How To: Evaluate successive percentage changes
The concept of percentages may be a bit difficult to grasp for some beginner level learners. This video attempts to explain the concept of percentages in an easy to understand way.
The concept of percentages may be a bit difficult to grasp for some beginner level learners. This video attempts to explain the concept of percentages in an easy to understand way.
In this video, we learn how to use the ring/silent switch on your iPhone. First, you will find the switch which is on the side of the phone. This will allow you to turn your notifications on or off. Simply flick the switch until you see an orange dot, which means it's off. If you wish to receive vibration alerts, you can tap on settings, then sounds, then you can turn the vibrate section as either off or on. This is important, because if vibrate is off and the silent mode is on, you won't rec...
In this video we learn how to make a phone call with the Nokia N97. First, go to the main screen on your phone, then tap the dialer icon. From here, you will see a keypad with numbers on it. Enter in the phone number that you want to call, then press on the call key. The phone will then start dialing the number you chose. To hang up, press the end key. You can also call out from the contacts menu, by simply selecting the person you want to call, then pressing the call icon on your phone and u...
In this video, we learn how to build your own stomp rocket out of household materials. Materials you will need are: plastic bottles, bicycle inner tube, 2 feet PVC pipe, duct tape, masking tape, and file folders or card stock. Now, take your PVC pipe and roll paper around it and tape it. Then, remove the paper from the pipe and tape it more so it's completely closed. Then, make your nose cone for the rocket. Place this and the wings onto the rocket in your choice of colors. Then, make the lau...
In this video, we learn how to add fractions together. First, try doing a simple equation like 1/2 + 1/2. From here, you will simply just add together across the board. Once you get the answer, it will be 2/4, but you must simplify this so it's lower. Check this and do the reverse to make sure it's correct. Do this for all of the fractions that come your way and you will be doing fractions more easily each time! Just make sure you simplify when you reach the end, or the answer will not be cor...
In this video, Linnea Rose teaches us how to paint in a Norwegian folk style called "rosemaling". With this, you will double load your brush and do the strokes in the correct way. To double load your brush, first dip one corner into a color, then dip another color into the other color. After this, stroke again in between the two colors. Next, go to your canvas and simply stroke a looped shake on the paper. Firmly press down with your brush and as your curve around you lift it up to the chisel...
Victory rolls are probably not very familiar to you, but they would have been had you lived about, oh, sixty years ago. Victory rolls, or tight, thick ringlets centered on the crown of the head and sometimes done up in a Bettie Page style bang, were the style du jour of the '40s and '50s.
In this tutorial, we learn how to open a variety of coconuts. These fruits can be extremely difficult to open up, but it can be done. First, you will need to have a very large and sharp knife and all of your types of coconuts. To open them up, you will need to first crack the skin of the coconut with the sharp knife. On other coconuts, you can simply use the knife to cut the outer skin off to get to the milk that is in the middle. Whichever way you choose, just make sure you have a very sharp...
In this video, we learn how to attract women without trying. The way you can do this is by simply having some fun! Most guys are way too into finding women and try far too hard. If you are having some fun with your friends and not focusing on it too much, you will most likely find a girl to attract! Girls love to have fun, dance, party, and talk to guys. If you can be a girl that has some fun energy, this will attract a girl to talk to you and can possibly start a relationship! Just have a gr...
Want to create your own camera? The simplest one that you can create is a pinhole camera which can be constructed from everyday household items.
One of the most important lessons to teach your dog is simply to teach him to recognize his name. Usually dogs will pick it up within a few days if you use it often, but other times, depending on the dog, it's not as easy.
We'd let our little Fido run free all the time if we could, but unfortunately taking a dog out into any public space, whether it be simply for a walk in the park or to a shopping center, involves putting him on a leash or a harness.
We didn't think Jim Carey's portrayal of Joker could ever be topped...that is, until we witnessed Heath Ledger work his magic as one of the scariest and most demented Jokers we've ever seen. Crazy and evil in the most delicious way, this Joker wore a sort of psychotic makeup that we'll never forget.
Oobleck, a word coined from the Dr. Seuss book "Bartholomew and the Oobleck," has contemporarily come to define the substance created from mixing cornstarch and water. This mixture is notable for its dilatant properties, and as an inexpensive and non-toxic Newtonian fluid. While seemingly liquid, under pressure, the substance reacts as a solid. Gentle treatment, however, will allow the material to remain in its fluid state. More simply put, this sh*t is crazy.
Still wearing those angel wings on your back for Halloween? Then honey, your whole world is about to be turned upside down (in a good way). Take a gander at this Halloween makeup video to see how to paint on an angel wing mask (each eye a wing).
Why is Windows always asking you for permission before you do anything? Since when does Windows control your computer, and not you? Those user account control popups can be so frustrating, especially when it comes to simple tasks.
In this tutorial, we learn how to speak English using infinitives for questions. First, you need to be able to identify reported questions inside of a conversation. Infinitives include words like "to go", "to buy", "to find". They are formed by saying "to" + the verb. "Wh" infinitives are simply at the beginning of infinitives, like "where to go", "when to buy", and "how to find". Use infinitives to report questions that have modal verbs such as "should" and "can" depending on what the modal ...
In this video, we learn how to write numbers in calligraphy copperplate. To write the number five, you will simply make the shape of the number, but add in a thick edge to the bump and curved edges to the end. To write the six, use a thick line on the side of the number and a thin line for the circle in the middle. To make the seven, the top should be curved and thick, and the lower line should be very thick with a straight edge. To make the eight, draw the number so that the left edge is thi...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to use the noise removal tool in Camtasia Studio. Begin by uploading the audio track into the time line. Then select and highlight the region that contains the noise. Now click on Edit and select Audio Enhancements. Under Background noise removal, users are able to select to automatically or manually remove the noise. Once selected, simply click on the Remove Noise button. Users also have the option to adjust the sensitivity. This video will benefit t...
In this video, we learn how to play 12-bar blues variations on guitar with Justin. You will simply be taking the regular pattern and adding in variations you can do. You will end up with the ability to improvise with different songs, which will make you have a unique sound to all your music. One of the things you can do is to start to play notes on a different string, or move the sound of the note up and down as you are playing it. Changing up the pattern can add a cool blues sound to your mu...
In this video, we learn how to play "Help" by The Beatles (Noel Gallagher) on guitar. First, play A for the intro, then A major 7, F# minor, D, G, A, the start the second part. The second part is simply just repeating the first part. Make sure your guitar is tuned so these sound soft while you are playing them. Continue to play these chords through the versus of the song while singing the lyrics to the song. When you get to the chorus, you will have to change the chords slightly and make sure...
With these two helpful tutorials, all of you StarCraft 2 players will get a little help developing your own leader boards with the StarCraft 2 Editor. This one is simply based on kills, which means it's a lot easier to learn. So, watch and follow along and start designing.
System of a Down. Motley Crue. No matter who you are, a heavy metal song is almost instantaneously recognizable, with bands as diverse as System of a Down and Motley Crue banging out deep, distorted guitar riffs and emphatic beats. The muscal genre of heavy metal is a headache for adults and a form of rebellion for kids, which is why you'll always seen teens rebelling by blaring this music on full volume.
It's true that some supermodels have cheekbones so sharp they could grate cheese (think Gisele and Karlie Kloss). These girls were born pretty, but that doesn't mean they don't need a little help in the makeup department to look their modeling best.
You're probably wondering why in the world you would throw an aluminum can into an oven to bake, but differently shaped aluminum cans are actually a polymer clay hobbyist's best friend when it comes to shaping clay and making the shape stay.
Snails are such cool cats. While we humans labor the day away in a whirlwind of errands and obligations, snails take their time wherever they choose to go. As such, we can learn a bit about taking it easy and relaxing from these small wisdom bearers.
Office pranks have a long and distinguished history. You've probably seen this one before, but in case you haven't, this video will show you how to do the upside-down coffee cup prank. Simply take a full cup of coffee, place it on the desk of your victim, place a piece of paper flat on top, then carefully flip the cup onto the desk and remove the paper. The cup will be upside-down, full, on the desk. The only way to remove it is to soak oneself with coffee, as your victim will most likely do.
In this video, we learn how to activate Linux windows without losing selected text. To avoid losing the texts, you can just click on the title bar so that the highlighted part doesn't remove. If you don't want to do this, there is an alternative. Simply mouse over the text that you have highlighted and scroll with the wheel that's on your mouse. After this, right click on the text and then you can copy what you need to. Now, you can go back to the other window you have open and paste it in, t...
When we're baking sugar cookies, we all tend to do the same thing: Rush through the boring mixing and baking part, and then spend three times as long on putting on the icing and forming pretty motifs. But to create truly spectacular sugar cookies, there is more to crafting dough then simply throwing in the ingredients and blending.
This recipe is precisely the reason why we would never be able to go on a no-carb diet. Not only would we be cranky because carbs makes us feel damn good, but this bread is just too irresistable.
Don't get us wrong: We adore gift boxes, as they let us both conceal a gift and make the gift look more appealing by wrapping up the box in pretty wrapping paper and smacking a bow on top, but there's one big gripe we have about them. They either come in Small, Medium, or Large. So if your gift doesn't exactly fit one of those predesignated sizes, then the box is either too small in areas or too large, which is a pain.
In this clip, you'll learn how to adjust your privacy settings to prevent your friends from sharing your personal information on Facebook. Share pictures with your friends by making photo albums on Facebook. 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 informati...
Major scales give a song harmony, peace, and coherence, but minor scales (often thought of as their sour cousin) add interest. Which is why even popular pop songs commonly inject key changes to let rip a minor scale that sends the song from boring to Billboard.
Pigeons are a common bird that don't get the love and respect they deserve. After all, after making a cameo appearance or two on your car window you don't get around to seeing them as the most elegant birds.
Feeling crabby doesn't always have to be a bad thing. In fact, if you're an origami artist sometimes feeling crabby simply means you're in the mood for folding some teeny crabs! Crabs are a great project for summer and also take minimal effort and expertise to fold.
The core principle of origami is folding something from a single sheet of paper. The idea is to challenge your mind to create something fabulous out of very limited material. And while this is quite the poetic journey, as you'll see with modular origami and this origami tutorial, sometimes more than one sheet is necessary to get the job done.
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to create drop down menus in Microsoft Excel. This task is very easy, fast and easy to do. Begin by highlighting a desired cell. Then click on the Data tab and click on Data Validation under Data Tools. When the Data Validates window opens, click on the Error tab and deselect "Show error alert after invalid data is entered". Then click on OK. Now simply type in the data into the selected cell. This video will benefit those viewers who use Microsoft Ex...
In this Computers & Programming video tutorial you will learn how to convert PDF to a Word document online for free. You cannot edit a PDF document. In order to edit it, you got to convert the PDF document to word document. Doing this conversion is really very easy and simple to do and takes practically no time. Simply go to the site ConvertPDFtoWord, browse for the PDF file that you want to convert to word and click on 'convert and download'. You will get the word version downloaded. It's th...
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw Ironman. Start off by drawing the feet to Ironman, making sure to pay close attention to the detail that is on the outside suit. Make sure to include bolts and screws to make the picture more lifelike. Use shading on the outside of the sides to make it darker and more realistic. Continue working your way up on Ironman until you reach the torso and the rest of the upper body. Then, draw the head onto the top followed by the large mechanical arm and the he...
In this tutorial, we learn how to create your own wallpapers. First, go to the website http://wallpapers.x3studios.com/. Once you are on this website, you will be able to change the background then add on graphics that are loaded in their library already. You can also add in text if you prefer to. You simply just drag and drop all the different things into the background until you have what you want. Once you are finished, save to the gallery and then you will be provided with a link where yo...