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Anyone have any recommendations/experience with smart thermostats of locks? I'm in Florida and can have big differences in room temps depending on sun exposure, so I've read things about the Ecobee being able to adjust. Any suggestions would be great!

Help! Someone on my team set the admin password on an old XP machine and now can't remember the login password. I don't have an XP installation disk and need to get this machine back on line ASAP. Can anyone help?

Is anyone else having difficulties logging in on an iOS device? I click the log in button (yes check keep me logged in) and enter my user/pass and it redirects to enter it again without indicating an incorrect password. This is happening on both an iPhone and iPad. Anyone else seeing this or...

We have a 50" Sharp TV and had it hooked up to Brighthouse HDTV box via HDMI. This box starts clicking like the DVR HD is failing, so I take it to Brighthouse and swap it for a new Samsung HD DVR box. I get up this morning and set up and turn on the new Samsung box and TV goes black, flashing...

I'm looking at replacing my older 17" Samsung Syncmaster LCD with a newer wide screen model. I saw a deal at Best Buy for an Acer 20" LED model S202HL ($75 after rebate). Does anyone have an experience with Acer monitors? Thanks... BFlorida

So I tried to hook up a 27" Apple Cinema HD monitor to my Compaq Presario v6310us laptop yesterday and it blue-screened my laptop. I've removed the HD and mounted it in an external enclosure, and the drive itself is fine. Here is the error I get when the HD is in the affected laptop following a...

Thanksgiving I asked and she said yes... :) The ink hadn't even dried, so to speak, and the wedding planning fury had already started. Less than 4 days out and guest lists are already on paper. Man is my head spinning. I've already had to diffuse her mom, still working to figure out why my mom...

So my major banking institution has finally decided to stick it to their credit card customers via a blanket raise in APR regardless of account history or card loyalty, therefore I'm shopping for a new card. I've had this card for more than a decade, so I'm not even sure what options exist. Can...

Hey BP'ers... not that I post often enough to be missed, but I've been occasionally checking the boards to keep up with what's happening around here! Anyways, I wanted to say hello from the bottom of the world.

As the name gives away I am a scientist working on my Ph.D. My adviser and I are working in Antarctica from mid-April to mid-June via Santiago, Chile and our port of call in Puenta Arenas, Chile in Patagonia. On the way back to the states in June I was hoping to travel a bit in Chile, working my...

Can anyone recommend a good, free HD backup/restore program? I know Vista has a built-in backup program, but it seems clunky and lacks the control I would like. Thanks!

I have three figures that I've made in SigmaPlot 9.0 and copied to powerpoint and need to convert to high resolution (600-1200 dpi) TIFFS. Does anyone have a quick and cheap suggestion on how to get it done?

I've downloaded a few movie torrents and was hoping someone could provide some guidance on how to reassemble them. There are mutliple .rar files that contain .bin and .cue files and when I click on one of the .bin files it plays the movie in VLC but with no sound. I know there's a torrent...

Hey guys (and gals).... I've agreed to lend my XP laptop to a conference here at OU this weekend and want to make sure it's buttoned up nice and tight. I've created a limited user account for the conference, however, all desktop shortcuts for programs show up on their desktop and I would like...

Hey all, I need some help. We've had an older surround sound hooked up at our house for a while, but the other day I realized I never actually wired in the subwoofer. Having a Super Bowl party and figured I should get that taken care of. Long story short... working fine. Unplug and run main...

I was in San Antonio through the first week of January and I was hoping someone could help. Anyone have the story behind Speils moving from Spielman on Sports (w/Mike Ricordati) to the Big Show (with Herbie and Hooley)? I really liked the chemistry between Spielman and Ricordati; it provided a...

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Jessica Simpson ready to strip naked for Hollywood BANG Showbiz Dec. 11, 2007 09:17 AM Jessica Simpson is ready to strip naked in a Hollywood movie. The blonde beauty wants to be taken seriously as an actress and believes baring all is the best way to earn the respect of Tinseltown...

or will she follow in the steps of other celebrities and become a trainwreck? Discuss Jessica Alba Is Pregnant WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 12, 2007 05:55 AM EST Jessica Alba and Cash Warren Photo by: Jean Catuffe / INF Jessica Alba is pregnant with boyfriend Cash Warren's...

Anyone have any experience with these things? My parents have started the traveling phase of their lives now that the kids are out of the house and have accumulated tons of digital photos. I thought this might be a great Christmas gift. Thanks for the input! One caveat... these use Sony Memory...