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According to the Microsoft website, “Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive applications for the Web, desktop and mobile devices.” It is similar to Adobe. Silverlight is free and works with several different Web browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome and Firefox. Although Silverlight offers its users many advantages, the one disadvantage of downloading the application is the annoying pop-up ad. Even as an active user of Silverlight, you can expect to see the pop-up throughout your time surfing the Internet....

With so many apps, activities and ways to connect with friends, Facebook offers you an almost endless stream of entertainment. Despite these perks, so much socializing can eventually tire you out. If you want to give yourself a break, Facebook’s deactivation tool allows you to temporarily disable your profile. After deactivation, your timeline and other information about you will disappear from Facebook. All your content will reappear once you reactivate your account....

Gerber Technology’s Accumark 8.3, released in April 2008, is a computer-aided design program for the apparel industry. Designers can use Accumark 8.3 to design patterns, grade them and produce markers to manufacture the patterns. You can download Accumark 8.3 from the GERBERnet website if you or your organization has a Gerber software subscription contract. If you don’t have a contract, you can use Gerber’s website to request information about one or contact your local Gerber agent directly....

The Internet Download Manager application replaces your browser’s file download function, so that when you click on a download link, IDM launches automatically. To add multiple files to your IDM queue, drag and drop the download URLs into the Drop Target window. Alternatively, select multiple URLs in a document or application, and then use the right-click context menu to add the files to the queue. Once the files are in the queue, you can either start the downloads immediately or schedule them to download later using the Scheduler....

The advent of digital music and video files in the last decade has made the transfer and transport of such media more convenient than ever. Among those companies jumping into the competitive fray with this new technology was GPX. Like its competitors, GPX produces a wide array of MP3 players, and like with its competitors, it’s quite simple to download your favorite songs and videos to a GPX player. Warnings Writer Bio

Different models of the iPod have different methods of enabling Disk Use without using iTunes. You can turn on Disk Use for any iPod except for the iPod touch, which requires additional software that you can download to your computer or from the App Store directly to your device before you can use it for storage. The iPods that support Disk Use without using iTunes are the iPod Classic and the iPod Nano....

The HP w2207h is a 22-inch wide-screen LCD computer monitor with built-in speakers. Because having a monitor with built-in speakers is somewhat unusual – computer speakers are normally separate peripherals – you might be confused about how to set up and enable the speakers of your w2207h. Once you have the speakers enabled, however, you should find that the system requires very little maintenance or configuration. Most of the volume adjustments necessary can be made from within Windows....

Adobe Systems invented the Portable Document Format as a variation on its PostScript page definition language, making it possible for content creators to share complex graphical documents with people who lacked access to the creation software and resources used in the original file. As a format that emphasizes sharing and portability, PDF deliberately lacks support for in-depth editability because it’s intended as a viewing medium. When you export PDFs from Adobe InDesign, however, you can add or preserve some forms of editability....

Your wireless router contains a radio that works just like any other radio. Many of the same things that let your car’s radio pull in faraway stations or that make your TV’s antenna less effective also affect your router. Placing it properly can go a long way to extending its range and giving you better wireless coverage throughout your home. Writer Bio

Beginning in January 2008, Dell started closing its retails stores in the United States and opted to offer select desktop and laptop systems in other prominent retail outlets. Around the same time, Dell began strengthening its Partner Direct program, which allows smaller retail outlets and value added resellers to offer certain Dell products for sale. Many Dell customers prefer to transact with a local authorized reseller – rather than deal directly with Dell – because of the one-on-one service that only a local purchase can provide....

The Internet makes it very easy to locate most people in Michigan. Unless the person you want to find does not use a computer and has never given his information for any type of service or account, the Internet is a good place to start when you’re looking for any person. Michigan’s public records, white and yellow pages and state departmental websites are all open and available to those who are conducting a person search in Michigan....

Philips’ remote controls are widely used for many types and brands of electronics. Despite this variety, Philips keeps the model number of its remotes uniform to help customers easily find product support or replacement parts. The model number for Philips products, including remotes, begins with two letters. The numbers that follow usually contain four digits, but it may be more depending on the product. There are three way to locate the model number of your Philips remote....

Internet browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome keep a list of web sites you visit. This list is called your browsing history. In addition to the website’s title and address, browsers also record the time stamp, the time the website was visited. Find the time stamp of a Web browser history entry by viewing your browser’s history. Writer Bio

Search engines and various online services make it possible to easily look up addresses and phone numbers of almost anyone by using reverse lookups. There aren’t reverse fax lookup websites that only locate fax numbers and names of people or companies and their addresses. This does not mean that you cannot look up fax numbers online and find the name and address, though not necessarily for free. Warnings Writer Bio

Active Directory is used on a network to organize and manage computers, devices and users. Network logon information is stored in Active Directory, along with email addresses. Each work station and server computer is listed as well. Active Directory serves as the main database for the network. In order to log on and use a network with Active Directory, you must set up a user account, including a network email address, in order to use the network email....

Updated September 15, 2017 Click the Windows “Start” button and select “Programs.” In the menu labeled “SQL Server,” select “SQL Server Management Studio.” Enter a username and password to access the SQL Server. The username and password needs to have elevated administrative rights. You can also enter the SA password if you are just doing a maintenance reset of the administrative credentials. Click the “Security” icon under the database section on the left side of the window....

Knowing the IP address of a person can come in very handy such as when needing to know the exact location of someone for reporting harassment. An IP address is also used by some eBay retailers to verify the location of an Internet user before conducting transactions. If you have ever wanted to know the location of an Internet user, finding out his IP or internet protocol address would be one of the first avenues to use....

Despite its wide-spread use and popularity, Facebook still experiences common errors just like many other websites. You may have experienced the frustration of trying to navigate within your Facebook account only to be met with an error each time you attempted to load a new page. Before blaming the website, check that you are still connected to the Internet and that your system’s firewall is not blocking the pages. If nothing else is amiss, follow the steps recommended by Facebook to fix the issue....

When a ZIP file is corrupted or damaged, the objects contained within the file are unfortunately inaccessible. File system or header corruptions cause the ZIP file to become damaged. When a ZIP file is damaged and you try to unzip the file to extract the contents, the process will fail because the file is not whole. You can use free file repair software from the Internet to rectify this problem....

While most computer programs, especially those made by reputable companies, tend to function well most of the time, the tough lesson to learn is that no program is perfect. Microsoft Outlook 2003 has had many bugs and problems over the years. That being said, there are also many fixes that have been devised for those problems. These three solutions do not solve all Outlook 2003 problems but they will help with many of them....