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How To: Excellbook Hides Your Facebook Addiction at Work in a Fake Spreadsheet

There's an epidemic on the Internet, and the disease—Facebook. It's an addiction comparable to a hot cup of coffee in the morning or a soothing cigarette throughout the day—in worse case scenarios, a hit from the crack pipe. If you're on Facebook, you know what I'm talking about. You're addicted to finding out what's going on with your friends and addicted to telling those friends everything you're doing. You can't stop, even when you're at work.

How To: Solder a 0603 LED

In this tutorial, we learn how to solder a 0603 LED. First you will get a business card or card with a piece of masking tap. Then, place our LED on the masking tape and apply posts to it. From here, you will apply some solder to the LED as well. Make sure you apply enough pressure to the LED so it will not pop up. Use just small touch of solder and put it on the top of the iron. Touch both sides of the contact and you will have enough solder on the LED. This will finished your soldering, just...

How To: Use voice commands on a Windows Phone 7 smartphone

In this clip, we learn how to use voice commands to make calls, search the web and open apps on a Windows Phone 7. Whether you're the proud owner of a Microsoft Windows Phone 7 smartphone or are merely considering picking one up, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including detailed instructions, take a look!

How To: Automatically Clear Browser Cache in Internet Explorer

In this video, we learn how to automatically clear browser cache in Internet Explorer. This will help your internet run faster and it will also help protect your computer from your personal information being store. First, open up Internet Explorer, then click on the tools drop down menu and go to internet options. From here, go to temporary internet files and click on the button that says "automatically", then adjust the disk space to use to what you prefer. After you have changed the setting...

How To: Use the chompSMS messaging app on your Android phone

Addicted to text messaging? If so, you might want to consider giving chompSMS a go. This clip will show you how to use it. It's easy! So easy, that this video tutorial can present a complete, step-by-step overview of the process in about two and a half minutes. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using chompSMS on your own Android smartphone, watch this video guide.

How To: Disable the awesome bar in Firefox

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to disable the awesome bar in the Mozilla Firefox web browser. This task is very easy, fast and simple to do. Begin by opening the web browser and type in "about:config" in the address bar. Press Enter on the keyboard. A warning will appear, click on "I promise, I'll be careful". In the Filter bar, type in "browser.urlbar". Then double-click on the result and change the value to -1. Now restart the Firefox web browser. This video will benefit those vi...

How To: Change home screen icons on an iPod or iPhone

In this how to video, you will learn how to change the home screen icons on an iPhone or iPod Touch. First, go to the website to download the icons you want. Once these are downloaded, download and install WinSCP. Open this program and select edit. Find your IP and wi-fi address and place your IP, user name, and password in. Log in and then go to your Applications folder. Go to mobile slide show and look for the icon files for the application you want to change. Drag and drop the new icon fil...

How To: SSH into your iPhone/iPod Touch

This video describes about accessing an iPhone in Ubuntu using open SSH, cyber-duck, Netatalk. For accessing using SSH, make sure your iPhone's Wi-Fi connectivity is on. Now open your terminal and type "SSH root@'address'". Here address refers to the IP address of your iPhone. You have to type a password to access the iPhone contents. Once you are authenticated type "ls" and you will be shown with the contents of the iPhone. The second method is using cyber-duck. In it, choose SFTP as the con...

How To: Watch movies on an Apple iPad

One of the most salient features of the Apple iPad is it's large, beautiful screen — a screen well suited for watching movies. This official video guide will teach you how to watch downloaded video content using the iPad's inbuilt Video app.

How To: Change a Facebook username

This video will show you how to change your Facebook username. Follow these quick and easy steps to change your Facebook username: Log on to your Facebook account. Go to your account settings on the left of the screen. Find where it says "Name" and then click on "change" to the right. Type in your new name in the box provided. Don't forget to save your changes.

Get free redirecting domains: (.co.cc, .co.nr, & .tk)

In this video from VvCompHelpvV we learn how to get a free redirecting domain name which would be any one of these: .co, .cc, .co, .nr, and .tk. This is basically a redirection URL that brings you to the same site but with better words o more professional looking. The first way he shows is and then the next one is [http://www.freedomain.co.nr] and the final one he shows is [http://www.dot.tk]. He recommends using the co.cc domain because those get indexed apparently.

How To: Turn your doorbell into a guard dog alarm

This video shows you how to make a security device out of a door bell. The concept is that most thefts happen when people are away from home. To make sure of this the thief rings the door bell to make sure that nobody is home, if nobody answers then they will break in. A lot of people have dogs and alarm systems which will scare off the thieves, but this alarm system combines both. To make this devise you have to buy a speaker system that connects to your door bell. When the door bell rings i...

How To: Solder a pair of headphones

Find yourself faced with a dead channel on your headphones? Before them out, you might take the opportunity to see what you can learn from trying to fix them yourself with a soldering iron. The repair can often be straightforward. For detailed step-by-step instructions on resoldering a broken connection on your own cans, watch this headphone repair tutorial. Take a look.

How To: Eavesdrop with a cell phone

Want to bug a room on the cheap? This video how-to demonstrates how to make a simple eavesdropping device using a cell phone with auto-answer support and conventional plug-in type headset. For detailed advice on setting up this expedient spy bugging device, consult this friendly how-to. Eavesdrop with a cell phone.

How To: Export a MySQL database table to Excel with cPanel

In this short video we export a MySQL database table to a Microsoft Excel 2000 spreadsheet using cPanel and phpMyAdmin. You will need to have your login information for cPanel. Once you are in cPanel, go to phpMyAdmin in the database section and find the database you need to export, and export the database as a spreadsheet! See how to customize the exportation of a MySQL database to an Excel spreadsheet in this tutorial.

How To: Build a laser motion sensor mouse trap

Mice, cute as they may be, are an unwelcome visitor in many a home. This video tutorial provides step by step instructions on how to hack a wireless electronic laser mouse trap from an automatic garage door opener and a computer mouse. Find out where those little pests are going. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to build a laser motion detector mouse trap.

How To: Take apart an Etch a Sketch

Before I built the mechanics for my laser cutter I was planning on using the etch a sketch since the pulleys where already there. I accidentally cut the wires while taking it apart, so I made it from scratch (much bigger too). But I figured I'd post this in case you want a small laser cutter and need to learn how to take apart an etch a sketch. It was a bit tricky. The tought part was trying to take off the case. What you need to do is to pry the red off of the black, not the other way around.

How To: Trace Any IP Address

Using a simple trace trick, you can easily look up the IP address and its location for any website. This method uses a command line command to first find the IP address of a given website, and then uses a free online tool to get that IP's location.

How To: Silence Annoyingly Loud Emergency Alerts on iPhone Without Disabling Them Completely

Wireless emergency alerts help warn mobile phone users of imminent threats to life or property, such as extreme weather and natural disasters. These alerts target affected geographic areas and come with a loud sound scary enough to make you want to turn off emergency alerts altogether on your iPhone, but there's a way to keep emergency alerts without the ear-splitting, intrusive sound.

How To: Quickly Open Your Favorite Apps Just by Tapping the Back of Your iPhone

In recent years, accessibility features on the iPhone have been given more attention by Apple, which means more people with disabilities can take advantage of everything iOS has to offer. These features are also beneficial for non-disabled users, and iOS 14 has an exciting one that everyone will want to use: Back Tap.