Author: Benjamin Anderson

Image Credit: littlehenrabi/iStock/Getty Images Microsoft OneNote has the ability to capture text from any source using a virtual printer driver that Windows displays as a menu option labeled “Send to OneNote” when you print a document. If you do not see this option when you print a document and you know that Microsoft OneNote is […]

Use the Import dialog box to import contacts. Image Credit: Image courtesy of Google Understanding how to import contacts into your email client helps to ensure you’re never without important contact information when you need it. Gmail has a dedicated Import tool designed to facilitate importing contacts saved in the vCard format directly into the […]

Image Credit: DragonImages/iStock/Getty Images Web sites can be designed to be secure, or they can be made simple and easy. If someone wants to make a web site secure, there’s going to be no way you can see a password, even your own password that you just entered—the password will be encrypted before you even […]

Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based drawing application commonly used in the graphic design profession. Vector graphics are stored digitally as a series of points along a path, and can therefore be scaled up without losing any resolution. In Adobe Illustrator, brushes are used to change the appearance of a path into anything from a calligraphic […]

Learn to test your LCD screen's inverter board. Your LCD screen’s inverter board is one of the most important components of your LCD screen assembly. The inverter board is a small circuit board inside your LCD screen that supplies power to your LCD’s backlight device, which lights up your LCD screen and allows you to […]

A man using his computer to access its command prompt. Image Credit: Ridofranz/iStock/Getty Images The free, open-source wget command-line tool downloads content from the Web through a variety of protocols, including HTTP, secure HTTPS and FTP. Wget works in the background, even when you’re not logged on, to run complicated or long download scripts without […]

The logarithm of a given number is the exponential value by which the base of the number must be raised to yield that number. For instance, the logarithm of 8 to base 2 is 3, which shows that 2 must be raised to the power 3 to yield 8. The specific method of typing logarithms […]

Texture on a Plane Image Credit: Kyle Horne In Maya you can integrate images found from the Web or your very own textures to use for 3D models, reference images and related projects. Select Window from the top menu bar, then select Rendering Editors then Hypershade. The Hypershade is Maya’s version of a material editor. […]

Replace the CMOS in a Toshiba Satellite Laptop In any computer, the CMOS battery is a battery that powers a small memory chip that stores system BIOS settings. Sometimes the CMOS battery in an older laptop may need to be replaced. If the laptop asks you to set the system date and time every time […]