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How To: Scan & Save Old Printed Photos to Your Smartphone

Believe it or not, there was a time when smartphones weren't the primary tool for taking photos. People actually walked around with bulky film-based cameras on their necks, and some even used cheap disposables. While photography wasn't introduced to the world when smartphones came out, it's definitely more accessible—and everyone is a photographer now.

How To: Quickly Paste Commonly Used Words or Phrases into Any Text Field on Your Mac

Your Mac's clipboard is great when you are just copying and pasting a phone number or address, but sometimes you end up having to re-copy the same thing over and over every day. To make those phrases a lot more easily accessible, the people over at Tiny Robot Software have released Pasteomatic. With this app, you will be able to use a hotkey to bring up a collection of your most commonly used text snippets and paste them into any text field or document.

How To: Remove Recent Contacts from the iPhone's App Switcher in iOS 8

Apple introduced recent contacts for the app switcher (aka multitasking menu) in iOS 8, useful for quickly calling and texting your most-contacted friends and family. Just tap on one of the contact bubbles and an assortment of options appear—call, message, or FaceTime. While the feature can be helpful when you want quick access to functions for recent contacts, it may not be for everyone. Check out the short guide below to learn how to easily remove recent contacts from the multitasking menu ...

How To: Access Running Apps Without Exiting the Current Screen on Your Samsung Galaxy S3

I like to hop between apps pretty often, and luckily my Samsung Galaxy S3 let's me do that fairly quickly. By simply holding the Home button for a few seconds, it will bring up my most recent apps, and I can switch between them with a simple tap. So if I am playing Injustice: Gods Among Us and want to switch the song currently playing on Pandora, I can bring up the recent apps menu to navigate there. While this default app switcher is more than adequate, it takes up the entire screen and coul...

How To: Easily install a ceiling fan

A ceiling fan is a cheap, economical way to add some nice air into your home during the hot summer months. They're easy to install and can actually save some money. So in these videos, you'll find out how to easily install a ceiling fan in your home today. Remember, you will be messing with electrical wires so be safe and wear the right equipment. Good luck and enjoy!

How To: Hack the online game Tower of Doom

Tower of Doom is one of the many fun games accessible on Armor Games. Have you ever wanted to hack it? This video is here to help. Utilizing Cheat Engine 5.6, this video will show you how to hack / cheat Tower of Doom, giving yourself as many ghosts (the operative resource in the game) as you need to build all of the tower that you want. Never let your tower fall again.

How To: Smart zoom on Firefox using the QuickPageZoom add-on

Bored of using complicated keyboard shortcuts to zoom in and zoom out of web pages? This simple, yet useful Firefox extension (QuickPageZoom 1.6.2) adds two icons to the status bar and two context menu items that enable quick access to the Full Page Zoom feature (Page Zoom In, Page Zoom Out and Reset Page Size).

How To: Make a fake virus / desktop shortcut that will shutdown a computer

Desktop shortcuts are a great way of making the programs you use a lot more accessible, but today many PC users overuse their desktop space and have icons covering over half the screen, including the one for a picture of a dog they looked at six months ago once. This prank is a great way to teach such a person a lesson, or any PC user who you have a problem with. It entails creating a new desktop shortcut with the name and icon of a commonly used program (the web browser works great) that ins...

How To: Get the legendary giant teddy bear from Fallout 3

If you've been looking for a way to get a hold of the giant legendary teddy bear in the game Fallout 3 for the Xbox 360, this tutorial will show you how. Although they said it was only accessible on the PC version, this video proves that you can aquire it while using the Xbxo 360. It may seem hard to get, but it's pretty simple. Make sure before attempting this, you save your game. So good luck and enjoy!

How To: Easily embed a video in PowerPoint

Using videos in presentations, can easily help boost your argument, if they come from a reputable source and relate to the topic. So using them can be a pretty good idea, but how can you do it? Well, this video uses screenshots to show you step-by-step how to easily embed a Youtube video into a Microsoft Office Powerpoint presentation.

How To: Cut floor joists to length quickly and accurately

Fine Homebuilding with Jim Anderson demonstrates how to cut floor joists to length. Inspect the rim line to know where to set the joists. Set the joists to the layout on the rim line using a two man team. Tap a nail into the joist to keep it from moving around. Instead of standing the joists up to square them, cut them on both ends. Line the chalk line up with the rim line and snap the line across the joists to mark them. This will simultaneously measure and square them. Finally, line the joi...

How To: Exploit Spore glitch and make floating parts

This is a tutorial for the PC game Spore. Spore is about creating a universe of creatures you dream up. It's a super easy and accessible game and this walkthrough shows you how to mod your creatures so they have floating limbs and parts. Put parts on the end of a limb, then extend or thicken the limb. Simple as that. This game is from the creator of The Sims.

How To: Prepare octopus Galician style with the NY Times

People are often afraid of octopus, probably because they don't know how to prepare it. In this how to video Mark Bittman, from the New York Times, makes octopus accessible to those who might be squeamish. Watch as he prepares this Spanish seafood recipe for your. Try this octopus dish straight from Galicia. Grab your octopus, potatoes and boil in water. Serve with an olive oil and pimenton.

How To: Protect private files from prying eyes with TrueCrypt

Check out this video tutorial to see how to keep your private files private, even if you have to email them to yourself at your office? TrueCrypt, an open source piece of software, lets you encrypt your files so they remain accessible only to you. This works on any platform; Windows, Linux, or Mac. So, watch this video to see the TrueCrypt download process, how to install it, and how to create an encrypted volume on your hard drive.

How To: Tune a snare drum easily

Learn how to tune a snare drum with Free Drum Lessons easy step-by-step guide. Free Drum Lessons is your #1 source of all your drum tuning needs. If you are struggling to tune your drums then this drum tuning video is perfect for you!

How To: Origami a scorpion

This video series demonstrates how to fold the origami model "Scorpion" that Robert J. Lang designed. Robert kindly gave me permission to make this video accessible to you. It is a complex design, so only experienced folders should attempt it.

How To: Carve a turkey easily for Thanksgiving

Once your Thanksgiving dinner table is set with beautiful gourds, autumnal leaves, and candles and your turkey, green bean casserole, and pies are out of the oven, it's time to mess everything up. While a beautiful dinner presentation is great and all, unless you plan on having your guests rip off drumsticks from the turkey caveman-style you'll probably want to carve the bird.

How To: Make an origami rose easily

Origami roses totally pwn (slang for "own," FYI) real roses. Know why? While we'd never turn down a beautiful bouquet of red roses, the pretty flowers also wilt and then kick the bucket within a week, which makes us very sad indeed.

How To: Bake biscuits easily and quickly

Chef Julie Hasson teaches the secrets of baking biscuits easily and quickly. An excellent summary is given below. First add unbleached flour with some sugar, salt, yeast, baking soda and powder in a mixer and mix it well. Now take some warm soya malt and add some apple cider to it. After sometime pour it into the mixer and mix it to make the dough. Now place the dough on a silicon mat and roll it well with a roller. Use a biscuit cutter to cut the dough and place it in a tray. Apply some soya...

How To: Easily bind your own booklet

Get creative and make your own writing accessories! In this two-part book binding tutorial, learn how to make a simple leatherbound soft booklet to either take notes in, draw in, or just carry around as an adorable school accessory. In part one, learn how to prepare for the sewing of the page signatures, and in part two, how to sew the actual signatures is gone over. Good luck with your project!

How To: Remove red eye using Photoshop easily

Jordan shows us a simple way to remove the red eye created by the flash of a camera using Adobe Photoshop. No matter where the red eye came from, you can remove it easily from any picture after watching this Photoshop tutorial. There are many ways to remove red eye and some are dirtier than others, but this method will give you a nice natural looking pupil in the end.