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With millions of websites on the World Wide Web, it is a daunting task to try and remember their names or addresses. Few famous websites like Google.com or TopBits.com are easily remembered, but smaller and rarely used websites tend to slip of our mind. Hence, all major browsers provide a feature called Bookmarking. Bookmarking is an activity of creating bookmarks within the web browser. A bookmark is essentially a stored link address that, when clicked, will take you to the destination web page. How to Bookmark Internet Explorer Step 1: Read More

At one point, AOL was a big deal to many people and therefore, they were very excited to pay each month for the account. However, these days, many people are no longer interested in having their AOL account. But, to close the account is a very frustrating process of dealing with customer support. Instead of providing a link to close the account, they have to try and up sell you before doing it. Regardless, there are two ways to close an account. Close AOL Service by Phone Closing by phone Read More

This Tutorial helps you learn how to make some objects of the image colored while making the rest black and white after the colored photo has been converted into black and white. First open the picture in which you want to have some objects of the image colored while the rest black and white. Select Channel Mixer option in the Layer Menu. This makes a new layer for Channel Mixer which is shown in layer palette. In the Channel Mixer Dialog box click on the monochrome option to convert the Read More

With the explosion of popularity of high-performance, powerful laptops in recent years, there is an ever-increasing desire from computing users to use the same laptop computer at home or in the office as they do on the road. However, to conserve space, weight, and functionality, many of these sophisticated laptops must sacrifice in other areas. Many ports that are typically available on desktop computers that connect peripheral devices and extra hardware options are usually the first to be forfeited on laptops. In any case, with laptop hard drives growing to Read More

Nanoglue is a specially designed adhesive that is made to bond almost any kind of material that could be found today. It is mainly based on the concept of utilizing a substance that contains nanoscale chains capable of arranging or assembling themselves. Compared to other relevant materials, nanoglue tends to be cheaper to produce. In the instance that the nanoglue has been set, it would be able to withstand temperatures that are high enough to destroy or ruin other similar materials used in comparable applications. The said adhesive's molecular bonds Read More

Potassium is a mineral that is found naturally in many foods. It is one of the most important minerals as it helps the body to carry out many different functions, the most important being its use in the beating of the human heart. In some cases, it is difficult for people to get enough potassium in their body. For example, there are some diseases that result in low potassium levels. If an individual has been vomiting for some time, his/her potassium levels may decrease. There are also some medicines that Read More

If someone is looking for an alternative to burning video on a DVD, one of the easiest and most affordable forms of media, he/she can burn what is called a VCD (Video Compact Disc). While DVDs are a great way to store large files, especially video and sound, VCDs, while smaller in size, can easily store video as well. The only difference between a VCD and compact disc is that it includes both video and audio files. Most CDs only include audio files. VCDs offer the same amount of storage Read More

Osseointegration is the connection between a living bone and the surface of an artificial implant, both functional as well as structural. Typically, titanium is used because it is an effective load-bearing implant. What it effectively does is allow for a prosthetic limb to fuse to the bone. When this occurs, it is as if the person (or animal) has a new limb rather than something connecting to the old limb. Since it is using titanium, the body won’t reject it because it is not interfering with the cells. While it Read More

Solaris makes it unreasonably difficult to change an installed server’s hostname. To change the hostname on a Solaris system, edit all of these files: /etc/hosts /etc/nodename /etc/hostname.* /etc/inet/ipnodes When file editing is complete, reboot the server to test the changes and ensure that they operate correctly. Note that changing the hostname only changes the name by which the machine refers to itself. This does not change the DNS name or names of the host.