How To: Walkthrough Halo Wars - Mission 3: Relic Interior
Check out this Halo Wars walkthrough. It will help you beat Halo Wars before all of your friends. This is a 3 part series for XBOX 360 from Mahalo Gaming.
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How To: Stop Notifications from Interrupting Your Music
There are few things more annoying in life than getting interrupted—especially when you're in a groove, jamming out to your favorite song. If we can all agree on that sentiment, then why is it that our phones mute the music we're listening to for a few seconds whenever a notification comes in?
How To: Automatically Control WiFi to Conserve Battery on Your Nexus 5
If you've ever used the automation app Tasker, then you know exactly how powerful the tool can be. If you haven't, suffice it to say that there's virtually nothing on your Android phone that Tasker can't automatically do for you.
How To: Pin Applications to Task Bar Windows 8
In this Windows 8 Tutorial you will learn how to pin application to the task bar. If you work with certain programs very often it will be beneficial to pin those Windows 8 applications to your task bar in the desktop view. Once you pin an application to task bar in desktop view it will always be visible too you and with one click you will be able to launch application. Thank you for viewing our Windows 8 tutorials. If you need help with a certain area of Windows 8 and would like us to make a ...
How To: Add Subtasks in Asana's iOS & Android Apps
The Asana mobile app lets you manage your projects with the same functionality as the website. Most features are pretty straightforward, thanks to Asana keeping the same design cues from the web app. However, one element is very easy to miss: adding subtasks.
How To: Turn Your Boring To-Do List into a Real-Life RPG
When you think about it, isn't life just one big open-world RPG just begging to be conquered? We all have a set number of specific tasks or chores we must complete every single day like clockwork. Sometimes, these items on our to-do list can become tedious and cause us to lose motivation. What if you could take those tasks and turn them into something awesome instead? Now you can.
How To: Create Grouped Lists in iOS 13's Reminders App to Keep Things More Organized
Apple's Reminders app has never been particularly sexy or appealing, but that changes in iOS 13. Although the productivity tool has always been useful for quick to-dos, it now has an overhauled user interface with several new features, including grouping lists together for improved organization.
How To: Everything You Need to Know About Tasker Profiles
When you hear people say that Android is more flexible than iOS, it's because of things like Tasker. You can do virtually anything with the venerable automation tool, from saving battery life to controlling your smart home with your fingerprint. But before you get to that, you'll need a good understanding of all the basics.
Tasker 101: 5 Useful Profiles to Help Get You Started with Android Automation
When it comes to automation apps on Android, Tasker is still the king of the hill. For a price of $2.99 on the Google Play Store, it's a great buy for any would-be tinkerer that would like to get into automating actions on their Android device. Then, when you consider that there's a free 7-day trial version available, there's almost no reason that you shouldn't at least test the waters with Tasker.
How To: Top 5 Free Productivity Widgets for Your iPad or iPhone
More and more devices are using iOS 8 over iOS 7, and that means more and more developers are adding iOS 8-friendly features to their apps, especially widgets. However, not every widget available for your Notification Center right now is awesome. Take for example the Dropbox widget—it's essentially nothing more than a real-time notification, as the only action it performs is opening a recently updated file within the app.
How To: Make Google Now Obey Custom Voice Commands—Even Without Root
It seems like custom Google Now commands are a dime a dozen these days. With Commandr for Google Now giving non-rooted users their first taste of custom voice commands just a couple weeks ago, you may wonder why we're covering this subject again.
How To: Back Up Your Gmail Account (5 Ways of Archiving Gmail Data)
Last weekend, some unlucky Gmail users inadvertently had their email accounts wiped out. Actually, it was 0.02 percent of all Gmail users—or roughly 40,000 of the 200 million who use the email service, due to an "unexpected bug" which affected copies of the data. Gmail does make backup files of everything, so eventually everyone will reclaim their email history. In fact, as of yesterday, Google has successfully restored all information from their backup tapes and has started returning everyon...
How To: Use Microsoft Outlook
In this Microsoft Outlook video tutorial, learn how to use Microsoft Outlook from systems administrator and MS Outlook expert Gary Zier. Gary will teach you Microsoft Outlook techniques such as how to permanently delete items in MS Outlook, how to selectively send read receipts in Outlook, how to prevent multiple prefixes in emails, how to create and save searches in Microsoft Outlook, how to configure the desktop alert in Outlook, how to print select pages from an email, and how to create cu...
How To: Automatically Turn On the Speakerphone When You Aren't Holding Your Android Device to Your Ear
The first few times I posted on some of the Android forums out there, I asked things like "Does anybody how I can make my phone do this or that?" Without fail, the responses to these types of questions were always one word—Tasker.
How To: Install an HTC Sense-Style Task Manager on Your Samsung Galaxy S3
As much as I love my Samsung Galaxy S3, I'm always on the lookout for cool features I can borrow from other smartphones. One of the most recent "borrowed" features I've added to my S3 is the Galaxy Note 2's smart rotation feature, which uses the front camera to detect my face-to-screen angle, which then rotates my screen accordingly. But the S3 already comes packed with some awesome features, as well as some less-than-stellar ones. One of these less-than-stellar features is the task manager, ...
How To: Install Mac OS X on a Windows Netbook
This video shows you how to install OSX on a Windows Netbook. They create a "Mini Mac" and show you what the steps are. This is a good thing to do for someone who is used to a Mac but wants the portability of a Netbook, which weighs only 2 pounds. They start with a Dell Netbook that has Windows XP on it, which they covert. One thing that you need to do is to increase the memory in order to install the new operating system. There is an informative website called MyDellMini that has helpful inf...
How To: Remove wallpaper with tips from Lowe's
Lowe's presents a video that can give you a few tips on removing wallpaper from a room. First off you do not want anything to be in the way so clearing the room out is a must. This video shows you a abundance of products that can help you with the task. Also it shows some safety precautions to take before you take on this task. This video will show you a few different methods that can help you when giving a room a new look.
How To: Fix a disabled registry editor or task manager problem on a Windows XP PC
Need help resolving a disabled task manager or registry editor problem (as caused by a virus or malware) on a Microsoft Windows XP? It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this home-computing how-to from the folks at Britec can present a complete overview of the process in just under ten minutes. For more information, including step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Get Android P-Style Multitasking on Your Galaxy S8 or S9
A revamped Recent Apps overview is one of the most significant changes set to arrive with Android P when it touches down later this year. Incredibly, Samsung has beaten Google to the punch, and has made this feature available for all its Oreo-based Galaxy handsets courtesy of its Good Locks app.
How To: Share Photos & Videos with the Microsoft HoloLens
Microsoft's HoloLens comes with helpful features for capturing video and photos, but sharing whatever you record isn't as straightforward as you might expect. So here are the many ways to get your media off the device to share with the world.
How To: Automatically Back Up Everything on Your Android
NANDroid backups are one of the best reasons to root your Android device and install a custom recovery. They're essentially a snapshot of your phone's entire operating system and all installed apps, so if you ever screw something up when installing a flashable ZIP or custom ROM, you can restore your NANDroid backup to get everything back to normal.
How To: Share, Forward & Save Voicemails on Your iPhone
Eventually, your voicemail inbox on your iPhone will get full, and you'll have to delete some messages in order to make way for new ones. If all the voicemails you currently have are super important, you're not going to want to delete them before saving them first, of course. Luckily, this is a super simple task, and you can even forward them to someone else if needed.
How To: Add Ambient Background Music to Any App on Your Android
Newer gaming systems like the PlayStation 4 have a nice, subtle feature that goes a long way towards helping create a more immersive experience. Any time you're on the main menu or home screen, an ambient background music track is playing, which adds an aural appeal to an experience that would otherwise be all about the visuals.
How To: 6 Ways Music Affects Your Productivity (For Better or Worse)
Complete silence or a non-stop Pandora playlist? People are often divided on what type of work environment they prefer. Whether you're a frequent loud music listener or you can't stand any kind of background noise, chances are you're pretty set in your ways.
How To: 6 Ways to Access Members-Only Websites and Forums Without Giving Up Your Real Info
One of the most frustrating things on the Internet are sites that make you register just to view content. I'm not talking about paywalls—I mean the sites that make you give them personal information to look at free articles or forum threads. Most people are uncomfortable with this because a lot of these sites either spam you themselves, or sell your information to someone else who will.
How To: Get the Lucky/Unlucky Titles in Guild Wars (02/12/10)
This video explains how to get lucky or unlucky titles in Guild Wars. The way you get luck titles is to either to good or bad tasks which lead to getting tickets toward your titles. One step you have to take is by getting tickets from the festival ticket character in the game. After completing the shown tasks you will have a various degree of points leading towards your luck titles. The most rings you can use in a day is nine which costs around two million gold in Guild wars. Picking locks is...
How To: Root Motorola's Droid X cell phone from Verizon
It seemed like an impossible task. No one could figure it out. Only God himself knew the answer. But the impossible has become possibly after only a week of trying. The Droid X has been rooted.
How To: Set up the calendar in MS Project 2007
In this tutorial, we learn how to set up the calendar in MS Project 2007. First, open up your calendar and then click on the "work week" tab. Now, set your working times into the slots for each different day. Make sure you set your start and end times correctly. Now, go to options and change the default start and end times so they match your working calendar. When finished, save this and then start to enter your task information to each different slot. When you enter this, the start and finis...
How To: Fix a frozen browser without shutting your PC down
This tutorial shows you how to fix a frozen browser. One way to fix these pages when it happens to you is to go to the tools tab, and click on clear recent history. When the window opens it will ask how much you want to delete. Select everything. Now sometimes when you are using a browser it will not minimize or maximize and you can not close out of it. When this happens you just have to hit ctrl, alt, delete and open the task manager. Click on the program that says Firefox, then just hit end...
How To: Use Microsoft Word 2010's Backstage view option
Microsoft Word 2010 prevails with new advancements. New options such as Backstage view allows the user to work efficiently and utilize new abilities when managing documents. It succeeds with new abilities that will allow the user to complete tasks quicker than before. Working with the newly enhanced ribbon allows the user to navigate with an easy, more personal customized environment. Now with more options and commands at your fingertips, it is evidently shown that Microsoft is gifting users ...
How To: Replace a CV Joint
If you've never replaces a CV joint in a front wheel drive vehicle, it may seem like an intimidating task. But it can actually be easy if you have a good place to perform the work and have all the tools necessary to complete the task. And some good instructions, of course. Watch below for all the tools you'll need to properly change CV joints on a car, then hit up the link below to see the rest of the videos in this free series.
How To: Replace a thermostat on a Ford automobile with a 1.9L engine
Replacing a thermostat on a car or truck can be a taunting task. Let this guide be your repair manual as you are walked through the process of clearing the radiator hoses, adjusting clamps, sanding off grit, and more. Soon your Ford will have a brand new thermostat installed and you will have avoided expensive autoshop bills.
How To: Measure current, voltage, resistance, and continuity using a multimeter
If you own or have access to an auto-ranging or manual-ranging multimeter you can measure several different aspects of circuits, resistors, and the like. For example, you can determine the resistance, voltage, continuity, and current with the multimeter to help you determine the precision of a resistor. This guide will help you learn how to use a multimeter to perform these tasks.
How To: Copy a file's location in Mac OS X with free utility Copy Path Finder
Copying a file's path on your Mac isn't always an easy task. Thankfully, this cool little OSX utility called Copy Path Finder helps solve this problem and lets you copy the path of a file in your file system to the clipboard so that you can paste it into a text editor later.
How To: Add auto page numbering in indesign CS3 & CS4
This video is a simple guide about adding automatic page numbering to your document in Adobe's InDesign. It can be a tricky task, but there's no need to fear, this how-to will get you up and numbering in no time. Whether you're making your own document or presentation, or you're working for a huge client and it's got to be right - learn how to set up auto pagination and rest easy, knowing your 1 precedes your 2 and your three then comes next.
How To: Shoot at night when using a DSLR camera
One task to which DSLRs are particularly well suited is nighttime shooting. Fast, wide-aperture lenses make the most out of available light. In this video tutorial from renowned DSLR cinematographer Philip Bloom and the staff of Vimeo, we receive some tips on how to film at night using, for example, a Canon 7D, T2i (550D) or 5D Mark II.
How To: Install a brand new kitchen faucet in your house
Installing a new faucet in your kitchen or bathoom can be an easy DIY task if you follow this clear how-to. This is a great skill to know as it's only a matter of time before you're going to want, or need, to replace a faucet.
How To: Install door casement trim
A little trim can really add a nice look in your house or apartment. This DIY from Buildipedia gives you clear, easy instructions on this task that any home DIYer can do with a few tools. Give it a look and give it a try!
How To: Install an electrical outlet safely and easily
Installing an electrical outlet in your home or apartment may seem like a daunting task, but this simple DIY video from Buildipedia makes it a simple project. Whether your current outlet is broken, or you're just looking to add something new this video will show you how it's done.