Tinkernut - Video Cast

How To Mix Your Own Music

admin@tinkernut.com — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:13:42 -0400

In this episode, Gigafide will show you free resources that will help you mix your own customized music. ROC - http://aviary.com/online/music-creator Myna - http://aviary.com/online/audio-editor Freesound - http://www.freesound.org Flashkit - http://www.flashkit.com/loops/

Super Cool Hulu Tricks

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:34:37 -0400

Download and watch Hulu videos from anywhere including outside of the US. Download Firefox - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox Modify Headers add-on - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/967 IP addresses by country - http://nntime.com/proxy-country StreamTransport - http://www.streamtransport.com

Awesome Dropbox Tricks

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:09:08 -0400

Here are some cool Dropbox tricks that will turn you into a power user in no time! Dropbox – http://www.dropbox.com Akira – http://macobex.wordpress.com More cool tricks - http://tinkernut.com/forum/video-tutorial-help/awesome-dropbox-tricks

Hack Google Voice For Free Calls

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 7 Jul 2010 15:43:31 -0400

Learn how to make and receive unlimited VOIP phone calls using Google Voice and SipGate. http://www.sipgate.com http://voice.google.com

How To Keep Your Laptop From Being Stolen

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:56:20 -0400

This video will show you how to keep your laptop from being stolen and how to track it if it has been stolen. http://www.luxand.com/blink http://www.lalarm.com/en/Lalarm_Laptop_Alarm.htm http://preyproject.com http://www.tinkernut.com/forum/video-tutorial-help/how-to-keep-your-laptop-from-being-stolen

How To Make Torrents

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:42:10 -0400

This video shows you the basics of creating and sharing torrents. We’ll be using µTorrent to create the torrents and fenopy.com to upload them. http://www.utorrent.com http://www.fenopy.com Port Forwarding Tutorial http://www.tinkernut.com/archives/116 Tracking URL’s http://tracker.openbittorent.com/announce http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce

Cool Websites: Star In Your Own Films

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:46:37 -0400

This is a collection of websites that allow you to put yourself into movies and video clips by uploading a picture of yourself. Go here for more links and to list your own: http://www.tinkernut.com/forum/video-tutorial-help/cool-websites-star-in-your-own-films

How To Make A Free First Person Shooter - Part 3

admin@tinkernut.com — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:45:20 -0400

This is part three of a three part video series that shows you how to create your own First Person Shooter (FPS) game for free. Click here to view part one - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnKlTbDUH74 Click here to view part two - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqk00DaIpz8 Click here for links, tips, tricks and discussions - www.tinkernut.com/forum/video-tutorial-help/how-to-make-a-free-first-person-shooter-part-1

How To Make A Free First Person Shooter – Part 2

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 2 Jun 2010 23:39:05 -0400

This is part two of a three part video series that shows you how to create your own First Person Shooter (FPS) game for free. Click here to view part one
Click here for links, tips, tricks and discussions

How To Make A Free First Person Shooter - Part 1

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 26 May 2010 23:54:18 -0400

This is part one of a two part video series that shows you how to create your own First Person Shooter (FPS) game for free. Click here for more free downloads, examples and more!

How To Make A Cheap Projector From An Old Laptop

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:24:55 -0400

Make a cheap projector using an old laptop and an overhead projector.

Hacking Tip: Hide Secret Files In Plain Sight

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 12 May 2010 19:03:04 -0400

This video covers the art of steganography, or hiding messages in plain site. The three methods covered are hiding files on Microsoft documents, hiding files inside pictures, and hiding messages inside Twitter messages. http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/ms-office-stego-code http://sourceforge.net/projects/hide-in-picture http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/unicode-and-lsb-stego-code

Cool Websites: Awesome Webcam Games

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 5 May 2010 21:42:48 -0400

Use your webcam to play free online games using only your body as the controller. http://www.iamironman2.com/uk/ http://www.weareautobots.com http://www.lorenzgames.com/game/motion-bubbles http://www.lorenzgames.com/game/night-of-the-ninja http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/429564 http://www.playdojam.com/

How To Protect Your Website

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 5 May 2010 21:31:38 -0400

This video will show you how to monitor and protect your website. http://www.247webmonitoring.com http://www.gfi.com/it-managed-services-software http://www.avg.com.au/resources/web-page-scanner/ http://sucuri.net/index.php?page=home

How To Make Your Own TV Station

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:41:20 -0400

Take advantage of the switch to digital, by using the old analog stations to broadcast your very own television show. For a more in-depth look at how to create a TV station, visit this link: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Save-Analog-TV

How To Pimp Your Youtube Channel

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:38:48 -0400

Give your Youtube channel a makeover with these quick tips. Visit http://www.tinkernut.com/forum/video-tutorial-help/how-to-pimp-your-youtube-channel for all links and code used in this video.

Google Bike Hack

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 7 Apr 2010 17:18:27 -0400

Hook up your exercise bike to Google Maps and turn your boring stationary bike into a virtual reality excursion! Links: Google Maps http://maps.google.com Targus Keypad http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008NG7N?ie=UTF8&tag=tinkernut-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00008NG7N Magnetic Switch http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001337AO2?ie=UTF8&tag=tinkernut-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001337AO2 Soldering Equipment http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009ZD2AG?ie=UTF8&tag=tinkernut-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0009ZD2AG Project Page http://www.izonsoft.co.uk/Projects/googleBike.asp

Easy Pranks For April Fools

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:12:42 -0400

With April Fools day just around the corner, this video shows you some easy pranks that you can pull from your computer.

How To Keep Your Computer Secure

admin@tinkernut.com — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:55:40 -0400

Due to recently being hacked, I am going to show you in this video how to check your computer for vulnerabilities and how to keep it secure.

How To Access Restricted Sites

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:51:51 -0400

This video shows how to create your own proxy server using free software.

How To Make An E-mail Server

admin@tinkernut.com — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:07:58 -0500

This video shows how to host your own e-mail service using your home computer.

How To Control Your Computer With Sonar

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 3 Mar 2010 23:22:11 -0500

This video will show you how to save energy on your computer using sonar. This concept is based on a program that you can downoad from here: http://stevetarzia.com/sonar/download.php

How To Blur Faces In Videos

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:07:46 -0500

This tutorial will show you how you can blur out peoples faces in videos and make them anonymous. Here are the links used in this video: http://www.formatoz.com http://audacity.sourceforge.net http://www.debugmode.com/wax http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm For more Wax 2.0 tutorials, you can watch these videos: Beginners Tutorial - http://www.tinkernut.com/archives/73 Advanced Special Effects - http://www.tinkernut.com/archives/649 Adding Explosions - http://www.tinkernut.com/archives/146 3D Compositing - http://www.tinkernut.com/archives/1164 Creating Video Introductions - http://www.tinkernut.com/archives/109 Cheap “Bullet Time” Effect - http://www.tinkernut.com/archives/168

Tinkernut Live - February 11th @ 5pm Eastern

admin@tinkernut.com — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:33:02 -0500

Be sure to check out Tinkernut's live video stream tonight at 5pm eastern! http://live.tinkernut.com

How To Make An Auto Hacking USB Drive

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:40:18 -0500

This video will show you how to make an auto-hacking USB drive and how to protect yourself from them. You can find all links and scripts at this website

How to make a 3D scanner

admin@tinkernut.com — Thu, 4 Feb 2010 00:41:39 -0500

This video shows you how you can make a simple 3D scanner using a webcam, laser pointer and some free software. David-laserscanner software: http://www.david-laserscanner.com Blender: http://www.blender.org Blender Basic Tutorial: http://www.tinkernut.com/archives/164 Examples: http://www.david-laserscanner.com/?section=Gallery

How To Make an Aerial Photography Rig With a Disposable Camera

admin@tinkernut.com — Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:55:05 -0500

How To Make an Aerial Photography Rig With a Disposable Camera on Howcast

Get a new perspective by taking pictures from a bird’s eye view.

How To Hack Wireless

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:27:38 -0500

This video shows one method of hacking a wireless WEP connection and gives you some tips on how to better secure your wireless. WEBSITES: http://www.backtrack-linux.org http://www.imgburn.com

How to supercharge the web

admin@tinkernut.com — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:10:57 -0500

This video shows you how to improve your internet speeds.

How to control the web

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:57:56 -0500

This video shows different ways of filtering web content so that people using your computer or network are only allowed to go to certain sites.

Tinkernut Live January 8th Highlights

admin@tinkernut.com — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:13:31 -0500

Here are some of the highlights from the Tinkernut live stream on January 9th 2010. Some questions covered are "How do you make your intro", "How to become a Youtube Partner", "What are some websites you like to visit", "What are your computer specs" and more.

Tinkernut Live Promo

admin@tinkernut.com — Thu, 7 Jan 2010 23:26:12 -0500

Be sure to watch Tinkernut Live on January 8th at 5pm Eastern at live.tinkernut.com

How To Make An Atari Game

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 6 Jan 2010 15:35:56 -0500

The basis of this tutorial is to provide an introductory look at programming in BASIC. Here, we'll be using Batari Basic to create an Atari 2600 game that's playable on most Atari emulators. You can find the links, source code, and examples on my blog page: The basis of this tutorial is to provide an introductory look at programming in BASIC. Here, we'll be using Batari Basic to create an Atari 2600 game that's playable on most Atari emulators. You can find the links, source code, and examples on my blog page: http://jumpto.tinkernut.com/atari

2010 Tinkernut Update

admin@tinkernut.com — Sat, 2 Jan 2010 12:34:13 -0500

With the holidays over, it's time to get back on track. I have some great tutorials lined up and will be starting to do live video streaming starting January 8th.

Beginners Guide To Google Wave

admin@tinkernut.com — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:32:21 -0500

Wave Gadgets: http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com Wave Bots: http://googlewavebots.info/wiki/index.php Get Google Wave invitations here: http://lifehacker.com/5426196/give-and-receive-google-wave-invites-any-time-in-our-dedicated-forum-page

How To Get Google Chrome OS

admin@tinkernut.com — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:21:50 -0500

This video shows you two different ways for installing Chrome OS by Google without harming your current computer settings. The links below are used in the video:
Win32 Image Writer - https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer/+download
ChromiumOS Cherry - http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/
VirtualBox - http://www.virtulabox.org

Best social networking apps

admin@tinkernut.com — Sat, 5 Dec 2009 17:15:24 -0500

This video covers four different types of social networking applications: Tweetdeck - http://www.tweetdeck.com Hootsuite - http://hootsuite.com/ Wasabi (by Netvibes) - http://wasabi.netvibes.com/ Ping.fm – http://www.ping.fm

Cool Websites: Creaza

admin@tinkernut.com — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:19:04 -0500

Creaza (www.creaza.com) is a free multimedia editing and creation website. With creaza you can create and edit web comics, movies, audio and mind maps.

Windows 7 Upgrade Hacks

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:12:33 -0500

This video covers two hacks to get around Windows 7 upgrade limitations. One is a hack that lets you upgrade from the Windows 7 Release Candidate (Beta version) and the other hack allows you to upgrade to a downgraded Windows Edition (ex. Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Professional).

Backup Your Entire Computer For Free

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:35:24 -0500

Protect yourself from computer crashes by backing up your computer using this free software. Click here to view the links used in this video and add your own tips

Make XP Look Like Windows 7

admin@tinkernut.com — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:02:31 -0400

This video will show you how to make your Windows XP machine look and act like Windows 7. Download the files here.

How To Make An RSS Feed

admin@tinkernut.com — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:44:30 -0400

This video shows you how to make an RSS feed both from coding and using freeware. Click here to view the XML used in this video.

How To Make a Fog Machine

admin@tinkernut.com — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:45:16 -0400

How To Make a Fog Machine With a Household Iron on Howcast

Liven up your parties by making your own fog machine, using items that you can find around the house. Get the full instructions here.

Live Interview - Sun Oct 11th.

admin@tinkernut.com — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:48:40 -0400

Don't miss the live Tinkernut interview Sunday October 11th at 8pm Eastern at http://dylan.combs.tv

Get Microsoft Office For Free Online

admin@tinkernut.com — Sat, 3 Oct 2009 14:14:33 -0400

Find out how to gain access to Microsoft's new Microsoft Office Online feature.

Best Virus Scanner?

admin@tinkernut.com — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:12:36 -0400

This video compares the most popular virus scanners to see which one's are the best.