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When using Dish Network, every television usually has its own receiver box, as each receiver has just one television tuner, making it possible to only view one station at a time. However, if you want multiple televisions connected to a single station, it is possible to add a second and even third TV to the Dish Network receiver box. This is helpful when running an electronics video display or if you own a business, like a restaurant or a bar, with multiple TVs....

When using Microsoft Word 2007’s inbuilt citation and reference manager, you may discover it doesn’t meet your needs. If you are a university student, you may be restricted to the Harvard referencing style. Microsoft Word 2007 does not feature Harvard as an inbuilt referencing type. However, you can download the Harvard style and then install it to Microsoft Word.

MP3 players don’t just come with music already contained on their internal hard drives. More often than not, the hard drive on an MP3 player will come completely empty and you will have to add music to your device on your own. Luckily, this process is free. Your MP3 player will have a specific program that is associated with it that you can use to add music to your device that won’t cost you any additional money to use....

Adobe Illustrator features the ability to generate multiple pages. These pages are referred to within Illustrator as “artboards,” and these pages can be moved around and rearranged as the user sees fit. Adobe Illustrator CS4 and CS5 have made adding pages easier as the user is able to select how many pages they want in the “New” dialog window. The user can also add subsequent pages thereafter with the “Artboard” tool....

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is a popular computer company. The Pavilion laptop series is specifically tailored for media and entertainment purposes. When working with media such as videos or pictures, a well balanced display is essential–an image too dark or poorly contrasted will not provide a good experience for the viewer. Adjusting the display options on an HP Pavilion laptop is a simple process.

Projectors that use light-emitting diodes instead of traditional high-pressure bulbs as their light source have a number of advantages. They tend to run cool and can be small. Their LED bulbs typically last 10,000 hours or more and are able to withstand the bumps and vibrations of travel. In exchange for these benefits, they have one significant drawback. LED projectors typically have much lower light output, or brightness, than comparably priced projectors using traditional lamp technologies....

Building an offline website is essentially the same as building an online website, with the one exception that the site is not made available on the Internet. One reason to make an offline website might be to place it on a shared server in a home or workplace, so that anyone with a computer on the network can view the website but others cannot (this is typically called an “Intranet” website)....

Primary Dish Network receivers come complete with a DVR. Using the DVR feature, you can record programs to watch later. But a Dish Network DVR will only hold so much content before you have to start deleting shows to make room for new recordings. To remedy this situation, set up a DVD recorder with your Dish Network receiver. With a DVD recorder, you can copy content currently saved on the receiver’s DVR, or programs playing in real time, to a DVD....

In recent years Napster has become a simple, viable and most importantly, legal source of downloading music on the Internet. A nice alternative to iTunes, Napster is easy to use and sports a name recognition that is unsurpassed. With its media player interface, you can also play the songs right from within the main program window. The question becomes, what do you do with music files once you download them from Napster?...

To receive the outrageously low advertised price for a new cell phone, you need to agree to purchase service from the carrier for one or two years. These contracts lock you in to one service for the duration, unless you pay a “termination fee” which can range from $150 to $250. You can often establish service with a company, on a month to month basis, if you purchase the phone separately....

The speed of the memory transfer rate in a computer determines how fast it will run various programs. A fast memory transfer rate is especially important when you are running multiple software applications at one time. The memory transfer rate is determined by three factors; the memory bus clock rate, the type of transfer process and the number of bits transferred. By using all these factors together, you can accurately compare different types of memory so that you get the fastest memory available within your budget....

Juno provides both dial-up and DSL Internet service in over 8000 cities in North America. If you have a free dial-up account, you can cancel your account from your computer without contacting customer service. For unlimited dial-up, accelerated dial-up and DSL plans, you must cancel by phone. Juno doesn’t allow you to cancel paid services online to prevent accidental cancellations. If you want to upgrade or downgrade to another Juno service, you’ll still need to cancel your existing plan....

The iPhone’s display automatically adjusts depending on how you are holding the device. So if you have the iPhone positioned vertically, the screen orients into portrait mode and if you are holding it horizontally, the screen changes to landscape mode. If you want to prevent the screen from changing to portrait mode, you can lock the display’s orientation. Likewise if you’ve accidentally locked the display in portrait mode, you can unlock the screen orientation and change it to landscape....

Every image opened in GIMP 2.8 displays a ruler around it for at-a-glance measurements during image composition. While usually the default setting of pixels works fine, in some cases using a different unit of measure is preferable – like using inches while designing a standard 3.5-by-5-inch postcard. The ruler tool, located at the bottom of the current image, is the only means to swap the units displayed on the ruler....

Search engines. We all have our favorites. Some of us have preferences depending on what we are looking for or on our particular mood. Fortunately the Internet gives us a variety of search engines to choose from. Windows XP, however, always has the default search engine set to MSN Search. MSN Search is a good search engine, but may not necessarily be the one we desire to use on a daily basis....

Your Samsung remote control provides a way for you to gain access to your television’s various picture menus. From these menus, you can change your television’s display, including the overall appearance and picture size. Although the exact steps and menu options may vary depending on the age of your TV, most new, high-definition Samsung televisions contain similar menu screens, regardless of model. Writer Bio

The DS is a portable gaming console created by Nintendo. It runs on an internal battery that needs to be charged when it is low on power. You can charge it with the USB cable it came with that plugs into any wall outlet, or you can purchase a USB charger cable that will charge the Nintendo DS from any computer. This is a straightforward procedure, but it will take some time to complete depending on how much battery power is left....

Plugging Apple’s USB power adapter into a wall outlet offers the quickest charge time for your iPhone, but this method isn’t always the most convenient. As an alternative, your computer’s USB port will charge the iPhone, but you need to be careful which USB port you use. Keyboard USB ports do not offer sufficient power to charge your iPhone, and USB hubs may have available power divided among multiple devices....

Internet history is a list of the pages you’ve visited recently in your web browser. Depending on how your options and preferences are set, Internet history can be stored for months at a time or just a few hours. You can check the Internet history on your computer by using a simple command prompt.

When using the microphone in your laptop to record or video chat, you normally don’t need to hear your own voice through the speakers in the computer. However if you want to use the microphone for speaking to an audience, singing or any other task where you need to hear your voice amplified, the speakers in the laptop may not produce adequate sound levels. If you have a TV with stereo speakers and an audio input, you can connect the laptop to the television to get sound that is more robust from the microphone....