Have you ever wondered about the best way to find interesting how-to videos? (Yeah, I haven’t either) Like most people, I would have just searched Youtube or Google, but there’s a much quicker way to find all the how-to videos you could ever imagine…
The WonderHowTo website has a community of people that find all of the interesting how-to videos across the web and aggregate them together into one place.
They have 106,969 how-to videos indexed as of today, on every topic you would care to watch a video on… everything from installing ceramic tile flooring to using Google Reader.
I was completely productive during the 6 minutes I spent learning about solving a Rubik’s cube…
Or you could learn how to add custom entries to the Windows context menu:
Or even some misc Windows XP tricks:
Note: The How-To Geek has been feeling a little under the weather this week and hasn’t felt like writing much, but things will return to normal next week.
Watch How-To Videos at WonderHowTo.com
I experienced an issue the other day at work in regards to Trend Micro’s PC-Cillin. A colleague brought in their laptop complaining about a slowness issue. While checking out Task Manager I noticed a CPU spike of 50%. Turns out the culprit was a process called PcScnSrv.exe which allows PC-Cillin
I guess I will continue this week’s theme of media players by introducing you to J River Media Jukebox. I have to say I am quite impressed so far with this player.
After installing Windows Live Messenger, I noticed a really annoying addition to My Computer… a new icon called “My Sharing Folders”. So how exactly do I remove this icon I’ll never use?
After installing a bunch of software required for work, I noticed that I had a new icon under “My” Computer that I hadn’t noticed before. What is this Web Folders icon, and how do I get rid of it?
A reader wrote in this week asking why his folder pane in Windows XP wasn’t working… it didn’t display anything other than a gray background with nothing else. This is actually a common problem that I’ve personally experienced before, which I luckily knew the solution to.
I’ve always wondered why Windows doesn’t allow you to set an arbitrary size for the filesystem cache. What if you have a slow hard drive in your laptop, but loads of available system memory? Shouldn’t you be able to maximize that memory in order to speed up hard drive access?
As many of you know, after my iTunes rant, I have been trying out all sorts of new media players. I guess I still have not found an “ultimate player” that I am completely satisfied with yet. Each player seems to have its positive and negative points for me. The trusty standby has been VLC
So you login to your computer every single day, but there’s more than one account to choose from… either because you got the computer from somebody else, or some software package added a user account that you really don’t want to see. So how do we hide that other account from the login screen?
Using the Internet on your Android phone isn't as secure or private as you might hope. Fortunately, you can protect your mobile communications with one of these secure virtual private network (or VPN) apps.
Soon, developers will have the option to create a limited-time introductory price for new subscribers.
