How-To Guides from Gadget Hacks: Page 197

This video gives you a visual walk through on how to block websites on Mozilla Firefox. First, it shows you where to download the add on and it shows you which add on you need to download. Then it shows you how to install the add-on and use it to enter in the websites you would like to block. This is a very helpful video for people who have websites that they want to block but don't know how.

Want to download a music track that you heard on MySpace? this video shows you how to download music from MySpace using the site File2HD.com. First find the MySpace page that has the music track you want to download, copy the URL and then go to File2HD.com and download the music track as shown in the video make sure to accept the terms and conditions. File2HD.com can be used to download music or videos from other sites that stream content so watch this video and happy downloading.

This particular How-To Video teaches the viewer how to use the existing website www.tvcatchup.com to listen to radio stations online. The narrator scrolls through the part of the TvCatchup website that is brand new and has a listing of radio stations available for free to listeners in the U.K. The video offers a short tutorial on how to access the site and gives a description of what the user will find.

The video provides you two easy ways to get onto MySpace at school. There is no need to install anything at all. If you have a Windows operation system, open a command prompt window and just ping MySpace. Then copy and paste the IP addresses you found directly into your browser's address bar. In case you have a Mac computer, try search 'ip address finder' on Google and tool sites such as ip-address.com can help you find the same information. Now getting onto your favorite MySpace will never be...

This video shows you how to easily add a bookmark to your home screen on a Motorola Droid phone. The first thing you have to do is press anywhere on the main screen for a few seconds and select Shortcuts from the pop-up menu. Then, select Bookmark and then choose the desired bookmark from the list. This will place a web page bookmark shortcut to your home screen. Click it and it will start the browser and surf to that specific website. That's it! Good Luck!

In this video we learn how to disassemble a T-Mobile G1 HTC phone for repair. First you want to make sure to wear an ESD wrist strap and make sure it's secure around your wrist. Then remove the battery from the device. Next unfasten the screws from the back of the housing on the G1. Then separate the housing from the device and then the speaker from the housing. Next unplug the UMTS cable and the GPS coaxial cable. Then remove the UMTS board and GPS boards from the device. Then disconnect the...

Phil from droidboards.com shows you how to set a specific MP3 that you have as a ringtone on your Motorola Droid. As long as you have this new phone and MP3's in your play list. The MP3 that you select from your phone can be used as a ringer for a specific contact and can still be used as a traditional MP3. This video will teach you step-by-step how to do it showing you on the phone while talking you through it so you can set a ringtone for any individual you want.

Get the word out on that cool party, or classy soiree by advertising your events on Facebook. The events option on Facebook lets users post details about social events, business meetings, and more. It saves time and paper, and acts as a cool and informative online pre-party before the main event.

The whole point of purchasing a smartphone is the access to your e-mail and the Internet, right? Well, check out this tutorial if you are having trouble setting up your e-mail account on your new device. In this video, Dana from Best Buy shows you exactly how to set up your e-mail.Step 1Go to your phone and click the menu button. From here, click on the setup button.

Mark from Minneapolis Best Buy Mobile Team walks you through the excellent Vlingo BlackBerry application, which allows you to better manage your favorite searching and networking sites from your mobile phone. Mark explains how Vlingo will get you navigating Twitter, Google, Yahoo, and Facebook with your BlackBerry faster and more efficiently than ever before. Stop fiddling around with your thumbs and free your hands for other things by effectively controlling your email, web searching,...

In this tutorial, you are shown very simple steps to put live chat option on your website. In this video web designer Jeff shows you how to put free Yahoo live chat on your website in very easy steps. This tutorial will change your website look more effective and useful. This tutorial shown in very detailed explanation about creating live chat box on your website. He shows a live demo creating professional chat box on your website, but also shows that you can create your live chat box per your...

Call internationally from a cell phone

This video is about understanding the basics of selling on eBay. Your feedback rating is very important. Buyers rate you on their purchase, the quality of the merchandise, how quickly it arrived, and the information you provided. Research prices on eBay. If the item is priced $2.99, and there are "0" bids, it's the starting price. If there are 8 bids, and the price is $12.99, the item was bid up to $12.99. Click on the item link below the picture, and it will bring up the bid history. You...

In this tutorial the author shows us how to make your own 'Subscribe' ASCII text for your channel. He says that almost every one has that text on their channels but they usually copy it from somewhere else. So in this video the author how to do this using a web application called ASCII Generator which is found at http://www.network-science.de/ascii. He goes on and shows how to generate that ASCII text using the different configurations and settings available in that web application. He shows...

This video shows you how to easily turn JavaScript on in Firefox. The first thing you have to do is open Firefox, click the Tools tab in the upper menu and then choose Options. After this, you have to select the Content tab. Then, simply check the "Enable JavaScript" box. Remember to click the OK button in the window. Next, you only have to restart Firefox by closing and re-opening it. You can now enjoy the benefits of JavaScript! Good Luck!

The instructor, Diesel, teaches how to bypass blocked websites at school like MySpace and YouTube. He shows how to make a batch file which opens the command prompt. Next, he shows how to ping a website like MySpace and how to extract the ip address of the website from the command prompt by using the mark option. Now, you can copy that address, paste it into the browser and go to the blocked site directly. By watching this video, you can easily learn to access blocked websites by bypassing them.

This video you shows how to send your pictures, videos, music and ring tones from your cell phone to your computer. The tutor asks you to find the pictures that you want to send to the computer, and then mail those pictures to your e-mail. We can then later open our computer and through the email download all the pictures and videos that we sent to ourselves. So in this way we can send all our personal stuff from the cell phone to computer without ever connecting the cell phone to the computer....

While it is common knowledge that Thomas Edison created the first light bulb, he was not the first to create a means of creating artificial light. That distinction goes to a man by the name of Humphrey Davy who created a means to light up a room called an arc light. The following video will give you a detailed step by step procedure for creating your own 19th century arc light using materials that can often be found right around the home.

In this tutorial the author shows how to make a cool ASCII E-mail signature. He uses Hotmail as an example. He directs how to find the options in the Hotmail email and points us to the location where we can make a Personal e-mail signature. Now he demonstrates how to make sample ASCII signature. As the signature allows only text the author advices to user a tool called JavE to make a good signature. He now shows how to download that software for free and how to use it. Now using this tool he...

In this ClearTechInfo tutorial the author shows how to install Adobe Flash Player on Microsoft Internet Explorer 8. He opens the Internet Explorer and goes to the website get.adobe.com/flashplayer. After navigating to that website he scrolls down and points to the location where there is an option to agree to the terms and condition and download the flash player. He also shows how to enable the active-x control to download the flash player and finally after downloading the player he shows how...

This video will show you an interesting trick which you can use to access Facebook or other web pages on a school server or other place where Facebook is normally blocked with the help of Google. You will need to first go to the Google homepage and find the button at the top of the toolbar which says "more" and go to the pull-down option of "even more" options. This will open up a new web page. You should then go down to the "translate a webpage" option on the right hand column of results and...

For people who would like to find an easy way to communicate with their loved ones via video or voice chat on their computer, this video will show you how to create and use a Skype account. After going onto Skype.com, you should download Skype, since you will not be able to use this without having the program on your computer. After downloading the file, you should then create an account on the program that appears, creating a username and password. By following these simple steps, anyone will...

Feeling ambitious in the hack department? Try taking on the DIY Pong Clock.

This video shows you how to easily send Video files via MMS (multimedia message) with your Motorola Droid. The first thing you have to do is select the contact you want to send the MMS to. Then, select Messaging in the popped up menu. Next, click on the Menu button, tap "Attach" and select Capture Video. Then, select Camcorder. Click on the "Start Recording" button and record the video you want. Please note that you have only 30 seconds of recording available. Then, simply press OK. The text...

This video is made specifically for G1 T-Mobile users. The author explains to us that there are no instructions in the manual on how to do a hard reset so this video will explain how. The first step to reset the phone is to power down the phone by pressing the end key and then Power Off. Then the next step is to hold the End key and the Home key at the same time when powering the phone on. Once that is done the reset graphic will show up. Once you see the reset graphic show up press the home...

This is a really helpful video to teach you how to unlock an iPhone 3g. Widely appreciated, this video makes it very fun to unlock the iPhone. With the help of this video, even a novice can unlock the iPhone. Also, it is a very safe and tested method for unlocking; thus, there is no risk in giving it a try. This type of video is really helpful for the tech-savvy youths who spend a lot of money to get their devices unlocked or repaired. At last, a very, very helpful video.

This video shows how to delete a browser history in Google Chrome.

Unlock and jailbreak your iPhone! You can either reinstall the entire operating system, wiping all the data from your phone, or you can wait for Black Snow to come out. In the method shown in the video, you can unlock right away. To restore, hold option (on a Mac) or shift (on a PC) and click restore. After it is done restoring, you should be getting an error message that the phone isn't registered and to insert a SIM card. Insert the SIM card you want to use. Close iTunes and open up...

This video teaches how to change/hack administrators Account/Password. Click START and find CMD. Type "net user" without the "". Now type "net user administrator" without the "". Scroll up the screen and find the administrator's name. Now go back down and type "net user administrator *" without the "". Now it will ask you for a new Password. Type a new Password which you won't forget. Now another command prompt will pop up. Just type in exit to come out of the CMD. Don't get caught and do it at...

This video shows you how to easily remove the tracking Cookies from your web browser. Normally, if you use AVG Free, it will detect the tracking cookies but not delete them. This video will show you how to manually remove that tracking cookies without using any software. The first thing you have to do is click Start menu, then search for Run. In the Run windows, paste the following: C:\Users\YOUR PC NAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies , and hit Ok button. Delete all the files that...

This is a video narrated by Andie Petotsky herself. This video demonstrates how to create an album and upload pictures on Facebook and is one of the many videos of the series "Sixty Second Solutions".

Are you new to the social networking scene? Struggling to figure out how to upload your photos to Facebook? This easy step by step tutorial will show you the exact steps that you need to take to upload your photos to your Facebook page. Before watching the video you will need to upload your pictures to your computer so that you can browse through them and then choose the ones that you want. You can also learn how to "tag" other people in your photos and link the picture to their Facebook...

For people who are not very skilled at using the internet, this video has just what you need in order to start and set up a Yahoo email account. After going to your address bar in your internet browser, type in "mail.yahoo.com", which will bring you to the homepage for Yahoo mail. After clicking the button which says "Sign Up", follow the simple steps provided while watching the video in order to get a better understanding on how to create your own email account.

Want to incorporate a web link into a blog or other thing but is too long that it makes it look messy? This instructional video teaches you how to shorten those long web links by simply using Bitly. Follow these simple steps and watch that long web link shrink so you will be able to post and incorporate that web link anywhere without taking to much space. The video is only 3 minutes long but comes with helpful information.

This tutorial will make you think step by step how to add a plug-in (Firefox Add-on) to your Mozilla Firefox browser that will allow you to download videos and music from YouTube and similar sites. The add-on that is used is called Video Downloadhelper. This is a trusted author and a trusted download. To begin this tutorial you will first need Mozilla Firefox and flash. This will enable you to go through the video and help ensure that YouTube will play the video you are trying to download.

This video by WirelessZone gives an overview and shows the first steps of setting up a recently unboxed Motorola Barrage. The demonstrator runs through the basic display settings, sound setting, the ring tones (almost all the default ones) and many more. The display settings include the wallpaper, display back light, keypad back light, feeling, icons, clock formats etc. The sound settings include the digital dial readout which reads out the number that was keyed in without looking at the phone.

This video presents you the character input methods and the messaging options that can be found on LG Chocolate Touch. When sending a text message, you get to choose from the following input methods: Text (abc, Abc, ABC), numbers, pen (handwriting) and symbols. The phone features a normal mobile phone keyboard and a QWERTY one, making text messages easier. The QWERTY keyboard pops up when you rotate your mobile phone horizontally, using the built-in accelerometer. Also, you can create a...

This video shows you how to easily put ring tones on your Motorola Droid phone. The first thing you have to do is plug in the Droid to your PC and open the Removable Disk that pops up. Next, you have to create a new folder and name it "Music". Then, you can simply copy-paste or drag-and-copy mp3 files to that Music folder. Next, you have to disconnect the Droid from your PC. You have to open up the application called RingDroid or download a fresh copy of it from the marketplace, if you do not...

If you want to learn how to block websites in Windows, just follow these few simple steps. Watch this video for more information!

In this tutorial the author shows how to use a proxy at your school and get on the blocked site like MySpace etc. Now he points to the Dot.tk website and how to access it from Google.com. Now if you want to access any website you just need to copy the link and paste it into the pointed field in the Dot.tk website and now you can choose a new domain name for the website. Now you can choose the free domain option in the next page where the new website is setup. Now he shows how to go through the...