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My old mobile is going out on loan ... my nephews borrowing it as a stop gap till he can get another the dog got hold of it ..anyway im now deleting everything off it which i have done all the messages, photos etc has all been deleted ... slight problem .. i cant get my email address off it...

if you didn't know and have a mobile running a decent browser there is an enhanced facbook site which is sort of half way between the basic mobile site and the full on main site. To stop accyweb parsing the address i have added spaces between each character X . F a c e b o o k . C o m Works...

Quake for S60 Includes ability for multiplayer and if your phone has hardware accelerated graphics, OpenGL support! ( N95, e90 and I think a couple of others ) full your boots with alien blood! ( Note you need data files (paks) taken from PC versions )

Hi all, I have just purchased a blackberry pearl .I can honestly the best phone i have ever used.There is just one thing that's really annoying me about this phone. Every time I receive a call from a contact that I have saved in my address book it doesn't display the name just the number :(...

Quick Office are offering a free upgarde to teh office suite on your phone. If you have a version prior to V6. If you have the editing version ( usually E series phones) you get teh editing vesrion if not you retain just read only version. Worth grabbing while you can...

SmartConnect - Birdstep basically setup the order of the internet connections that you use and it will deal with it for you without you having to worry about it. . Its on a free deal so grab it while you can. e.g. I use wifi at home, Voda Internet when out, wifi at MIL and a seperate...

For anyone interested in doing some Unix sys admin basic training there are courses available on the Sun website. You need to register but its free to do so. https://learning.sun.com/solc/smartstart Not for everyone obviously but if you are thinking of a career in IT or wish to broaden your...

BBC NEWS | Technology | Google to launch operating system http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/google-chrome-operating-system-announced-2009078/ Mmmm, now I like the idea of Google releasing this.... why? because its effectively just Google chrome browser running on Linux with apps running...

I've been having difficulties logging into my LloydsTSB account for about 10 days, why I don't know, just wouldn't have any at all, I contact Lloyds tech support by phone this morning but they said it was a BT fault and that they have had lots of calls regarding access. I email BT with the...

Lad at work bought an Aspire One for his missus running the heavily locked Linpus version and she couldn't get on with it so he asked me if I'd sort it out by putting UNR on it. Link http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu/unr Firstly in some ways this is a fortunate position for a Linux...

Hi we have just had sky hd + installed the sky engineers put up a double lnb on the dish and ran an extra cable to it .i understand why they do this but surely there must be a way of using just one cable and duplicating the signal when it gets to the box , it would save a lot of hassle. does...

got an email from a friend with a load of spam on supposedly sent by me,but obviously not he told me my email account had been kijacked ? can anyone tell me what this means and how to remedy it thanks

does anybody know the best way to convert from vga to phono.? was thinking of getting a graphics card with built in output but ive heard the quality is poor . what do you rekon?

Today facebook has started allowing there members to chose there own user names. What is a Facebook username? You can personalize your Facebook URL (web address) by selecting a unique username. It will appear in the location bar of your browser after "http://www.facebook.com/" when you view...

Does anyone know when Windows 7 is due for release? I am about to buy a new laptop and don't like the idea of Vista - i use XP Pro at the moment. I just don't like the idea of buying an LT and then finding that Windows 7 is released shortly afterwards. I want to buy my Grandson (11 yrs old) a...

anyone got any idea about how I can "activate" a document I have scaned and saved to "Microsoft Word " to accept type in the blank spaces . Thanks

Did my usual Sunday Morning scan, I got a report of this virus being Isolated on my xp P.C. W32/Backdoor2.EMEB Can't find much info about it on the web, W32/Backdoor2.EMEB [Moved] Anyone got any useful advice for us poor suckers that will insist on using windows? Please not the usual boring...

As I needed to re-scan a few old slides of Priestley Clough Lodge I unearthed my Black Widow Scanner which has been in a drawer for at least 4-5 years and never used on my present PC. The installation disc rederred to Drivers for Windows 95 & 98 but I just bashed on. However, while the Prog...

If anyone wants a weather program that retrieves the current and forecasted weather to run on any Nokia N series or E series that support web runtime ( pretty much anything from last 2 years should be fine ) let me know. In vanilla form its here Web Runtime: AccuWidget Example Out the box...

anyone using it yet? whats it like?