howto

A howto (also known as a how-to or how to) is a brief, informational tutorial (often list based, and/or bulletized) designed to help its readers learn how to accomplish a new task or skill. Howtos may also feature useful photos or video.

Howtos provide a simple, organized way for essential information to be shared on a wide variety of topics, including internet video, automotive maintenence, and food preservation as well as tips to improve productivity and organizational skills.

There are some very good blogs on the internet with howtos that include Lifehacker and Make: Blog.

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  So, You Got A New Windows Computer?
  A quick and dirty guide to get your new Windows PC ready to roll.
  by oldgoat1957 / on Dec 27, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “howto”

 

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  Create Digital Music — Authority: 546
  Propellerhead’s latest cheeky tutorial makes no apologies. Reason 7′s Audiomatic Retro Transformer is, they say, the equivalent of tapping a filter on a phone camera app like Instagram, bundling lots of different sound attributes together into a single push-button setting. Ironically, their example is a send-up ...
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• Create a DIY Light for Your Desk That Will Light Up With Notifications About Job Openings

  
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  Summary: [[Image:RelaxWorkHeaberlin.jpg|thumb|630px|left| Photo by Paul Heaberlin/[http://www.flickr.com/photos/lobsterboy1980/3886516986/ Flickr]/CC[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/deed.en]]] Looking for a career change? If you’re on the hunt for a job, it’s good to use every tool you have and ...
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• Track Real Time Position of Trains on Rail Radar

  
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  Routes of Indian Railways Now you can easily track real time position of trains on Rail Radar. Many of us are unable to know the real-time position of our train and then we are just fed up of sitting in the train waiting for our station. Using Rail Radar you can easily track Indian trains in real-time and  know the ...
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• Protect Windows Against Viruses with Malware Prevention Troubleshooter

  
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  To help keep your Windows computer secure and up-to-date, a good place to start is with the Microsoft Malware Prevention tool. It detects problems and auto fixes them.
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• How to Get iOS 7 Features On iOS 6.x [on Jailbroken iPhone]

  
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  Apple’s demoed iOS 7 and with many people with the developer betas running on their iPhones, it sure looks quite interesting. There are tons of “new” features in iOS 7 but there are also many that have already been here (either in Android or as jailbreak tweaks for iPhone). Interestingly, you can get most of ...
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• How To: Create products that almost sell themselves

  
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  There isnt a single Internet marketing firm out there that wouldnt absolutely jump at the opportunity to create products that almost sell themselves. In fact, some of the most popular and world-class Internet marketing agencies around the world have stumbled upon the secrets before – and created the biggest launches ...
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• How To: Get Set Up For A Successful Cycling Career

  
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  Cycling has become one of the more popular participant sports in the United Kingdom, largely due to the success of British cyclists in the worlds top professional events. This article gives beginners a few tips on how to start out in cycling. Cycling is becoming an increasingly popular sport and fitness activity in ...
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• The Five People You Meet at Exhibitions and How to Prioritise

  
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  This article was written for Inspirationfeed by Kelly Edwards. Kelly is an experienced marketer who has seen her fair share of business exhibition stands.  She works for  Nimlok , providing content and creates crafty things in her spare time! Exhibitions are an excellent choice for SME’s to network and ...
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• Apps for Making Healthy Food Choices

  
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  If you or your family has made a commitment to eat better and healthier, then congratulations – you’ve taken the first step towards creating a new, happier you. The journey won’t be easy, but you’re not alone: There are plenty of great free apps that can help you whip your diet into shape and cut out foods ...
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• How to Take Stunning HDR Photos On Your iPhone 5, 4S, and 4

  
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  The HDR – High Dynamic Range – feature was added to the iPhone 4. Since then, it’s a standard feature on the iPhone. Technically, a HDR photo adds more detail and data to the photo giving a higher clarity than the normal photo. Taking HDR photos on the iPhone is easy but if you miss [...] The post How to Take ...
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• How to Use the iPhone as an External Disk

  
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  The iPhone is not a phone, at least not in the ordinary sense. It’s a multi-purpose portable touchscreen computer. It’s small enough to fit in your pocket, has internet connectivity and probably more applications than its bigger brother, the desktop version of Mac OS X. And more importantly – the battery ...
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• Play with your food: 11 awesome ways to serve a watermelon

  
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  We love, love, love watermelon season, and why not? Sweeter than candy and just a wee bit healthier, here are some of the coolest ways to serve a watermelon at your next picnic or kids party, that you can actually do.
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• 7 Steps To Open-Sourcing Existing Code

  
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  A structured approach for taking the source of an existing project and preparing it for public consumption as an open-source project.
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• Forex Trade Alert

  
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• Fuzzy Hippo Cocktail, How-To

  
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  Tasting Notes:  Is it a fuzzy navel with hypnotiq? It brings some nice tropical flavors to the palate and has your peach schnapps sweetness with an overall hpnotiq flavor profile. Yeah, we missed the sprite though. The Fuzzy Hippo! We are back on our Hpnotiq and this one has its best friend, Pineapple Juice but also ...
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• Tutorial: How to Shoot a Studio Product Photo of a Gold Watch

  
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  Tutorials are available for photographers of all levels, but many of the tutorials you’ll find online have to do with grasping a basic technique or tackling an intermediate lighting scenario. The above tutorial falls much closer to the pro level. Photographer Phillip McCordall — an award-winning still life ...
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• How to customize the Xbox Account Avatar using Xbox Games app of Windows 8/RT

  
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  If, you have been playing games on an Xbox console, on Windows Phone or on your Windows 8 devices then, you might be familiar with the Xbox account which saves the data, game history, achievements and other things for future use. Each Xbox account holder is provided an avatar which works like your character during ...
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• How to use CasperJS to automate website testing

  
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  CasperJS is a navigation scripting & testing utility for PhantomJS, written in Javascript. Its a pretty handy utility to automate functionality testing of a website. I’ll use read more The post How to use CasperJS to automate website testing appeared first on InfoHeap .
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• Euphorbia Sap

  
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  Euphorbia sap in the eye in Iowa ? Ow. Let that be a lesson to you all to not get Euphorbia sap in your eye. Don’t get it on your hands and if you do wash your hands thoroughly and immediately. Don’t wait ’til later because you will have forgotten long enough to touch your eye and then look at what happens. ...
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• Weather Aids The Success of “Flirting”

  
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  People who want to find a partner may have to wait for suitable weather, because according to a new study in France, teasing (flirting) or approaching the opposite sex was most effective when the sun is shining. The study involved 20 men in the “interesting”. They approached and asked for the phone number of the ...
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