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How To: Take Secret Screenshots of Snapchat Pictures in iOS 7 Without Notifying the Sender
If you're a frequent Snapchatter like myself, you're probably well aware that Snapchat can't stop you or anyone else from taking a screenshot of a photo received. Instead, they notify the sender that a screenshot was taken—a greatly appreciated fair warning when impetuous photographs are involved. However, there is a loophole to this.
How To: Get Around Vine's Time Restriction and Upload Videos Longer Than 6 Seconds
As we all know, our attention spans are much shorter now that we're accustomed to getting information and news in tiny snippets via text messages, tweets, instagrams, and other constant updates.
How To: Install the New S Translator from the GS4 onto Your Samsung Galaxy S3
If you watched Samsung's Unpacked 2013 live last month, where they announced the new Galaxy S4, you probably sat through this awkward skit: This was Samsung's way of introducing their new translation software, dubbed S Translator. In the skit, the backbacking American traveler in Shanghai typed his question in English, and the phone spoke it aloud in Chinese. The other man replied in Chinese, and the app translated the message back into English. Live conversation translation aside, the app ca...
How To: Work with Project Evaluation Process Efficiently
Your company is deciding on starting new projects but there is a lot you need to do to make sure these projects are right for your company and will be financially rewarding to the bottom line. Before you begin you and your project management team will need to go through a Project Evaluation Process.
How To: Enable the Hidden Voice Call Recording Feature on Your Samsung Galaxy Note 2
In most states, it's completely legal to record a telephone conversation that you're a part of without the other parties knowing. You can even record a conversation that you're not a part of, as long as you have consent from at least one person involved in the call.
Light Painting with Fire: How to Capture the Perfect, Most Badass Wall of Flames Photo
You may remember this badass wall of flames photo... That's because last month I highlighted a tutorial by photographer Barry Elder that showed how to light paint with fire.
How To: Take Your Phone Pranks to the Next Level with the Prankowl Caller ID Spoofing Dialer
In college, I enjoyed eating, sleeping and making my roommate's life a living hell. My most satisfying prank involved 500 red cups stapled together, filled with water, and strewn across his bedroom floor. He was not happy. To clean up, he had to unstaple each cup, carry it to the bathroom, and dump the water. He was furious, but I was okay with sacrificing our friendship in exchange for a fantastic story that I'll probably tell my grandkids one day. If you're not as cruel as me, there are oth...
How To: Learn to Code for Free with These Online Programming Lessons
While becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg may be out of reach for someone just getting introduced to code, the skill has never been more valuable. Just understanding basic programming language is a great thing to put on your resume, and if you know how to code, you’re golden. Software developers and programmers have been the most resistant to the recession, as jobs in the tech industry continue to grow.
How To: Stop Facial Recognition Software from Finding Out Who You Are on Camera
Facial recognition software is being more widely used with every passing day. Your local law enforcement is probably already using it, and it will be even easier for them now that the FBI handed out its own facial recognition software to state authorities. Even the fine folks at Facebook are using this technology. Obviously, this brings up some pretty serious privacy concerns amongst most people, because honestly, who wants to be tracked? Right now, there's not a lot we can do about it being ...
How To: Use Tripwires to Easily Make Empty Minecarts Come Back to You
You know how sometimes you accidentally send a minecart shooting out down your tracks, and you can only watch helplessly as it fades into the distance? And then you know that you have to go find it and break it, so that it doesn't stop up your cart traffic on your tracks.
How To: Protect Your Luggage from Careless Baggage Handlers
Reddit user craigyboy2601 knows a thing or two about airline baggage handlers. After all, he is one. So, when he offers some tips on how to protect your luggage from loss or damage, you should probably pay attention! Here are the highlights from his post.
How To: Upgrade to Mountain Lion from Leopard (OS X 10.5 to 10.8)
Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) is out today, available in the Mac App Store for just $20. Unfortunately, installing Mountain Lion requires that you already have a Mac running Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) or Lion (OS X 10.7). If you're currently running a Leopard system, you're out of luck, and need to pay $29 to upgrade to Snow Leopard, and then an additional $20 to upgrade again to Mountain Lion. That sounds like way to much trouble to me. But why exactly is Leopard incompatible? Turns out it's not—m...
How To: Protect Your Luggage by Flying with a Gun (Legally)
Did you know you can help protect yourself when traveling with a gun? No, not like that; and not in any way that's going to land you in prison. Simply by packing a gun, you can ensure that not only will your luggage be safer, but that the airline will make certain that it reaches its destination. Photo by Alamy
How To: Pay Off Your Car in Half the Time by Renting It Out with OnStar
Most of the time, asking to borrow someone's car will elicit a really long string of excuses. But unlike letting your buddy use your car, which usually gets you nothing more than an empty tank, GM has found a way to make car sharing beneficial for everyone involved. If you're one of the 6 million people who have a GM vehicle that's connected to OnStar, you're in luck: according to an OnStar employee, you can make up to $1,000 a month just by letting other people rent out your car when you're ...
How To: What Is Wordpress ? [Beginner]
WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.
How To: Fuse a Grater and Used Milk Jug into a DIY Shredded Cheese Catcher
Cheese makes everything better. It's just a fact. Sandwiches, burritos, and even plain bread all get a benefited flavor quotient when cheese is involved.
How To: Use an adjustable hip square to frame a residential hip roof
If you're not a carpenter, you may be completely overwhelmed by the information in this video. They have a tough job. Just like electricians, there's a lot of math involved in carpentry, and one of the calculations laborers struggle with is constructing a hip roof. If you're not sure what a hip roof is, you should just stop right here… don't go any further…
How To: Deal with an aggressive driver
In this series of driving safety videos, our professional law officer shares his experience in dealing with road rage and similar unsafe driving situations. Corporal Shaun Appler gives you tips on how to recognize an overly aggressive driver and how to avoid confrontations with them if at all possible. If you do happen to get involved in such a situation, remain calm: never agitate the aggressive driver who is already upset. Countering someone else’s road rage with road rage of your own can l...
How To: Make Soap Out of Guava Leaf Extract for a Science Investigatory Project
Unless you're a high-schooler building a nuclear fusion reactor, the hardest part of a science investigatory project often is coming up with a good idea. You want it to be cool yet feasible, novel but still useful.
How To: Start fencing with an épée, foil or sabre sword (for kids)
Fencing is a fun sport and a great activity for kids to be involved in. It teaches critical thinking and improves reaction time, and this video will give you an introduction to the world of fencing, learning about the épée, foil or sabre sword and even the rapier.
How To: Use 3M Finishing Glaze over auto body filler on your vehicle
After you've applied your auto body filler on your vehicle, you'll need to apply a glaze. In this video, you'll learn how to apply a 3M Finishing Glaze. Their new Dynamic Mixing System is a good one, and the product mixes instantly when it exits the tip of the gun.
How To: Do basic crip walk moves
If you want to do basic crip walk moves you should first go to the left or right, your choice. You should move to the left, by moving your right foot from side to side in a shuffle while lifting up your left foot. You can switch this up and go the opposite direction. Next, you move your right foot front back, front back front back on the tip of the toes. Combine this step with step two. So you are moving to the left with your right foot and stepping front back front back on your toes with you...
How To: Make fire without matches using acetone and magnesium
In this how-to video, you will learn how to make fire without using any matches. You will need Manganese heptoxide and acetone to do this experiment. You will also need a rod, pipette, and glass beaker. Please exercise caution before doing this experiment, as it involves fire. Place the Manganese heptoxide in the glass beaker. Using a pipette, place a few drops of acetone around it. Now, place a drop on top. Be careful, as the Manganese heptoxide will ignite as soon as the drop hits the mater...
How To: Find the area of a triangle with decimal measurements
This is an introductory educational video that shows how to find the area of a triangle with decimal measurements.
How To: Peel a tropical mango
Peeling some fruits can be quite a nuisance. And some fruits are even impossible to peel, hence the watermelon. Mangos are something of the sort, you dont really 'peel' them persay but more of an extraction. Mangos are quite delicious but peeling can sometimes come with a little trouble. This video tutorial will demonstrate exactly how to peel a tropical mango with a creative approach. This is a great way to peel and cut a mango especially if you are making a salad, some juice, or anything in...
How To: Get rid of annoying blackheads
This video will show various ways to get rid of blackheads. The first step in all of these various techniques involves steaming your face. This will allow your pores to open, which will enable to blackheads to come out more easily. First of all, you may use a blackhead removal tool, which is a metal tool which you can use to remove blackheads individually. Other techniques include pore strips, which you apply on your face when wet and pull off after it had hardened and dried, taking blackhead...
How To: Duplicate gold in World of Warcraft
Hiddenstuff.com has great tips and tricks for the massive, multiplayer, online, role-playing game, World of Warcraft. Their guides and strategies for WoW are bound to help you out, outlining some of the most important tactics in the video game. This video tutorial will show you how to duplicate gold in World of Warcraft.
How To: Hack Your Neighbor with a Post-It Note, Part 3 (Executing the Attack)
Now that we have our payload hosted on our VPS, as well as Metasploit installed, we can begin developing the webpage which will trick our "John Smith" target into opening our malicious file. Once he has, we can take over his computer.
Social Engineering: How to Use Persuasion to Compromise a Human Target
Social engineering makes headlines because human behavior is often the weakest link of even well-defended targets. Automated social engineering tools can help reclusive hackers touch these techniques, but the study of how to hack human interactions in person is often ignored. Today, we will examine how to use subtle, hard to detect persuasion techniques to compromise a human target.
NR50: The Finance & Investment People to Watch in Augmented & Mixed Reality
The world of investment and finance can be labyrinthine in its very nature — and even more complicated in regards to augmented and mixed reality. While these new emergent technologies are teeming with explosive levels of unrealized potential, there's still a big layer of uncertainty in terms of return — but these investors aren't afraid to take the leap.
How To: Keep Root, Custom Recovery, & Disabled Encryption When Updating Your Nexus 6
One of the main reasons to buy a Nexus device is the fact that they're always the first to get new Android updates. Another great selling point for the Nexus series is that the devices are amongst the easiest to root and mod. Unfortunately, though, these two features are somewhat mutually exclusive.
How To: Fold an origami birthday hat napkin design
This short origami video tutorial will teach you how to fold an origami birthday hat napkin design. Decorative origami napkins are perfect for any table and any occasion. Folding napkins into 3D objects is not only beautiful on the table, but fascinating. Origami napkin folding should be a trick up every table decorator's sleeve. Celina Table Linens shows you the simple steps involved in the napkin origami birthday hat.
How To: Fold an origami bird napkin design
Check out this short video tutorial on how to fold an origami bird napkin design. Decorative origami napkins are perfect for any table and any occasion. Folding napkins into 3D objects is not only beautiful on the table, but fascinating. Origami napkin folding should be a trick up every table decorator's sleeve. Celina Table Linens shows you the simple steps involved in the napkin origami bird.
How To: Extract the black tarry substance from 400 cigarettes
Everyone told you that smoking was bad for you, but sometimes it takes a visual lesson to finally quit smoking tobacco products.
How To: Make a cannon in Minecraft
Tired of running around and destroying blocks with a sword? Or your fist? Looking for a solution that involves explosives, a little ingenuity, and a much faster destruction rate!? Well, you ask, and you receive! In this video you will learn how to make your very own canon! Just remember, the water is NECESSARY to keeping the canon intact, since it absorbs the shockwaves of the TNT. Enjoy!
How To: Perform the Wal-Mart bag prank on people
This next tutorial is a classic prank that is easy to perform and will trick everyone around your car. It involves leaving a bag full of groceries, items, goods, whatever on top of your car and driving around with it on there.
How To: Make a seafood stew with Bobby Flay
Celebrity chef Bobby Flay teaches us to make an elaborate seafood stew. If you really want to impress some open-minded guests and have some experience making your way around the grill, than this recipe is for you. It involves several kind of shellfish, anodouille sausage, and a secret ingredient that even the aforementioned open-minded guests are better off not knowing about: anchovies. Don't be scared, when combined with all of the other ingredients they go from dominating the dish, as they ...
How To: Become a golf coach
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to become a golf coach. Most coaches are high school teachers. You don't have to be a teacher to coach. You just need to be great a player and enjoy the sport. You need to have the desire. They need to set up the programs and setup the tournaments. There is not a lot of teaching involved. They mainly have one on one lessons. But to become a college golf course, you need a college education. This video will benefit those viewers who enjoy the sport of ...
How To: Make your computer run faster
How to make your computer run faster is very easy to understand. The steps involved are as follows: