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How To: Clean out old files in Windows XP

This is a step-by-step guide to cleaning out those old fires in your Windows XP computer. You want to start by clicking the "start" button and then clicking on "my computer". Once there, you are going to want to right click on the C-Drive to clean that one first and click on "properties". Once the box opens you want to click on "tools" on your tool bar and then click on the "defragment now" button. When the box opens click on the C-Drive and then click "Analyze" to

How To: Jailbreak & unlock 3.1 iPhone 3G & iPhone 2G

In this video from sjsharksipodtouch, he teaches us how to jailbreak and unlock your iPhone 3G and iPhone 2G. First make sure you are on firmware 3.0 or 3.0.1. Also make sure you are using iTunes 9 or higher. Then download a custom restore file from the video description, put iPhone into recovery mode, click shift on restore, and select the custom firmware. This will take 10 minutes until it's done restoring. Now the iPhone should be jailbroken and unlocked with Cydia installed. Then he insta...

How To: Make HD videos in Windows Movie Maker

Windows Movie Maker can be used to make HD movies. This step by step clip shows you how. The first step is to import your picture or video and make sure they're in your timeline. When you've finished editing, go to tools and options and choose the advanced tab. In video properties there's video format and aspect ratio. Select NTSC and 16:9. If you're using a cell phone or video camera, you'll be using 4:3 which is pretty small for YouTube and similar sites in order to get full screen. Save th...

How To: Map a network drive in Windows XP

In this video the instructor shows how to map a network drive in Microsoft Windows XP. Network drive is similar to the disk drive that is present on your computer like C drive, D drive but instead of pointing to a hard disk on your computer it points to a server that has enabled shares. Shares allow you to create or edit files and folders. By mapping that server share to a folder in XP you can use that share as a normal drive. To do this go to start menu, right click on My Computer and select...

How To: Get free Verizon ringtones

Magicmattman1 teaches you how to get free Verizon ringtones. You will need a Verizon phone and iTunes. Start iTunes and go to Preferences. Then go to Import settings and set it to MP3 Encoder. Click Custom, set it to 96 kbps and click Ok. Right click on a song, click Get Info, then Options. Here you have to uncheck Start time and click Ok. Start the song and see which 30 seconds you want as your ringtone. Now go back and enter the values you want for start and stop time. Right click and selec...

How To: Delete your Skype call history and chat history

This is a tutorial on how to clear your Skype call history and chat history. The option for clearing call and chat history is difficult to find in Skype. To begin, click on Tools and select Options from the Menu. In the pop up box, click on the Privacy button. By showing Advanced Options, you will be able to access the button which enables you to clear your call and chat history. Please note that when you click the Clear History button, you will not only delete your call and chat history, but...

How To: Use the basics of Pinnacle Studio

The video describes how to use Pinnacle Plus Studio. The narrator first describes the various tabs and features of Pinnacle Studio. He then describes how to import a video into Pinnacle Studio for editing. The video demonstrates how to add still photos, sound effects, music, and transitions to your video using the various tabs and options along with what the narrator calls the timeline. Finally, he describes how to make a movie after you have finished editing your video. He gives a good overv...

How To: Create a lens flare effect in Pinnacle Studio

Learn how to add special lens flare effects to a logo in Pinnacle Studio with this tutorial. You will select the picture to be edited and drag it to the video screen. Select the lens flare effect from the Studio Plus RTFM which is standard with the program, you don't need to purchase any additional effects to create the lens flare. You can preview the effect and change the direction and color of the flare. Once you are happy with how the flare effect looks on your logo, you can save it to a f...

How To: Do text effects in GIMP

Click in File and New to create a new document, press OK and select the text tool and click once on your file and write something, then close the window. Click in move the active layer to make easier to move the text. Go again to the text tool and click on the Color to change the text color. Press Crtl+O, select the background layer and change the color to the one you want, now select the bucket tool and click on the background to paint it with the color you have selected. Go back to the text...

How To: Use Garageband to create free ringtones to your iPhone

This tutorial is about how to get ringtones on your iPhone. The narrator starts out by showing us how to use an app called Garageband to load ringtones. He demonstrates how to load the application, then open the file to search for a song that you wish to download. He clicks on the song and drags it to the import window. Once the song is there, create a cycle region by clicking the icon along the bottom of the screen to turn the cycle region on. Next, he shows how to use the yellow bar across ...

How To: Make HD videos with Camtasia Studio 5/6

HelpTube1 teaches you how to make HD videos using Camtasia Studio. You need to have Camtasia Studio, QuickTime installed and an AVI file. In Camtasia Studio click Batch Processing, choose MOV, then 30 frames per second, the encoder should be h.264. Quality set to best and key frames Automatic. Size - Dimensions should be 1280x720 HD. For audio you should have mpeg audio, stereo and 48 kHz rate. Click ok and next. You can also include a picture watermark in the next window. Finish this and cho...

How To: Cut tiles with a standard tile cutter

A standard tile cutter will cut ceramic and porcelain tiles but not natural stone tiles. To use the standard tile cutter adjust and lock the guide. Then, slide your tile into position in the tile cutter. Next, position your cutter on the edge of the tile. Push down on the cutter while sliding the cutter across the tile. When the cutter gets to the end of the tile, press down. The tile should then break into two smooth, clean pieces. Run a tile file over the edge of the tile to reduce the shar...

How To: Create realistic reflections in GIMP

Would you like to learn how to create amazing realistic reflections using GIMP? If so then you need to watch this video. Within 4 minutes you will be making amazing reflections. You can find the source files here. Hulldo will walk you through the simple steps of creating text to make a reflection of, aligning it, creating new layers, and then creating the reflection. In a few simple steps you will have text that looks like it is casting a reflection in front of it. To do this you will first n...

How To: Mount ISO images in Windows using Daemon tools

In this video the instructor shows you how to mount ISO images. You can use your ISO images of CD or DVD with out burning them on to real disks. Using this you can play a DVD with out a DVD player. Use DVD shrink to extract the copy of ISO image from your DVD. Go to internet and install Daemon tools lite program. After installing you will see an icon in the tray which says daemon tools. Right click on it and select the Virtual Devices option for the menu. Inside it select the virtual drive yo...

How To: Download and burn Wii games for Mac

mybigleftnut90 teaches you how to burn Wii backup games for Mac. After you get a backup game for the Wii, you need to make sure the DVD you'll be burning it too is DVD-R as these work best. Also make sure that the size of the backup game is not larger than the blank DVD you have. Right click on the image and click on "Open with-Disk utility." In the new program window, you click your image file name and click the button "Burn" at the top. Your speed should be 2x or 4x. Unclick verify burned d...

How To: Create white flake with flowers acrylic nails

In this video we can see the process of creating white flake with flowers on acrylic nails. First of all, gently remove or file off any old design or gel sealer. When the gel sealer and old design is removed, apply new white flake with flowers using a nail polish brush and designing device. Let it dry for some time. Then apply gel sealer and the rhinestone with the help of brush. Now the new beautiful design is ready. It really looks very nice.

How To: Mount or unmount an ISO file using basic command lines

An elderly woman demonstrates how to create a rose made of icing with which to decorate a cake. Beginning with a bag of icing and a special tip that forms flat wisps of icing, she shows how to create the beginning of the rose with a small dollop of icing for the center and begins to add small, flat wisps of icing for the petals onto the middle, turning the flower as she goes. Most American Beauty cake roses consist of three rows of petals. She finished off the rose by using a separate bag of ...

How To: Format dynamic text in Flash

Todd Perkins shows us how to format text using action script in Flash. By understanding how to format text this way, it allows us stylize text in a text field. Perkins goes through each step in Flash on how to use an external file that will be formatted using the software program. He goes through the various codes necessary to create dynamic text. If you want to learn how to format dynamic text in Flash, follow this tutorial from Todd Perkins.

How To: Make an animated MySpace banner in Photoshop CS3/CS4

CreativeIceDesigns teaches you how to create an animated banner for MySpace using Adobe Photoshop. After you've finished your static banner in Photoshop, go to Animation. You must be using Frames for this. You can make a new empty frame after the original one and it will make the banner flash. You can also make a new frame and starting from the old one create a movement. You set the speed and the delay. Select both frames and select Tween. In the end you need to go to File - Save for web and ...

How To: Make a virus that opens your cd-rom drive

This video will help you make a virus that opens your CD-ROM drive. Go to Start menu and select Notepad. A notepad will open. Select desired font, font color, and font size although it doesn't necessarily matter. Type this code, Set oWMP=CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7") Set colCDROMs=oWMP.cdromCollection if colCDROMs. Count=1 then For i=0 to colCDROMs. Count-1 colCDROMs. Item(i). Eject Next ' CD-ROM End if, in your notepad. Put something.vbs as a filename. "Something" meaning any word that you ...

How To: Create draggable masks in Flash

1. In the Flash Application go to new and select Flash File ActionScript 3.0. 2. Change the stage size to 600*450(width and height) in the property section. 3. Then goto file import image and select the background image. 4. Rename the layer1 to image and go to modify->convert to symbol and name that as mac-clip 5. Create two new layers namely Mask and As. 6. In the Mask layer draw a poly star image and convert it to movie clip symbol 7. Select As layer go to windows-> action, then add the eve...

How To: Clear Your Cache for Internet Explorer

This video is a step by step guide to clear cache for Internet Explorer version 7.0. On your Internet Explorer browser version 7.0, go to tools. Click Internet options. Go to general tab, then click browsing history and hit delete. Window will pop up. Click delete on temporary files and click yes to confirm. Click delete on cookies and click yes to confirm. Click delete on history and click yes to confirm. Click x to close the window and the current Internet Explorer window. Pull up a new Int...

How To: Record streaming audio from the Internet with Audacity

In this video from PCRescueRepair we learn how to record streaming audio from any website using audacity. To get audacity just go to google, type in audacity, click on the link for audacity, and download audacity to install this on your computer. Also you need the LAME mp3 encoder which is on the audacity website. Now he takes you through the steps to do this task. Go into audacity and from the drop down change to stereo mix from microphone. On output adjust to max. and on input adjust the vo...

How To: Remove the inner wheel bearing race on a front wheel drive car

Richpin demonstrates how to remove the inner wheel bearing race on front wheel drive cars. If you have pressed the wheel bearing off the hub and you want to reuse the hub, you need to remove the inner wheel bearing race. Use an air chisel to remove the inner wheel bearing race. First, make sure to wear a pair of safety goggles. Then, place a blunt chisel bit into the recess and remove the race. This can also be accomplished by working a regular chisel back and forth. If the chisel nicks the h...

How To: Use TweenLite for ActionScript 3.0 animation

TweenLite is a great engine for tweens which can be used for ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0. Copy the Gs folder available on TweenLite's website in your fla. file. Create a text movie clip (tlmc). Then open up action script. First type import gs.TweenLite. Next tween an object and type TweenLite.form (tlmc.2.{alpha:0}). That's it, the text will fade in 2 seconds. This will simplify writing scripts in flash for action script 2.0 and 3.0.

How To: Use the Spry framework for AJAX Dreamweaver CS3

ChadandToddPodcast teaches you how to use the spry framework for AJAX in Dreamweaver CS3. This allows for effects on the page to happen, without the need for the browser to refresh. You start with a simple .html page. You have 2 buttons and 2 div tags with text in them. Div 1 and div 2 have the visibility property set to hidden. Click on the div 1 button, go to Tag inspector and click behavior with a plus. Click Effects and choose Appear/fade. The target element should be div 1. Fade from 0 t...

How To: Clear Your Cache on Firefox

Steps to clear the cache on Firefox and delete unnecessary temporary files from your computer. In your Firefox browser go to TOOLS. Click on OPTIONS. Then go to PRIVACY tab. Click on PRIVATE DATA section and click on SETTINGS. Now you can clear the following items: browsing history, download history, saved form information, cache, cookies, saved passwords, authenticated sessions. Check what you'd like to remove, specially the cache option. Mow click on OK button. click on CLEAR NOW and click ...

How To: Block websites without software

This video shows you how to block websites without having to use software. This technique is ideal for blocking out pages such as MySpace or Facebook. Go to your C:, Windows, System 32, drivers, then 'etc'. Double click on your host file to read it with notepad. To block a website, do the following: Copy where it says '127.0.0.1' and paste it below. Next to it, type in the name of the website you wish to block, for example: http://www.myspace.com. Repeat the above step to block as many sites ...

How To: Eject and recover a stuck DVD on a Mac

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to eject and recover a stuck CD or DVD on a Mac computer. There are several ways to eject a disc. The first method is to click on File and select Eject. The second method is to press the Command and E buttons on the keyboard. The third method is to click on the disc and drag it to the eject icon in the dock. The fourth method is to access Disc Utility in the Utility folder. Then click on the disc drive and click on the eject button. This video will be...

How To: Use text fields in FileMaker Pro 10

If your into data based business,then this one's for you. Text field's are very much important while making a data based solution in FileMaker Pro 10.You can go to file menu>manage>database and there is the field's tab. Text field is used for storing text and no other such use. Text field's can hold up to 2GB of information. It can help to store raw data and formatting information, i.e., color,point size as well as type face.

How To: Use Audacity to record audio

The video shows us how to use audacity to record audio. Firstly you need to have the software audacity installed in your system and for that Google and search for 'audacity' and after that you get a link to save and install the software. Once the installation is done, open audacity and on the drop down menu the default is set to microphone, change that to stereo mix and copy my settings. Once this is done we will be recording the audio. Go to a site like youtube and press the record button in...

How To: Skin components in Flash CS3

This video illustrates to create the skin components in Flash CS3. The procedure to create the skin components are, If you set an FLA to export for Action Script 1, or Action Script 2, the components panel will automatically refresh with the components that you are familiar with from Flash 8 Professional. If you change the file to export for ActionScript 3.0, you will see the new components. Flash will always show you all the components that you are able to use given your export target. In Fl...

How To: Create a vector logo from a bitmap logo in Photoshop

Thinkingserious teaches us how to use Adobe Photoshop to transform a normal bmp or jpeg logo into a vector logo that can be MADE as small or large as desired without losing quality. He creates the text, leaves it white and then adds a stroke. He picks the exact color from the original image. The stroke should be 1. Then the gradient is done using the colors from the bmp image. This is a two-step process. First he creates the top gradient. He also adds a soft inner bevel. The end result is sav...

How To: Completely erase all the data on your hard drive

In this video the instructor gives tips on how to erase a PC hard drive. An MIT study shows that 74 percent of the discarded hard drives contain private data on them that can be read and recovered by others. So you should learn how to completely erase all the data so that no one can recover or read from it later. Now formatting the drive or deleting a few files wont do it. For this you will need to have a proper software that meets or exceeds that US Department of Defense standards for data r...

How To: Monitor your graphics card temperature

In this video from ReverbDP we learn how to monitor your graphics card temperature. You go to TechPowerUp and scroll down to the download link. Click download and click the name of the file and where you want to download it from. Once it is downloaded you just find it on your computer and launch it. Once inside the program you just have to click on the sensors tap to see the temperature of your graphics card. Watch this video to learn to keep an eye on your graphics card temperature.

How To: Make basic animation or moving images in Photoshop

This video shows the process of making animations in the image program Photoshop. It shows users how to open up and navigate the animation dialogue box in Photoshop by adding frames with variations on the image to be animated, with attention to using as many frames as needed to ensure a "clean" looking animation (one that is not jumpy but rather has smooth transitions). In closing, the instructor shows its viewers which options to select on the animation settings (particularly noteworthy is t...

How To: Make an image your YouTube profile background

This video shows you how to give your YouTube account a background image. Basically what you do is take any image that you would like to have as your background and upload it to a image uploader of your choice. Once the image is hosted it should show a url link to the file, copy this link. Then under your YouTube account settings scroll down to channel design. From here you should see a box that asks for a background image url, paste the url into this box click yes for background image and up...

How To: Create PDF portfolios in Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro

A PDF Portfolio is a bundled collection of content compressed into one PDF file. Watch this 5 minute overview and learn how you can bundle documents, e-mail, drawings, flash presentations and even video into one sleek package that can be used for presentations or project management for your organization. Your portfolio can include introductory text and sets of data that can be sorted geographically by being linked to clickable maps. Not only can the entire portfolio be branded with your logo ...