Cyber affair wrecked my marriage
Although we had been living together just over eleven years, my husband has gone and found a new woman on the Internet. Our marriage is over and she is going to move over 800 miles to be with him, and they haven't even met!
Published: 19-March-2008
11 comments
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Finding a good all round web browser
I haven't got much memory on my laptop and to be honest I found the latest version of Internet Explorer a bit of a memory hog. I have always been a fan of IE in the past but there's some good competition out there these days.
Published: 18-March-2008
7 comments
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TalkTalk problems driving me mad
I have been on TalkTalk for about a year and I did ecperience a few problems every so often and even changed my modem on three occasions. Recent problems however have led me to seriously consider switching provider.
Published: 27-December-2007
25 comments
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Problems with PayPal refund
I accidentally duplicated a payment on an eBay order, but the seller kindly refunded my via PayPal straight away. Both payments went out of my PayPal account immediately, but nearly 10 days later I am still waiting on a refund.
Published: 28-November-2007
6 comments
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Captcha's that are too hard to read
I really hate web sites that use Captcha's when you need to log-in or fill out a form. These little blighters can make filling out a form a complete nightmare, almost to the point where you hit the back button.
Published: 21-November-2007
8 comments
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I'm not stealing your Wi-Fi
In my opinion, logging on to someone's unsecured wireless network is NOT theft and how can it be seen as theft when the individual concerned in most cases doesn't even know and doesn't experience any actual loss?
Published: 16-November-2007
27 comments
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Annoying pop-up bubble ads
Quite often the link has a dotted underline, sometimes a double underline and woe betide the foolish surfer that casually grazes his or her mouse down the screen as they are reading.
Published: 02-October-2007
10 comments
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Trouble getting Sky Broadband
The salesman told us that Sky Broadband and Sky Talk would be installed approximately 2 weeks after installation of the Sky TV, however two weeks later I was informed the package was not available in this area.
Published: 24-July-2007
11 comments
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Moving house and taking your broadband
I'm moving house in the near future, and as I work from home I am trying to organise the transfer of telephony and Internet services ahead of my moving date. Ideally I would like to have a near continuous Internet service.
Published: 20-July-2007
16 comments
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Fair use policy, no thanks
What's with this fair use policy anyway? I've just received an email today from my ISP advising me that they would be making some changes to my existing broadband service. Is fair usage really fair?
Published: 11-July-2007
12 comments
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BT Total broadband problems
I have had a very, very bad experience changing to BT Total Broadband. The technical staff that I spoke to have a very basic technical understanding and try to fob you off with less information than is available in instruction book.
Published: 25-April-2007
54 comments
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PowerPoint presentations bore me
In the brave new world of PowerPoint, amateurishly scrawled overheads have been replaced by their electronic equivalent complete with transitional fades, fancy bullet points and text layouts in multiple vomit inducing colours.
Published: 04-April-2007
8 comments
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Computer games are too expensive
My gripe is with the computer games industry and how they have us over a barrel these days. PC games aren't cheap and they can basically get away with charging whatever they like and we just buy them.
Published: 22-March-2007
24 comments
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Cancelling Tiscali Broadband
Not going to go into all the detail of my dealings with Tiscali when they were my service provider, but the bottom line is due to the problems I’ve had cancelling my account I really can’t recommend them.
Published: 19-February-2007
96 comments
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No choice for broadband in Hull
Everybody in the country has a reasonable choice of broadband providers except us in Hull. Kingston Communications has a monopoly here. Why can't the regulator force them to open up to the competition in this area?
Published: 13-February-2007
48 comments
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Why I dumped Talk Talk for BT
When I moved to Talk Talk they really were good. The line went over on the day promised and, although we had to wait 3 months the broadband went live on the day they said. All that changed when we were upgraded to LLU.
Published: 31-January-2007
46 comments
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AOL helpline can be patronising
With other Internet service providers, when I speak to them on behalf of the customer, they get the message straight away that I know what I am talking about. So why is the AOL helpline so patronising?
Published: 07-December-2006
44 comments
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Inept staff at PC World
My gripe is about PC World, how completely inept their staff can be and how useless the online store feedback questionnaire is. I needed a Netgear DG834 router. I just needed that exact make and model, and I needed it quickly.
Published: 30-November-2006
18 comments
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Security on the Internet
Just lately I have been receiving a large number of unsolicited emails from various sites. My gripe is about security, or rather the lack of any security on the Internet and the intransigence of Internet Service Providers.
Published: 24-October-2006
46 comments
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Sorting out my noisy phone line
I have the dreaded crackles on my phone line and it gets so bad that I can hardly hear the other person speaking whilst on the phone. So far four BT engineers have called and two of them have found faults.
Published: 13-October-2006
40 comments
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PlusNet broadband problems
I bought a monthly contract from PlusNet online and my ADSL line was finally activated on 15 August. Since then I have had nothing but problems and no reliable service, poor customer care and I am now unable to cancel.
Published: 07-September-2006
19 comments
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Talk Talk poor customer service
Here is yet another Talk Talk gripe for you. I don’t think for a minute that we are the only ones who are seriously disappointed with their poor customer service or have had trouble getting through to them in the first place.
Published: 01-September-2006
602 comments
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Problems with BT
Since I moved house I've had endless problems with BT. First of all it was my phone line and then when I got broadband things got worse. None of the BT engineers seem capable of sorting the problems out.
Published: 25-July-2006
142 comments
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Broadband problems with Sky Plus
I decided to get Sky Plus and was told that it would cost £42.00 per month with the basic package. However, I had problems with my broadband and a bad experience with their customer service department.
Published: 29-June-2006
95 comments
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Fed up with chain e-mails
I'm fed up with people sending me these stupid hoax, friendship and chain e-mails. Have they got nothing better to do? It’s not difficult to spot an urban legend, so why do they forward this junk on?
Published: 13-April-2006
5 comments
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Difficulties getting broadband
I have been trying to sign up for broadband since last October. After much pressure BT put 50 new lines into our village, however because the availability checker still says we can't get broadband.
Published: 15-March-2006
14 comments
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Pinnacle Studio problems
I tried out Pinnacle Studio recently, to edit some home movies and I wish I had just stuck with Windows Movie Maker. It would have been a lot less hassle and a lot less crashing.
Published: 09-February-2006
90 comments
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Sony’s anti-piracy measures
Oh yes, Sony’s anti-piracy measures really make me want to go out and buy legitimate copies of music CD’s. I don’t think so guys, quite the opposite in fact!
Published: 03-November-2005
6 comments
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IPTV and the threat of a PC tax
With ever increasing broadband speeds (for some), IPTV is set to take off. But what about the threat of a PC tax to replace the TV licence?
Published: 01-November-2005
12 comments
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Problems with PDF files
Why are people so obsessed with using PDF (portable document format) files? In my opinion they are the work of the devil and cause more problems than they solve.
Published: 18-October-2005
14 comments
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Unlimited broadband from ISP
We want unlimited broadband! Why do broadband providers such as BT, Wanadoo, Freeserve and NTL etc have a capped service that restricts us to between 3 and 30 gigabytes a month? We don't want a limits on our broadband service!
Published: 12-October-2005
89 comments
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Spyware and Adware drives me nuts
Have you been dogged by spyware for a while now? Well join the club, because so has nearly everyone else that I know. I’ve been tearing my hair out with pop ups and about a zillion spyware removal tools.
Published: 07-August-2005
9 comments
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eBay should not ban ticket sales
I am really cheesed off that eBay has decided to ban the sale of Live 8 tickets. Its plain and simple just another case of the moralistic few few trying to impose their will on others.
Published: 15-June-2005
12 comments
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Mobile phone ringtones drive me mad
Please can we have some sanity in the office because these stupid ringtones on mobile phones are driving me nuts!
Published: 09-June-2005
21 comments
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Is Firefox better than IE?
Not sure which web browser to use? If you are a geek you are quite likely to jump into bed with Firefox and the chances are that you are probably running on Linux rather than Windows. True? False?
Published: 25-May-2005
26 comments
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Hotmail and Yahoo spam email
Just when you thought it was safe to open your inbox, along comes another huge helping of spam mail from hotmail and yahoo along with so many other culprits it's impossible to list them all.
Published: 21-September-2001
62 comments
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Broadband - superhighway or dead end
I've used the internet now for a number of years both at home and at work and have been waiting for the day when I can have an 'always on' high speed link at home at a relatively low cost.
Published: 06-July-2001
1169 comments
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