Technology is awesome. You can use your iPad to record music or even turn your tunes into a solar system, but sometimes being plugged in all of the time can leave you nostalgic for simpler times. This new concept by Joelle Aeschlimann brings together the best of both worlds by turning your iPad into an old-fashioned, hand-cranked music box. The artist created three different music boxes, each one with its own unique song and visualization. The music boxes were made using wooden cylinders with...
Square dancing, a fun American pastime! Learn square dance steps with this instructional animation. Fun fact about square dancing: 19 U.S. States deem it their official dance. Square dance is a folk dance with roots in Europe, eventually spreading to the states & becoming more of an iconic dance there. Square dancing consists of 4 couples arranged in a square formation. This square dance lesson is clear and to the point. Search "square dance instructional animation" on Wonderhowto for more sq...
Create some of your own authentic Caribbean cuisine in your own kitchen! Wilma Browne Yarde shares her secret recipe for baked and grilled chicken with tons of BBG flavor, texture and heat. This is a garlic-rich green seasoning with herbs, habañero pepper, ginger and citrus prepares chicken for baking. Next, the chicken is dipped in a spicy tomato and brown sugar BBQ sauce with sriracha, beer and more habañero.
Every kid has had a lemonade stand. It's a child's first glimpse at responsibility and making a living, but the lemonade in this video isn't your typical lemonade stand variety. This is more like a slushy than a drink. This is a great summertime treat your guests will love, but remind them to drink it slowly to avoid that inevitable “cold headache.” John Verlinden of Mucho Gusto shares a favorite pitcher-style drink with plenty to go around. Fresh-squeezed lemon juice is the star with just a ...
This 3D modeling software tutorial shows you how to shrinkwrap a mesh in modo 301. The Push tool combined with the Background Constraint creates a very powerful method to "shrink-wrap" over a mesh in modo 301. Shrink wrap a mesh in modo 301.
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to move beyond the Basic shape tools to create your own custom shapes. Part two shows you how to combine several shapes to make a complex shape. Create custom shapes in After Effects - Part 1 of 2.
Bill Granger combines pumpkin and chickpeas in a colorful and delicious vegetarian dish, fantastically simple to make. Prepare aromatic pumpkin and chickpea stew.
Make molasses-glazed duck salad. Molasses-glazed duck is combined with salad greens, pecans, and roasted vegetables and served on sweet potato puree in this colorful salad. Make molasses-glazed duck salad.
Evaporated, condensed, and whole milk are combined in this cake for just the right amount of sweetness. Make the cake up to three days in advance and refrigerate it. It's traditionally served chilled and topped with whipped cream but is also delicious with chopped pineapple. Make tres leches cake.
A simple but scrumptious, fruity dessert. This classic French dessert combines two favorite summer fruits: peaches and raspberry. Savor this Peach Melba Recipe. Make peach melba.
Make beet, blood orange, walnut, and rocket salad. The sweetness of orange and beet is combined with the nutty flavor of arugula and walnuts in this sumptuous salad. Make beet, blood orange, walnut, and rocket salad.
Chefs George Germon and Johanne Killeen demonstrate how to make hot fanny sauce. Intensely browned caramel, onions and a jalepeno pepper are combined to create a spicy sauce; perfect on steak, chicken or ribs. Make hot fanny sauce.
Learn how to compute derviatives from this web channel devoted to educational shows and resources for schools. Annenberg Media brings you an interesting lecture that combines history and math. Compute derivatives.
Have you already lost the thrilling feeling of waiting for Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens to come out? Now you can do it all over again, as Google Play, the iTunes Store, the Windows Store, and Best Buy are already accepting pre-orders for the digital and Blu-ray release.
The guys over at @evleaks continue their slow trickle of leaks about Samsung's upcoming flagship device. The first drop is simple enough, a confirmation that Samsung will continue its branding strategy, naming their next device the Samsung Galaxy S5. These next two are a little more interesting, despite their graphical shortcomings—screenshots of two APKs, or application files, from an "official" Galaxy S5 system dump.
Curve stitching is a form of string art where smooth curves are created through the use of straight lines. It is taught in many Junior High and High School art classes. I discovered it when my math students started showing me the geometric art they had created.
Even if you haven't heard of Facebook's game "Snake" before, you've probably played it at one point or another. The idea is that of a snake - at first one dot, then many in a slithering string - swirling around your screen and the object is to guide your snake to eat the red apple.
Attention math heads! Brush up on your high school math skills with help from this video made by a Lincoln High School teacher on how to find the volume of a rectangular prism. Find the answer you're looking for with help from this educational math video.
A woman who showed up at my book signing shows us how to hit high notes in karaoke using a wine bottle.
Watch this video from the Concrete Network to learn how to use high end decorative concrete tools, grinder and blades.
Learn how to dribble a basketball at high speed in this free practice video drills.
This is an instructional step by step video on how to jump high on your unicycle. However, to get the hops you want, practice, practice, practice.
This video tutorial from OzLabs will show you how power the one-watt high powered LED using 120 volt source using a 12 volt adapter.
Do you want your photos to have a more dirty and gritty look? In this video tutorial you will learn to create a high contrast, bright and vibrant studio photo effect. This is a technique often used in the print medium.
In this clip, we learn a basic digital photography workflow, one which will enable you to enhance your favorite digital photos with both ease and speed. (Note: To follow along, you will need to have the application installed. Learn how to download and install the Mac App Store here.)
Apple recently released iOS 4.2 for all devices— iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch— and one of the best features is AirPlay, which lets you stream video directly to AppleTVs. There's only one problem— it will only stream video that meet's Apple's specifications.
There wouldn't be any chaos in the world without Benoit Mandelbort— chaos theory, that is. Mandelbrot, who just passed away at the age of 85, pioneered fractal geometry and greatly influenced chaos theory. He spent most of his life working in physics, biology and astronomy, and is best known for his Mandelbrot Set, a mathematical set of points in the complex plane (the boundary of which forms a fractal).
This video is a makeup tutorial by Image Consultant Sharon Connolly, showing us how to look younger and more polished in just five minutes a day.
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Yale University has opened up its museum archives to the public in digital form, providing free online access to high-resolution images from its cultural collections, making it the first Ivy League school to do so in this fashion. Currently, there's over 250,000 "open access" images available from their new online collective catalog, with the goal of providing scholars, artists, students and all other worldly citizens royalty-free, no-license access to images of public domain collections with...
In this tutorial, we learn how to crochet a left handed baby high top bootie. Throughout this design, you will be doing several different rounds for the sole, front of the bootie, and the rest of the sections. You will use a 10 foundation half double crochet in the sole of the bootie, followed by several more rounds. For the top of the toe, you will start with a magic circle then work in 8 half double crochets and pull shut, working two more half double crochets. Continue to finish the rounds...
Every little girl wants to look like Barbie (not a particularly good thing, but bear with us here). And while all of us grow up and realize we come in all sizes and colors, it's always fun to reminisce a bit about our childhood and Barbie, one of our most beloved dolls. While we don't advocate you really look like Barbie by starving yourself and getting implants, it may be fun to dress up like her for Halloween.
If you've ever heard of the Yes Men, then you know about some of their most famous and awesome pranks. These guys have done so much and have tricked so many people in the past decade. From tricking people to signing petitions about allowing Global Warming to occur to passing out over 80,000 fake New York Times papers, these guys are good.
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make Sada Roti. The ingredients required are: 3 cups of all purpose flour, 1 tsp of baking powder, 1-2 cups of water and a dash of salt. Mix all the ingredients together to form a dough mixture. Then cover the bowl with the mixture for 15-20 minutes. Then break the dough into 3 pieces and flatten each of the with roller. Now cook on an oven at medium-high temperature 2-3 minutes on each side. Finish by placing it in the microwave for 1 minute on hi...
Cheaters may never win but, boy, do they ever get high scores. With this hacker's how-to, you'll learn how to use Cheat Engine 5.5 to earn an absurd amount of points, guarunteeing yourself a spot on the high scores list.
Have a need for speed? And high scores? Look no further than this cheater's guide, which demonstrates a method for hacking Crazy Cabbie for high speeds and maximum points.
This tutorial shows you how to set up the high voltage wiring for your RC kit. Although this is not a basic step for putting together your RC vehicle, it can be used to help make things easier. Be careful though, this can mess up your ability to use a remote control. So pay attention and enjoy!
In this how-to video, you will learn how to compress iMovie files into QuickTime files to make them look really good on YouTube. First, open iMovie. Click Share and click Share again. Go to Expert Settings and click on Share. Click on Options and go to Settings. Change it to h264, current frames per second, and every. Restrict should be set at 5000. Optimize it for DVD and change encoding to best quality. Change the size to NTSC 720X486. Check de-interlace video and hit okay. Change the sound...
Dr. Bob Sears explains to parents the difference between a child's fever that may be serious and one that isn't. Only when the child's fever is high and any efforts to bring it down have failed, should you seek medical attention. This means the child could have a serious infection. A temperature of 103 or more is considered high, 101-102 is medium, and 99-100 is typical. Dr. Sears recommends using a regular digital underarm thermometer to check the child's temperature. Hold the thermometer un...
In this video, you will learn a plethora of tricks and glitches in a multiplayer map called High-rise in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Learn how to access vantage points such as the crane visible on the side of the map, or learn even more obscure pathways to places you probably never thought you'd reach. This video provides an excellent visual guide to dominate the High-rise map. Don't waste your time dying in the middle of the map or sitting in the spots everyone knows about--study this vi...
