How-To Guides from Gadget Hacks: Page 229

Your Flashlight battery are DEAD!! You have C batteries available. We will show you how to use them as D batteries.

When you really want an item on eBay, you no longer can just place your bid and hope. If you're going to beat out the competition for your favorite auction, you need to follow these strategies to win big.

Laser can refresh your air by kill the bad bacteria and fungus in the air.You can make a cool lamp too. All with the usb power.

This video demonstrates how to remove dust and dirt from inside a Nokia 6280 mobile phone. The video walk you through opening the cell phone and removing the dirt from inside.

This video demonstrates easy steps you can take to protect your cell phone from thieves. Included in this tutorial tips to marking a mobile phone and ways to make your phone less desirable for thieves.

The trickiest part of Facebook's new "flyers pro" advertising feature might simply be finding it. Any flyers you buy show up in the Facebook lefthand sidebar.

Are you the next Michelle Phan? Or have an itching desire to outdo Rebecca Black with an even more awesomely horrible autotuned prepubescent anthem? Then you are the perfect candidate to upload stuff onto Google Video. Like YouTube, Google Video allows you to share your videos with everyone, no one, or a select group of friends and family.

Take better advantage of your Gmail tools -use aliases to organize your mail and forwarding to manage multiple email addresses and locations.

Want to change the color of your Google browser window? Learn how you can alter the colors of your Google background.

Learn how to accelerate your download speed in windows xp. This video will show you how to edit the administrative template to increase you download speed.

These lovely French maids will show you how to find new music that suits you. This video will show you some easy steps to find the right music for you, using ilike.com. Now you will know how to find music that you like!

This tutorial demonstrates how to change your homepage in Firefox internet browser. This will help new computer users.

Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Opera — which one does Chris use? None of the above! instead of one of the three major browsers, Chris uses Maxthon, which he finds to be superior, even though it uses Internet Explorer's rendering engine.

This video is useful if you ever play games on your smartphone and wish to be able to play more than solitaire. Follow this video hack, and you'll be able to get all those Atari classics right on your phone for free.

Kitchen utensils and computers, that's right! This video will show you how to increase your computer's wireless connection using a strainer!

Video showing how a battery-magnet-wire motor creates a rotating electro magnetic field. Watch the hanging bar magnet react to the rotations. You need a battery, magnet & copper wire.

Sick of having ads and pop-ups while browsing the internet with Firefox? This video will teach a simple add on the will allow you to browse the internet ad-free.

Oscilloscopes visualize electronic signals. This information can be useful for tests, debugging, and reverse engineering. If you work with electronic circuitry, being able to use an oscilloscope is a must have skill. Here Bre Pettis and Make Magazine hook you up with great tips.

This video introduces you to the basic stamp to create your own electronics. The basic stamp is a microcomputer that can be programmed using basic to do anything from turning on a LED light to cellphone ringtones.

Circuit bending is when you take an old sound producing machine and change the circuitry to make new sounds. Make Magazine's Bre Pettis and circuit bending expert Justin Gerardy discuss the various tips and tricks of circuit bending.

Learn how to make a functioning battery from a can of soda. I made a battery out of cola and pennies. Awww, snap! Who's got iPhone power at burning man?! Me!

Learn how to take detailed photographs of outer space using a modified webcam. These are some really cool hacks & mods from a guy on youtube. Avoid the high costs of telescope cameras and supplement with an inexpensive webcam.

Are you looking to upgrade from that clunky dial-up connection to high-speed Internet access? Find out who comes out on top when DSL and cable go head-to-head.

If you have a business website, you might want to have separate emails for each department or person. In this Cpanel video tutorial you will learn how to add email addresses and forward that to another email account. Make sure to hit "play tutorial" in the top left corner of the video to start the video. There is no sound, so you'll need to watch the pop-up directions.

In this cPanel X video tutorial you will learn how to change folder permissions using the file manager. Make sure to hit "play tutorial" in the top left corner of the video to start the video. There is no sound, so you'll need to watch the pop-up directions.

Want an iPhone but you think AT&T is too expensive? This video will teach you how to swap out you SIM card so that you can use your iphone on other mobile carriers. Be aware that some iPhone features may not work on other carriers.

Here are a few little tricks you can use to make a free call using fring. After a few simple adjustments free calls can be made to your friends and loved one for free.

Need some storage space that you can access anywhere in the world? Why not use your hotmail or gmail and get free 2gb online hard drive.

So you're on a trip and you forgot to bring a cell phone charger. Don't want to spend 30 dollars, but need to have your cell phone on? This video will teach you how to charge your mobile phone with regular batteries. All you will need are: a charger plug, resistor 2, cell phone, and 4 AA batteries AA.

This is a great way to charge your phone if you ever loose your car charger. Simply splicing a USB cable with an adaptor for your cell phone will create a homemade charger that can easily hook up to your computer and charge your cell phone.

Have you ever broken the antenna off of your cell phone but did not want to buy another one? Here is a quick, cheap way to repair your antenna. This method also helps to improve bad reception on existing antennas.

Ever wondered where someone was located? Check this out to find out where in the world someone is located by using their IP address.

Want to break free from the confines of DVR land? If you're tired of spending all the money to download program listings from your DVR, then it's time for a change. If you don't want to mess with DRM files anymore, but want to backup your system, then MythTV is the way to go. You'll need to build your own PVR (personal video recorder) with thanks to MythTV, and it will end up costing you less than $500. Well worth the investment. The MythTv software is free and open source, so you just need to...

Everyone has a Zippo but if you don't, try making this battery cigarette lighter instead. Learn from the once incarcerated Angelo how to stand out in a smoky crowd with this crafty prison invention.

Get yourself on the internet. Learn how to master streaming video with Blip.tv and Andrew "Action" Schlack. Action Schlack is one organized guy: you can even see him looking down to read his off-camera cue cards, how professional!

In this video series, watch as professional sound engineer Kip Bradford teaches how to make and repair audio cables. Learn the tools needed to repair and make audio cables, learn what kind of solder to use, learn the types of connectors and wires to use, how to solder audio cables, how to remove solder from a solder joint, and how to roll audio cables.

In this series of how-to videos, home improvement expert Amelia Tallman shows you step-by-step instructions on how to install a new power outlet in a wall of your home. She demonstrates how to strip the existing wires, drill holes and properly install a new box for a new outlet. She also shares tips for improving your home by installing insulation using a blower, which should help you save money on energy costs by maintain temperature. By following the advice and techniques shown in these free...

Does this sound difficult? It probably does to most people. Don't feel overwhelmed. Iin this step by step video series it will not only be better explained but Ross Safronoff, our expert, will show you how simple it really is and how to put it to work for you. Electricity is very powerful when harnessed correctly. He will walk you through every piece of equipment and detail of how electricity works and how we use it to our advantage as well as show you how to put it to use on a garage door.