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How To: Repair printed circuit board laminate materials

In this soldering tip video brought to you by BEST, Inc. Bob Wettermann demonstrates how to repair damages that have occurred to the based printed circuit board laminate materials as well as to PCB corners.

How To: Install and solder a 0805 chip compontent

In this soldering tip video brought to you by BEST, Inc. Norman Mier demonstrates the installation and soldering of an 0805 chip component using a point-to-point soldering technique.

How To: Solder a SOIC14 gull wing lead component

In this soldering tip video brought to you by BEST, Inc. Norman Mier demonstrates the installation & soldering of SOIC14 gull wing lead component using a point-to-point soldering technique.

How To: Lead-free solder a 1206 surface manner resistor

In this soldering tip video brought to you by BEST, Inc. Norman Mier demonstrates the installation and soldering of 1206 surface manner resistor.

How To: Use the Christmas tree solder method for lead bending

In this soldering tip video brought to you by BEST, Inc. Norman Mier explains how to prepare through-hole components for installation using lead-free solder.

How To: Prep through hole component for solder installation

In this soldering tip video brought to you by BEST, Inc. Norman Mier demonstrates the through-hole preparation pliers method with lead-free solder.

How To: Convert a lead solder tip to a lead-free tip

In this soldering tip video brought to you by BEST, Inc. Norman Mier explains how to converting a lead solder tip to a tip that will be utilized for lead-free soldering.

How To: Use the multi-lead style to solder an SOIC20 gull wing

In this soldering tip video brought to you by BEST, Inc. Norman Mier demonstrates how to utilize a lead-free solder in the installation and soldering of an SOIC20 gull wing leading component using a multi-lead technique.

How To: Solder a chip component with the point-to-point method

In this soldering tip video brought to you by BEST, Inc. Norman Mier demonstrates the installation and soldering of an 0603 chip component using a point-to-point lead-free soldering technique.

How To: Solder an SOT23 component with a point-to-point method

In this soldering tip video brought to you by BEST, Inc. Norman Mier demonstrates the installation and soldering of an SOT23 component using a point-to-point lead-free soldering technique.

How To: Use lead-free solder with the point-to-point technique

In this soldering tip video brought to you by BEST, Inc. Norman Mier demonstrates a point-to-point technique on a QFP 100 using a lead-free solder.

How To: Do the lead-free multi-lead soldering technique

In this soldering tip video brought to you by BEST, Inc. Norman Mier demonstrates the lead-free multi-lead soldering technique.

How To: Insert a lead-free gold cup wire when soldering

In this soldering tip video brought to you by BEST, Inc. Norman Mier demonstrates how t insert a lead-free gold cup wire.

How To: Solder a lead-free through hole component

In this soldering tip video brought to you by BEST, Inc. Norman Mier demonstrates how to install and solder properly a through hole component into a circuit board.

How To: Use the Firefox Firebug extension for web design

Firebug is an essential Firefox extension for web designers and developers. You are able to quickly target any element on a page to see the markup, the CSS, the layout, and the DOM in an instant. Not only can you see all of this juicy information, you can edit and see the results directly in the browser window. This makes Firebug the go-to tool for debugging CSS trouble. Also indispensable for Javascript programmers. So all you Internet website designers out there, pay close attention to this...

How To: Prepare to solder gold cups using lead-free solder

In this soldering tip video brought to you by BEST, Inc. Norman Mier demonstrates the preparation of lead-free gold cup soldering.

How To: Build a sonic fabric reader

Sonic fabric is a textile woven from 50% cassette tape and 50% polyester thread. This video illustrates how to build a "reader" that will enable the user to listen to the sound embedded in the fabric. This allows you to play non-traditional music from clothing that's made of cassette tapes.

How To: Etch your own circuitboards

A step-by-step how-to video from grooveshark.com explaining how to make your own circuit board or PCB. It's a simple, but long process for copper etching a printed circuit board, so pay attention and pause when needed.

How To: Paste and go with Opera

Speed up your web browsing when you copy and paste links into Opera in this video from Tekzilla.

How To: Easily edit Contacts in Gmail

No need to sift through your contact list to change a friend's name. Tekzilla will show you how with one easy step.

How To: Stop accidental tab closures in FireFox

FireFox tabs features is awesome. Too bad it's so easy to accidentally close one by accident. Well no more! Just follow Tekzilla's handy tip and say goodbye to accidental closures forever.

How To: Sync Firefox on multiple machines

Ever wish you could bring your tabs with you from computer to computer? Now you can! Watch Tekzilla to find out all the details.

How To: Make FireFox spellcheck everything

Give FireFox the power to spellcheck all text fields on a webpage. Watch this video with Tekzilla to find out how!

How To: Multi-line copy and paste in FireFox

Tired of multiple lines of text not pasting correctly into a single line text field? Watch this video from Tekzilla and banish this irksome habit from FireFox for good.

How To: Auto refresh with FireFox

Tired of hitting that refresh button every time you want to update a webpage? Watch Tekzilla to find out how to make Firefox do that for you.

How To: Zoom in on images in FireFox

Tekzilla shows you a way to get those images all fat and big in Firefox.

How To: Use One-Click Paste in Firefox

Make copy-and-paste chores a snap with this quick Firefox tweak from Tekzilla. Just type about:config into the address bar, find "middlemouse.paste," the double-click on the value to change it from false to true. That's it. Anything you cut in Firefox you can paste back into Firefox by clicking on the scroll wheel in-between the buttons on your mouse.

How To: Sort incoming email with GMail

If you're a heavy gmail user here's a handy way to sort your incoming emails from spam with a little known trick from Tekzilla.

How To: Set multiple homepages in FireFox

You can make almost any website your homepage but what if you have more than one favorite? How do you choose? With FireFox you don't have to because you can set multiple homepages.

How To: Check if a game is compatible with your PC

If you're an avid gamer save yourself from game compatibility issues and check out System Requirements Lab. While the minimum specs are compatible with more machines, Tekzilla explains that you should try to meet the recommended specs.

How To: Secure your online banking

A little precaution can go a long way to securing your online banking experience. Use these tips from Tekzilla.

How To: Make Gmail more secure

Are you a Gmail user? Listen up, cause here's a snazzy tip from Tekzilla to help protect your emails.

How To: Make photo etched parts

How to make your own thin metal parts, photo etched parts, SMD stencil.

How To: Make manual pick and place tools for SMD chips

Details steps on how to make your own manual SMD pick and place tools.

How To: Use PageBuilder in AddWeb Website Promoter 8

AddWeb Website Promoter is an extremely popular program that helps webmasters promote their site on search engines. I In this installment, we explore AddWeb's PageBuilder. PageBuilder allows you to edit meta tags, image tags and more sitewide.

How To: Use Quick Rank in AddWeb Website Promoter 8

AddWeb Website Promoter is an extremely popular program that helps webmasters promote their site on search engines. In this installment, we explore AddWeb's Quick Rank Feature.This feature allows you to run ranking reports that are not tied to profiles. You will want to do this when you want to test out keywords and phrases without committing them to be part of your normal website profile.