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How To: Use the Setup Wizard to set up an LG Cosmos Touch
Before you can get started using an LG Cosmos Touch phone, it stands to reason that you'll need to set it up. This video will show you how to do just that. Whether you're the new owner of an LG Cosmos or merely thinking about picking one up, you're sure to enjoy this guide from the folks at Wireless Zone. Take a look.
How To: Beat level 24 of Angry Birds Seasons with three stars
Beat the twenty-fourth level of Angry Birds Seasons with three stars! On December 1st, Rovio released their version of an advent calendar—Angry Birds Seasons (aka "Angry Birds Christmas"). Each day leading up to the Christmas holiday, a new level will become available to Angry Birds enthusiasts worldwide. Stuck? No problem: YouTube's 23hathman has pledged to post a three-star walkthrough for each of the game's levels. In this, the December 24th installment, we learn how to beat level 24.
How To: Use Skype 3.0 for iPhone to Make Video Calls
We've all been waiting for it, and now it's finally here— Video Skype for the iPhone 4. It's no longer just a voice over the phone, now you can finally see those rosy-red cheeks of your fellow Skyper, and maybe even their underwear. Check out the official Skype for iPhone - now with video commercial: So how do you do the Skype iPhone video? It's so easy, I'm sure you can figure it out.
How To: Connect a Windows Mobile Device to a Computer
Connecting your new smartphone gadget to your desktop isn't just connecting these products with a USB cord. It is important to sync them to allow the transfer of data from your smartphone to your computer and vice-versa. This is desired if you wish to transfer information including images, music in addition to daily schedules from the PC to your portable phone.
HowTo: Text For Free (Smartphones Only)
Gizmodo has compiled a list of the 8 best free texting apps for a variety of smartphones. Their favorite pick? Google Voice. No charges, no ads, and doubles as a second phone line.
How To: Place & receive Internet calls on your Google Nexus S phone with SIP
If you've got Android 2.3 Gingerbread running on your Google Nexus S smartphone, try out this cool feature. Set up a SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) account, and you'll be able to make Internet calls over Wi-Fi. You'll be able to talk to anyone with VoIP.
How To: How Much Does Your Smartphone Cost to Build?
Gizmodo's interactive breakdown of the iPhone 4, Blackberry Torch, Nokia N8, and Google's Nexus One examines the wholesale cost of hardware versus the end retail price, as well as how each company prioritizes each category below:
How To: Use a Mac computer and Pwnagetool to jailbreak an Apple TV
Apple TV, like most Apple products, places a lot of restrictions on users in the name of ease-of-use and control. If you want to assert your power and remove those restrictions, jailbreaking is your best option. This video will show you how to use a Mac and Pwnagetool to jailbreak your Apple TV and start using it the way you want to, not the way Apple wants you to.
How To: Jailbreak a 4.2.1 firmware iPod Touch, iPhone, or iPad with Redsn0w 0.9.6b4
If you've downloaded the latest iOS version, 4.2.1, and haven't jailbroken your device yet, you've come to the right video. It will teach you how to use Redsn0w to jailbreak your device and install new firmware from here. Now you can whatever you want with your iDevice.
How To: Beat level 20 of Angry Birds Seasons with three stars
Beat the twentieth level of Angry Birds Seasons with three stars! On December 1st, Rovio released their version of an advent calendar—Angry Birds Seasons (aka "Angry Birds Christmas"). Each day leading up to the Christmas holiday, a new level will become available to Angry Birds enthusiasts worldwide. Stuck? No problem: YouTube's 23hathman has pledged to post a three-star walkthrough for each of the game's levels. In this, the December 20th installment, we learn how to beat level 20.
How To: Root the New Nexus S Smartphone Running Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
It was bound to happen. And just as anticipated, it took less than a day before someone successfully rooted the new Nexus S smartphone from Google and Samsung.
How To: Beat level 17 of Angry Birds Seasons with three stars
Beat the seventeenth level of Angry Birds Seasons with three stars! On December 1st, Rovio released their version of an advent calendar—Angry Birds Seasons (aka "Angry Birds Christmas"). Each day leading up to the Christmas holiday, a new level will become available to Angry Birds enthusiasts worldwide. Stuck? No problem: YouTube's 23hathman has pledged to post a three-star walkthrough for each of the game's levels. In this, the December 17th installment, we learn how to beat level 17.
How To: Beat level 16 of Angry Birds Seasons with three stars
Beat the sixteenth level of Angry Birds Seasons with three stars! On December 1st, Rovio released their version of an advent calendar—Angry Birds Seasons (aka "Angry Birds Christmas"). Each day leading up to the Christmas holiday, a new level will become available to Angry Birds enthusiasts worldwide. Stuck? No problem: a number of YouTube users have pledged to post a three-star walkthrough for each of the game's levels. In this, the December 16th installment, we learn how to beat level 16.
How To: Beat Angry Birds level 3-15 with three stars
One wonders whether these are gambling junkie pigs locked up in the basement of this large building covered in dice. Oh well, best blow them up anyway after watching this video and learning how to beat level 3-15 of Angry Birds with three stars.
How To: Beat Angry Birds level 3-13 with three stars
Your target in level 3-13 of Angry Birds is not so much a pig fortress but a series of pig-defended hilltops. Still no problem for a properly trained bird army. Watch the video for a guide to beating level 3-13 with three stars.
How To: Beat Angry Birds level 3-6 with three stars
Awww look, the piggies made a little train to pull other little piggies along. If only it would actually move, they might survive your attack. This video will show you how to beat level 3-6 of Angry Birds with three stars and stop the pigs dead in their tracks. Which they can't really make since they don't have feet... NEVER MIND!
How To: Beat Angry Birds level 3-14 with three stars
Level 3-14 of Angry Birds is sort of abstract, almost like a cubist painting. Oh Rovio, you're so good at game design. This video will show you how to beat level 3-14 with the full three stars, earning you the love and respect of all the other birds for sure.
How To: Beat Angry Birds level 3-8 with three stars
This is a straight up green pig castle. Your Angry Birds must be well-paced to take this thing down. Fortunately, this video will show you just where to but your birds to beat level 3-8 of Angry Birds for an iPhone or Android phone.
How To: Get three stars on level 3-18 of Angry Birds for the iPhone
Want to beat level 3-18 of Angry Birds with three stars? Learn how with this quick video walkthrough. While this guide is geared toward iPhone and iPod Touch users in particular, the basic technique will, of course, be the same for the Android version of the game. For all of the details, and to learn how to defeat Theme 3, Level 18 of Rovio's Angry Birds for yourself, take a peep.
How To: Beat level 15 of Angry Birds Seasons with three stars
Beat the fifteenth level of Angry Birds Seasons with three stars! On December 1st, Rovio released their version of an advent calendar—Angry Birds Seasons (aka "Angry Birds Christmas"). Each day leading up to the Christmas holiday, a new level will become available to Angry Birds enthusiasts worldwide. Stuck? No problem: YouTube's 23hathman has pledged to post a three-star walkthrough for each of the game's levels. In this, the December 15th installment, we learn how to beat level 15.
How To: Beat level 14 of Angry Birds Seasons with three stars
Beat the fourteenth level of Angry Birds Seasons with three stars! On December 1st, Rovio released their version of an advent calendar—Angry Birds Seasons (aka "Angry Birds Christmas"). Each day leading up to the Christmas holiday, a new level will become available to Angry Birds enthusiasts worldwide. Stuck? No problem: YouTube's 23hathman has pledged to post a three-star walkthrough for each of the game's levels. In this, the December 14th installment, we learn how to beat level 14.
How To: Set up Find My iPhone for free on any iOS 4.2 device
Find My iPhone is one of the best Apps of all, allowing you to find your iPhone no matter where it is, lost or stolen. This video will show you how to install and set it up on any iPhone or iOS 4.2 device, even those not technically supported by the newest free release of the software.
How To: Set custom text messages ringtones for contacts on the iPhone
It took all the way until firmware version 4.2 for Apple to add a function to the iPhone that's been present on other phones for years: the ability to set custom ringtones / sounds for text messages from different contacts. This video will show you how quick and easy it is to set this up on the new firmware.
How To: Beat level 12 of Angry Birds Seasons with three stars using only 2 birds
This is an amazing feat if you can pull it off— getting three stars in the twelfth level of Angry Birds Seasons— using only TWO birds! If you thought you needed three birds to compete the task, you were wrong— it can be done with with only TWO slingshotted birds! Check out all of the other videos from 23hathman's Angry Birds Seasons walkthroughs.
How To: Use some advanced features of the HTC Desire Z
The HTC Desire Z continues the HTC hit parade of awesome smart phones. It offers some awesome standard features that used to be hard to make on older Android phones, like flip-to-speaker and flip-to-silence. This video will show you how to use these features and take full advantage of your phone.
How To: Disassemble an HTC Touch HD (Blackstone), replace the LCD and digitizer
The HTC Touch HD is a nice handset, and like most smarphones devastatingly expensive to fix if something goes wrong and you don't have the knowledge from this video. It will teach you how to disassemble your Touch HD (or Blackstone) for the purpose of replacing the screen and digitizer, two things you too are likely to have to do in the lifespan of your phone.
How To: Disassemble a Nokia N97 smartphone
The Nokia N97 is more than a year old, making it practically a grandad in cell phone terms, but it's still a great unit. If yours is having problems and you want to inspect it's internals, watch this video for a guide to disassembling the device completely.
How To: Jailbreak and unlock any 3G + iPhone on iOS 4.1 / 4.2.1 with Redsn0w
Jailbreaking and unlocking the iPhone is the first thing most users should do if they're going to derive maximum use and enjoyment from their device. This video will show you how to use Redsn0w and this firmware to jailbreak and unlock any 3G or 3GS with 6.15.00 baseband or iPhone 4 on 01.59.00.
How To: Beat level 1-20 of Angry Birds with three stars
Want to beat level 1-20 of Angry Birds with three stars? Learn how with this quick video walkthrough. While this guide is geared toward iPhone and iPod Touch users in particular, the basic technique will, of course, be the same for the Android version of the game. For all of the details, and to learn how to defeat Theme 1, Level 20 of Rovio's Angry Birds for yourself, take a peep.
How To: Play any Java game like Runescape on an Android phone
Teamviewer is a handy program for viewing what's going on on a distant computer remotely, but now it can also be used to play games like WoW and Runescape on your Android phone! This video will teach you how to do it. You'll need this for your phone and this for your computer.
How To: Unlock an iOS 4.2.1 / 4.1 iPhone 3G / 3GS by flashing the baseband to 6.15
Unlocking the iPhone can save you a ton of money and irritation by getting you off AT&T and onto a better service provider. One way to do that is flashing the baseband to one that works on the iPad, and this video will show you how to do using Redsn0w that, provided you're working from a iOS 4.2.1 / 4.1 equipped iPhone 3G / 3GS on baseband 5.14 or 5.15 (about to be 6.15 when you're done).
How To: Unlock / "Jailbreak" a Windows Phone 7 w/ ChevronWP7 to install ringtones etc.
The Windows Phone 7 platform has been out long enough now that hackers the world over have had ample time to play with it, and the fruits of their labors are coming fast and thick now. This video will teach you how to unlock or "jailbreak" (misnomer in this case) your Windows Phone 7 with ChevronWP7 so you can install custom ringtones and perform other power-user functions. You'll also need the certificate for it, ringtone manager, and the Windows Phone Developer Tools.
How To: Beat Angry Birds Seasons... One Day at a Time (25 Days of Christmas)
It's December 11th. Only 14 days left until Christmas. But today is something more than just a countdown date for the quintessential holiday—it's Angry Birds Day, which marks the one-year anniversary of the popular mobile video game.
HowTo: Hack an iPod Touch Into an iPhone
The iPhone and iPod touch are nearly identical devices, especially now that Apple has added a front-facing camera to the iPod touch. All that's missing is the phone part. With the help of Lifehacker and apps like Skype and Line2, you can save some money by turning your iPod Touch into an iPhone, without the need to jailbreak.
How To: Fix a dead or hot pixel of a Canon 7D or 5D with sensor cleaning
Dead or hot pixels are one of those annoying camera problems that won't make you buy a new camera but will piss you off for years. There's a free solution that may work for you though if you have a Canon 5D or 7D, and this video will show you how to do it with the sensor cleaning function.
How To: Use the Viber App to make free VOIP calls on the iPhone
Sure, the iPhone is a phone, but why use your phone service to call people when VOIP is cheaper? This video will teach you how to use a new App called Viber to make free VOIP calls on the iPhone.
How To: Fix 6.15.00-baseband battery issues on an Ultrasn0w-unlocked iPhone
Battery draining super quickly after flashing your iPhone to 6.15.00? This video will teach you everything you need to know to resolve the problem. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to try this fix for yourself, watch this hacker's how-to.
How To: Fix any Redsn0w error when jailbreaking an iOS 4.2.1 mobile device
Faced with an error when jailbreaking your iOS 4.2.1 iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad? This video will teach you everything you need to know to resolve it. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to start troubleshooting your own Redsn0w problems, watch this hacker's how-to.
How To: Fix a 3194 when restoring a jailbroken iPhone in iTunes
Faced with an 3194 error? There's no need to worry. This video will teach you everything you need to know to resolve it. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to try this fix for yourself, watch this hacker's how-to.
How To: Install Cydia 1.0.3366-1 on an jailbroken Apple iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch
Speed up Cydia by downloading and installing the latest version, 1.0.3366-1! This video will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to try the new, speedier version of Cydia for yourself, watch this hacker's how-to.