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There are various computer components that add bells and whistles to your computer’s functionality, but the motherboard is an essential piece of hardware that is within every computer, whether it is a Mac or PC. While it is important to know what RAM, processor, hard drive and graphics card your computer has, none of these components would work correctly without the help of the motherboard. As a general rule of thumb, a CPU will need to match the motherboard’s socket type and bus speed in addition to being a compatible processor type, such as a dual-core or quad-core processor....

The SD slot located on the back of some Mac Mini models is a Secure Digital memory card reader. The SD memory card standard is the industry removable storage leader: the memory card type is commonly used in the standard, mini and micro form factors in devices like cellular phones, digital cameras and tablets. According to photojournalism website PetaPixel, Apple began producing the Mac Mini with a built-in SD card reader in mid-2010....

More than just a cell phone, MP3 player and portable computer, the iPhone also stores and plays movies you have purchased and rented from the iTunes or recorded on the phone. Although purchased movies come through the iTunes Store app, the iPhone stores movies in a separate app. Writer Bio

The iPod Touch offers you all the same features of an iPhone but doesn’t actually make cellular phone calls. The Touch can download the same apps and do many of the same things as an iPhone but requires Wi-Fi or Bluetooth for any wireless connectivity. IPod Touch devices can also connect to the same types of Bluetooth devices as iPhones and iPads, such as mono and stereo headsets, keyboards and other iOS devices using downloadable apps....

Connection or Hardware? The first step is to make sure the microphone itself works. You can accomplish this by either using a different microphone or taking your current microphone to another computer. Skype includes a Call Test Number in your contacts. After dialing this number, you’ll be prompted to record a message. It then plays back the message it received, enabling you to test the audio without the help of another person....

In June 2009 the FCC mandated that local networks broadcast their content digitally as opposed to in an analog fashion. That decision requires people who do not want to pay for television programming content on networks such as ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX and PBS to use a digital converter box with their televisions in order to get the content.

Because electronic devices from major manufacturers typically provide trouble-free service throughout their working lives, widespread failures with shared symptoms and underlying causes attract public attention. If your plasma TV clicks instead of starting up, you’re in the same boat as other users whose big-brand electronics are misbehaving in a similar fashion. The problems, which usually materialize after several years’ service, trace to electronic components inside your plasma TV. Writer Bio

The Report Painter feature of SAP software provides a user-friendly way for users to create the custom reports they need. Once those reports are in place, users can run them any time they wish and get up to date information they can in turn use to make decisions and build their businesses. With Report Painter, users can also create custom headers and settings that can then be applied to each new report....

Celebrate the holidays and bring a little cheer to Facebook by adding a Santa hat to your Facebook photo. With third-party apps and websites, you can easily add a hat and share the newly edited photo on Facebook. Once you’ve added the hat and edited the photo to your liking, you can save the image to your computer, set it as your profile picture or just share it on your Timeline to encourage your friends to enjoy Christmas....

With the combined popularity of Nintendo’s Wii console and the number of karaoke games in the Wii’s software library, it seems a natural fit for major peripheral developers to offer microphones for the system. Logitech, a high-volume producer of gaming equipment, is well-known for its microphone peripherals including hand-held mics and headsets. Logitech produces several Wii-compatible microphones, including one model specifically geared towards the Wii.

Outlook for Mac provides a Rules feature that allows you to automate a number of different applications for email messages that meet criteria you specify. For instance, if you will be away from your office and want to forward all of your email messages to your personal account, you can create a rule that automatically forwards any email addressed with your name in the To field to the secondary email address that you designate....

Microsoft Outlook offers several ways to share calendar information, including a facility for emailing your daily calendar to contacts. During the share process you can decide how much detail to include in your calendar email; this allows you to display just your availability, or provide limited or full appointment details. Outlook displays the calendar in the email message body and also adds it as an email file attachment that recipients can save and open on their own computers....

Internet-enabled Panasonic Viera TV sets with the Viera Connect feature offer Facebook as one of the available smart applications. You can use the Viera Connect Facebook application to access your account and view status updates, photos, posts and other content on the social-networking site. Before using your Panasonic Viera TV to access Facebook, you must connect the set to the Internet and register the Viera Connect smart application with your Facebook account....

Microsoft released different security programs to provide protection for users of the Windows operating systems from malicious attacks through spyware, adware and computer viruses. Windows Defender was released to protect against spyware and adware, but not viruses. Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) was designed to protect against viruses in addition to spyware and adware.

Updated August 23, 2017 Blocking Through iOS Settings As long as you’re running iOS 7 or later, you can block somebody from contacting you directly from within your iPhone’s settings. If the person you want to block is in your contact list, open the Settings app and then tap “Phone,” “Messages” or “FaceTime” – which you tap doesn’t matter, since blocking somebody will prevent him from contacting you using all three of these....

Contrary to what many people might think of Facebook’s sometimes invasive nature, the social networking website offers a slew of privacy options. For instance, Facebook allows you to set a very specific audience for your photo albums such as a group of friends. You can also create an album and set its privacy options so only one person can view it. This feature comes in handy if you want to share personal photos with a close friend while leaving the rest of Facebook in the dark....

If you created a Facebook group, you are automatically listed as the group’s administrator, which means you can remove people from the group anytime you want. If someone constantly defies group rules and regulations, such as posting content that doesn’t resonate with the group’s motive, kicking that person out of the group may be necessary. When you remove people from a group, you can also ban them completely if you don’t want them to come across the group again....

Canon and Hewlett Packer are two of the biggest names in printers with the most sales and the highest consumer recognition. Canon’s line of printers includes their Pixma inkjets, imageClass’s laser models and Selphy, a line of snapshot printers. HP’s line of printers include their popular all-in-one Officejet series, Photosmart inkjet photo printers, Laserjets, Deskjets and Designjet series for producing high-end graphics. Writer Bio

Weak electromagnets are useful for electronics, such as those you find in speakers and headsets, but strong electromagnets can damage electronic components because of the way the electronic devices use electric charges to operate and to store data. While it will not physically destroy the device, a strong electromagnet can render a piece of electronic equipment useless by stripping away the device’s programming. Writer Bio

The Dish Network satellite television service’s basic actions are straightforward, but for those who want to make their television watching and recording even more efficient, there are a few tips that can help you get to things faster. Most relate directly to the user-interface aspect of the service. If you go back through the menu and select the same Favorites list, you can modify the name of the list by pressing “Edit List Name....