Techie Stuff

Firefox in its ultimate wisdom decided to tick the box 'Clear cookies and site data every time you close Firefox' on an update, which I always left unchecked. Now I can't log into Yahoo. I used all the 4 options to get a code but got nothing. BTW I did get a code on phone and pc which I put in but got no response. When I…

Since the fall detection on the Apple Watch SE2 is flipping useless we're looking at other ways to deal with a problem with my mother who keeps going over. Thinking of something like those things you can have round your wrist or whatever & you pull them. Problem is I'm not sure if those things are say to alert someone else…

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…

Reading the thread about third party access to the NHS app made me wonder whether it is possible to have more than one user account on an Android phone. The answer according to google, who ought to know, is that it can be done quite easily. Android is based on UNIX which is multi user, so maybe it’s not too surprising that…

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!

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…

What is the best budget video door bell? Do they all operate with wifi.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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?…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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 ?

Is there a free or cheap (i.e not paying £5-10 pcm forever) to edit PDFs? The output doesn't have to be in a PDF. The reason is because I often have to read PDFs with coloured text which causes me headaches. Sadly the people who send me PDFs won't provide text in black and white (I have tried) I have tried converting my…