Gadget Hacks How-Tos

How To: Apple's Big TV App Update Gives You 10 New Features and Changes to Enhance Your Viewing Experience

How To: See Passwords for Wi-Fi Networks You've Connected Your Android Device To

How To: Always-Updated List of Apps That Support the Camera Control Button on iPhone 16 Series Models

How To: Clone Any Android App on Your Samsung Galaxy Phone Without Using Any Third-Party Tools

How To: 19 Harry Potter Spells Your Android Phone Can Cast Using Google Assistant

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.

How To: Find cool things in Google

If you are bored and surfing the internet, check out all the strange and hidden features of Google. Here are all the entries to type in google : google bearshare, google gothic, google linux, google l33t, google ewmew, xx-klingon, xx-piglatin, google bsd, google easter egg, google mozilla, google gizoogle. Find cool things in Google.

How To: Editing physical locations in Google Maps

Now you can edit the physical location of any address in the US in Google Maps. You can correct your home, your business, or even your favorite park. Try it at maps.google.com

How To: Check & fix your address on Google Maps

Now you can make sure your home address is in the right location on Google Maps. If it's not, you can move it to the correct spot. Try it at maps.google.com!!

How To: DeAuthenticate wireless stations

This video shows how to Deauthenticate (kick off) wireless stations. This video is for educational reasons only.

How To: Sniff passwords with Ettercap

How to hack a network by sniffing passwords with Ettercap software.

How To: Setting up a .com domain name with XAMPP

How to use XAMPP to set up a .com domain name for yourself.

How To: Get into Internet Marketing

A Look into Internet Marketing including common pitfalls to avoid and how to build a userbase. Part 1 of 2 - How to Get into Internet Marketing.

How To: Hack together a gun attachment for the Wii

These are two gun designs that can be used with the wiimote. Both are pretty easy to make, and modify. Let me know what you think.

How To: Build a computer controlled party light

Build a computer controller party light that is effected by music.

How To: Hack a network by sniffing VOIP

In this episode we demonstrate how to sniff Voice Over IP (VOIP) conversations, which basically means how to tap an Internet phone.

How To: Make a clock projector

Time flies. Particularly when it's projected. The magical box in this how-to uses light and mirrors to project the image of a working clock face on any wall. To build your own working clock projector, you'll need the following materials: a mirror, a jeweler's loupe, a clock and a flashlight. For detailed, step-by-step instructions on the assembly process, and to get started on this Daliesque hack yourself, take a look!

How To: Make a USB smoke absorber

This hack with a USB fan uses activated charcoal to clean air of harmful smoke. Now you can have a cigarette while using the computer and not worry about smoking up the room. Make a USB smoke absorber.

How To: Brighten a lightbulb

Hit the lightbulb with a rubber ball and it will magically become brighter. Anybody know how this works?

How To: Make USB air conditioning

Wondering how to most effectively combine ice cubes and a simple USB-powered computer fan into a fully functioning air conditioning system? In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to hack a coffee can and USB-powered fan into a simple, but effective, air conditioning unit. For detailed instructions on hacking together your own tin-can AC unit, watch this über-short how-to.

How To: Hack a cell phone to add a light sensitive alarm

Open up your mobile phone and solder on a light sensing resistor to make an alarm go off when the phone is in the light. Possible uses?

How To: Make a USB flashlight

Use a few simple household items to make a flashlight powered by you computer through the USB port.

How To: Change the LCD screen on a Nokia 7373 cell phone

Watch this video to learn how to replace your Nokia 7373 cell phone LCD screen. This method can also be used to change the top housing or fascia.

How To: Change the LCD screen on a Sony Ericsson W880 phone

Watch this video to learn how to change the LCD screen on a Sony Ericsson W880 / W880i cell phone.

How To: Change the LCD screen on a Sony Ericsson W300 phone

watch this video to learn how to replace the LCD screen on your Sony Ericsson W300 / W300i cell phone.

How To: Change the LCD screen on your Nokia N95 cell phone

Watch this video to learn how to change the LCD screen on your Nokia N95 cell phone.

How To: Change the face plate on the Nokia N95 cell phone

Watch this video to learn how to change the fascia, or face plate, on your Nokia N95 cell phone with a T5 Screwdriver.

How To: Make a car cell phone holder out of an old CD

Craft a mobile phone holder for your car by bending and cutting an old CD. It doesn't actually hook up to your car but maybe with a little modding...

How To: Make a cell phone holder out of an old CD

Cut and bend an old CD to make a mobile phone holder.

How To: Replace the screen on the Nokia N73 cell phone

Watch this video to learn how to take apart your Nokia N73, to either change the housing or the LCD screen.

How To: Hack Software & Run a Trial Program Forever

With this video tutorial, you'll learn how to hack demo versions of applications such that they'll run indefinitely. You'll just need to modify the date and time on your computer. Learn how to use trials of programs without them ever expiring instead of buying the real thing with the hack outlined in this how-to video.

How To: Replace the screen lense on a Motorola V3 cell phone

Watch this video to learn how to change the lense (the glass/plastic bit on the top screen) on a Motorola V3 series cell phone.

How To: Replace the LCD screen on a Nokia 6280 cell phone

This video shows how to take off the top part of the housing and replace the LCD Screen and put it back together.

How To: Hack a cheap multi-touch whiteboard using the Wiimote

Using infrared (IR) light pens and the Wii Remote, it is possible to create very low-cost multi-point interactive whiteboards and multi-point tablet displays. Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. The software can be downloaded at http://johnnylee.net

How To: Hack iPhone jack to support headphones

As any informed PopSci reader will know, the iPhone is definitely a game-changing piece of hardware, but it's not without its problems. Chief among those nagging little imperfections, for me, was the recessed headphone hack that rejected any headphones but Apple's trademark gleaming white buds. Apple's 'phones aren't that bad, but my Shure in-ear pair is better for blocking out noise on the subway (and my Grado SR60s are better for listening at home). Thankfully, an easy solution to this prob...

How To: Hack together LED candles

Ah, the alluring glow of the LED light. Whether you're looking to create a bit of romantic (albeit extremely geeky) ambiance, or you just want to have some extra emergency lighting around the house, a set of mini LED candles is a great thing to have. They also happen to be quick, easy, and cheap to make yourself. In this video, executive editor Mike Haney demonstrates how to do it.