Want to get involved with the information superhighway? E-mail is the best technology to stay connected with friends and family. Use these tips to create your own email account in Gmail, MSN or Yahoo! mail. Keep track of addresses, improve your networking and learn the basics of instant messaging.
Want to change the way your Android phone synchronizes with your Facebook, Twitter and email accounts? This brief video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started tweaking your own synch settings, take a look.
In this clip, you'll learn how to properly mention someone else on Twitter. What do President Obama, the Dalai Lama and Justin Bieber have in common? Why, they're all on Twitter, of course. Join the party. Whether you're new to Twitter's popular microblogging application or just missed a few of the essentials along the way, you're sure to benefit from this free video tutorial.
Ever wanted to reply to a Facebook message via your email account? This clip will show you how it's done. It's easy! So easy, that this video tutorial can present a complete, step-by-step overview of the process in about a minute and a half. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this video guide.
Need help figuring out how to print your MyHeritage family tree? If so, you'll be well served by this video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch, which presents a complete breakdown of the process. For complete details, and to get started printing out your own family tree, watch this video guide.
If someone has ever gotten you one of the prepaid Microsoft point cards for XBox Live as a gift or you've bought one off of eBay or something, you may be wondering how to redeem it. Poking around in the XBox 360 menu would yield the answer pretty quickly, but if that's not your style this video will show you how to redeem the points from your card quickly and easily, allowing you to buy more games and addons and just keep playing.
In this tutorial, we learn how to balance your plate to lose weight. These are keys that dietitians say are the keys to losing weight. When filling your plate for a meal, always fill half of the plate with fruits or vegetables. Fill 25% off the plate with protein (meats) and the other 25% with grains or starchy veggies. This will help you lose weight and eat more nutritionally when you see more food on your plate, but it's healthier food instead of junk food. When eating breakfast, don't just...
In this tutorial, learn how to gain new Facebook "fans" wherever you may be on the web. If you have a personal or business website that you would like to link to your viewer's Facebook accounts, check this out. By adding a badge elsewhere online you are bound to increase traffic to both your site and your Facebook page and get the word out there.
If you use Google Chrome and have a Gmail account, you're sure to like the trick outlined in this guide. With a simple extension called Gmail Notifier for Chrome, you'll always be notified of new email as it arrives in your inbox. For detailed instructions, and to get started receiving Gmail notifications in Google Chrome yourself, watch this free video tutorial.
Gmail is a powerful and universal way to send emails. This video will explain how to set up an account, check your mail and compose an email. Gmail is a great way to stay connected and communicate with people.
The Google mail service can be quite confusing in the beginning. If it is your first time using it, you may be having a hard time trying to find where to change your password. This video tutorial will show you exactly what to do in this situation. Just follow the steps and you'll be able to change your password without any hassle.
How do you know if you should lose weight is a question people often ask. For the most part the need for weight loss should be determined by how you feel in your own body. There are some calculations that doctors use to determine if you need to lose weight. One of those calculations is BMI or Body Mass Index. BMI is based upon a fairly difficult equation. BMI is figured by multiplying your weight by 703 then dividing by your height squared. A body mass index over 25 is considered overweight. ...
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There are some people who are having troubles recovering files in Windows Vista due to access denied errors, but fortunately this video is here to save the day! If you've been getting those pesky access denied errors, check out this video to learn how to gain control of your Vista system and remove those errors all together. Now you will have full access to your system like how it should be!
Ever wondered how stars stay a size two – besides starvation, personal trainers, and plastic surgery? Wonder no more. Check out this Howcast video tutorial on how to lose weight like a celebrity.
Watch this video tutorial to learn how to start a blog on Blogger.com. A support coordinator from Blogger provides this short demo on how to quickly create a blog in only a few minutes. You will need a Google account for this.
logger is a free blog publishing tool from Google for easily sharing your thoughts with the world. Blogger makes it simple to post text, photos and video onto your personal or team blog. This video tutorial will walk you through the Blogger signup process. For more information, and to get started creating your own blog, watch this video guide.
There is a security flaw with any Apple iPhone running firmware version 2.0.2. This flaw potentially gives a person access to your email account and contacts when you have your iPhone locked. This video demonstrates a simple, but impermanent, fix for stopping others from accessing your private information. To protect your own Apple iPhone, watch this tutorial.
You can easily "square up" your quilt by adding borders that have been measured for perfection. The trick is to leave extra space where the fabric will stretch the most. Watch this instructional quilting video to account for small changes that occur in the sewing process to sew an exact border on your quilt.
Ready to publish your site on the web? If you created your website in iWeb, then it will be easy! This tutorial shows you how to publish your iWeb site with MobileMe. You will need a MobileMe account.
In this how-to, Gary Rosenzweig of MacMost.com takes a look at best practices for making and storing passwords. You should have a different password for every account, for example, use secure passwords and store them in using a security utility. Learn how to store your passwords securely with this tutorial.
This video tutorial shows how to set up a Windows Live mail account on your Vista system.
Several great YouTubers have had their accounts suspended for illegally using copyrighted music from those easily agitated big record labels. This episode of Jim Shorts covers places you can go to find awesome music for your videos that won't end your YouTube career.
Facebook is the world's fastest growing social networking site with over 50 million users worldwide. ImageChef is a cool, online application that allows you to personalize a range of images, some famous, by adding your own text.
This video shows you how to get unbanned from Stickam - not the IP/Account ban, but the computer ban.
Whether you need a repetitive background for Twitter or your Tumbler account, an attractive pattern is crucial for establishing your personal style and brand. And you don't have to resort to mass-distributed image software or online pictures to fill your walls with.
If you've ever seen something called ThinkPoint Antivirus on your computer, you have gotten one ofhte most widespread and infectious fake antivirus malware programs out there. To get it off your PC, follow the instructions below, or watch this video for an alternate method if this one doesn't work.
Has you rent check bounced again for no apparent reason? It happens to everyone, but if you're roommate needs the money fast, you need to fix it fast, and wire transfers are the fastest way to give money to someone else. Executing a wire transfer is as easy as making one phone call.
If you're a Firefox user and frequently use free image hosting services à la ImageShack & Photobucket, then you've no reason not to check out the ImageBot Firefox extension, which does quite a lot to streamline the picture uploading process.
Your privacy is important, especially online. Almost anywhere you go on the internet, you leave a trail of data that companies can use without your permission. VPNs are the easiest way to keep your browsing private and your information safe. Ivacy VPN is one such service, and it's one of the best deals you can get on a VPN because it will cover 5 of your devices for a lifetime, and this is a two-account bundle, so you'll be able to cover 10 total devices for $49.99.
As of May 27, HBO Max is taking over your HBO Now or HBO Go account. If you have your devices set up to auto-install new app updates, you should pause it right now if your HBO app hasn't been updated yet. There's one thing you'll want to do before you make the leap. However, you're not out of luck if you already upgraded.
If you use iCloud, you may have experienced alerts such as "Not Enough Storage" and "iCloud Storage Full," especially if you're on the free 5 GB plan. To clear up space on your iCloud account fast, you can delete large files here and there, but trashing one thing, in particular, can clear up gigabytes worth of space instantly.
Since Stadia is an early access game streaming platform, Google is still working on bringing big things to the table. You can expect wireless Stadia controller support for many more devices, high-quality 4K gaming on all Chrome web browsers, and more Google Assistant features. They also managed to silently sneak in a way to keep track of your Stadia gaming sessions too, which is pretty handy.
There's definitely some malware-ridden apps on the Play Store. When it comes to the third-party apps you've connected to your Google Fit account, some have a crazy amount of permissions they have no business accessing. For example, you probably don't want a heart monitor app having access to your personal location data.
At long last, the magical world of Harry Potter has received a mobile game worthy of its name. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is the game in question, and is set to touch down worldwide on June 21, 2019. For the longest time, however, the game has been available as a soft launched game for testing, and with a little tinkering, you can actually try it out right now before its official release stateside.
Your iPhone just went missing, and now you're panicking. You need it for work, to get around, to contact your friends and family, and pretty much everything else in your life. So, what are the chances you might get it back? The odds may be stacked against you unless it's just under a couch cushion, but you can improve your chances of recovering your iPhone by taking certain steps.
In the realm of internet security, it's becoming clear that augmented reality is not immune to the increasing wave data breaches plaguing users.
The YouTube app will default to 480p playback when you first open a video. It's supposed to switch to your screen resolution a few seconds in, but this isn't always the case. The regular YouTube app doesn't let you change this behavior, but like most things with Android, there is still a way.
Many online users worry about their accounts being breached by some master hacker, but the more likely scenario is falling victim to a bot written to use leaked passwords in data breaches from companies like LinkedIn, MySpace, and Tumblr. For instance, a tool called H8mail can search through over 1 billion leaked credentials to discover passwords that might still be in use today.
If you want the best two-factor authentication app out there, our pick is Authy. A close second is LastPass Authenticator. If neither of those is to your liking, try Duo Mobile or Microsoft Authenticator. But if you're fine with missing out on great features, then and only then should you look at using Google Authenticator.
