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Tired of squinting over your laptop? There are several ways to turn a big-screen TV into your new computer monitor and enjoy video games, web content, and photos like never before.

To complete this How-To you will need:

A laptop
A digital television
A male-to-male video cable of one of the following types:
S-Video
VGA 15-pin
DVI
DVI-to-HDMI
A mini-to-RCA audio cable
A PC-to-TV converter box
A mini-DVI-to-VGA or mini-DVI-to-DVI adapter for Macs

Step 1: Connect with S-Video

First, connect a video cable — you’ve got several choices. For PC users, an easy option is an S-Video cable. Most PCs and digital televisions are equipped with an S-Video port.

Tip: The ends of S-Video cables usually feature either four or seven pins and pinholes. Check your TV and laptop ports to make sure they match.

Step 2: Connect with VGA

If you have an older HDTV, try a VGA cable, which produces better picture quality and works with both Macs and PCs. To connect, turn off your laptop and your TV. Find the trapezoid-shaped VGA outlets on the TV and on your laptop. Once you’re connected, power everything back on.

Tip: Macs need a DVI- or mini-DVI-to-VGA adapter to connect the VGA cable.

Step 3: Connect with DVI

You can also connect with a DVI video cable. A DVI connection is a step above VGA in picture quality, but only newer computers and HDTVs come with DVI ports. Connect as with a VGA cable.

Tip: Some Macs require a mini-DVI-to-DVI adapter for DVI connections.

Step 4: Connect with HDMI

If your HDTV doesn’t have a DVI connector, use a cable that is HDMI on one end, and DVI on the other to connect to your laptop.

Step 5: Connect audio

Hook up the audio. After you’ve connected your laptop to the TV via video cable, connect the mini-to-RCA cable from your computer’s headphone jack to your TV.

Step 6: Use a wireless converter

A final PC option is to go wireless, using a converter box and the software that comes with it. Using a VGA cable, plug the box into your TV and install the software onto your computer. The box will then convert your computer’s VGA signal to the TV, and transfer both video and audio.

Step 7: Adjust display settings

If you have a PC, go to the Control Panel and adjust the display settings to accompany double display on both your monitor and TV set. Mac laptops should automatically adjust for double display. If yours doesn’t, go to System Preferences, click on Display, and then Detect Displays.

Step 8: Find your laptop

Click your TV’s video source — usually a button called “input” or “TV/Video” on your remote — until your laptop comes up. You’re set!

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Are you tired of looking at the same old wallpaper on your Apple iPhone? Then get out of your doldrums, and spice things up a bit by changing your wallpaper! It’s easy and quick, and there’s no tricks to it. A click here and a tap there, and you’ve got new wallpaper!

You can turn almost any picture you see on the Web into your next Apple wallpaper. When you see a picture you like, simply right click on it and then choose "SAVE PICTURE AS" in the menu that comes up. Choose a folder to put it in, like My Pictures or whatever folder you want, give the pic a title, and click SAVE. You can collect a selection of pictures that you may want to use for your wallpaper. This is your first step – getting the pictures to use onto your computer.
In your search, you will find that some websites do not allow you to just take their photos off their site for your own use. In their webpage coding, they have disabled right-clicking on their page. So if you encounter this restriction, you cannot use that picture for your wall paper. Out of a billion sites or so that are on the Web, you are sure to find some you like for your Apple wallpapers on the websites that do allow right-clicking.
Another way to collect pictures to use for your wallpapers is to do a search for the sites which provide downloads of photos to use as Apple iPhone wallpapers. Some of these are free, and some cost you some money.
Now that you have some photos to use for your wallpapers, the next step is to connect your iPhone to your computer. Just plug in your iPhone’s USB cable. This will launch iTunes. Click the PHOTOS tab.
Then click SYNC PHOTOS FROM. Browse to your photos folder and select the ones you would like to copy to your iPhone. Then click SYNC. Your photos are now on your iPhone.
Now tap the PHOTOS icon on your iPhone and you will see all your new photos.
Go to your SETTINGS menu. Tap on the WALLPAPER icon. Again, you will see all your photos displayed. Choose a photo that you want to use for your Apple wallpaper. Tap OPTIONS. Tap USE AS WALLPAPER.
Now you can drag your photo around on your screen, or zoom in or out to position it however you like. To zoom in, just tap the photo with two quick taps. When it zooms in, do the same and it will zoom back out again. When you are happy with how it looks, then tap SET WALLPAPER.

That’s it! You now have a new wallpaper on your Apple iPhone.
If you want to save some time and money in this process, you can get a huge selection of Apple iPhone wallpapers all in one swoop at TheiPhoneDVD.com. By huge selection, we mean you get 20,000 wallpapers all on one DVD! Imagine! You can use a different wallpaper every day. You can use a different wallpaper for every mood if you want to! Got a minute? Change your wallpaper!
With the iPhone DVD, you’ll have a whole library of photos,landscapes, people, animals, cartoons, still pictures, animated clips, abstract designs, funny pictures, sexy pictures – pretty much anything you can think of. You’ll never have to go searching for another wallpaper for your Apple iPhone again! And you’ll be thinking of your iPhone as a whole different animal! See it now at TheiPhoneDVD

By: Dave Sanders..

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