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How To: Expose unknown You Tube channels
The breakdown - 5 cool new channels without too many new subscribers. What's the best way to expose them to more people?
How To: Make a cell phone holder
In this series of handy crafts videos, our expert jewelry maker will show you how to create a custom home for your cell phone. She tells you how to choose materials for this utilitarian wire sculpture, then demonstrates how to wind the wire into just the shape you want for a resting place for your cell phone, or any number of other items that need storing, including eyeglasses and whatever else your imagination can dream up.
How To: Make dancing condom party decorations
Watch how you can inflate condoms and make them into dancing decorations that blink to the beat of your party music. Pretty clever if you can figure out what supplies he's using.
How To: Build an online radio station
In this video series, watch as Mike Purdy teaches you how to build and host online radio stations. Learn how to get the components and players for online radio stations, how to install the encoder and and streamer, how to get the rights to songs, and how to promote the online radio stations.
How To: Hack phone voicemail to block telemarketers
Hack your voicemail or answering machine with special information tones. Check this out. Hack phone voicemail to block telemarketers.
How To: Hack Starbucks internet, build a smoke bomb
Need internet access and you don't have a login? Hack into a private or controlled network with this tutorial. Thefixed.org also shows you how to build a smoke bomb!
How To: Encode videos for YouTube
Did you just buy a $1,000 camera, upload your first video to YouTube, and find it looking like you used your cell phone to shoot the movie? Well, worry no more...this episode of Indy Mogul's Weekend Extra will help you get the best quality for your video before uploading it to YouTube.
How To: Search and refine results in WonderHowTo
Lucy once ranted to Ricky, "How can I look up a word in the dictionary if I don't know how to spell it?" A very logical conundrum that exists in the world of video search as well.
How To: Find free Mp3s on the Internet
This video shows different ways to save music from websites including using Google search and recording songs from websites using free software.
How To: Make a digital picture frame
This tutorial shows you how to make a picture frame using a Mattel Juicebox media player.
How To: Build a 32 plate 31 cell series HHO electrolyzer
This small but very powerful electrolyzer produces gas that increases the fuel mileage of your car. The elctrolyzer runs on baking soda (4 volts/cell) and produces hydrogen. Electrolyzers in general are machines that uses a direct electric current to drive a chemical reaction that would otherwise not occur on its own.
How To: Convert DVD to web video
Got some home-recorded video on DVD you want to put on your Web site? Tom Merritt from CNET shows you how.
How To: Put web video on your TV
Enjoy your favorite Web videos on the big screen. Tom Merritt from CNET shows you how to hook up your laptop to your TV.
How To: Hack Firefox for better performance
Find out how to tweak secret settings in Firefox, to make the browser work your way. Use the about:config setting to change the tab width, enable pre-fetch, adjust the brower's RAM usage, and more.
How To: Master Google Calendar
Veronica Belmont from CNET shows you all you need to know to start using Gmail's Google Calendar (gCal) for all your scheduling needs.
How To: Swap out your iPhone's SIM card
Did you know that your iPhone will work without a SIM card, and your old phone will work with your iPhone's SIM card? Learn how to remove your iPhone's SIM card - it's easier than you might think.
How To: Search and Refine Results in WonderHowTo
Find out how to use the powerful search functions in WonderHowTo. Learn how to refine your search to specific categories and subcategories.
How To: Upload a profile picture to WonderHowTo
Here is a brief overview of the member features including how to upload your own profile picture.
How To: Solder wires for electronics
Rural Geek shows us a thorough step by step for soldering wires and other electronics.
How To: Set Up and Use LED Lights
In this video clip series our expert, Kyle Saylors, will walk you through all the aspects, parts and options for LED lights and how to use them. He will offer tips on how to work around damaged lights and how to fix them as well as how to set up preset patterns for a light show and all the benefits and downsides to LED lighting.
How To: Make a video for YouTube
In this video series, watch as expert Craig Scime teaches how to put videos on YouTube. Learn all about YouTube, how to sign up and upload video, and edit movies, use a web cam, and edit videos on YouTube.
How To: Operate an accounting calculator
In this video series, watch as accountant Joseph Salazar teaches how to operate an accounting calculator. Get tips on how to calculate sales tax, how calculate finance charges, and how to find the installment buying amount. Use these step by step online tutorials to continue your accounting career.
How To: Activate and sync your iPhone
Just got an iPhone, but you don't know how to activate it? This tutorial will take you though the steps to activate your new iphone using itunes on a mac or pc.
How To: Make your own RFID and text to speech modules
This video gives you a basic understanding of how to use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and text to speech modules. Learn how to integrate your home PC with external modules for security and fun!
How To: Make a fun lie detector
Make a simple lie detector that can tell the truth, or a lie. The schematic is on the video. No, it doesn't work on cats.
How To: Browse the web anonymously with Firefox
Tutorial on how to use a proxy to hide your IP address when surfing the web. This tutorial covers use with the Firefox browser although Internet Explorer (IE) is exceptionally similar.
How To: Hack Google
Learn how to hack Google with this amazing video. This video will teach you how to hack Google by using advanced search operators and esoteric search terms to find “hidden” files and mp3s quickly and easily; you'll also learn how to use Google to hack unprotected Internet-controlled devices like webcams and security cameras. For more information on Google hacking, and how to get started using these hacks yourself, take a look at this instructional video!
How To: Install Nintendo on iPhone 1.0.2
Learn how to install NES on your iphone. Before you update your iphone to firmware 1.1.1, have some fun with playing Nintendo on your phone. This tutorial includes installing the ROMs folder to the right place. Enjoy.
How To: Solder electronics
In this how-to video series, learn how to solder from soldering expert Ken Orlich. Ken has been soldering for over twenty years and will teach you what he knows about soldering, including what tools you need for soldering, how to save money soldering, and soldering safety tips.
How To: Get AC current from a nine volt battery
Mr.G shows you an experiment in which you can create pulse DC current (which mimicks AC current) from a nine-volt battery.
How To: Change Firefox's default actions
Learn how to change the default action that the Firefox web browser takes when opening a type of file including .mp3, .midi, and others.
How To: Create Google and SEO friendly webpage titles
SEO specialist Aaron Wall talks about webpage titles for search engine optimization. Learn how to write page titles that will rank well in Google and make people click through to your site.
How To: Use Google date-based search filters
SEO specialist Aaron Wall shares tips on using date based search filters to help you improve your search engine optimization knowledge.
How To: Create a custom template module in TypePad
When a design is converted to an advanced template set, it is already made up of a collection of template modules defined and maintained by TypePad. If you wish to override these template modules with your own, simply create a new local template module with the same name as the one you wish to customize. To then use this customized template module as opposed to the default TypePad template module, you will need to modify the include directive used to import the template module into another te...
How To: Check your hosts file for spyware
This video shows how to check your hosts file for spyware. This is a valuable tool, if your computer has spyware it can greatly affect the performance of your computer.
How To: Use on page SEO techniques on your website
SEO specialist Aaron Wall demonstrates some on the page search engine optimization techniques that will help your site rank better in Google's search results. The key is to improve your site's SEO while keeping it user friendly.
How To: Get free stuff
There is a web site that you can go to and get stuff that is absolutely free from anywhere in the world. The web site is called www.craigslist.org and the first thing you do is choose your country and your state. Kipkay demonstrates.
How To: Solder for beginners
This video is for beginning solderers taught by Make Magazine's Bre Pettis. Soldering is a necessary skill for anyone wanting to get into DIY electronics, and this video teaches you all the tips and tricks soldering and desoldering.
How To: Download medical records on a cell phone
New software technology allows cell phone and PDA users to download their medical records, making them quickly accessible in case of emergency. The new software, to be available in a year, can even display animated 3D scans. Computer scientists say the technology will also enable students to do research using their portable devices. The software will be available in 2007. Download medical records on a cell phone.
How To: Make a birdcam
Have your ever wanted to build a bird feeder? Do you want to know what types of birds live in your neighborhood? If the answer to one of these questions is yes, then this video is for you. Bre Pettis will teach you how to make two different types of bird feeders and then how to attach a webcam to the feeders so you can watch the birds.