Killzone 2 is the latest iteration of one of the Playstation 3's only reputable exclusive series. It's a great shooter, and has many guns that are well-balanced and each offer distinct advantages. If you want to master the game, you'd better know how to use each one properly. This video will teach you everything you need to know about the Helghast StA-14 rifle, a semi-automatic but powerful rifle for medium-range combat.
Most people refer to "long press" as "touch and hold", but no matter which way you say it, it's an awesome feature for Android cell phones. Long pressing lets you get more information, download photos from the web, edit pictures and more! Watch as Google teaches you about long pressing, a nifty feature that reveals additional functionality on your Android-powered phone.
Polish those not-so-pearly whites with Adobe Photoshop CS5's Dodge & Sponge tools. This clip will teach you what you need to know. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular raster graphics editing software or a seasoned professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the program and its various features and filters, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video guide.
This video is a 2-for-1 special. It will teach you how to make not one, but TWO cool props for a film or costume. They are, in no particular order, a gas mask / ventilator and a laser pistol. Both look very cool, require some materials and carpentry skills, and are sure to make your next sci-fi film much more realistic and enjoyable to watch.
If you and your friends love to solve different kinds of Rubik's cubes, and you want to play a prank on one or more of those friends, this video will show you how. It will teach you how to take apart a 4x4 Rubik's Cube with a core and put it back together without the core, so that when one of your friends tries to take it apart it will crumble in their hands.
Object-oriented programming (OOP)is a school of programming that considers a computer program a group of interacting objects rather than a sequence of tasks. This makes more sense to many people than the more more old-fashioned vector model, and if you want to get started in programming, then this video is for you. It will teach you all of the basics of OOP and tell you why you should use it.
The slide effect is a popular feature of many websites that allows information to cascade out from an item on a page and the rest of the page to adjust accordingly. This effect is created using the SlideToggle() function in jQuery, the popular Javascript library. This video will teach you how to use it to make your website much easier for your users to access.
Isn't it amazing how quickly children can learn how to use technology that seems completely incomprehensible to older people? Nowhere is that more evident than in this video. It features a 12-year-old prodigy explaining the ins and outs of using jQuery, the popular Javascript library, in web development. At over an hour in length, this video goes into great detail and should teach you everything you need to get up and running in jQuery.
Photoshop allows users to create all sorts of cool text effects, some of the most popular of which involve creating firey or icey text for titles. This video focuses on the latter, teaching you how to combine several effects in Photoshop to create really cool letters that look like blocks of ice. Give you titles some flair! But don't get flares anywhere near them...
Life on the frontier was hard, and it still is in the Zynga Facebook game FrontierVille. If your homestead has been attacked by foxes or wolves, this video will teach you how to beat them, clobbering their little furry butts clear of your homestead for good!
If you've watched our video on solving a Domino Rubik's Cube, you know that asymmetrical Rubik's "Cubes" exist and are readily solvable. If you haven't, go watch that video and come back, because this one is going to teach you how to solve the mother of the domino cube, the 3x3x4 MEGADOMINO (not it's real name). It takes a while and requires some pretty sophisticated Rubik's skills, but if normal Rubik's Cubes are too easy for you go buy one of these!
XML video players are the most efficient and accessible type of video player that you can put on your website from both a user and a web designer standpoint. This video will teach you how to create one and put it on your website using Flash CS4 and Actionscript 3. After your do this, you will have saved yourself many future headaches by making it easier to modify and add videos in your player.
The 3D page flip is one of the coolest and most underutilized effects that you can put on your website using Flash CS4. You may also know it from the iPod interface. This video will teach you how to create the effect yourself with Flash and Actionscript 3, giving your websites greatly increased accessibility and flair.
The evil monkey from my closet is back!
If you use Photoshop for work or regularly for fun, there are repetitive tasks that have probably made you want to throw your fancy monitor out the window to vent your boredom. Fortunately, there's help. This video will teach you how to create actions for batch processing in Photoshop CS4, allowing you to automate processes that you repeat regularly and saving you time and the money you would have spent on a new monitor.
Flash and Actionscript can be used together to create damn near any sort of animation or website feature that you could want. This video will teach you how to do just one thing: generate a random frame using Flash CS4 and Actionscript 3. This is handy if you want to create a button that will link to several different objects randomly. Fun if you want to add the zest of unpredictability to your user's website experience.
Most of you viewers out there who are familiar with Flash, After Effects, or other creative software know what a tween is. But can you write the code for them? This video will teach you how to code different classes of tweens using Actionscript 3 in Flash CS4.
If you find yourself viewing a lot of Flash content, you've probably seen a moving object or cursor that has a ghostly likeness trailing behind it. Have you ever wanted to create that effect yourself? Now you can, quickly and easily. This video will teach you how to create a ghost effect without having to create a bunch of separate movie files.
Custom classes are powerful tools in Flash CS4 that enable you to reuse sections of Actionscript 3 code more easily, greatly smoothing the software development process. This video will teach you how to create, integrate, and use custom classes in Flash CS4. Don't waste your coding time repeating yourself, watch this video.
Flash Actionscript 3 is a wonderfully powerful, but somewhat obtuse, tool for creating websites. This video will teach you how to use one particular function in the language, creating a class that has multiple key detection enabled. This will allow you to create a website where users can key in multiple inputs and the website will respond appropriately.
CCTV's (closed-circuit televisions) are more common than ever before, and have become more and more popular to depict in films and in video games like Manhunt. This video will teach you how to create a CCTV monitor effect akin to what a security guard would see on their camera monitor using After Effects. This will work great for any horror movie that you might be shooting, the effect is very creepy.
Slideshow is such a dirty word. Most people immediately think of boring family reunions or 1980's corporate meetings when they hear it. That's probably why web designers prefer using the term image gallery to refer to their slideshow-like works. This video will teach you how to make an automatic image gallery using Flash CS4, which is a slideshow where the images advance automatically on a timer.
If you use Facebook regularly and don't play Mafia Wars or Farmville, chances are you wish that they would just go away. Make it so! This short video will teach you stop notifications from these annoying programs from showing up in your Facebook stream, simplifying your life and keeping these scammy games out of your face.
Sweet potatoes are served by the ton on Thanksgiving, but these juicy and candied root vegetables are just as enjoyable the rest of the year with the right recipe.
Creating really cool titles for you web video is a great way to make your video look professional and make sure viewers watch the whole thing once they're clicked on your video. This tutorial will teach you the basics of making easy titles using Adobe Premiere Pro. Apply these techniques and watch you view count rise.
For those who aren't familiar with them, knurls (can also be a verb: knurling) are the textured parts on the end of screws and other metal pieces that make them easier to grab. This video will teach you how to use Maya to create 3D models of knurls. You probably won't need too many knurls in your 3D art, unless you work in industry, but the lessons learned here can be applied to all sorts of other 3D modeling projects.
The bishop is widely regarded as the most powerful of chess pieces. This video by Andrew Klein will teach you how to make a 3D model of one using Maya. It is meant to help beginners learning the basics of Maya, and focuses on the use of NURBS as part of a 3D model.
It's barbecue season, guys and gals, and that means breaking out your gnarliest BBQ recipes for a summer of grillin' and chillin'. If you're looking for a profession-grade BBQ recipe, try this oven BBQ ribs recipe by Chef Emeril Lagasse and his son, E.J.
What do you get when you combine a New England grandmother, a Dutch Country grandmother, and a Southern mother? For cook Chris Schlesinger, you get a cornbread stuffing that's savory, succulent, and choc-ful of tangy spices.
Head wounds are among the very worse types of wound, and as a results are very fun and popular subjects for representation in film. This video will teach you how to create an open gash wound on the head of your actor without taking a bottle to it. The wound looks very real, make sure you don't let your actor get near a hospital!
In this video, John Lithgow and Isadora Duncan will teach you how to make an easy, homemade hula skirt and dance the hula - no matter how cold it is outside! Turn your living room into sunny Hawaii even in the coldest months with this fun kid's craft project!
Coach pitch is an important part of any child's progression up the baseball and softball ladder. After tee ball, the next step for most young players is participating in a league where the coach pitches to them. This video teaches youth baseball and softball coaches how to pitch to their young players properly to maximize their learning, improve their baseball skills, and foster their love of the game.
The nose, the prow of the face, is the part of the human body that the most people seem to dislike about themselves. Especially if their noses are big. This video tutorial teaches you how to touch up a nose in Adobe Photoshop CS4, specifically by using the liquefy tool to make a model's nose smaller. If you can't afford plastic surgery, now you can look like you got it in your pictures.
Are you piano neophyte frustrated with your scale drills and constant replay of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"? Learn how to play the blues - no joke - by watching this video.
This left-handed crochet tutorial teaches you how to complete a Catherine wheel stitch, which consists of a row of vibrant pinwheels surrounded by an undulating, wavy edge.
There is perhaps no better a Christmas novelty (and spur-of-the-moment purchase at drugstores during the holidays) than Christmas baby booties. Bright and cuddly, they're both comfy and stylish, and keep little toes warm during Christmas celebrations.
This makeup look is perfect for anybody wanting to wear blue jeans and a tee shirt and still look glamorous. If this sounds like the look you want, check out this video tutorial which will teach you how to apply this vintage rose makeup look. It shouldn't take too long to apply, but it fits perfectly with your relaxed look.
If you have a circular or semicircular protractor like the one used in this video, making a pie chart is as easy as – well — pie. This will teach you how to use your protractor to measure out each individual slice in your pie chart. Learn how to visualize statistical data through hand-drawn pie charts with this free video math lesson.
If you believe there is a person out there who is threatening your life or has even made a threat against you already, you might want to file a restraining order against that person. This video will teach you the criteria you need for a restraining order and how to go about getting one.
Dark circles are a pain, they show lack of sleep or a night of crying all over your face the next morning. In this video, learn about undereye bags and just what causes them. Dr. Goldfaden will also teach you how to prevent and remedy those pesky circles. Check out this tutorial and look freshfaced and ready to conquer the world everyday.
