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The iPhone’s Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/AirPlay wireless streaming system and Dock or Lightning connector offer high-tech methods of connecting to a veritable plethora of devices. However, if what you’ve got to work with is a pair of RCA jacks, you can do that too. With the right adapter your iPhone can still power your party even with an old-school receiver, giving it either an amplified signal from your iPhone’s headphone jack or a line-level signal from its proprietary port....

Updated February 10, 2017 Check the cable outlets in the back of your LCD TV. You can also check the diagram in your owner’s manual. You are looking for two distinct types of outlet. The first is a coaxial outlet–round and raised with a series of screw bevels in the sides. The center contains a milky white plastic with a pinhole in the middle. The second is a set of RCA outlets–three smaller round outlets, color-coded white, red and yellow....

The Nintendo Wii uses Bluetooth transmitters in the remotes (Wiimotes) to provide wireless connectivity between the console and the controllers. The Wiimotes can be connected to a Wii Classic Controller which closely mimics the size and design of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super NES) controllers. In this configuration, the Classic Controller uses the Wiimote as a Bluetooth transmitter. Any computer with a compatible Bluetooth transmitter can be paired with a Wiimote....

If your computer or mobile device struggles to locate or maintain a connection with your wireless network, your Netgear router might not be producing a strong or stable signal. The performance of the device depends on a lot of things, including the age and model of the router, its location in your home and your network configuration. To troubleshoot your Wi-Fi connectivity, you can try upgrading your Netgear router’s hardware or firmware, modifying its wireless frequency or installing additional network equipment....

Television remote controls use infrared light to send signals to a receiver that converts them to electronic instructions for your television. The small light bulb in your remote control may not be strong enough to send clear signals over a distance greater than about 30 feet. You can increase this range and focus the infrared light beam by installing a metallic reflector inside your remote control. This inexpensive and simple method can add five to 10 feet to your range....

Mixcraft is a multi-track audio recording and editing application developed by Acoustica. To input audio into Mixcraft using a microphone, a microphone has to be hooked up to your computer. There are two ways of accomplishing this task depending upon the type of microphone you are using. If you’re using a computer mic, the microphone is connected to the computer via the computer’s sound card. If you’re using a microphone with an XLR connector, the microphone has to be connected to the computer via an audio interface....

BenQ manufactures LCD monitors in a wide variety of sizes. Newer monitors use a DVI-D or HDMI input, while older monitors use VGA cables. No matter what type of video cable your computer uses, they all connect to the computer the same basic way. The cable goes from the video output port on the computer’s motherboard or video card into a connection on the back of the monitor. Warnings

Windows Live Messenger, formerly known as MSN Messenger, is a popular instant messaging program produced by Microsoft. Windows Live Messenger allows users to chat instantly with other users from around the world, and even allows interaction with individuals who use Yahoo! Messenger as well. Installing Windows Live Messenger is quite easy, and will only take a few minutes before you can begin chatting with friends and contacts from all parts of the globe....

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 provides users with a calendar wizard that you can use to integrate a calendar into your Web pages. The tool provides you with a calendar layout, and you can choose the colors and background in the wizard. This means that people who are not familiar with Web programming can integrate a calendar without having to write any code.

Whether you are having trouble recalling your phone number or you have just received a new phone, Verizon makes it easy for customers to retrieve phone and SIM card information with a few clicks of a button. Verizon wireless offers several prepaid and contract plans for customers to choose from based on their preferences in minutes, text and data. Regardless of which plan you choose, you will be assigned a phone number, which is stored within the Verizon SIM card....

Picture Posts Click “Photo” on your Tumblr dashboard to begin a new picture post. Add a picture to the post. You can drag and drop the image from your computer, click the camera icon to select an image file, or click “URL” to enter the Web address of an online picture. Hover your mouse over the picture and click the link icon that appears in the upper corner. Enter the target URL in the “Set a Click-Through Link” field....

With the Windows Server 2003 operating system, clients can establish two concurrent Remote Desktop sessions. As a system administrator, you have the option to track who logs in to your server through Remote Desktop by creating an audit policy. Then you can view the log of Remote Desktop activity through the Event Viewer tool. Only individuals with administrator privileges will have access to the Remote Desktop log. Writer Bio

Cell phone numbers and unlisted numbers are private, and won’t show up if you search a phone directory. There are ways to find the owner of an unlisted phone number, but you might have to pay a fee. There are companies that provide online reverse phone look-up services. Fees vary depending on the number of searches you pay for. Most companies let you pay for one search or sign up for a yearly, premium membership to get unlimited searches....

You can locate someone by their phone number by using the Internet for free and also by using paid people searches. With Vonage, callers are using a VoIP service, which is different from a general telephone or cell phone number, making it harder to track them because it does not store your phone records the same way as your traditional telephone services. Web services online provide search access to these VoIP records for locating phone numbers and people....

CorelDRAW is a popular graphics program. It has many uses in the media, advertising and on the web. But some of its functions can be a bit hard to follow. One of these involves trying to export a GIF from CorelDRAW, which requires a surprising amount of effort. This article will show you how to do this in the latest versions of CorelDRAW.

Use a method known as “wiring in series” to make a high-powered homemade battery pack. Batteries wired in series combine the voltage from each battery, but the endurance remains unaltered. For example, if you wire four 6-volt batteries in series you get 24-volts. You can wire as many batteries in series as you need to get the output voltage required to power your device. The task is easy and requires few tools....

System Requirements & Network Speed If your computer and network doesn’t meet Hulu’s minimum requirements, there’s not much you can do to ensure better playback. Hulu recommends a down speed of at least 1.5 Mbps for basic streaming and at least 3 Mbps for HD streaming. You should update to the most recent version of Adobe Flash and the most recent version of either Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari or Chrome. For desktop hardware, Hulu recommends a processor no slower than the 2....

The least expensive way to create a school club flyer is using your favorite word processing program. One-page flyers are easy to create and are perfect for announcing a club event. Making the headline visible from a short distance, as well as printing on bright colored paper will help draw attention. Consider adding one image to create a mood. The club flyer must include location, cost, contact information, date, time, and whether the club meeting is for a fundraiser, member drive or party....

A5 is a standard paper size that measures 5.83 by 8.27 inches. An A5 page is half the size of an A4 page, or letter-sized paper (8.5 by 11 inches). According to Prepressure.com, A5 paper is normally used for small notepads. You can create A5 pages in Microsoft Word 2007 as long as you have A5 paper in your printer. In order to make a booklet of this size, you need to change the page size to A5 and set up the page margins for booklet printing, known as a book fold in Word....

Professional HTML editors such as Dreamweaver can help you create complex websites, but you can often perform small editing tasks rapidly using light-weight programs, such as KompoZer. If you need to add a quick button to a Web page, for example, you can do that quickly using KompoZer. This program is free, and you don’t even have to know HTML to create as many buttons as you like using KompoZer’s uncluttered user interface....