Cheap calls in Europe on your cell phone

When we go to Europe or when any of my friends go to Europe, we always have the conversation before the trip - "so what are you going to do about phone calls?" Everyone knows that phone calls using your US carrier are ridiculously expensive and not everyone knows what to do about it. When I go to any country in Europe or South America, I always bring my T-Mobile (that's important) cell phone with me. When I arrive in the country, I go to a phone store and buy a SIM card for about 20 euros. This SIM card gives me a local phone number in the country and lets me make cell calls locally to my friends and family at low low rates -- no roaming. I also get to make phone calls back to the US at the local long distance rates -- wildly cheaper than the US cell phone roaming rates.
So what's the catch -- no catch - if you have a phone with a SIM card. All T-mobile phones have a SIM card - this has all of your contact information, your phone number and other billing info on it so that if you buy a new phone you just swap in your sim card and you are ready to go. In Europe and South America all of the phones are like this. In this US only T-mobile and maybe one other carrier uses SIM cards.
So, if you have T-mobile, call 611 from your cell and tell the representative to unlock your phone.
They will send you an email with instructions 3 days later - so make sure you allow time before your trip to do this. By the way once you do this on one phone you never have to unlock it again.
After you get your instructions, just follow them and your phone is unlocked.
Now when you go to Europe, just buy a SIM card and you are ready to rock and roll. When you put in your new SIM card - you will be asked for a password - this comes with the package for the new SIM card - do not lose this password.
The video will show you how to make the call to unlock, and how to install and remove your sim card.

Covering Your Tracks

A friend asked me if I knew how to erase the browsing history from his Internet Explorer browser.
I knew why he wanted to do this and told him how. I thought it was a useful tidbit for many people and here is the Learn in 2 Minutes How to Cover your tracks video or How to Clear Your Internet Explorer Browsing History...watch it below or see it in full screen at www.learnin2minutes.com.

Stumbleupon - How to easily find cool new websites

With Stumbleupon - you will find websites you are guaranteed to never have found before.
First you go to the stumbleupon website, sign up.
Then enter the areas you are interested in.
Then upload a toolbar for your firefox browswer or IE.
Then click Stumble and you will be mostly delighted to be taken to a new website.
You can vote if you like it or not.
I've found some very cool drawing sites, animations, photos, math stuff, games and on and on.
My friends say I should get a life!
So click below -- or for a fullsize video go to www.learnin2minutes.com!

WheretoKick

I've been posting videos on my channel at Metacafe for a couple of weeks now. The channel is called wheretokick at http://www.metacafe.com/tags/wheretokick/ -- the name comes from the very old joke about the consultant who was called in to fix an out-of-order IBM360 mainframe computer. The computer had stopped running and the consultant came in to fix it. He takes a look at the computer and after about 10 seconds gives it a quick sharp kick with his right foot. Suddenly all of the lights come on and the computer is up and running. He later submits a bill for $5000.00. The person who hired him calls him and says -- "what - you come in for 2 minutes and charge me 5 grand? -- just for kicking my computer!!. Yes, said the consultant but I knew Where to Kick!!!!"

No More Internet Explorer or How to Install and Use and Customize FIREFOX

No More Internet Explorer
or
How to Install and Use and Customize FIREFOX

I used to use Internet Explorer -- but I found that it was the most prone to malware, spyware, viruses and worms so I switched to FIREFOX and you should too.
Click on www.learnin2minutes.com
and click on FIREFOX to see the video in full screen.