How-To Guides from Gadget Hacks: Page 222

This OzLabs video demonstrates how to build an LED sign using their flatheaded LED strips.

This shows the simple steps to making some sweet and strong led glowsticks.

How to make a streaming mp3 Internet music player using Snapdrive.net

Feel like there's something missing from your life? Just hop on Google, and follow these simple steps to pinpoint whatever you're looking for in a jiffy.

Sure you could take $2.50 and just buy some batteries, but how much fun would that be? Watch this video to learn how to make a coin battery.

This video shows you how to get unbanned from Stickam - not the IP/Account ban, but the computer ban.

Don't throw out those old components. Here's how to make a USB-powered fan out of old computer parts.

A cPanel video on how to use the top row of cPanel (your websites Control Panel), Mail, Webmail, Changing passwords, parked domains and addon domains!

Email is one of the most popular ways to communicate. A web based email account may be for you if you often find yourself at different computers, and need access to email via the Internet. Here you can find which web based account (Gmail, Hotmail,Yahoo, MSN, ect...) will suit your needs.

How to use the Evolution Setup Assistant to set up your mail account in Ubuntu Linux.

In this episode we show you how to import pictures off of your Bluetooth capable cellphone and onto an iMac. Should you buy a digital camera or camcorder? What features should you look for? The techies give their input on what to look for in making those decisions. Along the same theme, the techies offer some suggestions on where to buy electronics including digital cameras and camcorders. (31min 59sec)

This three part tutorial covers how to use Google Earth - including some cool features you may not know about. The first part goes over the basics, the second part shows you how to import higher resolution images and textures, and the third part shows you how to add placemarks, calculate distances, add overlays, etc.

Installing FlashGot and BitComet allows you to pause and resume big downloads from the point you left off.

A pre-release version of fring for the iPhone available from fring.com. This is a great App that lets you use your iPhone to instant message or Skype. Never pay for international calls again!! This is the new release for 1.1.4 Jailbroken phones.

This week, Windell Oskay of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories joins me to teach you how to make a super clever little circuit called the Joule Thief! The Joule Thief allows you to squeeze the life out of what most people think of as "dead" batteries!We were inspired by Big Clive to make this project and it's the perfect platform for a flashlight, book reading light, or really just something you should make to g et more use out of your batteries!

Change the mood of any user on Facebook who has the Moods application installed... all you need is their user id and a few tools.

We've got half a day of wiring to build the Wireless Access Truck out of an EVDO modem, a Wilson Electronics Cell Phone Booster, a 12V Mini ITX PC and a WiFi adapter... Hit it.

Calculating resistance and power isn't hard... and, as David explains, knowing Ohm's Law and the Power Triangle can be darn useful when you're designing a project, sorting out power supply issues, or want to keep from burning your car down.

Kevin Rose is joined by John Todd, a well known, leading Asterisk expert, to introduce you to the amazing VoIP (Voice over IP) world of Asterisk, the open source voip telephony toolkit. In this episode, Kevin and John take you through the installation and configuration of this powerful tool, and show how it can be used to give anyone complete control over their phone experiences, such as voice over wifi, eliminating phone costs, choosing from hundreds of VoIP providers, creating your own...

Learn how test and improve the speed of your DSL Internet connection.