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The Mini by Everpurse is a large sized wallet that includes a built-in, in-line charger for the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5. Simply pop it up, pop your iPhone in, and you're off an charging. The original Everpurse was much bigger and hid the iPhone charger in a pocket. This one is small and anything but hides the iPhone. Whether that sounds like the best or dumbest idea ever will depend entirely on how you see the convergence of fashion and technology. Everpurse: Experience up to 48 hours of phone battery life — from zero to 100% three times. Place your iPhone 5 or 5s into Mini's aluminum charging dock, which embeds it safely on the backside of the wallet. Inside the har…

Google's YouTube is reportedly going to acquire popular video game streaming service, Twitch for more than $1 billion. Twitch lets Xbox and Playstation gamers share and watch live gameplay footage, and they claim more than 45 million visitors a month. According to Variety: The deal, in an all-cash offer, is expected to be announced imminently, sources said. If completed the acquisition would be the most significant in the history of YouTube, which Google acquired in 2006 for $1.65 billion. The impending acquisition comes after longtime Google ad exec Susan Wojcicki was named CEO of YouTube earlier this year. Depending if and how the deal ultimately shakes out, …

AT&T has announced that they're planning to buy DirectTV. Rumored for weeks, the deal would give AT&T access to 20 million DirectTV customers and, theoretically, make them more competitive with Comcast, which is in the midst of their own merger with Time Warner Cable. What's especially interesting is that AT&T clearly sees this deal as fueling more than simply traditional television service: The premier pay TV brand with the best content relationships now poised to deliver video to multiple screens – mobile, TV, laptops and more – to meet consumers' future viewing and programming preferences The deal "implies a total equity value of $48.5 billion an…

Calendars 5, the smart calendar and task manager from Readdle, is available for free for the next two days on the App Store. The regular price is $6.99. Calendars 5 syncs with your phone's calendars, as well as Google Calendar. The app also integrates with Reminders, putting all of your upcoming events, and any tasks associated with them, in a single place. Calendars supports natural language input, letting you input new tasks and events easily. We recently named Calendars 5 as one of the best calendar apps for iPad. Now is the perfect time to give it a try, so go download it from the App Store now and check it out. Free (limited time) - Download Now …

As you have likely seen by now, Windows Phone 8.1 is full of many amazing new features, but perhaps one of the most visually striking is the new Start Background feature, which allows people to set their Start screen to have a background image displayed behind the tiles. Figure 1Start Background in Windows Phone 8.1 There’s just one thing though… in order for users to see the image behind the tiles, the app’s tile needs to have a transparent background, so if yours doesn’t have this yet, here’s how to do it. [Do note that if you used a transparent image asset for your tiles in Windows Phone 8.0, (which many did, since this is how you would have achieved a tile th…

I can receive and open all my emails in the normal fashion I can also move may emails or retrieve stored e-mails from my vatious folders. BUT I cannot send a new e-mail or forward an e mail. The system appears to crash and then I have to sign back in by clicking on the butterfly. When I logoff then log back in on internet explorer then click on outlook express I am able to send e-mails. But this is very inconvenient and cumbersom. I want to restore my ability to send e-mails from my "MY MSN" home page. Please advise. Continue reading...

I am able to log in but that is all. i cannot access anything else. Cannot read messages junk or otherwise can only see when messages come in but cannot read or open them. and in the left bottom hand corner it says messaging loading.......but nothing ever loads. Please help thank you in advance. Continue reading...

Current operating system is Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 3 Continue reading...

I am having this same issue. I am running Vista. Why does it not mention this anywhere in the download or ordering process? How do I get my money back? I am not forking out another couple hundred dollars to update windows. This is extremely frustrating!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <Split from: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-windows_update/trying-to-install-microsoft-office-professional/5022baba-a104-4d10-a13c-aa6c74f6c044 > Continue reading...

Hello, i have instaled a WIN XP PROFESSIONAL on my old computer ... I have a ORGINAL WINDOWS ,,, i forgot my CDKey and i unpack the CD and i find the the CDKey in the unattend.txt file and the Key is 'ProductKey = ***Removed PID*** but when i type it ,, is not working ??? Need help pls HELP! Continue reading...

clash of clans Will they ever get clash of clans Continue reading...

I am trying to get on windows store to upgrade to windows 8.1 but it will not connect, help please. I have all the windows updates Continue reading...

In earlier, "better" (?) versions of Windows, when you run the task manager you have the option of displaying a mini icon in the reporting area of the task bar which shows the CPU percentage. That feature has disappeared. I am not sure, but I think it was also initially available in Win 8, until some update nuked the feature. This arrow is pointing to an approximation of what it looked like (this is a different tool). It was a black box with a green bar graph. I like being able to see a quick graphical representation of CPU use for times when the system response slows down. Is high CPU use the problem or is it high disk rate use? Can I get it back? …

Hi My computer automatically updated 2 days ago (Im using Windows 8.0 on a touchscreen Acer Aspire). Since the update completed, it now takes an extra tap to press a button on the touch screen after typing. Once the screen is tapped, it performs normally and each tap is executed. But as soon as I begin typing, the first tap to the screen goes unregistered. Two questions: 1. Is this a known feature that I can fix with a setting? 2. If not, can I undue the update? Sincerely Nikhil Continue reading...

I have a very new (1 month old) HP Envy laptop that is running the most current version of windows. The computer runs fine, the only thing is that I cannot open the windows store. I have not really noticed until now because everything else works and I have not needed to use the store until now. When i try to open the app it goes to the "green screen" with the logo and the loading image with the circles moving around goes and goes but the app never opens, nor does it give me an error message. I have tried using a troubleshooter to fix the problem but it does not give me anything, so it said my best option is to go to the forums for help. Does anyone know how this can be fi…

When I turn on my Lenovo and log into my computer the start up for my laptop starts. But, it infinitely loops and flashes my Start screen repeatedly every few seconds restarting the process. It makes it impossible to do a system refresh or navigate the computer and it's constant and never ending. I really need help ASAP as I can't even use the computer and it's completely useless in this state. I tried restarting the computer but it doesn't fix the problem. My computer has been idle for a few days and I just used it this morning to listen to some music and that's it. The computer has been doing a lot of mandatory Windows updates as of late but I didn't…

My company is buying new PC's with pre installed Windows 7 64bit OEM. We have a lot of applications that only work under 32bit. Can we install 32bit OEM Windows 7 and use the same license key? Continue reading...

I HAD POSTED A SIMILIAR THREAD IN RESTORE AND BACKUP SECTION WHICH I THINK IS NOT AN APPROPRIATE SECTION FOR THIS QUESTION SO POSTING HERE AGAIN WITH MORE DETAILS. I had this problem last night , my laptop became dead slow at 1st then while browsing it hanged completely and I could not even start task manager , I restarted it by holding the power button and it showed toshiba logo and then a black screen , with blinking cursor, I turned it off after sometime because it was not booting and started looking for the solution. I found the remove battery n charger , hold power for 60sec thing but when I turned it on before applying the method it booted normally now after some…

On my PC (HP Pavillon Elite M9160 I did a recent windows 7(32 bits) update On rebooting I was informed that one of the updates (KB 2952664) had failed. A second attempt at this update was successful. However, a few hours later, after another reboot. I found that I was unable to boot up my PC. Despite using the built-in HP repair windows tools I can still not boot-up. Do I have to reinstall Windows 7? If so can I , after reinstalling Win 7, simply restore my system from my second HP hard disk(dedicated for back-ups). Continue reading...

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.1 en Windows 7 x86 (KB2729451) Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (KB976932) Having trouble with installing these updates, even after revising registries for corrupt files and then temporarily disabling my anti virus and firewall protection.Installed Microsoft Fixit5 to try determining problem, but it found that all was ok. Can anyone help? Continue reading...

So I keep getting a message saying "The path is not of a legal form" every time I start up my desktop. I restarted my desktop today and then when I got to the desktop my background photo and 90% of my icon, all my photos and music and files where all gone. I also can't log into Skype either. I keep getting an error. I don't know what to do. I restarted my pc multiple times in hopes that it will return to normal but it doesn't. Please help. I am really worried that I won't be able to fix my pc and that I'll have to buy a new one. Continue reading...

Earlier today, I went on to a website which claimed I had the ukash virus, and gave me the screen (in browser), and I do not know if I have it or not. How do check if i do or not, and how would I go about getting rid of it. I have windows defender which was not on during the time and a Norton subscription which ran out months ago, but I do not know hat to do! Continue reading...

Earlier today, I went on to a website which claimed I had the ukash virus, and gave me the screen (in browser), and I do not know if I have it or not. How do check if i do or not, and how would I go about getting rid of it. I have windows defender which was not on during the time and a Norton subscription which ran out months ago, but I do not know hat to do! Continue reading...

How do I remove this? Have tried all info you have Thanks, Paul Continue reading...

I run Avast (free version) antivirus. Avast identified the following threat - C\USERS\(my name)\APPDATA\TEMP\MSUPDATE71Zindexer.exe - an Win32:Malware-gen. I ran my antivirus, quick scan + deep scan + boot scan, the virus was identified but could not be removed - error 42111 ( the operation is not supported for this type of archive.) Every time the antivirus pop up comes up, displaying this message, the cpu goes up to 100%. This pop up happens often, once every minute or two. Any advise will be appreciated. Morne Continue reading...