News: Sketch with Friends Using Google Hangouts on the Web
In a move that harkens back to the good old days of AOL Instant Messenger, Google has recently snuck a new feature into its Hangouts service.
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News: iOS 8's Hidden Feature Aims to Stop Retail Stores from Tracking You While Shopping
Unbeknownst to you, hundreds of retailers, shopping malls, coffee shops, and airports track and log your movements. Using sensors installed by retail analytics companies, businesses sniff out your smartphone's MAC address, a unique fixed identifier to your device, whenever your device interacts with their Wi-Fi hotspots.
How To: Stream Music from the Official Spotify App to Chromcast
Up until now, the closest thing we've had to Spotify casting is Projectify, which streams music videos from YouTube and other video sites to Chromecast using music from your Spotify playlists.
How To: Save $20 on Your Amazon Prime Subscription
Amazon Prime is a yearly subscription service that offers free two-day shipping as well as free streaming of Amazon's movie and TV show catalog. If you're a member, you probably got a not-so-fun email this morning saying that the price of the service would increase from $79/year to $99/year after April 17th. While their reasoning is understandable, twenty bucks is twenty bucks! Here's how to renew your current membership at the original price, if it expires after April 17th, courtesy of Slick...
How To: Create Radio Stations with All Hits and No Misses with This Hidden iOS 7.1 Feature
Apple's latest update, iOS 7.1, has flooded to iPhones and iPads across the world. Despite the buzz across the web covering most of its newest features, we found one nice little enhancement that has been overlooked.
Quick Tip: Chrome Has a Built-in Task Manager to Help Fix Your Misbehaving Tabs
I can't tell you how many times I've force-closed or restarted Chrome due to it freezing or loading pages incorrectly. And don't even get me started on that obnoxious "Aw, Snap!" error. I guess you could say I have a love-hate relationship with my most used browser.
How To: Get Super Fast Access to Your Favorite App with a Quick Swipe on Your iOS 7 iPhone
In a previous guide, I showed you how to add a 5th app to your icon dock. This is both useful and cool-looking. Unfortunately, cramming a 6th would be make the tapping area too small, so instead I'll show you how to save space by making your most used app easily accessible with a simple swiping gesture.
How To: Upgrade and Run IE - Beginners
After you've updated Windows 7. Internet Explorer 9 is automatically installed. This is just a two step process of knowing it's been upgraded, and is ready to run and get you on the web.
How To: Hack an Auxiliary Port into Your Old Car Stereo for Less Than $3
Most new stereos come with an auxiliary port built in, but if you drive an older car, you're usually stuck with the radio or CD player, and we all know both of those options suck.
How To: Keep Apps from Stealing Data on Your Samsung Galaxy S3 or Other Android Device
When downloading any application on an Android device, you will always be prompted by the following... Whether it's Angry Birds, Shazaam, or Chrome, every application will ask for permissions. If you try and deny these permissions, it won't install, leaving you with no other option but to accept. So what can you do?
How To: Disable the Face Tag Feature on Your Samsung Galaxy S3 and Note 2
If you've got a Samsung Galaxy S3 or Galaxy Note 2, you probably either love or hate the Social Tag feature. Using facial recognition, much like Facebook does, it scans your photos and lets you tag a name to a face. If your device recognizes the face by itself, it will automatically tag it for you. If the person is in your contacts, it will give you the option of calling, texting, or emailing them. While it's a great feature for some, it doesn't always work perfectly. If the flash from the ca...
How To: Add Tabs (And Other Cool Things) to Finder in Mac OS X
Your Mac's Finder is an essential tool to doing all kinds of useful things, but as all the other functions on OS X get more and more complex, it seems like the Finder pretty much stays the same. It does have a simple, intuitive interface, but many users wish it could do more.
How To: Merge Your Windows Live Messenger Contacts with Skype
The time is near—Messenger will finally kick the bucket come March 15th. So, if you're still using Windows Live Messenger for all of your IMing needs, it's time to finally make the move over to Skype, which Microsoft bought back in 2011 for a cool $8.5 billion. If you've been using Messenger, you probably already received the mass email that Microsoft sent out warning of the end date. Microsoft is looking to make the transition as smooth as possible. All you have to do is download the latest ...
How To: Speed Up Firefox Using the About:Config Menu
Firefox's hidden advanced menu gives you several ways to tweak the way it works under the hood. Here are a set of settings to change to get it to browse faster than ever.
How To: Pin Your Favorite Websites to the Windows 8 Start Screen for Faster Browsing
Speed—not only is it a great movie, it's something we need from our computers; launching, downloading, uploading, etc. Fast speeds is one of the most important things for any computer process. But that's not all. We also want to get to our favorite sites faster, and in Windows 8, it's as easy as creating a shortcut on your Start screen.
How To: Build a Simple Flat Screen TV Ceiling Mount from Unistrut and Pipe
So you bought a new flat screen, and now you have to tackle the next issue—you have to mount it somewhere. Most people go for the wall, which is the most obvious place, but if you want to go for something a little different, the ceiling is always an option, too.
How To: Fix the Glowing Red Border on Your Samsung Galaxy S III's Display
So, you finally got the Jelly Bean update on your Samsung Galaxy S III, but one little problem—you've got some red glow around the edges of your screen now. Is your phone messed up? No, it's just a tiny glitch that some users have been reporting after updating their Galaxy S3s to Android 4.1.1, and there are a few quick ways to get rid of it.
How To: Automatically Add Bing's Daily Background Images to Your Windows 8 Lockscreen
Windows 8 gives you a few different options for the image you want to appear on your lockscreen, whether it's a PC or Surface, but if you're the kind of person who gets bored easily, you may want more to choose from.
How To: Get Windows 8's Metro-Style Start Screen and Charms Bar on Older Versions of Windows
Last week, we showed you how to bring the classic start menu to Windows 8. Now, we're going to show you how to bring the new Metro start menu to older Windows versions! WinMetro
Be Yourself for Halloween: Enlarge Your Head with This Bigheaded DIY Self-Portrait Mask
Have you ever come across somebody on the streets looking like this? Pretty freaky, especially if it's not Halloween. But you know what, Halloween is almost here, so freaky is good. Thanks to creative folks like Eric Testroete and Bhautik Joshi, you can now create an awesome papercraft portrait of your own head for Halloween this year.
How To: WiFi Camera Lets You Snap Photos on Your iPhone Using Someone Else's iPhone Camera
An influx of creative photography apps has struck iOS 6 since its release, and developer Daniel Amitay has now added to the stream of cool photo applications with WiFi Camera, a new remote-photography tool.
How To: Face Ended Your Call? Lock Your iPhone During Conversations with CallLockScreen
Imagine you're calling the court. You have this unpaid ticket and want to know if you can get an extension. First you type your ID number on your phone. Then the case number. Then your birthday. Then your social security number. Then you're directed to thirty different people.
How To: Can't Connect to the App Store in iOS 6 on Your iPhone or iPad? Try This Quick Fix
Since iOS 6 was officially released yesterday, several bugs have been reported, including issues with Wi-Fi, Passbook, and battery life (although Apple has apparently fixed the Wi-Fi bug). Some users are also having problems connecting to the iTunes Store, which is probably insanely frustrating because the first thing you want to do with a new OS is try out new apps. Luckily, there's a way to fix this by tweaking the date and time settings. Open Settings, then go to General >> Date and Time. ...
How To: Set up Mozilla Thunderbird
Wondering how to set up Mozilla Thunderbird? Follow these simple steps: 1. When you first launch Thunderbird you are asked to create a new account. First click Email account and click Next.
How To: Find the space monkey screen in Photoshop CS2
Yes, you read that right! There's a hidden space monkey screen option in Photoshop CS2 that will change the default image when Photoshop is loading. Watch this video and see just how to find it! The video was made around Easter, so it's a Photoshop Easter Hunt! Find the space monkey screen in Photoshop CS2.
How To: Get Sexy Styles for Short Hair
Having short hair doesn't mean that you have limited hairstyling options and can't be sexy. In this video, our hair expert Mitch shows you how to style some great short cropped looks. Use hairspray to hold these sexy looks all day long. Example Product: Pantene Pro-V Restore Beautiful Lengths Hairspray
How To: Use the control panel with InDesign CS3
This video shows you how to use the new context-sensitive control panel in InDesign to access frequently-used editing features without opening additional panels. You learn how control panel options adapt to the type of object you select, such as an image, text, or table. Check out this video created by Adam Pratt now! Use the control panel with InDesign CS3.
How To: Adjust your iPod screen brightness
This video demonstrates how to make the screen of your iPod brighter or darker. To do this, just go the settings menu, select the brightness option, and adjust the brightness to your liking. Adjust your iPod screen brightness.
How To: Shuffle songs on your iPod
This video demonstrates how to shuffle the songs on your iPod using the built-in shuffle feature. Just go to the settings menu, highlight the shuffle option and click. Shuffle songs on your iPod.
How To: Remaster Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx with Remastersys
The Ubuntu CD does not contain much in terms of software applications. So how can we incorporate other programs that would be made available after booting from a live CD?
How To: Earn Money with ChaCha
Have you ever gone on a long internet binge, researching and surfing mindless things, and thought to yourself: I wish I could make some money surfing the internet and sharing the (sometimes useless) information I had just acquired? Well, now you can!
How To: Partition and Format a New Hard Disk Using Linux
Just installed a new hard disk on your PC, but Windows was unable to detect it? Download Ubuntu
How To: Create a Motion Trail in Maya 2011
Motion trails in Autodesk Maya can be very handy at times when animating your scene. Keying a bone/joint or other object every so many frames can take up quite a bit of time and can sometimes be a big hassle, too. I have found many times when I could have really used one. I also don't like to search the Internet with a question and not find an answer (at least, without paying for it). So in this how-to article, I will demonstrate going about creating a simple (or complex) motion trail to make...
How To: Gain control over sleep problems
Once people thought that help for poor sleep only meant sleeping pills that left you foggy. That's all changed. Now there is a range of options. Sleep hygiene aims to change poor bedtime habits and improvements in medications can not only provide natural sleep but also avoid next day side effects. Gain control over sleep problems.
News: "Jello-Pool"
Find a friend’s pool in either late Spring or early Fall (need a cool night, but still want swimming to be an option). Unbeknownst to the friend, turn off the heater mid afternoon, allowing the water to cool during the evening. Overnight, fill the pool with Jell-O packets. An average-sized swimming pool (15’ x 30’) holds approximately 20,250 gallons of water or 324,000 cups. Therefore, you will need 92,571 packets of Jell-O or 259,200 if you want to make it one gigantic Jell-O Jiggler. You ca...
News: Fun at a Funeral
This is a stunt i think would best be suited for Bam Margera due to how "close" he is to his family. The basic idea is to fake Bam's death. Due to his dangerous life as a stunt man it would be easy to believe. Once Bam's family has been informed he "died" set up a fake funeral for Bam. Once everyone is there, the goal is to act as inapropiatley as possible. Do this by sleeping, farting, laughing, droping the coffin or even lighting somthing on fire, ect. . Finally make Bam "rise from the dead...
How To: Make a Voodoo Poppet Doll
Find Your Base Material The base material for your doll can be anything 100% naturally made. Traditionally, sticks and twigs are used. Some people prefer to use corn husks, braided grass or similar items. The choice is yours, the only "rule" is that it be made of 100% natural materials. These sticks/twigs/husks/etc. will be shaped into a stick figure, one long piece for the body and one shorter (about 1/2 the length of the long one) for the arms.
News: Rocket- Powered Hay Wagon of Death//The Hay Ride of Maybe Doom: R.I.P. JACKASS
A hay wagon with some hay bales on it is rigged with several of same type of rocket Johnny Knoxville rode in JA2. The entire cast is onboard the wagon when the rockets are ignited, sending the wagon flying down a grass field.A second option is everyone ride a haywagon that is pulled by one of 2 completely opposite vehicles: 1. A Chevy Geo Metro, or 2. A fully loaded NASCAR stock race car, possibly driven by a woman, pulling the haywagon all around a grass field.A third option would be to have...
How To: Easily Download Online Videos with Savevid
Want to download your favorite online video from YouTube? I'm going to show you how to download your favorites videos very easily from YouTube, along with other media streaming websites using Savevid. It also supports the downloading of videos from Dailymotion, Metacafe, Break, Veoh, MySpace, Revver, Blip.tv, WeGame, Tangle, 5min, Game Trailers, LiveVideo.com, RuTube, FaceBook, Vimeo, current, Funny Or Die, eHow, and Megavideo.
How To: Modify Your Guitar Pedals
Guitar pedals add character to your playing. However, musicians still say that certain pedals by themselves don’t live up to its promise of a perfect sound. Therefore, instead of replacing your guitar pedals with new and expensive ones, you can modify your pedals using different DIY kits available online and at local music stores.