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If you prefer Yahoo Messenger to communicate locally with people in your town, you use Messenger IDs instead of phone numbers to connect. By default, Messenger IDs are Yahoo account IDs (Yahoo email usernames or email addresses). Users can also opt to have alias IDs for privacy protection. Yahoo doesn’t offer a directory of Messenger IDs searchable by names, addresses or phone numbers. Instead, you search by providing the service with email addresses imported from an address book or manually entered as contacts....

Prior to Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), cell phone users were limited to communicating with plain text messages. MMS allows users to send text, images, video or a combination of these. Not only is MMS used for personal reasons, such as sharing of music videos between friends or sending an “I love you” card to someone special, but this service is equally useful for business and marketing purposes. For instance, companies send maps of their office address to visitors via MMS....

Customizing your desktop is one of the options that you can configure on your computer. You can customize your desktop background and your screensaver, and you can even set up a desktop slide show on your computer. To set up a desktop slide show, you just need to make sure that you have the images that you wish to use in your slide show in the “My Pictures” folder of your computer....

The iFit is an interactive exercise device that works in tandem with most computers and iFit-compatible exercise equipment. To utilize the iFit program, you must have an iFit card. The iFit cards are SanDisk cards that fit into the SD slot on computers and exercise machines, including treadmills and elliptical machines. Download new workouts to empty SD cards to use iFit exercise programs. Before using the program, you must set up the iFit module....

Log in to your Facebook account. Select the name of the person you wish to send a chat message to from the list on the right side of your Facebook home page. A green dot appears next to users who are online. You can send a message to a user who is offline, but he won’t receive it until the next time he signs in to his account. Click in the chat box that opens with your friend’s name at the top....

Deploying two access points in your home or business can significantly increase the reach of your wireless network. The WRT54GS, manufactured by Linksys, is a commonly available, cost-effective wireless-G router. With the proper configuration, it can forward traffic from any clients connected to it over to your first, primary wireless router. Tips Warnings Writer Bio

Commonly used in business and educational settings, Outlook is personal information management software developed by Microsoft. Most often used as an email client, Outlook supports the sending, receiving, sorting and searching of messages across a wide range of server types, including the IMAP protocol used by Telus. It also offers management tools for calendars, task lists, notes and journal entries. Configuring your Telus account to send and receive email messages through Outlook is a quick process once you understand the required steps and settings....

From time to time, the print spooler on your computer may experience errors and consequently slow down. The printer spooler service manages all print jobs sent to the printer from your computer. When a print job gets stuck in the spooler, other jobs may not print or they’re processed slowly. You can speed up the print spooler in either of two ways: flush out stuck jobs or restart the spooler....

If you are passionate about sports, starting a website will help you share that passion with other people around the world. A sports website is a platform for updates on teams, player trades, statistics and scores. It is also a good way for a community of sports fans to interact with each other via comments. In addition, if your sports website generates enough traffic, you can make a little extra money on the side with web advertising....

Solicitation and telemarketing calls can be a significant problem for your business, causing distraction and wasted time to you and your colleagues. Many VoIP providers allow you to block certain numbers, helping you to prevent regular repeat offenders from calling back. Alternatively, you could invest in a robocall blocker to automatically block calls from automated numbers. You could also sign up to the National Do Not Call Registry, making it illegal for some telemarketers to call you....

Navigate to the Google Webmaster Tools website (link in Resources) and sign in to your Google account. If you already use Webmaster Tools for another website, click the “Add a Site” button. Enter your Tumblr URL into the blank field. Use the format “blogname.tumblr.com” (without the quotes here and in subsequent commands). Click “Add a Site” or “Continue” to submit the URL to Webmaster Tools. Highlight the entire meta tag displayed on the next screen and then copy it to your clipboard....

For the greatest ease in transferring a paper from essay format to Powerpoint presentation, remember that your end goal is the same in both scenarios. You are conveying an idea with a visual and oral presentation that was previously summarized in the written word. The process of transferring your ideas over will then be simplified, and with the addition of some visual aids, strong quotes and statements, your powerpoint presentation will be complete....

Open your PHP project in NetBeans, so that it appears on the main NetBeans window. Right-click the name of your project and select “Properties” from the context menu to open the Properties window. Select “Run Configuration” from the list on the left-hand side of the window. Select ““Remote Web Site (FTP, sFTP)” from the “Run As” drop-down menu. Click the “Manage” button next to the “Remote Connection” drop-down menu to open the Connection Management widow....

Updated February 10, 2017 Click “Start,” type “Windows Features” into the search box at the bottom of the Start menu and press “Enter.” Click the check box to the left of “Telnet Client” in the Turn Windows Features On or Off dialog window that appears and click “OK” to install it. Click “Start,” type “cmd” into the search box at the bottom of the Start menu and press “Enter” to open a Command Prompt window....

The speed of your computer is not the product of any one piece of hardware or software. Rather, it is the product of the capacities of your computer’s processor, RAM, graphics card and hard disk. The compatibility of these devices and their configuration can also play a role in your system’s overall speed. Both Windows Vista and Windows 7 come with utilities that measure the capacity of your system that take all of these aspects into account....

Facebook has a feature similar to one in Gmail that enables you to see the location from which your account has been accessed, along with the IP address of the computer that was used. This is useful to check for unauthorized access to your account. You may also want to use this function to sign out of sessions if you forgot to do so on a public computer or one that you are no longer using....

Whether you’ve purchased a new computer or want to retrieve files from another computer, you’ll probably want to move the files all at once. If both computers have Ethernet ports, you can do this any number of ways, using a Cat5 cable. Windows XP supports a file transfer method known as Direct Cable Connection, which connects two computers with a special Cat5 cable. Windows Vista doesn’t support this method but will allow file transfer over an existing network....

The Excalibur car alarm system works with three basic components: transmitter, the status LED light, and the hidden valet button or switch. If one of these mechanisms fails to work properly, it may cause the alarm not to arm at all or arm at the inappropriate time. Some quick and simple troubleshooting will have you driving on your way and back to feeling secure in just a few minutes. Symptoms that the yellow wire is loose or not in a good position are: the alarm arms with the ignition key on, it doesn’t arm at all, or the valet override malfunctions and fails to disarm the alarm or reset its memory....

On occasion, the lights of your IBM Wheelwriter may not come on or character misprints could occur. The good news is that usually most of these issues are easily solvable. Begin your troubleshooting strategy by looking closely at how your typewriter plugs into to a power source. Additionally, you should inspect the quality and installation of certain parts that move when the typewriter is operating. These items that will require attention at some point in time include the printwheel, ribbon and platen....

Increasing the fan speed of a graphics card will make it run cooler and help to preserve its lifespan. Increasing the speed is also a good idea if you have overclocked the graphics card. Most modern graphics cards can easily have their fan speed manually altered simply by using the updated drivers from either ATI or nVidia, depending on your model of graphics card. Writer Bio