Gadget Hacks How-Tos
How To: Backup your Oracle database server in DreamCoder
If you're new to DreamCoder for Oracle, one of the very first features you should acquaint yourself with is the export data process, which will permit you to backup your Oracle databases with ease. For step by step instructions, consult this how-to.
How To: Build complex SQL queries with DreamCoder for Oracle
If you're new to DreamCoder for Oracle, one of the things you may want to know how to do is to is write complex SQL queries. Happily, this tutorial will walk you, step by step, through the process. To learn how to use the DreamCoder for Oracle Query Builder, press play!
How To: Build an Oracle database from SQL in DreamCoder
Working with Oracle, odds are you may, on occasion, need to build an Oracle database from MySQL. Happily, this DreamCoder tutorial will walk you, step by step, through the process. To learn how to build an Oracle database from MySQL data, take a look!
How To: Connect to an Oracle database with DreamCoder
If you're new to DreamCoder for Oracle, one of the very first things you'll almost certainly want to know how to connect to a remote Oracle database. Happily, this tutorial will walk you, step by step, through the process. To learn how to establish a connection between a given Oracle database and the DreamCoder for Oracle, take a look!
How To: Synchronize two MySQL databases with DreamCoder
If you're new to DreamCoder for MySQL, one of the first things you may want to know how to do is synchronize two remote MySQL database. Happily, this tutorial will walk you, step by step, through the process. If you need to synchronize databases with DreamCoder for MySQL, take a look!
How To: Build complex SQL queries with DreamCoder for MySQL
If you're new to DreamCoder for MySQL, one of the things you may want to know how to do is write complex SQL queries. Happily, this tutorial will walk you, step by step, through the process. To learn how to use the DreamCoder Query Builder, press play!
How To: Create a stored procedure in MySQL with DreamCoder
If you're new to DreamCoder for MySQL, one of the things you may want to know how to do is create a stored procedure in a remote MySQL database. Happily, this tutorial will walk you, step by step, through the process. For detailed instructions, press play!
How To: Monitor your MySQL database server via DreamCoder
If you're new to DreamCoder for MySQL, one of the first things you may want to know how to do is to monitor a remote MySQL database. Happily, this tutorial will walk you, step by step, through the process. To learn how to monitor a given MySQL database remotely via DreamCoder for MySQL, take a look!
How To: Backup a MySQL database with DreamCoder
If you're new to DreamCoder for MySQL, one of the very first things you may want to do is know how to backup a given MySQL database. Happily, this tutorial will walk you, step by step, through the backup process. Take a look!
How To: Export data from a MySQL database with DreamCoder
If you're new to DreamCoder for MySQL, one of the first things you may want to know how to do is export data from a remote MySQL database. Happily, this tutorial will walk you, step by step, through the process. To get started exporting MySQL data with DreamCoder, take a look!
How To: Import data to a MySQL database with DreamCoder
If you're new to DreamCoder for MySQL, one of the first things you may want to know how to accomplish is how to import data to a remote MySQL database. Happily, this tutorial will walk you, step by step, through the process. Take a look!
How To: Connect to a MySQL database using DreamCoder via SSH
If you're new to DreamCoder for MySQL, one of the first things you may want to know how to accomplish is to connect to a remote MySQL database securely via SSH tunneling. Happily, this tutorial will walk you, step by step, through the process. To learn how to establish a secure connection between a given MySQL database and the DreamCoder for MySQL, take a look!
How To: Transfer data between 2 MySQL databases in DreamCoder
If you're new to DreamCoder for MySQL, one of the things you may want to know how to accomplish is how to exchange information between two remote MySQL databases. Happily, this tutorial will walk you, step by step, through the process. To learn how to transfer data between two MySQL databases simultaneously within DreamCoder for MySQL, take a look!
How To: Connect to a MySQL database using DreamCoder
If you're new to DreamCoder for MySQL, one of the first things you may want to know how to accomplish is to connect to a remote MySQL database. Happily, this tutorial will walk you, step by step, through the process. To learn how to establish a connection between a given MySQL database and the DreamCoder for MySQL, take a look!
How To: Install the PHP5 GD Library for Moodle
Interested in teaching an online course using your own server but can't quite figure out how to install everything you'll need? This video demonstrates how to sinstall the PHP GD Library for Moodle, the free, open source course management utility, via SSH. For exhaustive, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Adjust Moodle folder properties with Webmin
Interested in teaching an online course using your own server but can't quite figure out how to configure everything? This video demonstrates how to adjust folder settings within Moodle, the free, open source course management utility, via the Webmin interface. For step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Upload Moodle to your server via Webmin
Interested in teaching an online course using your own server but can't quite figure out how to install everything you'll need? This video demonstrates how to install Moodle, the free, open source course management utility, to your server via the Webmin interface. For step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Set up a MySQL database for Moodle in WebMin
Interested in teaching an online course using your own server but can't quite figure out how to install everything you'll need? This video demonstrates how to setup a MySQL database for use with Moodle, the free, open source course management utility, which requires a MySQL database to run. For step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Log in to the Webmin server interface
In this video you'll learn how to log in to Webmin, a web-based Unix administration interface, which will allow you to manage your serve with a web browser. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to control your server with a web browser and the Webmin interface.
How To: Download the Webmin server interface
In this video you'll learn how to download Webmin, a web-based Unix administration interface, which will allow you to manage your serve with a web browser. If you're interested in running the Webmin interface, then watch and follow along.
How To: SSH into a server
This video demonstrates how to use SSH to connect remotely to your server using its IP address. If you do not have the IP addres of your server, you'll need to obtain it before SSHing into your computer from a remote location. Watch this tutorial for a step-by-step walkthrough of the process.
How To: Browse securely with SSH and a SOCKS proxy
As Eric Hughes writes in his "A Cypherpunk's Manifesto," privacy, otherwise known as the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world, is necessary for a free and open society. One way to protect your privacy is through anonymous browsing. In this tutorial,
How To: Connect to an Oracle database without an OCI client
This tutorial will walk you, step by step, through, the process of establishing a connection between Oracle database server and DreamCoder for Oracle using the TCP-IP Direct connection option. To learn more about connecting to an Oracle database without an OCI client, press play!
How To: Import data from Excel to MySQL with DreamCoder
This video tutorial will walk you, step by step, through the process of importing data directly from an Excel document to a MySQL database server using the smart copy feature available in the DreamCoder for MySQL. For more information, press play!
How To: Replace the battery in your Apple iPhone
If your battery in your Apple iPhone is acting up, maybe it's time you had it replaced. Don't waste money taking it to a repair shop though, learn how to do it yourself.
How To: Dismantle the Nokia N95 mobile phone
If your LCD screen on your Nokia N95 cell phone is acting up, maybe it's time you had it replaced. Don't waste money taking it to a repair shop though, learn how to do it yourself.
How To: Dismantle the HTC P4350 Herald mobile phone
If your LCD screen on your P4350 Herald Dash cell phone, otherwise known as the T-Mobile Wing or XDA Terra, is acting up, maybe it's time you had it replaced. Don't waste money taking it to a repair shop though, learn how to do it yourself.
How To: Make a mellotron
Rocketboom Field Correspondent Bre Pettis on how to make a mellotron. You might remember this organ-like, polyphonic keyboard from the Beatles song "Strawberry Fields Forever." With a Walkman tape players, a keyboard, and a speaker, you can create your own musical instrument. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to make a modified mellotron musical instrument.
How To: Modify a voice transformer into a music effects pedal
A "voice changer" can be rewired so that you can play a pre-amped instrument through it like an effects pedal. It makes some relatively freakish sounds and is much more interesting this way. You can still use a microphone to talk through it but now you can rock out through it as well. Watch this video circuitry tutorial and learn how to modify a voice transformer into an effects pedal for musical instruments.
How To: Build a microphone to electrify and amplify anything
This instructional video shows how to make a cheap contact microphone. These mikes pick up subtle sounds, and are so cheap that if they get smashed in a musical melee, it's no big deal. This video demonstrates the amplification of a dryer, a teapot, and a stockpot with water in it. You will need a buzzer, a jack, an amplifier, and tape. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to build a mike that will electrify and amplify anything. Drone on!
How To: Hack a dead laptop battery
Is your laptop not holding a charge anymore? Don't buy a new one, hack the old one! Laptop batteries can cost upwards of a hundred dollars, but with new lithium batteries and some soldering tools, the new one works just as well. Watch this video computer circuitry tutorial and learn how to hack a dead laptop battery.
How To: Solder instrument cables
Learn how to solder up some great, rugged instrument cables in just a few minutes! Patch cables and instrument cables don't need to cost a fortune. Make you own with cable and whatever plug-in head you want. Watch this video circuitry tutorial and learn how to solder instrument cables.
How To: Extend input/output using a 74HC595 and CUBLOC CB280
Here's an instructional DIY video on how to extend your I/Os using 74HC595 chip and CUBLOC CB280. The input/output of a computer's memory can be enhanced with a modification using a microprocessing board and a mini-board. Watch this video computer-circuitry tutorial and learn how to extend I/O on a computer using a 74HC595 mini-board and a CUBLOC CB280.
How To: Build a simple contact microphone for $2
Looking to go electric on the cheap? In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to make a contact microphone out of a Piezo Transducer, available for $2 from Radioshack (part #273073A). You'll also need some sort of audio connector, which can either be salvaged from old electronics or bought from Radioshack as well. This video also covers how to make shock mount for the mic out of scrap styrofoam. Amplify most anything with this how-to.
How To: Build your own computer interface
This video tutorial will show you how to take an old computer keyboard and use its circuitry as a physical computing input device. Once you have this device, you can then use it to interface with programs that you write using software such as pure data processing, MAX/MSP, and Ableton Live to name a few. What you are doing is replacing the switches within your keyboards with others for input devices. Make sure the interface is plugged in when you are testing but it's probably a good idea to u...
How To: Convert a Zoom H2 into a 4 track field recorder
Convert a Zoom h2 into a 4 track field recorder which cane record from 4 channels on a computer audio interface. You will need four 10 Kohm resistors, four 100 ohm resistors, two double pole switches, four RCA chassis parts, some wire, small screwdrivers, a wire cutter, a soldering iron, gaffa tape, and a drilling machine with a 6mm metal drill. Watch this video circuitry tutorial and learn how to modify a Zoom H2 into a 4 track field recorder.
How To: Make a cheap, bright police grade flashlight
Make a $100 super bright cop flashlight for less than $10, as shown in the steps of this how-to video. This flashlight is brighter than a Surefire and is so easy to do. You will need a compact flashlight, a Krypton flashlight lamp, a file or drill bit, and 3 volt batteries. Watch this video circuitry tutorial and learn how to modify a cheap plastic flashlight into giving off a stronger, brighter light.
How To: Hook up an iPod to a laser
Combine your iPod and a laser to send your music on the beam. Easy project that anyone can do, with the help of a little soldering. You will need your iPod, a solar cell, a laser, and a soldering tool. Watch this video circuitry tutorial and learn how to hook up an iPod to a laser for a laser-wired music experience.
How To: Build a laser effects light show
A laser light show is possible to replicate with the diffraction grating effect. Different laser effects can be created using a variety of materials: small motors and diffraction grating pieces, and mirrors. It's possible to create searchlights, crystal balls, spring patterns, a Galvanometer effect, and a spider web. Watch this video circuitry tutorial series and learn how to replicate professional laser show techniques for recreational use at home, or as an accompaniment to music or any pseu...
How To: Use the Samsung F480 Tocco mobile phone
The Samsung Tocco, also known as F480 is the first in a series of capacitive touchscreen phones hitting the market this year. The Tocco features a new and unique TOUCHWIZ UI replacing the Croix UI. The 5-megapixel camera featuring auto focus and a CMOS video lens; are normally only found in high-end or prosumer DSLR cameras. So it’s an amazing feature to have on a phone, especially when the Tocco only measures 11.6 mm thick by 98.4 mm tall and 55 mm wide. In addition to CMOS, the F480 also fe...