In most households, there is either one computer with a printer connected to it, or nearly every computer has a printer connected to it. Neither solution is economical, and the first solution is problematic if someone else is using the computer at the time. Printers that have built in networking capability are expensive, as are “print servers” which allow the use of USB and parallel type printers to become networked printers....

The Windsurf booster is a home-made parabolic reflector for a WiFi router. You can use a computer and everyday household items to create this reflector. When you place the Windsurf booster around the WiFi router antenna, it reflects a focused wireless signal in the direction that the booster is pointed. This inexpensive modification can help direct and strengthen a WiFi Internet signal that needs to reach a long distance. Tips Writer Bio

In order to set an external hard drive as the main hard drive of your computer, you need to make a few changes to the computer’s BIOS. These changes are helpful if your internal hard drive has failed or has become corrupted. You can also use this method to circumvent the need for a boot manager, and simply use various external hard drives, loaded with different operating systems, to boot your computer....

In the theater, film, modeling and television worlds, a headshot is your calling card. Like a business card but bigger, headshots give hiring managers, agents and casting directors their first glances of you, along with a way to contact you and give you that role of a lifetime. Experiment with making your own headshots using Adobe Photoshop, an ideal way to “role” play before committing to the expensive real thing....

Single-lens reflex cameras enable you to monitor what you photograph accurately, showing you a through-the-lens view of the scene in front of you. The portion of the frame you place in sharp focus designates the focal point of each image. In most cases, the point of interest appears in the foreground. For some images, you may prefer to keep the foreground out of focus and draw the eye to subject matter farther away....

An avatar is a way for you to represent yourself on the Internet. It is a small image that identifies you and can be anything you want. You can use a picture of yourself, an object, a cartoon or anything else you can think of. The possibilities are endless. You may want to use the same avatar everywhere including message boards, blogs and social networking sites. In these cases, you may want to upload your avatar to a website to make your own avatar URL....

The iPhone is a mobile phone from Apple. It has a multi-touch screen, displays photos and books, plays music and videos, and runs games and applications. You can use the iPhone to shoot pictures and movies, and connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi or a cellular data network. If you have files on your computer that you would like to use on your iPhone, certain file types can be moved to the iPhone through a USB cable....

Tumblr doesn’t have a mechanism for moving posts directly from one blog to another. However, this doesn’t mean that posts cannot be moved over to one of your secondary blogs that you’ve created under the same email address. To move a post, you need to reblog it to the target blog. If you want to remove the original post, you can delete it when you’re done. Writer Bio

Stuffit, or .sit, is a format used to compress files, primarily for the Macintosh operating system. (An example of a popular Windows compression is .zip.) These formats reduce the sizes of video, music and software files so they take up less space on storage media and so they can easily be downloaded from a Web page. However, to use these files, you need to open (decompress) them. Fortunately, even PC users can decompress a ....

A Comma Separated Value (CSV) file is a plain text file that has a single record on each line. Each line is separated by a comma. A CSV file is sometimes called a comma delimited file. You can work with CSV files in Microsoft Excel and it’s possible to get Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to do the work for you, including opening the file at the push of a button....

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With wireless technology taking over the world, Bluetooth capabilities are being added to devices of every medium. First appearing on cellular phones and mobile devices, wireless Bluetooth has been expanded to laptop computers. Among the computer manufacturers offering Bluetooth, Toshiba has made its laptops able to accommodate this wireless feature through a small USB adaptor that plugs directly into the computer. The Toshiba adaptor utilizes the same technology as cell phone Bluetooth, and has only to be activated on your computer for it to be paired with nearby devices....

An alternative to expensive banners that will most likely only receive one-time use is to make your own homemade banner with Microsoft Word. The software can give the banner a unique and customized look. However, at home printers cannot produce continuous long banners. Instead the printer will divide the banner into multiple standard letter sized pages that you can either glue or tape together to make a full length banner....

With your printer, you can print onto many different types of paper. This is useful if you want to produce a printed document or photograph with an interesting effect. You can use various types of materials including photo paper, card and lined paper. Lined paper, that you might write on normally, can be fun to print on, but you should not expect the words to sit on the lines. Printing on lined paper is just like printing on any other paper....

“Free-to-Air” (FTA) is a type of programming that offers you certain channels with no subscription. If you have a DirecTV connection, but do not wish to pay the monthly fees, you may use your DirecTV satellite dish to connect to your FTA receiver. Note that you may need to purchase the existing satellite dish receiver from DirecTV. Writer Bio

An Emerson Universal Jumbo Remote may at first appear to be nothing more than a novelty item to display on a coffee or end table. In actuality, the remote can control up to eight different kinds of electronic devices. This particular remote is ideal for an individual with larger-than-normal fingers, or a person that has trouble reading the fine print that is found on standard universal or television remotes. The Emerson remote, like many other universal remotes, can be programmed via the “Code Search” method....

A replacement for the many remote controls that can clutter your entertainment center, the Philips universal remote can be used with all of your devices at once. You can program your remote and access your television, VCR, DVD player and stereo from one remote, eliminating the need for three or four when watching a movie or entertaining guests. Programming and reprogramming can be done in just minutes from your living room using just the Philips remote....

HTML Audio Tag If you just want a basic audio player on your Tumblr blog, you can use the HTML5 audio tag. The audio tag works with multiple file types, such as MP3, WAV and OGG. To view the play buttons for the HTML5 audio player, include “controls” as an attribute to the audio tag. If you want it to autoplay in the background, you can add the “autoplay” attribute as well – but use this cautiously, as many users do not enjoy autoplaying music....

Updated February 10, 2017 Insert a blank CD in your computer’s CD burner. Press the “Eject” button on the outside of the CD burner to close the disc tray. Open your CD burning program. This can be a program like Apple’s iTunes or Microsoft’s Windows Media Player. Whichever program you already use to burn CDs will work fine. Select “New Disc” from the “File” menu. Note that certain programs may operate a little differently, so if you’re using a program that does not have a “New Disc” option in the file menu do whatever it is you need to do to start a new compilation....

While you sit at your desk working on other projects, you may glance over at your computer and see the same screen saver for hours a day. If you are tired of the standard screen savers, create a one-of-a-kind screen saver using your favorite photos. Windows lets you create a screen saver from photos without having to download an additional application. Writer Bio