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Hi there, I have a large collections of photos taken by different family members that I’m starting to sort through and arrange. I’ve been trying to do simple things like fixing red eyes and cropping the photos to highlight the subject, however the painting program that came with my computer, called Paint, is really hard to use. Can you recommend a better one?

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I’ve been using Firefox on Windows Vista. I recently performed a System Restore but seem to have lost FireFox’s spell-check facility. I’ve lookat at the General tab within Options from the Tools menu and the ‘Check my spelling as I type’ is ticked – but it’s still not working. How do I fix it?

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I am trying to download an upgrade to Malwasher Pro and it keeps saying I don’t have a .netframework3.5sp1 file Is there anyway to download this file? It must be a file that is missing in Microsoft. I am running XP

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My daughter is in heading off to University in a couple of months time and I’d like a way to keep in touch with her. Can I do this over the Internet?

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I occasionally take portrait-styled photos with my camera rather than the landscape. When I copy them onto my Windows Vista computer they’re on their side. How do I turn them around?

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I’ve recently installed a new SMS application on my phone called ChompSMS. I’m loving the new app, but everytime I get an SMS message, I get two notifications in my Notification Bar. They both take me to ChompSMS, but I can’t clear one of them. Can you help?

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A friend of mine showed me an application for his phone that lets you look up prices online while in a shop. Can you point me at it?

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Every time I open a saved document or create a new one in Word, there’s a grid sitting behind my texxt making it really hard to read – is there any way I can remove this?

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