IPhone App The Instagram app for the iPhone enables you to find and follow other Instagrammers. Open Instagram, then tap the “Menu” icon. Tap the “Find & Invite Friends” tab to open the Find Friends screen. On the Find Friends screen, you can either tap “Facebook Friends” to follow your Facebook friends on Instagram, or you can tap “From My Contact List” to follow Instagrammers in your Contact list. A list of Instagram users opens....

Digital satellite television from Dish Network transmits through an AV receiver that unscrambles the signal to a high-definition TV (HDTV). Both the Dish Network receiver and the HDTV are equipped with a connection jack known as High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) that can send or receive digital video and audio through one cable. This gives you the highest-quality signal available for viewing satellite programming. Tips Writer Bio

The subwoofer is an excellent add-on component to any stereo system. It provides the deep bass that most speakers lack and enhances both music and movie soundtracks. Whether you have a powered or passive sub, you’ll need to get it connected to your amplifier for it to work. Writer Bio

If you use a Windows-based PC, odds are high that you use Windows Media Player to listen to music. In addition to music, Microsoft’s ubiquitous media player will also play video files, allowing video to be added to your library just like an MP3 file. By adding the video file to your Media Player library, you can have ready access to it without having to search through your hard drive for the file....

Residential phone lines are provided by the telephone company. The phone lines lead up to the Network Interface Device or NID. It is the responsibility of the homeowner to set up the telephone wiring inside the house. Telephone cables with four copper wires are typically used to distribute telephone power and signal inside the house. The cables are terminated by RJ-11 or RJ-14 jacks that can accommodate modular connectors from the telephone cord....

Working with digital video files provides convenience over discs and other storage media. For one thing, the length of a digital video file is not limited by the capacity of a CD or DVD disc. A long movie that was split into multiple parts for storage on two or more discs, can be reassembled into a single, complete movie on your hard drive. A number of programs are available for this purpose, but the free QuickTime player from Apple is one of the easiest and cheapest options....

If your computer or a peripheral fails it might be easy to panic, but there are steps you can take to distinguish what, if anything, might be broken. Printer failure is a common problem and an annoyance for computer users, but determining if the problem is with the USB cable that connects your printer to the computer is a pain-free task. Like any connection made between a computer and a device, the problem could be with the device, the cable, the connection jack, or your computer itself....

While iTunes makes it convenient to load your podcasts onto your iPod, the program isn’t compatible with non-Apple MP3 players. As such, you may be scratching your head trying to figure out how to get those podcast files on your MP3 player. Even if you used iTunes to download the podcasts, you can still transfer them to your MP3 player by connecting the device to your Windows computer. Once connected, transferring is a simple matter of dragging and dropping your podcast files to the right location....

If Grimm’s fairy tales are just too grim and Mother Hubbard’s stories are a little too common for your youngsters, let your creativity fly by creating your own children’s books. When you use Microsoft Word to make children’s books, you get to focus completely on the words, design and images for the story. Word takes care of the setup through templates included with the software, so you can simply choose one and start pouring your words onto the page....

The IExpress tool is native to Windows operating systems. It creates a self-extracting package, for example a Setup.exe file, and contains one or more other files that users extract from it. Creating a Setup.exe file allows you to easily distribute your software applications or games to others in a single executable file rather than forcing them to download multiple files. Not all Setup.exe files contain installation commands, especially smaller programs....

Tree diagrams, or sentence trees, are visual representations of the individual phrases and words contained within a sentence. Linguists use sentence trees to display the relationship between words in a sentence. Drawing sentence trees by hand can be time consuming. However, you can use online programs to help display a sentence tree and then save the tree as an image for later use. Before drafting your sentence tree online, you must be able to draw one by hand....

Disable GIFs Having a lot of GIFs playing on your dashboard can slow down your browser quickly, and hiding each post individually isn’t very convenient. With no option to disable GIFs in Tumblr’s settings, you can use a browser extension to do this for you. Install an extension like Disable Gifs for XKit, Safe Dash for Missing e or Paused (see Resources). These will hide or stop GIFs from playing by default unless you click to view them....

Updated August 23, 2017 Diagonal Screen Measurement You can measure a computer monitor by measuring the distance between opposite corners on the viewable area of the screen. If you put each end of the measuring tool in the corner, you can get the screen’s official size. However, if measuring corner to corner may be difficult to line up on a larger screen or you just don’t want to get fingerprints on the monitor, you can alternatively use the Pythagorean Theorem to measure the screen size....

PDF Creator is a free PDF printer, viewer and editor for the Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7 operating systems. PDF Creator can be used to merge two or more PDF files into a single file, which can then be saved or printed. Writer Bio

Internet access from a private network involves connecting through a router that provides security to the private network as well as network IP management. However, routers that serve as an Internet gateway can also provide information about the Internet traffic sent from and received by hosts on the private network. Monitor Internet traffic on your local area network (LAN) using the gateway router that protects the private network. Writer Bio

If you want to move your Outlook contacts to your iPad, you have two choices that don’t require adding any extra apps on your iPad. If you use iCloud on your PC, you can use that to copy your contacts to iCloud, where they will then be available on your iPad. As of May 2013, Apple gives you 5GB of free storage for iCloud when you register your iPad. Alternatively, if you use iTunes on your PC, you can sync your Outlook contacts to the iPad using iTunes....

On an iPhone, you can be on a conference call with up to five people. While on a conference call, you can mute the call anytime to prevent your contacts from hearing you speak to someone in the room with you or to protect them from sudden loud background noise, such as emergency sirens or jet noise. Muting a conference call is quick and simple. When you are ready, you can unmute the call and resume your conversation....

The Bluetooth wireless interface allows two different pieces of technology to share data between one another. The technology is used in Bluetooth headsets to wirelessly connect to a phone. Adjust the Bluetooth settings on your Samsung phone to pair it with your Bluetooth headset or other device. Use a Bluetooth headset whenever talking on the phone while driving or performing another task that requires your attention. Writer Bio

Playing around with picture-editing software can provide hours of entertainment on a boring afternoon. Manipulating pictures to combine one person’s body with another person’s head has become a phenomenon on social networking sites, so much so that there are websites dedicated to streamlining the process. Doing it yourself is almost as easy, even without the purchase of expensive software such as Adobe Photoshop. Tips Writer Bio

Updated February 10, 2017 Download DirectVobSub. This is the codec pack that tells Windows Media Player how to handle SRT files. A download link for DirectVobSub can be found in the Resources section. Download the version of the DirectVobSub installer that corresponds to your version of Microsoft Windows. Run the DirectVobSub installer. If the installer does not work for you, see the Tips section. Once you have installed DirectVobSub, open Windows Media Player....