Hot PlayStation 3 How-Tos

How To: Disassemble a PS3 Blu-ray Disc drive

This video contains instructions for disassembling the Blu-ray Disc drive in your PlayStation 3. If you've never attempted to take apart the Blu-ray drive, then you must watch this, or you may possibly damage your PS3 for good! See how to teardown the Blu-ray player, all the way down to the laser transport. This is very useful if you need to replace the drive and want to save about $70-$100.

How To: Play Your iPhone Music on Your PS3

While the PlayStation 3 is an awesome gaming console and the iPhone is an awesome smartphone, Apple and Sony have made two devices (that could be perfect for each other) nearly incompatible. Truth be told, this is more Apple's fault than Sony's, but we'll get into that later.

How To: Change the look of the visualizer on PS3

This video is a tutorial video. This video is showing the viewer how to change the visualize on their Playstation 3. He shows a step by step guide on how to get to the visualizer on your Playstation and he shows what the play station should look like if you are following the steps correctly. He shows the features that you can manipulate on the visualizer. He shows how you can change the color and change the overall look of the visualizer. He explains how the Playstation is easy to manipulate ...

How To: Access the PS3 secret recovery menu

Learn how to access the PS3 secret recovery menu by following this tutorial. You will need a PS3, PS3 remote, and a USB charger cable. Hold the power button on your system. Listen for three beeps (as you keep your finger on the power button). The third beep will turn your system off. Repeat this process, but this time, you will hear only two beeps (one beep followed by a quick double beep). Turn your TV on and it will tell you to connect your controller to the PSP. Connect your USB cable to t...

How To: Fix a PS3 Black Screen of Death

In this Video Games video tutorial you will learn how to fix a PS3 Black Screen of Death. For this you got to put the PS3 into stand by mode. Press down the button located at the top end of the console for 7-10 seconds and listen for 3 beeps. Repeat this step again. Then this message is flashed on the TV screen – ‘connect the controller using a USB cable etc’. Once you connect the USB cable, the trouble shooter prompt comes up displaying 6 options. You can use the 6 options to troubleshoot yo...

How To: Change your NAT settings to OPEN on a PS3

This video shows how to change the NAT type on a PS3. Go to connection settings>network settings>internet connection settings>OK>custom>wired connection>auto detect>manual. Choose an IP address that is different from your router, any other consoles, etc. Click right>automatic>do not use>enable. Press x to save settings, and test your connection. In this example, NAT type is 2. Now go to your PC and open IE. In the address bar, input router IP address, username and password. Go to Firewall Rul...

How To: Do Highrise glitches and tricks in Modern Warfare 2

In this video, you will learn a plethora of tricks and glitches in a multiplayer map called High-rise in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Learn how to access vantage points such as the crane visible on the side of the map, or learn even more obscure pathways to places you probably never thought you'd reach. This video provides an excellent visual guide to dominate the High-rise map. Don't waste your time dying in the middle of the map or sitting in the spots everyone knows about--study this vi...

How To: Purchase Your Very Own Cargobob Helicopter in GTA 5 Online

As you level up in online gameplay for Grand Theft Auto 5, certain vehicles become inaccessible—no longer spawning as they regularly would. One such vehicle is the Cargobob helicopter, otherwise known as the largest and heaviest helicopter in the game. If you're no longer able to spawn a Cargobob in GTA 5 and want one for your own, you can purchase one with a little help from YouTube user omgurheadsgone.

How To: Master the "B" License Tests in Gran Turismo 5 (Gold Trophy Guide)

If you're a legit Gran Turismo fan, you've already gotten the new Gran Turismo 5 for PlayStation 3. There's a lot of new features in GT5, and one that returns is the License Test challenges. One change in the License Tests in GT5 is that it ties every mode into a single, persistent experience system that lets players go straight to entering cups without having to pass any license tests first.

How To: Download DivX movies directly to your PS3

When most people think of playing movies on the Playstation 3, they think about its capabilities as a Blu-Ray player. Well, it can play more movies than just those new-fangled things! This video demonstrates how you can download DivX movies from the internet directly to you Playstation 3. Now you have access to all of the free movies the internet has to offer.

How To: Get the Look Ma, Two Hands trophy in Modern Warfare 2

Modern Warfare 2 Look Ma Two Hands Trophy Guide Video. The Akimbo weapons in two hands and the trophy associates the guide during rushing in bomb squad and the gun has 10 rounds after that press and hold a control key for a new automatic weapon. The Akimbo hand guns really prevent and protect to move forward and the options will automatically ask for the good pistols and weapons. Machine guns and sound are added to the special effects for this trophy warfare game. Finally this game must provi...

How To: Set up the internet on your PS3

Learn how to setup internet connection on your play station 3 in simple steps. First take any wireless enabled router and to find if its wireless check if the router has an aerial. Now go to 'Settings' in your PS3 and select the network settings option. Enable the internet connection, go to connection settings, select custom method and then select the wireless option. Now scan for any access points, go through and set all the settings according to your router. Finally save the settings and te...

How To: Disassemble the Sony PlayStation 3

See how to completely disassemble your Sony PlayStation 3, all the way down to the motherboard, for troubleshooting extreme overheating. Watch all three parts to see the full disassembly of the PS3, starting topside, moving bottomside, and to the mainboard. You will have access to all the PS3's innards, including the Blu-ray Disc drive, heat sink, and more. Make sure you are grounded before touching an inside components!

How To: Emergency eject a disc stuck in the PS3 Blu-ray drive

Sometimes (it happens to everyone), your PlayStation 3 will eat your discs. Your Blu-ray DVDs will be… you will be unable to eject them. You may not know what to do in this case, but after watching both parts to this video, you should be able to emergency eject a stuck disc in your PS3's Blu-ray Disc drive. Recover it without scratching and damaging it.

How To: Juggle like Ronaldinho in Fifa 09 for PS3

Learn how to do the latest Juggling Skills in Fifa 09 like Ronaldinho. The "Chest Flick" is the hardest trick in the game, it's all about speed. As soon as you flick the ball up you need to hold L3 and start tapping R3 as fast as you can. Remember, as soon as you flick it up start holding and tapping. To be more successful hold down L3 but do not hold the left stick in any direction. Good luck! This shows you how to run the ball up from your foot touch to knee, shoulder and header. Also, lear...

How To: Get Inside Any Building You Want in GTA 5 Online

There are already hundreds of glitches out there for Grand Theft Auto 5 Online, but most of them are useless. Most of them don't do anything to benefit your gameplay, but they're still pretty fun to mess around with. One such glitch, shown off by YouTuber AquibTV below, lets you inside any building in Los Santos. Los Santos is a big ass city and there are tons of buildings that you cannot get into without using a glitch like this one.

How To: Download and Change Your PlayStation 3's Wallpaper Without Using Your Computer

The PlayStation 3 is a sweet gaming system, and even though Blu-ray discs didn't really live up to all the hype and there is still no HBO GO app available, I love my PS3. One of the coolest things about it is that you can customize it to look however you want. One of the most common ways to do this is by changing the wallpaper, but most people use their computers to transfer wallpaper images over.

How To: Use Facebook Chat on Your PS3

One of the greatest consoles ever to exist in the world of gaming is the PlayStation 3, which even lets you do a million different things unrelated to games. But no matter how big of PS3 fan you are, you have to admit that the internal browser is not the greatest. Far from it. While you can access most websites from the PS3, a lot of those site's functions are limited, including Facebook. After reaching over one billion users earlier this month, Facebook is undoubtedly one of the most popular...

How To: Control Netflix on Your PS3 from an Android or Apple Device, Kindle Fire, or Nook

There's nothing better or more rewarding in the tech world than finding a hidden feature on your favorite app, and that app today is Netflix. If you've updated Netflix lately on your Apple or Android device, you can now use it to control the Netflix app on your PlayStation 3. This will work on any iPad, iPhone, iPod touch running iOS 5 or higher. Android smartphones, the Kindle Fire, and the Nook tablet require Android OS 2.3 (Gingerbread) or higher. All other Android tablets will need Androi...

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