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How to Set up a Gmail Account on the iPhone

By eHow Electronics Editor

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Among the Internet services available on the iPhone is the ability to send and receive email. If you already use Gmail for your email needs or would like to sign up for a new account, you can easily use your account on both the iPhone and your ... more »

How to Set Up a Tripod

By eHow Electronics Editor

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A tripod serves a critical function when lighting conditions are low or fine focusing is essential... more »

How to Set Up Alarm on Samsung AI660

By Marivell Alicea

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How to set up your alarm on your Samsung AI660?.. more »

How to Set Up and Configure a Treo Smartphone From Sprint

By eHow Electronics Editor

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Follow these simple steps for setting up and configuring your new Treo Smartphone from Sprint... more »

How to Set Up MS Exchange on iPhone 3G

By Melissa Lauer

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An exciting feature of the new iPhone 3G is that it allows you to hook up with MS Exchange as soon as you remove it from the box. This means you'll be able to wirelessly push company email, calendar events, and contacts to your iPhone over a ... more »

How to Set Up VoicePulse VoIP

By eHow Electronics Editor

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Have you recently bought VoicePulse VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)? Now you can set it up and use the VoIP features offered by VoicePulse. To enable VoicePulse VoIP, you will need to ensure three primary requirements—high speed internet, a ... more »

How to Set Your Camera For Action Shots

By AlinaBradford

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Action shots are fun, and they are easy to take with a digital camera. There is very little you need to do to get great shots, but here are the settings you need for perfect action shots... more »

How to Setup MP3-CD for Play on the JVC RV-NB1 Kaboom Series Boombox

By eHow Electronics Editor

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Playing an MP3-CD on JVC RV-NB1 Kaboom Series Boombox is very simple. All you have to do is set up an MP3-CD and play it... more »

How to Shoot Good Quality Video of Children

By Kent Ninomiya

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Children are growing up on video these days. Just about everyone has a video camera and taking pictures of kids comes naturally. However, many amateur videographers are disappointed with the quality of the tape they shoot. Making good quality ... more »

How to Shop For a Digital Camera

By jmessina10

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Shopping for a digital camera can be confusing especially if this is your first camera and you don’t know what to look for or if you should by any accessories with you camera. Here are some guidelines that will help you in your decision... more »

How to Shop For A Sound System

By therockrelic

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There are many good sound systems on the market these days, and each one promotes itself as "the best". But how do you know the one you're looking for is right for YOU? This article is designed to help you FIND it!.. more »

How to soft reset your ipod classic

By emmabushyo

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Has your Ipod frozen up and you can't seem to get it reset? Are you looking all over the gadget trying to find a button to press or a hole to stick a pen into? No worries, soft resets are simple and will quickly resolve the problem... more »

How to Speed Up Your iPod

By L1onherd

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Is your iPod feeling sluggish? An iPods hard drive is much like a computer, the more you fill the hard drive, the longer it takes to find the things you want. Here’s how to smooth and speed things up on your iPod... more »

How to Stain a Microscope Slide

By eHow Electronics Editor

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The use of stain on microscope slides is common. There are almost endless varieties of stains that can be used on slides. Stains are used to illuminate certain parts of a specimen on a slide. They can also be used to reveal particular substances ... more »

How to Stop Computers From Calling Your House

By Linda McCloud

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What is worse than sitting down to a nice meal or a good movie and then hearing the telephone ringing? You go and answer it expecting it to be a friend or a family member, instead it is a telemarketer trying to sell you something, trying to get ... more »

How to Stream YouTube on the T-Mobile Wing

By seventy4

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The T-Mobile Wing is a great smartphone. For streaming YouTube video directly from the site, the media player falls short. Unfortunately, installing the flash player doesn't fix the problem. With vTap, you are able to stream YouTube vidoes as ... more »

How to Subtitle Videos on an iPod

By eHow Electronics Editor

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One small downside of the small iPhone and iPod movies is the lack of a subtitle track. The files require that subtitles be part of the video track itself. Just about any commercial DVD to iPod ripper will burn one subtitle track onto your MP4 ... more »

How to Sync a PDA

By eHow Electronics Editor

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Synchronizing your Windows Mobile PDA to your PC allows you install and uninstall applications, transfer files and music, and update and synchronize your Microsoft Outlook email and schedule. This allows you to take advantage and utilize your PDA ... more »

How to Sync a Playlist on an iPod

By eHow Electronics Editor

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Creating playlists with iTunes can help you organize and transfer music from your library to your iPod quickly. To sync a playlist on an iPod you will have to follow some easy steps, but you will quickly get the hang of it... more »

How to Sync Selected Songs on an iPod

By eHow Electronics Editor

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With an iPod and iTunes you will have great control over your music collection. iTunes will organize, download, convert and sync songs from your library. Following these instructions will allow you to sync selected songs on an iPod from your ... more »

How to take better pictures of pets and animals

By bluejayway

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Bad lighting, red-eye effect, and unflattering angles can make pets look blurry, angry or frightened in a photograph. With proper lighting and a more unique angle pictures of your pets or animals can greatly improve... more »

How to Take Better Portraits

By bizewriter

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Portraits are often the most treasured photos people take with their camera, yet they often look like informal snapshots and may fail to meet print quality standards. Though superior portrait photography involves both a large measure of skill and ... more »

How to take charming and eye-appealing photos.

By acole

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Do your photo's always seem bland? Wish you could make your photo's more charming, cute, and appealing to the eye? Here are some tips on how to take charming photo's that you'll want to display at home, at work, and in your photo albums for years ... more »

How to Take Moving Photos with a Canon Rebel XTi

By Diana Doherty

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There are many occasions when you try to take a picture and it comes out blurry or you miss the moment completely. Your child's soccer goal, a beautiful sunset you see while riding in the car, a butterfly fluttering near your lounge chair...all ... more »

How to Tell if a CD is Damaged

By MidniteWriter

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The time to check if a CD is damaged and may possibly be repaired is before you go to play it or insert it into your computer. Here are some questions to help you discover if it is damaged or just incompatible, even though it may have worked before... more »