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eBook: How to Do Everything with YouTube

Create, post, and promote your own videos on the world’s most popular online service! How to Do Everything with YouTube explains how to shoot and edit videos, insert titles and captions, add special effects, and upload content. You’ll learn how to set up a YouTube channel and integrate YouTube videos into your websites and blogs. [...]

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eBook: 1000 Best Casino Gambling Secrets

Beat the casinos at their own game!
Casino gambling expert Bill Burton will teach you: -The truth about the most popular casino bets -How to find the best slot machines to play -What games you should avoid at all costs -The ten smartest bets in the casino -The ten worst bets in the casino -How to [...]

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Old Tech How: Making of Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the River Seine in Paris. The tower has become a global icon of France and is one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The Parisian landmark is the tallest structure in Paris and one of the most recognized structures [...]

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Life How To: Think Before Speak

One of the most obvious and significant attributes to mankind is the ability to communicate through speech. An interesting corollary is that we can also communicate our thoughts in real time; we do not need to plan what we’re going to say before we say it. This has both advantages and disadvantages. It would be [...]

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Magic How To Video: How David Copperfield Made the Statue of Liberty Vanish

This video explains the “Disappearance of the statue of liberty” an illusion done buy Copperfield.

In case you don’t know the trick, here’s the video.

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DIY Wireless Hack: The Predator

You find yourself sitting in a hotel room that does not offer wireless internet… As you look out the window, you spot that the three hotels & a Starbucks across the street advertising “Free Wireless Internet” — if only you had known this when you booked! You fire up your wireless card, but the signal [...]

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Linux: Howto install gOS on Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu

The gOS distribution is based on the Ubuntu 7.10 distribution. It uses the Enlightenment 17 window manager instead of the usual GNOME or KDE desktops, allowing for lower memory and speed requirements. Therefore gOS starts to work reasonably well on systems as low end as a 1GHz Pentium III with 256MB RAM. Due to the [...]

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Aviation: Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

On the heels of significant military setbacks in 1944, the Japanese military launched a campaign of kamikaze attacks, in which pilots attempted to crash their planes into American warships. Their aeroplanes were heavily laden with explosives, so a crash meant almost certain death for the pilot. Why, then, did these pilots wear helmets?

One reason is [...]

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How To eBook: The Unofficial MacGyver How-To Handbook

Don’t you wish you could do all the cool tricks that MacGyver did? Now you can. The Unofficial MacGyver How-to Handbook: Revised 2nd Edition provides step-by-step instructions to MacGyver’s most inventive tricks.
As viewers of the show, we had always assumed that MacGyver’s tricks were fiction, the kind of stuff that only works on TV. Inspired [...]

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Internet Computing Hints & Tips: 5 Little Known Firefox Features That Will Improve Your Browsing Efficiency

Firefox is by far the best web browser available. Here are five features I use daily that you may not know about that will turn you into a lean, mean, browsing machine.
1. “Ctrl+F” is so last year. All the cool kids are using “/”. If you hold “Ctrl” and press “F” you’ll bring up the [...]

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