How To: You Can't Stop Gmail from Scanning Your Emails—But You Can Limit Their Ad Targeting
Google recently updated their TOS to reflect the email scanning practices they use in Gmail, which are used to display more relevant ads, among other things.
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How To: Customize Appearance Settings for Individual Android Apps on Your HTC One
By this point, you've definitely come across an app or two that wasn't designed with the HTC One in mind. Either the resolution is too small, the status bar stays active when it shouldn't, or the font isn't the ideal size. There are ways out there to get that changed, but up until now it wouldn't just change one app—it would change all of them.
How To: Unlock the Hidden Notification History Menu on Your Nexus 5
Have you ever been a little overzealous in dismissing notifications on your Nexus 5? Perhaps you missed your target and swiped away the notification you meant to read later. Or maybe you simply hit the "Clear All" button when you really meant to tap the button that switches to the Quick Settings tiles.
How To: Pull the Decapitated Shrunken Head in a Jar Prank
A good prank requires decent effort, creativity, and impeccable timing. If you're in the office, there are plenty of hilarious pranks to play on coworkers, and for your family and friends, there's everything from toothpaste-filled Oreos, to solid milk, to impossible-to-solve Rubik's Cubes and smartphone-friendly pranks.
How To: Become a Stripper in GTA 5 Online with This Secret Glitch
I'm not ashamed to admit that I've spent a fair amount of time at the various strip clubs in Los Santos in Grand Theft Auto 5. Some of my characters may have even met a few "overly friendly" dancers. Nonetheless, having a strip club in a video game is great, and they're so much better than they are in real life...
How To: Make Millions in GTA 5 Online with the Duplicating Cars Glitch
There are already a ton of glitches on Grand Theft Auto Online, and one of the newest ones to be uncovered lets you make millions in less than an hour, but you will need a million to get the job done. This glitch, revealed by YouTube user Caspahz below, lets you duplicate exotic cars that you already own so you can sell them for quick cash.
Hack Like a Pro: The Ultimate Command Cheat Sheet for Metasploit's Meterpreter
I've done numerous tutorials in Null Byte demonstrating the power of Metasploit's meterpreter. With the meterpreter on the target system, you have nearly total command of the victim.
How To: Print Memorable Photos of Your Digital Life Online Using the Polaroid Cacher
Polaroid photographs have a charming old-fashioned feel to them, evoking nostalgic memories of past days. My younger sister used to carry her Polaroid camera everywhere she went, transforming even the most trite moments into something wonderful.
Street Art Tricks: How to Blend 3D Prints into Real-Life Objects
While graffiti may never be fully accepted by the masses, it has already become a very large medium for creative artists across the globe, who make mundane and austere cityscapes a little more interesting for the rest of us. Walking past this Banksy stencil on my way to class (at UCLA) made my day. Art like this can cause people to stop and appreciate the otherwise boring and blank walls that surround the city. It can stir up artistic feelings, pensive thoughts, and other emotions stored insi...
How To: Build a Deadly Motion-Activated Airsoft Turret Gun
It's tough out there on the battlefield, especially when your stuck in the trenches and your comrades are dropping like flies. There's no hope. At least, until the next airsoft battle.
How To: Build a Remote-Controlled Water Gun (Or Flamethrower!)
You can do a lot with water guns. Have trouble waking up? Make a water gun alarm clock that (almost) no one could sleep through. Prefer real ammo? Turn your water gun into an airsoft BB gun. And if you don't have one, you can even make your own.
How To: Stop AT&T and Verizon from Sharing Your Location and Search Data with Advertisers
Yesterday, Bryan Clark pointed out a new option on Verizon's privacy settings that gives new customers 30 days to opt out of a data sharing program that gives advertisers information on basically everything you're doing on your new iPhone (or any other smartphone).
How To: Block RFID Signals, Build an RFID Reader Detector, and Make Custom RFID Tags
RFID chips are everywhere. They're in passports, credit cards, and tons of items you've bought in the last 5 years or so. Big retailers like Walmart started using tracking products with RFID as early as 2004, and today, they're used in everything from mobile payments to hospital record systems. Chances are, unless you're a hermit (in which case you wouldn't be reading this anyway), there's an RFID tag within a few feet of you. Photo by sridgway
News: You Can Now Pilot Your Own 13-Foot Tall Weaponized Mech (For Just $1.35 Million)
The streets of Tokyo are about to get a lot scarier (or more awesome), after Suidobashi Heavy Industries unveiled their latest project: a 13-foot tall, customizable, piloted robot. It's armed to the teeth with a water bottle rocket launcher and a BB Gatling gun capable of firing 6,000 rounds a minute; all for the very reasonable price tag of around 1.35 million dollars.
News: Have an NFC-Enable Phone? This Hack Could Hijack It
Some of us use our smartphones for almost everything. Manufacturers know this, so they try to make their devices as convenient as possible to use, but sometimes that convenience comes with a cost to security. The very same technology that allows you to easily share music with friends and make purchases can also put you at risk. Photo by sam_churchill
How To: Set up web video chat
Video chatting over the Internet is an inexpensive way to keep in touch with your family and friends. This video will show you how to set up web video chat.
How To: Draw Yoshika Miyafuji of Strike Witches
Learn How to draw Yoshika Miyafuji of Strike Witches with the best drawing tutorial online. For the full tutorial with step by step & speed control visit: how to draw.
How To: Draw Pikachu (Pokemon)
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How To: Draw InuYasha
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How To: Draw PidGey from Pokemon
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How To: Draw Naruto
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How To: Draw Son Goku (Dragon Ball)
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How To: Draw Roronoa Zoro (One Piece)
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How To: Draw Kick Buttowski
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How To: Play the bruiser champion Tryndamere in League of Legends
If you want to play Tryndamere since the recent rework of his kit and model, take a look at this spotlight from Riot Games to find out how to build his items, runes, and masteries. Then, find out how to play jungle Tryndamere by using bloodlust and see how bloodlust also lets him dive under towers and for a few kills and assists.
How To: Play Kayle the Judicator as a hybrid support champion in League of Legends
The League of Legends champion Kayle, or Judicator, received a rework a while back and now plays slightly differently because of that. Take a look at this champion spotlight guide by Riot Games on how to build Kayle as a hybrid support champion using the right runes and masteries. Be sure to take advantage of her ult so that you can save someone at the right time with invincibility!
How To: Make your own Simpsons avatar for online profiles
Still waiting for that guest spot on the Simpsons? Until you get the phone call from Matt Groening, keep the dream alive with an awesome custom Simpsons avatar. You can set it as your Facebook profile pic and be a virtual resident of Springfield.
How To: Find and share Terraria worlds
Use this path: C:\Users\USER\Documents\My Games\Terraria\Worlds to find your Terraria world. This will allow your to export and share Terraria worlds with your friends. Follow the instructions in this video and you'll be able to play Terraria as a member or the online community.
How To: Use Hamachi to make a Terraria server for multiplayer
If you'd like to play Terraria with your friends online, check out this video guide to learn how to use Hamachi to set up a server. You'll be crafting with your friends in no time once you've got your own Terraria server set up.
How To: Add Facebook, Twitter, and other Social Media icons to your Wordpress header
Trying to get more traffic for your Wordpress blog? Looking to connect with the people who visit you online? This video will show you how to facilitate web interactions by adding social media icons to your blog's header. This video uses the 2010 theme to demonstrate. CSS may be intimidating, but this video will show you exactly what to do.
How To: Make a basic side-scrolling space shooter game with the Unity3D engine
The side-scrolling space shooter (Think R-Type) is one of the oldest and most basic of video game genres, which makes it a great place to start for novice game designers. This video will show you how to make such a game, called "Schnoopter", in Unity3D, an excellent free online game design engine. If you've never used Unity before, you should watch this series for a guide to the absolute basics.
How To: Send Spam & Spot Fake Emails (Email Spoofing 101)
Spammers are the bane of every email user. No matter what you do, junk mail always breaks through the spam filters. And some of the best ones seem to come from legit companies, and that's because they aren't legit companies— they're spammers masquerading as legit companies.
How To: Download and install Cheat Engine onto a Mac computer
Why should PC users have all the fun? This video shows you how you can download and install a copy of Cheat Engine onto your Mac computer. Now you too can hack all the online games like FarmVille and Pet Society!
How To: Use the new calling features in Skype 5.0 for Mac OS X (Beta)
The days of Skype 2.8 for Mac are over! Mac users can now rejoice and make calls with ease using the new beta version: Skype 5.0 for Mac OS X (available here). It was well worth the wait, with a revamped look and feel that simplifies navigation and provides a more Mac-like experience.
How To: Use Cheat Engine to get more gold on Sherwood Dungeon
Cheat Engine is a free program you can download and install that will let you cheat at many games, including the online fantasy game Sherwood Dungeon. This tutorial shows you how to use Cheat Engine to give yourself more gold.
How To: Use the Cheat Engine program to cheat at games
Cheat Engine is a program you can use to cheat at many different games, especially online, browser based or Facebook games. This tutorial shows you how to use Cheat Engine to cheat at the onilne game Mother Lode, but you can use it for many games.
How To: Play the online, browser based pirate game Seafight
Raise the Jolly Roger and set sail on the high seas! Seafight is a free to play, browser based game in which you assume the role of a pirate and sail about the world, killing monsters and collecting plunder. This video shows you how to start playing!
How To: Set up a client to help you cheat when playing DarkOrbit
Want to surpass your friends and crush your enemies in the online browser game DarkOrbit? This tutorial shows you how to download and install a variation of the basic DarkOrbit client that also gives you access to cheat codes and other tricks.
How to Play Warcraft III: Frozen Throne online with Garena
In this clip, you'll learn how to play Blizzard's popular real-time strategy game, Warcraft III, on Garena. It's an easy process and this video presents a complete guide. For more information, including a full demonstration and detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this helpful home-computing how-to.
How To: Decipher individual Chinese characters using the NJStar software program
NJStar is a program which you may purchase online, and which will allow you to translate individual Chinese characters. This tutorial shows you how to use the software, and explains the limitations of the progam (it cannot translate whole paragraphs, for instance).