October 23, 2009

How to get Apple's New iMac for a Discount

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How to get Apple's New iMac for a Discount

Preview: If you're new to buying Apple computers, you're probably paying full price. While it's true that Apple's iMac line pretty much never goes on sale, there are several steps you can take in getting an iMac for less. While your savings won't be tremendous, a little work can ensure they're in the triple digits. A hundred dollars is a hundred dollars, right...

July 18, 2009

How to Burn Xbox 360 Games on a Mac

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How to Burn Xbox 360 Games on a Mac

Preview: If you want to burn backups of your original Xbox 360 games, you're going to need to follow a specific procedure. The Xbox360 is really particular about reading burned games, so each step needs to be done just right. Thanks to advances in software, this can finally be done on a Mac without using virtualization software like VMWware or Parallels. Get out your blank dvds and lets get started...

July 16, 2009

How to Jailbreak and Unlock iPhone 3GS

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How to Jailbreak and Unlock iPhone 3GS

Preview: Unlocking the iPhone 3GS...impossible they say! Not so. Here's a very simple walkthrough for the jailbreaking and unlocking process. It's quite a bit different from unlocking the iPhone 3G, so make sure you follow the instructions carefully. Once you have all the software, you're about twenty or thirty minutes from having a fully Unlocked iPhone 3GS...

July 5, 2009

How to Record and Edit Video on the iPhone

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How to Record and Edit Video on the iPhone

Preview: One of the new (and somehow most overlooked) features on the iPhone is the ability to shoot video! Under the right circumstances, it's actually a pretty good camera. It encodes 640x480 h.264 MOV files at 3500kbps, and depending on your lighting will shoot at a framerate of 15fps or 30fps. The iPhone will also let you edit the video! This tutorial will show you how to shoot, edit, and upload YouTube when you're done...

How to Convert an Internal Hard Drive Into an External Harddrive

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How to Convert an Internal Hard Drive Into an External Harddrive

Preview: A lot of people don't know that an external harddrive is almost identical to the one inside your computer. The only difference is that it's in a cheap little box known as an "external enclosure". If you're upgrading harddrives in your laptop or desktop, you can pull out the old hard drive and convert it into an external harddrive by following these steps...

How to Stay Up Late Without Caffeine

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How to Stay Up Late Without Caffeine

Preview: If you're like most of the country, you've developed what I'll refer to as a caffeine addiction. Caffeine, after all, is an addictive drug even if it is legal. Maybe you work the late shift, stay up to study, or just don't like the daylight and you don't have (or refuse to use) caffeine. Whatever the reason, you're determined to stay up late without succumbing to that caffeine addiction. This guide will get you through the night without a single ounce of caffeine...

How to Update iTunes Podcast Info in Feedburner

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How to Update iTunes Podcast Info in Feedburner

Preview: If you've ever tried to update your iTunes store podcast information, you know it's pretty easy . . . that is, unless you use the Feedburner podcast service. When Google acquired the podcast service, it committed to keeping the same interface people have come to know. The problem is that podcasting service is very un-Google-like. A simple feature like updating your information is buried in menus! Until they do something to make it easier, you can use this guide to find what you need...

July 4, 2009

How to Use Digg to Promote Your eHow Articles

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How to Use Digg to Promote Your eHow Articles

Preview: If you've been on the internet for any length of time you probably already know that Digg is a popular social news site. Anyone can head over there, submit an article, and (if enough users vote on it) it can appear on the front page. I've previous written about how to get your article to the front page, but this time I'd like to explain how to use Digg to promote your eHow articles through passive search engine promotion...

How to Unlock an iPhone 3G with OS 3.0

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How to Unlock an iPhone 3G with OS 3.0

Preview: Although it isn't as easy as the old one, there is finally a solution to jailbreaking an iPhone with the 3.0 OS. Even if the firmware and baseband were upgraded, you can still unlock it for use with any carrier. Let's break it down to some simple steps...

How to Podcast Using Blogger

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How to Podcast Using Blogger

Preview: A lot of people use Wordpress to Blog, but I've actually found Blogger to be the superior platform. The blogspot takes a bit more work to setup, but it simplifies everything a ton. This tutorial isn't going to waste any time - assuming you've already signed up for a free blog, we're going to get right to minimizing the role of a web hosting service and using Blogger for all the rest...

How to Use a Hard Drive Wirelessly Over Airport

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How to Use a Hard Drive Wirelessly Over Airport

Preview: Apple's newest line of Airport routers allows you to connect an external harddrive that can be accessed by any computer on the network. If you've never used a "wireless" hard drive solution like this, it can be a little tricky. Follow these steps carefully and you should have any problems hooking up your external harddrive...

How to Increase the 50 Item Limit in Your Blogger Blogspot RSS Feed

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How to Increase the 50 Item Limit in Your Blogger Blogspot RSS Feed

Preview: "How do you show more than fifty items on your Blogger RSS Feed?" Google's Blogger site is great for setting up a blog. The software is easy to use, and even generates an RSS feed of the content. One complaint a lot of people share though is that the feed only shows your most recent 50 items. What if you do a podcast and want hundreds of episodes to show up? What if you want your RSS feed to go all the way back to your first entry? There's a fix for that...

July 2, 2009

How to Backup Your Blogger Blogspot

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How to Backup Your Blogger Blogspot

Preview: If you've had a Google Blogger blog for a while, you've probably starting wondering - How do I backup my blogspot? What do I do if something happens to it? What if I accidentally delete something? By creating an offsite backup - that is, a backup you keep on your home computer - you can guard against possible failures. Google has implemented some features that makes creating an offsite backup of your blog easy...

How to Download Individual Files from a Torrent

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How to Download Individual Files from a Torrent

Preview: Everyone has faced this problem: You're trying to download movies and you notice you're getting all these extra files you don't want - or maybe you have a "collection" torrent, forcing your into downloading movies you aren't interested in just to get the one you want. Let me show you how to pick and choose what to download from a torrent...

How to Forward Hotmail to Gmail

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How to Forward Hotmail to Gmail

Preview: A lot of people have been long time Hotmail or Windows Live Mail users, but want to start using Gmail. Rather than try to change your email address with every site you've ever registered, why not forward that Hotmail or WLM email hosting to Gmail? This article uses recent POP features added to Microsoft's email hosting to deliver all your email from their accounts to a Gmail address...

July 1, 2009

How to Make Gmail a Free Online Storage Drive

Every since Google launched Gmail, they've been adding more free storage. Recent counts put the total space over 7GB. An online backup service can be pretty pricey, but if you're feeling adventurous you can actually convert your Gmail to an online backup service! Best of all, it's free.

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June 30, 2009

How to Avoid Useless eHow Habits

There's a lot of really backwards group think on eHow - I like to call it "eHow voodoo". It's totally understandable; much of way eHow works is shrouded in mystery. While I've written a lot of articles about increasing your eHow earnings, I've never really written about what NOT to do on eHow. I spend a lot of time talking to top earners, doing research and conducting my own experiments, so I'd like to add my own thoughts to the mix. It's time to dispel some of the most common eHow myths.

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June 28, 2009

How to Transfer Money Between Banks Online (For Free)

Say you want to move money from one bank account to another account at a completely different bank. Sure you could use a wire transfer, but those cost money. There is a safe, free way to transferring money between bank accounts online, and you might even already use it: It's called Paypal.

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June 27, 2009

How to Take Better iPhone Camera Pictures

Your iPhone may not be a DSLR, but under the right circumstances it can take some pretty fantastic digital photos. It wasn't more than five years ago that three megapixel cameras were extremely common in basic consumer photography. Now you have one built into your cellphone! By manually taking the steps most cameras now do automatically, you'll be able to take digital photos that look as great as any point-and-shoot.

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June 26, 2009

How to Use RedGage to Promote eHow Articles and Make Money

RadGage aims to be an all purpose hub for collecting your various online content. You set up a profile, link to everywhere you post, and give people a unified source for following your work. As an added bonus, RedGage even pays you when people view your content! Best of all, you don't have to post actual articles - only links to the ones you already have online. Get paid, help your Google pagerank, and get more eHow views all at the same time! Let's go through everything the site offers and how it can help you.

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June 25, 2009

How to Get a Free iPhone Upgrade (Even Under Contract)

Every time a new iPhone comes out, previous owners feel cheated. They're no longer on the cutting edge. Try Googling the phrase "I just bought my iPhone" and you'll see what I mean. While the secrecy of Apple product launches has always caused this problem, it has been compounded as of late due to phone contracts. If you're the kind of person who always upgrades to the latest model, you're going to pay more for the phone because of the terms of your contract. Here's what you can do about it: Get your current phone to sell on ebay in order to fully pay for a new one. You probably thought it wouldn't sell for that much, but these steps will show you otherwise.

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June 23, 2009

How to Convert an Image to Text

If you have scans of a book, magazine, or some other kind of document, they may be in image form. They probably scanned in as a JPG or TIFF. With some elusive document scanning software known as OCR (Optical Character Recognition), you can convert those image files into text documents. You'll be able to edit the text, copy it, use the find function, etc.

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June 22, 2009

How to Increase Page Views Through Backlinks

So you had this great idea for an article, blog, etc. You put it online, polished it, and then...no one saw it. What gives? You need to increase your page views, and search engine optimization is the secret to doing that. Let's keep it simple - what are backlinks, how do they relate to SEO, and how are they going to solve your page view problem?

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June 21, 2009

How to Avoid Taking Overexposed Photos

Also considered the title "How to Shoot Manually on a Bright Day". Being outside on a bright sunny day is probably the most ideal time to take photos - but that doesn't mean it's free of problems. What if your photos keep coming out overexposed? What if you're trying to achieve a particular look on manual? You can always mess with the photo's brightness in photo editing programs, but working around physical brightness can present a challenge.

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June 20, 2009

How to Reduce the File Size of a DVD Image

Lots of people save full DVD images on their computers so they can watch movies without the disc. Maybe it's an iso, dmg, VIDEO_TS folder or .dvdmedia file - they're all basically the same thing. These files can max out at nearly 9GB, so even just a few will eat up an enormous amount of space. Thankfully you can use some DVD copier software to shrink down the file size.

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