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How To: Make a USB crystal ball light
Make a crystal LED light from the chemicals in a cold compress that runs on USB power.

How To: Make a Leyden jar static electricity capacitor
Build an old static electricity capacitor which will shock the electricity of your TV or computer screen. The full discharge of this Leyden jar can be deadly. Make it smaller if you want to try with your kids.

How To: Build an android head for $30
This android can talk, listen,and, with some tuning with a voice recognizer software, it will open and close many different applications.

How To: Make an Eggstractor to peel boiled eggs
Very useful way to peel an boiled egg. With this homemade gadget you can peel over 50 eggs in a minute.

How To: Make a homemade anti-gravity toy (FAKE?)
F for FAKE. This video has been labeled a "Faux-To". Commonly contested as bogus science, we believe this video to be a hoax. What's your opinion? Comment below.

How To: Build a beer cooling machine
Build a machine that will cool beer in as fast as 6 seconds using an Airduster can of compressed air.

How To: Use Sirius Direct in a BMW with navigation
This video shows you how to operate a BSW Sirius Direct kit in a BMW 3 series/M3 (E46) with navigation.

How To: Use voice commands with BMW Bluetooth and navigation
This tutorial shows you how to use voice commands with BMW Bluetooth and navigation. This video pertains in particular to the BMW 3 series/M3 (E46).

How To: Dial using a bluetooth system in a BMW with navigation
This video shows you how to dial using a bluetooth system in a BMW 3 series/M3 (E46) with navigation.

How To: Pair a phone with a BMW bluetooth kit with navigation
This video shows you how to pair your phone with your BMW bluetooth integration kit in a 3 series with navigation.

How To: Prank people with a fake webcam made on MSN
Learn how to do a fake webcam on msn with Splitcam! Learn all the configurations. Easy and simple , can be use to play any video. Watch and learn.

How To: Program voice dialing in a BMW bluetooth module
This video will guide you through setting up voice dialing on a BSW bluetooth system in a BMW.

How To: Pair your phone and BMW bluetooth retrofit kit
This video will guide you through the pairing process of the OEM BMW bluetooth retrofit kit.

How To: Use a BSW bluetooth system in a BMW
This video will cover using your OEM BSW Bluetooth Retrofit kit in your BMW.

How To: Access a hidden menu on a Verizon Motorola V3m Razor
Use a special code to access a special system menu inside of a Verizon Motoroloa V3m Razr cell phone. Access a hidden menu on a Verizon Motorola V3m Razor - Part 1 of 2.

How To: Test any TV remote
Simple test using a cell phone camera to test to see if any TV remote or other infra-red device is working. Test any TV remote.

How To: Make your own PS3 sixaxis-style USB controller
How to make your own "PS3 6-axis controller" style BASIC-programmable USB device.

How To: Make a CAT 5 LAN cable
Directions on creating a LAN cable with an RJ45 cable

How To: Make an LED sign
Learn how to make a sign using a large perforated board and about 50 LEDs. Looks

How To: Make a cheap heads-up display (HUD)
It may be intended as a toy, but this gizmo can be hacked for more than just watching a remote-controlled car's video spy cam. This HUD (heads-up display) comes with the Wild Planet Spy Gear Video Car, but it's said that you can purchase the video headset separately. And it's not really a HUD, because you can't see through the video images, but it's close enough to be handy for all sorts of things, like computers, iPods, robots, wireless cameras, and gaming. Who wouldn't like to Call of Duty ...

How To: Hack a camera into a taser
Build your own cheap taser with an old camera and some plastic. These guys even show you the final product's effects on each other.

How To: Shut off your alarm clock with a light phaser
We'll base the project around a digital clock radio and a light gun for gaming; huge selections of both of these are available inexpensively second-hand, with many beautiful and well-designed examples. To enable our FPSI (First Person Shooter Interface), we'll outfit the gun with five tilt sensors, arranged at different angles on a small circuit board. A cable tethers the gun to the clock and carries your tilt and trigger signals to the clock's time and alarm control button contacts.

How To: Transform a camera into a taser
This is a long form tutorial on exactly how to disassemble the disposable camera to make a shocking taser. Make a tazer or taser using simple things at like a disposable camera and some simple hack sense. This prank is great to pull on an unassuming friend. Transform a camera into a taser.

How To: Make a taser for cheap with a camera
This is a pretty intense tazer (or taser) construction using a disposable camera and some hard core circuitry.

How To: Enable email subscription in Drupal
How to enable email based subscription for your drupal blogs using feedburner feeds. Part 1 of 3 - How to Enable email subscription in Drupal.

How To: Use content versioning on your website with Drupal
n this video you will see how to use content versioning for your site with Drupal.

How To: Enable Paypal payments in Drupal
In this video you will see how to enable IPN with paypal and your Drupal CMS with ecommerce module enabled

How To: Enable third-party payment gateways in Drupal
In this video you will see how to enable payment through a third party gateway using SSL.

How To: Create menus in Drupal
In this video you will see how to create a primary menu in Drupal and connect URLs (paths) to it.

How To: Syndicate your content on Drupal
n this video you will see how to syndicate your content on Drupal.

How To: Upload image content on Drupal
In this video you will see how to upload image content types on your Drupal CMS system

How To: Enable clean file urls in Drupal
In this video you will see how to enable clean file urls in Drupal.

How To: Use FTP to move files to your domain
In this video you will see how to use FTP client to move files to GoDaddy.

How To: Use GoDaddy's CMS installation options
In this video you will see how to select from the various web hosting options to host a domain at GoDaddy.

How To: Turn a PDA into a wall projector
A hack for your PDA. Use your PDA as a 13" LCD Wall Projector. Use Pocket PC, videoPod,PSP or others! Watch Youtube clips if you have wireless! Step by Step. Make in under 5 mins!

How To: Stop pop-ups when surfing the internet
This is a video on how to stop Internet pop-ups. Have a better Internet experience by following these helpful tips on stopping pop-ups. Stop pop-ups when surfing the internet.

How To: Increase web traffic in 10 easy steps
Increase web traffic with these 10 steps in this how to guide. Learn how to generate free targeted website traffic and dominate your niche.

How To: Configure a XAMPP Server
XAMPP servers are a free open source server that makes it cheap and easy for you to test and review your website building as you go. This tutorial covers how to configure your XAMPP server for windows.

How To: Install a XAMPP testing server on a PC
If you have a website or do any type of web development you have probably needed a server at some point. Not everybody has a full blown commercial web server at their disposal for development, experimenting, and testing their site, so try this solution: an XAMPP open source bundled server.

How To: Make an iPod charger with an Altoids tin can and USB
This video shows you how to make an Altoids tin can USB charger for your ipod. Be patient, these guys are apparently learning as they go, but you'll eventually get it.