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How To: Create a new Skype account

For people who would like to find an easy way to communicate with their loved ones via video or voice chat on their computer, this video will show you how to create and use a Skype account. After going onto Skype.com, you should download Skype, since you will not be able to use this without having the program on your computer. After downloading the file, you should then create an account on the program that appears, creating a username and password. By following these simple steps, anyone wil...

How To: Unblock YouTube in 2 easy ways

If you are stuck using a computer in a place with safety filters, you can use this tutorial to bypass those controls and get to your YouTube account. So, whether you are in a school, library or your parents have parental controls activated, just follow along and you will be able to get past them every time. There are two methods described in this tutorial, one is easy for beginners and the other more advanced. They both work like a charm, however, and you will be watching your favorite videos...

How To: Create a wifi hotspot for Mac, iPod Touch, and/or PSP

In this video tutorial, learn how to make a wireless Internet hotspot with the following: a Mac computer, an ethernet cable (connected to your modem), and an airport. This video will releave you of the need to deal with a router. Once completed, you will have you're very own wifi hotspot that will work on your iPod Touch (1st & 2nd generation), your Sony PSP (PSP 1000, 2000, & 3000 series), and anything else that has wifi compatibility.

How To: Get chat history even if friend is offline

A Facebook profile page shows up explaining the steps on how to get chat history of a friend on Facebook. It explains that you need to go to the profile of the person you would like to find chat history with. It then explains steps on how you can copy there Facebook ID. Once you have accessed that he provides you with a JavaScript code to use to pull up chat history. He gives you step by step examples explaining how to set up the ID and apply it to the JavaScript coding. Once that has been es...

How To: Download music from MySpace as an MP3

This video describes how get mp3s from MySpace that typically would not available for download on your computer. Even though the download link is not clickable the songs are still downloadable! Download all of your favorite music so you can listen to it whenever you want without an internet connection. Put the latest tunes, from your favorite musicians, on an MP3 player and show all of your friends cool new artists!

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: Hack a Friendster account

Believe it or not, people are still using Friendster. Which is great news for all you hackers because that means there are accounts to hack! With this video you'll find out how to exploit a programming loop hole in order to hack into someone's Friendster account. We can't promise you'll find anything interesting!

How To: Unblock websites at school with the Cmd prompt

The instructor, Diesel, teaches how to bypass blocked websites at school like MySpace and YouTube. He shows how to make a batch file which opens the command prompt. Next, he shows how to ping a website like MySpace and how to extract the ip address of the website from the command prompt by using the mark option. Now, you can copy that address, paste it into the browser and go to the blocked site directly. By watching this video, you can easily learn to access blocked websites by bypassing them.

How To: Change your Tumblr blog account settings

Need a hand figuring out how to adjust the settings on your Tumblr blog? It's easy. And this brief video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started adjusting your own Tumblr blog settings, take a look.

HowTo: Hack the New Facebook Profile Page With Your Face

Inspired by the French artist who was the first to "hack" the new Facebook profile page, tons of creative copycat versions have begun to surface (scroll all the way down). But the sickest version by far is this video + image mashup/remix created by Stinson Design: Below, learn how to hack your own profile with images (you'll have to figure out the video part on your own):

How To: Get Rid of Spam in Your Gmail Account

Spam emails are emails that are sent to you without your permission. They can quickly fill up your email account if you don't do anything about it. Each email server deals with spam in a different way. Gmail is good at separating the spam for you so that you can get rid of it more quickly. It is easy to delete the spam and if you want to take it a little farther, you can get some of the spam to stop coming all together.

How To: Hack Google to find anything

This is a Computers & Programming video tutorial where you will learn how to hack Google to find anything. There are no audio instructions; only a demonstration of the steps to follow. Go to Google and type into the search box: intitle:”index.of” (type anything here) and search. For example, type in: intitle:”index.of”Shakira mp3. And click search. Then you will get the search results. Now you can click on Index of…/songs and it will take you to the songs index page. From there you can downlo...

How To: Use a proxy to bypass parental control filters

The video shows us how to use a proxy to bypass the Internet Filters. Most of the times in our schools and colleges most of the websites including the social networking ones will be blocked for security reasons and makes us unable to log into those websites. In such cases even the ones from the YouTube, several videos will be blocked. So in this video, we will be shown how to bypass those filters and log into those sites. Firstly go to the website Proxapp and over there you will be asked the ...

How To: Speak with auto-tune vocals in Skype

Vofgofm33 shows viewers how to use autotune with Skype! First, select Mixcraft program and set up MixCraft for Autotune. First, you need virtual audio cable. Set this up and have the track audio on. Next, you will set your output to VAC. Then, you need to have where you want to use auto tune have input set to VAC - this will be Skype. This can also work with any program. For instance, you can use this with MSN, AIM or any where that you use your headset. When you need to get this effect on Sk...

How To: Tag friends, pages, and groups in your Facebook status

This short video demonstrates how to tag websites and groups in your Facebook status. In your status window start typing what you would like to tag. For example write "Tagging one of my favorite sites:" At this point type the @ symbol. Right after the @ type in the particular site you would like to tag. When you are finished typing press 'Share' and this will appear on your Facebook page with a clickable link to the site you tagged.

How To: Hack a website with SQL injection

SQL injection is a type of code injection that takes advantage of security vulnerability at the database level. It's certainly not the easiest form of hacking, but if you're serious about turning a website upside down then this is the way to do it.

How To: Hack web browsers with BeEF

This video tutorial talks about browser exploitation. Particularly, it talks about tools, like BeEF, that can be used to hack known vulnerabilities within browsers and some cool frameworks that you can use to check the security of your own browser. To get started hacking your own browser, watch this how-to.

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: Bold & underline text & add smileys in Facebook chat

At first glance Facebook chat may seem like a pretty simple application, but there are actually some more complicated things you can do with it. Learn how to customize your chat experience by changing the font and adding smileys with this video. Need to make a point? Then bold your font. You can even add a little shark smiley for emphasis!

How To: Bypass your router to access your server

This video discusses how to bypass your router to access your server. In the search window type in CMD to open up a command prompt. Then type in ipconfig to bring up the ip configuration. You want to look for the ip address for the default gateway and the one for your computer. They should both start with 192.168. Once you find them open up internet explorer and type in the ip address for your default gateway and it should then prompt you for a user name and password. Log in and look for a po...

News: The Top 6 Apps for Enjoying Instagram Photos Away from Your iPhone (Mac or PC)

Instagram is one of the hottest mobile apps to date, yet they have no way to upload photos straight from your computer. You can log into the Instagram web app to like and comment on photos in your feed, but that's about it. Fortunately, there are third-party apps that let you do more on Instagram from your Mac or Windows computer, so you can enjoy Instagram pics on the big screen instead of your tiny iPhone or Android device.

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: 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.