Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/May 2015

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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 1

1. The ultimate Antivirus
2. Can one plug a microphone in the headphone jack of an iPhone 3gs and record with it?
3. Email addresses' peculiarities
4. microphone related
5. Pandora Console
6. ".local" URLs.

May 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 2

1. Cell phone with digital magnifier ?
2. Backup Windows 7 settings
3. How can I listen to the music on this CD?

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 3

1. registry changes
2. Google reviews truncated
3. Is there any movie prototyping software?
4. Deleting accounts on Best Daily
5. Gmail will not "Send as" while using in Quickbooks

May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 4

1. NAS
2. Wanted: ancient Mac game
3. Math behind a page turner effect library
4. Can data be retrieved after a natural disaster?
5. Cold call "charities" using voice recognition
6. How does someone get rid of their account on the website Best Daily?

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 5

1. Is there a Lightning to USB-C cable yet?
2. How could I protect my folders and files in external storage?
3. FL Studio

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 6

1. Android "Identity" permission
2. Intel Inside
3. Can red X be changed on Firefox and Chrome?
4. Best Music making software
5. TLS 1.0 Certificate

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 7

1. The norm of "Save as" defaulting to same file where document was opened from does not work in Excel
2. Can the email service companies ever read the private e-mails of their members?
3. Can activities be stacked on Firefox and Chrome?

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 10

1. How do you attach a monitor to a desk-mount monitor stand?
2. DR BTN200 model

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 11

1. setVisible in Swing
2. Appending to the end of a line in Java
3. Magnets
4. Firefox crashes (and flash player)
5. Testing Router's Intermittent Connection Drops

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 12

1. Android apps for learning English Grammar
2. Why didn't Star Trek style unique tones ever catch on for computing/mobile devices?
3. Gmail and "less secure apps"

May 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 14

1. Default Firefox fonts
2. Is dosbox a emulator or a virtual machine?
3. Is the expression "Data product" ?
4. How can I strip the background music from an mp4 file?
5. Image file becoming Fuzzy

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 15

1. Technical side of WP:B

May 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 16

1. Dictionary and or Thesaurus

May 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 17

1. What type of HTML uses indenting instead of closing tags?

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 18

1. Javascript basics question (I just want to know if I understood right)
2. Websites that disable unregistered users from viewing - how does that work?
3. Randomatic - early 70s computer

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 19

1. Skype log in
2. Celeron processors
3. Spyware

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 20

1. dbpedia
2. Any Easter eggs on Win 3.1 | MS DOS 6.22 ?
3. Problems with spyware

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 21

1. Spare connector on SATA drives

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 22

1. Sending an HTML email
2. List of USB type C devices
3. Old windows 7 installation.
4. How To Split A String Into An Array Of Characters In VBA (Not VB.NET) ?

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 23

1. clang help
2. How to boot from a USB stick with an IBM Thinkpad
3. USB

May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 24

1. Annoying pony videos

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 25

1. Multiple wikis on Bitnami MediaWiki stack?
2. DBpedia
3. How to initialize an array of shared_ptr in C++
4. "Cloud this...", "Cloud that..." and NSA.
5. Preview of dump data before downloading large file
6. Empty Characters Retrieved From String Data From TextBox Into Array Using VBA (Not VB.Net)?

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 26

1. Using old menus in Microsoft Word 2007
2. Compute MD5 hash of string in VBA(Not VB.NET)?
3. Stepping through an animated gif file?

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 27

1. Windows live mail ignores my Header
2. Excel help required
3. Why does IP Address keep changing ?
4. Fedora machine - display freezing

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 28

1. Extracting a graph from a PDF
2. Some clients seem to be trying to connect to a password
3. Data plan, contract limitations, counting the bites

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 29

1. Steps to get MD5 hash of string?
2. Topic was deleted a long time ago by an inactive user.

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 30

1. Cell phone similar in shape factor to Samsung Galaxy S4 ?
2. Is there a site that enable to build and publish app (android) for free?

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 May 31

1. Desktop issue
2. How do I figure this ?
3. Laptop graphics card upgrade
4. Facebook "Photos of" broken?
5. looking for quiz generator
6. Image scanner or digital camera
7. How can I contact LinkedIn and get them to clean up the mess they've made?
8. Formal languages and the empty string