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How To: Discover Nearby Concerts and Music Venues with Apple Maps and Apple Music on Your iPhone

Whether you're staying in your hometown for the weekend or traveling to a nearby or faraway city, live music is always a great option for entertainment — but finding decent music or a good music venue isn't always easy. With new features added to two of its core apps, your iPhone just made it easier to do both.

How To: Add Variety to Your Favorite Pandora Stations

Whether you're out for a drive, commuting to work, or just taking a stroll, listening to your favorite tracks on Pandora takes the legwork out of choosing which songs to play next. After a while, however, you go-to playlist can get repetitive, as the same songs from the same artists seem to play over and over. Luckily, Pandora makes it easy to add variety to your stations in just a few taps.

News: This Group Is Backing Up SoundCloud Content in Case It Shuts Down

After laying off 40% of its staff this month to cut costs, SoundCloud appears to be struggling to stay afloat. While blog posts from the company have assured fans that the music platform is not in danger of shutting down, some people aren't so sure this is the truth. Internet Archive — a non-profit dedicated to preserving websites and services — announced today that they will be conducting a partial backup of SoundCloud to safeguard the site's content in case of closure.

How To: Sync a BlackBerry with a Mac and iTunes

In this video from AppleGenius0921 we learn how to sync a Blackberry with a Mac and iTunes. There is now Blackberry software for Mac. After downloading, start up the application. Take your USB cable and connect it from your Blackberry to your Mac. You can see all the applications on your Blackberry listed on your Mac. Here you can also check for updates and see your available memory. Also you can backup all of your data here. This will make a copy of everything on your Blackberry and put it o...

How To: "Un-manicure" your fingernails (zombie effect) for Halloween or horror movies

This Halloween, forget store-bought prosthetics and expensive makeup artists. If you're looking for that creepy undead look, nasty nails are easily made at home. This video will show you how to make some horrific and ghastly fingernails for your zombie, vampire or other creature costume. The key to these Halloween nails are clear plastic report / presentation covers that you can get from any office supply store.

How To: Sample drum beats in FL Studio 9

Sampling, beat making, whatever you wanna call it, its been done for years since the beginning of Hip Hop and Rap back in the 80's. Artists like Tupac, Biggie, Mos Def, and others defined the times of their generations rapping over beats. If you're interested in making your own and are looking at how to do so in FL Studio look no further. In this great two-part video tutorial you'll learn how to sample beats straight from the tracks that you want to sample from, either from vinyl or MP3.

How To: Draw a large room with sectioned off spaces

When vanishing point perspective was first discovered in the early Renaissance, artists were astounded by how the draftsman tool was able to transform a flat, 2D space (that until then always looked like a flat, 2D space without perspective) into a believable 3D image. We've been using vanishing point perspective ever since, and architects would die without it.

How To: Draw a tribal heart tattoo with markers

Tattooing is not a job for the weak, but it does take precision and a delicate touch. But you don't have to pierce skin with needles to enjoy the art of tattoos. Anybody with a few pencils and markers can design their own tattoo creations, but to help get you started, try out this tribal heart tattoo sketch. Watch the video to see the whole process of daring a tribe-style heart, and follow along to create your own. Perfect for beginning artists.

How To: Draw a snowman's face

Michael Weisner shows aspiring artists how to draw a snowman's face on a piece of paper using any writing utensil. In order to save time, Michael has drawn a rough outline sketch in pencil to give an idea of what the finished product should look like. However, it is not necessary to do this and by following the directions, one should be able to sufficiently draw a the snowman. First, begin by drawing a circle for the head and then two large circles for the coal eyes, adding detail to show tha...

How To: Make 3D materials and textures in Blender

Designing 3D graphics is one of the most challenging and lucrative fields of computer design. This video for beginning 3D graphics artists features a tutorial on how to make materials and textures in Blender, one popular 3D modeling software suite. Making this pair of pants will have you well on your way to making more elaborate images.

How To: Draw a fantasy world

Drawing fantasy worlds is a very enjoyable activity for many artists because of the freedom that comes with not having to draw naturally occurring things while still remaining within the confines of realistic depiction. This three-part video demonstrates the drawing of a fantasy scene featuring a castle on a lonely hilltop with some very ominous Misty-Mountains-like mountains in the background. It is rendered entirely in pencil, but still conveys the sense of loneliness that most castles of t...

How To: Draw any cartoon character

In this video, Merill Kazanjian explains a new effective strategy for drawing cartoons for new artists who wish to draw what they see. For this, we need a highlighter, pencil and a paper. Use the highlighter to make a silhouette of the character. Now draw the outlines of the character correctly over the mass drawing.You will get a perfect cartoon image by doing so. If you are new to drawing, it is recommended that you draw the mass drawing somewhat the same size of the image. It takes about t...

How To: Draw the graffiti alphabet

To some, graffiti is an art form that can only be expressed on the streets to share with everyone around there. To others, it's nothing more than a stupid way to deface property and cause the city to spend thousands of dollars to clean up. Either way, it take a certain skill set to come up with some great looking graffiti. This tutorial will give those aspiring taggers or artists an idea of how to draw the alphabet graffiti style. Enjoy!

How To: Use layers in Photoshop like a pro

Layers are very important component of Photoshop. Without knowing how to use the layers correctly, one can not utilize the maximum what Photoshop offers to designers and digital artists. For a beginner, this video provides a good basic knowledge about Photoshop layers. Layers enable you to arrange different parts of a picture and manipulate them without effecting the content of other layers. Layers are added by using layers panel. Each layer is named accordingly. We can change the order of la...

How To: Draw tonally

Mark McDonnell with The Art and Feel of Making It Real and Cre8tiveMarks demonstrates how to draw tonal sketches. Costume gesture drawing is a popular technique for artists in the animation and entertainment industries. Use a drawing pencil and a piece of drawing paper to do quick outline sketches of a subject. After the outline is created, fill in the detail and shading with the pencil. Fill in other parts of the drawing as necessary. Use other sketches for reference points on your drawing. ...

How To: Draw a house cat

The video shows how artists enlarge and copy from photographs. First grid lines are drawn on the reference photo. Then grid lines are drawn on the paper with enlarged or reduced grids. Now draw the lines from the reference photo to the drawing paper one square at a time. Now complete the outlines from the reference photo. Erase all the grids and you have only the outlines. Add details and area of tone. Darken the dark areas and you have a replica of the reference photograph. The same techniqu...

How To: Draw a great looking flower

This is a simple video of a person drawing a flower with a mechanical pencil on a piece of plain white paper. If you follow along with the video and copy each shape as the artist makes them you will get a similar result and hopefully a picture of a flower that looks the same as the artists. The final product looks like a rose. A beginners video to art, all the viewer needs to is watch, copy and listen to the soothing music that is playing in the background.

How To: Easily draw flowers step by step

This video demonstrates the process of drawing flowers. The camera is over the artists shoulder shooting down at a sketch pad the artist is drawing flowers on. There is no audio or sound in this video so you must simply watch the artist draw. She is using a pencil and draw a larger flowering plant in great detail. The camera zooms out and we see that the artist is actually sketching the flower that is directly in front of her. When she is finished she zooms in on the actual flower and the mov...

How To: Mix colors for oil & acrylic paints

This video was very informative and well planned. However, the video does become boring after the first two minutes. It will become easier for an individual to comprehend with this video if perhaps there are better examples that artists can relate too. Perhaps if the demonstrations would relate to more of a younger audience, more people will be able to be more interested to mix oil and acrylic paints. The video can also be much more interesting if there was also some quiet and peaceful backgr...

How To: Play music on your iPhone or iTouch

This short video demonstrates how you can play music on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Open the music bar on your phone. It is usually in the bottom left corner of the screen. The list of songs available appears on the screen. Scroll through it to select a song. If you flip the mobile phone in a horizontal position icons of the song albums can be seen and you can select a song from there. You can also select the option of albums or artists, depending on how you prefer to find the song you wish to...

How To: Draw 3D graffiti

Graffiti is a nuissance but it can also be an awesome form of true art. In this tutorial, learn how to draw 3D graffiti as demonstrated in Photoshop CS2. 3D graffiti gives your tag a very cool effect, making it appear to be popping out of the wall it is sprayed on and standing out from any other artwork nearby. Even though it looks advanced, creating 3D graffiti is actually quite easy to do. Try this style out and impress your fellow artists and passerbys alike.

How To: Draw an anime or manga female in motion

This video goes back to basics, using regular pencil, pen and colored pencils to create a manga female figure. He begins by drawing basic lines and shapes of the torso with pencil, then adding legs, arms and marking the joints. He adds detail to the body and fills in the shapes of the muscles. He then adds the head shape and fills in the facial details and hair before adding detail to the hands and fingers. He continues with the clothing, before going over all the lines with a black ink pen. ...

How To: Create an environmental sketch in Photoshop

Mastering Adobe Photoshop is quiet challenging and artists can find the transition from brush and canvas frustrating. Learning how to transition your artistic skills to the electronic arena can really offer a vast array of opportunities. Follow our artist as he takes us through the steps of creating a mountain landscape using the common tools in Photoshop. You will be amazed as our expert Photoshop artist creates an attractive mountain landscape in less than ten minutes, taking the viewer thr...

How To: Set-up your makeup brush station

Are you a makeup artist with a messy makeup station? Many pro makeup artists are looking for the answer to the best set-up to achieve quick turn-over on brushes, specially when working with multiple clients or models. Koren from EnKoreMakeup shows us how he organizes his makeup brush station for hectic gigs with the mission to help!