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BrookeYan
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01st April 2007
iTunes: Adding song lyrics to iPod
If you like to sing along with your tunes, you can display song lyrics right on the screen of a supported iPod. This includes:
iPod nano
Fifth Generation iPod
Entering lyrics
In iTunes 5 or later, sele...
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07th February 2007
There’s never been more variety in TV types, sizes, and shapes than there is right now. If you’d love a flat-panel set that’s only a few inches thick, an LCD or plasma TV might be right for you. Want a really big picture? You can get a 60-inch or l...
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06th February 2007
Many of the largest Internet providers filter The battle between those who send unsolicited e-mail advertisements, commonly known as spam, and those blocking them has become an arms race. On one side are hordes of spammers who find ways, through technolog...
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06th February 2007
You don’t need a digital cameras to take advantage of the computer’s ability to edit photos. Continuing improvements in scanners have made it cheaper and easier to turn photos into digital images that you can enhance, resize, and share. And flatbed sc...
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06th February 2007
The best array of audio or video components will let you down if matched with poor-quality speakers. Good speakers don’t have to cost a bundle, though it is easy to spend a lot. For a home-theater system, you can start with two or three speakers and add...
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06th February 2007
The receiver is the brain of an audio/video system. It provides AM and FM tuners, amplifiers, surround sound, and switching capabilities. It’s also the heart of the setup--most of the devices in a home-entertainment system connect to it, including audio...
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06th February 2007
The least expensive--and most common--type of jumbo TV is a rear-projection set. Some projection sets have three cathode-ray picture tubes (CRTs), smaller versions of the tubes used in conventional sets. The images from those small tubes are projected ont...
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06th February 2007
Inkjet printers are now the standard for home-computer output. They can turn out color photos nearly indistinguishable from lab-processed photos, along with banners, stickers, transparencies, T-shirt transfers, and greeting cards. Many produce excellent b...
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06th February 2007
Plasma TVs make a blockbuster first impression. A scant 6 inches thick or less, these sleek flat panels display bright images on screens measuring about 3 to 5 feet diagonally.
A plasma screen is made up of thousands of pixels containing gas that’s c...
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06th February 2007
PDAs can store thousands of phone numbers, appointments, tasks, and notes. All models can exchange, or synchronize, information with a full-sized computer. To do this, you connect the PDA to your computer via a cradle or cable. For models that run on rech...
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06th February 2007
A multifunction device offers versatility and affordability. You get a printer, scanner, copier, and sometimes a fax machine in a package that's just a little larger than a regular printer. These devices have improved over the past few years, so even a ho...
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06th February 2007
Portable MP3 players store digital music in their internal memories, on removable storage media, or a combination of both. You don’t buy prerecorded discs or tapes, but instead, create your own digital files on a computer using software often supplied w...
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06th February 2007
Deciding whether to buy a flat-panel LCD or a standard, fairly fat CRT monitor comes down to this: Do you need more space on the surface of your desk or on the screen? If freeing up space on your desk is the priority, an LCD is the clear choice. But since...
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06th February 2007
Once available only with small screens, LCD TVs now come with screens as large as 50 inches (and climbing), which makes them suitable for a household’s primary TV set. Regardless of screen size, these TVs are only a few inches thick, giving them a small...
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18th January 2007
The DVD has come to dominate video even more quickly than the CD conquered audio in the 1980s. Along with changing what we watch--discs rather than tapes--DVDs are changing how we watch. The digital format makes it easy to go directly to desired sections ...
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