How To: Use clipping masks to put images in text in Photoshop
In this tutorial we'll look at how to add an image to a block of text using a clipping mask in Photoshop.
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How To: Defend with your back against the wall with Jiu Jitsu
Learn some Jiu Jitsu self defense for situations where you find your back against a wall - a simple option of rotating yourself off the wall that uses trapping,leverage, and blocking principles.
How To: Practice bursting in Krav Maga
The History Channel features great fighting tutorials on their show Human Weapon. Here they go into the ancient Israeli art of Krav Maga. Bursting will counter a surprise attacker by hurling your power into their core and blocking their weapon from striking you.
How To: Block & Report Spam Texts in Android Messages
Android Messages, formally named simply "Messages" now, has built-in spam protection. This doesn't get every spam SMS message, however — in fact, you can still get unwanted texts multiple times daily even with the feature enabled. Thankfully, you can manually block numbers, too.
How To: Security-Oriented C Tutorial 0x04 - Control Structures Part I: If Statements
Welcome back to another C tutorial, this post covering the first part of control structures, if statements. Let's get right into it.
How To: Make a Quarter Scream and Shiver
This science experiment deals with sublimation of dry ice into carbon dioxide (CO2) gas. In the video, I'll demonstrate how pushing a quarter into a block of dry ice makes the quarter scream and shake vigorously.
How To: Why Walk When You've Got Pistons? How to Make a Minecraft Travelator
A travelator, also known as a moving walkway or moving sidewalk, seems like a tricky thing to build in Minecraft, especially when it's zigzagging, but there are really simple autowalks out there (like this one).
News: We're Making a Cake-Powered Autowalk in This Saturday's Minecraft Workshop
Okay, it's not actually cake-powered, but it does use cake! Owing to the fact that cake and trapdoors are less than half a block tall, we can use fenceposts (which are a block and a half tall) attached to pistons to push people along, because the tops of the fenceposts will invisibly pop up through cake and trapdoors.
How To: Build a Deadly (But Practical) Minecraft Machine Gun
Have you ever felt like you wanted to totally annihilate someone in Minecraft with a machine gun? Yeah, me, too. Thankfully, you can!
How To: 3 Ways to Lengthen Redstone Pulse Signals with a Simple Pulse Sustainer
We've already done a tutorial explaining why buttons are superior to levers, but now I want to show you a way to make them even more useful than they already are. You can't get this sort of functionality with levers!
How To: Perform a curved in corner kick goal in Fifa 12
This is kind of a hard trick to pull off, but if you're playing a soccer match in Fifa 12 and want to try something risky, go for a curved in corner kick goal. With any luck, the goalie won't be able to block it and you'll score!
How To: Craft nether stairs and nether fences in Minecraft 1.9
If you're looking for awesome ways to use the nether blocks that have been introduced in Minecraft 1.9, take a look at this guide that features the recipes you'll need to have in order to craft nether fences and nether stairs. This video is from the Minecraft 1.9 pre-release but should work in the release as well.
How To: Build an automatic wheat harvester in Minecraft
Make farming wheat a breeze with an automatic wheat harvester in your Minecraft world. Follow this design and you'll be up to your block head (no offense) in bread. Set up this automatic wheat harvester in your Minecraft world and let it do the work for you.
How To: Use redstone dust for power in Minecraft
Redstone dust is one of the many tools available to the Minecraft player. Learn where to put redstone dust to get the most out of it by watching this how to video. Redstone dust is used to power devices and blocks and can be used with buttons, levers, and pressure plates.
How To: Find the Romulus Lair in The Sixth Day in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
The trick to getting a 100% on this level is to not lose more than a single block of health while doing it. Since there are no enemies in this level, it all comes down to making sure you don't fall!
How To: Use Cheat Engine to duplicate items in Minecraft
This only works on single player games. You can use the free program Cheat Engine to hack into Minecraft and use it to duplicate items in your inventory. Get as many diamonds, obsidian blocks or gold ingots as you want!
How To: Build a basic cannon out of stone, water and redstone in Minecraft
This is a basic instruction video on how cannons work within Minecraft. You're shown how to build one using stone, water and redstone. After you've tested your circuitry, load it up with a few blocks of TNT and then start firing away!
How To: Quickly disarm TNT before it goes off when playing Minecraft
So you've discovered that you've accidentally put a block of TNT in the wrong place. Oh, no! This tutorial shows you how to quickly and easily disarm it before it goes off. Be careful not to build circuits near water, they might wash away.
How To: Construct clocks and delayed circuits in Minecraft
Delays can be used to create cannon timers, and clocks will let you create counters and other devices. This tutorial shows you how build both of them out of redstone. You'll also need quite a few stone blocks and some torches.
How To: Create a random pulse machine using stone and redstone in Minecraft
This is a really fun tutorial you can use to build a machine that will generate random pulses for you. All you need is an assortment of stone blocks, a piece of flat gorund and quite a lot of redstone for the circuitry.
How To: Repair and clean a Nikon Coolpix S200 with a blocked lens
If you like to use your Nikon Coolpix S200 outdoors or in dirty places, you may have encountered this problem. If dirt, sand, or other particles get in your lens they can prevent it from opening, and thus prevent you from taking pictures. Watch this video for a guide to cleaning the lens and repairing the problem.
How To: Change Mario's speed and make him walljump for a Super Mario World TAS
If you're going to make a really fast TAS keeping your character moving as fast as possible is crucial. This video features two Super Mario World TAS tips: how to use ZNES9 to set Mario's running speed as a high constant, and how to do walljumps impossible in the standard game.
How To: Create an effective launchpad in the game Minecraft
This build will let you blow up 28 blocks of TNT at once, which can help you in your Minecraft rocket program. You'll need at least some stone, and a shovel to hollow out where you want to build your launch pad.
How To: Make a Thanksgiving Bread Basket That Looks Like a Turkey
Serve your rolls and bread sticks in style! Take a basket and turn it into a Thanksgiving-themed breadbasket. You will need a basket, a glue gun, googly eyes, food safe skewers, a wooden spoon, scissors, colored construction paper and a block of florist foam.
How To: Play roller derby for beginners
Roller derby is a sport (kind of) that involves two teams skating rounds around an oval track and trying to get ahead of one another. The fun, of course, is that there are "blockers" who try to prevent the "jammers," or scoring players, from getting ahead.
How To: Get through Toy Tracks in Treat Land on Kirby's Epic Yarn
Toy Tracks is the first level in Tread Land on Kirby's Epic Yarn, and as you might guess, is played like a toy store. Keep your eyes open for blocks and platforms that you can step on, and use the toys to get through to the end of the level!
How To: Use a proxy to get on MySpace when at school
Circumvent your school's Internet filter with a proxy. This hacker's how-to will show you how it's done. For all of the details, and to get started learning how to acess MySpace and other blocked sites like YouTube and Facebook when on a computer at your own school, take a look.
How To: Use a proxy to access websites blocked in your part of the world
Can't get Hulu or BBC video where you live? A proxy may help. Setting up a proxy is an easy process and this video presents a complete guide. For more information, including a full demonstration and detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this helpful home-computing how-to.
How To: Unblock a website at school or work with Ultrasurf
In this clip, you'll learn how to circumvent Internet filters with Ultrasurf. For more information, including a complete demonstration, and detailed, step-by-step instructions, as well as to get started using this trick to access blocked websites at your own school or workplace, take a look.
How To: Build miniature LEGO instruments (guitar, bass, cello and microphone)
If your LEGO men are raring to get a rock band going, then who are you to stop them? With a few LEGO blocks, you can easily create some nifty instruments for them to start jamming with. In this video, watch and learn the steps to creating a guitar, bass and cello out of LEGOs. Also, after the credits, check out the cool LEGO microphone!
How To: Stop another user from sending you invites on Facebook
Want to stop another user from sending you invites or just block them altogether? This clip will show you how it's done. Whether you're completely new to the Facebook's popular social networking site or simply require a small amount of clarification on how to perform a particular task on Facebook, you're sure to benefit from this helpful video guide. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Find the equation for a growth pattern
From Ramanujan to calculus co-creator Gottfried Leibniz, many of the world's best and brightest mathematical minds have belonged to autodidacts. And, thanks to the Internet, it's easier than ever to follow in their footsteps (or just finish your homework or study for that next big test). With this installment from Internet pedagogical superstar Salman Khan's series of free math tutorials, you'll learn how to find an equation that describse the growth pattern of a sequence of blocks.
How To: Catch the ball as a soccer goalie
Catching the ball is one of the most important functions of the soccer goalie. They are the only player on the field allowed to do so, and when they do so they not only block the shot they caught, but keep possession of the ball for their team, changing the flow of the game. Use the tips in this video to catch the ball more effectively and improve your goaltending.
How To: Make a cube puzzle out of wooden blocks
If you like to work with wood and want to make a fun and challenging project, you can make a cube puzzle. A good tip to keep in mind is that your saw blades are sharp, aligned, and adjusted properly and cutting as straight as possible to get the tightest fit when you are putting your puzzle together.
How To: Lay a wooden floor at home
Want to lay a hardwood floor yourself? It's easy. Provided, that is, you have all of the following materials: wood panels (preferably with built-in foam underlay), plastic sheeting, duct tape, tapping blocks, a hammer, a crowbar, a straight edge, a miter square, a pencil, string line, some spacers, and a saw. For complete instructions on putting it all together and installing your own custom wooden floor using panels, watch this free DIY guide.
How To: Use command prompt and cmd commands
Command prompt and other commands can save you lots of time on your computer. Use these shortcuts to bypass longer keystrokes and access blocked sites. There are many things you can do with cmd prompts and this tutorial will tell you about all of them. Learn step by step how to use and take advantage of these commands in the following video.
How To: Build a LEGO fence
With this tinkerer's tutorial, you'll learn how to assemble a fence from plastic LEGO toy blocks, a design certain to compliment most any LEGO house. For a detailed walkthrough of the assembly process, watch this free video guide.
How To: Build a LEGO house frame
This tinkerer's tutorial will walk you through the process of assembling a house frame from plastic toy LEGO blocks, a necessary component of any LEGO house. For detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video how-to.
How To: Set up port triggering on a Linksys wireless router
Before you can use Xbox Live 360, you'll have to allow your console to use certain ports that, by default, it may be blocked from using. One way to open up those ports is with port triggering. This helpful home networking how-to will walk you through the process of getting triggering set up in your own wireless router.
How To: Create an image out of text in Photoshop
Photoshop Universe presents a step-by-step tutorial on how to mask images over text. First and foremost you'll need to have a poem or some other block of text in mind to use. Once you've selected your text you'll use methods such as copying and pasting, using clipping masks, and mild typeface editing. By the end of this tutorial you will have the abilities you need in Photoshop to make your very own text based image!