Gadget Hacks How-Tos
How To: Make a high voltage supply in just five minutes
In this video you will learn how to make a high voltage, high frequency power supply in just five minutes, and for less than twenty bucks. All you'll need is a compact fluorescent light (CFL) and a flyback transformer to make that alternative energy source of yours.
How To: Make BNC mini Hi-Res cable
If you have a five BNC input on your plasma or LCD tv, here is how you can make a cable to the length you need.
How To: Speed up Opera
This video explains how to speed up Opera to browse the Internet at fast speeds.
How To: Make exclusive, leaked viral videos
This video will teach you how to make successful viral videos. All steps are outlined, such as length, content, sex appeal, title optimization & tags.
How To: Clear your Internet history in Firefox
Have you maybe been eyeballing some things you'd rather other people didn't know about? Clear your Internet history and leave your anxiety behind.
How To: Use YouTube annotations
Watch this video to learn how to make annotations in your YouTube videos. This adds a level of interactivity to your web videos that was not previously possible.
How To: Hack a Roomba with LEDs to make a Pacman-ba !
This is a hack to create a Roomba covered in LEDs that will munch your dust. See how to do this cool mod for the Roomba, the robotic vacuum cleaner made by iRobot.
How To: Work with images in Dynamic Flash Gallery
This tutorial shows you how to work with images in Dynamic Flash Gallery (DMG) website templates. Work with images in Dynamic Flash Gallery.
How To: Install a Drupal theme and configure the blocks
This tutorial shows you how to install your new Drupal theme template and configure the blocks for your website content. Install a Drupal theme and configure the blocks.
How To: Create a poll on a Drupal website
This tutorial shows you how to create a poll on your Drupal website. Create a poll on a Drupal website.
How To: Upload files &change permissions for a osCommerce shop
If you have an osCommerce shop, this video will show you how to upload files and change permissions for your store using cPanel X. Upload files &change permissions for a osCommerce shop.
How To: Scan a 3-D object
In the season finale of Know How, Tim uses a laser pointer and a wine glass to scan a 3-D image of his mom’s head. You have to see it to believe it.
How To: Hack the iPhone or iPod Touch
Xeni checks in with the authors of the forthcoming O'Reilly HOWTO book "iPhone Hacks" (David Jurick, Adam and Damien Stolarz) for a demonstration of how to unlock and jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch. The authors promise to teach you how to coax more out of these devices: little-known features, performance tweaks, and tips on great web-based apps to install -- video game emulators, IM and VoIP apps, and media players that can handle a wider range of filetypes.
How To: Install an osCommerce template using cPanel X
This video shows you how to install an osCommerce template using the web hosting interface cPanel X. Install an osCommerce template using cPanel X.
How To: Change the osCommerce default window title in cPanel X
This tutorial shows you how to change the default window title name from osCommerce to whatever your store name is using cPanel X. Change the osCommerce default window title in cPanel X.
How To: Change the osCommerce admin panel shop name in cPanel
This video shows you how to customize the admin panel of your osCommerce site template and change the name of the shop using cPanel X. Change the osCommerce admin panel shop name in cPanel.
How To: Charge a bulb light with household objects
Learn how to make a light bulb light up with common household items. This is how you make a light bulb light with:
How To: Build a lifecam time lapse web-enabled auto camera
Build a device that automatically takes and uploads pictures of your life every 30 seconds on the Internet.
How To: Build a laser diode driver
Learn how to build a driver that can be used for Red laser diodes and Blu-ray laser diodes.
How To: Make maps with Google Earth
Learn the basic controls and how to use Google Earth to make maps.
How To: Build a laptop docking system for a YP-P2 mp3 player
How to build a laptop docking system so that you can plug your Samsung YP-P2 Mp3 player directly into your laptop.
How To: Build a light bulb
The final version of Build a Bulb, an Edison creation.
How To: Make the coil for the Bedini motor
See how to make a simple bifilar coil for the Bedini motor, otherwise called the SSG or schoolgirl motor. The Bedini motor can create some free energy. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to build a coil for the Bedini motor.
How To: Make a soap mouse for wireless tracking
Tires of those wire two button mouses, or even the wireless clickers? Well, come no further, the soapmouse is here. What in the hell is a soapmouse? Well, just watch and learn, and make one yourself.
How To: Activate automatic reply in Google Apps and Gmail
Watch this video to receive instruction on how to create an automatic reply in Google Apps and Gmail. This video shows the Danish version of Google Apps, but its the same procedure in the English version, and in Gmail. Activate automatic reply in Google Apps and Gmail.
How To: Make a signature in Gmail or Google Apps
Watch this video to receive instruction on how to create an automatic signature in all outgoing mails. This video shows the Danish version of Google Apps, but its the same procedure in the English version, and in Gmail. Make a signature in Gmail or Google Apps.
How To: Set the user image in Gmail or Google Apps
Watch this video to receive instruction on how to upload a user image in Google Apps and Gmail. This video shows the Danish version of Google Apps, but its the same procedure in the English version, and in Gmail. Set the user image in Gmail or Google Apps.
How To: Clear your Internet history in Safari
Have you been on a "Safari" that you'd rather not let others find out about? Stop living in fear. Here's how to cover your tracks.
How To: Boost Your Cellphone Signal
Watch this video from Tekzilla to boost the range of your cellphone, learn how to make your own stencils, put Pownce on the Desktop, and switch to HDMI for low cost.
How To: Truncate urls
Watch this video to learn how to combine multiple urls that you would like to share with your friends into one link.
How To: Get sponsored on YouTube
In this video, Mr. Safety explains how to gain a YouTube sponsor. The keys are creativity, confidence, patience, persistence, and passion.
How To: Make an External Antenna for Your Cell Phone
Dr. Kiki, from popSiren, solves the age old cellphone reception question. The Rad Scientist has moved into a cell reception twilight zone. Lucky for her, she's well-versed in antenna-making!
How To: Build a USB flashdrive eraser
Moujan, from PopSiren, transforms a boring USB drive into a master of disguise with the help of an eraser!
How To: Make a cantenna, an antenna made from a can
Dr. Kiki makes a homemade cantenna, an antenna made out of a can, duh! Moujan reports back from the ultimate DIY event, Maker Faire 2008, and Heather goes beekeeping in the Fringe - all on PopSiren.
How To: Attach a webcam to a telescope
This shows you how to modify a webcam so that you can attach it to a telescope. Just think, you'll never have to look in that eyepiece again. Just stuff this thing down there.
How To: Use a breadboard, also known as a protoboard
This two-part video introduces you to the breadboard, also called a protoboard, used to build electronic circuits without soldering. The first part of this presentation describes the features of a breadboard.
How To: Hack digital pictures to send secret messages
This video tutorial will teach you a simple hack that will allow you to hide a secret message in any digital picture. Who knew a picture could actually be worth a thousand words? Real words, embedded within! For detailed, step-by-step instructions on recreating this hack yourself, take a look. Keep your messages on the Internet secret with this how-to.
How To: Make inexpensive solar panels from broken ones
As far as the world of consumer electronics goes, it doesn't get much greener than recycling solar panels. In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to solder together broken solar panels, giving them new life as a functional AA battery charger, which produces about 6 volts in direct sunlight and about 3 volts indoors. In order to get started on this hack, you'll need a number broken solar panels (which can be had cheap for cheap on the Internet), a low-temperature soldering iron, silver-beari...
How To: Make a battery that runs off water
Make a homemade battery out of things laying around the house. It may not be the strongest thing around, but hey, that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it.
How To: Make a Windows Mobile phone a remote for your computer
Learn how to use your Windows Mobile phone to control your computer. You never have to get off the couch again! Jesus, that's sad.