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In this video, learn how to use Google Reader with RSS, Atom, and/or XML feeds. Feeds allow sites to "pull" information from the web without having to visit the site manually. It also helps prevent web users from having to go "check" a site for updates because the feed will check for you! In this video, learn how to add and remove feeds from Google reader and get tips on how to sort & read them these feeds effectively.

Experts say that every house has around 1500 dollars worth of merchandise that could be sold on eBay. eBay is a great alternative to the traditional garage sale these days, and with more and more people joining the site every day - why not get in on the action? eBay is an exciting Internet tool that allows anyone to sell anything. Check out this tutorial, for information and tips on how to start your own eBay seller's account. This is a great video to check out if you are new to eBay or...

Creating arrays in PHP is simple once you know how. And, if you don't know how, this free video guide will sort you out. For more information, and to get started building and using data arrays in your own PHP projects, watch this programmer's how-to.

Want to delete temporary internet files from your BlackBerry smartphone? It's easy. So easy, in fact, that a complete and thorough overview of the process can be presented in this video tutorial. To learn how to remove temp web files from your own BlackBerry phone, watch this how-to.

Protect your privacy. With this free video tutorial, you'll learn a method for clearing your Google search history in the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Note, however, that this only works locally and therefore will only prevent those who share the same computer as you from seeing your search history.

Stairs! Step by step! This free video tutorial presents a guide to building stairs in Google's popular online 3D modeling tool, SketchUp. For a complete overview of the process, watch this 3D modeler's how-to.

How to make cool paper cube 01 Take a piece of paper02 Cut into square03 Fold from all the sides for i.e. in triangle shape for 3 times04 Open the page you will see eight triangles catch from middles side05 Fold by catching the middle corner06 Turn from the middle like a square07 Again catch from the point of the paper from both the sides08 you have to make the driver insert the driver on the driver both the sides09 Insert the four driver on the four triangle screw10 open up the sides of all...

In this how-to video, you will learn how to use the website Wefollow for twitter. This will allow you find more people to follow you on twitter. You can list yourself under a category so people can find and add you. If you are an antique dealer, you can label yourself as one. This allows you to be searched for and added. You will get higher on the search list as you get more influence and more people following you. If you are looking for people to follow in your niche, you can type in the niche...

This video demonstrates how to surf the web without ads. The first step is to download Mozilla Firefox. Go to Get Firefox and click on 'free Mozilla download'. Do not select on e-bay or campus edition. Download the file and install the program successfully. Go to Get Firefox once again. Select on add-on and type in 'ad block' in the search tab. The results come up and select on 'Adblock Plus'. Install the program. Restart Firefox. ON the top right corner of the window a small red icon that...

In this video we learn how to make your iPhone vibrate your notifications longer. For this you need an SSH program like cyberduck. You also need plist edit pro. Once you have SSH in your phone, go to system, library, private frameworks, celestial framework, then find vibration patterns. Double click that. Download it to the desktop. Open it. Open up the plist file. Go to default, look at total duration, click into that to change the time of the vibrate duration. Change the On Duration too. Now...

In this tutorial, we learn how to find someone's IP address. First, log into What's their IP. Once you open this, enter your email and click the links that can be sent to your friends. Once they click on these links, the website will email you that person's IP address. You can now look this IP up to see the exact location of that person. There are several different options of pages that can be sent to your friends if you want to track their IP addresses. There is also a page that can be sent to...

Twitter is a powerful social networking website which can be used to update you friends on what you are doing. To send different messages through twitter you will need a twitter account. Twitter account can be registered for free. Log in to your twitter account and go to your home page. There is a text box provided at the top with the text 'What are you doing?'. Enter the message you want in the text box provided. Click update and this message will be shown to all the people that are following...

It is possible to add a little extra personality and ting to your facebook, myspace, or most any messaging system online by adding characters such as hearts, smiley faces and many more. With this video you will see the simple alt codes you can use to personalize your messages by pressing alt + a number.

Selling your old iPhone to make way for the latest generation? Before you get all Ebay happy, make sure to take a quick look at this video, which will demonstrate how to completely erase all data from your iPhone - including your contacts from the SIM card. Your friends will thank you for it.

David Wang of the iPhone Dev Team has achieved what is considered quite a jaw-dropping hacking feat. Yesterday Wang posted a video of Google's Android operating system up and running on an iPhone.

In this tutorial, we learn how to find an external IP address on your PC using different websites. First, find a website that will let you find your IP address for free. Once you find this site, it will not only give you your IP address, it will show you where you are in the world. Not only will it tell you where you are in the United States, it will tell you your exact coordinates and pin point your location on a map. There are many sites available online that will do this, a great site is IP...

In order to create a custom caption box in WordPress you'll need to go to your dashboard. Here click on appearances, then on editor. Now over on the right select the sidebar option. Here you'll see some code, what you need to do is find the word that you want to replace on the main page, you can use ctrl+F to find the word. When you've found it within the code just replace it with whatever you want and then press the 'apply' button. You'll see that the main page will now be displaying the word...

In this Computers & Programming video tutorial you will learn how to use TweetBrain to increase your Twitter followers. It basically links up people who are using this program very well so that every body is tweeting about everybody. You have to go to TweetBrain and get an account. When you answer a question from anyone, it goes out to all your followers. Similarly, if someone answers your question, it goes out to their followers. So, your id is going out to so many more people. And some...

In this video Mike Callahan walks you through using Skype on the iPhone. To start, download it from the Apple App Store. Next, launch the application on your iPhone. It will immediately prompt you to enter your name and password. If you don't have one you can use this screen to create one. Once you've logged into your account you'll see your list of contacts. Touch one of your contacts to place a call to them. There is a call option at the bottom of the screen that will launch your dial pad....

In this video, we learn how to send an email using Yahoo email. First, go to Yahoo and click on "mail". Type in your user name and password. Once you're logged in, click on "Inbox" and click on "Compose". Type in the email address you are sending an email to and fill in the boxes for subject and the body of the email. Once you are finished with this, click "send" and it will tell you once you're email is sent. It's as easy as that to send an email using your Yahoo! email account.

Craig Madox from TubeTutorials shows how to create and put ringtones on your iPhone 3G. If you already own the song, you shouldn't have to pay for it again as a ringtone! Step 1. Pick a song, right click that song, and click Get Info. Go to Options, check start and stop time, and copy the stop time. Now change the stop time on your song to about 20. (Or however long you want the ringtone to be.)Step 2. Right click on the song again, click Convert Selection to AAC. Go to the 4 minutes long song,...

In this video, the instructor shows us how to tell if a device (cell phone or other device) is tethered or un-lockable. Before you begin, you must download a tool called f0recast onto your laptop or desktop computer. After the application is downloaded, you must plug in your device to your computer (Windows only). Once you've done this, a window will show up from F0recast that will show you all of your phone's information. This includes if it's lockable, if it's tethered, the serial #, model...

This video shows the method to SSH into iPod Touch 1G or 2G. You need an iPod touch 1G/2G with Firmware 2.2.1 or previous (Windows), a Windows based computer and a jailbroken iPod Touch which has Wi-Fi connectivity. Open Cydia, go to search and type OpenSSH and install it. Go to settings, Wi-Fi and click on the blue arrow next to the network. Copy down your IP address from the resultant window. Open WinSCP.net and go to Downloads, installation package. Install the package and open WinSCP from...

YouTube videos can be embedded in other websites like MySpace. Go to the YouTube page of the video that you want to display on other websites. In the right had side of the page there are details of the video like the URL to it and below it is the Embed link. This link can be used to embed this video in other websites. To do this first copy the embed code and go to your MySpace edit page. Copy the code over there. Now delete everything that is there between the embed tags. Now in the code after...

This tutorial describes the procedure to download Facebook videos with Mozilla Firefox. This procedure works only on the web browser "Mozilla Firefox". Firefox can be downloaded from this link and installed. How to download Facebook videos :1. Go to this link.2. Scroll down to the section with title "Firefox Add-on"3. Press the button with caption "Add to Firefox". This opens a new web page designed by Mozilla, specifically to download the add-on.4. Again click the button with caption "Add to...

This tutorial will show you how to hide your MySpace comments using the custom MySpace profiles website. All you have to do is visit the website mentioned in the video, and copy a simple code in the codes section. The code that you will be looking for in the list is the 'Hide MySpace comments' code. The code is then pasted in to your MySpace profile under the 'About Me' section. If you follow the directions entirely in this tutorial, your MySpace profile comments will be disabled until you...

This video tutorial from DrJailbreak presents how to download and install Androidlock on your iPhone and iPod Touch.Androidlock is a type of application that locks screen to prevent unauthorized access. You have to draw a specific pattern on the screen to unlock your device. It is advisable not to create too difficult Androidlock pattern because you can forget it.You also can turn off Androidlock if you open subsettings, select More and then Mobile Substrate Add-ons option.To get Androidlock,...

In this how-to video, you will learn how to block third party applications on Facebook. On your main page, you will see requests on the right. Click on the request to check the invitation. You will be presented with a few choices. If you are never planning on accepting an invitation to the application, you can click on the Block Application at the bottom. You can also ignore all invitations from a person by clicking the link with the same name in the same page. This will make using Facebook...

Watch this internet video tutorial to learn how to enable Private Browsing in Safari for Windows. This how-to video will help you use private browsing in Safari just in case there's something you want to keep private.

PDF's can really slow down your browser. Watch this software video tutorial to learn about an extension to help you get around that in Firefox. Viewing PDFs in Firefox will be easier and faster after you've watched this helpful how-to video.

Activate/Use iPhone 3G and 3GS with Go Phone Prepaid SIM Card:1. Eject the SIM tray using a pointy (thin) object.2. Firmly, insert the Gophone SIM card to the SIM tray (which got ejected from the iPhone).3. Insert the SIM tray along with SIM card into the iPhone.4. You will be able to notice that a new symbol pops up in the iPhone (which symbolizes SIM Card inserted).5. Create and send a new message to your Secondary mobile.6. You will be able to observe that, your other (Secondary) mobile gets...

This video demonstrates how to fix the batter length problem on a jailbroken iPod. First, make sure that you have a Wi-Fi connection so you could download the necessary files. Turn your iPod Touch on and locate the Installer icon. Wait until the installer program loads. Then, on the bottom portion of the screen, select the icon Install. In the Packages section, scroll all the way down to letter S and look for Services. Select it and install it. After the installation completes, go back to home...

Check out this awesome tip from CNET on getting FREE eBooks of the web and onto your Amazon Kindle for easy and cheap reading. They show you the exact process for getting free ebooks for your Kindle, so watch and learn. It's worth it!

See how easy it is to install media on your Amazon Kindle! CNET Quick Tips shows you how to use the USB cable to put your own documents on the Kindle to read later. You can add music and text files by simply dragging and dropping the files onto the Kindle from your computer. This video makes it all look so easy.

See how easy it is to use the Amazon Kindle eBook reader. This Quick Tips video from CNET shows you how to use the built-in dictionary to look up those hard, mystifying, multi-syllabic words. Finding defintions has never been easier while reading a book.

Check out this Quick Tips video from CNET to learn how to bookmark pages in the Amazon Kindle so you can make sure you don't lose your place, or mark a really juicy part for later. Never get lost again during your eBook reading!

In this tutorial, we learn how to find your computer's IP address. An IP address is used to know the exact location of someone using a computer with internet access is located at. First, turn your computer on and go to your main desktop. Then, click on "start", (which is located on the lower left hand side of the tool bar at the bottom), then click "run" and once that opens up, type "cmd" into the white empty space. Hit "ok" and when this comes up, type in "IPConfig" and hit "enter". Your...

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to automatically play You Tube videos on My Space. Begin by going on the You Tube website and search for a video that you want. Then copy the embed code and paste it in a notepad document. There will be two URLs in the embed code in quotations. Type in "&autoplay=1" at the end of both URLs inside the quotations and then copy the embed code. Log into your My Space account and click on Edit Profile. Paste the embed code into the About Me section and click...

In this tutorial, Christopher Prince Boucher shows us how to suggest a friend to another friend on Facebook. First, log into your Facebook account and look through your friends. Find the person you want to suggest to your friends and click on their page. On the left hand side will be a button named "suggest to friends". Once you click on this a new window will pop up and you can choose which friends you'd like to suggest this friend to. Once you pick out all friends, click "suggest" and it will...

In this Electronics video tutorial you are going to learn how to hook your phone up to your computer using Bluetooth. Keep only one phone around the computer while doing this. On the phone go to options, discovery mode and ensure discovery mode is ON. Then go to 'horizon' > menu > settings and tools > Bluetooth menu > add new device. Now on your computer go to Bluetooth and ensure discovery mode is ON. Then click on 'set up Bluetooth device'. Now select 'mobile phone' and click 'continue'. Put...