Updated February 10, 2017 Find the inputs on your TV. Depending on your television, find either RCA jacks (red, white, yellow) or an S-video connection (a single round plug). You can also connect through your VCR but only do this if your TV does not have inputs. Find the outputs on your camcorder. You may have to remove a panel or look in a compartment. Refer to your manual if you simply can’t find it....
If you’ve added Internet service, your cable TV package you will be faced with the problem of having only one cable coming into your house that runs your cable box and now you need another cable for your cable modem. This problem is solved by the installation of a cable splitter. A splitter is a small box that a single cable goes into at one end and has two cables come out the other end....
Separating work from home has its advantages, but so does being able to access your work computer from home, which you can do using Windows Remote Connections. Some basic preparation is needed to configure your work computer to use Windows Remote Connections, and it must have access to the work network. Once you configure your home computer, you’ll be able to access your work files and the business network through your home Internet connection....
3DS Max and SolidWorks are both major 3-D applications. While 3DS Max is used primarily for entertainment purposes, producing content for videos and video games, SolidWorks is mainly a CAD application and is used to design machines and other structures. The two programs cannot directly exchange each other’s files. However, if you want to get a model you have made in 3DS Max into SolidWorks, a workaround exists. Writer Bio
Although Quicktime is a file format that is compatible with most media players, you may need to convert the file to play it in Windows Media Player. To change the file format you’ll need to use a video file converter application that supports QT (Quicktime) to WMV (Windows Media Video) file conversion. You can purchase and download these converter applications online from reputable download sites such as Download.com. These converters are often shareware programs....
If you still have a number of old vinyl records, it is possible to use your Mac computer to convert their music to CDs. There are a couple of methods to doing this. The Apple iLife program GarageBand, which either came standard on your Mac or is downloadable from Apple, can record the songs from your connected turntable and then burn them onto the discs. You can also download and install a third-party conversion program that can work with iTunes to convert the songs....
Sharing a video clip is one of the simplest ways to brighten an email box or mobile device screen – but deciphering how to copy the video can be frustrating, especially if the video is not your own. If you find a Facebook video worth sharing, the rest is solved with Facebook’s integrated video sharing features. Writer Bio
Mini-DVDs are a fairly standard format for certain camcorders, allowing you to store your recorded data on files contained on blank, miniature DVDs. Transferring this information to your computer can seem daunting until you realize that your standard DVD drive is also capable of playing mini-DVDs as well, making your task that much simpler. Writer Bio
Many people and organizations like to have their own newspaper, either for news about their community or about their business. If you want to create a basic newspaper for print or for posting on the Internet and you don’t have a program like QuarkXPress, you can use Photoshop. Creating a newspaper using Photoshop requires careful planning and organization to make it work. But done properly, you can create a high quality result....
When you purchase a Palm Pre cell phone, one of the first things you’ll need to do to use the phone is set up a profile. This profile is basically the identity for your phone for the manufacturer, and Palm uses it for everything from updating your phone’s operating system to backing up your phone data. That is important, considering the amount of phone numbers and other data you will store on the smart phone....
Microsoft Publisher, a desktop publishing and layout software program from the Microsoft Office Suite Professional version, gives you a new job title: publication manager. From templates within the program, users can create anything from newsletters to greeting cards to instruction manuals. To capture the attention of your target reader audience, start off on the right foot, or the right page. Dress up the cover of the publication with a pattern and create an eye-grabbing document with just a couple of clicks....
Microsoft Outlook’s Visual Basic for Applications macro programming language enables you to add a form to an email message that can collect data from its recipient. For example, you can insert a VBA UserForm and list box into your message that displays multiple items or options the recipient can choose from. Before you can add this feature to your messages, however, you need to add the Developer tab and its tools to the ribbon and change Outlook’s security settings to allow VBA macros to run....
Microsoft Access allows users to create customizable reports that expand on the templates already provided in the program. You can do things such as add a calendar to a finished report or insert a text box to spruce up a document. Access also gives you the chance to bring together data from more than one table. If you understand how to use the Report Tool feature in Access, you can create custom reports in Access with little effort....
The birth of MP3 player technology has made it possible to carry hundreds of CD albums on one small handheld device. However the CDs must be transferred into the digital MP3 audio format for them to be stored on an MP3 player. This process is called “ripping” and Windows Media Player is a good free application that makes this possible. It is installed by default on all versions of Windows and provides the features necessary to create MP3s without the need for additional software....
Netflix makes its Internet streaming service for movies and TV shows available on your Sony device, but you can deactivate this service when you need to. For example, if you have a new Netflix account that you want to use or if you no longer have a Netflix membership, you can delete data so that you clear out the old information. Use the settings on your Sony Google TV, Sony Blu-ray or Sony PlayStation 3 to deactivate Netflix on your device....
The Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection tool allows users to remotely access another computer system, provided it is set up correctly for the Remote Desktop Connection. Each time the Remote Desktop program is used to connect to another computer, Windows saves a list of each connection in the History List. Clearing the History List involves a bit of work, particularly with the Windows Registry. This applies to the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Windows version 1....
Cookies are small and specific files that websites deposit on your computer, hoping to match that file to the one on the website the next time you visit. According to digital marketing advisory Clickz.com, cookies monitor visitor count and allow companies to evaluate their consumer base and use “behavioral targeting” and “personalization” to improve their product. Cookies remember data like billing addresses, names and birthdays, saving the consumer a lot of time, since forms that were filled out before do not have to be completed over and over again....
Regardless of whether you are listening to music, movies or video games, crisp audio is incredibly important to your multimedia experience. If, however, your speakers are off and playing distorted sound, with staticy “snow” or crackling, there is often a problem with either the speaker itself or the hardware you have the speakers hooked up to. Hopefully you are able to fix the equipment problem yourself, although it is possible a service repair specialist is required....
Nextel is known for its Direct Connect (DC) walkie-talkie style phones, which allows other Nextel users to contact them with the push of a button. Before you can use the feature on your phone, you will need to dial the Nextel contact. Dialing the contact may be a bit tricky, since the Nextel Direct Connect number is made up of the area ID, network ID and member ID numbers. Once you have entered these numbers, you can “chirp” the Nextel customer and contact him almost instantaneously....
Disable your computer’s integrated graphics card before installing a new card’s drivers. Failing to do so can result in conflicts between the two graphics cards. There are two ways to disable an integrated graphics card: through the computer’s basic input output system (BIOS) or through Windows, using Device Manager and Add or Remove Programs (or another operating system’s similar functions). Not every BIOS has the option to disable an installed integrated graphics card....
