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How To: Build the rugby scrum front row
This is a rugby tackle tutorial from RugbyDevelopment.com Learn the building of the front row using a walk around bind for stability. Get on your toes so that you are almost falling over. The balance position happens right before you engage.
How To: Build the rugby scrum from the second row
This is a rugby tackle tutorial from RugbyDevelopment.com This is how to build the second row onto the front row using a walk around bind for stability through the rows. Get into the bind before the guy in front of you crouches.
How To: Use controls in Little Big Planet for PS3
Get moving! Learn how to walk, run and jump your way through LittleBigPlanet. LittleBigPlanet exclusively for the PLAYSTATION 3. It lets you PLAY alone, or with friends, in a world of infinite possibilities. Run, jump, grab and swing your way thru imaginative levels and mini-games. If you're feeling creative, you can CREATE your own levels, enemies, obstacles and even storyline. Once done, SHARE them with our online community of thousands of User Generated Levels from around the world for
How To: Use your stickers in Little Big Planet for PS3
Stick it to them! Learn how to resize, rotate, and stamp your sticker collection in LittleBigPlanet.
How To: Custom with SackFashion in Little Big Planet for PS3
Get some clothes on! Dress up or Dress down, learn how to express your own SackFashion for Little Big Planet on PS3.
How To: Solo over chord changes on electric guitar
To play a guitar riff is to do more than simply to memorize a short musical phrase. Guitar riffs are like any other musical exercise; practicing them can be a terrific means of building manual dexterity and improving your overall playing technique. We can say of riffs, then, that they are not so much about rote repetition as making available to the guitarist new and different ways of playing. Every new riff you learn will make you a more able and versatile guitarist and better equip you to st...
How To: Model with primitives in 3DS Max for Papervision3D
This software tutorial demonstrates how to build with primitives in 3DS Max for Papervision3D. This first part demonstrates 3D Studio Max basics and how to build a column base using primitives. This second part demonstrates how to use the Shift clone tool.
How To: Build a cheap perpetual energy generator (FAUX-TO)
F for FAKE. This video has been labeled a "Faux-To". Commonly contested as bogus science, we believe this video to be a hoax. What's your opinion? Comment below.
How To: Build a mousebot robot from make magazine
Herbie the Mousebot is a very quick, easy-to-build, light-chasing robot kit, perfect for beginners. This little robot is so quick, you have to run to keep up with him! This is from make magazine.
How To: Workout with a cable tricep press downs drop set
Learn how to do a cable triceps press down drop set. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life.
How To: Build a beam bot twin motor robot base
This robot is BEAM bot inspired. First we build up the Motor Drive, an excellent and cheap Robot Bot-Base. We start with the Tamiya kit, get it going, then strap on a battery and a drag wheel, center the drag wheel. Tape it all in place with bright yellow tape and make a BEAM Bot with batteries. Plans for this BEAM framework are to add smarts.
How To: Build a melon and pumpkin farm in Minecraft 1.8
Food is a huge part of Minecraft, specifically the delicious melons and pumpkins that are growable in the game. Take a look at this video guide to learn how to maximize your melon and pumpkin farming techniques in Minecraft 1.8.
How To: Play Singed as an AP tank in League of Legends
In this Champion Spotlight from Riot Games, Phreak builds Singed as an AP caster with a rod of ages, sunfire cape, and other tank and caster items. If you want to know how to play Singed, the Mad Chemist as your champion in League of Legends, take a look at this guide!
How To: Hang and attach vines and plants to blocks in Minecraft 1.8
Create a beautiful house or building and cover it in long vines or plants after watching this guide on how to attah and grow hanging vines off of blocks in Minecraft 1.8. Soon your Minecraft world will have that beautiful garden you've always wanted.
How To: Play Riven, The Exile in League of Legends
Riven is quite a fighter with her giant shattered sword. If you're trying to figure out how to build Riven's runes, masteries, or items, take a look at this Champion spotlight by Riot Games.
How To: Print from your Motorola Droid Bionic using MotoPrint
Motorola's Droid Bionic has several Android apps built into the device that allow you to speed up your workflow. For example, with the MotoPrint app you can print from the Verizon Wireless smartphone to a printer. With it, you can print everything from photos, PDF's, documents, or emails directly from your Bionic.
How To: Complete the Lesser Evils side quest in Deus Ex: Human Revolution
The Lesser Evils side quest is accessible immediately after completing the factory hostage mission at the start of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. This Giant Bomb tutorial will take you through the mission, which involves breaking into an apartment building complex and hacking into a computer to uncover the location of a video.
How To: Use Netflix on the Nintendo 3DS to watch 3D movies and TV shows
If you want to watch all the different movies and TV episodes available to you through a Netflix subscription on the go, try installing the Netflix app for Nintendo's 3DS handheld. Even cooler, Netflix is releasing 3D movies and the device's built in capabilities will allow you to watch these 3D movies on your Nintendo 3DS! You'll need to have upgraded your 3DS software so that you can access the eShop before you can install the Netflix app.
How To: Play games on the Xperia Play smartphone using apps and the slide-out gamepad
The Xperia Play is a Sony Ericsson smartphone on Verizon built for gaming on the go. The mobile phone features a slide-out gamepad that you can use to navigate the web and play different gaming apps preloaded on the phone or downloadable from the Android market.
How To: Play the assassin champion Talon in League of Legends
League of Legends most fearsome assassin is Talon--the Shadow's Blade. If you want to learn how to build Talon, what runes and masteries to take on him, or how to lane with him correctly, look no further than this champion spotlight from Riot Games.
How To: Secretly record people with your own spy sunglasses
Hack a pair of sunglasses to secretly record audio and video and spend less than $40 in the process with this how-to video. To replicate this hack for yourself, you will need a spy camera and black solar shield sunglasses. For detailed, step-by-step instructions on building your own spy recorder sunglasses, watch this hacking how-to from Kip Kay of Make Magazine.
How To: Build a crowbar prop out of foam rubber
Trying to act out a fight scene with real weapons can be dangerous, so this foam rubber crowbar is the perfect prop for theatre or film. This Backyard FX segment by Indy Mogul will guide you through making your foam weapon. So grab some rubber latex, foam, and a few other tools and start constructing your crowbar.
How To: Craft half blocks (slabs) from sandstone, cobblestone, and wood in Minecraft
One of the many significant changes in Minecraft Beta 1.3 is the way half-blocks or slabs work. Before you could make stone slabs out of three pieces of stone and use them to builds stairs, but it took a lot of material and was limiting as far as choices. Now you can make slabs out of wood, cobblestone, sandstone, or normal stone, and this video will show you how it works.
How To: Find the RRoD easter egg in the XBox 360 version of Bulletstorm
THe RRoD (Red Ring of Death) was a nightmare for many early XBox 360 console owners, and became symbolic of Microsoft's unprecedented crappy console build quality. Bulletstorm acknowledges this in the XBox 360 version with this awesome easter egg near the beginning of the game. Looks like doors can overheat too!
How To: Get the Enforcer achievement / trophy easily in Bulletstorm
Bulletstorm is all about creative destruction, and the Enforcer achievement / trophy emphasizes that by requiring you to earn 15,000 points in one Echoes level for 20G. This video will show you how to get the points easily in the level from the demo, Collapsed Building.
How To: Use an operational amplifier to amplify voltage and build a microphone circuit
An amplifier is something that amplified the voltage on a circuit. The most basic kind is an operational amplifier, and this video will show you how these work and how to use them in your electronics. As an example you'll learn how to make a microphone circuit for spying on people or listening to your heartbeat.
How To: Make a basic GUI using the Unity3D game design engine
If you've already made a game using Unity3D and want to wrap it up with a nice GUI (or graphical user interface) (or menus) watch this video for a guide to making basic GUI elements using the built in ones in Unity3D.
How To: Make effective water trenches and canals in Minecraft
Minecraft agriculture has become the premier way to acquire massive amounts of resources from animals and enemies, and making really effective ones usually requires water trenches and canals. This video will teach you how to build perfect working trenches and canals for whatever task you need.
How To: Make a hidden arrow trap for Minecraft
Are you tired of monsters or unwanted other players coming down your tunnels full of precious Minecraft ore? Why not build a classic hidden arrow trap for them? This video will show you how to do so, and demonstrate it's brutal effectiveness.
How To: Make a good Yu-Gi-Oh! deck with a district champion player
If you're just getting started playing Yu-Gi-Oh! or are looking for some general tips to improve your deck construction skills, check out this video. It was made by a tourney-winning player, and will give you a lot of great tips on building good decks.
How To: Build a powerful Yu-Gi-Oh E-Hero (Elemental Hero) deck
This bloke has very strong opinions about the different types of Elemental Hero (e-hero) decks in Yu-Gi-Oh! the card game. In this video he breaks down why his e-hero deck and e-hero philosophy in general are superior to others and why Elemental Recharge is a crappy card.
How To: Play Elder Dragon Highlander (EDH), a Magic: The Gathering variant
Elder Dragon Highlander is one of the more imaginative and fun Magic: The Gathering variations, played with 100-card decks in which no card can be repeated and free Legend creatures for all players. This video will teach you how to play it, but not how to build a deck. You need to check out it's companion video for that.
How To: Build a Reaper King deck for Magic: The Gathering EDH
If you've haven't tried Elder Dragon Highlander, check it out. It's an awesome variation of Magic: The Gathering. This video will teach you how to make a powerful deck for it based around the Reaper King card and an army of scarecrows.
How To: Play the two-five-one jazz progression
If you can play bar chords, there's no reason you can't play a two-five-one jazz progression! This clear and helpful video shows you how to build on skills you already have, adds in some theory and has you ready to get jazzy!
How To: Reverse the G" lens on your camera for macro photography
If you want to engage in macro photography and can't afford a close-up lens, you may be in luck. By using a "G" lens (that is, a lens that does not have a built-in aperture ring) it is possible to reverse the lens and take close-up shots with your camera, without having to buy any additional equipment.
How To: Light a fire with a piece of quartz and steel
Come on baby light my fire! If you're going to be a survivalist, the first thing you'll need to know is how to start a fire. This simply video shows how to use a piece of quartz and a piece of steel to build yourself a fire and stay alive! In addition, the video shows how to pack it all together in a nifty little Altoids tin.
How To: Get video footage from a DSLR, steal documents via USB and much more
This half-hour episode of Hak5 covers several topics: Using a DSLR camera to create HD footage, building your own Google TV, unlocking & copying locked files with Lock Hunter, using PicPick for screen capture, using WinDirStat for analyzing & cleaning your hard drive, setting up a secure FTP server with Ubuntu Server, and secretly copying data from USB drives with USB Dumper.
How To: Make a 'Dizzy Robot' out of a battery, tin, and a pager motor
When you think of robots, you probably think of things that have more than three parts. Not this robot! If you want a robotics project to try that doesn't require an MIT degree, watch this video for instructions on how to build a 'Dizzy Robot' out of only some thin tin, a pager motor, a button cell battery, and this template.
How To: Connect different laser diodes to a power supply
Lasers are one of the coolest things that you can build yourself from a pure sci-fi fantasy standpoint. They're not easy though, but this video will help you somewhat by describing different types of laser diodes and how to connect them to a power supply.