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  • How to Customize USMC Window Cling

    Vinyl window clings are displayed on houses and vehicles to show holiday spirit or loyalty to a favorite sports team. Military families show dedication to the service by proudly displaying a window cling of a U.S. flag or the name of a destroyer. The USMC, United States Marine Corps, is rich with culture and tradition. Symbols and icons represent Marine Corps values. Customize your USMC window cling with a permanent marker by adding a symbol of a sword, the Semper Fidelis motto or a first name and rank to personally represent your Marine.

  • How to Return a Deleted Post on Facebook

    One feature of Facebook that is potentially bothersome is the fact that you can't edit a comment you leave on your own or someone else's Facebook post once you've published it. If you make an error while commenting, your only choice is to delete and re-post the comment. Facebook repopulates the "Comment" field with the text of the message you deleted whenever you delete a post, allowing for quick re-posting of comments on Facebook posts.

  • How to Tell if a LiveJournal User Is Blocking You

    LiveJournal is a social networking website where users can create both personal journals and communities. LiveJournal users can interact with each other in various ways, including leaving comments on journals and communities and sending private messages. Users can also block others from interacting with them. If you suspect somebody else has blocked you, attempting to leave a comment on their journal will tell you if this is the case.

  • How to Block Someone on LiveJournal

    LiveJournal offers free and paid blogging platforms that let you post your written thoughts with a variety of protections. Blocking someone from reading your LiveJournal requires overall heightened security settings on your journal or on a specific post. Blocking someone from commenting on your journal is a simpler process you can apply to all journal posts. This makes it easy to prevent spam comments or stop malicious or rude responses from an individual.

  • How to Sync LiveJournal With Facebook

    LiveJournal and Facebook are two social networks with millions of users around the world. Though they both enable you to add other users on the site and create your own personal reading list of other people's posts, their formats are quite different. Facebook allows you to post images, links, videos and status updates of up to 420 characters, while LiveJournal allows you to post lengthier, customized blog entries with a variety of embedded multimedia. If you have accounts on both sites, you can sync your LiveJournal account to your Facebook so that LiveJournal automatically cross-posts a link to your comments…

  • How to Tell If Someone on Livejournal Has Banned Your Account

    LiveJournal is an online social network based around a free blogging platform that allows users to create personal journals as well as online communities. You can add other users to your personal network, which creates a reading list of all their posts, called a "friends list." People on your friends list can comment the posts you make in your personal journal, send you private messages and interact with your content. You can ban unwanted interaction from other users on your journal, as well, and there's an easy way to tell if another LiveJournal user has banned your account.

  • How to Cross-Post on LiveJournal & Facebook

    Facebook is a full-featured social media platform with millions of users, but with its update limit of 420 characters, users who wish to post lengthier updates sometimes write their messages on blogs instead. LiveJournal is one blog platform that can integrate with your Facebook account in a few easy steps. You can cross-post all your LiveJournal entries to your Facebook profile by connecting the two accounts. Then, LiveJournal posts links to your entries as Facebook status updates, including the subject line of your LJ post, as well as a thumbnail of your LJ userpic and the entry's first 50 characters.

  • How to Connect Facebook With LiveJournal

    LiveJournal and Facebook are two different social networking websites that allow you to add other users and build your own personal online network of friends. The ways in which you interact on the two sites are quite different. On LiveJournal, you post your content as journal entries to your personal account and to online communities. These entries can be almost any length you choose. On Facebook, you can post status updates, which Facebook limits to links, photos, videos and text messages of up to 420 characters. If you use both services regularly, LiveJournal allows you to connect your Facebook to…

  • How to Keep Posts for Friends Only on the Top in LiveJournal

    LiveJournal is both a social network and a free blog service that allows you to create a blog account and add other LiveJournal users to your personal network, called a "friends list." Your friends list permits you to read all the blog posts your friends make in chronological order. LiveJournal allows three levels of privacy for any journal post -- Public, Private and Friends Only. Public allows everyone to read your posts; private posts are posts only you can read while logged in to your LiveJournal account; and only your LiveJournal friends can read your friends-only posts while logged in.…

  • Composite Shutters Vs. Wood Shutters

    For years, shutters were made of wood, and only wood. Then came composite shutters made of a mix of PVC and wood or a fiberglass mix. Composite shutters look like wood, but have properties that make them more weather-resistant. In some ways, composite is superior, but there still are situations where wood shutters are best.

  • How to Make Timber Window Frames

    Wood is the traditional choice for window frames, because of its availability, ease of use and appearance. It exudes warmth and adds texture to any home. A frame is exactly what the name suggests, as it surrounds the window much like a picture frame. However, wood is prone to rot and warp over time and has a higher maintenance requirement than other types of framing. If you want the look of timber frames, be prepared to paint every three to five years.

  • How to Make a Battle City Duel Disc

    Battle City is a classic retro video game created by the Namcot Limited company. This simple game calls for you to shoot at objects and villains that come your way. If you have the game downloaded to your computer, then you can copy it to a disc, or CD. Windows lets you create CDs with its built-in burning feature. This is ideal if you know of a friend or family member that loves playing Battle City. You can even make duel discs, or more, if you prefer.

  • The Best Patio Sliding Windows

    A sliding patio window is a large glass door that doubles as a window and doorway. The quality of sliding patio doors are measured by their ability to block out air drafts when shut and to endure years of constant use and the quality of the glass with which they are constructed.

  • Milgard Glass Types

    Milgard Glass Company has been in business since 1958. The company has made a name for itself by manufacturing doors and windows in innovative ways. All Milgard Glass has as its base Milgard's patented SunCoat Low-E insulating glass. Customers can add a variety of options to this basic glass. All Milgard glass types are Energy Star rated because of their efficiency.

  • How to Customize Windows Logon Screen

    The logon screen in Windows appears when users are prompted to select their user accounts. The background of that screen can be customized with a user-selected image. The process involves changing some of the operating system's preferences but does not require any third-party software. The new logon screen background image must be in BMP format, not JPEG, JPG or GIF. This is the only format Windows will recognize.

  • How do I Create a Custom Event Entry in Windows 2003?

    Windows Server 2003 and other versions of Windows contain an event log viewer. Logged events include errors, crashes and warnings as well as status updates when a task completes, a program updates or a new program is installed successfully. If you're writing your own scripts or programs on Windows 2003 and want to add custom events that appear in the event log, or if you just want to add a single event to the log that appears when other people view it, use the included "eventcreate" command.

  • How to Frame a Custom Window

    Windows are essential on a building: They let in air and light, frame views from inside and help establish exterior visual character. However, they can be problematic avenues for water if installed incorrectly. The remedy is sealing around the window opening, using self-adhering moisture-proof membrane, metal flashing strips, and waterproof sealant. Any water that seeps through one layer will be blocked by another. To have a more accurate measurement, buy your window first and then measure the rough opening.

  • Wood Vs. Vinyl California Shutters

    California shutters, also called plantation shutters, have long been a staple for homeowners wishing to control the light streaming into their homes. Before air conditioning, they were a practical way to close out the heat of the day and let in the cool breezes at night. Today's California shutters have become a fashion statement as well, appearing in many new homes and commercial buildings throughout North America.

  • How to Make a Custom OEM Windows CD

    A custom Windows OEM CD is a Windows installation CD that also contains additional files for your computer, such as driver files, or document files that you wish to protect against loss during the installation process. Create this CD by utilizing a standard Windows OEM CD as a template, adding your additional desired files to the disc to make it your own.

  • How to Customize Windows Explorer

    Windows Explorer is the main navigation window within the Windows operating system. It allows you to browse through all of your folders and files within the one window. Windows 7 provides a wealth of options which enable you to customize Windows Explorer to your liking, enabling you to find what you're looking for quickly and easily.

  • How to Create Custom Color Schemes for Themes

    The ability to create custom color schemes is one of the nice customization features of Microsoft Windows. You have the option of choosing from thousands of possible colors with the "Color Mixer," or selecting a premixed color. Once you have selected a color, there are even more customization options available to you. Follow the simple directions below to create your own custom color scheme.

  • Rear Dormer Ideas

    Choosing rear dormer windows for your home reflects a tradition in American architecture beginning in the late 17th century. The dormer window comes in many styles. A major choice for homeowners concerns hiring a carpenter to build custom dormer windows or purchasing prefabricated dormers from a manufacturer.

  • Making Custom Icons for Windows

    Customizing an icon for Windows requires the use of a vector drawing software application, such as Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia Freehand. The drawings are then optimized in Adobe Photoshop. The image is drawn in Illustrator using a standard mouse and keyboard. The resulting line drawing is resized to three different sizes measured in pixels (46 by 46, 30 by 30 and 14 by 14), so that there are then three illustrations on the same page. The file containing the three drawing sizes is saved in Illustrator, and the drawings are copied to Adobe Photoshop. When sending the illustration to Photoshop,…

  • How to Create Friends Filters in LiveJournal

    As your friends list on LiveJournal grows, it often feels like another full-time job just keeping up with the daily postings. Large communities flood your friends list, forcing you to scroll through several pages before finding the entries you care about most. LiveJournal friends filters break up your buddy list into groups like close friends, family members, and fan communities. Choose a group to sort by, and those are the only entries you'll see, making it easier to get through the posts you're truly interested in. Creating friends filters in LiveJournal customizes your experience and cuts down on wasted time.

  • How to Learn Visual C++

    Visual C++ is a product from Microsoft to aid programming languages like C, C++ and C++/CLI. Its purpose is to aid in the debugging of C++ code on a separate computer by going through the code line by line. Corrections are made during the debugging process without always starting at the beginning. Large software projects are made easy due to the significantly short edit time used in Visual C++. Read on to learn Visual C++.

  • How to Make a Custom Splitter Window in MFC

    A splitter window is a Windows Explorer-like interface. The left pane (master) typically shows a directory structure. The right pane (slave) displays the details of the folder that's selected on the left. The CSplitterWnd class of the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library encapsulates the functionality for managing a splitter window. Here are the general guidelines for initializing a CSplitterWnd class.

  • How to Customize the Windows Vista Desktop

    Customizing your computer is a way to show your personality and interests and also means you can keep settings the way you want them. By changing your desktop background image, font and sidebar options, you can make your Windows Vista desktop feel like your own.

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