You can repair most SIM cards yourself with a SIM card reader. Unless you’re a scientist specializing in data recovery, you won’t be able to repair a physically damaged SIM card yourself. Forensic services like SIMIS (Subscriber Identity Module Interrogation System) use decapsulation, X-rays and advanced cleaning methods to recover and repair physically damaged SIM […]
Comma Separated Value files are often used to import data in a generic format into applications. Value data in the CSV file format is separated by a comma. The Tab/Text Separated Value file is another data file type, but with the TSV file type, value data is separated by tabs. Using your spreadsheet program, such […]
In computing terms, a parent directory is a directory that is above another directory. The root directory is the only directory that cannot be put below any other directory. The directory below the parent directory is the subdirectory. The directory path looks like this: root directory/parent directory/subdirectory. Web sites are set up in this directory […]
Windows Media Player does not support the AMR format. Adaptive Multi-Rate files (AMRs) appear most often as voice recordings on cellphones. The format, developed by Ericsson, efficiently compresses the human voice in a small file size. In order to play your AMR files in Windows Media Player, you’ll first need to convert them into a […]
Cell phones can detect other cell phones nearby via Bluetooth communication. Image Credit: Wi6995/iStock/GettyImages Losing a cell phone is no fun, especially if calling it doesn’t lead you to it. The good news is, there are some tools that can help you track it down. Although you can use a cell phone detector app to […]
Finding friends’ profiles in the MSN member directory is easy. Hotmail is an Internet webmail service provided by Microsoft through its Windows Live platform. Hotmail provides free email service to members and also lists members in the MSN member directory. The MSN member directory can be searched by email address, name and phone number, providing […]
A woman types on a laptop Image Credit: shironosov/iStock/Getty Images An M3U is essentially a text file that contains a list of URLs and file paths. It stands for MPEG version 3.0 URL, and it was originally intended for the Winamp Player. Today, many popular media players support it. Among these are iTunes, Windows Media […]
Convert a PDC file to PDF. The PDC file format is a protected PDF file created by LockLizard. The protected file prevents other users who do not have the LockLizard software from opening the file. In order to convert the PDC file back to a PDF one must unlock the PDC file through the LockLizard […]
Apple’s MS-DOS FAT is just a different name for Microsoft’s FAT32 format. Image Credit: Westend61/Westend61/GettyImages To format USB for Mac and Windows, there are two disk formats to choose from: exFAT and FAT32. The other formats – Microsoft’s NTFS and Apple’s Mac OS Extended – don’t work well on the other operating system. There are […]
Network printing has replaced the need for multiple physical connections between one computer and many printers. Printers have evolved to keep up with advances in personal computers. Some of the original means of connecting printers are less commonly used. Parallel port interfaces, commonly known as Line Print Terminal (LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, etc.) are being replaced […]
