Height and surface area are two keys for any type of antenna. Fortunately for do-it-yourselfers looking to build FM antennas, the latter is more important. DIY FM antennas are built using unshielded wires, so primary wire is a natural choice. Although a small amount of woodworking skill is needed, the antenna can be built to nearly any size required, enabling reception from stations from all over the FM dial. Writer Bio

The Gateway W350A laptop was created in 2009 as an affordable computer that was made well but lacked some of the hardware that many users expected on mid-range laptops sold at the time. Compromise for the sake of affordability is not necessarily a bad thing though, and Gateway designed the W350A primarily for users that don’t require an extremely powerful computer. The Gateway W350A has a sleek, attractive design and can accomplish most tasks that laptop users might want to do....

Hewlett Packard, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of computers, printers, laptops, digital cameras and other electronics, built a leadership position in many product areas by using a profitable segmentation strategy that targeted markets its competitors were not meeting. Writer Bio

Tap the Application drawer on your Android home screen, scroll to the Settings app and touch it. You can also press the “Menu” button and tap “Settings.” Tap “Language and Keyboard.” Scroll to “Text Settings” and tap the soft keyboard you want to hide. When you tap the keyboard name, the green check in the check box will disappear and the keyboard is disabled. If you have multiple soft keyboards installed, touch each one to disable it....

A high-gain digital TV antenna pulls in broadcast signals from a single direction, resulting in increased performance. TV stations broadcast digital TV in two bands: very high frequency (RF channels 7 to 13) and ultra high frequency (RF channels 14 to 51). Installing a homemade high-gain digital TV antenna offers better access to these channels than a traditional aluminum antenna. Writer Bio

Click “Profile” in the top right corner of the screen after you log in, and then click “Photos” in the left menu bar under your current profile picture. Click a photo album and then the picture you want to use as your new profile picture. Select “Make Profile Picture” in the bottom left corner of the pop-up picture screen. A majority of the picture is darkened with a lighter square in the middle of the picture....

If your television set is not digital-ready, you probably will need to install a DTV converter box if you want to receive a digital cable signal. Even though many cable companies continue to offer many channels via an analog signal, many channels that are offered in a basic cable package will require the DTV converter in order to be viewed on an analog television set. These converter boxes are available from your cable company....

Cadets, during their time in the program, are required to give briefings, which are military-style presentations on a topic of interest. Briefings given for AFROTC are similar in almost every respect to briefings given in the actual Air Force. Open PowerPoint to create a new slide show. If you were given a template–a predesigned and formatted slide show–to use for your briefing, press “File,” then “Open,” then select the template from the list, and then click “Open....

One of the smartest and most cost-effective ways to improve the audio performance of your 2002 Chevrolet Trailblazer is to replace the existing factory speakers. Aftermarket car speakers usually offer much better performance than what you’ll experience with the factory-installed models. If you plan on doing the job yourself, you’ll need to invest some time, but there are no technical issues you can’t handle and the tools needed are readily available and simple ones....

Digital optical cables, also referred to as TOSLINK cables, feature a fiber optic core, designed to transmit digital audio formats. TOSLINK cables may offer superior sound quality improvements over analog connections. Certain televisions on the market include several audio connection options, designed to meet the specific needs of the customer when setting up a home theater system. Connecting a TOSLINK fiber optic cable to your television is an easy task that does not require any special tools or technical knowledge....

Updated February 09, 2017 Download the latest version of iTunes. Click on the download link and follow the installation prompts. Disconnect the iPod from the computer and any additional peripheral devices connected into the USB ports, with the exception of the mouse and keyboard. Restart the computer. Reconnect the iPod to a USB port. If possible connect it to a different USB port than that which was used in the previous restore attempt....

No, your computer is not trying to communicate with you: that random talking coming from your computer is either a pesky advertising technique or a sound hardware issue. Uninvited computer sounds disrupt your quiet work environment and interrupt other content you’ve deliberately chosen to view. Before you can stop the random talking, you need to figure out where it’s coming from, so you can return to your senses. Writer Bio

Cathode ray tube (CRT) TVs employ different technology from liquid crystal display (LCD) and plasma TVs. In fact, it is the presence of a CRT – a funnel-shaped glass tube – that gives CRT TVs their characteristic depth and weight. Essentially, CRT TVs work by bombarding a phosphor coating on the inside of the screen with negatively charged particles called electrons or, originally, cathode rays. Writer Bio

Craigslist staff want you to get the most out of the classified ad site, but not so much that you overpost and look like a spammer. The rules on how often you can post depends on whether you’re posting a free or paid ad, such as job postings or ads for therapeutic services, which all cost money. Writer Bio

The pace at which our gadgets and gizmos are getting more powerful shows no signs of slowing down, and recent leaps forward in technology over the last few decades have revolutionized the way we communicate with each other. At the heart of this revolution is the Internet, breaking down barriers of distance and cost to make us more connected than ever before. Writer Bio

The iPhone stores all of your music files in the iPod application. This includes any music you have purchased from the iTunes application on your phone or computer, or any other music you may have transferred from your computer to your iPhone. The iPod application comes preinstalled on your iPhone, no matter what model you have, so there is no need to download any additional applications to access your music....

Facebook offers several ways to include links on profiles, either in your personal information or directly on a profile wall. When you add a link to your personal profile information, visibility will depend on your privacy settings. When you post a link to a Facebook profile wall, all of your friends and the person’s friends will be able to see it. When posting links to Facebook, be sure to include the full URL if you want your links to be live....

As a sports fan, the teams you root for help define who you are. Your teams define your rivalries, your heroes, your good years and your bad years. The whole point of your Facebook profile is to tell people about yourself, so as a sports fan it only makes sense to add the sports teams you follow to your profile. Not only will it add the team to the interests that display on your Facebook Timeline, but it also lets Facebook know to incorporate content from that team into your news feed....

Windows 7 usually uses English for menus, wizards, dialog boxes and other system components; however, you can easily add Hebrew to Windows without installing or downloading any additional system components from Microsoft. Once you enable this change, Windows will change the system language, which includes anything you type, to Hebrew. Writer Bio