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Although Windows Live Messenger, formerly known as "MSN Messenger," isn't a complex social network like Facebook or Twitter, your account does have a "profile" feature whose…

For AOL streaming video to play smoothly, your computer settings, software and Internet connection must work in concert. When a problem occurs with one piece of the puzzle, it can cause the video to…

Although electronic mail is faster than traditional postal mail, it still has its share of delivery problems. An issue such as unreadable mail -- blank or garbled text, images or attachments -- can…

With MSN Handwriting, a tool developed for MSN Messenger 6, 7 and 8, you can use your mouse pointer as a pen or paintbrush. With the tool installed, MSN Messenger lets you create your own handwritten…

Sonic Studio DDP is software designed specifically to work with Disc Description Protocol image files. A Selection Reference Point is a placeholder saved in a DDP image file within Sonic Studio DDP.…

With Flash4D, you can design a complete Flash website, right from your computer's desktop. If you don't want an entire website, create a single Flash intro page. Once you finish designing your Flash4D…

Audacity stores music projects as AUP files. If you have your own website, you can upload these files directly to your site. However, most people will not be able to listen to music files in this…

Outlook Express (or Windows Mail) users accessing the Yahoo mail server may sometimes encounter a message that appears like this: "The host 'pop3.mail.yahoo.com' could not be found. Please verify…

Yahoo! Bizmail provides unlimited storage, up to 10 email addresses and the ability to manage email through an email client such as Outlook. Problems with sending or receiving Bizmail through Outlook…

Internet Explorer 8 is supposed to work in the AOL Desktop, but sometimes IE 8 cannot connect to websites. If you consistently have problems connecting to websites using IE 8 in your AOL software, the…

Windows Live Messenger does not include integrated webcam effects. To add an effect to your video chat, configure your Windows Live Messenger video settings with your webcam effects software. If you…

Microsoft Network installation wizard installs the email and Internet browser application MSN Explorer. MSN Explorer lets you browse the Internet, send and receive emails, access news and information…

Search engines use keywords to rank and suggest websites to readers. Having the right mix of keywords for your website or blog topic brings in more readers. Keyword sniping is an alternate strategy…

Outdated drivers or software can lead to a black screen when you are attempting to use the webcam while chatting on Yahoo! Messenger. You can perform basic troubleshooting such as uninstalling and…

Using a webcam with Windows Live or "MSN" Messenger shouldn't cause the webcam to go black on the computer screen, where it appears to give you a preview of what your conversation partner…

Yahoo Mail is one of the oldest free email providers on the Internet, originally released in 1997. In July 2009, the Internet usage monitoring organization comScore ranked Yahoo Mail as the most-used…

Microsoft's MSN features a collection of websites offering news and entertainment. Most MSN pages feature a search box where visitors search the site or the broader Web using the search engine Bing.…

If your Web browser is constantly redirecting to Search.conduit.com without your consent, your computer is infected with the Search Conduit browser hijacker. Search Conduit is a malware program that…

Yahoo Mail offers a chat feature that enables you to send text messages to your contacts' mobile phones. There are several reasons you may be having trouble sending the text messages. If you've…

Fiddler, a Web debugging proxy application, can act as a proxy and log the Web traffic that your computer sends and receives. While Fiddler is available as a graphical application, Fiddler’s…

AOL Inc., founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation and rebranded in 1991 as America Online, is one of the oldest Internet service companies. Though the company's AOL service began as a…

Yahoo Pipes is an online application developed by Yahoo which allows users to pipe RSS feeds, posts, content and other data from various Web sources, which you can then republish on other sites. Users…

The Yahoo search engine does not fully support Boolean operators, logical connectors that are capitalized and used to construct and clarify Web queries like AND and NOT. Yahoo does, however, support…

You can specify certain elements of the images on your Web page, such as the alt, title and description elements, to ensure that your clickable images are crawlable by search engines. Since search…

Yahoo! Mail is a free Web-based email service managed by Yahoo!, Inc. Like most other email servers, the Yahoo! Mail server uses a blacklist that contains the Internet protocol (IP) addresses of…

The Android SDK ListView item creates a list of values that display on your Android app's screen. ListViews require a list of items you program in the XML code for the Java app. To hide a ListView…

When you install one of SPEEDbit's programs, the installation process may change your browser's default search engine to SPEEDbit's customized search engine. If you want to set Google as the default…

Many AOL users may want to switch to a new service provider or email service, but can't bear to leave years of emails behind. AOL has historically made it difficult for users to migrate to other…

America Online members may find that upon arriving at their email home page, the popup ads start appearing quickly. You can easily delete these ads from your AOL email page, but it will take a few…

If you run a Drupal site, you can add modules that allow users to search your site's content through search engines rather than through the default search feature. This allows users more search…

Many of the games on the Yahoo! Games and Pogo websites are written in the Java programming language. To play these games, you must have the Java Applet installed in your browser. The Java Applet is…

XLProject is a Microsoft Excel template that lets you keep track of a work, school or other type of project using a Gantt chart. A Gantt chart contains one or more bar graphs that list the beginning,…

Firefox, like many other Web browsers, uses logs to store a user's history. This information is a dated and timestamped timeline of all websites visited and all artifacts (images, movies and such)…

It's entirely possible to send text messages and chat with your friends when you install AOL's AIM for Android application on your phone. The software application is designed to enable you to chat…

Yahoo Messenger is an instant messaging service that allows you to quickly communicate with one or more contacts. While Messenger offers advanced features within the Yahoo network, such as video…

Yahoo Invisible Checker is free software that allows Yahoo Messenger members to detect users that appear as invisible in the messaging software. If your status is set to invisible, you don’t…

Occasionally, AOL desktop software crashes when a user attempts to download an email attachment. If this happens to you, troubleshoot the problem to determine the cause of the error and then retry the…

The videos that appear on yahoo.com generally fall into the news and entertainment categories. The videos are streamed, which means they should play instantly if your Internet connection can handle…

Yahoo!'s instant messaging services provide users with options to chat real-time with other users of Yahoo!, Windows Live and Facebook. Whether you use the chatting features through your email client,…

Freezing is a frustrating experience that can cause you to lose data and waste time. It is occasionally caused by faulty installations that you can remedy by reinstalling your Yahoo programs.…

Search engines such as Yahoo are one way to direct traffic to your website. After adding your website, the search engine will periodically use robots, also known as spiders, to scan your website for…

The AOL website and its mail application are designed to be compatible with any Web browser, including Firefox. If you are unable to log in to your account on Firefox, AOL is probably being blocked by…

Problems with a webcam and MSN Messenger (now known as Windows Live Messenger) can be caused by hardware or software faults. If no video is appearing and only the sound is working there are a number…

The smiley faces feature in the Yahoo Messenger app available on the Motorola Droid X is commonly used to convey emotions. In the full Messenger program, users can disable emoticons within their…

With the Pandigital Novel e-reader tablet device, you can browse the Web and access your email in addition to downloading and reading e-books and electronic newspapers and magazines. The Pandigital…

The AOL LLC add-on is an interactive toolbar that serves to make links and other information simple to access on your Internet browser. The toolbar was developed and is distributed by America Online,…

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is a suite of applications developed by Oracle Corp. It allows corporate users to set up complex business applications that rely on databases. If an Oracle Fusion…

The iTunes website offers access to a wide world of downloadable songs, TV shows, movies and more. However, such offerings may end up being a bit pricey, especially if you are not the only person who…

Yahoo! search includes a "Search Direct" feature that provides suggestions as you type in the search box as well as potential answers to questions. For example, typing "Washington"…

If you are experiencing problems with a webcam crashing MSN Messenger -- now called Windows Live Messenger -- either a hardware or a software fault could be to blame. Troubleshoot the problem by…