Old pictures can be fascinating to revisit. Lots of great old family, landscape or other types of photographs exist in slide form, and require a lot of effort to look at, not to mention find in the storage closet. With the rise in digital cameras and digital photography, it’s no longer practical to keep pictures in slide form. Copying color slides onto your computer is not only a straightforward operation, but also a worthwhile one....

Whether your original portable media player is an iPod, a Sansa MP3 player or a Coby MP3 player, you can transfer your music collection to a new device by using your PC. With the exception of the iPod, most MP3 players allow you to copy music to a PC using Windows Explorer. If you want to transfer music from an iPod, use a free third-party desktop application such as MediaMonkey or SharePod....

Whether you are creating a thank-you card, a postcard or a name tag, you can save paper by fitting two cards on a standard size page. You can create one card and copy it to fit two to a page, or you can create two different cards to fit on a single page. Word gives you the flexibility to create the type of card you want. Word does not have a built-in function for doing this, however, and setting up a document for printing two cards per page requires a combination of settings....

Visual Basic is an application development language created by Microsoft that’s used to develop desktop software applications. Like most programming languages, VB can be used to execute mathematical equations, such as average calculations used to calculate grade point averages. By following the steps in this article, you can create a GPA calculator that allows the user to enter a grade and save it to the application’s database, where it will be averaged....

Launch the InDesign program. Click “File” and “Open” to open the file you want to add the hyperlink to. Select the text you want to create a hyperlink from by holding down the left mouse button. Type in the address for the hyperlink in the “URL” box within the “Hyperlink” toolbar on the left side of the screen. Click the drop-down box next to “Opens in” and select “New Window....

Microsoft Word includes tools allowing you to create user entry forms, which many people utilize to create quizzes, surveys or applications. The program includes various types of form controls, including check lists or multiple choice options. You also have the ability to insert a text field, allowing people to click the item and type anything. Use this option to create an underline that people can type on top of. Writer Bio

When explaining the process of selling your products or services, a sales funnel can prove to be an effective visual representation of the stages from lead to transaction. If you opt to create a sales funnel using Microsoft PowerPoint, you can easily incorporate it into any slide show presentation. In addition, you can add effects such as animation and custom colors. Make a sales funnel using a SmartArt graphic or download a template and modify it to suit your needs....

One of the main purposes of using Microsoft Access is to create a file that allows you to keep track of important data. One application is for storing and managing survey results. If you conduct a survey with a group of people, whether it’s a printed survey asking for feedback about a product or an online survey questionnaire asking what people think of your website, you can enter the results into an Access database....

A Quick Response code can be a powerful promotional tool to use when creating print media that you expect will be viewed by people who own smartphones. A QR code is a small square image containing encoded text. When a smartphone owner takes a picture of the code, her phone’s Web browser opens and displays the website address embedded in the code. Several free online tools can be use to create a QR code....

Log in to Tumblr and click “Customize Appearance.” You will see a list of tabs across the top of the screen. Each tab contains different customization options. Click “Info” for the option to add a name for your blog and write a description of it. You can also paste Java code and widgets into the “Description” field. Click “Theme.” Click on a free theme to install it. Click on a paid theme to redirect to the store where you can purchase it....

The Recycle Bin is a virtual trash can located on your desktop. Its purpose is to house unwanted files on your system until you are ready to delete them. The Recycle Bin is basically a file folder. It is important to delete items from the Recycle Bin since files stored inside the bin are still taking up valuable file space and any files containing sensitive information are still retrievable. Writer Bio

Facebook mobile texts enable you to use SMS messages from your mobile phone instead of the Facebook app when responding to messages. You can’t initiate messages, but you can receive and respond to them. Unlike the app, mobile texting doesn’t use data. If you have limited text messages on your plan and send or receive a lot of mobile text messages from Facebook, it could cause overages on your plan....

The iPod Touch from Apple functions much the same as an iPhone, except it doesn’t connect to a mobile phone network. Rather, it relies on Wi-Fi connectivity for Internet access. You can download music onto your iPod Touch by connecting to a Wi-Fi network and opening and browsing iTunes, the music store app that comes standard on the device. As of April 2012, iTunes had 28 million songs to choose from, and the list keeps on growing....

Updated July 21, 2017 Pick up the extension. The simplest way to eavesdrop on a phone conversation is to use a handset that is on the same phone line. Quickly press the “Mute” button to block noises on your end of the line from alerting the people who are speaking. Hang up at the same time as those who are talking. If you hang up earlier, you may alert them to your presence if they hear the click of your handset disconnecting....

Facebook helps you keep in touch with friends, family and business partners. If you come across an interesting article on the Internet, you may want to share that link with your Facebook friends. You don’t need to know any HTML to embed a link in a Facebook comment. You can use the comment box to share your find in an instant without any programming knowledge at all. Tips Writer Bio

Telnet is a type of connection tool that you can make with another computer to allow remote control of your system. If you want to connect via Telnet then you need to make sure that the Telnet services are enabled for your operating system. Microsoft began setting Telnet services to disabled by default, due to the security hole that is open when enabled. It is recommended only to enable the service when you need to use it....

Integrated Wi-Fi is a popular feature for laptop computer users, who usually purchase their computers with the desire to work or play on the go. Before this can happen, however, you will need to enable the internal wireless Internet adapter on your HP Pavilion laptop. Tips Writer Bio

Dell Inspiron laptop computers run the Windows XP, Vista or 7 operating systems, depending on how old the computers are. Each of these operating systems has a built-in command that you can use to erase a hard disk on the Inspiron computer and format it so that it is just like new. This process does delete all of the data on the drive, and the only drive you can’t use it on is the main system partition, since you can’t erase a partition that is in use....

Exporting your blog to a word document is ideal for backing up your work for safekeeping, and is also useful if you want to turn the material into an ebook. Depending on the host for your blog, you may need to first export your blog as an XML file, then convert it to a Word document. These instructions are for those with Blogger blogs, the most commonly used blog host....

Updated February 10, 2017 Draw a rectangle with a rectangle tool by selecting the rectangle icon from the home tab. Click anywhere on the template and then specify the opposite corner to insert the rectangle. Click the “Fillet” button, depicted as a rounded corner above the Home tab’s “Modify” panel. Type “R” into the command line to specify the radius, then press “Enter.” Type the radius of the fillet, including unit of measure....