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Just about wherever you live, you can find a local or nearby version of the Craigslist online classified ad service. Whether you’re looking for a job, trying to buy used furniture or searching for human companionship, Craigslist provides community-specific sites for more than 700 cities in 70 countries. If you can’t get your emailed response to one of these postings to go through to the person who originated the ad, you can trace your communications malfunction to your computer setup, the status of the ad or how you craft your reply....

Modern civilization depends on advanced communication technologies. The application of electricity to communications with inventions such as the telephone and telegraph meant people could send information instantly over long distances. More recent advances such as satellites and the Internet have extended communications worldwide and made global news and information commonplace. Communications technology continues to improve with each passing year, bringing more information choices to you at lower costs. Writer Bio

When you log into a computer with a username and password, you are using password authentication, a reliable method for identifying users. You can share your username with others, although the password remains a secret, as it uniquely identifies you to the computer. Password authentication provides a reasonable level of security at a low cost. Alternatives include biometrics, such as a fingerprint scanner; challenge/response where the computer prompts you for more information; and hardware, such as a keycard....

The iPhone looks like it has two speakers along its lower edge, but only one of those is actually an external speaker – the other is a microphone. Having an understanding of how the microphone and the external speaker works will help you identify if you’re having problems with them. Writer Bio

High definition cable, like most cable services, can conveniently be split to multiple televisions. Whether using a cable box or running the cable feed directly to the televisions, splitting an HD cable signal requires a high quality splitter. Writer Bio

If you’re like most Facebook members, you probably have a collection of photos uploaded to your profile. Although people may be liking and sharing them online, it’s nice to have prints to store in albums for in-person sharing and to reminisce about in the coming years. You can import Facebook photos directly to Wal-Mart’s online photo center for printing and photo project creation. Wal-Mart offers several different printing, pricing and delivery options....

If you run multiple accounts on Twitter, for example one professional and one personal, or for two different brands, it could be more fruitful to reduce your efforts by combining the accounts so you can reach all your followers with one tweet. As of January 2013, Twitter’s system treats each account completely separately, meaning it offers no way to merge multiple accounts into one. It’s also impossible to copy across data from one account to another....

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Checking Active Sessions Open Facebook on a computer browser – not on a mobile device – and click the “Settings” icon in the upper right corner. Choose “Account Settings,” then go to the “Security” section of the Account Settings page. You’ll see an item called “Active Sessions,” which should say something along the lines of “Logged in from Kansas City, KS, and 3 other locations,” though the locations and number of sessions will vary....

The emergence of flat screen technology for television sets has virtually eliminated old-style cathode ray tube (CRT) sets from the market. But just because CRTs are out of the running doesn’t mean the format wars are over. Liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions have been battling it out with flat panel plasma televisions for consumer acceptance. Now, both formats must contend with new light emitting diode (LED) televisions. In many cases it is the size of the screen that determines which television set consumers choose....

The Bose Sound Dock includes an iPod dock, but that doesn’t mean it won’t also work with the iPad. The Sound Dock also includes a generic 3.5 mm auxiliary port on the back of the unit. You can plug a generic 3.5 mm audio cable into the headphone jack on an iPad and into the Sound Dock, so you don’t need a special adapter or converter to play audio from your iPad to the Sound Dock....

Apple’s technical specifications for the iPad include a long list of wireless standards, including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Absent from the list is an old technology: FM radio. However, the specification list does not tell the whole story. When the technicians at iFixit took apart the iPad, they saw its wireless chip, which has an FM radio receiver among other functions. Hundreds of FM radio stations offer apps to their listeners, but the apps do not use the iPad’s FM receiver....

Duracell battery chargers can help you get the most out of your rechargeable batteries, but you need to use them properly in order to do so. Some Duracell charger models come equipped with a stock car adapter as well as the normal AC wall adapter, but if you’ve never used a Duracell charger before, it can be a bit confusing. Fortunately, with the right instructions, you can keep those digital gadgets powered without having to constantly buy new batteries....

Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet program comes with a variety of math functions but does not include calculus in the standard version. If you need this feature, you can install third party math software packages that include calculus functions such as derivatives and integrals. These packages extend Excel’s math capabilities, permitting you to use calculus in spreadsheets. Some of these functions work on equations; others perform calculus on numerical data. Writer Bio

Font styles come in a variety of categories. Fonts that look like stitching or sewing work can be used as a logo for someone who does sewing and stitching for a living or to add a craft appeal to business cards or business stationery. You can find a number of stitching fonts available on the Internet for free. Writer Bio

Ghostscript is a software suite containing utilities to convert and manipulate graphical documents in Adobe’s PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) formats. Ghostscript can generate files in many standard image formats from a PostScript or PDF document, or vice versa. In particular, you can use “gs” (the main utility included in the Ghostscript suite) to convert an image file in JPEG format to PDF. c: cd “" dir /s viewjpeg....

Updated August 01, 2017 But to fans of ham radio, as it’s nearly universally nicknamed, the medium that allows licensed operators to speak to people across the world isn’t the old-fashioned version of anything. About 750,000 people currently hold ham licenses from the Federal Communication Commission, a larger number than ever before, says Sean Kutzko, media and public relations manager for the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). They’re using those licenses to help their communities stay connected after natural disasters, hone their electronics and broadcasting skills, and simply make small talk with fellow hams, he says....

Email video clips, such as clips from YouTube, Google Video, DailyMotion and MySpace, can be burned to a DVD as long as the right software is used. Examples of software that can accomplish such a task are VDownloader and Super DVD Creator 9.8.10. VDownloader converts the video clip to the AVI file format, which is compatible with DVD players. Super DVD Creator 9.8.10 burns the AVI file to a DVD so you can have your own copy of the video clip....

“Unable to locate the host LMS Scorm API Adapter” is an error message that pops up when you try to start an e-learning course in the .NET programming foundation package. The error has a heading that says “Message from webpage.” While there are several reasons why you may encounter this error, you can follow certain troubleshooting techniques to resolve the problem. Note that you will need administrative rights to perform certain steps in this task....

LG issues periodic updates to the firmware for different TV models. Firmware updates correct problems, enhance existing features and sometimes provide new features. You can update your LG TV firmware by navigating to the LG support site, downloading the firmware to a USB drive and installing it on your TV from the USB drive. If you have a network-enabled TV, you can choose to update your firmware automatically when updates become available....