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How To: Do a Flash Kick - FADC - Sonic Hurricane combo as Guile in Street Fighter 4

This might be the single best combo that Guile can do in Street Fighter 4, and you're gonna learn how to do it. It's a Flash Kick - Focus Attack Dash - Sonic Hurricane combo that is devastating and can be done quite fast with practice. Which is what you should be doing as soon as this video is over and you can get to the arcade. Unless you're watching this on your phone AT an arcade, you 21st century digital person.

How To: Trick your friends by "erasing" the O's in Google's name on their webpage

This prank is great because it combines the digital and the analog to create a multimedia prank. All you have to do is load up this web page, which looks just like the Google front end. If you follow the instructions in this video, you will learn how to make the two O's in the title disappear from the page. Combined with a little storytelling and misdirection on your part, this can be turned into a trick where you make your friends think that you have magically erased the two O's from Google'...

How To: Use the Live Trace tool to rotoscope an image in Adobe Illustrator CS4 or CS5

Looking for a quick guide on how to utilize the Live Trace tool to turn a digital photograph into a cartoon illustration? This clip will teach you what you need to know. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular vector graphics editing software or a seasoned professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the program and its various features and filters, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this...

How To: Remove red eye in Adobe Photoshop CS4 or CS5

Looking for a quick guide on how to remove red eye from your digital photographs with Adobe Photoshop CS4 or CS5? This clip will teach you what you need to know. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular raster graphics editing software or a seasoned professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the program and its various features and filters, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free vi...

How To: Do look-up addition with VLOOKUP & HLOOKUP in Microsoft Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 684th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to do single-condition lookup adding for both the VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP functions. You'll also learn how to use an array constant in the row/column num argument for the HLOOKUP and VLOOKUP functions.

How To: Create deep blue skies in Adobe Photoshop CS4 or CS5

Want to enhance the a drab sky in one of your digital pictures? With Adobe Photoshop, it's easy! This clip will teach you what you need to know. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular raster graphics editing software or a seasoned professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the program and its various features and filters, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video guide.

How To: Use Boolean math formulas in Microsoft Office Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 651st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn see how to replace your IF function with a shorter Boolean Math formula! TRUE = 1, FALSE = 0, TRUE*2000 = 2000 and FASLE*2000 = 0.

How To: Format an SD card

Is your SD memory card getting a little too full? Is it not working? Try reformatting it. It's the first and sometimes last step to troubleshooting card problems. So, if your SD card has become too cluttered, this guide will restore it to a like-new condition with a simple format.

How To: Use a multimeter

This video tutorial is in the Home & Garden category which will show you how to use a multimeter to check for continuity, measure resistance and voltage and many more values. Multimeters are like the electrical engineer's Swiss army knife. Multimeters can be of digital or analog types. Before using the multimeter, make sure there is continuity between the two probes. When you connect the two probes with each other, it will beep indicating that there is continuity and then you can go ahead. To...

How To: Create a dynamic frequency table & chart in MS Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 636th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a dynamic frequency table and histogram chart using defined name formulas for dynamic ranges that use the INDEX function. See other formulas that use the COUNTIF, IF and ROWS functions that help to make it fully dynamic....

How To: Run a chart lookup with defined names in MS Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 637th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a dynamic two data series line chart for blood pressures — how to look up a chart using defined names, a data validation list, and a formula using the INDIRECT function inside a picture of a chart.

How To: Create volume node textures in Blender 2.5

This is a quick tutorial on setting up a nodes-based texture for 3D volumes in Blender 2.5. Were you aware Blender 2.5 includes a cloud generation script? See how to use it with this video guide. Whether you're new to the Blender Foundation's popular open-source 3D computer graphics application or are a seasoned digital artist merely on the lookout for new tips and tricks, you're sure to be well served by this free video software tutorial. For more information, including step-by-step instruct...

How To: Work with point density volumetrics in Blender 2.5

This clip offers a quick guide on how to work with point density volumetrics within Blender 2.5. This same technique can be used to make tornados, drifting fog, dry ice and a great number of other things. Were you aware Blender 2.5 includes a cloud generation script? See how to use it with this video guide. Whether you're new to the Blender Foundation's popular open-source 3D computer graphics application or are a seasoned digital artist merely on the lookout for new tips and tricks, you're s...

How To: Select a solid tripod for photography

Forget dogs - tripods are a man's best friend (well, if he's a photographer). Eliminating many of the factors that create crappy photos, including the instability of holding the camera up by hand, photo blurs, and general strain of weilding those hulking digital SLRs, tripods are always there to lend a helping leg. Or three.

How To: Carve a 3D pumpkin into a jack-o'-lantern in Blender

This spooky-themed tutorial presents a look at some of the techniques needed to create a jack-o-lantern from a pumpkin. Some of the techniques include using retopo, extrude and some manual modeling. The tutorial also provides a series of tips for easily managing your camera angle and spot lights. Whether you're new to the Blender Foundation's popular open-source 3D computer graphics application or are a seasoned digital artist merely on the lookout for new tips and tricks, you're sure to be w...

How To: Create a 3D model of a simple palm tree in Blender 2.5

This Blender 2.5 video tutorial will teach you how to model a simple palm tree using a series of modifiers and linked meshes. The tutorial also demonstrates a technique for quick and dirty outdoor rendering. Whether you're new to the Blender Foundation's popular open-source 3D computer graphics application or are a seasoned digital artist merely on the lookout for new tips and tricks, you're sure to be well served by this free video software tutorial from the folks at CG Cookie. For more info...

How To: Animate fingers with an easy rig in Blender 2.5

This Blender 2.5 video tutorial takes on the process of rigging the fingers to a human hand with only a few bones and constraints. This technique leaves you with fingers that are very easy to animate and control without the need for IKs or Drivers. Whether you're new to the Blender Foundation's popular open-source 3D computer graphics application or are a seasoned digital artist merely on the lookout for new tips and tricks, you're sure to be well served by this free video software tutorial f...

How To: Get started using Blender 2.5

Here is a brief overview of some of the changes and additions to Blender 2.5. Keep in mind, 2.5 is still under heavy development and many things will be added/changed. Whether you're new to the Blender Foundation's popular open-source 3D computer graphics application or are a seasoned digital artist merely on the lookout for new tips and tricks, you're sure to be well served by this free video software tutorial from the folks at CG Cookie. For more information, including step-by-step instruct...

How To: Break up hours worked by shift in Microsoft Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 624th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to break apart the hours worked in a given day into one part for the day shift and a second part for the night shift using the MEDIAN function instead of the IF function. The MEDAIN function can be used when there are different ca...

How To: Edit photos for printing in the GIMP image editor

See how to ensure you have cropped your images properly for printing and how to check that the resolution is high enough for printing when working in the GIMP image editor. Whether you're new to the GNU Image Manipulation Program, GNU's popular free graphics editor, or a seasoned designer just looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're certain to enjoy this free video software tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started printing ...

How To: Slice up images for HTML image maps in GIMP

See how to use GIMP to generate a HTML image map in minutes. This mimics the slice function from Photoshop. Whether you're new to the GNU Image Manipulation Program, GNU's popular free graphics editor, or a seasoned designer just looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're certain to enjoy this free video software tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started chopping up digital images yourself, take a look.

How To: Converting a WAV file to an MP3 file using Audacity

This is a quick tutorial on how to convert files with a .wav extension to .mp3 files using the free, open-source audio editor Audacity. It also includes instructions on how to install the LAME MP3 encoder required by Audacity to process the MP3 files. Whether you're new to computer recording, new to the Audacity DAW (digital audio workstation) or just looking to pick up a few new tricks, you're sure to benefit from this video software tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-b...

How To: Create value-based formatting using data bars in Excel

See how to create value-based formatting using data bars and color scales in Excel 2007. See how to use the Format Cells dialog box and the pop-up mini-toolbar in Microsoft Excel 2007. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular digital spreadsheet application or a seasoned business professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with this particular iteration of the program, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including step-by-step instructions, w...

How To: Sum year over year sales using MS Excel's SUMPRODUCT

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 611th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create an array formula to summarize year over year sales using the SUMPRODUCT and YEAR functions. Also see how to calculate a formula for percentage change.

How To: Look up a picture in Microsoft Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun and Mr. Excel, the 42nd installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to look up a picture in Excel. See a VBA solution and a formula Solution using the INDIRECT function and named ranges.

How To: Use the NETWORKINGDAYS.INT function in MS Excel 2010

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun and Mr. Excel, the 23rd installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the NETWORKINGDAYS.INT, RANK.AVE, PERCENTILE.EXC, CONFIDENCE.T, T.DIST, T.DIST.RT and T.DIST.2T functions in MS Excel.

How To: Use VBA code for conditional formatting in MS Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun and Mr. Excel, the 22nd installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use VBA code for conditional formatting as well as how to do it using the OFFSET, MOD and ROWS functions.

How To: Summarize survey data with a pivot table in MS Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun and Mr. Excel, the 20th installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to summarize survey data with a pivot table (grouping & report filter), COUNTIFS function (4 criteria), SUMPRODUCTS formula, SUMPRODUCTS & TEXT functions and DCOUNT database function.

How To: Do reverse lookups with VBA code in Microsoft Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun and Mr. Excel, the 7th installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to complete a reverse lookup (find value inside table and then retrieve column and row header). Mr. Excel uses Excel VBA code (macro) and ExcelIsFun uses a formula with the INDEX, IF, SMALL, MATCH, TEXT, CHAR and...

How To: Create horizontal subtotals for a data set in MS Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun and Mr. Excel, the 5th installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create horizontal subtotals for a data set using the IF, SUM and SUMIF functions. Also see conditional formatting for non-contiguous cell ranges using a TRUE/FALSE logical formula with the NOT symbols.

How To: Find a weighted average cost ending inventory value

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun and Mr. Excel, the 43rd installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to calculate weighted average cost ending inventory value from transactional records on 2 different sheets using the COUNTIF, SUMIF and SUMPRODUCT functions.

How To: Build and use array formulas in Microsoft Excel

Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you've come to the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 36th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn most everything there is to know about working with array formulas in Microsoft Excel.

How To: Use rounding functions & paste special values in Excel

Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you've come to the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 28th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use Excel's rounding functions, how to paste special values – and quite a lot more besides. Specifically, this video addresses each of the following topics:

How To: Build frequency tables & histogram charts in MS Excel

Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you've come to the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 31st installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to build frequency tables and simple histogram charts in Microsoft Excel. Specifically, this video addresses the following subjects:

How To: Chart data & use Excel's SUMIFS & AVERAGEIF functions

Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you've come to the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the nth installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to create and use simple charts in MS Excel as well as see how to use Excel's SUMIFS & AVERAGEIFS functions. Specifically, this video covers the following topics:

How To: Use TEXT & custom number formatting in Microsoft Excel

Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you're in the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 270000000000000000000000000000000th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use custom number formatting for cells and the TEXT function. Specifically, this lesson covers the following:

How To: Fix other people's Microsoft Excel spreadsheets

Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you're in the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 26th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use spreadsheet construction guidelines to fix common problems: