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How To: Use the future imperative in Russian

Check out this instructional language video to learn how to conjugate and use the future imperative in Russian. Learn basic Russian grammar with Viktor Dmitriyevich Huliganov in his 6th lesson that is in two parts. He introduces a whole new way of tackling the tricky area of conjugating imperatives in Russian. This lesson looks at the future imperfect tense, and introduces aspect of the verb, as well as looks at 1a verbs with roots in Y and E. Watch this tutorial video that is great for langu...

How To: Publish your podcast through iTunes

After you’ve uploaded your XML and audio files, then your podcast is, technically speaking, available for anyone to subscribe to. Just like if you had a URL for a web page, you could just type it in to your web browser to get there, you can use iTunes to get to your podcast with just a URL.

How To: Cook phat (pad) thai with chef Kai

Forget the take out tonight, cook some Thai food at home instead. Watch this how to video tutorial as professional Thai chef Kai shows you how to cook up an authentic dish of phat thai (or pad thai). This Thai style fried noodle dish can be found at an Thai restaurant, but now you can make it at home.

How To: Cook hot and sour chicken with Kai

Forget the take out tonight, cook some Chinese food at home instead. Watch this how to video tutorial as professional Thai chef Kai shows you how to cook up an authentic dish of hot and sour chicken. This hot and sour Chinese dish is a little bit different and much more spicy than the regular sweet recipe. Try it tonight.

How To: Groom a dog

Dog grooming is an important part of keeping your dog healthy and happy. Learn how to do basic dog grooming with tips from a professional dog groomer in this free pet care video series.

How To: Set up a big white infinity sweep for photo studio

This instructional photography video shows how to setup large white infinity backgrounds in the photo studio. The key components to this setup is include this six foot octobox softbox light, which requires quite a bit of power; a framed aluminum reflector; the background itself is vinyl floor painted white; and a black baffle to shield the camera from lens flare. Set up professional looking shoots and take great portraits with this tutorial.

How To: Use a light meter for your photo camera

This cinematography tutorial video provides the basics of working with a photographic light meter as well as how to read the meter. A light and flash meter is nothing expensive. All you need is something that will measure the light and your flash. Most light meters are relatively the same. Metering is a relatively simple process. Just key in the ISO, key in the shuttle speed, push the button, and it gives you the f-stop to use on your professional photo camera.

How To: Mix America's classic Manhattan like a pro bartender

The Manhattan is one of America's classics. It originally was based with rye but now predominately uses bourbon as the base. Rye is quite a bit more dry and there are a lot more smokey woody tones in it where as bourbon is slightly sweeter and carries vanilla tones. The vermouth used in this recipe was Ponti Rosso. It has some spicy notes that complement the sweeter flavors very well. If you want to use a really good vermouth, use Carpano Antica Formula. Any high quality bourbon such as Maker...

How To: Prepare the ears on a deer mount by the bondo method

A professional taxidermist demonstrates the "bondo ear" method for a whitetail deer mount in this video taxidermy tutorial. The mixture used is half bondo and half polyester resin, and the ears on the deer mount are further stuffed with a fiberglass mat to reinforce the material. The mixture is then placed on a stick and then slid down the ear of the deer skin cape. Amateur taxidermists can watch this instructional video and learn how to prepare the ears on a deer mount by the bondo method.

How To: Do a 540 trick on a BMX bicycle

Professional BMX rider Ben Snowden teaches you how to do a 540 on a box jump landing, quarter pipe, and vert ramp. He also throws down some extra moves at the end of the video tutorial in a bonus solo riding session. So, if you want to be an awesome BMX bicycle king, just learn how to do a 540 trick on a BMX bicycle. Ben Snowden will tell you all about it, but he recommends you already know how to do a 180 or 360 spin on your bike.

How To: Play "Something" by the Beatles on ukulele

Watch this ukulele video tutorial to learn how to play "Something" by the Beatles on the ukulele. The instruction in this how-to video is very detailed and geared toward intermediate to advanced ukulele players. Learning to play this pretty arrangement of "Something" by the Beatles will be easy after you've watched this helpful instructional ukulele video.

How To: Play "Close to You" by the Carpenters on ukulele

Watch this ukulele tutorial video to learn how to play the Carpenters' "Close to You" on ukulele. The instruction in this how-to video is very detailed and aimed toward intermediate to advanced ukulele players. You'll be playing "Close to You" beautifully in no time after you've watched this instructional ukulele video.

How To: Lay out and sew a log cabin quilt square

This video quilting tutorial shows how to lay out and sew a log cabin quilt square. The log cabin square is a classic quilting pattern, easy enough for beginning quilters but has enough built-in variation that makes it popular with advanced quilters as well. Learn how to set up and sew a log cabin quilt square by watching this instructional video.

How To: Bowl like a pro

Straight from the professionals at AMF, get the skinny on our favorite... ummm sport. Is bowling a sport? Well here's a retro tutorial on how to strike all the pins and leave the lanes clean. Get your 300 tongiht!

How To: Use Corel Ulead Video Studio 11 Plus

While we personally like to learn a new software program by playing around with its buttons and various functions, sometimes it's a nice primer to actually read the instruction manual. And when it comes to video editing, knowing the particularities of each and every function is crucial to producing professional-quality results.

How To: Create a sports card in Photoshop

The one thing missing from you baseball card collection is card of yourself when you were playing in your little league baseball game. Maybe you want your son or daughter to be immortalized forever, just like the professionals. Photoshop can help. This video tutorial will show you how to create a sports card in Photoshop. This applies not only to baseball, but also hockey, football, soccer, basketball, etc., etc. This makes a great gift for any sports collector! Now you just have to find that...

How To: Translate and analyze the Hindi song "Kal Ho Na Ho"

So we come now to learning Hindi through our first Bollywood song from the film "Kal Ho Na Ho" (title song), starring Shahrukh Khan, Preity Zinta and Saif Ali Khan. We have jumped to very advanced stuff, just to keep up the enthusiasm of my viewers, so I had to just hurry through everything in the 10-min. video. At first the devanagari writing and IPA pronunciation is given over the song itself, and later the song is analyzed. Its word-to-word gloss is given in English, followed by line-by-li...

How To: Convert AVCHD (MTS) files into HD MPEG 2 in Premiere

Just happen to have some video footage in AVCHD format? That would be "Advanced Video Coding High Definition"—you know—HD video files. If you've got some of those MTS files (like from a Canon HG10 camcorder) you want to open in a program that doesn't support them, like QuickTime or Premiere Pro, then you're going to have to convert them to a different format. Here's a way to convert them without losing the quality. You'll be converting the MTS files into HD WMVs at 4,000 kbps with a program c...