How To: Caramelize onions
Learn how to caramelize onions. The sweet, mellow flavor of caramelized onions will enhance any soup or main course, and they also taste great as a side dish.
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How To: Count cards
If you think that card counting is only a thing in the movies then think again. You too can try a couple of methods to help you count cards. Like anything, the more you work on it the better you will be.
How To: Make podcasts using GarageBand, iWeb, iTunes, and Fugu
If you've never done it before, making a podcast can be tricky, with multiple programs to use and multiple file types to deal with. But, this video series helps you through the complete process of creating a podcast, everything including recording, editing, images, exporting, converting, uploading, and finally… sharing. Watch this whole series to learn how to make podcasts using GarageBand, iWeb, iTunes, and Fugu.
News: Always-Updated List of Phones With No Headphone Jack Built-In
The past year brought about a number of trends in the smartphone space. More immersive displays, better processors, and portrait mode for cameras come to mind as big steps forward. One of the most polarizing trends that continued in 2017 is the removal of the 3.5 mm headphone jack from flagship phones. The number of manufacturers that have completely dispensed with wired audio is staggering, so let's run down the full list!
How To: Search Google & YouTube Directly from Spotlight on Your iPhone
Spotlight makes finding apps, contacts, emails, songs, and old messages extremely easy on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. You can even search for Wikipedia articles online, as well as perform general web searches.
How To: Disable the "High Volume" Warning on Your OnePlus One
Maybe it was the years of concerts with deafening speakers blasting music into my ears, but I always listen to my tunes as loud as the volume allows me. So, it's pretty annoying when I get a "high volume" warning every time I listen to music on my OnePlus One with my headphones on. We've previously shown you how to remove this same warning by using the NoSafeVolumeWarning, an Xposed module that required root access. Thankfully, the very liberal OnePlus One has a built-in feature that lets you...
How To: Put Your Samsung Galaxy Note 2 in Deep Sleep Mode to Save Battery Life
Newer smartphones are more power hungry than ever before, and the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 has a mighty appetite for amps that only Jenny Craig could possibly curb. On average, your Note 2 (or other Android device) lasts for what, a day, maybe two days before dying. Mine barely lasts 8 hours! This is thanks to all of the apps running in the background of your phone, even when you're not using them, eating through all of your CPU, leaving nothing but crumbs.
How To: Make a Samsung Galaxy S3, Sony Xperia Z, & Other Android Phones Safer for Driving with Car Launcher
I'm all about safety in my life. I even put on safety goggles when someone opens a bottle of champagne—high life problems. But when it comes to driving, you have to be double safe, because the other drivers on the road may not have your safety in mind.
News: Cure All Your Ills (Or Give Yourself Some New Ones) with Steampunk Medicine
We don't generally think of medicine as being very relevant to Steampunk, but it was a big part of Victorian science fiction. Notable examples that you may be familiar with would be Frankenstein and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Today's Tidbit: Candy Can Help You Curb "That Time of the Month"
When subjects are asked to watch a movie and not display emotions (say, a comedy without laughing, or a tearjerker without crying), they evidently use up glucose in particular areas of their brain in a way that subjects who are free to react however they want do not.
How To: Fade the edges of a black and white photo in Photoshop
If only we could fade bad memories of bad exes as easily as we could fade photos. But we digress. If you have a special photo memory you'd like to visually enhance and preserve for posterity, then one of the best tricks you can do is to fade the photo edges using Photoshop.
How To: Wrap a 550 cord around the handle of a breacher bar
Breacher bars are like the much cooler older brother to the swiss pocket knife. In fact, there's little comparison between the two. A breacher bar, which is a rectangular shaped knife, is used by SWAT teams and bomb techs to easily and quickly cut through and pry open just about anything. But safety comes first.
How To: Touch up photos using Apple's iPhoto 11
It's pretty rare someone takes a perfect photo without the need for retouching after the fact. So, open up your iPhoto 11 and learn how to make that photo the beautiful picture you intended to take.
How To: Use the new Google Maps in Gingerbread on the Nexus S
Google Maps is much improved in Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). And even better on the Nexus S. This smartphone can do many things, but the best feature is still Google Maps, which will appear shortly on all Android devices when Gingerbread is officially released.
How To: Make oven-dried San Marzano tomatoes with thyme
We always cringe when we see that a recipe calls for sundried tomatoes. Not that we have anything against tomatoes, but the sundried and preserved kind is all wrinkly, odd tasting, and too sterile. These oven-dried tomatoes, however, are incredibly delicious.
How To: Do yoga marichyasanas to increase flexibility all over the body
We can't overstate the importance of stretching in yoga. Yes, you may think that yoga itself is just a bunch of stretches flowing one right into the other, which is true, but there are certain yoga poses aimed strategically at increasing your flexibility so you can do other yoga poses better.
How To: Sharpen a chef's knife or kitchen knife using a whetstone
You know how writing with your trusty No. 2 pencil gets to be a pain if you haven't sharpened the tip in a while? A sharp pencil produces crisp, pretty marks that enhance your writing, while a dull pencil tip causes smeared and sometimes illegible writing that looks slopping.
How To: Create a crazy, cross-eyed person effect in Photoshop
When we think about Photoshop, we think about the desire to look beautiful and "perfect." Celebrities get airbrushed and Photoshoped all the time when they appear in magazines in order to make their faces appear slimmer, their thighs smaller, their lips more voluminous, etc. Photoshop is usually a tool that enhances beauty.
How To: Draw a very curvy female superhero with a cape
Who says you can't be feminine and powerful at the same time? This female superhero, equipped with a skintight bodysuit that leaves little to the imagination, a cape, and belt, also posses a nice set of...muscles. Not the type of gal you want to mess with, she's uberfeminine yet clearly knows how to stand her ground.
How To: Create a "Harry Potter" Hermione Granger makeup look
Emma Watson, who plays Hermione Granger in the "Harry Potter" series, is actually a lot like the character she embodies. Both are quite intelligent (Watson just finished her freshman year at Brown), strong, and independent, and both rely on minimal makeup to enhance their features.
How To: Define darker skin tones with nude/neutral makeup
While there exist many makeup tutorials out on the web, you'll seldom find one that applies to all skin tones. Darker skin tones in particular require a different outlook in terms of color intensity and application.
How To: Repeat a task with a VBA For...Next loop in MS Excel
Repeating a task using a For...Next loop : Excel: VBA in Depth from lynda.com Watch the entire course at http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=62906&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=viral&utm_content=youtube&utm_campaign=youtube
How To: Train your ear and tune your guitar better
In this tutorial, we learn how to train your ear and tune your guitar better with David Yeager. Before you begin, you want to be able to hear what you are tuning to and listen to what you are playing. This is the key in order to train your ear and enhance your ability. Even if you are using a tuner you will need to train your ear. A great exercise is to play a pitch on your guitar and listen to how they sound and if they are in tune with your voice. If the pitch in the guitar isn't the same a...
How To: Choose a wedding dress neckline for your body type
Spring and summer are the prime seasons for weddings, which in turn means loads of brides searching for the perfect flattering wedding dress. But while some designer wedding dresses look great on the rack and maybe on pin-thin models, finding the right wedding dress for you means taking into account your body shape.
How To: Change image quality options on the Canon EOS 7D
You want the best quality photos you can get, and the Canon EOS 7D digital SLR camera makes perfecting your pictures easy. There is a range of technologies to enhance image quality. This video shows you the many options you can use.
How To: Enhance your eyebrow shape by filling in sparse areas
Overplucked eyebrows never look attractive (just think about the shaved-off eyebrow chola look with thin lines drawn in to replace the natural brow), but neither do full on bushes.
How To: Make a car-mounted rocket launcher prop for a film
Do you want to make your own action movies? Do you feel like your artistic vision would be enhanced by having a car with a rocket launcher on top of it in the film? You aren't alone. This video will show you how to make a car-mounted rocket launcher for $20 dollars out of simple materials. It won't blow up another car, but it will look really cool.
How To: Create melt and pour Christmas candy cane loaf soaps
Christmas without candy canes is like Halloween without gut-enhancing hoards of candy - it's not just right. Add some candy-scented Christmas cheer into your household without ingesting more calories (you're probably eating enough Christmas cookies and swigging enough cocktails at parties as it is) by making candy cane swirl soaps.
How To: Enhance core stability with barbell rainbow exercise
You may not having a honking old six-foot barbell just lying there in your living room, but if you manage to get to the gym and find one of these heavy, intimidating looking rods lying around, try lifting them up for a change.
How To: Do Fernando Torres's signature soccer move The Drive
This video is demonstrated completely through visual movement and accompanied with a brief written description. A young man speeds down the soccer field with a ball and scores a goal. His signature move leading up to the goal is broken down into very specific methods of movement, the first of which is a high speed attack as he races down the field. The next method to this signature move is the weight shift, in which the goal scorer shifts his weight, along with the ball, from foot to foot to ...
How To: Store fresh herbs
Having a nice supply of fresh herbs from your own herb garden or from the grocery store is a great way to enhance and add flavor to virtually any meal. But, what do you do when you have a surplus of fresh herbs? This video from Food Network offers an easy way to store all those fresh herbs, so you will have them fresh and ready when you need them in the kitchen. First, dry them with a paper towel, wrap them in a paper towel, store in a Ziploc bag and place them in the fridge until you are rea...
How To: Perform a digital nose job in Photoshop
This Photoshop tutorial on performing a nose job using Photoshop contains detailed instructions on the use of Photoshop tools to, depending on taste, enhance the appearance of an individual. The person narrating the tutorial specifies the necessity of subtlety with the modification of the picture in order to remove any appearance of modification. The way described is essentially to select the general nose area, feather the selection by an optional amount, and set it in a separate layer. Then ...
How To: Filter data using MS Excel 2010's PivotTable slicer
This video shows how to make a quick pivot table data filtering by using Excel 2010's ‘Slicer’ functionality. ‘Slicer’ delivers enhanced visual filtering method to allow you to get the data you need more quickly. When selecting a cell in the pivot table you will find ‘Slicer’ in the filter group of the ‘Insert’ tab. Click on ‘Slicer’ and an 'Insert Slicer' dialogue shows up where you can pick particular data fields from the slider list. Once you click on ‘OK’, the ‘Slicer’ objects with filter...
How To: Make Pakistani bbq-style chicken tikka
Learn how to make BBQ Chicken Tikka without actually using a BBQ! Learn what ingredients you will need, proper preparation steps, and cooking techniques. Learn the importance of the BBQ net in order to enhance dish for the fullest flavor! Video provides examples on garnish ideas to allow you to send out your perfect plate. If you follow the steps in this video you will learn to create an authentic Pakistani dish that will be perfect for social gatherings or for a quiet family dinner.
How To: Use automation in FL Studio
Prime Loops provides exclusive techniques from industry professionals to help enhance your music production, mastering skills & gain exposure. Their tips and tricks through tutorial videos are quick and easy to learn. In this video, they show the user how to add effects automation on beat. This video carries on from a series of previous videos. It goes through basic automation, adding it to the drum beat already made in the first FL Studio Tutorial. This tutorial gives the user the lowdown on...
How To: Distort text & apply a 3D look in Photoshop
Being able to create documents that stand out and impress is the theme of this how-to video on creating 3D text. Using an open Photoshop window, the pleasant sounding narrator guides you through the process of turning regular text into 3D. The narrator also supplies helpful tips to further enhance 3D text by adding color, glow and special effects like reflection. If you're a visual learner, you will appreciate this straight forward, clear and detailed how to video on creating 3D text.
How To: Create a simple everyday makeup look with Pur Minerals
Using all products from Pur Minerals, this look is for the everyday life style. Simple, clean and effortless. Perfect for work or school, it's all about enhancing your natural beauty. This makeup should not take longer than 10 minutes tops, remember less is more, simplicity is natural and natural and wholesome beauty. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to recreate this pretty makeup look.
How To: Manage photos in Aperture
Instead of using Photoshop, why not give Apple's Aperture a try? Aperture is designed more for post-production work for professional photographers, letting you cull through shoots, enhance images, manage massive libraries, and deliver stunning photos.
How To: Build a website in Aperture
Instead of using Photoshop, why not give Apple's Aperture a try? Aperture is designed more for post-production work for professional photographers, letting you cull through shoots, enhance images, manage massive libraries, and deliver stunning photos.
How To: Edit multiple image versions of a master in Aperture
Instead of using Photoshop, why not give Apple's Aperture a try? Aperture is designed more for post-production work for professional photographers, letting you cull through shoots, enhance images, manage massive libraries, and deliver stunning photos.