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Another CCTV thread
Hi all I've finally getting around to looking at CCTV for my home. I'm hoping to have quite a simple setup with just a single camera. Now for the potentially awkward bits Needs to have somewhat decent night-vision (street-lights around here are garbage) Needs to be either battery (with decent life)/solar powered (if these…
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New Broadband router question
BT are sending me a new router to supposedly solve my recently intermittent broadband. I am a bit sceptical that it will but it seems we have to go through this step before a engineer is sent. I have a couple of dozen devices that use my WiFi, including a couple of friends' phones and laptops who connect when they visit.…
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iOS 17 beta with iPhone
Anybody here beta testing iOS 17 with their iPhone yet?
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Google maps, adding stops
Yesterday I was wanting a time for a motoring route in the Yorkshire Dales, using a route which didn't just follow the shortest route, but visited certain places along the way. I used to key in the start and finish, using stops to force the route along the path I required. I couldn't see any options for adding stops! Has…
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Another what to buy question
My friends think I am tech savvy but I’m not, my knowledge is just superficial - just how to use packages. I currently have a very old desktop, originally running windows 7 but upgraded to 10. It was fine for a few years after the upgrade but now seems very slow. I am increasingly just using a laptop, but that’s quite old…
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'Marketplace' shortcut has disappeared from my Fb page.
Just that. It's gorn.I can still find it by doing a 'search', and it still works as it should - my listings are still on there. But the only icons I now have along the top of the Fb page are: 'Home', 'Friends' (don't have any. Ok, two.), 'Video' (don't want it), 'Gaming' (want that even less), and 'News' (I get that from…
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TV 'boxes' to use with a 'commercial' TV.
Hi. Thinking of buying a com TV as it's cheap but also will be primarily used as a PC monitor, so should be ideal. It's an LG, is HD, but they seemingly do not have built in tuners or nuffink. It would be 'nice' for it to also act as an occasional TV, tho', and the current owner apparently uses an Amazon 'Fire' stick for…
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Best app for lost phone/child tracking
Good afternoon Could anyone kindly recommend a good app, preferably free that would track a lost phone and subsequently the location of my teenage daughter? Thank you
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Unable to open any .JPG on my Win 11 laptop
When I try - I get an error message What is <my name> Personal" and how do I run it ?
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Mobile Has 4G for Data But Not for Calls?
Hi I'm aware that the networks will soon start switching off 3G and some people will need newer phones (unless they're happy to keep using 2G). I originally thought that if the phone is already 4G capable, then you should be alright but I got a text message from Vodafone which has now really confused me. There's a sentence…
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iPhone iTunes
For many years I could upload my own music to iTunes library and then drag the files across to my iPhone. Haven't done it for about four years until last night. Now I'm unable to do the drag thing.Songs showing on iTunes, phone showing on iTunes, no music files showing on phone via iTunes.I understand that the process may…
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Word alternative
I have a chromebook. I wish to submit letters/articles to a journal. We are now asked to submit such things in a Word document. I'm aware not everyone has Microsoft Word as such, wondered if there is a way of getting round this. £5.99 per month for Microsoft Word just to be able to submit a letter is out of the question.…
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hard wired wifi range extender/booster/repeater?
in my house the router has to be in the middle so all rooms in the house get coverage, but in my back yard between the house and garage is a dead spot that worked 50% of the time from the router. to get round this I bought a plug in range extender (Netgear WN3000RP) which for 3 years has done the trick, it was positioned…
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Old used printer cartridges
Hi. I know a few companies used to do this a few years ago as it came up on one of the MSE emails. Is there anywhere that still pays for old used ink cartridges for recycling. I have about 50 used HP ones. If anyone knows and can post details I would be very grateful. Thanks.
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Laptop recommendation please with ability for 2nd HDD
can anyone recommend a 14 or 15 inch laptop which doesn't need to be too powerful as all I want to do is play music from it a 500 gigabytes solid state drive for the C drive would be fine but I would like the ability to put a second spinning HDD of about two terabytes to hold all my music files the reason for spinning HDD…
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Sharp practice by Epson?
My XP8700 printer uses 4 ink cartridges. All the suppliers now list the official Epson replacements as including 6 cartridges so I am paying for 2 that I don't need. Another way to hike the already high prices.
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Cannot verify a gmail account that I'm trying to create
Because of the need to separate different types of mail (financial, shopping, social etc) and also because I am receiving a lot of phishing scams to my hotmail account, I am trying to set-up several gmail accounts. I am given to understand that gmail allows the creation of up to five accounts for one user. Well I…
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Slides to chromebook
I used to have a small gadget that I put individual slides in, wait till it self focused, pressed a button and the slide was converted to photograph on my laptop and saved. I've long since lost that gadget, however in the process of packing for an impending move, found more slides. In newsfeed I've seen an app that somehow…
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Small tip for throwaway email addresses and forwarding
Years ago I often used a service called yopmail.com to create throwaway email addresses. Unfortunately, many websites have long since put this (and many other) domains into blacklists and so won't accept such email addresses. However, just the other day I discovered that yopmail.com has a few new features. One is that they…
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New laptop for alevel computing
Hi, my son is taking up a level computers (ssd) and a level digital tech with a view to doing a degree in computer engineering in uni. Can anyone recommend what I should be looking for in a laptop or have a recommendation of a new laptop please. Any advise much appreciated.
