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When someone blocks you on Facebook, you can no longer write on that person’s timeline, start a conversation with him, tag him in photos or even find him in search. Although blocking goes both ways, meaning that the person who blocked you loses his privileges as well, he can always unblock you to regain those privileges. If you want to make sure that person stays blocked even if he unblocks you, you can do so only if you have the email address he uses to access his Facebook account....

Browsing Without an Account You don’t need a Tumblr account to browse the site, even though visiting the home page displays only a login prompt. To look around, you can visit the Explore page to view popular post tags or the Spotlight page to read high-profile blogs in a variety of categories (see links in Resources). If you know someone’s blog address at Tumblr, you can visit it directly to read their posts....

A number of laptop computers come without optical drives. One option for such computers is to use an external USB optical drive. Another option is to use another computer to burn the CD image onto a flash drive. That way, you can enjoy the CD’s contents on the flash drive without noticing any difference. There are a number of free applications that let you burn CD images onto USB flash drives....

A bridge rectifier is a one-way device made from diodes that effectively converts AC voltage to DC voltage. Because no electronic design is ideal, the voltage across the circuit changes during this transformation process and depends on the design of the rectifier and the variables related to the AC power source connected to it. In many designs, you will need a bridge rectifier to output a certain voltage level in order to properly power the circuit....

The Radio Shack standing wave ratio meter (SWR) is used to check the standing wave of a CB radio or a ham radio. The meter measures the SWR during transmission. If the standing wave is too high, the transmission on the CB or shortwave radio is inefficient. The acceptable standing wave reading should be 1.0 to 1.5 for excellent transmission, 1.5 to 2.0 for good transmission and 2.0 to 3....

Zoosk is a large social dating website. Zoosk started in 2007 and is now available in more than 20 languages and claims subscribers in more than 60 countries. Sometimes when someone first signs up for Zoosk, they use a fake name just to test the website. After trying Zoosk they often want to become a subscriber, but can face an issue with a fake name. Fortunately, you can use a simple process to change your name, allowing you to go back to your real name....

The Canon Super G3 is an all-in-one Printer, Scanner and Fax with photo print capabilities. The Super G3 is at home in the office or home office and can perform each of its duties simultaneously with others. With all of the hard work that the Super G3 puts in it will sometimes run out of ink. Replacing the ink cartridge in the Canon Super G3 is not that difficult and can be accomplished in a matter of minutes....

Updated February 10, 2017 Click “Start” to access your start menu. Scroll down and select “Settings.” Scroll down and select “More” until you see “Regional Settings,” and click on it. Select your language and your locale (optional). Setting the locale will display the date and time in the proper regional format (Ex: 21/3/2009 or 3/21/2009). Click “OK” to confirm. Reset your device for the changes to take effect.

A file’s resolution is the number of horizontal and vertical pixels contained within an image, expressed in a format such as 1024x768. To crop a GIF image, changing the resolution may be necessary, forcing it to fit within a specific area or expanding the image to allow you to add additional content. This can be done with the photo-manipulation tools of your operating system. Writer Bio

When you use the computer for research or to prepare a document, you also may need to print the information. Once you have actually sent the message to your printer to print the document, it goes into the printer queue for processing. If you are printing many documents, you may need to ensure that the printer received all of them. Or if the printer is not responding, you can check the status of the print jobs....

Sprint is one of the major cell phone providers in the United States and offers a wide variety of cell phones and service plans to customers across the nation. If you’ve recently become a Sprint customer, you may be so inundated with information that you’ve forgotten how to complete the simplest tasks on your phone, such as checking voice mail messages others have left you. Doing so is extremely easy–in fact, it requires only the push of a single button....

Whether you want to create a title page or to have unique headers or footers in several areas of a document, there is a way to do just about everything in Microsoft Word. There are, in fact, several ways to maintain headers and footers, and you can easily adjust basic options through the page setup menu. Maintaining multiple headers is a bit more complicated, however, as it will require you to divide your document up into different sections....

Garmin Ltd. was founded in 1989 by Gary Burrell and Dr. Min Kao and has since produced over 100 million products. The Garmin nuvi GPS line offers a diverse array of products for a variety of applications ranging from the casual driver to a professional. This product line includes models priced below $100 to more fully featured models priced a few hundred dollars higher. There are several key characteristics that distinguish the groups of nuvi models....

Turn on your wireless adapter if it is not already on. A wireless symbol is usually present above the keyboard on most laptops or as a button near the top of the keyboard. This symbol looks like a small tower. If lit, wireless is on. If wireless is not enabled, press the wireless button on your laptop. If no button is present, look for the wireless symbol on a function key at the top of the keyboard....

The TEAC EQA-10 is a stereo graphic equalizer with a total of 10 adjustable bands for each of the left and right channels. It contains three separate input channels and switchable modes for live and tape monitoring purposes. The LED display shows the performance of the unit across all the frequency bands, and clipping indicators above each of the gain sliders indicate if there are any overloaded channels. Writer Bio

Personal Hotspot is the iPhone feature that turns the phone into a portable router or mobile hotspot for users of Apple iOS devices who don’t otherwise have access to Wi-Fi. This feature uses Bluetooth technology to establish connectivity. Bluetooth tethering is beneficial for its simplicity and its capacity to act as a hotspot for at least two iOS devices. The drawbacks revolve around bandwidth and cost. Bandwidth generally runs between 1 to 4 megabits per second (Mbps) depending on the cellular network....

One of the features included with many newer landline phones is “Connect to Cell” – also called “Link to Cell” by some companies – which enables you to connect your landline to your cell phone via Bluetooth technology. The iPhone 3GS, 4, 4S and 5 all support Bluetooth, so as long as you have a relatively recent iPhone and a landline phone that supports cell phone linking, you can connect them....

eBooks make it easy to carry several books in one simple electronic reader, but if you’re in a situation where you can’t look at your electronic reader–while you’re driving to and from work, for example–having your eBook as an audio file might come in handy. There are several text-to-speech software programs that allow you to convert your favorite eBooks from text to audio files, and they’re all fairly easy to use....

In recent years, pixel art has become increasingly trendy in the world of computer animation. At one time, though, pixelation was just an inevitable quality of low-res computer images. Computers could not always render images at as high a resolution as they can now, and so they naturally had a block-like quality, with squared edges and grainy detail. With Adobe Photoshop, you can create this unique effect using any photo on your computer....

Technological advancements have allowed us to say goodbye to clunky portable CD and cassette players and hello to slim MP3 players that allow users to access their entire music collection remotely at the click of a button. These advancements have also spawned a host of digital conversion software applications that allow you to transfer your music from one computer or device to another. Playlists you have created on iTunes and exported in XML format can now be simply and safely converted into M3U files that are compatible with a number of portable MP3 players....