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FRAPS is designed to capture what’s on your screen, whether it’s the Windows desktop or a game you’re playing, and save it as a video file or screenshot. The resolution of the video or screenshot is generally dependent on the resolution of what FRAPs captures, though FRAPS can be configured to capture video at full-size or half-size resolution If you configure FRAPS to half-size resolution, the resolution of your video will be half what appears on the screen....

iPhone folders let you organize your applications and Home screens. Instead of having all your apps live directly on a home screen, place them in a folder to save space and streamline your iPhone experience. By default, your iPhone will attempt to generate a name for each folder created; these names are not set in stone. Change the name of your iPhone folders to suit your personal needs. Writer Bio

Whether you favor adorable kittens or heavy metal songs, saving your favorite YouTube videos to a custom playlist gives you a way to watch all of them in a row without needing to search for each of them. By default, YouTube playlists show videos in the order you added them with the videos you added first at the top and the most recently added ones at the bottom. If this doesn’t work for you, you can rearrange the videos in the playlist to the order you prefer....

Updated July 21, 2017 Open your Web browser and visit the main Chatroutlette website. Select the webcam connected to your computer that you want to use from the drop-down window below the camera display boxes on screen. The relevant settings for that camera will be displayed next to the drop-down menu. Select the “No Camera” listing from the menu on screen if you want to disable your webcam. You will still be able to see other people, but other people can’t see you....

Updated February 10, 2017 Open the tape compartment. Make sure that it is free from any debris or tape ends that might be stuck. Blow the tape compartment clean with compressed air. Locate the components of the tape path. These are the roller guides, pinch roller, capstan and drum head. The roller guides are what pulls the tape against the capstan. The capstan is the rotating pin that creates tension and controls the tape speed....

Windows Vista and Windows 7 both include a utility called Disk Cleanup, which can be used on both internal and external drives to remove unnecessary and temporary files. Once these files are removed, the space available on the volume will be increased and your system may operate faster. It is good practice to periodically cleanup all of your hard disks, because temporary and unneeded files are constantly being saved to your hard drives as a result of Web browsing and the installation of programs and updates....

Many vehicles have limited visibility from the rear window, so using a car backup camera makes sense in order to prevent accidents when trying to parallel park or perform other advanced driving maneuvers. Once you no longer have need of the camera for your car, connecting the backup camera to your PC can make a good secondary use out of the device. Warnings Writer Bio

When it comes to home entertainment televisions, one of the most advanced lines on the market is the Bravia (short for “Best Resolution Audio Visual Integrated Architecture”) line from Sony. In addition to being Internet ready, these TVs can also be hooked up to peripheral devices, such as laptops. If you want to connect your Dell laptop to your Sony Bravia TV, there are a couple of ways you can do it, depending on your Bravia and Dell models....

So you have a high definition television and you really don’t want to pay for expensive cable or satellite television connections. What you may or may not know is that anyone living near a major city can get free HD channels the old school way: with an antenna. What you also may not know is that it it doesn’t take much to get yourself set up for your free channels....

Most earpieces Jabra makes are designed to work with mobile Bluetooth devices such as cell phones. Pieces like the Jabra Extreme are designed specifically for PC use and come with a USB adapter. These small earpieces include both a speaker and microphone. They can also be used to listen to music, but Jabra explains that the earpiece doesn’t support streaming Bluetooth audio. Instead, the earpiece is forced to stream music using the headset profile, which has limited bandwidth and isn’t suitable to listen to high-quality audio....

Playing a movie on your laptop is convenient, but at home you probably prefer the large, cinematic screen of your Sony Bravia. Connecting your laptop to the Sony Bravia’s VGA port enables you to play laptop movies on the TV. However, VGA cables do not include an audio channel, so to play the movie’s sound through the Bravia, you need an additional audio connection. Tips Warnings Writer Bio

The Sony Walkman personal audio device comes with headphones for private enjoyment of music and audio recordings. This is fine for on-the-go listening, but sometimes the user may want to enjoy tunes without headphones or at a higher volume. This is where external speakers come into play. A pair of self-powered speakers can be connected in seconds to the Sony Walkman for listening on a desktop. The speakers must contain their own amplifier, since the Walkman’s amp is only powerful enough to drive headphones....

Home speakers are easily used in a car. The biggest differences between car speakers and home speakers are speaker impedance and speaker construction material. Home speakers usually have a minimum speaker impedance of eight ohms while car speakers can go as low as one ohm. Car speakers are also built stronger than home speakers. This is because car speakers encounter higher temperatures, more vibrations and more abuse than home speakers....

Excel is a spreadsheet program produced by Microsoft. Like many spreadsheet applications, Excel can both display and create graphs of data entered into a spreadsheet. There are many appearance options for graphs on the Insert tab. Writer Bio

The Magellan GPS 315 is a hand-held personal navigation device powered by two AA batteries. The device is designed with hikers and bikers in mind. Using a PC interface cable and the included Magellan DataSend software, you can connect your Magellan GPS 315 to one of your computer’s USB ports for transferring data. This is useful if you are looking to add POIs, or points of interest, to your GPS....

Tap the arrow on the bottom-left side of the home screen to open the “All Programs” drawer, then tap “Settings.” If your Android phone has a physical “Menu” button on the control panel, you can also press it to access the Settings menu. Scroll down to the bottom of the menu and tap the “Screen Timeout” icon. Choose the period of inactivity required to turn off your Android phone’s screen....

Design Web Format (DWF) is a rich graphic 2D and 3D design format by Autodesk, the makers of AutoCAD and Autodesk Design Review. Portable Document Format (PDF) was developed by Adobe Systems, the makers of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Acrobat. You can convert a 3D DWF design file to a 3D PDF file by using the Adobe Printer, which is a standard function of the Adobe Acrobat Professional software application....

An MP4 file is a type of computer video file. Because of the way they are compressed, MP4 video files tend to have large file sizes. If you have a lot of videos and need to conserve space on your computer’s hard drive, you can convert your MP4 file to the much smaller AVI file format. The video and audio quality will remain the same, but the file size will be drastically reduced....

CDR files are the native format for the CorelDRAW graphics program, while EPS and AI files are used by Adobe Illustrator. Both are vector graphics programs, meaning that the images are made from mathematical points, lines, curves, and shapes. While Adobe Illustrator can open CDR files, without conversion they might not carry the advanced grouping and mask settings. To convert your CorelDRAW files, open them in Adobe Illustrator or use the “Filespazz” online conversion tool....

Files with the extension KAR and CDG are audio files that contain music and lyrics information for karaoke songs. The primary difference between KAR and CDG files is that a KAR file’s audio track is encoded in MIDI format while a CDG file’s audio is stored as a WAV file. Due to the esoteric nature of KAR and CDG files there are few free applications that you can use to convert between the formats, but Karaoke CD+G Creator is a shareware program that provides users with a fully functional, 14-day trial period....