Techie Stuff

I have used mail.com as my primary email for some years. I have recommended it for years. The ability to break emails into folders, the ability to set rules and filter emails into appropriate folders, the ability to set up "alias" email addresses, etc., etc. made it something special. Then, recently, the interface changed…

Hi I use my laptop or Chromebook mostly Recently started using Chatgpt or whatever its called and often the Goolge one I've looked for free apps that talk back to you - but they are not free, or I cant get them to work which is the best one, ie easy to use for general stuff Thanks

What is the cause of this pop up ? I can't stop them from repeatedly appearing - its infuriatingly annoying….

Does anyone find that chatgpt is too quiet, i can only hear the voice responses in an absolutely silent room with my phone volume on max, also the voice response is very slow and deliberate, too slow.

I deleted 40 and blocked the senders this morning. Is there a more efficient way to stop them? I don't really want to change my e mail account, but »»»»»>

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…

Be gentle - I am trying to get my head round this but do not handle change well! Scenario - have had BT email for decades, with a main address and what used to be termed a subsidiary address (used to be able to have several). Main is what I call my "personal" email used for family, friends and official & private stuff…

I have an email address on Yahoo, which annoyingly when I start a new email offers me a list of people some of whom are in my “contacts” list (that’s ok) but also people who were once contacts but now deleted, may have been on multi-addressee emails but not mainstream, some of them are people now several years dead. Is…

One of the WhatsApp groups I'm in has posted an alert that group admins should turn on Advanced Privacy' to prevent Meta AI from gaining access to all sorts of personal data. This appears to be a recent thing. However others have said that the warning is a scam and should be ignored. Is there a recent increase in the risk…

can anyone recommend a chromebook instead of windows i want to play games and learn code as well as youtube

I have been liaising with Apple for 3 weeks now trying to get this resolved. My son is in my Family Group and I have settings for him to prevent installing apps without asking for me to review them, no in-app purchases and no 18+ apps etc. He also has a time limit which should automatically go off at 7pm until 8am. Because…

We have several Alexa devices and one Google Mini. What's driving me mad is that they use different wake words. I quite often get it wrong for the particular device I'm using. Is there some setting that allows the same wake word to be used on all of them?

Just had this from our kid ….. any comments Just for your info. My Acer Aspire 14 AI has a charging cable with a 13A plug on one end, a cumbersome transformer thingy halfway along and a USB-C plug on the other end. My Moto G phone has a about 1 M cable with USB plug on one end and a USB-C plug on the other end. There are…

Am I alone in not wanting to change /buy a Freely TV?

OP (quoted below) is looking for an elegant solution to the problem described below, and posed their problem in a thread in Savings & Investments. Requirements (which have been drip-fed over several earlier posts) are that it must run on Windows 10, needs to be quick, and must guarantee files are listed in the file table…

Looking for a 40-43 inch tv with all the smart apps and importantly a reasonable speaker audio built in. Is dolby atmos a sign of an ok speaker? I want to spend about £2-300. I'm not talking amazing speakers just slightly better than the bargain basement speakers which are unusable. I mean for example I find the amazon…

Hi. I've been given a neat wee HP Pavilion laptop (14-ce3501na) to wipe for its new owner. It's immaculate, and looks little used. Reset seemed to work fine, but I was aware that the fan was very noisy, and ran for much of the time at high speed - wife complained bitterly. Anyhoo, when setting it back up for the new owner…

Anyone been randomly blocked from using their account lately? I am a light user of WA, just using for family coms and a number of groups related to a sports team I am in. This morning I got locked out of my account immediately after inviting two new players to one of these groups. I am assuming these request may being…

I've lost access to the App Store and don't seem to be able to get it back, so is there any other (safe) location where I could download the free Bitdefender Virus Scanner for Mac? Thanks.

I have one but the charging is really quite slow. I bought this Ugreen one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CCVG2ML6?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_4&th=1 It's good in that it's slim but it's just a very slow charge. My wife has this one:…