), for a little more cost than BT my previous supplier, (£38.00) which seemed worth it to get the 100MB. My bills seem to have levelled. However every month I get sent notification…
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Broadband speed . Is my broadband too sluggish ?
Howdy ! During lockdown , Internet slowed down a lot at times . It improved lately , but this week ( and especially the last 2 days ) it has gone too sluggish Imho Rather than contact Vodafone just yet , I was wondering if this reading on Speedtest App is good or not ; Downlosd mbps 37.1 ( ping 7ms ) jitter 0.57 ms Upload…
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Laptops... Again! Hp Envy/Spectre v Macbook Air or something else entirely....
Requirements - Fast processer, decent screen, lightweight, 13/14inch screen, lots of storage and must look pretty. Id like a touch screen too if possible. Budget around 1k but happy to spend less! I dont game, but do work from home with lots of multitasking. Im going round in circles looking at them all and hoped some of…
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offline BBC iPlayer query
not had this happen before. i'm using a huawei tablet and downloaded some iplayer programs to watch on a recent flight. outward bound and no issues - tablet was in airplane mode and informed me that it was offline and go to downloads section to watch anything - all good. on way home the same tablet just informed me it had…
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Phone vibrating
Hi wonder if anyone can shed any light on this problem I'm have with my Samsung s20plus. Whenever I watch videos the phone vibrates every 3/4 seconds when I turn the video of the vibrating stops any ideas anyone.
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Advice sought for NPR security camera
I currently have the need to acquire a CCTV camera which can read car number plates. I would like it to be battery operated and WiFi. I've done some searching but my brain is fried with all the technical information. Does anyone have any suggestions which may fit the bill? Obviously I don't want to pay through the nose for…
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Facebook Group Comments Turned Off?
I got a message today on fb "The admin has temporarily turned your ability to post or comment in the group until 27th September" was the message. I contacted one of the admin people in the group and She said facebook tells them to block members for period of time but they don't tell them the reasons why, I understand it's…
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Google searches & key words
Can someone clear something up? I was discussing with a colleague about a reported individual in the local newspaper that claimed he was investigated by an innocent word he used as a search. Do google actually sit there and look at every search and key word, as my opinion is they wouldn’t have the resources to do this as…
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ovirt backup solution?
Our company just have some ovirt virtual machines in the data center. Any good recommendations? The software is better to be easy to use and have forever incremental backup.
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Fire TV New Look & Features (2021)
Went onto my Amazon Fire TV this evening to find a new look front page and user interface. First impressions are good.
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AV question
I know nothing about AV.... when a laptop has a crap webcam (or audio) you can get an external webcam that plugs in via USB. What's this interface called? Is it simply "webcam+audio over USB" ? The next question will be can you convert HDMI to "webcam+audio over USB" and if yes, how to do it. A virtual pint for any working…
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Outlook Hotmail.co.uk email account
Outlook Hotmail.co.uk email account: The email ‘inbox’ appears to be split into two sections ...’Focused’ and ‘Other’. Is there any way to get rid of these filters so the inbox
shows every incoming email in one list? Also what does ’Focused’ and ‘Other’ actually mean?...and how does it decide where to direct
incoming…
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Installing an App on Laptop
Hi I have an app on my android phone. It's a solicitors conveyancing app. Lots of forms, lots of questions etc and all on a small mobile phone screen. I tried downloading it from Google Play to my laptop but I can't work out how to do it. Do I have to download some different software in order to download the app to my…
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Xbox One steering wheel
Hi, Looking to get our son a steering wheel for racing games on Xbox One. But a little lost. Do all racing games work with a steering wheel on Xbox One? Can you just use accelerator and brake on the pedals and not use the clutch and gear stick? How do you set it up with a seat? What seat, stand etc? Any ideas what is good…
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iPhone 5Ssoftware update now voicemail notification not working
Hi, I updated the software on my iPhone 5S and now my voicemail notification is not working. I used to get a visual notification on the bottom right of the screen on the voicemail icon but now nothing. Any ideas please?
