Call me suspicious, but I don't think we're getting the full story on coronavirus... My interest: I'm elderly and 'at risk' (various ailments). My suspicions are based on this. If the virus really...
We're technologically well equipped: ipads, Macs (thus Router, internet etc), 'Smart' phones (although only Pay as You go, not with contracts). Our phones, calls & text only, suit us fine. We don't...
In an episode of The Sweeney from 1975 the character Inspector Jack Regan answers a villain’s ironic “Drink?” by quoting from Swift (“Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring”), which...
I have a couple of grub screws, hexag tops, in typically inaccessible places. I want to replace them with Philips-headed screws, easier to locate and turn. How do I measure the grub screws? Or can I...
My TV runs through a home cinema-type system, the sound coming out of a pair of room speakers. We can of course use headphones (well, one of us can), which is fine. What I want to do is to modify the...
Partner and I both have Samsung Galaxy phones, using 02 payg Sims. No problems normally. But last few weeks texts sent from one to the other have not been getting through - some do, some just...
I’ve been using a small (and cheap) Taotronics, but after a few years the battery has given up on being recharged, so impossible to pair. Any recommendations for a replacement? The Logitech...
Trying to sort out a mobile for an old bloke. Doesn’t do texts at present, but I think he would with a big enough keyboard and display. Bit of a technophobe, and wouldn’t want games, web, etc. Any...
Some of my RCA/Phono jacks go into their sockets and stay there (sometimes there's a springy bit to help them stay in the hole). Other ones just go in and fall out again. Can you buy adaptors which...
My DVD player has several output options. HDMI is one, and from there straight into the TV's HDMI. The TV also has VGA input. Could I go HDMI to VGA, from my Panasonic DVD player to my Toshiba TV? Is...
I've got an HDMI splitter, one port in, two ports out. No switching, just sits there and delivers, no problems. Now I have the need for a splitter which takes TWO inputs, with a single output. Plenty...
My wife and I are UK pensioners, living in the UK, married for decades, etc. If/when I die, does she automatically get a proportion of my state pension? Googling chucks up all sorts of conflicting...
In the old days, brokers used to get you the best price, and intercede if you had problems with the insurance company, and so on. Now, with confused.com and the like? No middle-man, no broker....