Gadget Hacks: Page 350

Learn how to take apart your Palm Tungsten E2 PDA for repair. Helpful voiceover guides you through the process.

Learn how to take apart a Samsung Blackjack i607 PDA for repair. Includes screen removal. Helpful voiceover guides you through the process.

Learn how to take apart a BlackBerry Pearl 8100 for repair. Includes screen removal. Helpful voiceover guides you through the process.

How to hotsync a Palm unit with a missing button on the serial or usb cable. Helpful voiceover guides you through the process.

Learn how to take apart a Palm Treo 700w or 700p in order to repair or replace the screen. A helpful voiceover guides you through the process.

Learn how to take apart a Palm Treo 650 in order to repair or replace the screen. A helpful voiceover guides you through the process.

Learn how to take apart a Palm Tungsten T5 in order to repair or replace the screen. A helpful voiceover guides you through the process.

Learn how to take apart a Palm Treo 600 in order to repair or replace the screen. A helpful voiceover guides you through the process.

Learn how to take apart a Palm Tungsten T, T2, or T3 in order to repair or replace the screen. A helpful voiceover guides you through the process.

Learn how to take apart a Palm m500, m505, and/or m515 in order to replace the battery. A helpful voiceover guides you through the process.

Learn how to take apart a Palm III, IIIe, IIIx, IIIxe Digitizer n order to repair it. A helpful voiceover guides you through the process.

See how to move back and forth, scroll, zoom and switch tabs by holding down the mouse button and using gestures in FireFox.

Favorites lists are a great way to speed dial on your iPhone so check out this video on creating a list of your favorite contacts.

Want to boost your WiFi reception? Have an extra wok or parabolic collander? This video tutorial demonstrates a simple hack that will allow you to build an effective radio antenna that will significantly increase the gain of your WiFi signal. To replicate this hack at home, you'll need the following items: (a) a piece of parabolic cookware, (b) heavy tape, (c) a USB WiFi stick, (d) tin snips, and (5) a USB extension cable. For detailed instructions on building your own wireless signal extender,...

Hard drive dead? All is not lost. You can still make a refrigerator magnet out of it. Learn how to remove a rare-Earth magnet from your old or dead hard drive.

Want a safe place to hide your stash? Here's how to build a miniature electronic safe out of an Altoids tin and a Hallmark musical greeting card.

This instructable will tell you how to get a 3 in. flame out of a lighter, and turn it into a mini flamethrower without breaking it or anything.

Yes it's free. Google doesn't charge you a thing for the call or for connecting you to the business. Regular phone charges may apply, based on your telephone service provider.

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.

Learn how to build, in less than 5 minutes a LED flashlight using a match box.

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.

In this video, Jonathan Cohen demonstrates how to surf the web using a BlackBerry 8800. The explains how to start up the Internet on the cell phone, how to input an address, and give some hints on using the browser.

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.

This video demonstrates the process of purchasing a video clip at helpfulvideo.com.

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

You can learn how to drive traffic to your website using links. The most important thing is to get people to your website. You can not spend hours and hours writing emails to people who steal your articles.

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.

This video shows how to get your IP address from your computer.

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

This is a tutorial on how to secure your wireless network. This tutorial shows you how to setup a WEP encryption key for your wireless network.

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.

Learn how Gmail differs from other email accounts and how to make labels and filters in Gmail to organize your mail.

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.

Speed up your EDGE network connection on the iPhone up to 5xs. Change your settings to optimize connection speed not using WiFi.

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.

Ever wonder if the flash is still working on a one time use camera. This is a good way to see if the flash is still working without having to waste actual film. This is done using a knee and elbow, both human.

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.

Need to use up vinegar? Here is an interesting way to convert your standard vinegar into a working battery. Learn the technique to create an alternative source of energy using vinegar.

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.

You are stuck in the middle of nowhere and can't see a thing. Luckily you have pencil and your car battery. You can create 20 minutes of bright light using the graphite from a regular pencil, wired to the positive and negative of your car battery. Basically, the graphite serves as a bright filament for your emergency light. Follow along with this how-to video tutorial to learn the step by step process of turning a pencil into an emergency light.