A bad image can ruin a perfectly good TV show or movie, but proper care and preventative measures can ensure your rear-projection television always has a great picture. You can troubleshoot some problems yourself and avoid the expense of bringing your TV to an electronics shop for service. Your rear-projection TV offers some self-help options, but it may just need a good cleaning. Writer Bio
Philips Magnavox Web TV is an Internet box you use in conjunction with your TV. The box allows you to access the Internet on your TV without the aid of a computer. However, the Magnavox Web TV is an older device that only accepts a dial-up connection. This connection is far slower than a standard DSL, cable or wireless, but it is still useful when all you need to do is access your email account....
A SYS file is an extremely important file when it comes to Microsoft Windows. These particular files contain important information and codes on the hardware being run on the system. With this being said, if any particular SYS file were to become damaged or removed, it could create sever problems for the rest of the computer system. Because of the importance of the files, it is best to only accept them from sources you trust....
Canon released the Pixma MP210 All-in-One inkjet printer in 2004. You can use the Pixma MP210 as a standard all-in-one printing, scanning and photocopying center, or for creating prints of your digital photos. The MP210 prints a 4-by-6-inch print in under a minute on special photo paper. You can install the Pixma MP210 in just a few minutes. Tips Writer Bio
Updated February 10, 2017 Creating the Windows XP Boot Image Set your BIOS so that USB booting is enabled. (Your BIOS must support boot from USB.) Connect the USB external hard drive directly to your computer. Make an ISO image (an .iso file is an archive disk image of an optical disk) from the Windows XP CD-ROM using your preferred software. Save to your hard drive. Open the ISO file you just created....
Because Internet Download Manager uses most of your Internet connection’s bandwidth by default, your Web browsing experience and other applications that require online connectivity may suffer as a result. To circumvent this issue, use IDM’s Speed Limiter functionality to limit the maximum transfer rate for downloading files. IDM also allows you to configure the Speed Limiter to activate automatically each time you use IDM or for a single session only....
Bloomberg is a financial services company that offers real-time and archived financial information. While Bloomberg utilizes radio, television and a website, it also leases terminals, all of which track U.S. and worldwide financial and economic data and news. Using a special Excel add-in, you can access and import the vast amount of information available through Bloomberg into Excel. Writer Bio
Many Lexus vehicles, including the RX330, can be upgraded with additional features such as a GPS navigation system. On occasion, typically every year, a new navigation system update is released on DVD. In some Lexus vehicles, the navigation system’s DVD drive is hidden in the trunk or rear hatch. Before installing the update, the DVD drive must be accessed by removing the RX330’s rear hatch deck board. After removing the deck board, the DVD may be inserted, and the update is installed on the system....
Updated July 21, 2017 Download and install Picasa. A link is provided below. Run Picasa Select “Tools from the dropdown menu at the top and then select “Options.” Select the “Email” tab in the new dialog window that opens. Select the size you desire using the slider under “Output Options.” Click “Apply,” then click “OK.” Now select the photos you want to resize in your library, by highlighting them. Now click the “email” button at the bottom of the screen....
You can connect the Canon MP210 printer so you can utilize the functions of the printer from any computer on your network. Canon MP210 printer’s do not feature built-in wireless cards, however you can still hook up the device to your router to free the printer from the restrictions of wired networks. Use the USB port on your router or access point to include the device in your wireless area network in your home or office....
With Facebook’s tagging, Timeline and privacy settings, you can add customized protection to your profile that’s not automatically established upon account setup. You can, for example, limit the visibility of your posts to your closest friends, require login approvals before any device can access your Facebook account, and block specific users from requesting you as a friend. Removing these privacy limitations entirely makes your profile public to all Facebook visitors....
Microsoft Excel gives you options for databases of all kinds, from budgets to mailing lists to survey results. Knowing a few keyboard tricks can make the work you do in Excel go faster and look more professional. The degree symbol (°) can be a difficult one to find, but a handy one to know. A sequence of buttons or a copy-paste trick simplifies the process and allows you to quickly and easily avoid writing out “degrees” or coming up with makeshift symbols....
While everyone has heard about PowerPoint presentations, Apple’s Keynote–part of the iWork suite–is better and easier to use to make professional presentations. Keynote presentations, essentially, are multimedia packages of graphics, text and sound that either can be presented by a person or set up to play in a loop for continual viewing. As with everything on the Mac, making a business or personal presentation is a simple procedure of “drag-and-drop” and quick design....
Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) allows document creators to distribute fixed-layout, non-editable content on a wide range of operating systems and platforms. As long as a computer has the free Adobe Reader software installed, PDF files can be viewed and printed in precisely the format the author intended. Adobe Reader also has a helpful view setting that lets users display the contents of any PDF file as a slide show....
Launch Microsoft Paint. Click the small “Paint” button in the top-left corner of the work area and select “Open.” Navigate to the saved JPG you want to use for the stencil, such as your company logo, and double-click the file name. If the image opens too large or small to see in its entirety in the Paint workspace, go to the “View” tab, then click the “Zoom in” or “Zoom out” button until the image takes up the entire blue work area....
When you search for a YouTube video, in addition to displaying the relevant videos for your query YouTube also displays the channel of a user whose uploads match the query as well. If you notice that your YouTube channel is not appearing in search results, there are three possible reasons why: You are not including your channel name as a tag in your videos, your channel is not using any tags at all or you do not meet the prerequisites for having your channel indexed in the search results....
“RuneScape” Private Servers (RSPS) offer many situations where you would want to use a bot to perform the tedious task that you would have to do over and over again. When chopping trees in Edgeville or Rimmington, making fire at the Grand Exchange or cooking at Al Kharid, why not get a bot to do it? A bot is a script that performs an automated task. Although creating one from scratch requires programming expertise, there are many bot makers, or “autoers,” available for “RuneScape” for free online....
Online videos are sometimes blurry or choppy as they stream on the Internet. You can fix the blurs by following troubleshooting techniques. The options are limited if the problem originates from the server/website where the video file is stored. Certain steps in this process may require you to have administrative rights on the computer that you are using to watch the videos. Writer Bio
Skype is a online service that allows you to make and receive calls on your computer. With Skype you can chat, IM, make video calls with a webcam or have a conference call. Skype can alsp be a source of money for you. There are two ways that you can do this. Both require some thought. The easiest way is to use the prime program, but the commission and the wait time for payment can easily turn some off....
There are few things that irritate gamers more than a game that won’t load properly. While slow load times can often be remedied by altering some computer use habits, sometimes the problem lies within the system hardware or software. By reducing the number of programs competing for processing power and keeping a computer up to date, the load time of games can be dramatically increased. Writer Bio
