If you purchased your mobile phone through Virgin, it came locked to that network. This means that you cannot use your phone with a different mobile service provider until you get an unlock code. This can be very inconvenient if you find yourself traveling abroad, as you will have to pay high roaming fees to use the phone on your trip. Writer Bio
When you access a website in the Firefox Web browser that requires a login, Firefox automatically presents you with a dialog box that asks you if you want it to remember your password. This is a convenient feature, but if you need to remember the actual password term or want to review the passwords that Firefox is storing, you have the option to get to this information. Use the tools in your Firefox browser to find your saved passwords....
Typically a VPN server resides behind a firewall in order to protect the server from malicious activity on the Internet. The firewall provides access to the VPN server using a configuration known as “port forwarding” which enables the firewall to forward all VPN requests to the VPN server. In order to access a VPN server, you need to know the Internet facing IP address of the firewall. Writer Bio
Web pages can play music when you click a button or it can start on its own. If you want to find out about the tunes you enjoy, you have the option to look at the page’s source code. This source contains the entire markup that creates the page, which includes the name and possibly the address of the music file. Use your browser to find the music source of the Web page in question....
Exchange administrators assign port numbers to all incoming and outgoing data flow within your Exchange server. You can access these numbers from an administrative tool called Exchange System Manager. This can be found in server computers that have administrative privileges and rights. Note that the port assigned to SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is typically Port 25. Writer Bio
Frequent unexpected pop-up windows appearing on your computer are indicative of a malware attack on your computer. Both viruses and spyware can infect your hard drive and result in pop-up ads and other behavior that drastically slow your computer’s performance. If these programs are not removed quickly, they can continue to download more viruses and malware to your system, send viruses to others through your email, and possibly stop your computer from functioning....
Wiping, or formatting, your HP laptop’s hard drive will remove the operating system and all of the data from the device, allowing you to sell the computer without risk of having your data harvested or reinstall the operating system and software without worrying about residual viruses or infections. Once you’ve backed up all of the data from the laptop that you want to keep, such as photos, documents and music, you can format the hard drive using a Windows installation disc, which includes a tool for formatting hard drives....
Inactive Accounts Leave a Twitter account inactive for a period of six months and you risk losing it to dormancy. Simply logging in may be enough to forestall an inactivity warning from Twitter. An inactive account’s profile page remains visible, but it shows no tweets, may lack followers and fail to follow anyone. Inactive-looking accounts with followers may belie a busy pattern of private direct-message activity, however. Historically, Twitter approaches inactive accounts conservatively, but some of these usernames eventually become available....
AccuWeather is a popular weather website that features local, national and international forecasts and radar images. Google Earth’s customizable KMZ file format allows users to load custom overlays into the Google Earth application, including AccuWeather radar maps. You can download and install the AccuWeather KMZ plugin from the Google Earth Community forum site. http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php?Number=82938 If you also have Google Sketchup installed on your computer then double-clicking the file may open it in that application; if this happens, close Google Sketchup....
There are various reasons why you may need calls forwarded from a landline phone to a cell phone. It may be that you are away from the house for a short period and expecting an important phone call, or that you have gone on vacation and require access to the phone line. Whatever the reason, forwarding calls from a landline to a cell phone is done simply by pressing a few buttons....
Roblox is free massively multiplayer online game that allows players to create an avatar, explore user-created games and create their own. There are two types of coins in Roblox: coin decals and collectible in-coin games. You can decorate bricks and objects with coin decals, and use coins collected during game play to purchase items in a Roblox shop or unlock special in-game features. You can get free coin decals from the Roblox catalog and find in-game coins by playing games that feature coins....
Barracuda Central provides an online block list of IP addresses and domains it believes to be a threat to internet users. Their list can be used to filter email addresses that have been reported to send spam emails and those that may contain viruses and other threats such as viruses and malware. Barracuda classifies IP addresses and email addresses based on spam received, but it is sometimes possible that an address is classified in error and it is possible to request removal from the list....
Identify Bot Accounts Open one of the fake follower finding tools in a Web browser (see Resources). Log in to Twitter through the application to authorize the app on your Twitter account, if required. For Status People, click “Connect to Twitter,” then type your Twitter credentials. For Twitter Audit and the Social Bakers’ application, type your Twitter username in the input box on the main page, then click “Check” or “Audit....
WeatherBug is a live weather data site where you can find weather related information for your specific location. You can access the WeatherBug information you need without a computer by having alerts sent from the site directly to your cellphone. Once you set up the alerts, you can choose what updates and news flashes you want to be told about. The charge for the service is added directly to your phone bill from your carrier so you don’t have to enter your credit card information....
Mobile Apps Tap the profile button (the contact card symbol) on the right of the Instagram toolbar. Tap “Edit Your Profile” (or “Edit Profile” on Windows Phone) and you can make changes to various aspects of your Instagram profile. Tap inside the Website or Bio fields to make changes to the text and enter your Ask.fm URL. Tap “Save” (on Android), “Done” (on iOS) or the tick icon (on Windows Phone) to confirm your changes....
Creating great content is only half the battle of running a blog – the other half, and often the harder one, is getting people to know that it exists. Ensuring it appears among the results for Google searches is, then, absolutely essential. Although there is no way to guarantee that Google will index your blog immediately, you can ensure that it will eventually happen. Writer Bio
With the ability to play music from USB mass storage devices, do advanced video processing and automatically configure itself for the specific acoustic properties of your listening space, the Onkyo TX-NR708 is almost as much a computer as it is a piece of audio equipment. Like any computer, its processor can require a periodic reboot to get everything working again. The factory hard reset procedure is simple to do and effective....
Keylogger is a computer application that lets you record someone’s keystrokes while a program is running. It is useful if you need to recover passwords, monitor employees or children’s computer activities, or investigate suspicious activity. Although the application is effective at recording keystrokes, it can only do so when it is open and active. You should hide Keylogger to keep users from closing the application. “Hide Keylogger from Windows Add/Remove Programs” “Hide Keylogger from Windows StartMenu/Desktop” “Hide Keylogger from Windows Task Manager (CTRL + ALT + DEL)” “Hide Keylogger system tray icon” Tips Writer Bio
Log in to your Tumblr dashboard, then click the icon for the type of post to publish in the top toolbar to open a new post form. For example, click the “Aa Text” icon to open the New Text Post form. Type an optional title for the post, if the field is available, then complete the post form. Add an optional description, if the field is available for the post type....
Sign in to the Tumblr Dashboard, and then click “Customize” to open the Customize pane. Click “Edit HTML” to open Tumblr’s built-in HTML editor. Search through the code until you find a line of text text reading “{block:AlbumArt}” (without quotes). There will also be some text reading “{/block:AlbumArt}” a few lines lower down. Delete these two lines and everything in-between them. Click the “Update Preview” button, and then click the “Save” button to confirm your changes and exit the HTML editor....
