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How To: Upgrade the firmware on a Linksys router

In this tutorial, we learn how to upgrade the firmware on a Linksys router. First, you will need to know what you already have, go to 192.168.1.1 on your browser to find this. Next, search for the name of your router that you got from the site. From here, click on the downloads on the page. Then, you will pick the model number for it. Download this on your computer and it will run through the download process. When done, go back to the router website to make sure it was upgraded and then you'...

How To: Encrypt a Linksys router with WEP password protection

Watch this video to learn how to encrypt Wi-Fi using WEP password on Linksys in 4 simple steps. Connect to your wireless network. Open your Web browser and type in the web address http://192.168.1.1. Press enter key. Type in the User Name for your network. Type in the Password, press OK button. Select the Wireless text tab, select the Wireless Security text item. Pull down and select the WEP menu item. Type in a good password. Click the Generate button. Click the Save Settings button. Encrypt...

How To: Improve video search by parsing video & text

This is a Google Tech Talk from March, 26 2008. Timothee Cour - Research Scientist lectures. Movies and TV are a rich source of highly diverse and complex video of people, objects, actions and locales "in the wild". Harvesting automatically labeled sequences of actions from video would enable creation of large-scale and highly-varied datasets. To enable such collection, we focus on the task of recovering scene structure in movies and TV series for object/person tracking and action retrieval. ...

How To: Use the screen on the HP TouchSmart

In this tutorial, we learn how to use the screen on the HP TouchSmart. Touch the screen lightly and precisely to open the program you want. There are tiles on the screen where you can store your music, photos, videos, and more. There are different ways to scroll around the page using your fingers. You can simply tap it, scroll by dragging with your finger, and slide your finger right to left. Remember to put your finger on the exact item you want to touch, or you will open or pull something e...

How To: Enable & use a Remote Desktop connection in Windows XP

In this Computers & Programming video tutorial you will learn how to establish a Remote Desktop connection in Windows XP. 1st you got to enable remote desktop. To do this go to start, right click on My Computer and click on properties. Then click on the remote tab and click on ‘allow users to remotely etc’ and click on ‘select remote users’. Click add and add your account. Click OK, apply and again OK. Now get your IP. Click start > run and type cmd. In the cmd prompt type ‘ip config’ and not...

How To: Pimp your quick launch bar in Windows Vista

One nice little feature built into Microsoft Windows, since Windows 95, in fact, is the ability to dock the quick launch bar on the side of your screen. While this feature has been removed in Windows Vista, in this video tutorial, you'll learn how to create something comparable with a toolbar. For more, or to try the this Windows trick for yourself, take a look!

How To: Set up a network printer on Windows XP

The video describes sharing of printer with other computers. There is no need of any cable. Can be connected to desktop or laptop. Open (System Properties) from (My Computer) and check computer name. Open (printers and faxes) window. Select the printer to work on. Activate the box named (share this printer) under sharing in printer properties. To use this feature in laptop open (printers and faxes) again from printers and other hardware options in control panel. Open the (Add Printer Wizard)....

How To: Connect VB.NET applications to databases

Interested in creating your own dynamic, web-based applications using Visual Basic 2005 Express? In this installment from the Absolute Beginner's Series of Visual Basic/ASP.NET video tutorials, how you can connect your applications to databases. You will learn how to enable your application to view and edit data stored. This will allow you to exercise the skills shown in the earlier videos. For more information, as well as tips for being a smarter user of Microsoft Visual Basic, take a look! ...

How To: Prepare your computer to upgrade to Windows 7

Rocketboom Tech correspondent Ellie Rountree recommends 5 tips for installing Windows 7. Before making the big switch to Windows 7, check out these tips. Some topics covered are backing up your files, picking out the right version of Windows 7 for you, and when to make the switch. Follow along and learn how to prepare yourself, and your computer, for an upgrade to Windows 7.

How To: Make a JComboBox 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 TheNewBostonian will have you coding your own Java apps in no time flat. Specifically, this lesson discusses how to work with JComboBox dropdown lists to create GUI drop-down lists 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: Create rounded corners in CSS

This is a video related to Computers and Programming. This is the video regarding CSS Rounded Corners: Dreamweaver Tutorial. They have discussed some images regarding CSS rounded corners. CSS is not just chatting about and doing stuff. There's a CSS book regarding all this computers and programming. Due to this, it is very much easy to implement. We do not need to face any problem. It's a great book. In this video, they have given the full video about how we can create rounded corners in CSS....

How To: Map an ASP.Net server control to the render adapter

In this video tutorial, Chris Pels will show how to use a control adaptor to provide different renderings for an ASP.NET server control without actually changing the control itself. In this video, an ASP.NET BulletList control will be adapted to display each list item horizontally using div elements instead of the traditional ul elements. First, see how to create a class that inherits WebControlAdaptor and then implements the code to render the new list format. Next, learn how to map the new ...

How To: Get a Vista-style Taskbar in Microsoft Windows 7

New to Microsoft Windows 7? Pining for the old Vista Taskbar? It's easy to restore it! So easy, in fact, that this free home computing how-to can present a complete (and somewhat talky) overview of the process in just under a minute's time. For specifics, and to get started using a Vista-style Taskbar on your own Win 7 computer, watch this PC user's guide.

How To: Use and work with XML documents in a C# application

In this clip, you'll learn how to use XML within a C# app. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular multi-paradigm programming language or are a seasoned developer merely looking to improve your chops, you're sure to find benefit in this free, official video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look. Use and work with XML documents in a C# application.

How To: Increase your computer's low virtual memory

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to increase a computer's low virtual memory. Begin by clicking on the Start menu. Then right-click on My Computer and select Properties. Then click on the Advanced tab and click on Settings under Performance. In the Performance Options window, click on and Advanced tab and click on Change under Virtual Memory. Now select your hard disk and check Custom Size. For both Minimal Size and Maximum Size, set it at 2500 MB. Finish by clicking on Set and OK. U...

How To: Back up your hard drive

You store everything on your computer's hard drive… precious family photos, your favorite music and video files, valuable financial information, and let's not forget about all that porn (just kidding). You can't back up your data when it crashes, so don’t wait another day to protect your hard-earned hard drive data.

How To: Open .zip files

In this tutorial, we learn how to open .zip files. First, go to the start menu and search for "regedit.exe", then press enter. After this, a new window will pop up, open the computer icon, then open "current user", "software", "Microsoft", "Windows", then "current version". Now, click on the explorer folder, then the "file exts" folder and ".zip" folder. You should now see three different folders, right click on "user choice", then delete it. Exit this program, and now return to your zip fold...

How To: Calibrate a Mac display

In this video from MacOSG we learn how to calibrate a Mac display by using ColorSync. Go to apple menu and select system preferences. Then go to Display. In there, click on color tab to access the profiles for your monitor. Click the calibrate button. It will bring up the Calibration Assistant. Make sure expert is checked. The goal here is to make the apple logo match the outside grid as much as possible. Click Continue and repeat the process. Next is gamma selection. In most cases the native...

How To: Use composition when programming in Java

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 relate classes via composition when writing code in the Java programming language. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this helpful programmer's guide.