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The MagicJack service allows customers to place and receive phone calls through a computer instead of a traditional phone line. Unlike a landline, MagicJack allows people to select a state and area code for their personal number. Users can also customize a vanity number to make their contact information more memorable. If a customer moves to a new city or would like a different vanity number, he can quickly make this change from the MagicJack website....

The ability to print on many different sizes of paper, from as small as an envelope to as large as legal size, can make your printer much more useful. Most HP printer models are designed to accommodate a wide variety of paper sizes, but it is up to the person who uses the printer to tell it which size paper to use. Writer Bio

Number of Likes Check your number of likes using the API Console (see link in Resources). Activate your API key and use the following URI method to find out how many likes you have: api.tumblr.com/v2/blog/{base-hostname}/likes?api_key={key} Where you see base-hostname in the code, replace it with your blog’s name. For example, if you have a standard blog and your blog’s URL is http://fixyourzipper.tumblr.com/ then your base hostname is fixyourzipper. Writer Bio

A car stereo is a relatively compact and good source of audio entertainment. Manufacturers have taken plenty of measures to ensure this small piece of electronic equipment can deliver sound quality that is comparable to its household counterpart. There are times when you may have an extra car stereo that you do not wish to discard and would like to use in your bedroom or garage. Car stereos run on 12 volts DC electric current, but you can connect a car stereo to 110 volts AC and make it work inside your home....

Though built on DOS technology, Windows will not run many older DOS-based programs, even in compatibility mode. Luckily, with the power of modern personal computers, a DOS emulator can perfectly recreate a DOS system and run any DOS program on a new version of Windows. Writer Bio

SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence is query, business reporting and analysis software. It provides the ability to drill, pivot, track changes, schedule and share business information online and on local networks. A string of characters in the Business Objects program represents the dimension object or STRING data type. Using dimension objects, users can present different views of business information in a report. A built-in function allows you to convert the dimension object to a number in the Business Objects program....

A .drw file is a drawing file saved in vector format, which uses lines instead of dots to form images. This is a file type common to several drawing programs. A .dxf file is an AutoCAD drawing file format meant to be compatible with other programs. The .drw file format can be converted to .dxf with the VaryView software application. Warnings Writer Bio

If you have an AutoCAD DWF file that you need to convert to DWG there are a lot of programs available to do the conversion. If you do not want to pay for a program and would rather do the DWF to DWG conversion online, you can do that with AutoDWG. AutoDWG makes software for the conversion but also offers an online conversion service via email. Within as little as 24 hours you can have your DWF file converted to DWG online through AutoDWG....

PDF (Portable Document Format) files are widely compatible and retain their original formatting no matter what program viewers use to open them. Many websites offer online conversion from a wide variety of file formats to PDF, but some enforce limits on the size of the documents you can convert. You can find online PDF conversion websites with no size limit, however. You can convert large files for free at PDF Converter (freepdfconvert....

Electrical systems based on 12-volt batteries can be used to supply 110-volt AC (alternating current) through the use of a voltage inverter. These devices can provide normal house current from a variety of 12-volt DC (direct current) sources, including your automobile cigarette lighter. When coupled with a bank of batteries, voltage inverters are used in battery backups for computers and other electronic equipment. When using voltage inverters, care must be taken not to overload the capacity of the 12-volt circuit supplying the power....

Maybe you’ve decided that a contract phone just doesn’t suite you anymore, or you’re trying to be more cost-efficient by going prepaid (pay-per-use). Whichever the case may be, if you have an old contract phone lying around, you may be able to convert it prepaid. Certain companies welcome the idea of recycling your retired handset in this way, while other companies require you to purchase a newer handset to reap the pay-per-use benefits....

Copy protected AAC audio files were the default format for the iTunes Music Store, using the .M4P extension. In order to play those files with programs and devices other than Apple’s, you will have to remove the Digital Rights Management (DRM) and convert them to the more standard MPEG format, using the .MP3 extension. Apple has since gone completely DRM-free with their music offerings and provide a DRM-stripping service, for a fee....

SWF is a file extension used by Adobe Flash files. These files can contain graphics, text, video and audio. If you want to use only the audio portion of a Flash file, use conversion software to extract the sound and convert it to MP3. This is helpful if you no longer have access to the original soundtrack for a file that you’ve created, or if you want to listen to the audio while you’re on the go....

Laptop computers use a touchpad and control buttons at the front of the keyboard to move the cursor on the screen and to select content for copying. Although a mouse can be connected to most laptops, computer users who prefer to travel light may not want to carry extra peripherals in their briefcase or computer bag. The touchpad and control buttons on the keyboard serve the same functions as a mouse, including copying and pasting text and images....

The DVD was developed in 1995 by a consortium of manufacturers that included Sony, Panasonic and Toshiba. While physically similar, the laser that reads a CD cannot read a DVD, although the reverse is not the case. Copying DVD music files to a CD so they can be read by both players requires copying the files to a computer’s hard drive first and then burning them to a blank CD....

YouTube enables users to upload their videos to the Internet and share them with millions of Internet users. You can copy videos from YouTube to your hard drive using third-party Windows programs or a Mozilla Firefox extension. Although most users share copyright-free content on YouTube, you can also find copyrighted videos. Downloading copyrighted videos may constitute fair use if you use them for non-commercial purposes on your personal computer. Writer Bio

In modern society, 3-D characters have become common in motion pictures and video games. Many people also like to create 3-D models and characters for their own use, and they frequently use photos to create or alter the textures for their characters. A misconception is that in order to do this you will need extensive training and some fairly complex and expensive software. However, you can create these characters entirely for free using Daz Studio and Gimp, both of which are freeware....

You can create a database using existing personnel data files in minutes if you store your personnel data in an external software application, such as a spreadsheet. Microsoft Access will read your spreadsheet and load a Microsoft Access database that gives you a relational database management system for reporting and updating. Writer Bio

AT&T offers free web pages to all AT&T WorldNet service members. This option allows you to create a personal web page that can include business, interests and activities. The web pages can be created and published easily and quickly using the guiding tools, then registered as a domain name to make it easier to find your website. If you are an AT&T member and have been looking for a free page, choose the layouts, templates, graphics and text you want to create your perfect website....

SSIS is a component of Microsoft SQL Server that was implemented with the version released in 2005. SSIS provides the ability to utilize programming code to accomplish desired tasks within SSIS. One of the programming features that SSIS offers is the ability to create and use global variables, which are variables declared in the main body of the programming source code. These variables can be utilized or called within a subroutine or across the entire program....