How To: Adjust to daylight savings time and beat the winter blues
Daylight savings time is here. On November 7th, everyone and everything turned back the clocks to standard time, but how well you adjust to the new time is up to you—
Daylight savings time is here. On November 7th, everyone and everything turned back the clocks to standard time, but how well you adjust to the new time is up to you—
This video will show you how to create a 3D cartoon character using a website called Xtranormal. In the program, you should first pick the scene where you want your action to occur as well as the 3D character which you would like to be present in the scene. You can then type a script and choose a voice for the character to speak. The website will be able to read your script and your character will say whatever you have typed. Next, you can add additional sounds and add actions to the cartoons...
This video tutorial speaks about how to create a dramatic effect to an image using only Camera Raw in the Bridge program of Photoshop. In this example, the picture was first brought into the program and the fill light was turned upwards in order to lighten up the dark foreground. The white balance of the picture was changed to cloudy to add a nice effect and the color temperature was changed to make the picture appear warmer. The various parts of the picture can then be changed individually b...
This isn't your ordinary canoe. It might not be a canoe at all. But it's roughly shaped like one, only the ends have a small splash cover on the bow and stern decks not typically seen on canoes. But that's not the point, the point is you can recreate this cool paper boat with only one sheet of origami paper. If you know the name of this type of boat… speak up!
You don't need to spend mad amounts of money to carry a chic purse. While every gal covets her Dior satchel and Chanel quilted purse, toting around a bag you made yourself speaks volumnes about your ingenuity and individuality.
A guy learning to read girl talk is like learning Latin - only a select few (i.e. girls) know the grammar and rules, and everyone else just stares in confusion.
Have you ever wondered why your cat does wacky things like head butt you? Do you wish you and your cat could speak the same language? With input from an expert animal behaviorists, you can! In this video, Sara gives you the low down on why your cat is so aggressive, why he won't stop scratching your furniture, and how to interpret your cat's meows. Now you can finally understand what exactly is your cat is trying to tell you. Here you'll find a brief introduction to some common behaviors you ...
Learn a little bit of Spanish with Speakado. In this quick phrase lesson, you'll learn how to say "Miss Martinez" in Spanish. If you only speak English, maybe it's about time you learned Spanish, one of the most widely used languages in the world.
This week on Make Magazine is a project with parts from the Arduino Starter Kit. Skip over building the Proto Shield. Otherwise, it's a simple build that doesn't require any soldering. Arduino is a speaking control for robotics. It can be used in other Make kits or robotic projects. This is a circuit bending and circuit board project that involves basic circuitry and wiring.
Check out this instructional language video to learn how to speak Cherokee! In this lesson, learn how to sing the Cherokee hymn "How Great Thou Art." This Cherokee hymn is presented in the eastern dialect. This video is great for beginners who want to improve their Cherokee language skills. Practice your Cherokee by learning this hymn!
Check out this instructional language video to learn how to speak Cherokee! In this lesson, learn how to sing the Cherokee hymn "Come Thou Fount". This Cherokee hymn is presented in the eastern dialect. This video is great for beginners who want to improve their Cherokee language skills. Practice your Cherokee by learning this hymn!
Check out this instructional language video to learn how to speak Cherokee! In this lesson, practice your language skills by singing this Cherokee morning song. This song is sung using Eastern Cherokee dialect, the Kituwah dialect. Improve your Cherokee language skills by learning this song!
Check out this instructional language video to learn how to speak Cherokee! In this lesson, practice your language skills to sing this Cherokee hymn to the tune of "Amazing Grace." This song is sung using Eastern Cherokee dialect pronunciation. Improve your Cherokee language skills by learning this song!
Check out this language video to learn what some old school hip hop slang words really meant. Dr. Dre and Ed Lover let us know what some of these old school hip hop slang used in the Yo! days really meant. Slang terms have a way of coming back so brush up and learn how to speak some old school hip hop slang by watching this Yo! Slanguistics 101 video tutorial.
Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system, often raises eyebrows with a name that may not flow easily off the tongue. As a finlandsvenskar/suomenruotsalainen, or a Swedish-speaking Finn and as a sought-after international engineer, Linus is used to pronouncing his name in at least three different languages. Watch this video language tutorial and learn how to correctly say Linus Torvalds's name in his mother tongue of Swedish, his homeland's language of Finnish, and the internation...
Watch this music how-to video to learn how to make your own didgeridoo out of agave using the fire drilling method. This tutorial video on how to make a didgeridoo is not for beginners, as it involves chopping down the agave tree yourself and does not provide spoken instructions.
Contrary to some screenwriting gurus, voice-over can be a handy narrative device. By speaking directly to the audience, rather than dramatizing, voice-over cuts through the running time. It can also cut down on resources. Just don't overdo it. Over-baked voice-overs sidestep drama, and leave little to interpretation. Imagine if everything were explained to you secondhand, rather than witnessing it yourself.
Conjugate "venir" in the present tense for speaking French.
Conjugate "trouver" in the present tense for speaking in French.
If you ever wanted to learn Japanese? This video will show you basic greeting you will need to start speaking Japanese.
In this three part video language lesson, Jennifer goes over the passive voice: what the passive is, how it's formed, and why it's used in the English language. This is great for all levels of students learning English as a second language (ESL). Watch this video language tutorial and learn how to use the passive voice while speaking or writing English.
In this episode you will learn how to pronounce questions correctly in the English language. This video is great for advanced, intermediate, and beginner learning to speak the English as a second language (ESL).
This episode goes over how to introduce yourself in the English language. This video is great for advanced, intermediate, and beginner learning to speak the English as a second language (ESL).
This episode helps you learn to speak Tagalog. "Happy Birthday" in Tagalog is "Maligayang bati sa iyong kaarawan."
If you need to go to the hospital or need medical attention, watch this video to learn how to communicate in Mandarin Chinese.
Learn how to use a mic to best do a talk over or speak over music during your DJ set.
Benny teaches you some greetings and phrases used in public speaking in Mandarin Chinese.
Benny teaches you how to speak to a taxi or cab driver in Mandarin Chinese including how to give directions.
Learn Greek numbers using both visuals and audio examples of written and numerically expressed numbers.
Is the emoji you're using really the one you think it is? While you can use any emoji that looks like it fits what you have to say, it may have been created for a different purpose. On an iPhone, it's easy to find that purpose by retrieving the actual name of the emoji in Apple's operating system.
While North has yet to add third-party app support to its Focals smartglasses, the company has been diligent as of late in its efforts to add more functionality to the bare-bones AR device.
While Jack Daniel's is one of the most iconic brands in the liquor business, when it comes to augmented reality marketing, it's joining a long list of others telling a very familiar story in the growing marketing medium.
While many analysts predict that the market for augmented and virtual reality will continue to grow over the next five years, now is the time for investors to get in on the ground floor.
Welcome to the maiden voyage of our new Market Reality column. Each Friday, NextReality will give you a roundup of news briefs from the financial end of the augmented and mixed reality industry. We'll cover funding news, market analysis, and more.
The title pretty much speaks for it's self, basically you'll be putting a smoke bomb inside a candle. Obviously you'll be modifying the candle's appearance but make sure you do at good job at disguising the smoke bomb. Next time someone tries to light the candle, they'll be in for a huge surprise. Check out the instructional video for a full demo.
Netflix releases monthly reports on major ISPs relating to how well their service works on each provider. The purpose is to educate the public on their choice of service provider, but since many of us hardly have any choice at all when is comes to an ISP, it backhandedly works to shame them (if they're even capable of feeling shame under all those millions of dollars).
Give your ghoulish guests on Halloween a realistic spooky display of a head speaking inside a magic crystal ball. To make this even creepier, the talking head is the ghostly Madame Leota from Walt Disney's Haunted Mansion. To recreate this Halloween decor, you'll need a flatscreen TV, glass bowl, DVD player, a DVD of Leota's incantation, fake snakes, and some fabric.
This is a video interview how the movie star C. Hemsworth was able to gain a dramatic muscle gain for the movie Thor. just in case you did not see the movie, the actor speaks about his character in the movie and how muscular he needed to be so he can play his role in the movie.
How to mix joint compound: Uncle Knackers demonstrates the perfect way to mix plaster / cornice cement / joint compound for plasterboard / drywall without making a great big mess and along the way creating a beautiful creamy mix. Speaking of creamy, he also shares with us one of his award winning recipes.