Tag, You’re It When you tag someone, be it on a photo or text post, her name becomes a link that goes directly to her Facebook Timeline. This feature notifies the person you’ve tagged, and the post she is tagged in may appear on her Timeline. Tagging acts like a direct link to the person being tagged. Share the Love Sharing, unlike tagging, does not single out specific people in the post....
CAD (computer-aided design) programs are geared towards assisting in the design of various projects, including architecture, bridges, roads, electrical wiring layouts and furniture. TurboCAD and AutoCAD are two types of CAD software available. Since it can work off of most AutoCAD-designed projects, switching to TurboCAD makes for an easy transition that doesn’t require redesigning projects. Writer Bio
One of the biggest draws in maintaining a wired network as opposed to wireless is the ability to maintain network speed despite interior infrastructure and interference. In most applications, Category 5, or Cat 5, Ethernet cables are the standard choice. While in most cases, cable length won’t affect the speed of data transmission between devices or over the Internet, excessive lengths can cause problems.
USB flash drives contain flash memory storage, and connect to a computer or other device via a USB port. Like a computer’s hard drive or a piece of software, these drives can become infected with Trojan horses–malware designed to grant a third-party access to your computer and information–or viruses designed to use flash drives as a tool to infect computers. You can detect viruses, Trojans and other forms of malware hiding in your USB flash drive by using the command prompt....
You can configure your web browser to open your favorite website whenever you start up the program. This is known as a homepage, and can be any website of your liking, be it a news source, your web-based email service or one of Verizon’s web pages. As of June 2011, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox are the two most popular available web browsers. Resetting IE and Firefox to open a Verizon page is a simple process....
Before the advent of digital television, it was simple to understand the difference between cable and regular TV. In 2011, however, with the replacement of analogue broadcast television by standard digital television, and also with the advent of high-definition digital cable, it’s easy to confuse the terms and misunderstand which is which. Writer Bio
The Structured Query Language (SQL) is used to manipulate databases. Extracting information from a database, sorting it, running analytical calculations and inserting new data are all tasks accomplished by SQL. This common language is used on many database platforms designed by different companies. Microsoft Office offers some SQL abilities. You can design SQL queries directly within its database application, Microsoft Access, or access SQL systems from within Microsoft Excel. While Microsoft Office itself is not a robust database platform, these tools are in place to extend the reach of its product suite....
Unlocked phones work with any network compatible with their design. If you do not like your service provider’s selection and have purchased an unlocked phone – or if you are canceling your current cell phone service and have unlocked the phone for use on other networks – you will need to activate your phone for service on the new network. Writer Bio
One tool you can use to visually monitor project progress and determine whether tasks are on track is a Gantt chart. A Gantt chart is a graphical representation of the duration of tasks that a team will accomplish for a project. Developing a Gantt chart means determining the start and end dates for all tasks required to complete the project. In SharePoint, you can convert any list to a Gantt view....
Updated September 15, 2017 Feedjit Browse to the Feedjit website and enter the requested information, including your name and email address, to register for the free live traffic feed widget. Feedjit’s traffic feed publicly displays how many visitors you have at a given time, where they are coming from and the page they are viewing on your site. Click the “Get Your Traffic Feed” button to continue. Click the menus to configure your widget....
Boost Mobile, operated by Sprint/Nextel Wireless, offers its customers a variety of mobile phones and calling plans without the long-term commitment of a one- or two-year contract. Customers can text, talk, email, instant message and surf the Web for a flat monthly fee. If you need to add money to your existing Boost Mobile account, there are a few payment options available using the Internet and your wireless phone. Tips Writer Bio
Westinghouse produces computer hardware from hard drives to monitors. If you have a monitor from the Westinghouse company you can edit the settings of the screen. This gives you the ability to increase or decrease the brightness to your liking and even change the image size. All of the adjustments are made directly on the Westinghouse monitor so you can avoid using the actual computer it is connected to.
Remote Desktop is a program for Windows that lets you connect remotely to other computers. When you first connect, Remote Desktop attempts to size the screen according to its default setting. You can adjust this setting within the Remote Desktop client. Adjusting the screen size allows you to sculpt the desktop display size to better fit your computer’s viewing area.
Because electronic record formats change so rapidly and file formats can only be opened by certain programs, there has been a reluctance to rely on proprietary software programs to archive electronic documents. Although the PDF format was invented by Adobe, the specifications for reading and editing a PDF document are available to third party developers and users do not have to rely on Adobe to open the documents. For this reason, archivists have begun to rely on the PDF/A file format for archiving electronic records....
Open the product page for the app to authorize, and then click the “Sign In with Instagram” or similar icon. Type your Instagram username and password, and then click “Sign In” if your are not already logged in to the platform. Once you are logged in, the Instagram Authorization Request form opens. Review the data access that the app will have. To grant access to the app, click the “Authorize” icon....
BIOS (Basic input/Output System) is a built-in program that lets you control and set up hardware connected to your computer. It also assists in loading your operating system. The “auto detect” feature in BIOS automatically detects the hard disks every time you boot up your computer. It detects all the settings for you. You can manually set auto detect for for all four IDE channels – Primary Slave, Primary Master, Secondary Master and Secondary Slave....
Block User You can block individual Twitter users from viewing your profile or seeing your tweets in their timelines. If you were following the user, or if the user was following you, the following status of both of the accounts is immediately changed to Unfollowing. The blocked user cannot send direct messages to your account, and your tweets will not appear in the blocked user’s searches. To block a user, browse to his profile page, then click the arrow next to the Person icon....
Craigslist features geographic-based web pages offering a wide variety of online message boards and classified advertisements. The site was established in San Francisco in 1995, but has now expanded to include users in more than 50 countries. While most of the ads posted on the site are fairly basic, you can use simple HTML codes to spruce up your advertisement. This text will look centered in your advertisement. Writer Bio
Boot a Toshiba laptop computer into the BIOS setup program by pressing the appropriate key sequence during the boot process or with a utility program. Different models have varying ways to access the BIOS setup program, which is required to change the boot sequence or adjust system hardware configuration settings. The BIOS can also be password protected to require user authentication when the system first powers on, before the operating system is allowed to load....
Bridging a four-channel car audio amplifier will effectively double your amp’s output (watts) so that you can drive more power to your speakers or subwoofers. It’s relatively easy to bridge a four-channel amp as long as you have a very basic knowledge of car audio wiring and how to connect an amp to your car’s audio system. The most common application when bridging a four-channel amp is to connect the amp to a pair of 4-ohm subwoofers....
