Systm is the Do-It-Yourself show designed for the common geek who wants to quickly and easily learn how to dive into the latest and hottest tech projects. They will help you avoid pitfalls and get your project up and running fast. In this DIY episode, see how to build a firewall from a junk PC to protect networks.
Get rid of your water-wasting sprinkler system— but not entirely! Keep your landscape and garden maintained by converting those sprinklers into eco- and pocket-friendly drip irrigation. In this how-to video, Paula Mohadjer from the Cascade Water Alliance explains how you can easily convert your sprinklers into a drip irrigation system.
In this tutorial series Mike Lively shows how to convert Wordpress into the Adobe Flex 3 application Flexpress.
This is a tutorial on the SPH fluids nodes. This is a particle-based distributed fluid simulator application designed for Hewlett-Packard Scalabe Visualization Array. This application uses volume domain distribution among the nodes.
New to 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 Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 274th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to calculate various probabilities for a binomial distribution when there are additional complicating factors. This is accomplished with recourse to Excel's BINOMDIST, NORMSDIST, SUMIF, SUM, INDEX and MATCH functions. See also how to create th...
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 627th installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create, edit and otherwise work with FREQUENCY array functions.
New to Microsoft Excel 2010? Looking for a few good tips and tricks? Look no further. In this free video tutorial from everyone's favorite MS Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 7th installment in his series of Excel 2010 video tutorials, you'll learn how to use Excel's new CONFIDENCE.T function to calculate the margin of error for a T distribution confidence interval.
New to Microsoft Excel 2010? Looking for a few good tips and tricks? Look no further. In this free video tutorial from everyone's favorite MS Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 6th installment in his series of Excel 2010 video tutorials, you'll learn how to use the new NORM.DIST and NORM.S.DIST normal distribution functions. They have new screen tips to help you select the correct argument.
SubQ injections facilitate rapid distribution of medication. Watch this video to learn how to properly do one.
Learn how to use the empirical rule (or 68-95-99.7 rule) to estimate probabilities for normal distributions in statistics. 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 fre...
Nike Bootcamp brings you this soccer training video. Learn how to Go Long with this pro soccer drill. It’s that laser-guided pass in the dying seconds of a game that can make the difference between ninety deadlocked minutes and three vital points. Watch Klaas Jan Huntelaar’s masterclass in grasscutting distribution and you’ll soon learn one of Nike Bootcamp’s most valuable lessons: master Go Long, and you’ll go far. Brush up on those soccer drills with this soccer training video from Nike Boo...
One of the best features of Apple's Final Cut Studio is the disc designing feature DVD Studio Pro. With its ability to create high-end DVD masters, you can easily make discs for your indie film, or maybe even a professional movie. DVD Studio Pro is tightly integrated with Final Cut Pro and Motion, rendering the projects into DVD format without encoding to intermediary formats.
Three point lighting can be used to achieve professional studio results. For this, you will need: a key light, a fill light, and a backlight.
Your quick and easy guide to styling side swept bangs within 2 minutes. After blow drying your hair, take a round brush and roll your bangs up, under and to the side that you want your bangs to sit. Comb your bangs down over your forehead, then comb your bangs to the side. Using some styling product, such as molding gunk, paste or wax, take a small amount of product and rub between your hands to ensure even distribution. Using your fingers, work the product through your bangs, starting at the...
This trick can be done anytime, anywhere, with one of the easiest props ever: a matchbox. The props couldn't be simpler: just find an empty matchbox that has the same design on both sides. Set it on the table with the inside tray facing up (we'll call that "right side up") and start making a simple game of balancing the box with one side on the edge of the table and the other on your fingertip.
Consider a normal and ideal height for a girl in 5feet 8inches in height. The book of Andrew Loomis is a good guide for drawing realistic human figures. It explains the body proportions, techniques, drawing the parts, human movements, and poses of the body.
FreshDV had the opportunity recently to speak with Jerome Courshon on the marketing and distribution of movies and films. Jerome offers a full course in the “Secrets of Distribution” . If you are a filmmaker of any kind you owe it to your crew, your cast and yourself to watch this segment. From contracts, residuals, and pitfalls to avoid Jerome covers the 101 basics of film distribution and helps prepare you for what you need to know once the ink dries on the DVDs. In Jerome’s words:
This video describes basics about using Wubi installer for Ubuntu in Windows operating system.Wubi installer is usually used for Ubuntu family distribution installations.You can download Wubi installer from the Internet and then it will install all desired distribution automatically or you can run installer from CD or DVD.In this example Wubi is installed from Kubuntu live DVD.After inserting DVD into your computer's disk drive autoplay function offers to run Kubuntu installer. If you don't h...
In this video the tutor explains about the standard error of the mean. He starts explaining by drawing the diagram of a distribution and now he takes ten samples from the distribution and starts plotting them. He says that in theory if we do it infinite times then we can obtain the sampling distribution of the sampling mean. For the example he takes the number of samples as 10. Now depending on these values of n we can get different sampling distributions. Now he intends to find the mean of t...
A histogram is a summary graph showing a count of data points that fall in various ranges. Histograms are used in statistics and other forms of mathematics. In this video, learn how to create your own histogram using data analysis on the computer. This tutorial will show you how to create a frequency distribution, a cumulative frequency distribution, a histogram chart and an ogive chart with the data analysis add-in.
Looking for a simple way to update your Linux distribution? This video tutorial demonstrates how to upgrade your Linux distribution via the apt-get command in the terminal. To get started using the apt-get update tool, press play!
Ever wonder what those bars and lines on the LCD screen on your digital camera do? In this great tutorial, Ethan Wilding demonstrates how to read one of the most useful features on your camera: the histogram.
In this clip, you'll learn how to convert a Microsoft Windows desktop or laptop computer into a personal web server (or webserver) with XAMPP, an Apache distribution that compes preloaded with PHP and MySQL. Whether you're new to the PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor scripting language or are a seasoned web developer merely looking to improve your chops, you're sure to find benefit in this free video programming lesson. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look
One of Microsoft Excel's capabilities is to allow you to graph Normal Distribution, or the probability density function, for your busines. This is a quick and easy tracking feature you can learn in just a few minutes.
With the spread of smartphones and free online games, the "Freemium" model of product distribution and monetization has become prevalent over the last several years. At it's essence, it is handing out software products for free and then allowing customers to pay for in-software services using microtransactions. This video features some businessmen who do business in iPhone apps discussing how they use "Freemium" systems in their apps to make the most money possible while providing great servi...
NKU had so many instructors ask them for a Jeopardy game that Mike Lively created one and put it on Google Code for free distribution. This tutorial is narrated by the game designer Alissa Gilley. Learn how to create and play flexJeapardy using Flex.
This video shows you how to install a high performance sway control on a Dodge Ram heavy duty pickup. You may also wish to install a weight distribution unit first.
In this video we learn how to do a heelside pendulum in snowboarding. Start by sideslipping on your heal edge. Then, tap on one leg to increase pressure on that foot. Reduce the angle and then you can slide your board down where you are facing. Look and point in the direction of desired travel. Tapping on both legs means even pressure distribution on both feet. Increase edge angle with even pressure on both feet to slow down and stop. Although you will start out slow at first, these are great...
Mike Lively of Northern Kentucky University shows you how to create a light switch in Second Life with scripting. Part 1 demonstrates how to create a prim switch which turns on (brightens) a prim in Second Life. Part 2 goes through the Light Switch code line-by-line and adds a rotor to the light switch. The code is provided for free distribution on Google Code at
In this tutorial, Mike Lively of Northern Kentucky University gets you started in getting the Adobe Air Content Management System up and going.
Having problems unwrapping in Autodesk 3ds Max? Don't worry—this video tutorial will show you what you need to know about unwrapping UVs for organic models. It's a complete unwrapping session in two videos (so make sure to watch both parts). You'll learn some of the common problems encountered, as well as things like pelt mapping, relaxing UVs and pixel distribution. If you just happen to master these techniques, maybe it's time to check out RoadKill, a great UV tool.
This video will go over how to insert a check box in Microsoft Word for printing or for electronic distribution. With just a few clicks you can get a check box. You can even add different symbols or styles for your check box.
With the growing popularity of digital downloads, it's important for aspiring musicians to have some sort of download available of their music. If you're an unsigned musician, selling your music on iTunes might seem daunting, but it's actually very easy! Learn how to do it in this video.
It's not just for playing video games! Strap a Kinect to a Roomba and wire it together with an embedded wireless-N computer, a range finder, voltage distribution board and an external Li-Poly battery. And voila, you have your own custom made robot!
This video will show you how you can load and run the Ubuntu Linux distribution on a Microsoft Windows XP or Vista PC. It's 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.
In this tutorial, we learn how to run the Ubuntu distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system from a USB thumb drive. It's 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.
In this clip, you'll learn how to create and use a persistent image of the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution. It's easy. So easy, in fact, that this home-computing how-to can present a complete, step-by-step overview of the process in about two minutes. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
In this clip, you'll learn how to install the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution from a self-contained LiveCD (or Live CD) or DVD. You'll find it's easy. For more information, including an abbreviated demonstration and detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this helpful home-computing how-to.
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 21st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the BINOMDIST function to calculate probabilities for a binomial experiment - binomial distribution!
When you are using Linux or Ubuntu, it is smart to back it up. This tutorial will show you how to use a program called Remastersys to clone and backup your Linux distribution including root, home, other partitions and all personal, custom configuration to a fully deployable, shareable, bootable live CD or DVD.