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How To: Cut floor joists to length quickly and accurately

Fine Homebuilding with Jim Anderson demonstrates how to cut floor joists to length. Inspect the rim line to know where to set the joists. Set the joists to the layout on the rim line using a two man team. Tap a nail into the joist to keep it from moving around. Instead of standing the joists up to square them, cut them on both ends. Line the chalk line up with the rim line and snap the line across the joists to mark them. This will simultaneously measure and square them. Finally, line the joi...

How To: Take rapid pictures w/o using a shutter on an iPhone

This is an Electronics video tutorial where you will learn how to take rapid pictures without using a shutter on an iPhone. You can take motion pictures by this method. You will need the Easy Camera application for this. This is a very simple application to use. Just load the application and touch anywhere on the screen to take pictures. You won’t see any click or blink, but it will take pictures. And it will be in your pictures folder. You can then view your pictures frame by frame. You can ...

How To: Disable uac in Windows 7 or Vista

This video shows the viewer how to disable User Account Control within either Windows 7 or Windows Vista. This is done by clicking on the start menu and then type ‘Microsoft config’ into the search box. This opens the ‘system configuration’ menu. Select the ‘tools’ section. For Windows Vista there is simply an option to disable User Account Control. For Windows 7 click on the ‘change UAC settings’ option before clicking launch. In Windows 7 the slider should be dragged to the bottom. Both met...

How To: Ink a comic book page traditionally & digitally

This video by Architectus777 teaches us how to ink comic book pages. Inking is simply another term for outlining or black lining. This first step is to find an image in black in white. Following this, you may edit the image to be as light or dark as you wish. Afterwards, the shading is left up to your discretion. Moving on, Architectus777 shows other methods of inking, including using various other programs outside of Adobe Photoshop. We are then actually shown the inking process, in which Ar...

How To: Do a line drawing of Saunta Claus

This video shows the viewer an easy way to draw Father Christmas or Santa Claus. The drawing demonstrated is a line drawing but could easily be colored in. The method shows starts by drawing a bulbous nose connected to the eyes. The moustache and the eyelids are then followed by the beard and ears. The hat and eyebrows finish off the top of the face. The mouth is simple and smiling. The body is relatively crude and the legs are very small in comparison to the head. The overall effect is very ...

How to Find the COD4: Modern Warfare 2 javelin glitch

WhatEverHD shows how to shoot your javelin using a turret in modern warfare 2. This is made possible by using a glitch in the system that allows you to use the turret as a mechanism of projecting your javelin. You can walk up to the turret, zoom in and do what is instructed in the video to throw the javelin. The video states that the only advantage of this method over the normal javelin shooting is that you have a turret to use it on and thus the javelin travels a longer distance. You need to...

How To: Fold an origami paper flag

The man describes and demonstrates how to create a paper flag using basic paper folding methods. You need an oblong piece of paper. Then fold the paper in half the long way and crease it down the middle. Then fold it the same way in half again and recrease then open the paper back up one time. Fold a corner into the middle and then crease it on both sides and unfold it. The you need to open up a flap and let it fold into a point and crease it. At the end of the tutorial you need to open it up...

How To: Prepare your face for a barbershop shave

Find out how to give yourself the perfect beard treatment as common misconceptions are unveiled. This video will not only show you how to execute the simple processes of shaving correctly, but also tell us what not to do, and why the barbers we have been going to have not strictly been doing their job right! For a good shave the hot towel should be applied before the lather is applied to the beard. This makes for a smoother and more effective shave, not to mention a more comfortable one. This...

How To: Make a lemon semifreddo

With this simple recipe you will be enjoying a great dessert in no time. This recipe is for lemon semifreddo and to begin you want to crack 4 large eggs into a mixing bowl. Next, you want to add 1/2 of sugar plus another tbsp or two and whip up the mixture until it's light and fluffy. Next, you want to zest 2 large lemons and mix the zest into the mixture. Now, take half a lemon and squeeze the juice out into the bowl, making sure to avoid getting seeds inside it. Next, take 2 1/4 cups of hea...

How To: Manage garden insects & pests in an eco-friendly way

In this Home and Garden video tutorial you will learn how to manage garden insects and pests in an eco-friendly way. For plant lice or aphids, blast them with a strong blast of water. That will dislodge them and they won’t climb back. You can also put some soap water in a yellow jar, they will get attracted to it, drown and die. Lady bugs are good insects that will eat the aphids. For mosquitoes, put the mosquito larva killing flakes into the water and that will take care of the mosquitoes. F...

How To: Make a polymer clay candy cane for a dollhouse

This video shows the method to make a clay candy cane. We require two colors of clay and a knife to cut it. Take some red polymer clay and some white polymer clay. Warm the clay and make tiny snakes out of it. Take a red clay and a white clay snake and put them together. Start twisting them around. Roll it with your palms to make it even. Warm it up occasionally with your hands to prevent it from breaking. Keep twisting and rolling till you get a thin candy cane. Cut a suitable length with th...

How To: Factor trinomials

In this video, the instructor shows how to factor trinomials. An equation is a trinomial if it has three terms. If you factor a trinomial, you are left with two binomials which are the factors of the original trinomial. Multiplying them would result in the original trinomial. Now factor the last numerical term such that the sum or difference of those factors gives you the numerical coefficient of the middle term. Now split the middle term according to the factors obtained in the previous term...

How To: Sync double system sound on Sony Vegas

This video shows the method to sync sound using Sony Vegas. This is important in case of double system sound when audio is recorded separate from the picture. The first step involves opening up the poorer source of audio like the audio from the built in microphone in the laptop. Now open the good quality audio like the one from a camcorder just below the first one. Align the two audio using a reference mark. In the given video, it is the clapping of hands recorded on both audio. So, the spike...

How To: Split tone in Lightroom

This video shows the method to split tone in Lightroom. Firstly, go to the 'Grayscale' button to change the photo into black & white. Go to the split toning section and change the tint into the color you want using the 'hue' option. You can also use the 'Highlights' option to select the color and see the preview. Bring the saturation down to get the right color. Repeat the same procedure with the shadows. Choose the right tint for shadows. Hold the 'Alt' key down to see the effect of change i...

How To: Make a simple photo montage with Sony Vegas

This video shows the method to create a photo montage in Sony Vegas. Go to 'Options' menu & Preferences. Go to the 'Editing' tab & 'New still image length (seconds)' and put the corresponding value and hit 'OK'. Open the pictures from explorer and you have a montage in which pictures last for a few seconds when another one comes up. Go to 'Tools' menu and 'Scripting' option. Click on 'ApplyTransition_1_2'. Choose 'Standard Cross Fade' from the drop down menu. Fill in 'Overlap Frames' which te...

How To: Make blue slime out of cornflour

This video loosely explains the method of how to make a blue colored slime from corn flour, blue food coloring, and a quantity of water which is undetermined. Quantities of ingredients to be added for this project vary and can be made up as the person goes along in combining the ingredients to produce the desired results. Ideally, the product should be of a slime like consistency, or can be described as 'gooey' in appearance. The resulting slime product should be easily stirred when it is sti...

How To: Play the "Star Spangled Banner" on electric guitar

In this video we are about to see how to play the "Star Spangled Banner" on electric guitar. This is a basic lesson to all the beginners in guitar. It starts with the E string. It travels from tabs 10-7-3 to start off with the anthem and returns back. Now to the next string below E. Go through 9-7-5 tabs and return back via 7-9-10 of the E string. Even though there are various ways of play the star spangled banner this method is easy to learn for the new users. Then play it once more with a 4...

How To: Play the major chords on your piano

This video shows the method to play the major chords on your piano. A chord is made when we play at least three notes at the same time. The video shows the playing of major chords. It starts with playing of C major chord. We play it by pressing C with your thumb, E with your middle finger and G with your last finger. F major cord is played by pressing F-A-C with alternate starting with the thumb. In the similar way G major chord is played . The keys pressed are G-B-D.

How To: Install bifold closet doors

This video shows the method to install bifold closet doors. The doors are of two sizes. They include a thirty inch and a twenty four inch door. The video first demonstrates the installation of the thirty inch door. This is then repeated for the other door. The middle line of the upper part is drawn over the opening. The middle line is extrapolated to the sides to put the bottom support. The tracks are installed on the top. The floor bracket is fitted at the bottom. The top glides are installe...

How To: Use a jerky gun to make beef jerky

This video demonstrates a simple method of how to make beef jerky at home. First, combine lean ground beef, seasoning, and a packet of cure is combined in mixing bowl until evenly mixed. The beef mixture is then tightly compacted into a jerky gun. Once the beef mixture is filled to the top and the cap of the gun is inserted, the trigger is pressed on the gun to release the jerky mixture on the dehydrator tray. Once the dehydrator tray is full, it is turned on and the beef is dried until it re...

How To: Shave when you're starting out

This is a very quick and simple tutorial on how to shave using a disposable razor bought from a store. You have to begin by taking whatever kind of shaving cream you have and applying it to the area you want to shave. In this video tutorial, it will be applied to the lower face for a clean and neat shave. When applying the shaving cream make sure to rub it in completely and make it a nice thick lather and then turn on the hot water on your sink. Run the blade under hot water until the blade i...

How To: Make a shredded paper flower

This video shows the method to make a shredded paper flower. Take a butterfly paper from April bad girls kit and cut it into eight and a half by eleven. Put this paper into paper shredder and cut it into strips. Take a handful of strips and cut them into half. Repeat this until you get enough pieces to make the flower. Take the paper strips cut into half and put them together around the center. Staple them at the center so that you get a bunch of strips. Repeat this for two more bunches. Stic...

How To: Perform a hang-clean to build your traps and shoulders

In this video, Darin L. Steen teaches how to perform the hang-clean exercise, which is a weightlifting technique that is good for working out the shoulders. Learn how to correctly perform this movement so that you can practice it yourself at home. You will also learn tips such as common mistakes, and things to watch out for, so that you can perform this exercise safely and effectively. This video follows Steen's methods of "muscle confusion"; that is variations to keep workouts unique, causin...

How To: Solve quadratic equations by factoring

This is a great educational video on how to solve quadratic equations by factoring. Let us take an example and try to learn the method. Here is a quadratic equation: (r+7) (r-9) = 0. Consider zero-factor property. For real a and b, if a.b = 0, then a = 0 or b = 0 or both are equal to zero. So r+7 = 0 or r-9 = 0 > r = -7 or r = 9. Hence, r = -7, 9. Similarly to solve a quadratic equation (13r+7) (6r-18) = 0, we will get 13r = -7 or r = -7 over 13. Also 6r = 18 or r = 3. So r= -7over 13, 3. Thi...

How To: Multiply binomials with the FOIL method

Multiplying polynomials is a distributive property. If you are given with two binomials and asked to multiply them, you need to apply the distributive property and multiply the terms of binomial with the terms of second binomial. To do this first take a term of first binomial and multiply it with the second complete binomial. Now take the second term of first binomial and multiply it with the second binomial adding or subtracting it from the previous result depending on the sign between the f...

How To: Simplify complex fraction w/ single fraction on bottom

This is a great instructional video on education. This educational video teaches you how to simplify a complex fraction with a single fraction on bottom. Let us learn this with an example. Let us assume we have to simplify the complex fraction 5 by x-4 divided by 5-4x by 5. When you simplify this you will get 5-4x over x divided by 5-4x over 5. You will now get 5-4x over x multiplied by 5 over 5-4x. This is equal to 5 over x. This is how we have to simplify a complex fraction with a single fr...

How To: Recover deleted files in Ubuntu using Testdisk

This video shows the method to recover deleted files in Ubuntu using Testdisk. The demonstration is done by deleting a set of pictures and recovering them later. The test disk is installed at first. Then we click on the terminal icon and go to the list options available. These include selecting the list of drives available, partition table type and the type of file system in the original photos. Then the system asks you to select the part to be analyze and destination folder. The tool then re...

How To: Easily perform the levitation trick

This video shows the method to easily perform the levitation trick. In the trick, the person is seen levitating above the ground when viewed from the side. The trick behind this is that you are wearing only one shoe. The other shoe is kept between the feet. The second leg is kept on the ground. Here we use the toe of the foot to create the levitation effect. The foot with the shoe is slowly moved up. Simultaneously, the other foot is moved up squeezing the shoe which is not worn. The other sh...

How To: Understand the basics of trigonometry

Learn and understand the basics of Trigonometry in this entertaining video. Taught by an experienced YayMath instructor, viewers gain knowledge in the study of trigonometry: the relationship of angles and the triangles they are in. Trigonometry is relevant in many forms of everyday living and careers including architecture. Watch as the experienced instructor gives easy-to-follow instructions and examples including solving "x for y" equations using the 'SOHCAHTOA' method, an abbreviation for ...

How To: Graph linear functions by finding X & Y Intercept

This video shows the method to graph a linear function by finding the X and Y intercept. Only two points are needed to graph linear functions. So we find the point on Y axis or the Y intercept and the point on the X axis or the X intercept. We notice that on the Y axis the X coordinate is zero. So, we find the Y intercept by putting x=0 in the given equation and solving for y. In the same way, we find the X intercept by putting y=0 in the given equation and solve for x. We join the two points...

How To: Play the keyboard on Reason like Brazilian Girls

In this six minute tutorial the host and keyboard player for the band "Brazilian Girls," Didi Gutman, shows viewers how to play the keyboard in the song titled "Reason." Throughout the video, Didi Gutman shows various methods and techniques that are used for the style of keyboard that he plays. Filmed in Gutman's place of residence in Brooklyn, New York, Gutman also talks briefly about how the band got started and how he first got involved with playing the keyboard. The video also shows him r...

How To: Mount an ISO file with PowerISO

This video shows the method to mount an ISO file with PowerISO. The first step involves the opening of the Internet browser and Google. Type 'poweriso' in it and press 'search'. Click on the download link in the first search result and download PowerISO. This can be done by clicking on the 'download site 2' and clicking on 'Run' in the resultant window. Install the PowerISO and open it. Click on 'Mount'. Select 'Set Number of Drives' and choose one. Select the drive and select the ISO file yo...

How To: Draw Homer Simpson from Simpsons

This silent video demonstrates visually how to draw a Homer Simpson character beginning with a series of simplistic shapes and lines. The artist begins by drawing two very basic circles for the eyes, then adds a curving line beneath to create the nose. The artist continues building on the image using the basic line and shape technique to create the full face image of the infamous cartoon character, and then, as a finishing touch, adds the collar of Homer Simpson's work shirt. This video provi...

How To: Get a barbershop shave on your own

This video explains how to get a barbershop shave on your own, using an easy method without causing skin to harden, smoothening the hair and skin, providing a deeper shave. Then, "Back shave" can also be done and that too in different directions. Cream will allow hair to come out smoothly. Now, take the razor and slice the hair down, if skin is not smooth, go back and slice the hair down again and clean it by applying water in dry areas or places where not shaved otherwise it will cause skin ...

How To: Study chords & practice playing harmonized scales

This is a video guitar lesson brought to you by andrewwasson.com, and is Part 1 in the series "Harmonized Moveable Chord Shapes". This video lesson covers how to study chords on the guitar neck, and how to practice playing harmonized scales using both triad and seventh chord qualities. The idea taught here works well, because the harmonized major scale gives you most of the popular chords in today's music. These include: the Major Triad & Major Seventh, the Minor Triad & Minor Seventh, the Di...

How To: Cook collard greens quickly

In this video, Kemp Minifie, Executive Food Editor from Gourmet Magazine, explains a quick and easy way to cook collard greens. Southern style cooked greens are cooked for a long time. She is demonstrating the Brazilian method of cooking collard greens. She cuts the stem the long way down the middle and removes it. She stacks up the halves of the leaves and rolls them up starting from the short end, then slices them into long thin shreds. They shrink when they're cooked. She heats the pan ove...

How To: Cook quinoa like rice

Carolyn Hemming, author of Quinoa 365 The Everyday Superfood, demonstrates how to cook quinoa like rice. Quinoa is highly nutritious with eight amino acids, protein, vitamins, minerals and is a complex carbohydrate. Quinoa is simple to cook and cooks similar to rice. Use two cups of water for every one cup of quinoa. The quinoa will triple in size. To cook the quinoa grains, first, wash the quinoa in a strainer to remove the remaining bitter flavor. You can cook and steam quinoa or use a cook...

How To: Work with 3D in After Effects

This video shows the way to work with 3D in After Effects. The video basically teaches three things. Firstly, it teaches the way to change the anchor point of the image. This is done by pressing the PAN Behind Tool icon. This changes the anchor point to the desired location. Secondly, the method to change the view is taught. This is done by clicking on the camera tools and selecting the XY Camera Tool or Z Camera Tool. This changes the view of the given image. Thirdly, the video teaches to ha...

How To: Quickly prepare a butternut squash

This video shows the method to quickly prepare butternut squash. Butternut squash has a tough skin which makes it difficult to peel. This has more difficulty while negotiating the curved part. First, the neck is cut off and divided into sections. After this, the skin is cut out with a knife. The sections are cut into smaller pieces and put into a food processor to further minimize the size. This is done so that it cooks in no time. Then, put the pieces into the sauce pan. Two cups of water an...