Hot Gadget Hacks How-Tos
How To: Install and use Opera Mini on an Android phone
Looking for a quick guide on how to install and use Opera Mini on your Android smartphone? It's easier than you'd think! So easy, in fact, that this free video tutorial can present a complete overview of the process in just over three minutes' time. For specifics, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Use OpenAppMkt to get more apps for your iPhone or iPod Touch no jailbreaking
If you want to get more apps for you iPhone than those offered by the standard store, but are still intimidated by jailbreaking despite the fact that it has recently become legal, this video offers a solution for you. It will show you how to get and use an app called OpenAppMkt to get more apps for you iPhone or iPod Touch without needing to jailbreak it and access the Cydia app store!
How To: Make your iPhone 3G or iPod Touch 2G with iOS 4 run faster
If you haven't bought a new iPhone or iPod Touch since the 3G and 2G models of those respective devices, iOS 4 has probably been a major problem for you. It slows down those devices mightily, but there is a solution. This video will show you how to adjust some basic settings in your phone or MP3 player to make it run the new operating system faster and allow you to keep enjoying you device as you have for years.
How To: Unlock a jailbroken iPhone 4 using Ultrasn0w 1.0.1
Hot on the heels of the leaglizaiton of jailbreaking and the jailbreaking of the iPhone 4 we have the unlocking of the same iPhone 4! Now you don't have to use your powerful, beautiful smartphone on AT&T's crappy network. This video will show you how to do the extremely easy process, which involves simply downloading ultrasn0w after you jailbreak your iPhone, then running it! When the program gets done doing it's thing, you phone will be unlocked and free.
How To: Wire an electrical plug in the United Kingdom
Here's how to remember what wires go where when wiring a plug in the United Kingdom. UK plugs have two or three wires going into them: brown, blue and yellow-green. L in the blue tells you it goes on the left. The R on the brown tells you it goes on the right. If there's a yellow-green one it's the ground or earth.
How To: Use a Samsung Vibrant Galaxy S smartphone as a 3G USB modem
Looking for instructions on how to do USB tethering with a Samsung Vibrant smartphone? You're in luck. This free video tutorial will see that you need everything you need to know. (Note, however, that this hack will require you to download the free Samsung Kies application.) For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using USB tethering on your own Galaxy S phone without rooting it, watch this guide.
How To: Install a free WiFi tethering application on a Samsung Vibrant smartphone
Looking for instructions on how to get free WiFi tethering on your Samsung Reality mobile smartphone? You're in luck. This free video tutorial will see that you need everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this Samsung Vibrant-owners' guide.
How To: Install Ubuntu Linux on an HTC Evo 4G
Looking to make your HTC Evo 4G smartphone even better? Unlock your phone's full computational potential by installing Linux on it! This video guide presents a complete, step-by-step walkthrough of the process. For more information, and to get started installing the Ubuntu Linux distribution on your own Android smart phone (without blowing out your phone's Android installation), take a look!
How To: Root a Motorola Droid X Android phone and run custom ROMs
Root your Droid X Google Android smartphone and run custom ROMs! This hacker's how-to presents a thorough, step-by-step overview on unlocking and rooting a Motorola Droid X smartphone. For detailed instructions, and to get started rooting your own Motorola Droid X phone, watch this free video tutorial.
How To: Install Android 2.2 (Froyo) on a Sprint HTC Hero phone
Learn how to install Android 2.2 ("Froyo") on your HTC Hero Google Android smartphone! This hacker's how-to presents a thorough, step-by-step overview on installing Froyo on an HTC Hero smartphone. For detailed instructions, and to get started running Android 2.2 on your own phone, watch this free video tutorial.
How To: Secure your public search profile on Facebook
Looking for a guide on how to secure your public Facebook profile? This clip will show you how it's done. Whether you're completely new to the Facebook's popular social networking site or simply require a small amount of clarification on how to perform a particular task on Facebook, you're sure to benefit from this helpful video guide. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Stop another user from sending you invites on Facebook
Want to stop another user from sending you invites or just block them altogether? This clip will show you how it's done. Whether you're completely new to the Facebook's popular social networking site or simply require a small amount of clarification on how to perform a particular task on Facebook, you're sure to benefit from this helpful video guide. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Change your Facebook privacy settings to keep your posts private
Protect your Facebook posts! This clip will show you how it's done. Whether you're completely new to the Facebook's popular social networking site or simply require a small amount of clarification on how to perform a particular task on Facebook, you're sure to benefit from this helpful video guide. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Stop your friends from sharing your personal information on Facebook
In this clip, you'll learn how to adjust your privacy settings to prevent your friends from sharing your personal information on Facebook. Share pictures with your friends by making photo albums on Facebook. This clip will show you how it's done. Whether you're completely new to the Facebook's popular social networking site or simply require a small amount of clarification on how to perform a particular task on Facebook, you're sure to benefit from this helpful video guide. For more informati...
How To: Protect your personal information when using apps on Facebook
Need some help figuring out how to protect your privacy when using Facebook applications? It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this Facebook user's guide can present a complete overview of the process in about a minute's time. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this guide.
How To: Use the camera on a Verizon Pantech Jest phone
Looking for instructions on how to take pictures with the camera on your Verizon Pantech Jest mobile smartphone? You're in luck. This free video tutorial will see that you need everything you need to know to take both snapshots and short videos. For thorough instructions, watch this cell phone guide.
How To: Use the messaging features on a Samsung Intensity II phone
Looking for instructions on how to use the various messaging features available on your Samsung Intensity II mobile smartphone? You're in luck. This free video tutorial will see that you need everything you need to know to send and receive email and SMS text messages. For thorough instructions, watch this cell phone guide.
How To: Jailbreak and unlock an iPhone 4 with iOS 4.0 or 4.0.1 with jailbreakme
It's official! You are both able and allowed to jailbreak the iPhone 4. And oh boy is it easy! This video will show you how you can jailbreak your iPhone 4 quickly and easily using a program called Jailbreakme that you can acquire very quickly and for free right on your iPhone browser. How much easier could it be?
How To: Jailbreak and unlock an iPhone 4 or iPod Touch fast and easy with jailbreakme
Last week, the Library of Congress decided that it was officially legal to jailbreak mobile devices. Now, days later, we finally have a jailbreak for the iPhone 4, and it might be the easiest such process ever conceived. This video will show you how you can go to one website and jailbreak your iPhone 4 or iPod Touch in about 30 seconds. Do it!
HowTo: Save Wet Electronics
It's one of the most popular queries on the web, meaning the wet electronic disaster is likely a common mishap. There are many answers out there, but if you're lucky enough to have never googled it, pay attention now. You never know when you may drop your cell phone or iPod in the sink...
How To: Take screen grabs on your Android cell phone with the Android SDK
There's a lot of questions about screen capture on Android cell phones like Motorola's Droid and the HTC Droid Incredible. Currently (and unfortunately) there is no simple way to take screenshots of you Droid's screen. There are no applications, except for ones that require a rooted phone. But this way may be the easiest for you…
HowTo: Jailbreak the iPhone 4 (With Just 1 Click!)
Finally, a solid jailbreak for the iPhone 4. Released by the iPhone Dev Team, all you need to do is visit JailbreakMe 2.0 with your iPhone and watch the magic happen.
How To: Fix the page loading error on Google Chrome, Safari, and Opera browsers
If you're having a constant problem with page loading errors on not one browser, but three, this video may be for you. In the tutorial, you'll find out how to fix the page loading error on the browsers Google Chrome, Safari, and Opera.
HowTo: Spooooky Illuminated Fingers
A little early for Halloween, Instructables user faridbayan88's glowing fingers seem to somehow belong in a Daft Punk video. Whatever direction you decide to take the project, the effect is spooky and surreal. Learn how to do-it-yourself.
HowTo: Pirate Vinyl Records
Every once in a while you stumble across a HowTo on the internet that seems too good to be true. Magic. This happens to be one of them.
How To: Shop for an eReader
These days, eReaders are everywhere. For die-hard book nerds, eReaders offer the convenience of a full library without having to sacrifice shelf space. Sure, there are the paper buffs who swear that you just can't take an eReader with you into the bathtub, but when's the last time anyone actually did that? Face it, eReaders are convenient and here to stay. But there's a dizzying array of information out there, so what should you look for in an eReader?
How To: Hack an HTC HD2 phone to use wireless charging
Want to mod your HTC HD2 Microsoft Windows smartphone to use wireless charging—without breaking your warantee in the process? It can be done! And quite easily at that. For complete details, and to get started modding your own HD2 phone to work with wireless chargers, watch this handy hacker's how-to.
How To: Add WiFi Internet to a Sprint Palm Pixi with a radio board swap
In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to add WiFi Internet connectivity to a normal Sprint Palm Pixi smartphone with a quick and easy radio board (radioboard) swap. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to add WiFi capabilities to your own Palm Pixi phone, watch this hacker's how to.
How To: Enable visual previews in Mozilla Firefox 3.6
Need some help figuring out how to turn on visual previews for opened websites in Mozilla Firefox 3.6? It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this video guide can present a complete overview of the process in just under two minutes' time. For more information, including complete instructions, watch this Firefox user's guide.
How To: Make your friends list invisible on Facebook
Interested in making your friends list invisible to certain groups of people? This clip will show you how it's done. Whether you're completely new to the Facebook's popular social networking site or simply require a small amount of clarification on how to perform a particular task on Facebook, you're sure to benefit from this helpful video guide. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Adjust news feed privacy settings on Facebook
Want to change your Facebook news feed privacy settings? This clip will show you how it's done. Whether you're completely new to the Facebook's popular social networking site or simply require a small amount of clarification on how to perform a particular task on Facebook, you're sure to benefit from this helpful video guide. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Keep tabs on your friends with social plugins on Facebook
Want to know how to use social plugins on Facebook? This clip will show you how it's done. Whether you're completely new to the Facebook's popular social networking site or simply require a small amount of clarification on how to perform a particular task on Facebook, you're sure to benefit from this helpful video guide. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Create and use community pages on Facebook
Interested in making and using community pages on Facebook? This clip will show you how it's done. Whether you're completely new to the Facebook's popular social networking site or simply require a small amount of clarification on how to perform a particular task on Facebook, you're sure to benefit from this helpful video guide. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Delete a Facebook account forever
Want to permanently delete your Facebook account? This clip will show you how it's done. Whether you're completely new to the Facebook's popular social networking site or simply require a small amount of clarification on how to perform a particular task on Facebook, you're sure to benefit from this helpful video guide. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Protect your Facebook profile by changing your privacy settings
Want to change your Facebook privacy settings? This clip will show you how it's done. Whether you're completely new to the Facebook's popular social networking site or simply require a small amount of clarification on how to perform a particular task on Facebook, you're sure to benefit from this helpful video guide. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Earn coins when playing We Rule on an Apple iPad
Love We Rule? Looking to line your virtual pockets with digital lucre? Earn coins in We Rule can be easy! This gamer's guide presents a complete overview of the process. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started earning your own coins in We Rule without use of hacks or cheats, take a look.
How To: Get free Mojo when playing We Rule on an Apple iPad
Looking for an easy way to earn free Mojo when playing We Rule on an Apple iPad? It's easy! And this gamer's guide presents a complete overview of the process. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started claiming your own free Mojo points, take a look. No hacks or cheats required.
HowTo: Get All the Ladies with a Motorized Couch
Or at least that's what Nick Homer and Stewart Clyde, students at Brigham Young University, claim. Nick and Stewart say: "Of course we get all the ladies..."
How To: Build a Gakken Karakuri somersault doll with MAKE
In this video, John Park takes you through all the steps of building a Gakken Karakuri somersault doll. You can purchase the doll, but the instructions come in Japanese and not English. It's a good think John's here to help you out! You'll have the somersault doll built in no time at all!
How To: Fix an "unable to create directory" WordPress error
Faced with an "Unable to create directory" error when attempting to upload an image to WordPress? This clip offers instructions on how to fix it. Every version of WordPress brings with it new features, new functions and new ways of doing things. Fortunately, the very same technology that allows an open-source blog publishing application like WordPress to exist in the first place also makes it easy for its users to share information about its features through videos like this one. Take a look.