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I want to be able to watch films on my TV as and from whom I please. I’m not interested in the all-singing-dancing prepackaged offerings as come Roku, Apple TV, etc. I thought I had found the solution in a Samsung BD-H6500 blu-ray player which, as well as playing DVDs and offering its own...

You're right, though I now realize I was pursuing a pretty unrealistic objective . . . Thanks, anyway.

I didn't want to hear that; but thanks.

I want to watch IMDb movies on my HDTV (Panasonic TX-P42G20B). I have a 'smart' blu-ray player (Samsung BD-H6500), connected to my TV, and an iMac. My iMac has an ethernet connection to my router (Technicolor TG582n) which has a wi-fi connection to my blu-ray player. The blu-ray player...

I use DownloadHelper, a free add-on for Firefox users.

Hello DeviMariah, Thank you for your interest and advice which I have noted.

Please excuse this belated response. Trying to find a download of the desired documentary - The Gatekeepers - and free if possible, blinded me to the simple solution of buying the DVD . . . I have downloaded your recommended VLC player though; gets good recommendations from other users. Thanks.

I paid for and downloaded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYZ2Ks8Jx8o, an .mp4 file, but was told that my Quicktime Player couldn't open it. I've never had this problem before, .mp4 being my usual download format, though I usually download them using DownloadHelper. But I play them back on...

Hello again, What does my Gmail Web interface show? - I'm afraid I've managed to butcher my Gmail web interface. I got so pissed of with (my inability to control?) Gmail's seemingly anarchic intrusion into my preferred organization of my Mail at my end. When, after a previous...

Hello Satcomer, I'm using Gmail . . .

Unlike the experience of a few others, my recent upgrade to Mavericks has ended up fine, with a clean re-installation dealing with what had been an abysmally sluggish performance following a simple upgrade - apart from a minor problem with my imported Mail backup (and once I'd been shown where...

Hello Cheryl, Apart from changing my password in the case of my bank, I can't think of anything new I "did", and there was nothing new installed, other than automatic updates which come thick and fast on my virtual PC, particularly from McAfee. I do wonder about any possible deleterious effect...

I have a 5-year-old iMac 9.1 with OS 10.6.8, Safari and Firefox, together with a VMware Fusion virtual PC with Windows XP and Internet Explorer which operates through my iMac's wireless internet connection. I've no special security on my Mac but have McAfee Antivirus Plus on my virtual PC...

You're all right, all of you. It's just that I was looking for a less all-singing-dancing and, therefore, relatively inexpensive solution. Trouble is, I guess, there would probably be such a limited market for such a thing that it would end up being relatively expensive . . .

Doh! You're right; what am I on about! It's Snow Leopard, in both cases.

My computer is unable to access a part of two websites; parts of other websites too for all I know. I get no response when I try to enter my gas and electricity consumption figures where required on a UK gas & electricity supplier comparison website (Money Saving Expert's Cheap Energy Club)...

I have a chalkboard hanging on a kitchen cupboard door with the month's appointments, etc, listed. I keep thinking how smarter - dust free and more consistently legible - an LCD panel would be, displaying appropriate bits of my iMac's iCal when touched. I don't want to have to go to the bedroom...

I want to be able to convert a US produced, region 1, NTSC DVD, bought as a present for my grand-daughter, and burn it onto a replacement DVD that will play on her parents' UK, region 2, PAL/SECAM DVD player & digital television and, also, upon their iMac. It's just that one review I read...

Thank you once more for your attention, DeltaMac. I'm afraid I make as little use of my computer's features as I do those of my camera. Display as 'Folder' instead of 'Stack'; aarghh . . . So much to learn; so little time . . . I will do a disk repair, for the sake of it. It's a relief to...

Thanks for you suggestion, DeltaMac, though first of all, I hadn't done anything to the original Dock icon or to the actual Downloads folder. My only niggle, for what it is worth, with this solution is that, in my case at least, it provides in effect a transparent folder (the top document is...