Hot Internet How-Tos
How To: Test Drive Gmail's New Interface
Google's hard at work beefing up their new Google+ social network, and while they continue to improve new features like Circles and Hangouts, they haven't lost track of their other online features already widely in use. If you're already a part of the Google+ project (currently closed to invites right now), you've probably noticed the changes in Picasa Web, but Gmail has been getting some great updates as well—and you don't have to be in the Google+ network to use them.
How To: Use Circle Hack to Organize Your Facebook Friend Lists à la Google+ Circles
There's a lot of talk going around about Google's new social network and how it's heavily influenced by Facebook, but truth be told, how could they build Google+ without taking a note
How To: Transfer Your Facebook Friends to Google+ (And Vice Versa)
On the same day that Google launched their new social network, Google +, a team of Google engineers calling themselves the Data Liberation Front announced their first service on Tuesday—Google Takeout, a product that allows users to easily move their data in and out of Google products, including Buzz, Contacts and Circles, Picasa Web Albums, Profile and Stream (the equivalent of Facebook’s newsfeed).
How To: Change your Facebook notification settings
Overwhelmed by a nonstop flood of Facebook notifications? It must be nice to have so many friends. If you feel like you need to get control over the constant notifications Facebook sends you, watch this video to learn how to edit your settings.
How To: Use Tweetbot and Flipboard to organize your Twitter account
Watch this video to learn how to use Tweetbot and Flipboard. Tweetbot is great for organizing lists in Twitter. Then, you can use Flipboard to create a virtual magazine of your interests. Follow your passions on twitter with these two excellent apps, Tweetbot and Flipboard.
How To: Unlike pages on Facebook
Liked out? It is possible to "Like" too much. If you've gone too far expressing your enthusiasm for Facebook fan pages, watch this video to learn how to delete, or unlike, Facebook pages. Manage your Facebook profile like a pro.
How To: Disable Facebook facial recognition for photos
Don't like the idea that Facebook could recognize your face in a friend's photo and suggest they tag you? Take control of your privacy and learn how to disable Facebook's facial recognition feature for photos. You should know when you're going to be tagged in a photo.
How To: Use a proxy to get on Facebook at school
Are you trying to access Facebook when you shouldn't? This video will help. Watch and learn how to use a proxy to get to blocked websites, like Facebook. Now you can go on Facebook and other websites anywhere, even at school.
How To: Disable Facebook's theater mode for viewing photos
Annoyed by being taken to theater mode when viewing photos on Facebook? There's a way to get out of that lightbox that keeps you from interacting with photos. Watch this video to learn 4 techniques for avoiding Facebook theater mode.
How To: Create an iPhone or Android App without knowing any code for free
You need an app to be competitive, but you don't know any code. Don't let that stop you. Watch this video and learn about buzztouch a website that will make your app for you. Expand your presence with an app in the App Store or Android Market.
Use Google's New Features: Voice Search, Search by Image and Instant Pages
Speech recognition software made it easy to search Google on your smartphone, and Google Goggles made it easy to find answers from camera snapshots on your device. But now Google's bringing similar technology straight to your desktop, and with faster results—faster than Google Instant.
How To: Protect Your Facebook Reputation with Reppler
Do you know how you are perceived by your peers? In real life and online? In the physical world, you could be seen as intelligent, thoughtful and hard-working, but on the Web you could be looked at as irrational, selfish and slothful. There's just something about the Internet that takes away a person's judgement and replaces it with impulsiveness—especially when it comes to Facebook.
How To: Stop Facebook's Facial Recognition Software from Automatically Tagging You in Photos
It seems like nowadays, whenever Facebook rolls out a new feature, it's immediately controversial. Social Ads put your name and face in the spotlight, Instant Personalization shared your information with partner sites, third-party apps were allowed to access your home address and phone number, and now Tag Suggestions implement facial recognition software to automatically identify your friends in uploaded photos. Most are calling it problematic or creepy, some insinuate CIA involvement, and it...
How To: View the nonmobile versions of web sites on Android browsers
What's the point of having a browser on your Android phone if you're only seeing part of the internet. Visit the full versions of your favorite web sites by configuring your Android browser to show nonmobile websites on your mobile phone.
How To: Set up iCloud to keep all of your devices in sync
One of iCloud's most exciting features is automatic download. It means that when you download something from the App Store on one device, it downloads onto all of your devices. No more going back and forth between iPad and iPhone, all of your music, movies, and ebooks in the same place.
How To: Use iCloud to connect your Apple computer with your iPhone
Ever find a really cool article on the web that you'd like to read next time you are out and about, waiting in line or riding the bus? Watch this video to learn how to use iCloud to share links between your computer and your iPhone.
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: Use any search engine from the address bar in Google Chrome and Chromim
Check out this video to learn how to search more effectively in the Google Chrome browser. This video will explain how to manually enter keyword searches in Google Chrome and Chromium, which will allow you to search using any engine from the address bar.
How To: Configure Mozilla Thunderbird to look like Google Gmail
If you're wary of using Gmail but love the aesthetics of the interface, check out this video guide to learn how to make Mozilla Thunderbird look just like Google Gmail. Don't put up with annoying ads when your email can have the same look without them.
How To: Display the Page Owner feature on Facebook
If you're using Social Media to promote your business, don't forget to promote yourself as well. Put a face to your Facebook page by watching this video and learning how to display the Page Owner feature on your business' Facebook page.
How To: Manage a Facebook page for business
Facebook is a great tool for businesses. Watch these videos to learn how to maximize the effectiveness of your business' Facebook page. Reach out to your customers with social media and networking with the methods demonstrated in these how to videos.
How To: Change your Google Chrome theme
Looking to switch up the look of your internet browser? If you're using Google Chrome, you're in luck. One of Chrome's best features is that it's so customizable. Watch this video to learn how to change your Google Chrome theme.
How To: Detect Facebook Spam
Spam is everywhere and Facebook is no exception. In fact, spammers are constantly stepping up their game by tricking unsuspecting Facebook users to participate in quizzes, games, apps, or "new features" that are actually dangerous computer viruses, spyware, or other trojan horses in disguise. Their attempts even trick people into unknowingly becoming spammers themselves.
Protect Your Facebook Profile: 10 Ways to Increase Privacy
Don't want one of your Facebook "friends" knowing your status updates? Prefer to keep a few of those "friends" out of your photo albums? Would you like to prevent a few "friends" from accessing your address?
How To: Track a Stolen Camera Online
Ever had your car broken into? Or worse, your apartment? Ever been pickpocketed? Handheld electronics—iPods, iPhones, iPads, GPS devices, digital cameras—are easy to snatch, light to carry, and useful to most. And when they're gone, they're gone.
How To: Use Quora to get answers for your questions
If you got a question that needs an answer, Quora.com is a great resource. You can pose your question to the community and have it answered by experts from many different fields. This video will show you how to use some of Quora's most helpful features.
How To: Make Your Internet Faster in Windows XP, 7, Vista and Mac OS X
How to Make the Internet Faster in Windows 7 Go to Control Panel.
How To: Add a Dislike Button to Your Facebook Page
Are you one of countless Facebook users who find the classic Thumbs Up symbol tiresomely sycophantic? You're not alone. Back in August of 2010, the widespread addition of an "official" Thumbs Down symbol to Facebook pages quickly revealed itself to be a scam, but only after countless users opted in.
How To: Use Qwiki (1-Minute Audio-Visual Summaries of Wikipedia Articles)
Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has become the number one reference site on the web, used by anyone and everyone, written by anyone and everyone. With over 18 million collaboratively written articles, there's backgrounds and descriptions on practically everything—if it exists, there's probably a Wikipedia page for it.
How To: Get Free Windows Software Daily
When you look up the word free in the dictionary, you'll find a lot of definitions, but in the days of digital dependency and a falling economy, free only means one thing—expensive stuff for nothing. And if you own a Windows computer, one of the best sites to get free software from is Giveaway of the Day.
How To: Use the Location Bar (aka Awesome Bar) to Search the Internet Faster in Firefox 4
Getting used to your new Firefox 4 web browser? If so, you might have seen some improvements in the Location Bar. The updated features make browsing the web a cinch, so it's no wonder why more and more Internet junkies are calling it the Awesome Bar. It's faster and easier to use, and there's even some optional tweaks that you can employ to make your Internet experience smooth and effortless.
How To: Win at QuiBids Auctions—Which Might Just Mean Stay Away
If you're looking to acquire the newest iPod model or latest Xbox without breaking the bank, your first stop would probably be eBay, maybe even the Amazon Marketplace, or any of the other reputable online marketplaces and auction sites. But you probably haven't hit up the penny auctions yet, and that could be a good thing, depending on how you go about it.
How To: Remove Your Name and Profile Picture from Facebook's Social Ads
Facebook is constantly evolving, and lately it seems like a bad thing, at least for its users. First, you had to opt out of Instant Personalization, which shared your personal information with Facebook's partner sites. Then, you had to take drastic measures to secure your home address and mobile number from third-party apps and websites. And now?—Now you need to opt out of Facebook Ads.
How To: Download and use the new features in the Firefox 4 RC
Mozilla Firefox is one of the Big Three web browsers, beloved for it's open nature and lack of affiliation with Microsoft or Google. Firefox 4 has been in a rather cranky Beta for some time, but has finally reached Release Candidate (RC) status! Watch this video for a guide to the new features you can play with in the RC, then click the link below to download it.
How To: Block Unwanted Websites from Showing Up in Your Google Search Results
Google recently rewrote their search algorithm to make "low-quality sites" disappear from your front page results, putting the emphasis on better, more relevant answers with original content and in-depth information. And now Google has added a new feature to their search system that gives you some of the control of what you see in your results.
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: Run Firefox 4 and 3 Simultaneously in Mac OS X with Multiple Firefox Profiles
We all want a faster, more efficient web browsing experience. Some immediately flocked to Google Chrome as soon as it was released, because of its super fast speeds. Others restrained themselves and continued to wait for Microsoft and Mozilla to play catchup. And the time is almost here for all Internet junkies to improve their game.
How To: Increase Website Traffic Using White Hat SEO Techniques and Free SEO Tools
Put simply, SEO = more organic traffic. And more traffic is always good for a web page / website (unless of course, you are an underground drug-dealer selling drugs worldwide via a spooky website whose URLs are as search engine unfriendly as possible, so that no one accidentally discovers your page and informs the police, sending to heaven both an exciting career opportunity and the likely Al Capone's successor).
How To: Convert a PDF to an Online aXmag Flash Magazine
Find a PDF You need a PDF file on your computer to convert, so keep the file path in mind.
How To: Hack a 64 bit WiFi wireless network using Ubuntu v. 9.04
Oh how we love open source software. If it wasn't for Open Office, we never would have been able to write that seven-page English paper while on our friend's Microsoft Office-lacking laptop during an impromptu road trip to Mexico. And Ubuntu, an open source secure operating system, offers you similar convenience. A much more intuitive computer operating software than your standard Windows or Mac OS, Ubuntu is great if you know what you're doing.