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How To: Use the Motorola Droid software

This video gives a tour of the Motorola Droid software. The video begins with the user turning on the cell phone and guides you through navigating the gui (graphic user interface). The easy to use Youtube desktop widget is featured as well as the scrolling desktop that's moved by a flick of the finger tip in either a left to right or right to left direction.

How To: Set up automatic brightness on a Blackberry

Austin from 'Best Buy Tips and Tricks' give out a mobile tip on how to extend the battery life of your Blackberry by using the Blackberry's built-in function called the automatic black light dimmer. This function changes the brightness of the back light automatically depending on the light intensity of the environment you use the phone. Activate this function as shown in the video so that your phone changes the brightness of your Blackberry screen to an optimal level depending on the environm...

How To: Break through a Facebook firewall at school or work

Have you ever tried check your e-mail for an important project at school? Were you blocked from the site because of the school's firewall? Stop the block by watching this video tutorial. By following its short and simple instructions, you will be able to access that e-mail at school and get that project turned in on time. By watching this video, you will be able to access any site at work or school and bypass any firewall that will try to stop you. Break through a Facebook firewall at school ...

How To: Put your Droid in multi media mode with a magnet

If you have a Motorola Droid and want to use either the multi-media mode or the car mode without getting an expensive Droid dock, then this video is for you. It quickly explains and illustrates how you can put your Droid into either multi-media mode or car mode with the use of a simple magnet. It also explains that there is an application out there that you can use to put your Motorola Droid into car mode, but if you do not already have this application then a magnet will work just fine. It's...

How To: Block requests on Facebook

Don't want to see the nine millionth request to join Farmville? Tired of some people sending you stuff on Facebook? Stop the madness with this video! Go to the requests at the top page, right side of the site. Click the requester you received then you can see the options below. Block this application and ignore all invites from this friend. Then click the ignore button if you want to ignore that requester.

How To: Make a DVD stash box

If you're looking for a creative place to stash your cash or small valuables, this how-to video walks you through the process of turning a DVD drive into stash box. Armed with a screwdriver and some time, this video gives detailed step-by-step instruction on talking apart your DVD drive and reassembling it. The video includes helpful hints to make this stash box look and function in an authentic manner. This DVD stash box video will not only help keep your stuff safe, but you may even feel a ...

How To: Restrict users from seeing your content on Facebook

Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites out there, so make sure you are being safe! Susan Kline shows you in her Facebook Essential Training series how to Restrict certain aspects of your profile. Login to Facebook and view your Privacy Settings. From there you can pick your About Me, Personal information, Wall Post, Photos and more and restrict showing it to people. You can pick everyone, certain friend lists, Networks, and even individualize it down to one person.

How To: Call voicemail with one key on your BlackBerry

In the GetConnected TV show BlackBerry expert Darci Larocque from Swirl Solutions gives an easy tip on how to call voicemail directly with one (1) key. This option can be seen in other cell phones also, but in a BlackBerry you can set a password for this. Hold the green button or call log , go to menu - Voice Mail, set your password, click escape and save. Now when you dial No.1 or hold it down you go directly to your voicemail.

How To: Watch movies for free on the Internet

PCRescue Repair shows you how to be able to watch movies on the internet. What's special about this video though, is that he shows you how to watch them for free. He directs you to a website that gives you the ability to watch a variety of movies for free, right from the comfort of your home. From his own personal experience in using this particular website that he sends you to, he can explain in detail where to go, and how to locate the movies that you might be interested in. If you're bored...

How To: Find webcams from across the world with Tekzilla

This video tutorial is about using Google Maps and the features in it. Google Maps help us to find the geography and even the traffic situations of a city. Google maps also provide a street view option that helps us to see how a place actually looks like from the ground. Neither of these views are real time. But now, Google Maps has added in a new option, which is the webcam. Just click on the more option in between traffic and map option. In the list that appears, just tick the webcam option...

How To: Create website traffic via web optimization

There's 6 small techniques to improving traffic on your website via web optimization. Improving your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the key to getting traffic to your site, especially a small business that needs to compete online. Lincoln explains 6 small business marketing strategies for improving your web traffic and small business SEO. Watch both parts of this video series.

How To: Delete browser cookies In Mozilla Firefox

Deleting cookies in Firefox is pretty easy. Start by opening your Firefox browser. You will click a series of tabs to delete all or part of the cookies on your computer. Click the ‘Tools’ tab and go to ‘Options’. In the ‘Options’ box choose ‘Privacy’. Look for the ‘Cookies’ section of the box and choose ‘Show Cookies’. That will bring up a list of all the cookies on your computer. Choose ‘Remove Cookies’ or ‘Remove All Cookies’. Then close everything and restart Firefox and you are all finished.

How To: Minimize your icons on the iPhone SpringBoard

Want to make maximum use of your iphone/ipod-touch screen? Shrink is a software that does this by reducing the size of the application icons down to 75%, 66%, 50%, 33% or the ultra small 25% of it's original size. This video highlights the user friendliness of this app and the ease of switching from one icon size to another. There's also a mod to increase the size of the icons to increase the accessability for people with vision impediments. The iphone on the video is displayed using DemoGod ...

How To: Browse the Internet at work

Learn how to browse the Internet at work and get away with it. Load Excel (Any version will do). Click on the Data tab. Click 'Import External Data'. Click 'New Web Query'. Once the window has loaded, click through the prompts, selecting Yes. When the window has loaded completely, go to your favorite website in any browser you want. For this example, Twitter is used. Go to the RSS Feed and copy the link that appears at the top. Paste the link into Excel and click the Import button. Accept any...

How To: Enable MMS for your iphone

YouTube user diabeticHOWIE instructs you on how to enable MMS (Multimedia Messaging) for your iPhone 3G or 3GS. He claims that this may not work for the first generation iPhone. Using his step-by-step tutorial, you will be able to send multimedia messages to your friends and family.

How To: Set up the Internet for T-Mobile on an iPhone clone

Learn how to set up the Internet for T-Mobile on an iPhone clone. First you need to create a GPRS data account and a WAP profile for T mobile to bring up the service icon. Then click the data account button, then the GPRS button, then chose the correct account for you, change the APN to Link (all lower case). Before you finish this process make sure the user name and password fields are blank.

How To: Bypass school web filters

Learn how you would bypass a school’s web filters so that you can go to content sites that are always blocked in examples of YouTube. Click the ‘Start’ button and then click on ‘Run’ and type in cmd and hit enter on your keyboard. This will bring up a command prompt where you type in ‘ping’ and then when that populates the next prompt you enter in the website to bring up the IP address. By entering the populated number you can get into a website from the search field of a web browser. It incl...

How To: Upload videos to YouTube in 1080p HD

It is quite simple to upload a 1080p HD video on YouTube. Using the Camtasia Studio software, you convert the video to the 1080p HD format. While the video is being converted, you can create your YouTube account or log in, since you need an account to upload videos. Then after the video is completed you upload to YouTube, by logging in and clicking on "Upload Video". When uploaded you enable the HD function to the video. And don´t forget the keywords, or your video will be uploaded but won´t ...

How To: Add the Notebook bookmarklet.

Learn how to add the Notebook bookmarklet to your browser. 1. Simply drag the 'Note This' link into your browser's bookmark bar 2. To see your notebooks, click on the bookmark. 3. To take a clip from a page, select desired text or image then click on the bookmark.