Hot Gadget Hacks How-Tos
How To: Make an electric circuit board
See how to make a cool electric circuit board with a software program and some skills. You can do it too, if you follow along.
How To: Make a great ten buck television antenna
Make a great TV antenna for just ten dollars worth of items you can find in your home! This will make a better than average antenna to replace those expensive ones at the store.
How To: Make a pair of headlight slippers
Pimp out your favorite pair of slippers to be as useful in the night as they are in the day. This is a fun and cheap little project for making headlight slippers, that way you don't trip and fall down the stairs at night, or stub your toe.
How To: Pimp your toy helicopter with a spy camera
Turn an inexpensive RC (remote controlled) helicopter into a flying spycam! Grab their cash and GO! Or just spy on your sister's sleepover party.
How To: Make a Night Vision Flashlight for Ten Bucks
Check out this instructional video and learn how to hack a simple flashlight and transform it into a night vision flashlight! The items you'll need for the project cost less than ten dollars and you get a perfect night vision view. Watch this how-to video and learn how to build a night vision flashlight on the cheap.
How To: Make a security system with an iron and a halogen lamp
Learn how you can protect your home in a pretty radical and fun way by transforming two cheap household items into a stealth hi-tech, anti-burglar, security system! Literally to hot for any bad guy to handle!
How To: Turn your electric air freshener into a bug killer
Learn how to make an automatic bug killing machine for under ten dollars. This works great and is really simple to make in just a few minutes! Those bugs will never bother you again.
How To: Turn a Webcam and Phone into a Security Spy System
Watch this video tutorial, and learn how to turn an ordinary inexpensive webcam into a hidden home security system, viewable anywhere in the world from your cell phone! With a cute and cuddly teddy bear and a cheap webcam, you can make the perfect homemade security camera, or just a camera to spy on your sister and her friends during sleepovers. Follow along with the steps in this how-to video and learn how to set up this spy system. Note: this video is NOT recommended for people who are perv...
How To: Create a cool CD clock out of an old two buck alarm
This will show you how to hack an old two dollar alarm clock and transform it into a cool DVD clock! No, it doesn't play DVD's or CD's, but it still looks cool.
How To: Hack a Mr. Microphone into a high tech spy device
Turn the classic 70's wireless toy into a modern high-tech spy device with the instructions in this how-to video. I never picked up any chicks with it anyway. This is another fantastic video tutorial by KipKay.
How To: Make an infrared pen to use with the Wiimote
Here are some step-by-step instructions on how to make an IR LED Pen to use with a Wiimote to create an inexpensive interactive whiteboard. It's a student video production of the WHS Tech Club.
How To: Make a fiber optic doggy coat
Keep your pooch safe and stylin’, with a little LED. Fiber Optics. They’re not just for humans anymore. When GeekBrief.tv star Cali Lewis, visited the Lair, Techno-Guru Alison made electronic fashion for a podcaster’s best friend.
How To: Boost your cellphone with a coffee can
Learn how to make your own cell phone signal enhancing device! You're reception will be awesome with a simple homemade coffee and cookie can antenna.
How To: Use Google toolbar for Internet Explorer
Watch this video to learn the basics of Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer.
How To: Use the My Location feature in Google Maps for mobile
The new "My Location" (beta) feature on Google Maps for mobile helps you know where you are on the map, even if your phone doesn't have GPS. Just press [0] to move the map to your approximate location. Save time and tedious keystrokes finding where you are, what's around you, and how to get there.
How To: Work offline with Google documents
Watch this video to learn how to use Google docs. You can view and edit your documents offline, without an active internet connection.
How To: Use Google sites to create & manage secure group sites
Google Sites makes it easy for anyone to create and manage simple, secure group websites. You can create and publish new pages with the click of a button, edit web pages like documents, and move content and pages around as you please. Information is stored securely online, and you decide who can edit or view the site. Google Sites is powerful enough for a company intranet, yet simple enough for a family website.
How To: Make a digital picture frame from a Dell laptop
This is a laptop disassembly of a Dell Inspirion 7000, for the making of a digital picture frame. Watch this three-part video to make you the coolest kid on the block. See the disassembly in part one, the LCD retainer in part two, and the system board back panel in part three.
How To: Use a cell phone as a webcam
This tutorial covers the steps on how to turn a Windows enabled mobile phone into a web cam that you can stream over the internet.
How To: Make a homemade laser pointer
Don't buy those $100+ laser pointers. Watch this video, and for under $50 you can make your own that is capable of burning, popping balloons, and cutting things!
How To: Turn a webcam into a security camera
You have a webcam, right? Nowadays, who doesn't? But just because you all have webcams doesn't mean you're using them the same way. And a great way to take full advantage of your peripheral or built-in webcam is by turning it into a security camera. This video will show you how to turn it into a security cam by accessing the video feed remotely over the internet. And it's a really simple solution—you just need to sign up for a USTREAM account, which allows you to stream webcam footage live!
How To: Forge e-mail addresses
The purpose of this video is to show an e-mail security flaw using telnet that allows hackers to send e-mails using anyone's e-mail address. Thankfully, many major e-mail providers have software that blocks this. My intention is to make people aware of this flaw so that other e-mail providers can protect themselves as well.
How To: Pot mod a green laser to increase its power
See how to increase the mW of a 5 mW Green Laser Pointer!
How To: Do the Chuck Norris Google hack
This video tutorial is how to do the Chuck Norris Google hack. You don't find Chuck Norris, he finds you.
How To: Add your military signature to MSM email
Watch this video to learn how to add your military signature to msn email.
How To: Clear Cache in Internet Explorer 7
There are many reasons to clear your cache. Privacy, protection, and performance are but a few reasons. This video shows you how to clear all of your cache except for your form data and saved passwords. This will teach you how to remove Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, and History. Clear cache in Internet Explorer 7.
How To: Use the address bar of your web browser
Watch this video to learn how to use the address bar of your web browser. The browser in the video is Internet Explorer 7, but the process is the same for pretty much any browser, including Firefox. Use the address bar of your web browser.
How To: Make a high voltage supply in just five minutes
In this video you will learn how to make a high voltage, high frequency power supply in just five minutes, and for less than twenty bucks. All you'll need is a compact fluorescent light (CFL) and a flyback transformer to make that alternative energy source of yours.
How To: Make BNC mini Hi-Res cable
If you have a five BNC input on your plasma or LCD tv, here is how you can make a cable to the length you need.
How To: Speed up Opera
This video explains how to speed up Opera to browse the Internet at fast speeds.
How To: Make exclusive, leaked viral videos
This video will teach you how to make successful viral videos. All steps are outlined, such as length, content, sex appeal, title optimization & tags.
How To: Clear your Internet history in Firefox
Have you maybe been eyeballing some things you'd rather other people didn't know about? Clear your Internet history and leave your anxiety behind.
How To: Use YouTube annotations
Watch this video to learn how to make annotations in your YouTube videos. This adds a level of interactivity to your web videos that was not previously possible.
How To: Hack a Roomba with LEDs to make a Pacman-ba !
This is a hack to create a Roomba covered in LEDs that will munch your dust. See how to do this cool mod for the Roomba, the robotic vacuum cleaner made by iRobot.
How To: Work with images in Dynamic Flash Gallery
This tutorial shows you how to work with images in Dynamic Flash Gallery (DMG) website templates. Work with images in Dynamic Flash Gallery.
How To: Install a Drupal theme and configure the blocks
This tutorial shows you how to install your new Drupal theme template and configure the blocks for your website content. Install a Drupal theme and configure the blocks.
How To: Create a poll on a Drupal website
This tutorial shows you how to create a poll on your Drupal website. Create a poll on a Drupal website.
How To: Upload files &change permissions for a osCommerce shop
If you have an osCommerce shop, this video will show you how to upload files and change permissions for your store using cPanel X. Upload files &change permissions for a osCommerce shop.
How To: Scan a 3-D object
In the season finale of Know How, Tim uses a laser pointer and a wine glass to scan a 3-D image of his mom’s head. You have to see it to believe it.
How To: Hack the iPhone or iPod Touch
Xeni checks in with the authors of the forthcoming O'Reilly HOWTO book "iPhone Hacks" (David Jurick, Adam and Damien Stolarz) for a demonstration of how to unlock and jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch. The authors promise to teach you how to coax more out of these devices: little-known features, performance tweaks, and tips on great web-based apps to install -- video game emulators, IM and VoIP apps, and media players that can handle a wider range of filetypes.