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How To Comment: Link To Comments

Have you ever wanted to link to a specific comment on Gizmodo to share with beloved Friends? It’s much easier than you think, here’s how: https://gizmodo.com/how-to-comment-follow-your-friends-5187388 To generate a link to a specific comment all you have to do is click the Time & Date under the commenter’s username and the URL in your browser…

Tech News Christopher Mascari

How To Install Windows 7 On Almost Any Netbook

Windows 7 is free for now, and works extremely well on netbooks. That said, installing the OS on these tiny laptops—especially low-end models—can be daunting. Here’s how to do it, the easy way: https://gizmodo.com/windows-7-release-candidate-1-available-right-now-5240211 If the Release Candidate is any indication (and it should be), then Windows 7 will be a nice upgrade for any…

Tech News John Herrman

How to Comment: Commenter RSS

Last week Lifehacker showed you the elaborate process needed to receive Comment Reply Notifications, but this week we’ll take it a littler slower with Commenter RSS Feeds. Here’s How: https://lifehacker.com/set-up-comment-reply-notifications-for-this-site-5231206 If you’ve got that special commenter that you can’t get enough of, the first step in stalking them is setting up an RSS feed that…

Tech News Christopher Mascari

How To Comment: Set Up Reply Notifications

Lifehacker has a great tutorial on how to Set Up Comment Reply Notifications, and if you missed their post a few days ago here it is again. https://lifehacker.com/set-up-comment-reply-notifications-for-this-site-5231206 The LH post explains: When you’re done with this little walkthrough, you can either grab an RSS feed that contains only replies to your comments (which you…

Tech News Christopher Mascari

How To: Calibrate Your Turntable For the Best Possible Sound

Did our Listening Test week light up the fire inside to dust off some old records and whip a turntable back into shape to start enjoying them again? It’s really easy, and cheap. Here’s how. If you saw our feature earlier in the week, you know Michael Fremer is crazy about vinyl. He’s been defending…

Tech News John Mahoney

How To: Manage An All-Lossless Music Library With iTunes

Do you love music? Have a giant hard drive? Maybe two? I’m guessing that might be the case, and here’s what you should do: give up lossy audio compression for good for pristine lossless files. Thankfully, there is an easy answer to this that covers most of your bases when dealing with CDs: Use the…

Tech News John Mahoney

How to Enable MMS in iPhone 3.0 Right Now

The first beta of iPhone 3.0 wasn’t fit for everyday use, but for me, beta 2 is solid enough. And there’s even more reason to go for it: You can use MMS! It’s easy. https://gizmodo.com/our-iphone-3-0-how-to-coverage-all-in-one-place-5177518 This is the method that has worked for us and a few others that we have confirmed solid—if you know…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

How To Quick Tip: Give Your Home Network Some Free, Permanent Real Estate on the ‘Net With DynDNS

Bigup to everyone who recommended the venerable DynDNS free service last weekend for making it even easier to connect to your home computer from anywhere. Here’s how to do it. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-remote-control-your-home-computer-from-anywhere-5197759 Even though they’ve been providing the same great service for ten years, I had never used DynDNS before (ah, the joys of working from…

Tech News John Mahoney

How To: Remote Control Your Home Computer From Anywhere With VNC

Using VNC, you can log into your home computer from any machine in the world with web access (including your iPhone) to access files, schedule downloads, and tons more. Here’s how. VNC (virtual network computing) is one of those tricks that never gets old, and having it set up can often save your ass—whether you…

Tech News John Mahoney

Learn How to Build iPhone Apps from Stanford University

If you’ve ever had an idea for an iPhone application but you’ve never known how to begin creating it, Stanford will be offering how-to-build-iphone-apps computer science courses via free video podcasts through iTunes U. Later this week, you’ll be able to get a Stanford-level education without the stress of having to apply to the prestigious…

Tech News Andi Wang

Reproduce The Mother of All MacBook Mods For Just $200

Eddie Zarrick’s phenomenal LCD-within-a-logo MacBook mod was as technically impressive at it was gorgeous. Now he has posted a thorough how-to, which is fantastic for anyone who’s got a superabundance of MacBooks, cash and courage. https://gizmodo.com/macbook-modder-f-k-it-im-putting-a-screen-in-the-app-5169289 The materials list and building procedure actually appear somewhat manageable, and if you’re comfortable wielding a soldering iron you…

Tech News John Herrman

How To: Use BitTorrent Like a Pro

Even if you’ve been casually Torrenting for years, BitTorrent tools keep getting better. Here’s our guide for getting the most out of what is, slowly but surely, changing forever how people acquire and consume entertainments. This guide is intended for folks who understand the basics but may have only just started to scratch the surface…

Tech News John Mahoney

The iPhone 3.0 OS Is Not Ready For Everyday Use; Here’s How to Downgrade

Lots of us have been using the iPhone 3.0 beta full-time. Now we’re rolling back, because it is decidedly NOT ready. Here’s how to downgrade back to 2.2.1 if you are in a similar predicament. Now, we’re not saying we’re surprised, or angry, or anything. It’s beta software, and beta software is by definition not…

Tech News John Mahoney

Our iPhone 3.0 How-To Coverage, All in One Place

The iPhone 3.0 OS may only be available as a beta for developers (and friends of developers), but there’s still plenty of tinkering you can do to get the 3.0 OS experience this weekend. • How To: Fake the iPhone 3.0 OS On Your iPhone Today What everyone can do is check out our directory…

Tech News John Mahoney

How To: Fake the iPhone 3.0 OS On Your iPhone Today

If you left this week’s Apple event a little underwhelmed, it’s because most of 3.0’s new features have been available via Cydia and the App Store. Here’s how to enable iPhone 3.0’s biggest additions today. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-3-0-os-guide-everything-you-need-to-know-5171796 Since many of iPhone 3.0’s features were deliberately blocked by restrictions in the official SDK, for several of these…

Tech News John Mahoney

How To: Create Stunningly Realistic High Dynamic Range Photographs

In the right hands, high dynamic range imaging can blend multiple exposures of the same scene to more closely reproduce what your eye can see. Here’s how to do HDR the right way. So when should you use HDR? It’s simple: when you’re trying to capture a scene with a wide range between its lightest…

Tech News John Mahoney

How to: Install Unofficial Apps on Your iPhone 3G or iPod Touch, Easily and Safely

If you want to install cool apps on your iPhone or iPod Touch for free, easily, breaking Apple-imposed limitations without breaking your warranty or Applethingie, here is the how-to guide for Mac and Windows users. What is a jailbreak? Jailbreaking is the process required to install applications in your iPhone or iPod touch. It is…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

How To Install a Second Hard Drive in the New Mac Mini

iFixit has posted a fantastic, step-by-step tutorial tutorial explaining how to swap out the new Mac Mini’s optical drive for a second hard drive. Being the compact Mac Mini (and involving 2.5-inch laptop drives), you knew it would be a bit more complicated than your standard, tower bay component swap. The process does require a…

Tech News Mark Wilson

How To: Rip Blu-ray Discs

Included digital copies are still the exception rather than the norm in the Blu-ray world. Lame. You’d like to rip those discs for playback elsewhere, right? But there is something you should know first. And that is this: Ripping Blu-ray discs sucks. Hard. It takes forever, eats up a ton of hard drive space, and…

Tech News John Mahoney

How To: Hackintosh a Dell Mini 9 Into the Ultimate OS X Netbook

I am typing this on a 9-inch, 3G-equipped, almost-pocketable computer, running the best consumer OS money can currently buy. It costs around $400. Do you want one too? Here’s how to get yours. There are a lot of netbooks on which you can install and run OS X, but if you’re mindful of the handy…

Tech News John Mahoney

How To Comment: Link To Comments

How To Install Windows 7 On Almost Any Netbook

How to Comment: Commenter RSS

How To Comment: Set Up Reply Notifications

How To: Calibrate Your Turntable For the Best Possible Sound

How To: Manage An All-Lossless Music Library With iTunes

How to Enable MMS in iPhone 3.0 Right Now

How To Quick Tip: Give Your Home Network Some Free, Permanent Real Estate on the ‘Net With DynDNS

How To: Remote Control Your Home Computer From Anywhere With VNC

Learn How to Build iPhone Apps from Stanford University

Reproduce The Mother of All MacBook Mods For Just $200

How To: Use BitTorrent Like a Pro

The iPhone 3.0 OS Is Not Ready For Everyday Use; Here’s How to Downgrade

Our iPhone 3.0 How-To Coverage, All in One Place

How To: Fake the iPhone 3.0 OS On Your iPhone Today

How To: Create Stunningly Realistic High Dynamic Range Photographs

How to: Install Unofficial Apps on Your iPhone 3G or iPod Touch, Easily and Safely

How To Install a Second Hard Drive in the New Mac Mini

How To: Rip Blu-ray Discs

How To: Hackintosh a Dell Mini 9 Into the Ultimate OS X Netbook

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