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I have been using Video DownloadHelper to download and convert videos for a long time. Recently, when Firefox installed version 36.0, it stopped working, which Firefox stated was a known problem. After a month or so, a new version of Video DownloadHelper has installed itself. It works for...

A friend has recommended the following to me as a good value for the price. He bought the 4.3" version and has been very happy with it. http://tinyurl.com/pcwqm7w Any opinions, or more important, any experience with this brand would be most appreciated. xterra

Does anyone know how to copy links in pdf files? My problem is similar to this person's: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3959112. I've got a pdf file that contain links where the text says "example" and for reasons that I can't go into here I have to open that example in a specific browser...

Okay, this post is mostly a vent and plea for sympathy since I've got the problem under control (excepting one oddity which you'll hear more about later), but any advice -- other than "get a Mac", "get Linux", and the like -- is more than welcome. Computer details: I'm running Windows 7...

A Japanese research team has revealed it had created a technology that could eventually display on a computer screen what people have on their minds, such as dreams. http://www.physorg.com/news148193433.html Unfortunately the details given of the experiment are scarce and ambiguous: Seems...

I know the Germans made amazing leaps in the field of aircraft design, propulsion, rocketry, engineering and the like. Did they venture into computers to any serious degree? Did they have any computational equipment that had the Allies beat? INRM

So very, very silly. :) Apparently the creator of this YouTube video had a friend who worked out that by using a particle detector or Geiger-counter to trigger a random character generator he could communicate directly with God. He admits that he never actually saw the device, and the friend...

Which has done more to advance human civilization, the wheel or the computer?

Well, I'm thinking about it. I have a plethora of computing options available in my house, and a few months worth of summer vacation to screw around with(we're telling my wife that I'm hard at work though... SHHHH!!), and I was thinking about some of that free Linux operating system goodness...

There are some great plug-ins for the more popular software apps out there, especially web browsers and tools like photoshop. But what are the best? I have one for Safari which adds predictive text functionality to the Google search field, but I can't for the life of be remember what it's...

This is probably a dumb question, but do computers or like machines of any caliber have the capability to make correlations between apparently unrelated information in such a way as this?

In the last few days my computer has started playing crackly static in the background whenever music is played. I've determined it is not the speakers, as the same thing occurs when plugging known good headphones into the line out jack. It occurs regardless of whether I'm playing a cd, streaming...

So I got a computer from my uncle, and it worked fine. But now out of nowhere I am having a severe problem. It won't run any .exe files. Mozilla is the only program I can make run on the thing. Any time I try to run a .exe, it says that there is no program associated with it. I tried to fix...

Problem: my lodge needs/wants a new computer. I've been placed on a committee whose job it is to find one. We've been granted a non-negotiable budget of exactly $1000, which must include ALL expenses - tax, shipping, any third-party software we absolutely need to buy - EVERYTHING. Use every...

The new Apple store apparently resembles a similar structure in Mecca known as the Ka'ba. Now Muslims want a lock on cube designs. What's next?

There was one design that I thought was a really radical design, but before it's time, as the technology of the day would not have been able to do it justice. These days, however, I think it would be perfect. That is the idea behind the TMS 9900. Instead of screwing around with registers...

So I started a new job recently, and I just got my new laptop. What I've noticed is that it takes forever to scroll through pages, either on Internet Explorer or Microsoft Excel. If I press the direction keys to move down a page, the screen only seems to move chunks at a time, and really...

It was quite unexpected. This was a full tower PC. Evidently something failed in the power supply and KABOOM! It also produced a huge electric arc out the rear end of the machine. The arc shorted out a package of button cell batteries on the desk over the computer. It was so loud and...

Korean computer experts there to help the country set-up its computer needs have been asked to leave Afgghanistan on charges of attempted apostasy. Which proves you can't help these people so why risk your life trying? http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/newsdetails.php?newsid=866

So I'm having a rather big problem. I can't get this damn thing to restart normally. It's restarting in safe mode fine more or less, but if I try to restart normally it just sits at the black "Windows XP" screen and the keyboard locks up. Any help would be appreciated.

Scientists probe 2,000-year-old Greek [possibly] computer I thought this was an interesting discovery. As noted in the article it would be a very interesting find if it turns out to be true. It's already been noted that the ancient Greeks (iirc) had discovered, and then subsequently...

About one week ago, my laptop power supply went, and I bought a generic one as a replacement (the kind where you buy the supply and then a connector that corresponds to the model of your computer). Soon after, the computer started getting blue screens with this error code: 0X00000008e This...

Just having a discussion then - should computer science not be considered a science but a 'craft' or 'art'? I'm considering the notion that it takes an artisan with considerable talent and practice which may not necessarily be gained through a degree. That by getting a degree, they can...

I am due to have my home rewired. Now somebody suggested that this would be ideal time to install a wired computer network. What would I need to purchase/have this wired system; and are there any advantages over having a wire free system?

Ok, so my 4 year old is addicted to computers. He loves the Noggin and PBS kids web sites, and loves recieving e-cards from his grandparents. I want to build him a PC, and in fact already have Compaq P4 (from a few years ago) for him. This machine is running Windows 2000, with all the...

I work at my local library, and I have been set on a mission to locate a color printer & digital camera. I need something user friendly and not too costly. Basically, we need a camera to assist in the monthly creation of our newsletter, and a color printer that works in conjunction with said...

Oh please help. I've got a computer with a DVD drive and a DVD+/-RW drive (make is difficult to tell). I've been using them fine for months, last wrote a DVD on Xmas Eve. But now my RW drive has stopped recognising any disks. Windows System claims it's "working correctly", but when I put any...

OK, it's time for the auto mechanic to try his hand at rebuilding a computer. Problem: my cheap-o eMachine 733i's motherboard tanked. It was a Pentium Celeron, 733Mhz, with a 20GB hard drive. It did what I needed it to do, never had a problem - except having to reformat the disk on two...

I have an old computer which has developed an odd problem I don't know how to fix. When it starts up I can't see anything on the screen and have no idea if it is booting up or is. Turning the monitor on or off makes no difference. I disconnected the monitor from the back of the computer and...

Hello, I am new in this forum & non-tecnical. I use computer & internet for long time here or for other works, say for about 10Hrs per day, 20-25days in a month & for 11 months. I am bit doubtful about its effect on my health. Social effects are different which I am not thinking. Can you pls...