Hot Internet How-Tos

How To: Get up and running as a seller on eBay

Experts say that every house has around 1500 dollars worth of merchandise that could be sold on eBay. eBay is a great alternative to the traditional garage sale these days, and with more and more people joining the site every day - why not get in on the action? eBay is an exciting Internet tool that allows anyone to sell anything. Check out this tutorial, for information and tips on how to start your own eBay seller's account. This is a great video to check out if you are new to eBay or have ...

How To: Make a PHP array

Creating arrays in PHP is simple once you know how. And, if you don't know how, this free video guide will sort you out. For more information, and to get started building and using data arrays in your own PHP projects, watch this programmer's how-to.

How To: Clear your Google search history in Mozilla Firefox

Protect your privacy. With this free video tutorial, you'll learn a method for clearing your Google search history in the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Note, however, that this only works locally and therefore will only prevent those who share the same computer as you from seeing your search history.

How To: Use WeFollow to get more Twitter Followers

In this how-to video, you will learn how to use the website Wefollow for twitter. This will allow you find more people to follow you on twitter. You can list yourself under a category so people can find and add you. If you are an antique dealer, you can label yourself as one. This allows you to be searched for and added. You will get higher on the search list as you get more influence and more people following you. If you are looking for people to follow in your niche, you can type in the nic...

How To: Use the reverse auction site Dubli

This will illustrate us how to use the reverse auction site Dubli. Here are the following steps.Step 1: First of all enter the link and log onto the official website of DubliStep 2: Now you will find various options on the homepage of Dubli.Step 3: go and click the option of auction option.Step 4: The various product that are for auction will be displayed.Step 5: Search for the product that you want to auction for and enter the amount that you pay for the product and press the go button.Step ...

How To: Block ads on Firefox

This video demonstrates how to surf the web without ads. The first step is to download Mozilla Firefox. Go to Get Firefox and click on 'free Mozilla download'. Do not select on e-bay or campus edition. Download the file and install the program successfully. Go to Get Firefox once again. Select on add-on and type in 'ad block' in the search tab. The results come up and select on 'Adblock Plus'. Install the program. Restart Firefox. ON the top right corner of the window a small red icon that re...

How To: Find someone's IP address

In this tutorial, we learn how to find someone's IP address. First, log into What's their IP. Once you open this, enter your email and click the links that can be sent to your friends. Once they click on these links, the website will email you that person's IP address. You can now look this IP up to see the exact location of that person. There are several different options of pages that can be sent to your friends if you want to track their IP addresses. There is also a page that can be sent ...

How To: Send different messages through Twitter

Twitter is a powerful social networking website which can be used to update you friends on what you are doing. To send different messages through twitter you will need a twitter account. Twitter account can be registered for free. Log in to your twitter account and go to your home page. There is a text box provided at the top with the text 'What are you doing?'. Enter the message you want in the text box provided. Click update and this message will be shown to all the people that are followin...

How To: Enable Protected Mode in Internet Explorer 7 in Vista

This video talks about protected mode for internet explorer 7 and Windows Vista. The person tells you that protected mode helps protect your computer from types of spyware. It is not the best solution and they tell you one should not rely on this alone. By default protected mode is on. You want to make sure it hasn't accidentally been disabled. To check your settings, double click on the area on the bottom of the screen that says protected mode. The security tab will pop open. Look to see if ...

How To: How to send an email using CC and BCC

In this video from orielict we learn how to send email using CC and BCC. First open your email program and in the TO section type in the address you'd like to send to. Make a subject, and type in the body of the email. Click send. That's sending a normal email. To send to more than one person, type the address in the TO section, and then in the CC section, type someone else's email. This will be a copy of this email. In BCC, you can select someone to receive the email and no one else will see...

How To: Find your external IP address

In this tutorial, we learn how to find an external IP address on your PC using different websites. First, find a website that will let you find your IP address for free. Once you find this site, it will not only give you your IP address, it will show you where you are in the world. Not only will it tell you where you are in the United States, it will tell you your exact coordinates and pin point your location on a map. There are many sites available online that will do this, a great site is I...

How To: Create a custom caption box in Wordpress

In order to create a custom caption box in WordPress you'll need to go to your dashboard. Here click on appearances, then on editor. Now over on the right select the sidebar option. Here you'll see some code, what you need to do is find the word that you want to replace on the main page, you can use ctrl+F to find the word. When you've found it within the code just replace it with whatever you want and then press the 'apply' button. You'll see that the main page will now be displaying the wor...

How To: Use TweetBrain to get more Twitter followers

In this Computers & Programming video tutorial you will learn how to use TweetBrain to increase your Twitter followers. It basically links up people who are using this program very well so that every body is tweeting about everybody. You have to go to TweetBrain and get an account. When you answer a question from anyone, it goes out to all your followers. Similarly, if someone answers your question, it goes out to their followers. So, your id is going out to so many more people. And some inte...

How To: Unblock applications on Facebook

This video tutorial from agseo presents how to unlock applications in Facebook social internet network. For more detailed information go to www.agseo.blogspot.comTo unblock Farmwille and other applications on Facebook social network login to your Facebook account.From top menu Account drop-down list select Privacy Settings.Then select Applications and Website from the newly opened window.Select Blocked Applications (click on Edit Blocked Applications button).A list of all blocked applications...

How To: Send an email using Yahoo email

In this video, we learn how to send an email using Yahoo email. First, go to Yahoo and click on "mail". Type in your user name and password. Once you're logged in, click on "Inbox" and click on "Compose". Type in the email address you are sending an email to and fill in the boxes for subject and the body of the email. Once you are finished with this, click "send" and it will tell you once you're email is sent. It's as easy as that to send an email using your Yahoo! email account.

How To: Send a fax from your computer using Myfax software

In this how-to video, you will learn how to send a fax for free with your computer. First, go to the website MyFax. You will see a screen with forms to fill. Fill out the appropriate information, such as your name and who you are sending it to. You can also enter an external message with the fax. You can then upload the file you want to fax onto the form. Once this is done, enter the email addresses of the people whom you will be sending the fax to. Once this is all filled out, click on the b...

How To: Autoplay, loop & change the size of YouTube videos

YouTube videos can be embedded in other websites like MySpace. Go to the YouTube page of the video that you want to display on other websites. In the right had side of the page there are details of the video like the URL to it and below it is the Embed link. This link can be used to embed this video in other websites. To do this first copy the embed code and go to your MySpace edit page. Copy the code over there. Now delete everything that is there between the embed tags. Now in the code afte...

How To: Hide your comments on MySpace

This tutorial will show you how to hide your MySpace comments using the custom MySpace profiles website. All you have to do is visit the website mentioned in the video, and copy a simple code in the codes section. The code that you will be looking for in the list is the 'Hide MySpace comments' code. The code is then pasted in to your MySpace profile under the 'About Me' section. If you follow the directions entirely in this tutorial, your MySpace profile comments will be disabled until you re...

How To: Monitor social network activity with Net Nanny

Danny with Top Ten Reviews will show you how to monitor social network activity with the Net Natty program. This will be helpful for monitoring social networking accounts on websites such as Facebook and MySpace. First, open Net Nanny. Go to the dashboard and select Additional Settings under Filtering. With this section, social networking sites that have been used on the computer will be listed. You can check whichever account you want to monitor. Under the dashboard, go to Reports and select...

How To: Block third party apps on Facebook

In this how-to video, you will learn how to block third party applications on Facebook. On your main page, you will see requests on the right. Click on the request to check the invitation. You will be presented with a few choices. If you are never planning on accepting an invitation to the application, you can click on the Block Application at the bottom. You can also ignore all invitations from a person by clicking the link with the same name in the same page. This will make using Facebook m...

How To: Find computer's IP address

In this tutorial, we learn how to find your computer's IP address. An IP address is used to know the exact location of someone using a computer with internet access is located at. First, turn your computer on and go to your main desktop. Then, click on "start", (which is located on the lower left hand side of the tool bar at the bottom), then click "run" and once that opens up, type "cmd" into the white empty space. Hit "ok" and when this comes up, type in "IPConfig" and hit "enter". Your com...

How To: Automatically play embedded YouTube clips

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to automatically play You Tube videos on My Space. Begin by going on the You Tube website and search for a video that you want. Then copy the embed code and paste it in a notepad document. There will be two URLs in the embed code in quotations. Type in "&autoplay=1" at the end of both URLs inside the quotations and then copy the embed code. Log into your My Space account and click on Edit Profile. Paste the embed code into the About Me section and cli...

How To: Suggest friends to new users on Facebook

In this tutorial, Christopher Prince Boucher shows us how to suggest a friend to another friend on Facebook. First, log into your Facebook account and look through your friends. Find the person you want to suggest to your friends and click on their page. On the left hand side will be a button named "suggest to friends". Once you click on this a new window will pop up and you can choose which friends you'd like to suggest this friend to. Once you pick out all friends, click "suggest" and it wi...

How To: Upload pictures to Facebook from an SD card

This is how to upload pictures to Facebook from an SD card. On Facebook, navigate to the 'picture upload area'; if you can not find this, you can find it by going to: http://www.facebook.com/photos/?ref=sbCreate an album by choosing a name for it, and you can also add a description of the album, and change the privacy settings of the album. After the album is created, click on 'add photos', and go to 'simple uploader'. Click on 'browse'; and navigate to your SD card location, and select the p...

How To: Edit your Facebook profile

When you register for a new Facebook account you enter your profile details. How ever these profile details can later be changed by editing them. To do this go to your Facebook home page. Open the link that says view my profile which is located beside your picture. You can also click on your name or your picture. This takes up your profile page. At the top you can see boxes which are links to various pages like info, photos etc. Open the info box and there you can see your profile information...

How To: Get around your school's Websense filter with Hopster

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to bypass web-sense filter using the software, Hopster. This program allows users to bypass firewall, bypass proxy and HTTP tunnel. To download this program, go to Google and search for the program. Click on the first result and select download. Once the file is downloaded, double-click on it and follow the instructions to install the program. This program runs silently and invisibly so that the administrator won't be able to detect it. This video wil...

How To: Monetize Facebook fan pages & groups

This training video will show you easy techniques to monetize fan pages and groups on the social networking site Facebook! To earn money, you must first crate an account on YouTube, then you need to upload a video. Also you have to sign up for Google Adsense, which will allow you to earn money from people clicking on the ads in your video. Then just create a Facebook fan page with a link to your video. Invite all your friends, and let the ball roll! If a video has 1000'000 views, and ONLY 1 i...

How To: Suggest a friend to join your Facebook page

This video demonstrates how to suggest a friend to join your Facebook page. First you find the fan page by typing the name in the search bar at the top of the page. Choose the right result. Then click on suggest friends on the left hand side the page, just under the picture. A box will pop up with all of your friends listed. You can then choose which friends that you would like to suggest to become a fan of the Facebook page. Existing fans will be grayed out so you cannot choose them again. C...

How To: Do Facebook smileys

This video illustrates the method of using Facebook smileys. The process is composed of the following steps -Step 1While typing a wall post or a message in Facebook , click on the smiley button present in the top right corner of the text box where are typing your text.Step 2You will be presented with a drop down menu with the smileys that can be used in Facebook. Select anyone of them and insert them in your post by right clicking on it.Step 3You can add any number of smileys by following the...

How To: Remove Facebook ads in Firefox

In this video, we learn how to remove ads that appear on the sidebar on Facebook. First, you need to look up "Adblock plus Firefox" on Google. Once you've found this, click on the page (which should show up as https://addons.mozilla.org/addon1865) and add this add-on to your Firefox browser. You will now need to restart Firefox for the add-on to work. Now, open up your Facebook account and all the Facebook ads that usually appear on the side will be gone! If an image does show up, simply righ...

How To: Import Flickr photos to Facebook

Linking your social networking activity together has never been so easy. Randy Ksar shows us the simple process of linking your Facebook and Flickr accountstogether so you and your friends can view your them both easily without navigating from site to site. First, you should log into your Facebook page click on Profile, select settings and you should see Activity. All you need to do is simply click on the Flickr link and type your Flickr user account name and you're done. Note that your Flick...

How To: Embed a fundraising widget onto your Facebook page

In this how-to video, you will learn how to embed a social or fund raising widget on to your Facebook page. Look for static fbml on the Facebook search function. Click on it and add to page. Next, press add static fbml. Now you are finished. Go to edit page and click edit on the application. Now you can embed whichever code you need to paste into your Facebook page. Do not worry about what the code does, as you do not need to know it in order for it to work. Save the changes and go back to th...

How To: Recover your cell after getting wet

JrHelgeson teaches viewers how to recover their cell phone after getting it wet. First, once you get your phone out of the water, immediately take your phone apart. Make sure you take out the battery and the SIM card and various components. Also, try to shake out as much water as you can. You need to use distilled water next because it does not conduct electricity and it MUST BE distilled water. Fill distilled water all over your cell phone to rinse off as much of the normal water as you can....

How To: Set the Facebook home page to show live status updates

Facebook is the most powerful social network web site that helps you to connect and share with the people in you life. You need to register an account with the face book website, which is free of cost, to use their service. In face book home page you can show others your live status updates. To do this first log in to your face book application. From the left hand side column select the status updates link. This opens the 'Status Updates' web page, where you can see the status updates of all ...

How To: Check your site's Google indexing

This video tutorial from MatthewNeer presents how to check your site's or blog's Google indexing.Type in Google word Site, press Space and then enter your site's or blog's URL address.Then press Enter or click Search button.Newly opened Google page will show all the pages from your site or blog which are already indexed in Google search engine.From search Results to the right you can see how many pages from your site are already indexed.According to the results you can reoptimize those pages ...