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How To: Insert a picture or clip art in MS Word 2007

For inserting a picture, from the INSERT Tab click picture. Then the insert dialog box gets opened. From there you can locate the desired picture. Locate the picture to be inserted and double click it. We can also replace the picture selected. For replacing any one of the following can be done: Under PICTURE tools, on the FORMAT tab, in the ADJUST group, click Change picture OR right click the picture to be replaced and click CHANGE PICTURE. Locate a new picture, and double click it.

How To: Create a transform effect in Illustrator

This video takes us through the procedure of creating a transform effect in Illustrator. First, choose a rectangular box and fill color in it. Input some text inside the box. The font and the color of the text can also be changed. Then position the text properly. Make a group of the shape and text. Now go to effect and choose transform. Transform is a very powerful effect which lets us create duplicates. Now select the number of copies, for example, one copy. Select preview. Now set the point...

How To: Replace a wall switch with a dimmer

You can very easily replace your normal light switch on the wall with a dimmer switch. The first step is to turn the power off at the circuit breaker. To prevent anyone from accidentally turning the circuit on put a piece of tape over the fuse switch so that it is clear that it is to stay turned off. Remove the screws that hold the switch plate and use a tester to make sure that none of the wires are still live with electricity. Remove the two screws that are holding the switch itself in plac...

How To: Get a pin-up model or rockabilly hair style

Learn how to get a great rockabilly hairstyle. •First of all, curl up the hair using the le Angelique curls which are available in Pretty Choice and the link for which is available in the side bar. • And then use another curling iron which is also available in the same website and the information is also available in the side bar. •And then pin up the hair in such a way that it is closest to the forehead by finger styling just for the way it has to look. •And then she uses some bumble and bum...

How To: Build your K'NEX Shark Run Roller Coaster

K'NEX is one of the most popular construction toys on the market, right next to Lincoln Logs and LEGOs, but what makes K'NEX stand out is the fact that children can build mechanically derived toys. Instead of blocks or little logs, kids use interconnecting plastic rods and connectors, which give them tons of contraptions to build and play with. Today, K NEX has even more possibilities with wheels, pulleys, panels and flexi-rods to make amusement park roller coasters, airplanes, animals, bikes...

How To: Use Macromedia Flash Pro 8

If you want to use Macromedia Flash Pro 8 you should first open up the program. You should first take the brush tool and draw a stick figure person or an object so you can use the tool. Press F6 to add a few frames. You should also press the eraser and practice erasing. Erase an arm, press F6, draw in a waving arm and continue the process again. Now, watch this and press enter - your figure should wave. You can also pick up the entire figure and drag and move it so it moves when you watch it....

How To: Sharpen your images using Photoshop

Howard demonstrates how to control sharpening on your image in Photoshop. First, you want to copy your layer by dragging to down to the new layer icon at the bottom of the box. Next, go up to the menu bar at the top of the screen and click Filter, select Sharpen, and go to Unsharp Mask. A dialogue box will pop up so that you can adjust the how sharp your image is by using the sliders. Click OK when you are done. If you want adjust where you sharpen the picture go to the right side and click o...

How To: Make a real 3d text in Photoshop

This video shows how to make a real 3d text in Photoshop. First open up Photoshop. Create a new document File > new. Then select width then OK. Fill the background with black. Then go to the text tool and write whatever we want. Choose a font with fat letters. Right click on the text layer and go to "Blending options". Then edit the text in our way. We can create a Gradient Overlay, Contour, Stroke and Outer Glow. We can add any effect we want. Again right click on the text layer and click "R...

How To: Calculate the probability of two dependent events

This video explains how to solve the problem of probability dependent events. In this video the problem is that a box contains three pens, 2 markers, and 1 highlighter. The person selects one item at random and does not return it to the box. So what is the probability that the person selects 1 pen and 1 marker. That is 6 items total. First she count the all items that involved in this problem. Then count the individual probability of the pen and marker. The person selects 3 pens out of 6 item...

How To: Bypass WebSense at school and work

Isn't it annoying when you want to check your Facebook or MySpace but you are at school and hit a big giant Websense blocker? Well, if you are stuck in a library or somewhere else where there are filters on your surf-ability, check out this tutorial for a useful hack.

How To: Rip WAV audio files from your favorite YouTube videos

Dr.Quillo from Quillo video tutorial is explaining about downloading high quality wav sound files. According to him this is much more efficient, less time consuming and the result is of higher quality than using Audacity or winrec32. He asks us to use internet browser, preferably Firefox. He guides us through the process of downloading various tools like Mediacoder, virtualdub, fast video download through google or any search engine. Mediacoder is a freeway software device which converts .flv...

How To: Get and use Greasemonkey

Greasemonkey is a Firefox add-on which works as a script manager for the collection of scripts available on the userscripts.org website. It can be used to manipulate the view and functionality of websites which has a user script. Greasemonkey only works in Firefox and not on any other web browser.

How To: Make a dragon puppet out of recycled materials

This video is about how to make a puppet dragon out of household items. First, a piece of card stock paper is cut in half the long way. Next, you must take an empty 18-pack egg carton and cut off a strip of egg slots. Using a stapler, the two pieces of paper are connected long ways, with the egg strip stapled on top of it. This forms the body. To make the head, a small cardboard box is stapled to one end. A smaller cardboard box (about half the size of the one already used) is glued on top. F...

How To: Connect your bluetooth phone to your PC wirelessly

The video demonstrates how to connect your Bluetooth phone to your computer and send/receive files between them through Bluetooth. You need to first switch on Bluetooth in your phone and then click on the icon for Bluetooth connectivity in the computer. Then click on the option called 'Add a Bluetooth Device'. You can see a setup wizard pop up in your computer screen where you have click on the check box and then click on Next button. Once the phone is detected, select it and click on Next. T...

How To: Block recent activities on Facebook

This video is about how to block recent activities on Facebook. The first thing that you will have to do is to log in to your Facebook account. After logging in to your account, the next thing that you will have to do is to go to account settings and look for the "Ads and Pages". After you have found "Ads and Pages", click on the "Edit Settings" and go to the "Special Permissions" tab and uncheck "Publish recent activity" box then press "Okay" after wards. The next step is to look for "Events...

How To: Make a simple animation in Adobe Photoshop

Steps to make Sprite animation in Photoshop are:1. Open a spreadsheet of your own choice; in this case we are going to take running animation.2. Once your spreadsheet is loaded, zoom-in until you get a four page, for ease of use.3. Zoom-in to the required movement, after zoom, select the image and open File and from that click New File and click OK (Dialog Box), and you will get a work space to work on with your selected image. The feature makes it simple for one character animation (work).4....

How To: Embed a YouTube video in PowerPoint 2007

This video shows how to embed a YouTube video in a PowerPoint presentation in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. First you want to copy the URL of the YouTube video that you want to embed in your PowerPoint. Then, open PowerPoint 2007 and click the office button in the top left corner (circular button with office logo). Then click "PowerPoint options" and check "show developer tab in ribbon". Then click "OK". Click on the developer tab, and click on "more controls". Then scroll down to "Shockw...

How To: Make a catapult in Little Big Planet

This video is by chilled chaos demonstrates how to make a moving catapult in LittleBigPlanet. In materials first use the cardboard to draw and two legs at the bottom. Detach it from the ground. Take the rubber tool from the tool box and make two wheels. Take bolts and attach to wheels. Make the switches on it and set the right and left direction. Do the setting for the wheels. Make a basket and attach it with the previous structure that it can move up and down. Set the timings to set the spee...

How To: Make a simple port scanner in VB.Net

This is a Computers & Programming video tutorial where you will learn how to make a simple port scanner in VB.Net. It detects all the open ports on your network. Open up a Form1 and you will have a ListBox1, a ‘Start’ and a ‘Stop’ button and a blank text box. There is also a Timer1 button at the bottom. Thereafter, the video shows the various parts of the code on the screen. Then click on Debugging, and click ‘Start’. The system starts scanning ports starting with port 1. In the video it show...

How To: Download free mp3's to your PSP

In this tutorial, Zain will explain how to download free mp3's from your PSP to your PSP. All you need is a wireless connection, and a PSP. First, go to your internet browser. You can enter on Kohit for downloading free music. There you have search box where you can write the title of the song you want. Type it there and then click 'go'. A song list will appear on the web page. Click on the song you want to download. Now click on 'Download now'. Go to options and click on 'Save Link Target'. ...

How To: Set up a generator for a home or business

This video details how to set up a generator to provide back-up power for a home or business. Generators are the ideal emergency power solution for a home or business, generators can automatically transfer the power load from the utility power line to the generator when an outage occurs. To make sure the generator is always ready, generators can self run weekly and perform self diagnostics so maintenance issues are minimized or eliminated. When planning to use a portable generator, it should ...

How To: Create glass material in 3ds Max

Dave shows you how to produce a glass three different ways in 3ds Max in the video tutorial. Put two panels away, then concentrating on sensor one press m on the keyboard to bring up the materials editor. On the material editor go to the first sphere, choosing a slight blue color, bring up the specter level, bring up the glossy level, click on two sided and bring down the last two to about four. Look to see it is fairly transparent, in a test window. This is glass one, put on hide. Go to glas...

How To: Dodge and burn non-destructively in Photoshop

Yanik Chauvin demonstrates how to do Non Destructive Dodging (lighten) and burning (darken) of images using the tools in Photoshop. He shows the image of a man lying on earth with his camera. To start the work he wants to make a new layer which can be done in two ways either by clicking on the ‘layer’ button on top of menu or by pressing down the alt key and clicking on the new layer at button of the layer palette. It will bring up the dialogue box. He named it “dodge and burn” and from the l...

How To: Clean out old files in Windows XP

This is a step-by-step guide to cleaning out those old fires in your Windows XP computer. You want to start by clicking the "start" button and then clicking on "my computer". Once there, you are going to want to right click on the C-Drive to clean that one first and click on "properties". Once the box opens you want to click on "tools" on your tool bar and then click on the "defragment now" button. When the box opens click on the C-Drive and then click "Analyze" to

How To: Insert keywords and SEO with Fusion Essentials

This video describes how to insert keywords and SEO with the fusion essentials in the website. He asks you to first go to the site mode and then click on the home page and from there you can get in to the property box. There you can find three choices or tabs. He explains that the first one can be used to change the page name and page title and also can adjust the master border. The second tab is used to mention the page status, if it is done and can be displayed to the viewers or if it shoul...

How To: Create a data disc in Windows Vista

This video shows us how to burn files to a disc using Windows Vista. Insert the blank disc in your computer's recordable disk drive. Autoplay will automatically appear. Choose "Burn Files to disc using Windows". Click next when "Burn a disc" dialog box appears. Empty folder window appears. Choose files that you want to copy and drag them to the window. For example, if you want to copy a photo, click Start menu and open the Pictures folder. Select photos and drag them to the window. Photos are...

How To: Make an inflatable paper box

1: Place paper sideways. Place the paper on the flat surface with the long edges at the top and bottom. 2: Fold long edge to opposite edge and unfold. Fold one long edge to the opposite long edge, crease, then unfold. 3: Fold longs edge to center and unfold. Fold one long edge to meet the center crease you just made. Now do the same with the other long edge, so they both meet in the center. Unfold completely. 4: Fold short edge to opposite edge and unfold Rotate your paper and fold one short ...