Simplify guide alignment by clicking “View,” “Show” and then “Grid” to display Photoshop’s grid. Image Credit: agsandrew/iStock/Getty Images Guides simplify the process of lining up and slicing projects in Photoshop CC. Although they are handy in situations such as these, the fact that they’re overlaid makes them a bit of a nuisance when you’re working […]
Trash talk your competitors by syncing a phone to your PS3. The Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a popular gaming console that comes equipped with Bluetooth capabilities. Bluetooth allows you to connect two or more devices with each other wireless. Synchronizing a phone to your PS3 enables you to interact with fellow gamers and listen […]
Hard Disk Drive CHKDSK is a command used on Microsoft Windows operating systems to check the hard disk for errors. It displays the file system integrity status and can repair errors relating to bad sectors, lost clusters, cross-linked files and directory errors. There are three different ways to run the CHKDSK command: from the command […]
A woman is pressing her keyboard on her laptop. Image Credit: LDProd/iStock/Getty Images The keyboard and trackpad on a MacBook Air both connect to the logic board, but not to each other. If you experience an issue with your keyboard and trackpad at the same time, you most likely have a software-related issue. In some […]
ArcMap allows you to create a digital map and fill it with information. Image Credit: Comstock/Comstock/Getty Images ArcMap prepares, manipulates and interprets geographic data through maps and geographic information systems, creating a map with layers of information about different points. It is the main component of ArcGIS from the developer Esri. ArcMap allows you to […]
Windows stores temporary files with the extension .tmp. Temporary files store short-term information if the operating system or an application cannot allocate enough memory for all its tasks. Applications and operating systems usually generate session-specific temporary files, meaning that the files are created and used only during the current use of an application or operating […]
SD Card Basics Secure Digital (SD) cards are a form of flash memory used to store data from many modern digital devices. They differ from other storage media in that they can be written to thousands of times and do not require power to retain their contents. This makes them an ideal choice for electronics […]
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Edition supports the Live File System format. The “R” in DVD-R generally stands for “Recordable-only,” one time, forever. The “RW” in DVD-RW stands for “Rewritable,” meaning it is recordable and erasable for the life of the disc. But when Microsoft released Windows XP in late 2001, this and later operating systems […]
Visit Google to check an IP’s search history. When you activate Google Search History, Google remembers every search that you perform. This feature helps users find websites that they visited in the past quickly. You can search Google History from your Google Web History page. For instance, to find all sites that you visited containing […]
Image Credit: Creatas Images/Creatas/Getty Images Microsoft Paint can save pictures in several different formats, including bitmap (BMP), JPG, GIF and TIFF. You can easily convert all of these file formats to PDF with a free print-to-PDF program, such as PrimoPDF. There are two ways to convert from Paint to PDF: the first creates an actual-size […]
