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WiFi for Kindle Fire
I only use one app (BorrowBox for reading books), and sometimes go to websites.BorrowBox stopped connecting with the Internet, but I could still access websites with the browser.After resetting the device a few times, I reset everything I could see for the app, but BorrowBox would still not connect to the Internet.I…
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Issues with new fibre line
With an independent provider Uno. My parents Home is down a long shared drive with one house next to them and another big house near front of drive. They showed that fibre was available in their area, I checked with support pointing out fftp has never been installed, no one has ever dug up the drive. They said Openreach…
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location wrong on laptop
In trying to discover why Yahoo keeps locking me out of my accounts I've discovered my IP address is giving wrong info. Default location is set correct but websites are all saying I live in Thetford! Anyone know how to fix this? Its the IP as message on Yahoo page stated location set using IP
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Ring doorbell
I have a Ring Pro which is hard-wired. When someone rings the bell, the device starts to speak saying things like 'I can't come to the door right now' and other such things. Even thought I get to the door to open it within 10 or 20 seconds, it starts speaking very quickly. Any advice on how I can turn this voice feature…
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YouTube adblockers - AGAIN?
I realise that a thread on this has been previously closed, but discovered today that suggests YT is doing a go-around to sign up more premium members. As per previous advice I turned off my adblocker for their site, but then noticed a momentary re-enabling of the adblocker when trying to load their content from my laptop.…
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What cables/wires should I PRE-INSTALL at my house for Sky/Satellite to be fitted in 6 months time?
Hi all I am helping my son renovate his house. If you take a look at the attached image you will see the exterior of the property has loads of ugly wires/cables running from top to bottom of the house. You will also see an ugly alarm box and satellite dish. Whilst we are renovating the house we are changing the windows etc…
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xatreon.com - what is it and how can I get rid of it?
Quite often when I try and navigate to a webpage using Chrome, there's a massive delay spinning cursor then I get THIS screen appearing. I have no idea what it is, what it does or how to get rid of it or why my browser is going there or it has to respond. I'm usually trying to navigate to Facebook or eBay or whatever, it's…
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Speakers for a Synthesizer keyboard.
Hi all. I recently purchased a Roland XP-10 Synthesizer keyboard. I have been learning on an old Casio which has built in speakers. This Roland needs external speakers to be able to listen to what I'm playing. My question is, what exactly do i need. The Synthesizer has output jack sockets which are larger than the one that…
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Brave Browser on Android, back button
On Samsung A70 with Chrome reinstalled, I have Brave Browser as default . No problem for years, but recently the back button has not worked. I googled and discovered it's something others are aware of. I changed default to chrome as experiment, no luck, now back to Brave. Has anyone else using Brave experienced this and if…
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TV multiplexers missing
TV is a Samsung 6 series. Transmitter is Waltham. TV has both Freesat and terrestrial tuners. When auto retuning the terrestrial Freeview 2 of the multiplexers are missing.(com5 and com6) Cannot find a way to manual tune even if that would help. I have another TV on the same aerial which receives both muxes. Any…
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Temporarily setting up an iPad.
Hi. Trying to sell my son's iPad Air (5?). He restored it to factory, but I wanted to have it demonstrable for selling, so set up my own temp Apple account to use. This got me past the first stage - email and p'word entered ok - and the next page was iTunes, for 'purchases' from App Store, Tunes, 'Books. I entered the same…
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Looking for a laptop with screen brightness above 400 nits and with a magnetic power cable
Hi,My laptop frequently gets dropped /knocked to the floor. Without giving too much boring detail that is not directly relevant to the question I am asking I am now looking for a laptop where the power connector attaches magnetically and has a screen brightness of 400+ nits. The laptop would only be used for email and for…
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Anyone else caught out by Onedrive
On Friday last week - I got a pop up from Onedrive reminding me to use it"click here..."Which I did - this started my NEW laptop on the path of destructionIt was not a virus but a legitimate MS pop up - that shows MS's attitude to customersEvidently they are trying to get everyone to save their files to one drive rather…
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Moto G54/G84
Looking at these two phones.The main difference seems to be the processor. Is one better than the other? Is there anything else I've maybe missed?TIA
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BENFEI USB C to HDMI Cable
I bought this https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01NH500RV?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details Because I have Paramount on my phone and hoped that this way I could see what is on my phone on my TV (with hindsight that might have been a mistake). And I tried connecting it to 2 different TV but neither could see my phone. Any…
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Replacing HDD with SSD
I'm trying to get a sense of how long the entire process would take to replace the HDD on a laptop with SSD. Drive in question is 1TB with approximately 400 GB used. Also how straightforward, or otherwise, would the physical replacement be to do? It's a Dell Inspiron if relevant. Back in the olden days I used to add hard…
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Reporting Scams
I know you can report spam texts by forwarding to 7726 but I thought there was a system to report calls ? I may be mistaken but believed there was a system to dial a number which reported it direct to your Bank ?
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Video entryphone - flats - smartphone operated
I live in a Victorian building which is converted into 3 self-contained flats. The main front door to the communal hall has an electric buzzer/entry phone phone system. Each flat has a buzzer on the main door and an entryphone in the flat. One neighbour is a wheelchair user who has difficulty getting to the entryphone in…
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Yahoo lock out
Since two days ago our yahoo email accounts have one hour locks until we can sign in. This happens over and over throughout the day. Tried setting up 2 step verification on one but hasn't helped. Using a laptop to access them, I've checked default location, cleared cookies and even cleared everything possible in my…
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Winows media player Rips my Audio Cd MP3’s into an order my car doesn’t suit
Hi all I am learning French Language and have picked a a 9 CD set of Audio discs so I can listen in the car. Each disc has 20 tracks on (for example Disc 1, Track 1. Greeeting People. Disc1 Track 2. At the shops. Etc.) So, I pop CD1 in my PC and open up windows media player. I rip the CD to my HDD. I then open up the the…
