Hot Internet How-Tos
How To: Protect your email address from spam
If you're putting your email address online on your own website, or sites like facebook or myspace, you may want to be a bit clever about it. Check out this tutorial and see how to protect your email address from spam.
How To: Make Firefox much faster
This tutorial explains how to make firefox much faster by editing the about:config options.
How To: Detect viruses and spyware
This video helps you to protect your computer against viruses and spyware often contracted when using peer to peer (p2p) networks like limewire, kazaa and emule.
How To: Download free sheet music for any instrument
This tutorial teaches you how to download sheet music from movies, video games, and tv series. Learn to modify the sheet music to transpose the notes to any instrument and print it out. Again if you can get sibelius or finale, it might be better but Noteworthy Composer works fine.
How To: Get a free college education online
This tutorial shows you how to get free full college video lectures from the best sites in the US. It's based on the Free Education Online Program from the OCW Open Consortium.
How To: Improve your download speed
The key to understanding download speeds and if it's possible to improve yours, is really to understand that you want to increase your bandwith. Check out this video and see how to learn about bandwith, kilobytes and kilobits per second and improve your own download speeds.
How To: Increase video quality with the FFDShow decoder
FFDShow decoder (win32) owns both as a video encoder and decoder. It can process the video while it's playing adding effects like sharpening, deblocking and color manipulation.
How To: Filter incoming emails in Gmail
If you're new to Gmail or just haven't taken the time to play with it, and really want to know how to deal with filters (sorry there aren't folders) and organize your inbox, then you'll want to check out this tutorial.
How To: Turn YouTube videos into AVI files or iPod mp4's
Learn how to save youtube's FLV files and turn them into editable AVI, wmv files that you can edit with movie maker or your favorite video editing software. You can use this to create video responses to your favorite youtube personalities by cutting direct video quotes from their video.
How To: Format text on your YouTube posts
This video tutorial will talk about html formatting on YouTube. specifically how to make your comments bold, italicized (italics), underlined, or all of the above. It also explains html entities.
How To: Use the hotkeybind macro
This tutorial explains how to use the free Hotkeybind macro. It allows you to open programs or insert text with a just a keystroke.
How To: Use Google docs & spreadsheets sharing
This video shows a cut and paste illustration of the tools Google offers in it's documents programs. Sharing a document can either occur by transmitting the doc from your home server to another person's home OR you can upload a doc to Google and browse from anywhere-- not just your home computer.
How To: Optimize Firefox's performance to maximum efficiency
Learn how to streamline and optimize Firefox and improve its performance and efficiency with a few simple extensions and by adjusting your Firefox preferences.
How To: Use an RSS feed
You've probably seen that little bright orange "RSS" or XML square floating around on lots of websites and if you don't know what it is (or you do) and don't know how to use it, check out this video. Jimmy explains what RSS feeds are, how to subscribe to them and then how to read and use them.
How To: Create clear fullscreen videos to upload to YouTube
If you're making tutorials or any full screen capture video and uploading it to YouTube and haven't quite figured out how to have it NOT be blurry, then PLEASE check out this video! It'll solve your problem and save your viewers' eyes!
How To: Use advanced search commands to find Youtube videos
Here they are used to find anime episodes and movies, but you can use advanced Google commands to perform more dynamic searches on Youtube. Learn how to narrow or expand your searches and search for multiple items simultaneously.
How To: Send email attachments above the size limit
Sometimes you may want to send files larger than the file size limit that your email program will allow. Learn how to send larger files by email by using either free services on the Internet or free compression software like 7Zip.
How To: Remove context menus from Firefox
Learn how to make Firefox's interface more minimal by removing the help, view, bookmarks, history, edit, and file menu buttons.
How To: Download an mp3 off of a streaming link
To avoid waiting a long time to stream an mp3 file, just use an html editor to right click the link and download the file. Ron Hutton demonstrates. Download an mp3 off of a streaming link.
How To: Manage assets on Brightcove
This video shows you how to upload, encode and organize assets in the console. We have a new, faster and easier way for you to encode and upload content into Brightcove. It's a free desktop application called the Publishpod. If you have a small batch of files you need to upload, files that are larger the 100mb, or you need to encode your files into Flash format first, you should consider using the Brightcove Publishpod. Publishpod is a simple but powerful tool for encoding and uploading video...
How To: Create players on Brightcove
Create and customize players using single title and multi-title template options. This tutorial also covers the basics of player distribution. Create players on Brightcove.
How To: Access network security cameras
In this video you will see how to access network security cameras through google search engine easily!
How To: Teach kids about the internet
Welcome to the information superhighway! In this BrainPOP movie, Tim and Moby will teach you all about the Internet and how it works—from what an ISP is to how emails get from one computer to another! Teach kids about the internet.
How To: Teach children to search on the internet
Who needs books when you’ve got the Internet? In this BrainPOP movie, Tim and Moby will help you get the most out of your Internet connection as they give you some guidelines to start your research on the World Wide Web. Teach children to search on the internet.
How To: Use mouse gestures for FireFox
See how to move back and forth, scroll, zoom and switch tabs by holding down the mouse button and using gestures in FireFox.
How To: Use Mapplets for Google Maps
A new feature in Google Maps, Mapplets, places data overlays onto your map - like movie times, crime rates and real estate prices. Learn how to combine multiple overlays for a one-stop view of what you need to know.
How To: Buy strategically on eBay
When you really want an item on eBay, you no longer can just place your bid and hope. If you're going to beat out the competition for your favorite auction, you need to follow these strategies to win big.
How To: Use Facebook Flyers Pro ad application
The trickiest part of Facebook’s new “flyers pro” advertising feature might simply be finding it. Any flyers you buy show up in the Facebook lefthand sidebar. Use Facebook Flyers Pro ad application.
How To: Buy a video clip at helpfulvideo.com
This video demonstrates the process of purchasing a video clip at helpfulvideo.com. Buy a video clip at helpfulvideo.com.
How To: Upload videos to Google video
Are you the next Michelle Phan? Or have an itching desire to outdo Rebecca Black with an even more awesomely horrible autotuned prepubescent anthem? Then you are the perfect candidate to upload stuff onto Google Video. Like YouTube, Google Video allows you to share your videos with everyone, no one, or a select group of friends and family.
How To: Create Email aliases and forwarding addresses in Gmail
Take better advantage of your Gmail tools -use aliases to organize your mail and forwarding to manage multiple email addresses and locations.
How To: Drive traffic to your site using links
You can learn how to drive traffic to your website using links. The most important thing is to get people to your website. You can not spend hours and hours writing emails to people who steal your articles.
How To: Change the background color of Google
Want to change the color of your Google browser window? Learn how you can alter the colors of your Google background.
How To: Accelerate you download speed
Learn how to accelerate your download speed in windows xp. This video will show you how to edit the administrative template to increase you download speed. Accelerate you download speed.
How To: Get your IP address
This video shows how to get your IP address from your computer. Get your IP address.
How To: Find the music you like with French Maids
These lovely French maids will show you how to find new music that suits you. This video will show you some easy steps to find the right music for you, using ilike.com. Now you will know how to find music that you like!
How To: Change homepage in Firefox
This tutorial demonstrates how to change your homepage in Firefox internet browser. This will help new computer users.
How To: Secure your wireless network
This is a tutorial on how to secure your wireless network. This tutorial shows you how to setup a WEP encryption key for your wireless network.
How To: Choose which Internet browser to use
Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Opera — which one does Chris use? None of the above! instead of one of the three major browsers, Chris uses Maxthon, which he finds to be superior, even though it uses Internet Explorer’s rendering engine. Choose which Internet browser to use.
How To: Create Gmail labels and filters
Learn how Gmail differs from other email accounts and how to make labels and filters in Gmail to organize your mail.