The two major satellite music providers, Sirius and XM, merged in 2008 to become SiriusXM, and the company has since become ubiquitous on the broadcast landscape. Major electronics manufacturers offer receivers with built-in SiriusXM features. You can also connect a separate satellite radio device to any stereo receiver, and let the service provide your party music or just listen with higher fidelity than a small speaker or earbuds provide. The specific connection is dependent on your SiriusXM radio and your receiver, but setting up to fill your room with sound is usually a matter of getting the right cables....

Comcast is one of the largest cable television, high-speed Internet and telephone service providers in the nation. Whether you are adding a new computer to your home or office, connecting a computer to an existing Comcast Internet connection is quick and convenient. Using an Ethernet cable and a Comcast modem or router, you can begin to share network connections within a matter of minutes.

Gyration manufacturers a line of unusual wireless mice that are not used on a working surface. Instead the mice are used with movements through the air. The device translates this movement to on-screen commands and cursor control. The technology powering these air mice is called MotionSense. Writer Bio

There are several ways to attempt changing a PDF file into an HTML. Keep in mind, the finished product will probably not look as good as the original. The Portable Document Format is not easily circumvented. HTML does not work with text and images in quite the same way that PDF files do, especially complex ones, but here are a few ways to attempt it. http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html The program will install automatically, and then you have to navigate to the directory in which your PDF file is located....

Digital television has replaced analog, but many households are still working out the best way to receive over-the-air broadcasts. For homes that already have a rooftop antenna in place, that same antenna can usually be used for digital reception with just a few adjustments. This works for televisions with built-in HD tuners as well as for older analog sets that require a converter box to receive digital signals. Tips Writer Bio

More than 60 million people worldwide speak Korean, according to MSN Encarta. The word processing computer program Hangul caters to this market, providing native support for the Korean language and alphabet. You can share a native Hangul HWP file with someone who doesn’t have Hangul installed by converting it into a Microsoft “Word 97-2003 Document” file. Hangul ‘97 and newer can save HWP files as .doc files.

MP4 is a video file type that is widely used both on the Internet and on portable media devices. SMV files are video files created through VideoLink Pro. These files are highly compressed and are therefore ideal for transmitting video through e-mail. Some MP3 players, such as the Global Sources Direct player and TRIO Onyx Portable Media Player, can also recognize SMV files. If you would like to convert an MP4 video to SMV, the file must first be converted into AVI....

Converting PDF documents to an executable format allows you to share the file’s contents to a broader audience. As PDF viewers are not necessarily installed on every computer, such format ensures users can view the intended file regardless of the system’s current features. Moreover, this is particularly convenient for computers with restricted hard disk capacity and/or users with limited computing knowledge.

While there is no program that allows you to rip songs from your CD directly to your iPod Shuffle, you can import the songs using iTunes on your computer and then sync the newly imported tracks to your iPod Shuffle. Unlike other programs that require you to pay for using its services, iTunes is free to use and is the default media player and manager for iPod devices. Other features of the iTunes program include an audio encoder, which provides five different formats for importing music from CDs: MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF and WAV....

AOL Internet Mail manages your email, including a backup solution for your messages. It’s a good idea to save important messages to your computer, and AOL allows you to categorize these in their own folder for safekeeping. Once you have compiled enough of these saved messages in the “Saved Mail” folder, you can download them to your desktop computer with AOL desktop software. With the Personal Filing Cabinet feature, a folder is created for your email where messages are stored for recall without an Internet connection....

Updated July 21, 2017 Go to “Menu” > “Connectivity” > “Bluetooth” > “Enable” on your Kyocera phone. Press the main “Menu” key on the phone, and go to “Contacts”/“Phonebook.” Go to “Options” > “Advanced.” Select “Send All Contacts.” Choose “Bluetooth.” Now your phone will start looking for Bluetooth devices in range, and will show the name of your Kyocera device, too. Highlight the Kyocera device, and press “OK.” Enter a passkey on both the devices, for instance “1234....

Excel is Microsoft’s very popular and widely used spreadsheet application. The program is effective for entering, tracking, and manipulating data. With so many businesses and individuals using and exchanging Excel files, you might decide that it is important to gain at least an elementary understanding of how to use the program. Creating a basic, six-column spreadsheet is a start.

That bootable SD card you’re using is very convenient: it’s great to be able to quickly swap it for a different card with a different configuration or operating system. That convenience comes at a price. If the card gets lost or damaged, the time you’ve spent customizing it goes to waste. Your operating system and applications, your carefully customized working environment and even your irreplaceable pictures would be gone. Avoid the risk by duplicating your SD card....

Updated July 21, 2017 Log into your AOL email account. You can do this by using your Internet browser and going to http://webmail.aol.com. There, you will find places to enter your username and password in the upper right-hand side of the screen. After entering this information, allow AOL email to completely load. Click on the word “Contacts” on the left-hand side of the screen. Click on the word “New” on the next screen....

Whether you have a PC or a Mac, your computer stores information as files. There are hundreds of different file types that you can generate on your computer. Files can contain words in word processor files, numbers in spreadsheet files, music in audio files, movies in video files or many other forms of data. Although the specifics of modifying and customizing a particular file will vary from application to application, the method used for creating a file is fairly universal....

Microsoft Excel can replace mundane tasks with formulas and functions. One task that can streamline any manager or supervisor’s job is to create an Excel spreadsheet to figure out sick leave for employees and use formulas to replace the task of manually calculating totals. Enter the amount of sick leave the employee has earned and how much the employee has used, and the spreadsheet formulas will do the rest, adding up totals and carrying sick leave totals forward every month....

Chief Architect is a 3D application used by professionals, private individuals and students to create home and building 3D models and designs. Unlike some other 3D-modeling applications, Chief Architect is a dedicated architectural application with many features to create architectural elements. For example, if you would like to create columns or upright posts, such as those you might find supporting the roof of a porch, you can do it in Chief Architect....

Updated August 29, 2017 Fill Out CAPTCHA Google requests a mobile phone number as a safeguard against spammers and as an added layer of protection for your account. However, providing a number is not mandatory depending on your geographic location, provided you fill out the CAPTCHA field on the registration page. In the event you cannot read the CAPTCHA text, providing a mobile number becomes the only way of creating an account....

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As an eBay member, you may want to save favorite sellers from time to time when you find sellers from whom you like to make purchases. When you have sellers saved as favorites, you can quickly locate these sellers to do business with them. If you want to delete favorite sellers on eBay, you can do this as quickly and effortlessly as you saved them initially.