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How To: Find your Windows product key

In this video, we learn how to find your Windows product key. Start off by going to Magical Jellybean Keyfinder. This website has a download that will find your product key for your Windows program. This is a great and necessary tool if you happened to loose the product key that came with your computer. This is also great for computers that already had Windows installed, and you never had the product key in the first place. Once you install this on your computer, you just open it up on your d...

How To: Create new Screen Layouts in Blender 2.49 or 2.5

In this clip, you'll see how to create a new Screen Layout (workspace, desktop) to use when Compositing: 8-Nodes. and initialize this new default User setup used in all future tutorials. This clip will also teach how to move the window around, what the starting nodes are and do (RenderLayer, Composite, Viewer) Backdrop, , how threads work in the noodle, rendering the composite and discusses basic window management and splitting, and using the UV/Image Editor to view images/results. Whether yo...

How To: Add music from your computer to your Droid

In this Electronics video tutorial you will learn how to add music from your computer to your Droid. Connect the USB cord to the device and connect the other end to your computer. Now go to the top and scroll down the notifications and click on ‘USB connected’. It will ask you whether you want to mount it. Click on mount it. It will now show up on your desktop as ‘no name’ icon. Double click to open it. You will find a few folders. Under the DCIM folder create a new folder and name it...

How To: Transfer iPhone files from your phone to your PC

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to transfer iPhone videos and pictures to a computer. Begin by connecting the iPhone to your computer. Then click on the Start menu and select Computer. Now select your iPhone device drive and click on the eternal storage. Then continue clicking on the folders. Users will then be able to access the videos and pictures from their iPhones. To transfer the files, simply drag it onto your desktop. This video will benefit those viewers who have an iPhone a...

How To: Synchronize your Blackberry smartphone with MS Outlook

This video shows how to synchronize our blackberry smartphone with MS outlook. First open up the Blackberry Desktop Manager. Let us start by synchronizing the blackberry. Double click the synchronize button to load the synchronization settings. Here we can specify what we want to synch and where we want to synch firm. Click the configuration tab and select configure synch. Our device configuration menu let us pick which application on the black berry to synch and where to synch. Today we are ...

How To: Do basic cloud computing

This video instructs the viewer about the basics of cloud computing, using more than one computer and managing your computing needs online. The instructor explains, "Cloud computing is a metaphor for using the Internet for your computing needs." A program called cloudo, allows the user to store information online through an interface that looks like a regular computer desktop; then the information can be accessed via password from any computer with an internet connection. Other programs also ...

How To: Navigate the home screen on Droid smartphones

In this video tutorial, anyone who owns a Droid smartphone can learn how to better navigate their home screen. With this Droid phone tips, you'll be able to maximize your time and create shortcuts to your most used applications. The Droid's home screen in much like a computer's desktop; putting an icon on one of your Droid home screens allows you quick access to a program or app. There are numerous Android phones, but this video focuses on the "Droid" versions, but you may need to play around...

How To: Create flashcards with Keynote for use on iPod Touch

In this tutorial, we learn how to create flashcards with Keynote to use on an iPod touch. First, go into Keynote and choose the flashcard with the plain white background. To format this, click 'masters' on the toolbar. Now, choose "title-center" and make the first slide the question slide and the second slide the answer slide. Double click the text box to insert text into each different card. Next, to add a picture, click 'photos' and insert a picture you already had loaded on your computer. ...

How To: Take Screenshots & Save as JPEG in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or Lower

This video demonstrates how easy it is to take a screenshot with shortcuts in Mac OS X. Pressing Command-Shift-3 will take a screenshot of the entire screen, while Command-Shift-4 will let you take a screenshot of just a selected area of the screen instead. For the latter, once you use the shortcut, your mouse pointer will turn into crosshairs, and you would click on one point of the screen, then drag and release your mouse to take a capture of the selected area.

How To: Create an SSH tunnel for your Mac Mini server

How to Use Your Mac as a Server: Turn your Mac Mini into a server! Yes, that's right, with a little know-how and a little spunk, you can turn an inexpensive Mac Mini computer into a server to provide services over you network. You won't even need the Mac OS X Server, just the Mac OS X Client, so there is no extra software to buy, just the Mac Mini and it's operating system.

How To: Recover a Windows Vista Recycle Bin after deleting it

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to recover a recycling bin in Windows Vista. This task is very fast, easy and simple to do. Begin by right-clicking on the desktop and select Personalize. In the Tasks sidebar, click on "Change desktop icons". In the Desktop Icons tab, under Desktop check Recycle Bin and any other icons that you wish to display on your desktop. Finish by clicking OK. This video will benefit those viewers who use a Windows Vista computer, and would like to learn how to...

How To: Setup your Macbook Pro background

In this how-to video, you will learn how to quickly set up the background image on your Apple Macbook Pro. First, right click the desktop and select Change Desktop Background. A new window will pop up where you can change it. Also, you can go to system preferences and selecting desktop and screen saver. To change the image, select any of the options available. This includes solid colors to large images. You can also go to your iPhoto albums and choose any picture in there. You can also go onl...

How To: Make Your Mac Look & Feel More Like Your iPhone

Is your Mac starting to feel messy and sluggish after using iOS 8 on your iPhone every day? Even with all of the iOS-friendly features built in to Mac OS X Yosemite, your Mac can still feel kind of "old" in comparison to an iOS device—but it doesn't have to. Using the tips and tricks below, you can easily make your Mac desktop or laptop look and feel like iOS 8 in no time.

How To: Bypass RealVNC authentication

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is remote control software which allows you to view and fully interact with one computer desktop (the "VNC server") using a simple program (the "VNC viewer") on another computer desktop anywhere on the Internet. The two computers don't even have to be the same type, so for example you can use VNC to view a Windows Vista desktop at the office on a Linux or Mac computer at home. For ultimate simplicity, there is even a Java viewer, so that any deskto...

How To: Sick of Thumbs Up? Here's How to Change the Default Chat Emoji in Individual Messenger Threads

When you can't think of a way to respond in Messenger with words, emojis and stickers will do the trick. Since Facebook is all about the "likes," which use a thumbs-up icon, there's a shortcut to the symbol just to the right of the chat field. It's always there to send a quick like in response to something. But it doesn't have to be the standard Facebook thumbs-up sign — it can be any emoji you want.

How To: Get a moving wallpaper on your computer monitor

First of all you have to go to Photobucket. In the search option you have to type in '3d gif''. Now click 'search'. You shall get a number of photos and you can select the image that has red color moving screen. It is better to get image this way without a virus. Now you have to right click on the image and save as '3d image animation wallpaper' and click save and then save it on your desktop. Now right click on your desktop and click on the properties. Now go to the desktop and then select ‘...

How To: Use Your iPhone to Control Your Mac — Lock, Restart, Shut Down, Mute, Sleep, Browse Files, Play Audio & More

Your iPhone and Mac can speak to each other in many ways, allowing you to start work on one device and seamlessly switch to the other, share clipboards between the two, and pick up phone calls and answer text messages on both. The compatibility is incredible, but there's even more you can do by incorporating third-party software into the mix.

How To: Use the zoom in Mac OSX

In this how-to video, you will learn how to use the zoom function in the Mac OSX. This will help if you are visually impaired. Next to the space bar, there are two keys. There is the command key and the option key. Hold them both of them down at the same and press the number eight key. Once this is done, the desktop will be zoomed in. To zoom in even further, press control, command and plus. Do the same except with the minus key to zoom out. Press option, command and the number 8 to reset the...

How To: Use widgets on the Nokia N900

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to use widgets on the Nokia N900. Widgets are small applications that enhance the desktop. You can add, remove or move them by going into the desktop editing mode. On the desktop, click on the editing mode. Click on Add Widget and select the application that you want. Then click on Done to use it. Clicking on the X removes the widgets. You can download extra widgets from the Ovi store. You can move widgets in edit mode and adjust their settings. This ...

How To: Set up dual monitors

In your computer you can setup up two monitors on the same screen. This is the dual monitor setup which will give you more space to work with. So if your desktop is cluttered with icons and other program shortcuts, then you can use dual monitors. To setup a dual monitor system, the first thing you will need is two monitors. Now right click no your desktop and select properties from the menu. In the properties window go to the settings tab. If you see two monitor screen pictures over there the...