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I travel around the country a lot and carry my laptop around wherever I go. My previous one ended up all scratched and dented, how can I prevent this from happening to my new one?

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We’ve just rounded up all the remote controls in our living room and it turns out we have six different ones! My cousin mentioned that it’s possible to get a “super-remote” that can replace all of them. Is this really possible?

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I’ve recently inherited a box full of slides that were taken by my grandfather, an avid photographer and represent a lifetime of his work. I’d love to convert them to a digital format for posterity but when I tried using my flat-bed scanner the result was very poor. Is there a better way to scan them?

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I’m looking for a great gift for my teenage son who’s well into his gadgets. Can you recommend something awesome?

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I connect to the Internet using mobile broadband so I only connect and download pages when I need to. I’d like to view pages held in my browser history while I’m offline. How can I do this?

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I’ve just moved into a new house and the previous owner had laid out some network cables across the house. I’m not too sure what connects to what. Is there an easy way to figure out what the cables are and which work?

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I’d prefer to put my Vista laptop into Hibernate mode rather than shuttind it down completely, but I don’t have a Hibernate option in my Start Menu. Where is it?

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I recently purchased a 4Gb SD card for my digital camera. It works great in my camera, but when I put it in the SD slot in my computer it doesn’t recognise it. Is there something wrong with the card?

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