How To Remove iTunes Duplicates From Your Song Library
Here are a few tips and techniques on how to get rid of duplicate songs in your iTunes Library as well as some precautions you should take before deleting duplicate tracks.
DIY & Tutorials
Here’s How To Remove Skunk Smell From Your Pets Using Nature’s Miracle Skunk Odor Remover
Can Skunk Off and Nature's Miracle Skunk Odor Remover save the day? Here's how to remove skunk smell from your pets.
Why Your AVI Files Have No Audio on Mac And How To Fix it
After a lot of troubleshooting, I was able to fix my AVI no audio problem on Mac. Here's what I did.
How To Install Twitter on a Commodore 64 Computer
Get ready for some 1980s computing to meet Web 2.0. A guy named Johan Van den Brande has made a Twitter client for Commodore 64 (C64).
How to Tweet Video Clips on Twitter Using BubbleTweet
Can’t fully express yourself with Twitter‘s 140-character limit? It can be tough. And sometimes plain text just isn’t enough. Luckily services like TwitPic and Ping.fm allow us to embed picture links in our tweets. But what about video? There are actually a few services helping bring video to Twitter and BubbleTweet is one of the …
Tutorial: Making Celebrity Miis for the Nintendo Wii
Have you tried making a celebrity Mii on your Nintendo Wii yet? Instead of being some generic character in a game, you can be a celebrity like Oprah, Borat (pictured above), Charlie Brown or even Dwight Schrute from the American TV show The Office. This tutorial will give you plenty of celebrity Mii ideas and …
How To Fix an Inverted Macintosh Monitor [tutorial]
Is the monitor on your Macintosh computer inverted? Are you seeing black where it should be white? Does everything look negative? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you accidentally enabled a Macintosh feature for people with impaired vision. We’ve heard of people doing all sorts of crazy things to fix this …
How To Download YouTube Videos
Here's a step-by-step MethodShop tutorial on how to download video files off YouTube and convert them for an iPod or iPhone.
Is Your iPod Or iPhone Frozen? Here’s How To Do A Reset
Is your iPod or iPhone frozen? This can happen for a number of reasons and does not necessarily indicate a serious problem. Sometimes they just need a reset much like the way your computer needs a restart once in a while. Restarting an iPod or iPhone is a simple procedure that will not erase any …
How To Fix Boxee Black Screen Error on Apple TV [tutorial]
Is your Apple TV freezing when you launch Boxee? Do you see a quick flash of the Apple logo and then just a blank "black screen"? You aren't alone!
Hulu Blocks Boxee… Again
The streaming video site Hulu and the streaming-video-on-your-TV service Boxee spent all of last weekend fighting. Again. In late February, Hulu asked Boxee to remove the special Hulu browser from the Boxee software. Boxee complied with Hulu’s request, but Boxee users were very upset. Then last weekend, Boxee figured out a way around the Hulu …
How To Convert iTunes Songs To MP3 And Other Formats
This tutorial will show you how to convert iTunes songs to MP3 and other audio file types.
Oops! The Apple TV 2.3.1 Update Breaks Boxee Hack
This week Apple released a very minor firmware update for the Apple TV. The 2.3.1 update only adds a “Network Test” option to help users troubleshoot Internet connections. That’s it. Seriously, it’s hardly worth the trouble. But the update does do something we weren’t expecting… it disables and deletes the Boxee software. Boxee is a …
How To Auto Following Account On Twitter – Tutorial
Autofollowing people on Twitter just got a whole lot easier. Last month we wrote a detailed tutorial on methodshop.com that walked you through how to setup up your Twitter account to autofollow anyone who follows you using a service called TweetLater. Part of the process involved making an autoforward rule in Gmail. But after getting …
How To Rescue Your iPod from a Fall into the Toilet [tutorial]
Over the years, we've gotten a bowl-load of these "Help! I dropped my iPod in the toilet!" emails from MethodShop.com readers looking for help. It's an epidemic!
Expose the Exposé Blob
Like using Exposé but hate hot corners and function keys? Why not unleash the hidden Exposé Blob built into Mac OS X? You can even make your blob look like Eric Cartman or Meatwad from ATHF. When Apple introduced Exposé in OS X 10.3 Panther, many people felt it was the best new feature in …
Restart a Frozen iPhone or iPod
Is your iPod or iPhone frozen? This can happen for a number of reasons and does not necessarily indicate a serious problem. Sometimes they just need a restart much like the way your computer needs a reset once in a while. Restarting an iPod or iPhone is a simple procedure that will not erase any …
