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What is Sam’s Club return policy on iPads?

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Sam’s Club: 30-day return policy on iPads While most items at Sam’s Club are covered by a 90 day return policy (with the receipt), for the iPad the return policy is 30 days: Cell phones, tablets, e-readers and GPS must be returned within thirty (30) days of the original purchase and with a receipt. More info: Sam’s Club website [end] Top Search Terms:sams club ipad return policy (37)sam\'s club return policy ipad (36)sam\'s club ipad return policy (20)sam's club return

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Grey screen with login, incorrect voucher, start.exe [antivirus info]

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UPDATE 2012.09.20 commenter Lauralea suggested the following simpler procedure: Reboot Windows (you can power off your machine if necessary) When your computer restarts, enter safe mode by pressing F8 before Windows can load Run malwarebytes (alternate link) to remove the infection Reboot and you should be good to go!* *NOTE: I would recommend performing an additional virus scan after you reboot, just to make sure there aren’t any other viruses/trojans. -JD Original instructions: If you get a grey box like this, then you have a virus infection or

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Disable Java Auto Updater on Windows 7 stop pop-up [SOLVED]

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Question from FrankT:  I have a nice Windows 7 computer that runs great EXCEPT it has a super annoying “Java Auto Updater” popup that occurs every day! I go into the Java Control Panel and uncheck the auto updates box but it always ends up being checked again next time I check 🙁 I am wondering if I have some sort of java auto updater virus??? I am about to go crazy with this, so if I don’t have a

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Test of Blogsy

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Testing out the Blogsy iPad app…   So far it is pretty cool. Nice photo uploading and integrated browser. I have not been impressed with the (in)ability to easily and seamlessly deal with linking 🙁 Also the featured image implementation is not as straightforward as I’d hoped for.     Top Search Terms:blogsy (1)blogsy featured image (1)blogsy for macbook free download (1)blogsy for windows (1)blogsy macosx (1)blogsy windows (1)ipad apps (1)

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Setup screens for the New iPad

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Here are screenshots showing the setup screens after you first turn on the iPad after taking it out of box and begin setup 🙂 Top Search Terms:ipad setup screens (10)apple ipad home screen setup (2)where is the setup screen on ipad (2)set up screen ipad (2)new ipad setup screens (2)ipad wifi setup screenshots (1)ipad vpn setting screen shots (1)ipad setup screenshots (1)youtube ipad (1)initial ipad setup screens (1)

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Springfield MO power outage

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We were having lunch at Red Robin and the power went out. Checking on how wide spread it is… To be updated.. UPDATE: Much of south Glenstone affected, with traffic lights being out as well. Police on hand to direct traffic.Businesses without generators were either having to close or accept payments via cash or manual credit card processing. To be updated… UPDATE: Called City Utilities and as of 5-5:15PM electricity has been restored. I asked the reason for the outage,

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Kindle for iPad, error fix by deregistering

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My wife received the following error when trying to download and read a Kindle book on her 1st generation iPad: Please remove the book from your device and redownload it from your archived items. If the problem peesists, try to deregister your application and register it again. Here is step-by-step how to get things working! PS if this was useful to you, please let me know how you rate it on a scale of 1 to 5, thanks! [starreview tpl=16]

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Original Argyll and Bute Council original statement about ‘never seconds’

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NOTE: scroll down for the Argyll and Bute ORIGINAL statement… This was posted to the very cool ‘never seconds‘ food blog recently: This morning in maths I got taken out of class by my head teacher and taken to her office. I was told that I could not take any more photos of my school dinners because of a headline in a newspaper today. I only write my blog not newspapers and I am sad I am no longer allowed

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