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Problem: you are surfing the internet and you come across a site that has the information you need, but it is in a language that you can’t read.
Solution: Google Translator
In the video below I show you how you can take advantage of the free Google Translator, and its abilities to translate… well just about everything. [...]

If you have not heard, a Windows Vista machine is able to run a screen saver as the desktop background. Well up until now that has been one small thing that the PC enthusiasts were able to get me on. But now I have Screen Saver. Screen Saver is a nifty little [...]

In this quick tip I show you how to make your Mac talk to you. Most people don’t know this because it is a bit hidden, but you can make your Mac announce the time to you. You can set it to announce it on the hour, every 30 minutes, or every 15 [...]

Well the time has come and the newest version of OS X is here. Snow Leopard has arrived and has brought many improvements under the hood. I installed Snow Leopard last night and so far the only thing that I have had problems with is Final Cut Express. That is a BIG [...]

By now I am sure that you have heard of the new devices that are being powered by Google’s Android mobile OS. If you are on the fence about deciding whether you would like the phone, or if you are just a geek and are wanting to see what all the rage is about [...]

This episode of Southern Fried Geeks was a rather interesting one considering that one main part of the episode didn’t go as planned at all. However it was still funny and the rest of the episode is good. In the video below you are going to see an attempted jail break of an [...]

In the video below I am going to show you how to make a Web server on an old Linux box. The only prerequisite is that you know a little about CLI interfaces and you can learn new things quickly. In this tutorial I am going to show you how to make a [...]

This episode of Southern Fried Geeks is jam packed with loads of destruction and mayhem. We shoot a watermelon with a paintball gun, and destroy a keyboard with a hammer. So what are you doing still reading this? Watch the video below. I can not post the full video here [...]

A while back I was given a math assignment that required us to use a graphing calculator on the computer. Now being that my school is narrow minded and only provided a program that would do this on a Windows machine I was left out to fend for my self. Anyway as I [...]

In this episode of Southern Fried Geeks you are going to see the inside of an RC helicopter controller, Kung Fu Gamer is going to hammer fist a tooth brush, and we discuss Google Chrome OS and what it means to the rest of the market.  So without further ado, enjoy.
Due to the fact that [...]

Quick Tip #15 is here and I am going to be showing you how you can use a service called You Hoogle. This service allows you to make a Google search page that has you name of what ever else you want it to say on it. If you have any questions feel [...]

In this quick tip I walk you through the various account settings that are available to you in OS X and I show you what they do. I hope this will help anybody out there who is new to the OS X platform and I hope this will help you get familiar with the [...]

A review is something that is best done with a video not words so without further ado, enjoy. Also if you have any other questions about the phone just leave them in the comments section.

If you are familiar with QuickTime Player, then you should know that it doesn’t really support very many video formats. Basically all that it covers out of the box is .mp4 .mov, and all the similar formats. If you are a person that tends to download and produce a lot of video, then [...]

Have you ever wanted to get down and dirty with your Mac? Do something like clearing the caches, restarting finder, or even run maintenance tasks? If you have then you should know that normally this is a hard thing to do. You would have to find the caches on your own, [...]

A few months ago I created a tutorial on how to install WordPress using MAMP on Mac OS X. This is the same type if thing except it is just for Drupal rather than WordPress. Now if you didn’t know this WordPress is designed for blogging more than anything else and Drupal is [...]

If you are like me setting a desktop background is really not something that you spend much time on. However it is nice to have something cool or maybe even something better than just a picture. There are a few things out there that will allow you to have something other than just [...]

If you have a Mac and you edit videos you know that your selection of programs for video converting is small. There are plenty out there and most of them do a great job, but very few of them are free. Most people would settle for QuickTime Pro which is a pro [...]

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On my way to Orlando studios I needed a way to entertain myself. I used my iPod, but why settle for the small screen when you can use a much larger one? In this video I show you how I got my iPod to connect to my portable DVD player. The whole [...]