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  • Free Stuff: Virus Protection

    April 10, 2008 // davisde // Software Tips, Video Tags: free, internet, protection, virus, windows 6 Responses

    Don’t pay for virus protection. You can get basic non-intrusive virus protection from Avira.

  • Cool Websites: Unorthodoxed E-cards

    April 10, 2008 // davisde // Cool Websites, Video Tags: free, internet, windows 1 Response

    This website is full of interesting e-cards that say what you really think instead of sugar coating it. Have fun with this one 🙂

  • Cool Websites: Make Youtube Compilations

    April 3, 2008 // davisde // Cool Websites, Video Tags: cool, internet, Video, website, youtube 7 Responses

    This website allows you to take videos from YouTube and crop them and splice them together to make a single video out of multiple ones.

  • Free Stuff: Download Music and Videos

    April 3, 2008 // davisde // Video, Web Tips Tags: free, internet, music, tutorial, videos 3 Responses

    With the help of the free program MusicZilla, you can download pretty much any streaming music and videos that you come across on the internet.

  • Great Computer Pranks

    April 2, 2008 // davisde // DIY Projects, Video Tags: april, diy, fools, funny, how, network, scripts, tinkernut, to, tricks, tutorial, virus 3 Responses

    Here are some quick little computer pranks to pull on your friends for April Fools day.

  • Cool Websites: Watch Free TV and Movies

    March 28, 2008 // davisde // Cool Websites, Video Tags: free, hack, how, hulu, movies, stream, to, tutorial, tv, website 1 Response

    Watch free Prime Time television shows and movies at media website Hulu.com. Currently Hulu is only available to the United States. However, if you live outside the US and cannot access the videos, try this:

    1. Download and isntall hotspot shield and create a VPN (http://anchorfree.com/downloads/hotspot-shield/)
    2. If your get bandwidth exceeded error , try downloading SMAC2.0 at http://rapidshare.com/files/78093750/SMAC.Professional.v2… NOTE: SMAC 2.0 only works with XP. Use at your own risk!

  • Gmail Tip: Greasemonkey

    March 27, 2008 // davisde // Video, Web Tips Tags: email, gmail, google, script, tip 21 Responses

    Greasemonkey is a scripting tool that allows for cool add-ons to enhance your web experience. Once such Greasemonkey script is the  Modified Gmail Macro that allows you to add cool shortcuts to your Gmail.

  • Transform Photos with Animoto.com

    March 25, 2008 // davisde // Cool Websites, Video Tags: multimedia, photos, pictures, Video 2 Responses

    This tip involves the beta website Animoto.com. This website allows you to upload your own pictures and music and it will automatically create a professionally designed video with them. A 30 second video is free to create. If you would like full length videos, they ask you to pay for them.

  • How To Create A Podcast

    March 23, 2008 // davisde // DIY Projects, Video Tags: audacity, create, diy, how, ipod, itunes, podcast, tinkernut, to, tutorial 4 Responses

    This video will show you how to create a podcast and distribute it. We will use Audacity to edit the podcast and then use either Podango, Podpress or MyPodcast to upload it and create a feed. Then we will distribute the podcast by submitting to Podcast search engines found at Podcast411.

  • Vista Tip #3 – Disable the Vista UAC

    March 21, 2008 // davisde // Software Tips, Video Tags: computers, diy, how, os, tinkernut, tip, to, tweak, vista, windows 1 Response

    This video will show you how to disable Windows Vista’s User Account Control, or UAC. The UAC is that box that constantly pops up saying “Windows Needs Your Permission To Run, Do You want to Continue?”. Be advised that Microsoft does not advise this, because it may allow some programs to run without your permission. If you are OK with this, then feel free to follow these steps to get rid of the annoyance.

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