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mobile refuses to send texts!

I gave my niece my old phone (Samsung D500) she replaced my virgin pay to go sim with her vodaphone pay to go sim - but whenever she tries to send me a text it comes up as 'error'. I have re-checked...

Pragmatist

Small detail photography - digital camera

Can anyone advise me please?! I need a digital camera (that won't break the bank!) that I can use for close range small detail items and still keep the picture and colour sharp?

memesenandi

cutting tiles

we have had the kitchen tiles, the tiler did not leave suffiicient space around sockets, consequently we cannot fix the socket facias, can you recommend a way to cut or file the tiles to fit the...

zipadeedodah

Choosing A Digital Camera

I currently have a 4mp Kodak camera - it's ok, but I've had it for ages and it's abit big. I'm looking to spend up to about ?150 on a new one. The makes I have been looking at are Kodak, Canon, Sony,...

Scarlett

saving to disc

I know this is easy peasy to most people, but I have never done it! I have an icon on my desktop (my AOL "organize" folder) which I need to save to a disk. Can anyone please give me step by step...

joko

colour match, paint mixing

can anyone tell me what diy places do paint colour matching? where you take something in of any colour and they mix up a tub for you...? please only if you know for sure that they do it, as i have...

CJBUBBER

video 2 computer

I would like to convert some old vhs videos into dvds, what do I need to be able to download videos from the recorder to the computer. I have a video card, a s-video lead and and a scart adaptor plug....

spaced

Live and Neutral Wire

What dould have if, in a wall plug socket, I place the red (live) into the Neutral connector, and the Neutral wire (black) into the live connector and then plugged something into it? Would it bang,...

fatdancer

digital photos

why is the image on the lcd camera screen not an exact copy of the photo i have had developed at tesco...it appears to have cropped the top and sides so on some group shots bits are missing... is this...

BillStickers

Don't whizz on the electric fence!

Would somebody get an electric shock from ill-advisadly peeing on an electric fence? I mean your average smallholding - keep the goats in - type of electric fence. thanks

mad fencer

fence and trellis height

i have recently put a drive in the front of my house and now the neighbour has put up a 2 metre high trellis against his 1 metre high fence which has been there for more than 20 years because he said...

xmanfe1999

batteries

Hello! Is it really dangerous to reload disposable batteries and what can happen? My father, who is 78 years old, finds it very fast and clever and does it on his car battery. I'm really concerned...

vinrex7

Water and electricity

If you dropped a toaster or some other house hold electrical object into water, how much water does it take before it becomes non fatal. funny question but me and the boys just thought it up and now i...

henrymullen

vhs tapes onto dvd

is it simply playing your vhs tapes on a vhs player and taping onto a dvd recorder

hemingwa

bricks

what is the difference between a standard brick and an engineering brick.

mrspask

what security?

Am i missing something but wouldn't it be easier to load up a trolley with 2 or 3 suitcases full of semtex and nails and just walk into a crowded departure lounge and detonate it rather than try and...

BabsG

Transformer

Does anyone know if it is possible to buy a transformer that will allow me to use an air compressor, powered by the car lighter, indoors from the electricity supply. I don't fancy hauling the airbeds...

Kiwi the 1st

Getting Through Glass

Does anyone how to get through, glass doors, windows etc, without being heard?

hotpink

shillings/pounds

i'm too young to know what shillings were! when did shillings (and whatever else the money was called) change to pounds and why?

boswell8228

satellite box cover

Can anyone tell me if they have had dealings with Satellite Direct Uk. at West Sussex regarding the cover of digital satellite sky system cover. I have received a letter today with details of their...

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