It might take some investigating, but it’s possible to find a phone number using an email address. Maybe the only contact information you have for a person is an email address, but you’d like that person’s phone number, too. You can be straightforward and simply send an email message to that person requesting his phone […]
Convert any Publisher document to a PowerPoint slideshow in Office 2013 by using Publisher’s Save for Photo Printing option. This option converts every page in the Publisher document to a JPG file, which you can then insert into PowerPoint. For best results, adjust the Publisher page size to the size of your PowerPoint slides to […]
Most digital televisions use PCM audio. Image Credit: flashfilm/Lifesize/Getty Images Pulse Control Modulation in television audio uses a modulation method that changes an analog signal into a digital signal, originally developed by a telephone company employee for military and phone applications in the 1930s. You’ll find this as a standard option on your television or […]
Renaming a text file to a data file is as easy as typing. A text file is a simple file type that contains plain text in American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) format. By using ASCII format, the file can be read on any number of operating systems, including Linux, Unix, Macintosh and Windows. […]
Image Credit: d3sign/Moment/GettyImages In the days of landlines, if you heard someone on the line while you were talking on the phone, you assumed someone had picked up an extension. But in the cellphone era, strange noises in the background of your calls are a bad sign. If you’ve heard those sounds and thought, “Someone […]
FM radio signals travel somewhat directly to your radio from the radio station transmitting tower. Anything that comes between the two will interrupt reception. Going through a tunnel in a car illustrates a temporary example of this type of interference. Many of the radio stations that come in clearly on a car radio are not […]
Image Credit: Jupiterimages/Pixland/Getty Images Real time software applications are popular today as they provide faster accomplishment of tasks, operations and activities on the computer. These programs include media, building tools, computing and analysis applications, and system maintenance, to name a few. Objective The term “real-time” refers to the ability to do or perform tasks right […]
The UDF and CDFS file formats are used to burn CDs and DVDs. The UDF format allows you to modify data, while the CDFS format allows you to play discs on CD/DVD players. If you want to convert the data on a UDF disc into the CDFS format, you must first copy the contents to […]
A good speaker can come in handy, especially if you’re hosting a party or working on a home improvement project. Image Credit: Halfpoint Images/Moment/GettyImages A good speaker can come in handy, especially if you’re hosting a party or working on a home improvement project. You may not have a daily need for a speaker, though, […]
Convert video files on your Linux system with FFmpeg. FFmpeg is a free open-source utility that lets you record, convert and play audio and video files on multiple platforms. You can convert videos in the Apple QuickTime Movie format, or MOV, to the MPEG-4, or MP4, format in Linux by accessing FFmpeg in Terminal. The […]
