G-Shock watches have four or five buttons that control their functions. Image Credit: DroneStudio/iStock/GettyImages Casio’s rugged G-Shock watches are built around the simple idea that a watch should survive for years, no matter what. The series launched in 1983, and Casio sold its 100 millionth by 2017, so clearly many customers agreed. Most G-Shocks use […]
A BIOS chip can be reset, but it might be difficult. BIOS stands for Basic Input/Output System. The function of the BIOS is to identify, test and start basic system components like the hard drive, video card and keyboard. Most modern computers store their BIOS in a ROM chip on the motherboard. Resetting a BIOS […]
Some tips can help you copy and paste a Google Books document. New technology has made it easy to read books online, and Google Books is a free program that offers readers free access to many popular books. The small type or the glare of a computer screen may be challenging for some, however, and […]
Unlike Word, PowerPoint 2013 doesn’t include a tool to help generate an index. To index keywords in a presentation, you’ll have to find and note each word’s appearances manually, and optionally add links. Creating a table of contents offers a faster alternative if you need to only index card titles and bullet points. Write an […]
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 […]
When you access something on the Internet, whether it is an image, website, song or video file, you will notice that it is accessible from a specific website address, visible in your browser’s address bar. That address is the URL of the file and it tells you exactly where that file is located on the […]
Set the videos in your YouTube playlist to play in sequence. YouTube is a free website that hosts videos uploaded by users, ranging from amusing clips of their pets’ cute behavior to serious commentaries on current events. When you browse and search for videos on YouTube, you may come across ones that you find so […]
To create or delete a partition on a hard disk without the use of a Windows operating system, you must use a bootable disk or USB drive with Fdisk installed. Fdisk is a DOS utility that allows users to configure the partitions on a hard disk. A bootable drive installed with this utility is particularly […]
Pages is a word processing and document-creation program designed by Apple. The application is somewhat similar to Microsoft Word. Files created in Pages have the file extension .pages. If you have a Pages document that you want to open in Word, you must save the document as a .doc file and then open it in […]
