The old adage that body language is the larger part of communication means that your online conversations will be richer with a webcam. Some digital cameras, including those from Sony’s Cyber-shot product line, can be used as webcams. Unfortunately, the Cyber-shot can’t be used out of the box with a USB connection; it requires a video input. If you only have USB connections for your computer, however, there is still a way to make it work....

Webmail, also known as web-based email, can be traced. But there are limitations to how far the average person (outside of law enforcement) can trace this type of email–especially if the webmail originates from one of the more popular and free Internet service providers (ISP). While you may be able to pin down the general geographical location the webmail originated from, you likely won’t be able to trace webmail sent from a free ISP back to a specific computer or user....

Purposefully removing an unwanted friend from Facebook cleans up your newsfeed; accidentally unfriending a desired contact makes for a less interesting set of updates and photos when you log in. While it would be very difficult to accidentally remove a Facebook friend, stranger things have happened and distractions while you’re on the computer can lead to accidental clicks on websites. If you did remove a contact who you wanted to keep, re-add the person from his Facebook profile page....

Facebook groups are an effective medium through which users can have meaningful conversations about shared interests. Administrators of the group control the visibility of the group’s conversations and its list of members. If your group’s privacy settings have designated the group as Open or Closed, anyone can see that the group exists and who the members are, including the administrators and creators. If you wish to protect the anonymity of a group’s admins or creators, you must set the group’s privacy level to Secret....

Although you can’t move posts on personal Timelines ahead of more recent entries, Facebook includes a special feature for doing this on business pages. Pinned posts stay at the top of the page no matter how many later stories you add. An orange flag on the post marks it as pinned and further draws readers’ attention to it. After a week, Facebook unpins the story, returning it to its default spot lower in the feed, but you can then pin it back in place an unlimited number of times....

After you shoot a video and upload it to YouTube, you might notice that people who viewed your video are leaving comments about it, and you wonder whether you can disable commenting. YouTube allows each video uploader to determine whether people can make comments on a video, and you can easily turn them off.

The easiest way to start thinking about Flickr and Tumblr is to see Flickr as a photo sharing site and Tumblr as a blogging platform. Flickr is a great place to host your pictures and short video clips, while Tumblr enables you to publish photos, videos, links, audio and more besides. Both services can be used to display your images for others to see on the Web. Writer Bio

When cell phones first hit the public market, they were designed specifically to make phone calls and didn’t include much in the way of extra features. However, within the last century, cell phone technology has improved immensely and cell phones are typically used for much more than making a call. Phones that offer a wide variety of features are called smart phones. The iPhone by Apple is a type of smart phone but has features that distinguish it from a standard smart phone....

Sony’s launched the model PSP-1001 PlayStation Portable game console in the United States in 2005. Sony updated the design in 2007, releasing the PSP-2001 and later a minor update branded the PSP-3001.The original and re-release models, colloquially known as the “Phat” and “Slim” respectively, run the same software and are largely interchangeable, but some differences exist. Writer Bio

Dial-up Internet connections and digital subscribe line connections share one attribute – they both operate using your analog telephone wiring. However, while dial-up uses the same telephone system that you use for your landline, you need to have a special connection created for a DSL line. DSL, on the other hand, is much faster than a dial-up connection. Writer Bio

Facebook notifies you of everything from new messages to timeline posts, but you do not get notified if someone blocks you. A block is intended to be elusive; otherwise, it defeats its purpose. Once a block is applied, all forms of communication between you and the person who blocked you is completely halted. Writer Bio

Updated September 01, 2017 Use Reverse Phone Lookup For numbers that are listed in the phonebook, using a reverse phone number service is the easiest way to find out who a telephone number belongs to. The website 411.com offers a free reverse phone number service. Enter the area code and telephone number and press “Search” to return a list of results. If the phone number is listed in the phonebook, the site should return a name and address....

About Firefox Network Timeout When your Firefox browser experiences a network timeout, it notifies you that your connection has timed out or a specific website is taking too long to respond. This message displays when the website you are attempting to reach is down. However, it can also signify that you are having issues with your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or other network settings, such as the router DNS configuration. Computer firewall settings or virus infections can also cause network timeout errors with the Firefox browser....

Short for Tagged Image File Format, TIFF is a digital image format. Most commonly used within print publications and by designers using the Apple Macintosh operating system, TIFF gives users the option of saving image files at varying levels of compression, and is compatible with nearly all graphics-editing software programs. Several applications installed by default on Windows XP are capable of opening TIFF files. After specifying which program you want to handle TIFFs, opening the files becomes a very quick task....

The Natural Color Scheme is a U.S. format for encoding video information in a manner that makes sense to a number of applications and North American mediums. When working with a European-based organization you will need to format your color in the RAL system, which is the European equivalent of NCS designed specifically for European technology. You can convert NCS to RAL by opening the application in Windows Movie Maker....

SKU stands for Stock Keeping Unit and is a unique code that allows grocery stores to help track items that are sold or kept in the store’s inventory. The SKU is usually in the form of a string of letters or numbers. Even a small variant in a product, such as size, will be represented in a unique SKU. In recent years, many larger grocery chains have made an effort to cut the amount of products kept in stock as part of optimization programs called SKU rationalization, thus decreasing the number of SKU numbers they must track....

Having a friend or family member’s address is useful if you plan to send a letter or drop by for a visit, but if you don’t have all the information you can find yourself in a bind. But don’t despair; as long as you have certain pieces of information you can use the Internet to complete the address. The service is offered by the United States Postal Service and is completely free to use....

Modern Yamaha receivers are equipped with multiple high-definition media interface, or HDMI, jacks for hooking up different types of audio-video equipment, including an HDTV cable box. HDMI transmits high-definition video signals and multichannel sound through one cable, including from the HDTV box to your Yamaha receiver, using a simple connection that takes only a few seconds to make. With HDMI, you don’t have a snake’s nest of cables and cords to untangle, just one cable between your source signal and the Yamaha....

Blackberrys can hold a lot of personal information and it can be devastating when the screen breaks, making it so you can’t access that information. While there may not be much you can do about the screen except to replace the phone, there are a few things that can be tried to retrieve some of your files off the Blackberry. Tips Writer Bio

The MSN portal is a Microsoft property that includes its Messenger communications tool, its Bing search tool and Hotmail, an email service. If you have an MSN Hotmail account, you can log in and check your email from any computer with an Internet connection and a browser. This is a useful feature if you are out and about or at work and need to read a message from your personal account....