You can easily tell if an egg is raw or hard boiled without breaking the shell, as long as you know a little science. This experiment uses physics to show how if you spin an egg you can tell if it's insides are viscous or solid! Thanks Happy Scientist Robert Krampf for this great tutorial on the science of eggs and physics of rotation.
Email is one of the least private and least secure forms of communication, although few people realize this. MixMaster is one way to allow secure, anonymous communication even over the very public medium of email. This tutorial will get you started with MixMaster quickly and easily.
Wondering how to cut Perspex (or acrylic glass) easily? When cutting Perspex at home, you're more or less limited to using circular saws and jigsaws. For cutting straight lines, the circular law works best; for curvy lines, you'll want to use your jigsaw. For more information, including step-by-step instructions on cutting your own acrylic sheet, watch this DIY home tutorial.
In this image editing software tutorial we are going to show you how to easily create digital abstract smoke using both Illustrator and Photoshop. One of the best things about this technique is that it’s very customizable and you can do it pretty quickly. Watch and learn how to create smoke effects in Illustrator and Photoshop.
Are you a chat fanatic? Do you have a website with chat functionality built in? Have you seen other people with chat emoticons that you don't have? It's possible they designed their own emoticons and you can too! This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to design custom emoticons easily in Photoshop.
Check out this instructional knot tying video that demonstrates how to tie a cleat knot. Learn how to tie off your boat at the dock. Just follow the simple instructions outlined in this boating tutorial and learn how to tie a Cleat Knot. Knot tying is a breeze with this video. Start practicing and reel in the big fish!
Check out this instructional fishing video that demonstrates how to tie the Perfection Loop knot. Just follow the simple instructions outlined in this fishing tutorial and learn how to tie a Perfection Loop fishing knot. Knot tying is a breeze with this video. Start practicing and reel in the big fish!
Just what you need for your graphics projects - a graphical reminder note! This Inkscape software tutorial shows you how to create a reminder note complete with the scotch tape to "attach" it to documents. You should be able to easily find some creative uses for your graphical reminder "post it".
This Adobe After Effects tutorial shows you how to create the Matrix raining code text effect. Learn how to use this motion graphics and 2D effects compositing software and the automation options available to easily create a Matrix raining code effect in After Effects.
Master craftsman George Berry, "The Woodguy" shows how to quickly and easily make a chess board.
In this video you will learn to properly clean a Nintendo 64 game. This can be helpful if you are thinking of throwing any of those old games away. A Nintendo 64 is one of the first systems, and has very large games which break easily.
This is a Genhead video tutorial on how to work with sound and video easily.
You want the water to push the pills so that is why you tilt your head forward with pills that float and backwards with pills that sink.
The hook is a common shot missed in golf. If you understand the factors that cause a hook and make a few adjustments to your golf swing, it can be easily corrected. See how it's done.
Many golfers slice their entire lives without realizing that by making a few simple adjustments to their golf swing, it can be easily corrected. Try theses tips to correct slices on the green.
A video tutorial on some tricks to hide files on your computer within other files so that they will be completely hidden.
Never again will changing your duvet comforter be a chore--use this quick trick, and bed sheet changing will be a blast. See how to put easily put on your fresh duvet cover.
Do you want to know how make a California roll? Then this video is for you. While this chef uses shrimp instead of crab meat, you can easily resubstitute crab back into the recipe. Enjoy.
Papa Tom teaches veiwers how to easily make a terra cotta roof for a realistic looking house for a diorama or school project. This is easy to do and provides incredibly realistic finishing touch to any plain old miniature building.
In this screencast from screencast central we look at how you can add passwords to your files and folders quickly and easily for free.
This video shows you how to apply a makeup prosthetic made of gelatin that gives a horrific burn and or scar effect. You can easily do this at home for a great effect
This is a great way to charge your phone if you ever loose your car charger. Simply splicing a USB cable with an adaptor for your cell phone will create a homemade charger that can easily hook up to your computer and charge your cell phone.
With the new iOS 4.2 (and 4.2.1) firmware for all mobile Apple devices, printing from your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch has become easy… well, maybe not. Despite the new AirPrint software in iOS 4.2, it can still be difficult to print papers and photos from your mobile device since Apple removed AirPrint from the Mac OS X 10.6.5 software update, due to some kind of legal dispute.
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to enable hidden God Mode in Windows Vista 32 bit and 7. This option does not work on Windows Vista 64 bit. Begin by right-clicking on the desktop. Then go to New and select Folder. Now name the folder to a desired name and paste this code behind it: .{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}. Users will now have a full list of control options for their computer system. This video will benefit those viewers who use Windows 7 and Vista, and would like to ...
In this Computers & Programming video tutorial you will learn how to enable or disable cookies in Mozilla Firefox. Open up Mozilla Firefox, go to tools > options and click on ‘privacy’ tab. Under the cookies section uncheck ‘accept cookies from sites’ and click OK. This will disable cookies. To remove cookies from your computer, open up Mozilla Firefox, go to tools > options and click on ‘privacy’ tab. Under the cookies section, click on ‘show cookies’. All the cookies will be...
In this Microsoft Excel 2007 for Dummies video the instructor shows how to record a Macro. Macros let you create a shortcut to perform a sequence of commands all at once. For example you can create a macro to quickly build a sales report template that you frequently use. When ever you run that macro the Word will automatically build the template for you based on the recorded commands. To write macros you need to have the developer tab enabled. To enable it click on the office button and at th...
This video tutorial is about using Google Maps and the features in it. Google Maps help us to find the geography and even the traffic situations of a city. Google maps also provide a street view option that helps us to see how a place actually looks like from the ground. Neither of these views are real time. But now, Google Maps has added in a new option, which is the webcam. Just click on the more option in between traffic and map option. In the list that appears, just tick the webcam option...
This video will show you how to enable MMS on your iPhone 3G and 3GS on 3.1 firmware. First, copy and paste the terminal code. Hit enter. Go back to the description and click the link to the file. Connect your iPhone and go into iTunes. Hit options, check for updates. Go to where you have downloaded the program.
Hello! My name is Nicole Valentine and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to talk to you about how to coordinate birthday games for a birthday party. Now we're going to talk about how to appropriately shop for games for a birthday party. Let's be honest. The average person waits until the last minute to buy things for the birthday party. Before you get your keys and get in your car to leave to go to the nearest store, look around your house. Look for things that you normally use to enterta...
Having a secure password is essential in today's interconnected world. Hackers are just around the corner, and if you have an easy to guess or hack password that you use for all of your accounts, someone can login to all of your websites very easily. Look at this guide on how to create a strong password by following the right password rules so that your accounts stay secure.
Calendar data, images, sounds, videos, and messages can be easily synchronized between your Nokia Booklet 3G netbook and supported mobile devices and phones when the two are connected using Bluetooth. To find out how to use Nokia's Ovi Suite software to synchronize your data, take a look at this tech support video from the company.
So, you've got your website set up, but there's something missing. Oh right- you need a PayPayl payment button so that people can easily buy your product. Watch this video to learn how to make your custom own PayPal payment button and put it on your wesbite.
Algebra is not as hard as it looks. Learn how to evaluate expressions correctly by using the order of operations, which can easily be remembered as PEMDAS- Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction. You can solve any problem in algebra with this approach.
This video will show you exactly how to use PSP ISO compressor to convert CSO image files to ISO image files so that they will play better on a PSP. This will allow you to download either ISO or CSO files and still run the ISO files on your PSP.
Learn how to create a stylish inset logo. The techniques demonstrated in this video can be used on any logo quickly and easily in photoshop. You can do something new with your designs by learning what this video shows you how to do.
Most folks mistakingly think that slime - or green silly putty - simply can't be whipped up without borax. But the buffer solution can easily be replaced by another ingredient that you already have lying around in your house: laundry detergent.
Forego the Bisquick! You can make healthy and nutritious pancakes easily from scratch. All you need is some flour, a little bit of sugar, baking powder, and a bit of salt. Then blend with an egg, cooking oil and some milk or buttermilk.
Here's a healthy and delicious snack you can make easily. If you know how to make fresh popcorn on your stove (or have an air popper), here's how you can make the coating and then form it together into popcorn balls.
Gross out your friends, or just have fun playing with some goo! You can make your own slime at home easily. All you need is some corn flour and water. Add food coloring if you really want to make it cool!
You can easily control the direction that both water and lava flow using some redstone circuitry. Unfortunately, this trick will only work once before needing to be reset - but it's still useful for building lava traps or other machines.
