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Do you have a cute photo of your child or an image in one of your photos that you really like but dislike the background? Or would you like an image to use as clip art? In this article I will...

With the number of computer applications growing, typing has become an increasingly useful skill. Girls (and boys alike) can benefit from being able to touch type. However, because a skill is...

This article describes how to change the Windows XP product key after a Volume Licensing installation. You can use the Windows Activation Wizard or a Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)...

Don't you just hate getting annoying messages from people on Yahoo Instant Messenger when you would rather just not deal with them? In just a few seconds you can click a few buttons and put that...

There are a lot of places to download software from and a lot of those places offer them for free. What they don't tell you is that they'll even throw in a virus or two along with your download. ...

Finding correlations is one of the most important things that empirical researchers do. Fortunately, Stata makes this easy, even with huge data sets. In this eHow I will show you how to find...

Need to sync personal contacts or your addressbook with your Blackberry even though your Blackberry syncs through a corporate Blackberry server? Here's how to get your info into your Blackberry.

A data warehouse is a collection of data from transactional systems, brought together to allow deeper analysis and decision making. By integrating data across departments, an organization...

Using a signature in the email messages you send allows you to include details about yourself and your business instantly. While most email applications allow you to embellish your signature with...

Bluetooth is the name for a type of wireless network that securely and efficiently connects two devices together. Traditionally, Bluetooth is used to connect a cellular telephone and a wireless...

Myspace one of the orignal pioneers of social networking.

Burning a CD allows you to take music from one CD and transfer it onto another CD. This process is possible with any computer that has a CD drive, but it is easier on a computer that can run two...

Turbo Lister is a free program offered by eBay to make selling on its website more efficient and easy. Once installed, the user adds the information he wishes to list in his auctions and with a...

Compressed files are used a lot now, especially over the Internet. Compressing a file often makes it much smaller, which saves download time and reduces traffic on the Internet. Compressed files...

Just like physical offices and work spaces, digital work spaces can become cluttered over time. If your hard drive is reaching its capacity, chances are there are a few old programs you can delete...

If your all-in-one printer can only scan one page at a time to a Portable Document Format (PDF) file, you might need a way to merge the individual files into one multi-page PDF document. There...

Outlook Express is the go-to email program in many offices and homes. It stores emails on your computer for easy access and manages the email, phone number, and address information of all your...

Google Images is a collection of pictures found on the web. When you do a search for a particular picture, such as a "cardinal," Google searches the web for pictures that meet that description and...

Turning an MP3 into a ringtone requires audio editing software, a USB port and cables or the ability to email an MP3 to a phone. Convert a computer MP3 file into a ringtone with tips from a...

Create a simple timeline with Excel by downloading a template from Microsoft Office online. Click the All Programs feature on a PC to begin making an Excel timeline with tips from a software...

Change the font size of a Hotmail message by logging into the email account, highlighting the text and using the tool bar to increase or decrease the size of the text. Open up the Web browser and...

Increase Internet connection speed by turning off toolbars, disabling add-ons and defragmenting the computer. Speed up a computer and increase browsing speed with help from a software developer in...

Create a tent-fold greeting card in a word-processing program on a computer by downloading a template through Microsoft Office. Enter in text and create a wonderful greeting card for friends and...

Download files onto a computer with an FTP program by using Windows Explorer to type in the address of the server on an FTP Web site. Learn to download resumes and other important documents onto a...

Using Outlook to check Gmail files on a computer is a quick and easy way to monitor incoming and outgoing messages. Learn how to use Outlook on a PC with tips from a software developer in this...

Tracing the IP address of a computer connection to a physical address is a simple trick that uses the Trace Route, or 'tracert' program, to find a city name. Track IP addresses with an IT...

Access your PC after forgetting an administrative password by downloading a free program from the internet that can run during start up. Get into your PC without a password with tips from an IT...

Shrinking an image in MS Paint and Microsoft Word are two different processes; Paint requires an adjustment in the Image and Stretch/Skew menus, whereas Word allows you to simply drag the corners....

Create four-fold greeting cards on your computer in a word processing program with column formatting options such as Microsoft Word. Make a personalized greeting card with an IT specialist in this...

Making Windows Vista load and run faster involves changing it to the classic look. Get Microsoft Vista to work faster with tips from a software developer in this free video about computer technology.

Speeding up a PC involves right-clicking on the computer desktop, choosing Properties, Appearance, selecting Windows Classic Style and clicking Apply. Increase PC speed with tips from a software...

In order to create a Web site, use Microsoft Word to input information and save it as an HTML file. Create a simple Web site as a starting point with tips from a software developer in this free...

A bootable format is one that allows CD-ROMs or DVD-ROMs to open up directly from a PC without the need for a hard drive. For this reason, creating software using a bootable ISO (International...

The program pcAnywhere is manufactured by Symantec. The program allows users to connect to a computer from a remote location. For example, if you are physically at work and you want to connect to...

Optical character recognition, more commonly known as OCR, is the interpretation of scanned images of handwritten, typed or printed text into text that can be edited on a computer. There are...

Active X is a miniature software application (also called an aplet) which is used by Microsoft Internet Explorer to show content or to facilitate your Internet-surfing experience. Active X...

Time Warner Cable's Road Runner high-speed Internet access allows users to browse the Internet and gives them an email account that they can use for their personal and professional needs....

You can easily block the Tacoda tracking cookie with your Internet browsers. Almost every browser on your computer must be individually configured, but the steps to do so are similar.

Yahoo! Messenger is an instant messaging program that allows you to communicate via text to any other user who is connected to the Internet. The program also has an option for making outgoing or...

Yahoo Messenger is an instant messenger chat client. Friends, family and employees can stay connected through an easy-to-use interface. Some companies use Yahoo Messenger to communicate between...

Quicktime and Windows Media Video (WMV), commonly known as codecs, are both compressed video file extension formats designed solely for viewing videos by computer. The only difference between the...

Utorrent is the worlds most popular bit torrent client. It has many options that other torrent clients do not. However, anyone who has downloaded torrents knows that sometimes the speeds are less...

A light box offers web developers flexibility in inserting images on a web page. The images used in a light box essentially appear above a web page, not within it. A light box is effective because...

The "Game" of Life by John Conway is what is known as a cellular automaton, meaning that cells on a grid will "live" or "die" from one generation to the next...

The Sonic Wall Filtering program is used by schools, businesses, and other organizations that want to limit which websites can be accessed on their computers. The system works by checking the...

When surfing the Internet you may occasionally notice a webpage appear in a new window when clicking an unrelated link. Unwanted pages that appear in this manner are known as "pop-ups," and are...

With the rush toward minimalist designs in the computer world, many new computers, especially laptops, have done without a built in CD-ROM drive. This often makes the installation of software,...

LimeWire is a good person-to-person file-sharing utility, but there are complaints from everywhere in the world about viruses and faulty files on the free LimeWire Basic version. The fear of...

Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 is a comprehensive web design tool favored by web professionals, but it is easy enough for the beginning web designer to use too. Dreamweaver utilizes a WYSIWYG (what you...

Logging in and out of your AOL account to check your email can become a hassle. Especially when you have more than one account, you must log out of one before you log into the other. This article...