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Which AI tools do you use?
Which AI tools do you use to save money, boost your income or organise your finances? Let us know your success stories (how much did you save? What did you learn?). Does your bank offer any AI tools and if so, are they a help or a hindrance? We'd like to hear of any duds you've tried too. Thank you. ___________________…
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Techie Stuff sticky
🖥 Useful thread from the Forum: * FAQs - Techie Qs & As (Some of the information in the links may be out of date, so please do check the dates of posts first). If there are any other useful Forum threads on this board that you think we should add, let us know 🗣 🖨Other helpful content from MoneySavingExpert.com: * Best free…
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NHS App - third party access
Firstly, not sure if this is the best forum. Please forgive me if there's a more appropriate one. I'm not a regular contributor. My sister is trying to get third party access to our elderly father's NHS app. She's filled in all the appropriate forms, got his consent etc. The staff at his GP practice say they have done…
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NordVPN
Anyone had luck with them? Used them for 3 years and been OK. I'm sure I turned off auto-renew back when I joined, went on today to check and noticed auto-renew was on and they'd renewed it back in March for a year to a card that had expired. To late for a refund but asked their useless support. Told them if they refund…
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soundbar for music and tv?
hi just looking at ideas, whether a soundbar is suitable for both music (streamed from phone) and also as the tv speaker (due to poor internal tv speakers) it would be nice to just have one device but i dont want to compromise on the music audio quality, welcome any opinions!
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Solutions to Doomscrolling?
I saw this advert on Facebook (ironically) for a device called 'Brick' available from getbrick.com. I liked the premise of it. It cost £50ish for the product but the app is free. I am really bad for doomscrolling after i've gone to bed. The way it'd work is you pick which apps you want to block (Facebook, Instagram etc)…
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OneDriveLive
Hi I have being using OpenOffice Writer for ages, but this morning I couldn't open the files. There was no error message. TG yesterday I saved the file on Google Drive and I managed to work on the OneDriveLive. I have no idea how it works. I see that the file gets saved as I work on it. I've seen I can send it to someone's…
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Video door bell , which is best
What is the best budget video door bell? Do they all operate with wifi.
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Eclipse August 2026
There’s a solar eclipse in 4 months time, and I wondered what other people are doing about it? I’m planning to stay in London where it is a 91% partial eclipse, and I have some cheap eclipse glasses in my Amazon basket. Are others simply ignoring it, or travelling somewhere where the eclipse will be total, or just staying…
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4K Player
Hi, I bought a new TV earlier in the year (LG 43" Nano80A6B) and had been thinking of getting a 4k disc player - I currently had an oldish blu ray player which I'm using with the TV. I wondered if anyone knew much about them and if the combination of TV & player would be enough of a jump in quality to justify the cost of…
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Firefox, Android phone, entering about:config
Ok, it's a dumb question that everyone who uses their Android based smartphone all day every day will think of as obvious: After a recent automatic update, my phone has started receiving notifications from "Hello You" about news items that it thinks I should see. I don't want to receive these notifications, but an internet…
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Laptop advice - good for streaming/simple photo and video editing.
Hi, as above I need a new laptop and it's come at a time when finances don't allow a brand new top of the range model! I use it for general browsing, streaming from apps like Sky and Youtube, photo editing and now want to start making short videos. I am happy to use a Windows or Apple machine and an older Apple model with…
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How much needs to be spent for a noticeable PC upgrade & would it be worth it?
PC is really quite old. A few components have been upgraded along the way but Mobo & PSU are certainly the same as day 1 in 2010. By noticeable upgrade, I can look at stats on a screen all day long after someone tells me "go google" but that's all they are - numbers on a screen. I'm talking about a noticeable performance…
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Change text from lower to uppercase in word FIXED
So I have made a mistake which I did google but can't fix. I have written speech in a long document in a mix of styles e.g She said , “of course." And She said , “Of course." Now I think the second is correct so how do I change all "lower to "upper I could do a search for every letter - but I am hoping there's a more…
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Android phone cant get Greggs App
Hi, I wrote to Greggs about this but no reply. My Android phone (bought new in 2018) won't get the Greggs App. It downloads it but when asked to "create account" it gives me an error message saying "you have not filled out all the required fields"….but i filled in everything i could. Its a Samsung SM-J330FN. It uses…
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Password question
When I go into my Google account > manage your Google account > security and sign in - it says my live.com (Hotmail) password is weak and has been compromised. I changed my Hotmail password and made it very strong but still on my Google account it says it's compromised and weak. Anyone know why that is and what I can do?…
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Storage on my phone
Morning all. I have a Samsung A20e (bought around 3 years ago so not ancient) but it keeps telling me I've got hardly any storage left, less than 1%. I have a phone which has 32GB of storage. I hardly keep any pictures, never download films or big files etc. but have about 10 apps (BBC, banking, FB, Airbnb, airlines etc so…
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How to erase a partition?
Got a second hand drive. It came partitioned. I want to make it as one but can't. I had this once before with a used drive but forgot how I sorted it. I remember it taking me a bit of faff back then too. Probably only because I don't know what I'm doing. I have Googled this, which said to use cmd or powershell. As the step…
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Apple Pay: iPhone 17 won’t add new Mastercard cards but Apple Watch will
I upgraded to an iPhone 17 in February 2026. Apple Pay works normally with some cards already on my phone, including Mastercard cards, but I cannot add certain new debit cards. The problem: My Starling Mastercard debit card will not add to my iPhone 17. I get: “Card not added – Contact your card issuer.” The same Starling…
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New laptop or repair for a careless teenager
My daughter's starting 6th form college a short train journey away from September. She needs a laptop to take into college. She fairly recently broke the screen of her MacBook Air (2022 M2). I'm weighing up a repair (est £500-600 at the local Apple Approved) or a replacement £630 for an Azus Zenbook 14, Core Ultra 5 225H,…
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Compromised hotmail account
My mother has a Hotmail account. Mid-morning today I got a scam email from her. The Reply To field had a letter different from her usual email address (e.g. … ick … became … icck …). I also got a notification (I am her recovery email) that: Newsletter Software SuperMailer connected to the Microsoft account XXXX If you…
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How do I make an "interactive" PDF - NON-interactive ?
I have tried "printing it TO" my desktop - but this doesn't make any difference - it is STILL editable (interactive) - there must be a way ?
