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wallis1007

unlocking mobile phones

How do you unlock a mobile phone to use other networks. Iv'e just broken my phone and want to use the sim card (virgin ) in my old phone (siemens a55) which had a vodaphone sim card in it. Is it just...

debri

download speeds

what alters the speed of dowloads / how can i get it faster

howardhj

Spam Filters

I need to install a good spam filter. Any suggestions as to which is a good one? Free is fine.

bubbles4920

how can i stop it?

i have recently found out a pair of jeans and have realised the reason why i hid them away. the zip keeps on coming down, it seems very loose. is there any way i can stop it from happening. i do...

wheatley

fizzy drinks

when a fizzy drink goes flat, is it heavier?

thundercrack

digital tv

hi, have bought a lg lcd t.v. the telext bit gets stuck and the t.v. has to be switched off and on again to free it up. this didn.t happen when I was using a seperate freeview box so is it unlikely to...

CassJonson

Electric Key meters (prepayment)

Can the electricity company communicate with my key meter? I remember reading some time back about power companies investigating the possibility of Broadband Internet over power cables. I have been...

mkjuk

how do you turn off the start up and shutdown tone on

win xp?

mkjuk

how does a storage heater work?

please

teag1rl

problem with word document

Page set-up has symmetrical margins, yet when veiwing in print preview there is a wider left hand margin and ruler does not go all the way acorss the top of page. It's as if,I've managed to shrink the...

b.dubbb

heliummmm

when people inhale helium gas, why does the pitch of their voice change?

Cheekystar

creative vision m zen how do I unlock it?

Help! I've locked me zen (while on the bus) its on and playing but I can't unlock it and turn it off! Please help I can;t adjust the volume or change tracks etc

Lorzy Lor

Central heating nightmare!

Our boiler used to crash and bang, and sound like it was going to blow up! This noise happened when it was on for a few hours every so often. We had a bathroom fitted last May and they completely...

Braveheart64

ipod shuffle

How do you download from computer onto shuffle using your playlists please. got one from Christmas, bit baffled by all this technology. Thanks in advance

tractorhead

Itunes will not launch

Hi I received an ipod nano for xmas and have been trying to download install itunes for the last week! quicktime and i tunes installer are fine. The icon for itunes is there but nothing happens when i...

freak_unique

Someone born in a leap year

If somebody was born in a leap year on 29th february, when it is not a leap year what date would they celebrate there birthday? id imagine personal choice but i dunno?

neilmel

potterton 100e boiler combi

plumped in my boiler after movin it and cant get all rads hot 1 stays cold how many can it run ? can i put a inline pump in system to give it more presure?