SBC acquired its former parent company, AT&T, in 2005, and then changed its name to AT&T Inc. But the company continues to offer phone features including Call Notes voice messaging service. Call Notes allows callers to leave the individual a message when their calls go unanswered. This feature is offered for an additional monthly fee to AT&T subscribers. Once your voice mail is set up you can check your messages from any phone with no additional fees assessed....
Updated August 30, 2017 1. Practicality Both kids and parents are busy these days, and it makes sense for parents to be able to call their kids and let them know they’re running late when picking them up for school or activities. It also makes sense for children to be able to call their parents to tell them extra-curricular activities are running late or they will be late for dinner....
Looking through some folders of old photograph files or sifting through your fossilized floppy disk collection, you may have come across some unopenable files with a “.sfw” extension. These relics from a time gone by come from a closed film company and can be converted to ordinary image files. Writer Bio
Your iTunes library isn’t just a collection of audio files. There’s also a variety of database and configuration files that iTunes uses to manage your entire library. Manually moving your iTunes files without breaking something can be a challenging game of trial and error. However, you have the easier option to use iTunes’ own internal tool for moving your library into your Dropbox. Tips Warnings Writer Bio
Rosetta Stone’s language-learning software takes advantage of your computer’s audio and video capabilities to provide a language-immersion environment, using spoken words and corresponding photo illustrations to help you learn new languages in much the same way you learned your native tongue. The company has several apps for iOS and launched a companion app for Android in late 2011. Called the TOTALe companion, it is available to all subscribers of the TOTALe online learning service, and it runs on Samsung Galaxy tablets and other Android devices....
Subscribing to a YouTube channel is a useful way to keep track of the activities of your favorite YouTube users. Every user on the site has his own channel with its own unique URL. You can subscribe to any YouTube channel easily and stay informed of the latest news and content from your favorite YouTube users. YouTube can show you on your subscriptions page all the videos the user has commented on, rated, or marked as a favorite the instant the user submits the action on the site....
Updated August 23, 2017 Immediacy Texts are delivered immediately and directly to a device that most of us have with us at all times. Not as many of us are checking email on such a regular basis – even if someone owns a phone capable of sending and receiving email, there’s no guarantee email is being checked as regularly as text messages. SMS messages have more of a sense of urgency, whereas email tends to be seen as information that can be responded to at a later date....
The personal computer has forever changed the way people do business: for every important company task, there is a software solution to match. If you’re still doing your business’s accounting by hand, consider the big differences between that and using dedicated accounting software. There are big benefits to going digital, but these benefits do come with certain risks. It all depends on what works best for you and your business....
Fiber optic cable and fiber optic data transmission technology revolutionized data transfer in the late 20th century. By encoding data as pulses of light, rather than pulses of electricity, data densities on fiber optic cables far exceeded their copper counterparts. The data is sent, literally, at light-speed over fiber optic cables.
USB Storage devices are portable devices that hold user data and files. USB storage devices include external hard drives and flash drives. These types of portable drives connect to a computer via a USB port on the computer, and can be easily moved from computer to computer. USB storage devices can be used to hold files ranging from video and audio files to documents and program files. Another type of USB storage drive is a USB Flash Drive....
The display on a computer monitor turns blue and displays only white text with technical information when the computer crashes in a particular way. This type of crash, a blue screen crash, happens when a computer’s operating system (OS) encounters a fatal error software or driver conflict and cannot recover. Writer Bio
To run a second monitor, your system’s graphics card must support a dual-monitor configuration and have an additional video output port available. The secondary display can work as an extension of the original screen, giving you more screen real estate, or as a duplicate screen. Dual-monitor support is widespread; it is even found on modern laptops and all-in-one computers. Writer Bio
Filtering emails in Gmail allows you to redirect emails as the arrive, thereby saving the trouble of having to sort and manage some messages manually. For instance, you might want to direct all emails from friends to a folder designated specifically for friends, or family emails to a folder for your family. You can also use filters to send emails from a specific address directly to the trash. Filtering in Gmail is also good for forwarding specific emails, applying the same filter to several senders, designate label colors for better organization or mark certain emails with importance markers....
In addition to the widely-known generic top-level domains such as .com, .gov, .edu, .net or .org, you probably have also encountered country code top-level domains such as .it, .de or .jp. All ccTLDs consist of two letters, and are originally intended for use by the corresponding country or autonomous territory. Although many countries require a proof of residence for an individual to register for a Web address with their specific ccTLD, others allow anybody to do so....
A meter loop attaches to a pole near a mobile home or directly to the exterior of a house. They serve as a permanent service connection to electricity providers. The method for installing them depends on local city codes.
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) connectors are very common in car stereos, bluetooth hubs and after-market compact disc (CD) players for cars. These connectors are part of the wiring harness and make a stereo, bluetooth hub or CD player device work properly. Various kinds of ISO connectors exist, with different connectors used for different cars. Each kind of audio device may have a specific wiring pack that needs to be purchased....
In order to play graphically-intensive computer games, you need a powerful computer. Apple typically builds their Mac computers with Intel processors, capable graphics cards and high-quality displays, making them a solid option for gamers. PCs, on the other hand, are compatible with more games, have more options for upgrading and customization and often have a smaller price tag than Macs for similar hardware. Writer Bio
PDF files and Microsoft Word files are used to display documents in a readable format. The file extensions are proprietary to Adobe and Microsoft, respectively. Writer Bio
The terms wireless and broadband are bandied about in a world of evolving Internet technologies. Routers play an important part in helping users access these services, but “broadband” and “wireless” often apply to different aspects of that access. Wireless and broadband have many key differences, but these are mostly semantic. Writer Bio
The speed at which a smartphone downloads data strongly affects its usefulness for everyday business tasks. The iPhone 5 model uses 3G, 4G LTE and Wi-Fi for email, Web browsing and other data functions. The fastest download speed the iPhone supports is about 40 million bits per second on Wi-Fi networks. Cellular network speeds, which have traditionally lagged behind Wi-Fi, are beginning to catch up. Writer Bio
