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The AOL Radio service, managed by Slacker, provides free access to over 200 radio stations. In addition to the browser-based listening service provided by AOL, users can also download the AOL Radio app for iOS devices. However, as of April 2013 the same app is not available for Android users. There is, however, an AOL music app that may meet your needs.
Removing unwanted or extraneous programs and processes from your computer helps to ensure optimal performance. The vGrabber Toolbar is a video download and conversion solution which can be installed on your computer either as an independent application or as an extension to the Firefox browser. The process for removing the toolbar varies slightly depending on which version of vGrabber you're dealing with.
By default, email messages you receive in Yahoo Mail are titled in bold font and marked with a blue dot when they haven't yet been read. After you click on an email, however, the blue dot will disappear and the bold font will be replaced with regular text. This can make finding important emails difficult, especially if you have a large number of emails in your inbox. If you opened an email and you know you're going to need the information in it at a later time, mark it as unread again to make it easy to spot.
Removing the Microsoft Live Search toolbar isn't nearly as difficult as you might think it is. Find out how to remove the Microsoft Live Search toolbar with help from a software engineer with broad and extensive experience in this free video clip.
Opening projects in NetBeans is a lot like opening a project in similar types of software. Find out how to open a project in NetBeans with help from a software engineer with broad and extensive experience in this free video clip.
Making the Web search box smaller on Yahoo is a great way to improve the overall interface of your browser. Make the Web search box smaller on Yahoo with help from a computer programmer in this free video clip.
Connecting to your friends and family through MSN includes a face-to-face option with the use of MSN Messenger's webcam feature. A gray image in the "Send" area indicates that you're having problems with its technology working effectively and need to check your connections and settings.
Drupal is not as search-engine friendly out of the box as some other content-management systems primarily because the software is used to build so many different types of sites, some of which, such as private communities, may not require search-engine indexing. If you are having trouble getting your Drupal site indexed in the Yahoo search engine, make sure you have the site optimized and make sure Yahoo knows of its existence.
A gray screen in MSN Messenger indicates that your webcam has a problem that must be corrected before you can use it to chat. The problem may be related to the type of webcam you're using, your Internet connection or the version of your MSN Messenger software.
Many social networking websites, including Facebook, LinkedIn and Myspace, allow you to chat with your friends on-site. Sometimes, however, chatting with different friends on different networks can become a hassle, as you must be logged in to multiple accounts at once. Windows Live Messenger -- the instant messaging service for Windows Live, a group of online programs by Microsoft, that was called MSN Chat until 2006 -- lets you add multiple networks to your Messenger, so you can chat with buddies from different social networking websites at the same time.
Pay-per-click advertising works on a simple principle: advertisers pay the company whose website is showing their advertisement every time a visitor clicks on that ad. If you are running an ad campaign through Yahoo's Content Match, or "CM," program, you will place a minimum and maximum bid that represent the range of prices you are willing to pay for each click from the visitors to whom Yahoo shows your ad.
ArcGIS, a geographic information system application, allows you to add metadata to your project files. ArcGIS metadata files can contain various types of data, such as the date when a map was generated or the names of buildings located on it. You can process ArcGIS metadata by using ArcCatalog, the application which allows you to manage ArcGIS project files, and delete ArcGIS metadata from existing projects by using Windows Explorer.
SuperVox is a Yahoo Messenger substitute that allows the user to navigate Yahoo chat rooms and participate in chat sessions without using the Yahoo Messenger client. The application also has a native feature that gives your voice precedence when participating in a voice chat. If you want to use SuperVox, you must launch the program and then sign in to your Yahoo Messenger account using a particular sequence of steps.
Although the Logitech C600 webcam is compatible with Windows, users report problems with Windows Live, which contains Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger. Problems with the installation files and camera settings prevent users from using all the webcam's features. A number of solutions and workarounds exist; with some time and experimentation, you should be able to find one that works with your computer.
Norton is compatible with AOL desktop software, as long as you have up-to-date versions of both programs. If you have older versions of AOL and Norton, they will work together, and likewise with new versions of the software programs. New versions of AOL desktop software, however, will not function if you have an outdated version of Norton.
Even if you have a massive collection of bookmarks, you are likely to use search engines to locate new resources, videos and other information on the Web. All of the major Web browsers have default search settings, and each browser also provides an option for making your favorite search engine the default when you perform a search. The configuration procedures vary by browser, but you can change this setting with just a few clicks of your mouse.
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 visibility you can control with privacy settings. If you aren't able to see someone's profile, his profile settings have excluded you from doing so, although he may not have targeted you specifically.
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 behave strangely, resulting in garbled sound, frequent stopping and starting or audio that doesn't match the video. In most cases, the problem is not with the video itself; with basic Internet skills, you will be able to fix the problem on your own without technical support.
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 occur at any stage of the delivery process for a wide variety of reasons. As a result, to find out why a recipient received unreadable email from your Yahoo Mail account, you will need to review common causes and possibly ask for assistance from Yahoo.
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 messages or drawings and send them to chat partners. MSN Handwriting is available through Microsoft Journal Viewer or the Messenger Plus add-on.
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. SRPs are useful for marking important regions and can be placed in the location of the playhead or at the beginning or end of a selected region. They can be deleted, locked and unlocked and have their own contextual menu within Sonic Studio.
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 site, you can easily upload it to your Yahoo Web Hosting account. To do this, you need an FTP client installed on your computer.
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 format. You also can't upload to music-sharing sites like YouTube and SoundCloud in the AUP format. To upload your Audacity projects in a format other people can use, export them as MP3s in Audacity.
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 that you have entered the server name correctly. Account: 'pop3.mail.yahoo.com', Server: 'pop3.mail.yahoo.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 465, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11001, Error Number: 0x800CCC0DD." The error can occur due to several reasons and signifies a communication breakdown between a Yahoo mail account and Outlook Express.
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 are commonly the result of a need to tweak your mail settings or password issues.
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 easiest way to resolve all problems is get the latest version of AOL desktop software and upgrade to a newer version of IE, if possible.
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 don’t have a webcam effects program installed on your computer, download a third-party application.
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 services, access chat and other Internet-based services from the MSN network. The program’s installation wizard guides you through signing in/signing up for MSN services and installing the application on your computer.
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 for keyword placement in which you focus on only one short or long tail keyword on your website or blog.
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 reinstalling the application to resolve the black screen. If issues continue, contact Yahoo! for assistance.
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 sees. Troubleshoot the software and your own computer so that you can resume normal video chatting via Windows Live Messenger.
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 public email provider with a total of 106,166 unique users during the ranking period. When one of these users encounters an error sending an email, they may receive a return message from the address mailbot@yahoo.com.
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. To alert the Bing spider to your site so that it's found in a search on MSN, use a Sitemap and regularly ping update services.
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 modifies registry entries and attempts to steal vital information such as credit card data by redirecting searches to Search.conduit.com. Search Conduit promotes malicious activity, so to avoid damage to your computer and its files, remove it quickly and safely.
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 clicked on the "Action" tab and chosen "Send an SMS Message," your text should be sent immediately to your contact. If not, make sure you have the correct number and check that you have the latest version of Yahoo.
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 developers also provide a .NET library known as FiddlerCore. You can use a third-party Fiddler PowerShell module to access and use the FiddlerCore library from PowerShell. The Fiddler module can start Fiddler, register it as a system proxy, log traffic, show it in the PowerShell window or save it to a text file, shut down Fiddler and disable it as a proxy.
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 subscription-based Internet access portal, AOL now provides news, email, instant messaging and other services to its users. Unfortunately, hackers and computer viruses sometimes use existing AOL email accounts to send spam messages to those on the users' contact lists.
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 customize the pipe through Yahoo's Web-based user interface, and this allows you to specify exactly how you'd like your piped content to appear when you republish it. However, most RSS feeds only syndicate part of the posted content, including only the title of the post or just the first few sentences. If you want to pipe the full text of syndicated posts, you'll have to clone…
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 some Boolean equivalents theoretically to achieve the same results.
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 engines are not able to interpret the visual data contained within the images on your page, you must provide additional information about the image to inform the search engines of what the image contains. Adding each descriptive element to your image tags can ensure that search engines are acquiring all the important information about your images.
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 senders of unsolicited messages. If the IP address of your mail server is on that blacklist, Yahoo! Mail automatically rejects emails sent from your account. Check if your mail server's IP address is on Yahoo! Mail's blacklist by following a specific procedure.
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 item without deleting the code, you comment out the line time in the XML code. You use this feature when you want to hide an item that does not function properly, and you do not want the user to see the item in the app without deleting the code.
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 search engine, you can make the change without needing to remove your SPEEDbit software. SPEEDbit offers a free utility that can automatically change your default search engine and homepage back to Google, and it makes the change to all affected browsers.
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 services by not providing means to transfer their personal file cabinets to a non-AOL location. There are some software programs that accomplish this task; however, those programs are either costly for a one-time use, or free, but require downloads and some technical know-how to transfer your PFC files. In September of 2011, however, AOL and Microsoft reached an agreement, which allows AOL users to…
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 steps to navigate your way through the Settings and Marketing menus. Once you have saved your new preferences, the ads will be deleted and you will not have to see them again unless you change your preferences back to the original settings.
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 customization, and prevents the search results from showing pages on your site that you have blocked from search-engine indexing.
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 available for free and allows you to run the Java Virtual Machine within your browser to play games written in Java.
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, middle and ending of a project. You can also list specific details and comments about your project within the chart. XLProject lets you input your project’s details quickly without the hassle of using a project-management package like Microsoft Project, MinuteMan, Clarizen or similar program.
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) downloaded. When a user deletes this log from within Firefox, the data is not actually deleted. The user is simply telling Firefox to begin a process of overwriting the logs with new data. The best way to view this deleted data is to examine the "index.dat" file, which is a database Windows uses for faster browsing.
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 using AIM or Facebook. The application's features allows you to save your open conversations, share your current location, and upload your personal photographs. You can use AOL's QR scan code, if you can, on their website to direct you to AIM on Android Market.
