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There is a wealth of video clips available on the Internet, ranging from the education to the humorous. To view these clips, you’ll need a fast, stable Internet connection. If your connection is not fast enough to stream the videos smoothly, or you want to store some of the clips to view when you are offline, there are a few options available. Online video downloading services enable you to specify a URL from which to download video files, while browser extensions allow you to grab clips with the click of a button....

Microsoft Visio 2010 does not include a pre-rendered shape that allows you to quickly add a spiral to a document. However, you can add this capability using a document with an embedded Visual Basic script that generates spirals. Download the Spiral Shape Maker from the Visio Guy website, enter the specifications of the spiral you want to draw and copy the finished shape into a document. Writer Bio

Do you think your kids are snooping around your room when you are not at home? Ever wonder what your kids are doing when they say they are doing homework? If you own a Logitech webcam, keeping an eye on someone or your belongings can be very simple. One feature of Logitech webcams is motion detection. Enabling the Logitech webcam motion detector feature is easily done by following several simple steps....

With advances in motherboard technology and particularly chipsets, it’s common to find your motherboard includes support for sound in chipset. The sound solution offered onboard often includes full surround-sound capability with up to 7.1 speakers supported without the need of an added sound card. In order to use your onboard sound, however, you’ll need to enable the sound in your BIOS, the onboard programming that controls the general setup parameters of your PC....

The Zune portable media player by Microsoft can hold music, video and picture files as well as personal information such as Zune Marketplace account details. It is a good idea to remove all data from a Zune before giving it away, selling it or discarding it, and you may occasionally need to reset a Zune to its factory default state to fix a malfunction. You can restore a Zune and remove all the data on it without needing to connect the Zune to a computer....

As any parent would likely confirm, there’s nothing like the feeling you get from explaining simple things to young children and seeing them look back at you in awe, absolutely certain they have the smartest parents in the world. But as they get older, the questions become more complex and increasingly tougher to answer. Inevitably, the day arrives when they hit you with one that leaves you stumped. To make matters worse, it’s a question you should be able to answer because it’s about something you use every day of your life....

You can download a copy of your Evite invitation’s contact list and reuse it later in applications like Excel. Evite can export contacts using the CSV, or Comma Separated Values, file format, and Excel can open this type of file as an ordinary worksheet, all while keeping the data in your contact list’s Name, Email, Response, Number In Party, and RSVP Comment columns intact. Writer Bio

WordPress does not support a default export feature for saving a collection of posts or your entire blog in the Portable Document Format. If you are running a self-hosted WordPress site, you may try one of the many WordPress plugins with limited success. Another problem, however, arises when hosted WordPress.com blogs cannot install plugins. To overcome these issues for hosted and self-hosted WordPress sites, the BlogBooker online tool comes in handy....

There are several reasons why someone may vanish from your list of Facebook friends. Being blocked by that person is certainly one of those reasons, but it isn’t the only one. The person may have unfriended you or deleted his Facebook account. Facebook won’t notify you if you have been blocked, but using Facebook Search, old messages, mutual friends and the Facebook public directory, you can often gather enough clues to determine whether or not you have been blocked....

The lifetime of a digital single lens reflex (DSLR) camera’s shutter is typically rated by number of actuations. This is an important number to have for various reasons, but especially important to know when buying a used SLR camera. Nikon’s D2 family of cameras, recently surpassed by the D3 family, is a professional line of DSLRs that have a shutter life rating of 200,000 actuations. Unfortunately, this number is not easily accessible via any on-camera menu but can be found with the help of a computer....

Introduced in 2009 in the version 3.10 update, the PlayStation 3’s Facebook application lets a user connect a Facebook account to the PlayStation 3 console. You must meet two requirements before you can find the Facebook application on your console: you must have a PlayStation Network account and you must have connected your system to both the Internet and the PlayStation Network. The Facebook application is not visible from the PlayStation 3 dashboard like other applications and is instead buried within a set of menus, making some users confused as to its exact location even after meeting the requirements....

The ipconfig Windows command line utility displays your computer’s Wi-Fi address, or the machine’s IP address on your local wireless network, through the Command Prompt utility. Whether you manually assigned your computer a static IP address or enabled your router to automatically assign an IP address using the DHCP feature, your computer’s IP address is still a unique identifier on the network. Knowing your computer’s IP address can help you to troubleshoot computer network problems, such as an IP address conflict....

Tuning a satellite dish is the key to make sure you have a strong signal. Some satellite customers struggle with losing signal during inclement weather or even after a strong gust of wind. If you have a strong lock on TV satellite locations, you’re more likely to enjoy a strong signal that’s less likely to fade away during bad weather. To conduct a proper satellite dish tuning, you need the coordinates provided to you by the satellite manufacturer....

The delay in a computer microphone, known as “latency” among the audiophile set, is usually not a big deal when video calling Grandma in Duluth. But when it comes time to record a podcast or sync up musical tracks, the latency can become more than just an annoyance – it can ruin your hard work. Writer Bio

Sirius Satellite Radio (now officially called SiriusXM after merging with rival XM Satellite Radio) is a type of digital radio service that provides hundreds of dedicated channels of content. Sirius Radio requires either an Internet connection or a compatible receiver (either for your home or car) to work. If you want to get free service on Sirius Satellite Radio (albeit temporary free service), you have a few options. Writer Bio

SIP is an abbreviation for “Session Initiation Protocol.” It is an Internet protocol used to begin or end live video or voice data sessions online. SIP connections can transmit voice, video and email data from one user to another. SIP connections are commonly used by VoIP, or Voice Over Internet Protocol, services as a way of allowing people to have a telephone conversation over the Internet. Getting an SIP phone number requires obtaining an SIP address, then using that with an existing phone number....

Open Tumblr and log in with your username and password. Click the name of your blog in the right panel of your home page to open your Settings page. Click the “Customize Appearance” link in the left menu to open the Customize panel. Click the “Edit HTML” button to open the HTML editor. Drag the cursor over all of the HTML code in the Customize panel to select the text, then press “Ctrl-C” to copy the code to your clipboard....

With the ability to stream movies and television shows from your personal computer, the connection between the home television and PC is shrinking. However, computer monitors are small and not ideal for movie viewing with friends and family, for that reason knowing how to connect your computer to your TV becomes crucial and making that connection possible via RCA television sets is a simple and quick process. Writer Bio

All of the television broadcast signals sent from full-power stations changed from analog to digital on June 12, 2009. However, not every television set is capable of displaying digital signals. These TVs need a digital-to-analog converter box, or what is often referred to as a converter box or DTV converter box, hooked to them in order to watch television programming. If you also have a DVD player, this completely separate connection does not go through the converter box....

Your AT&T U-verse digital television converter box contains an array of ports for connecting a DVD player and a VCR as well as connecting the box to a television via an S-video cable. You can also connect a Samsung Surround Sound system to your AT&T U-verse converter box to utilize the box’s stereo sound. For true digital stereo sound, purchase and use an Optical S/PDIF cable to complete the audio connection of your AT&T U-verse converter box to your Samsung Surround Sound system....