How To: Record videos with CamStudio
Record videos of computer actions using CamStudio--a free, open-source screen recording utility similar to Camtasia.
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How To: Make a Hovercraft Powered by an Electric Leaf Blower
Stan Taylor and his physics class at Miles Community College built a hovercraft powered by an average electric leaf blower! Watch it in action below.
How To: Make green colored fire flame special effects
You've seen them at Disneyland's Fantasia. And in big budget movies like "Waterworld" and "Lord of the Rings." Spectacular, glowing fire effects that seem to ripple with the wind are a staple of action movies, and though it may seem like you need a super good video editing team to create such light shows, all you really need is some household chemicals.
How To: Spin cotton candy in a bottle cap
This confectionery hacking how-to video demonstrates that, with an electric motor, juice lids, battery and sugar, you can make your own cotton candy machine. Don't wait for a carnival or fair to get your next taste of sweet, sweet cotton candy. Watch this video tutorial to see this hack in action and to learn how to build your own bottle-cap candy floss machine.
How To: Play Hoity Toity
Board game enthusiast Scott Nicholson reviews a new game each week showing you the pieces and rules of play, as well and demonstrating the game with friends. This weeks game, Adel Verpflichtet or Hoity Toity, is about choosing actions and collecting artwork; and is a very involved game overall.
How To: Customize Your AirPods' Double-Tap or Long-Press Gestures to Make Them More Useful
AirPods are not only a great way to listen to audio on your iPhone, but they're also a great way to activate Siri and control your music using simple gestures. If the default actions aren't quite what you're looking for, you can easily change them, and each AirPod can perform a different action.
How To: Rearrange & Remove Apps from Your iPhone's Home Screen in iOS 13
Whether you're used to 3D Touch or Haptic Touch, deleting and rearranging apps and folders on your iPhone is a little bit different in iOS 13.
How To: Open Links in Chrome Instead of Safari on Your iPhone Using the Shortcuts App
When you tap on a URL link in a text, email, or wherever, your iPhone's default reaction will be to open it up in Safari, and there's no way to change this in the settings. However, there is a way you can work around this to open up links in Chrome instead. Even if you accidentally open a link in Safari, there's a quick way to jump the tab right into Chrome.
How To: Get the Galaxy S9's Landscape Home Screen on Any Android Phone
Samsung's Galaxy S9 was recently announced with features like AR Emoji and Dual Aperture, but great functionality lives underneath them — such as the ability to have your home screen auto-rotate to landscape mode. It's a nice feature, but with a little work, you can already do this on any Android phone.
Action Launcher 101: How to Set Up Covers & Shutters to Get Gesture-Based Widgets & Folders
Most Android launchers limit you to three choices: Icons, widgets, and folders. It's better than nothing, but it's still pretty hard to find the best look without overcrowding your home screen. You could fill everything up with icons, but then you'd have an iPhone. You could toss everything into folders, but that would always require an extra tap. You could mix in some widgets, but that would take up valuable space. So what do you do? Action Launcher has the answer.
Action Launcher 101: How to Set Up Quickpage for an Easy-Access Home Screen
When customizing your Android home screen, it's always a challenge to balance aesthetics with functionality. Do you crowd your home screen with icons and widgets so they are easier to reach, or do you spread the icons over many home screens? Each option has its downsides, and with most launchers, these are your only choices — but with Action Launcher, there's another way.
How To: You Can Finally Access Extra Control Center Features Without 3D Touch in iOS 11
3D Touch is only available on the 6s and 7 series iPhones right now, and likely future models, so those with older devices are missing out on all the cool "Quick Actions" available for app and settings icons. But the new iOS 11 is finally bringing some of those helpful shortcuts to iPhones without 3D Touch built in.
How To: Make Google Now Obey Custom Voice Commands—Even Without Root
It seems like custom Google Now commands are a dime a dozen these days. With Commandr for Google Now giving non-rooted users their first taste of custom voice commands just a couple weeks ago, you may wonder why we're covering this subject again.
How To: Get Instant Access to Apps & Widgets in Just a Swipe on Your Nexus 5
One thing almost every Android launcher has in common, from stocks to skins, is the way they handle organizing and launching apps and widgets. Tap an app icon to open the app. Drag apps together to create a folder. It's simple, it works, and it's what we know.
How To: Automate Simple Tasks on Your Samsung Galaxy S3 Without Using Tasker
Automation applications bring the future a little closer. If you've seen Minority Report or other futuristic sci-fi movies, the intrigue of having your electronics work independently is something we can all appreciate.
How To: Replace Your Samsung Galaxy S4's Home Button with Customizable Swipe Gestures
Like the buttons on your computer's mouse and keyboard, the Home key on your Samsung Galaxy S4 serves a vital function in navigating through your device. It can get pressed dozens of times a day, going through hours of use and abuse.
How To: The Fastest Way to Choose Which App Launches Links & Files: Remove the "Just Once" Prompt on Your Galaxy Note 2
There's two things I'm always looking for in my Samsung Galaxy Note 2. Efficiency and quickness. So, like any other softModder, I tend to download a bunch of apps and tweaks that help speed up my device's overall performance. In doing so, I often come across the "Complete action using" popup, which is oddly enough, one of the most inefficient features ever. You'll see this popup whenever you click on something that can be opened with more than one option. If you click on a link in Google sear...
How To: Build a destructible wall special effect on a budget for your next film
Indy Mogul's Backyard FX series has another great video for making high quality props and special effects. In this installment, you'll learn how to make a destructible wall, perfect for the big action sequence in your next low budget film project.
How To: Create a flashing lightning effect in Apple iMovie
If you're a fan of "Avatar" - the animated Nickelodeon series, not the M. Night Shayamalan epic fail of the movie - or any sort of supernatural action series, then you've probably witnessed the awesome flash of lightning effect before. Whether emanating from the hands of a superhero - or supervillain - or shooting out of a mutant's eyes, the lightning effect is super cool and also super doable at home using Apple iMovie.
How To: Improve your fighting skills in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Assassin's Creed is back and you're going to want to brush up on the new fighting abilities with this little walkthrough. Improve your killing skills with new weapons and actions to make sure you're still king of the heap. Yo!
How To: Use alternative animation techniques such as greenscreen and light painting
Add a little animation to your live action shots! This tutorial shows you a few alternative techniques, such as adding in backgrounds using a greenscreen or incorporating light painting into your film. Make sure you shoot at the highest megapixel setting possible.
How To: Harden Alistair's personality in Dragon Age: Origins
A hardened Alistair makes it easier for you to achieve your goals - whether it's making him king, having him marry Anora or marrying him yourself. He also disapproves less of certain actions. Here's the right dialogue options to pick when you're meeting Goldanna.
How To: Use Fruity Loops 9 to create custom button sounds in Flash
Stop using the same button sounds everyone else uses! Create your own custom button sounds with Fruity Loops Studio 9, then incorporate them into your Flash buttons using Action Script 3 and Adobe Flash CS3 (or any other version of Creative Studios).
How To: Add background music to your website using Adobe Flash CS4
Add a background .mp3 file to play music when visitors come to your website. You can also build buttons to allow users to pause, mute or play the file while they're on your website. This tutorial shows you how to build this system using Action Script 3 and Adobe Flash CS4.
How To: Add a Data Grid component to your Flash-built project
A Data Grid lets you organize information on your website or other Flash project. Create lists or schedules, like concert dates, by using the Data Grid component included in Adobe Flash CS4, and then modify it using Action Script 3.
How To: Create a Facebook application using Flash and ActionScript
Facebook has provided developers with a whole library of code usable for creating applications. This tutorial shows you how to get the code, and then how to use it so you can start developing your own Facebook apps using Adobe Flash and Action Script
How To: Add a guestbook feature to your website using Flash
Allow visitors to your website to leave comments and feedback on your website with Flash and Action Script 3. This tutorial walks you through the process, also using PHP and MySQL, to create your guestbook and then add it to your website.
How To: Create a CSS Style Sheet and import it into Flash using Action Script 3
A style sheet can ensure a uniform appearance for your website, as it gives you the ability to standardize font appearance, layout and spellings of unusual words on your website. This tutorial shows you how to create a style sheet and then import it into the Adobe Flash CS5 program using ActionScript 3.
How To: Create a circular dynamic preloader for your Flash based website
If you don't want to use a preloader bar, you can use the circular animation instead. This tutorial shows you how to code a circular preloader and have the animation go either clockwise or counterclockwise using a mid-level masking technique in Action Script 3.0.
How To: Code keyboard input into your Flash games using Action Script 3.0
Aimed at Flash developers who like making games or other applications, this tutorial shows you how to use keyboard mapping so users can control the game using specific keys. This is also useful for photo galleries or slide shows, so users can navigate using their keyboard.
How To: Load an external image into your Flash CS4 animations
This tutorial shows you how to import an external image into your Adobe Flash CS4 animation project using Action Script. Choose any image you like and incorporate it into your current project using the steps outlined in this tutorial.
How To: Script a randomized fireworks effect in Fireworks using Action Script
This is a custom particle effect, coded using ActionScript 3, that will recreate the effect of a rocket and fireworks explosion. The effect is also randomized, so you'll never get the same animation twice. This tutorial shows you how to code this effect using Fireworks.
How To: Walkthrough the Overlord DLC mission pack in Mass Effect 2 for Xbox 360
This walkthrough guide will cover the complete Overload DLC mission pack for the Mass Effect 2 action role-playing game on the Xbox 360. Overload became available for download in June 2010 on Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA), and features four different missions. Watch this series for all the gameplay action from Mahalo.
How To: Manage content when teaching a course online with Blackboard 9.1
In this clip, you'll learn how to log into a Blackboard course and upload files, edit and manage files. Whether you're new to Blackboard's popular content management system or CMS or are a seasoned web instructor just looking to better acquaint yourself with the features and functions of versions 9 and 9.1, you're sure to be well served by this free video software lesson.
How To: Make and paint your own MSIA Gundam figures
In this clip, learn how to put together popular Japanese actions figures, Gundams. This video will show you how to unbox, assemble and paint your warriors so that they look their best! Good luck!
How To: Sketch poses of the human body on the computer
Drawing the human body making dynamic poses is a massive challenge for most artists. This video demonstrates how to sketch some different poses in the Photoshop with a tablet pen. They obviously need to be elaborated to be called final art works, but these sketches teach you how to capture the basic forms that are really the trickiest part of capturing ourselves in action.
How to Walkthrough Bayonetta: Ch. 13 - The Cardinal Virtue...
Your job is to defeat Sapientia in this fight on the Xbox 360 game Bayonetta. In Chapter 13 - The Cardinal Virtue of Prudence, attack the red sphere over Sapientia's head. This fight starts with Bayonetta on the ocean, on a surfboard-like object. Sapientia will use two attacks. The first attack starts with his fin sticking out of the water, like a shark. He will then jump into the air and dive at you. Just keep moving in a straight line to avoid this attack. For the second attack the camera w...
How to Walkthrough Bayonetta: Ch. 9 - Paradiso-Remembrance...
Ten verses are in this level of the Xbox 360 game Bayonetta. In Chapter 9 - Paradiso - A Remembrance of Time, get ready to fight Golem. From the floating clock face you can jump to the yellow floating disk. Follow the path of floating objects to the floating courtyard garden.
How to Walkthrough Bayonetta: Ch. 7 - The Cardinal Virtue...
Battle Temperantia is this episode of the Xbox 360 game Bayonetta. In Chapter 7 - The Cardinal Virtue of Temperance, prepare for a fight. This chapter consists of a boss fight. You'll start on a platform. Temperantia will punch the platform with his fists and they will stick in the platform. Attack the lighted area of his wrist. While you are attacking he will shoot at you with his other hand. He slowing sweeps his guns, so you can attack until his bullets get close to you, then jump as his l...
How to Walkthrough Bayonetta: Ch. 6 - The Gates of Paradise
You'll need to complete 9 verses in this section of the Xbox 360 game Bayonetta. In Chapter 6 - The Gates of Paradise, there are plenty of battles to be had. As soon as you start this level, look behind you and you'll find a headstone with one-third of a Golden LP (Odette) inside. Also is this starting area is a book, "Entering Vigrid." Break down the gate here to start your first fight. After the fight you'll get the final thrird of a Golden LP (Odette) and a book, "The Angel's Banquet Hall ...