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What Is Geolocation? Geolocation pinpoints your location and then ties it to your web browser or other applications. Most services use the information from your IP address and connected network to match it with known locations. Browsers use geolocation for several different reasons. When you visit certain websites, you might notice a prompt that asks you to confirm whether the site can use your location. If you allow access, the site can use your location and provide information relevant to yo.

What is IRC? IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. It’s a way of chatting via text to other people online. IRC has been around for over three decades. IRC was designed by Jarkko Oikarinen while working at the University of Oulu in Finland. It spun off from a bulletin board system to feature real-time discussions; it gave the ability to see other people’s messages appear immediately after they sent them and respond to them too. Oikarinen continued to develop IRC for some years, befor.

What Is Copyright? When you possess copyright of a photograph, that means that you have exclusive right to reproduce the work, to create derivative works based on it, to distribute copies, and to display it in public. In the United States, when you take a photograph, you automatically have the copyright of the image as soon as the shutter is released (as long as it isn’t a photo of an existing artistic work). However, this isn’t the case if you’ve been commissioned to take th.

Reduce Mobile Data Usage on Spotify With a premium Spotify account, you can save playlists for offline listening. But if you aren’t sure whether Spotify Premium is worth it, you can still adjust the bitrate when streaming music to reduce data usage instead. Tap the Settings button (which looks like a cog), then go to Music Quality and select Low under the Streaming section. Your music will play at a bitrate of around 24 kbit/s, compared to Normal at 96 kbit/s and High at 160 kbit/s. You.

Where Has Windows Media Player Gone? The quickest way to check if you have Windows Media Player 12 (the latest version) installed and enabled is to open the Start menu and search for it. It comes as an “optional feature” for the majority of Windows 10 versions. However, Microsoft now disables it by default, so there’s every chance your search will yield no results. There are also two versions of the operating system that don’t have it at all: Windows 10 N and Windows 1.

Common Reasons for Video Playback Errors It’s often frustrating to find a video file on your PC that fails to play, especially if it played previously.  There are various factors that affect the playback of a video file. These factors are:  1. Your media player is corrupt and cannot play it. 2. Codecs are missing from your computer. 3. The file extension is unrecognized. 4. A DRM decryption key is missing. 5. The video file is corrupt. 6. The online video service has.

Microsoft TrueType Fonts Back in 1996, Microsoft released a package of fonts, called “TrueType core fonts for the web” with a license giving any user permission to install them. Naturally, in true Microsoft style, the aim was for their fonts to become dominant. Although canceled six years later, the font pack is still available and includes: Andale Mono Arial Black Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) Comic Sans MS (Bold) Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) Georgia (Bold, .

Why You Need Recommendations Your LinkedIn profile should tell a potential employer (or valuable industry connection) that you’re a skilled professional. To convince them, you need people to vouch for you. LinkedIn Recommendations, which are different from skill endorsements, are perfect for this. They’re a form of validation of the personal brand that you’re creating on LinkedIn. They confirm what you say about yourself. Think of them as mini-letters of recommendation a way.

What You Need Google Calendar integration requires two Thunderbird add-ons: Lightning (pre-packaged as of Thunderbird 38) adds a Sunbird-type calendar to Thunderbird. Provider for Google Calendar connects Lightning with Google Calendar for bi-directional read and write access. Note: If all you want is to read access to a public calendar, you only need Lightning. First, open the Thunderbird Tools Menu (hamburger icon) and under Add-ons > Extensions check whether you still need to install .

How to Add Music to Apple Music or iTunes Although we’re in an age of streaming, it’s still common to have music files on your computer that you want to add to iTunes or the Apple Music app. You might have ripped these files from a CD, downloaded them online, or produced them yourself. Wherever you got your music files from, all you need to do is drag and drop them into the Apple Music or iTunes window to add them to your library. Make sure you drop the songs in the Library section.