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Various problems can cause a laptop to malfunction. Over time, dust will eventually seep into a laptop and stick to the laptop motherboard, which is essentially the computer’s brain. Dust build-up can damage the motherboard. These particles can have a corrosive effect on the motherboard’s circuitry, which can slow-down or even freeze computer performance. Fortunately, you can clean the laptop’s motherboard by spraying compressed air. However, you’ll need to take precautions not to damage the inner components while cleaning your laptop....

A projection TV needs clean, clear optical elements if it’s going to provide a sharp, accurate picture. Although enclosed in a large cabinet, the parts of a television can still collect dirt and grease. Some simple cleaning and maintenance can extend the useful life of your set and save you money. Warnings Writer Bio

If you have a wired Internet connection coming into your computer, it makes both practical and financial sense to share this signal with your iPhone so that it too can access your network. However, the iPhone can only connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi or a cellular wireless connection. To connect your iPhone to your wired network, you need to use a wireless router to rebroadcast your computer’s Internet connection....

Fax machines work much like old dial-up modems worked; they transmit data – text and images, in this case – through the phone lines to another fax machine somewhere else in the world. The second fax machine interprets the data coming in from the telephone line and then prints it out onto paper. Fax machine operation can be interrupted by DSL lines, however, because the DSL signal is also transmitted through phone wiring....

The standard way for laptops like the HP Pavilion series to connect to a projector screen is through the computer’s Video Graphics Array (VGA) terminal, located on the side of the laptop. To accommodate this standard, modern digital projectors always come with an adapter cord that will plug into your VGA socket, allowing you to project your desktop activity for an audience. Writer Bio

You can order DISH Network sports subscriptions or pay-per-view movies directly from your remote control. To do so, the receiver has to be connected to a land based phone line. If the receiver is not connected to a phone line, you can order sports subscription or pay-per-view movies by calling DISH Network’s customer service. However, DISH Network may charge an additional fee for ordering movies through phone. Hence, it is advisable to order movies from your remote control by connecting your receiver to a phone line....

The standard way to listen to satellite radio in your car is to connect the satellite radio receiver to your car stereo’s auxiliary port. This connects the receiver directly to your radio and provides crystal clear audio. This is great for newer cars with newer stereos, but it is impossible if your stereo doesn’t have an auxiliary port. For those with older models, it is important to know that they are still able to access satellite radio in their car....

If you upgrade from a standard mouse to an optical cordless mouse, such as a Logitech optical mouse, you will no longer have to deal with tangled cords or stuck rolling balls. But before you can start using your Logitech optical mouse with your computer, you must first connect it. If you aren’t tech savvy this may intimidate you, but you’ll be pleased to learn that Logitech has designed the optical mouse to be very user friendly....

The Panasonic Viera is a line of flat panel television sets that includes LED, LCD and plasma televisions. Viera stands for “Visual Era.” Viera models range in size and specifications, but all are capable of high definition resolution. You can connect your Panasonic Viera Plasma television to your Panasonic home theater system and satellite to allow you to experience television with dynamic sound and high definition broadcasting. Doing so requires an HDMI cable and digital optical audio cable....

The file format called SAM is a type of text file. It was originally used by a program called Samna Amni Pro, which later became Lotus Word Pro. If you want to convert a SAM file in its raw format into something more compatible with other text readers such as TXT or RTF, you can do so using the native program Notepad. This program comes preloaded on computers running the Windows operating system....

The Ubuntu operating system now comes standard with the LibreOffice application suite. LibreOffice includes Writer, a word processor that uses the ODT file format as the default format to save documents. In the past, users had to get a special extension for LibreOffice to use PDFs. However, importing PDFs now comes as a native feature of the software suite. Once imported into LibreOffice, you can convert the PDF to a different format....

If you want to share the scores you created with Guitar Pro with people who don’t have the program and can’t read the program’s native GP5 format you need to convert it to a universal format such as PDF. Files in this format can be opened by anybody with the free Adobe Reader program, without needing to install any special music fonts. Writer Bio

Portable Document Format, or PDF, documents are files that have been converted from source material into a format that may be opened by any user with a PDF reading program, such as Adobe Reader. Tagged Image File Format, or TIFF, is a digital image file format, commonly used by professional photographers and graphic designers. You can easily convert PDF documents to TIFF file batch using either Adobe Acrobat or special PDF to TFF conversion software....

RF (or Radio Frequency) is a method of transferring audio and video from a programming source, like a a broadcasting station, to a television or other electronic device, typically with a coaxial cable. A VGA (Video Graphics Array) connection is used to transfer video signals from one device to another, such as from a computer to a monitor. VGA plugs have a distinctive shape and nine brass pins. Converting RF signals to VGA requires an RF modulator and a VGA-to-S-video adapter, both available at electronics and computer stores....

There are dozens of software labels that use audio in some shape or form. Some are video editing programs, while others create musical riffs themselves. However, with the multitude of software comes a multitude of file formats. Many program brands carry their own specific file formats, which makes it extremely difficult to take an audio file from one program and import it into another. Two of these file types are the Rx2, which is primarily used with some audio recording software, and the widely used WAV, created by Microsoft and supported by most programs....

The VCD format never caught on in America, but it was popular for years in Asia as an alternative to VHS. VCDs can also be burned at home by users looking to preserve videos on disc who don’t want to use the DVD format. If you want to copy a VCD movie you own, or a VCD you have already created, it can be done easily without additional software. Writer Bio

Updated February 10, 2017 Put the CD in your disk drive. Open a browser and log in to your YouTube account. Hit the small arrow next to your user name in the top right corner of the page. Click the “Upload Video” button. Hit the “Browse” button. Find the video on the CD that you inserted in your computer in your computer in Step 1. Hit the “Open” button. Click the “Upload Video” button....

Hardware device drivers are the software on a computer system that make it possible for computer programs and the operating system to interact with and utilize various hardware components including the graphics card, hard drives, RAM and more. If you are installing a new hard drive and find that you need to transfer your system hardware drivers, there are a few different methods for completing this task. Tips Writer Bio

Open SharePoint, then select “More Options” from the “Site Actions” menu. Choose “Custom List” and enter a name, for example “Project.” Click the “Create” button. Select “Create Column” from the “List” options. Add a column called “Name.” Select “Single line of text” for the column type. Add another column named “Manager.” Select “LookUp” for the column type. Designate the “Project” column as “Get Information From” and the “Name” column as “In this column....

With so many people living paycheck to paycheck and attempting to live beyond their means with credit cards, it may be time to bring back what our parents and grandparents referred to as “envelope budgeting.” Envelope budgeting forces consumers to live within their means by dividing their monthly cash into different envelopes, with each of those envelopes allocated to a different necessary expense. The modern version of this system can be done with virtual envelopes in a spreadsheet program....