Category Archives: Videos

How to add high res photos to Tumblr

By William Chinda | Published: November 13, 2011

It’s time once again, to explore the deepest and darkest corners of Tumblr. This time around, I’ve got a question from rajvir92, who asks: I am an amateur photographer and i use tumblr to upload my photos. however whenever i post my photos tumblr shows it in small size not in its orginal size. how [...]

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How to Borrow Kindle eBooks from the Library

By William Chinda | Published: September 25, 2011

Up until this week, library users who checked out ebooks did not have the option of reading those books on any of Amazon’s Kindle devices or apps. That’s all changed, thanks to a nationwide roll-out by Amazon to over 11,000 libraries in the US. Unlike checking out a book with Adobe Digital Editions, the process [...]

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Turn a Webcam into a Motion Sensing Security Camera

By William Chinda | Published: August 2, 2011

Thanks to the cheapness and ubiquity of the webcam, it’s now both easy and affordable to roll your own surveillance system. In this video tutorial, I’ll be demonstrating how to turn a cheap webcam into a motion-sensing surveillance camera. 0

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What’s New in Tumblr

By William Chinda | Published: June 25, 2011

In June of 2011, Tumblr went through a major redesign that simplified it’s user interface and eliminated some of its features entirely. In this video tutorial, I’ll be going through some of these changes. 0

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Move Your Time Machine Backup to a New Drive

By William Chinda | Published: June 3, 2011

One thing that’s been a constant in personal computing has been that hard drives will continually get bigger and cheaper. So it’s inevitable that you’ll one day want to relocate your Time Machine backups to a newer, roomier drive. In this video tutorial, I’ll be going through the process for prepping and transferring these files. [...]

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Simplify your job search with RSS and Indeed

By William Chinda | Published: May 22, 2011

Is your online job search a repetitive and tiring chore? There’s an easier way that is both automatic and capable of aggregating results from multiple job sites. In this tutorial, I’ll be showing you how with the help of RSS and Indeed.com. All about RSS First off, you need to know about this icon. You [...]

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Tumblr: How to add photos to reblog captions

By William Chinda | Published: May 9, 2011

It’s time for another audience question from my How to Use Tumblr video! crimsonvipor asks “If I reblog something, how do I post a picture in the comments section (or Caption)?” So the problem that we’ve got is that a normal text post has a link off to the side where you can upload photos, [...]

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Your Tumblr Questions Answered

By William Chinda | Published: March 20, 2011

Since I first put up my How to use Tumblr video in September, there’s been an amazing response, and I wanted to give a big thanks to everyone who watched and commented. I hope it’s been useful to you. That said, a couple people have asked some questions that I felt deserved a bit more [...]

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How to replace ear cushions on the Koss UR-20 headphone

By William Chinda | Published: January 16, 2011

In this tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how to replace the ear cushions on a pair of Koss headphones, specifically the Koss UR-20. For full size headphones, they’re pretty cheap, but for me they’ve been extremely reliable over the past 8 years or so that I’ve owned them. Their first point of failure, however, was the [...]

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How to get and read eBooks from the library

By William Chinda | Published: November 28, 2010

Just like with paper books, your local public library is a great source for free ebooks and other digital content. Unfortunately, thanks to strong digital rights management by the publishers of these books, the process for obtaining and reading ebooks can be difficult and confusing. In this video, I’ll go over the specifics of how [...]