Image Credit: max-kegfire/iStock/Getty Images When you click “play” on a Dailymotion video, you expect the video to play right away. However, when the video does not play, there is either a problem with the video itself or your computer. Dailymotion is one of several video sharing websites that feature uploads from amateur and professional videographers. […]
The portable document format (PDF) is an open standard for capturing and transferring documents. PDF files can be viewed on almost any operating system and program, including Mac OS X and applications running on the operating system. A simple way to create a PDF on a Mac is to print the document to the Adobe […]
Toshiba laptops are notorious for overheating, causing problems such as the system freezing up, the blue screen of death, or an actual automatic shut-down. Usually this problem is caused by dust trapped in the computer’s heatsink, which prevents the cooling system from working properly. Solutions are fairly easy and straightforward. Identification Computer shops say that […]
Image Credit: Cate Gillon/Getty Images News/GettyImages Designed to be both a gaming console and a home multimedia hub, the Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) supports a wide variety of audio devices. Through the main system menu, users can connect wired and wireless sound systems, configure the console to use specific audio codecs, and more – giving […]
A virus compressed in a RAR archive can’t harm your computer until you extract it. When you download a single RAR file, you are actually receiving a compressed archive that could contain multiple different types of files. The files contained within the archive are likely legitimate, but there is always a chance that one or […]
The tilde key has many uses in computing. The tilde is a wavelike grapheme. It is used as a diacritical mark, as in the Spanish “tilded N” or eñe: Ñ. The tilde is also used in abbreviation, for example in dictionary definitions; as a symbol in mathematics and mathematical logic; and in programming and Internet […]
Acronis TrueImage is a disk imaging software program that creates system backups and restores PC systems. It can restore previously captured disks to another disk complete with the structure and content of the original disk. It’s format extension is .TIB. VHD files are files saved by disks managed on the Microsoft Hyper-V virtual server. VMDK […]
A PowerPoint index helps you navigate through the presentation. An index in a book helps you to quickly locate the page you’re looking for with the information you want. You can do something very similar in PowerPoint so that you can jump to any slide in the presentation with a click. PowerPoint allows you to […]
Where Is the Hard Drive Located on a Laptop? A hard drive is the storage device on which your computer saves files programs. Not all laptop hard drives are the same.A hard drive can come in many different capacities, and the hard drive itself can be mounted at different positions around the computer, depending on […]
Google Earth doesn’t contain all features found in Google Maps. Image Credit: David Paul Morris/Getty Images News/Getty Images Google Earth lacks the multiple destination feature found in Google Maps. You can still create and view directions for multiple destinations by saving each generated route and viewing them at the same time. Google Maps can also […]
