Computers & Programming Features
How To: Use the File Upload control in Visual Web Developer
Interested in creating your own dynamic, web-based applications using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express? In this installment from the Absolute Beginner's Series of Visual Web Developer C#/ASP.NET video tutorials, you will learn how to use the File Upload control on your web page to allow users to upload files to your web server. . This lesson will be particularly helpful to programmers to those with experience using both Visual Basic and simple HTML syntax. For more information, as well as ti...
How To: Use class inheritance with PHP OOP programming
This tutorial for PHP beginners introduces the viewer to the concept of class inheritance. As your coding career takes off, you'll need to know as many ways to work efficently and code with speed to save time and money. Check it!
How To: Use the CSS management tools in Visual Studio 2008
Microsoft ASP.NET is a free technology that allows programmers to create dynamic web applications. ASP.NET can be used to create anything from small, personal websites through to large, enterprise-class web applications. All you need to get started with ASP.NET is the free .NET Framework and the free Visual Web Developer. In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to use the new CSS, or Cascading Style Sheet, management tools in Visual Studio 2008 in the service of enhancing an existing stylesh...
How To: Use Silverlight brushes for color, gradient & video
In this web application development tutorial you will learn how to use brushes in Microsoft's Silverlight for color, gradient and video. Learn how to write ASP.Net functions in Silverlight to control colors, shapes, gradient and videos on your web app or web page.
How To: Recover files on your PC after reformat
Sometimes data is lost on your hard drive by accidental deletion from recycle bin, or due to reformat or other reasons. In this video the instructor shows how to recover data even after a reformat. Contrary to popular belief that data is completely lost after a permanent deletion or reformat, it is possible to retrieve the lost data using some tools. It is only that windows cannot locate the data after deletion which is still present in the lower levels of you hard disk and to retrieve this y...
How To: Use AppleScript sources and examples from the web
This video tutorial is about how to use AppleScripts. For those of you who do not know how to use Applescript examples or sources you find online, this is the video for you. So go make some programs on your Mac computer, and create your own scripts, with Script Editor.
How To: Use master page inheritance in Visual Studio 2008
Microsoft ASP.NET is a free technology that allows programmers to create dynamic web applications. ASP.NET can be used to create anything from small, personal websites through to large, enterprise-class web applications. All you need to get started with ASP.NET is the free .NET Framework and the free Visual Web Developer. This video tutorial uses a web template from oswd.org to demonstrate the use of Master Pages and how they are supported in Visual Studio 2008. Specifically, this Visual Stud...
How To: Use the Auslogics disk defrag on your computer
In this video, we learn how to use the Auslogics disk defrag on your computer. Fragmenting your computer will help move around your files and clean out items that you don't ever use so it can run quicker and perform better. First, open up the Disk Defragmenter on your computer and then go to the Auslogics website to download their disk defrag. After you have this installed, run it on your computer and let it go through the process of cleaning out your computer. Once it's finished, you will be...
How To: Pin a program icon to the taskbar in Windows 7
Did you know that you can easily pin programs that you often use and access to the taskbar in Windows 7? Pinning a program to the taskbar allows you to quickly open it without having to access the start menu or an icon on your desktop.
How To: Make all desktop icons disappear
Want to play a little trick on your friends using Windows XP. Learn how to make all desktop icons disappear.
How To: Use the iStat Pro widget on any Mac
This is a tutorial on how to set up a great widget known as iStat Pro on your Mac.
How To: Minimize an application window into the dock on a Mac OS X computer
In this clip, you'll learn how to minimize app windows into the dock on an Apple computer running the Mac OS X operating system. For more information, including a complete demonstration of the process and detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this home-computing how-to.
How To: Secure your data with GNU's PGP implementation, GPG
In today's time of rampant information crimes, including identity theft, security is more important to the average computer user than ever. This tutorial from Linux Journal Online shows how you can use GnuPG to secure and verify data on your Linux box. (This video was created using only free and open source software tools: TightVNC, pyvnc2swf, ardour2, audacity, jackd, LAME, kolourpaint, cinelerra-cv, mjpegtools, and ffmpeg.)
How To: Open .rar files on your Mac for free
You can use UnRARX to open .rar files on your Mac for free. This video will show you the process of opening .rar files. No need to pay money anymore! It's toally free!
How To: Find, download & install Firefox themes or skins
This is a video tutorial in the Computers & Programming category where you are going to learn how to find, download & install Firefox themes or skins. Open up Firefox 3, go to tools, click on "add-ons". On the next window, click on "get add-ons" and click on "browse all add-ons". On the next page, on left hand side scroll down and click on "themes" button. This will display all Firefox 3 themes. Select the theme that you want and click on "add to Firefox" and then click on "install now". You ...
How To: Convert an ebook file to ePub format in Mac OS X
If you use iBooks on your iPad or iPhone, you can only read books in EPUB format. If you have books in text or PDF format you may want to convert them to EPUB so you can read them in iBooks. You can do this with Calibre, a free open-source e-book library application. It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this home-computing how-to from MacMost can present a full overview of the process in about five minutes. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this Apple lov...
How To: Use the Twitter API to bring tweets into Flash
Twitter has become one of the most popular and powerful populists movements / websites on the web. You may want to integrate it into you Flash website or animations as a result. This two-part video will teach you how to use Twitter API to bring Twitter and all of its tweets into your website design.
How To: Navigate with your fingers using an HP TouchSmart PC
Navigating on your HP TouchSmart 3.0 PC is easy, fun and takes nothing more then your fingers. To click, simply create a single point of precise contact between your finger and the screen. The HP TouchSmart uses optics to determine clicks so avoid leaning on it with your hands, knuckles, large jewelry or the random fly. The screen is not pressure sensitive so pressing harder has no effect. To right click you simply press and hold. For tasks that require multi-touch input use more than one fin...
How To: Recover deleted files and lost data from disk crashes
This video from CNET Insider Secrets tells you how to recover deleted files from a data drive. If a disk is still readable by the computer, files may be recovered. Files may be recovered using the PhotoRec program, PC Inspector or other programs that may be available. An example is shown where mp3 files are deleted from a flash drive. We are then shown how files are recovered using the PhotoRec program, including how to select the correct file system. The mp3 files are recovered along with va...
How To: Do tricks in the Windows CMD prompt
Learn serveral tricks that you can do in the Windows command (cmd) prompt. Do tricks in the Windows CMD prompt.
How To: Program text boxes in Visual Basic
How to learn to program with Visual Basic 6 (vb6). This is a very basic Tutorial for 1st time users. We're going to learn a little bit about labels and timers and Textbox's
How To: Create collections for Java programming
Want to program your own Java games and applications but don't know beans about object-oriented programming? Never you fear. This free video tutorial from TheNewBoston will have you coding your own Java apps in no time flat. Specifically, this lesson discusses how to use the Collection framework when writing code in the Java programming language. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this helpful programmer's guide.
How To: Install a secondary cd/dvd
This tutorial shows the steps involved in putting a secondary cd/dvd drive in a windows based PC. This second drive will allow you to do things such as, copying a cd or dvd.
How To: Recover deleted files in Windows
This video tutorial is all about recovering the deleted files in Windows Vista. If you are using the Windows Vista and you have unknowingly deleted a file and emptied the recycle bin, then you can recover it. This can be done by using the Shadow Explorer. Shadow Explorer is a Vista program that accesses the Vista Volume Shadow Copy Service. In Vista, the shadow copy service is turned on by default. It creates backups of files on a regular basis. Shadow Explorer provides access to these backup...
How To: Use the Windows Media ActiveX control in Visual C#
Interested in creating your own dynamic, web-based applications using Visual C# 2005 Express Edition? In this installment from the Absolute Beginner's Series of Visual C#/ASP.NET form control video tutorials, you'll learn how to use the Windows Media Player ActiveX control to play wma and MP3 audio files in your application. For more information, as well as tips for being a smarter user of Microsoft Visual C#, take a look! Use the Windows Media ActiveX control in Visual C#.
How To: Create a small editor with wxPython
Kyran Dale shows how wxPython provides an easy way to bind user-generated events, such as choosing a menu option, to methods provided to handle them. The procedure shown is typical of all wxPython event handling so with little effort can be extended to far more complicated projects.
How To: Stop auto dimming on your Mac
While it's great way to save on juice, a Mac's auto dim feature can be a real nuisance when you're trying to watch a video clip or DVD on your machine. Luckily Tekzilla has the answer in this video.
How To: Create nested master pages in Visual Studio 2008
Microsoft ASP.NET is a free technology that allows programmers to create dynamic web applications. ASP.NET can be used to create anything from small, personal websites through to large, enterprise-class web applications. All you need to get started with ASP.NET is the free .NET Framework and the free Visual Web Developer. Using Visual Studio 2008's improved Designer, this video will demonstrate how to create a Nested Master Page. Nested Master Pages are useful when you build a hierarchy of te...
How To: Make Your PC Welcomes You
By using this trick, you can make your computer to welcomes you in computerized voice.You can make your computer to say: Welcome Username, Hello Dear, etc
How To: Schedule tasks in Windows XP
In this video, the instructor shows how to schedule tasks in Microsoft Windows XP. Scheduled tasks are nothing but programs you want your computer to run at specific reoccurring intervals like daily, weekly, monthly, etc. This can be a very helpful feature if you want to update a particular software or run a system virus scan at regular intervals. To do this, click on the start button and go to run. In the Run command prompt, type in 'tasks' and hit enter. Now this opens up the schedule tasks...
How To: Print from a shared printer in Ubuntu
In this video, we learn how to print from a shared printer in Ubuntu. First, turn your computer on and then go to your system. From here, go to admin and then printing. After this, you will get a pop up window. Click on 'new' and then it will search for the printer. Next, you will click on 'network printers' and then go to 'windows printer via samba'. Then, click on browse and expand the workgroup. Then, expand the name of the computer and you will find the name of the computer as well. Now, ...
How To: Protect your Mac from malware like MAC Defender
Worried about the MAC Defender that's been going around? Don't let your Mac get infected, watch this informative video to learn how to keep it virus free. If you are concerned with malware attacking your OS X Mac, you should watch this video.
How To: Use an SPL (Standard PHP Library) in PHP programming
This video presents a basic introduction to SPL (Standard PHP Library) in PHP programming. You'll be dealing with itertators, which will allow you to loop through operations. This is a basic intro, but gives you a good idea of what you'll be dealing with.
How To: Create a Cydia repo with Apple's Xcode
In this clip, you'll learn how to create a Cydia repo of an iOS app with Xcode. Whether you're new to the Objective-C operating language and Xcode IDE or are a seasoned developer merely looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're certain to be well served by this tutorial. For more information, including a complete overview and detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video Objective-C programming lesson for iPhone & iPod Touch developers.
How To: Install a 233 PowerForce G4 accelerator in a Mac Tower
The PowerForce G4 Series 233 is the versatile single processor upgrade for PowerMac G4 AGP towers, G4 Cubes, PowerMac G4 Digital Audio, QuickSilver, and QuickSilver 2002 models. It features the G4-7451 and G4-7455 processors, with speeds up to 1.2GHz. The PowerForce G4 Series 233 processor card, like its predecessors - the Series 100 and 133 upgrades - is the most advanced, highest performance CPU card available on the market today. It's also easy to install Feature List: PowerPC 7451 or 7455...
How To: Utilize the Decorator design pattern in your PHP programming
Learn to create and use the Decorator pattern in PHP by following along with this instructional video from JREAMdesign. The Decorator pattern is very handy when it is time to "decorate" an object by "adding", for example, frosting, nuts and sprinkles to a cake by sending it to various "decorating stations."
How To: Enable the administrator account on Windows Vista
There are some people who are having troubles recovering files in Windows Vista due to access denied errors, but fortunately this video is here to save the day! If you've been getting those pesky access denied errors, check out this video to learn how to gain control of your Vista system and remove those errors all together. Now you will have full access to your system like how it should be!
How To: Overclock your cpu and memory easily
If you're looking to overclock certain componenets of your computer, chances are you're hoping increase the performance. There are many areas of a computer than you can overclock, such as RAM, video cards, processors, and also motherboards. So in this video tutorial, you'll be finding out how to do so for your cpu and memory. It's easy to do and can be done withing minutes. Enjoy!
How To: Build a Java applet to write data to a file
Want to program your own Java games and applications but don't know beans about object-oriented programming? Never you fear. This free video tutorial from TheNewBoston will have you coding your own Java apps in no time flat. Specifically, this lesson discusses how to write data to an external file when writing code in the Java programming language. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this helpful programmer's guide.
How To: Change print options in Windows 7
New user to Windows 7? Microsoft has put out a series of video tutorials explaining how to maximize your Windows 7 experience. Follow along with this computer lesson and learn how to: