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You can safely keep track of your family members’ whereabouts using mobile security services with their mobile devices. Most wireless carriers provide family location services with a monthly subscription. To avoid paying monthly fees for the service, you may want to consider installing one of the many free mobile security applications available for smartphones and mobile devices. Using a mobile security service, you can remotely access your mobile device via almost any Web browser and pinpoint its current location on a map....

A bill of materials is a list of raw materials, components and parts needed to manufacture a product. A Microsoft Access 2007 database is the ideal way to keep track of what’s needed to manufacture items. Access 2007 can keep track of what items you have at hand and what items you need to order. You don’t need any database experience with Microsoft Access; the accessible interface can be used by the novice developer....

As more people have begun to use cell phones, collect calls have become nearly obsolete among mobile users. However, for people who do not have cell phones or need to make long-distance calls to cell phones while they are abroad, collect calling options are available. Although major U.S. cell phone carriers do not carry collect calling options at the time of publication – with the exception of AT&T – there are third-party companies that can set up collect calling services for you....

Updated February 10, 2017 Preparing the Cutting Laser Put the newspaper down on a table. Remove the battery cap and batteries from the flashlight. Unscrew the reflector from the flashlight and toss the inner plastic lens away. Unscrew the light bulb from inside of the flashlight and toss it out. Put the batteries, battery cap, and reflector down on the newspaper. Put the CD ROM disk drive face down on the newspaper....

Bart’s Preinstalled Environment creates a live Windows desktop on a bootable medium, such as a CD or USB drive. BartPE’s developer, Bart Lagerweij, provides a program for extracting files from a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 disc and installing them on a CD, although separate software is needed to install the files on a USB drive. Both programs are needed for creating a live USB drive – PE Builder to extract the boot files and the companion software to install them on the drive....

Windows 7 includes WordPad, a basic editing program. Although WordPad lacks the range of editing commands in Microsoft Word 2010, WordPad can insert the content from a Word document. For example, a Word page layout formatted with columns for a newspaper can insert in a WordPad document. WordPad can also insert image files to add visual interest and draw attention to the news content. Tips

If you want to recreate the feeling of a slide show, on your website, you can do so with the help of the inline frame (IFRAME). IFRAMEs are areas of a webpage that link directly to another page. With IFRAMEs you can maintain your entire website’s structure, but include, within a news post for example, a web-based slide show. This also requires a specific code in the header of each separate webpage....

The rendering process in TechSmith’s Camtasia Studio combines your source materials with your edits, captions, transitions and other effects to produce a single video file. Because this process has to operate on every frame of video and not just those you’ve modified, it often takes a long time. In some cases, however, a glitch or a setting in Camtasia can slow down rendering even further. Writer Bio

You can make the image on a monitor sharper by adjusting your computer or laptop’s screen resolution. A lower screen resolution, such as 800x600, will produce larger images that appear grainy and blurry, while higher screen resolutions, such as 1680x1050, produce smaller images that are clearer and more defined (see Resources for examples). The steps vary slightly from Windows XP to Windows Vista to Windows 7, but the basic premise is the same....

Yahoo allows you to create a customized My Yahoo home page that includes your email inbox along with customized content such as news, stock quotes and movie listings. However, sometimes the content won’t fit in your Web browser screen, requiring you to scroll back and forth to see the entire page. You can decrease the width of your My Yahoo home page by adjusting your custom Yahoo settings. Tips Writer Bio

Nearly anything goes when you use Android – even if your end goal is to make your Android phone look like an iPhone. Several developers have created SMS apps that look and even behave like an iPhone. Since the Android Messaging app doesn’t support themes, you have to use an SMS replacement application to use an iPhone-like text messaging theme. Messaging replacements install easily, and come from the Google Play store – so you don’t need to do any sort of software modifications to change your default texting app....

Microsoft’s Hotmail is a free, easy-to-use Web-based email service owned by Microsoft. You can create a Hotmail address for either personal or business email accounts. After you set up your new email account, you can customize the way it appears in your browser by changing background colors and font sizes. Creating a Hotmail address requires you to have a Windows Live ID. Writer Bio

In order to troubleshoot, repair, or upgrade hardware in your Dell Dimension XPS T500, you may need to open the case. This is the easiest part of disassembling a desktop. Once the case is opened, you have access to all the internal workings. Another reason you may want to open the case on your Dell Dimension XPS T500 is to clean out excess dust. Your fan keeps some dust out, but at least every other month, you should open the case and use compressed air to blow out excess dirt and dust....

Updated February 10, 2017 Turn off the HDTV and VCR, then unplug both components from the wall outlet. Connect the three plugs on one end of the composite cable to the matching yellow, white and red playback jacks on the back of the VCR. Insert the plugs on the other end into the jacks labeled “Composite IN” on the back of the HDTV. Plug in the powr cords and turn on the equipment....

There are two reasons you would want to plug your iPod into your Toyota Corolla. You either want to charge your iPod while driving or play your iPod’s music through your car’s speakers. Perhaps you would like to do both at the same time. Writer Bio

Adding a text string such as “Draft” to a PDF file clearly designates that a document is currently under development and subject to change. In addition, you can print this text string on all pages of a PDF file to discourage unauthorized printing or copying. Using Adobe Acrobat, you can define the specific text that appears and can choose from a number of options to define how the text will look when the document is printed....

Hewlett-Packard offers two free printing apps for Android devices that allow you to send any content – photo, Web page or document, for example – from your phone to a local HP printer. HP’s ePrint mobile printing technology is built into many HP printers and enables wireless printing from any mobile device. If your printer is ePrint-enabled, you can send files to print remotely from anywhere in the world. If your printer is not ePrint-enabled, you simply need to be using the same wireless network to facilitate printing....

Adobe’s Acrobat line of portable document format, or PDF, writing programs is widely used. In addition to PDF creation, the programs have many editing features. Among these features is the ability to add headers and footers to documents, which you can do either automatically or manually. This is a convenient feature should you have to combine different PDF files into one and need to insert page numbers. You can print page numbers on Adobe Acrobat documents by following a few steps....

If you’re a Cox Cable customer, you can use your cable remote to control your television, as well as your cable box. As of time of publication, however, Cox’s remote user guide doesn’t include the television codes for Vizio televisions. Fortunately, the company allows you to locate the code for your Vizio television on its official site. Before you attempt to locate a code, have your Vizio television’s model number ready....

When you burn an audio CD, you can only fit 70 to 80 minutes’ worth of music on a single disc, depending on what type of disc you use. This rarely equates to more than a dozen songs, and oftentimes it’s less. If you want to fit 200 songs on a compact disc, you’ll have to burn an MP3 CD. This lets you fit up to 700 MB worth of songs on a single disc, regardless of how long their total play time adds up to be....