A great nail shape can be achieved with natural nails. To file without damaging the nail, never use a metal file and only ever file clean, unpolished nails. Watch this video manicure tutorial from nail artist Anna and learn how to properly file your nails.
This video will show you how to create and edit Photoshop files without having to buy Photoshop. This also works if you have a .psd file from someone else that you need to work on and you don't have Photoshop. Learn to use Paint.net for Windows to edit Photoshop files.
This video tutorial is an introduction to some of the basic functions of batch files. Part 1 of 2 - How to Use batch files for various functions.
This tutorial teaches you to delete files,restore files or delete files permanently in cPanel. This video is provided by Scandicsoft
Break up large files easily with 7-Zip. Use for a cheap way of backing up files or sending large files to friends in e-mail
Turn your iPad into a portable reader. While epub files are easy to read, .pdfs are far more common formats for files. To get the most out of your device, you'll want to set it up to turn it into a .pdf reader. This tutorial shows you how
Audacity is an amazing editing tool, and why is it amazing? Because it's FREE! Yea, that's right, free! One awesome thing you can do with it is edit your mp3 files into whatever you need, heck, make your own ringtones with it! In this video you'll learn how to open a session in Audacity to edit your MP3 files in wave form!
If you want to import data or recover files from your AppleTV back to iTunes on your computer, this shows you how. First you are shown how to gently take apart your Apple TV to access the hard drive, then hook it up to a Macintosh, and you can access your files and data structure from there!
Though they're much better audio files than cassette tapes, the mp3s on your iPod or iTunes sometimes may not sound like it. Whether you have a PC or a Mac, you can use your computer to edit your sound files and improve audio quality.
In this clip, learn how to root your Motorola Droid phone. By rooting your device, you will be able to access new files and apps as well as create your own ROMS and enable WiFi tethering. This process is super easy and should take no more than 5 minutes to do.
Have a file or a number of files too sensitive to be stored on your desktop hard drive? Thwart would-be snoopers with an encrypted USB flash drive. This free video tutorial from the folks at CNET TV will show you everything you'll need to know to create your own password-protected thumb drive directories.
Working with both Macs and PCs covers all bases, but it also adds new problems. If you fall into this category, you probably work with file formats that are not incompatible with the other computers. One of these file types in XML files. This tutorial will show you how to open XML on your Mac.
Mac or PC? PC or Mac? The debate rages on? Unfortunately, this can mean a lot of headaches for you when dealing with different file formats. If you work on both types, you might very well have to open the same file type on different computers. This can be a problem if you are using .rar files. But this video can help you. This tutorial will show you how a simple download can enable you to open .rar files on a Mac.
1. First of all you need go to the 'view' button at the top bar menu. From the drop down click on 'view options'. Then click a 'check mark' against the 'kind' and then click 'ok'.
How to use Home Sharing in iTunes 9 to transfer music files to another computer. First make sure both computers have iTunes version 9 installed. To check this go to the iTunes 9 menu next to file in upper left and select the about item. On windows machines this will be in the help menu. In the computer with the music files we need to make sure the iTunes library is nicely organized. Again go to iTunes menu, this time open the preferences menu, and advanced icon. Check mark both sections "Keep...
Want to delete temporary internet files from your BlackBerry smartphone? It's easy. So easy, in fact, that a complete and thorough overview of the process can be presented in this video tutorial. To learn how to remove temp web files from your own BlackBerry phone, watch this how-to.
In this video tutorial from Get Connected TV, hosts AJ Vickery and Mike Agerbo will show you how to safely move your iPod files to your home pc, for back up purposes, just in case something were to happen to your iTunes account or your iPod is damaged, or music directory accidentally deleted. The program they introduce in this video is called iPod-Rip, and they lead you through the steps necessary to back up your iPod files safely and easily, without damaging or deleting your files.
Even Mac users want to use Windows sometimes! Using VMWare Fusion, you can run Windows 7 at the same time that you are running Mac OS X without the need for rebooting like in boot camp. This makes it easy to switch between your Mac files and Windows files at ease. Make sure your computer can handle running two operating systems simultaneously!
Prank your friends' computers and make a file which opens the CD-ROM TRAY and keeps it open
Did you know you can control which software opens which file extensions on your computer in Windows XP? Learn how to edit file associations and default to your favorite programs.
If you don't want to go through the hassle of setting up a formal network between two Macs, but still want to transfer files between the two, take a look at Airdrop. Airdrop is a built-in utility found in Mac OS X Lion (10.7) that will allow you to easily drag and drop files to another computer belonging to you or a friend.
Converting file formats seems to stump a lot of people, so if you're coming here clueless as to how to convert an AVI to DVD, don't feel alone. In this video, learn how to turn an .AVI file to DVD using Windows Live Movie Maker easily and for free.
Need to back up the (non-MP3) files on your CD in a device that can store more than 20 songs at once? Aggregate all the songs on your CDs and make use of bigger storage space (not to mention get rid of electronic clutter) by moving all these music files onto a USB flash drive.
In this video tutorial, we learn how to hide files within Microsoft documents and picture files as well as how to hide messages in tweets on Twitter. For more information, including a complete demonstration and detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this how-to from the folks at Tinkernut.
Photoshop has the capability to handle many different file formats, though many of these files are now obsolete. The five most common formats currently in use are .psd, .tif, .jpg, .png and .exr. This tutorial explains the pros and cons for using each format in Adobe Photoshop projects.
You have a huge video file, and want to make it smaller by cutting out the footage you don't need. This shows you how to use Sony Vegas Pro to edit out all your unwanted footage, no matter how large your file is!
Interested in burning an ISO disk file file to a CD, DVD or Blu-ray disc? This Windows 7 tutorial will show you how it's done! It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this home-computing how-to can present a complete overview of the process in just over a minute's time. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this Win 7 user's guide.
In this Computers & Programming video tutorial you will learn how to create a zip file. You need to create a zip file in order to upload your website in to the digital dropbox in blackboard. Blackboard doesn't like folders with extra files in it. So you have to turn it into a zip file. You have created your 'my first website' inside which will have index files and image file. To get this onto blackboard in Mac, right click on the folder and select 'compress my first web site' option. Now you ...
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...
Want to know how to bring your various files into an After Effects project? Whether you're new to Adobe's popular motion graphics and compositing software or a seasoned video professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with CS5's new features, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, and to get started importing your own files into After Effects, watch this free video guide.
One of the many significant problems with Apple's ubiquitous iTunes music player and iPod MP3 players is their lack of native support for FLAC, the highest-quality type of condensed digital music file. This video features step-by-step instruction for converting your FLAC files into ALAC files, which have similar quality and can be played on on your iPod.
ISO or .iso files are disk images or archive images for your PC. If you use Linux as your operating system and would like to learn more about .iso files, check out this tutorial. In this video, learn how to mount ISO files without using any disks or burning any CDs. The trick is to convince your computer that you have done this without actually doing so.
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 23rd installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to import data into Excel from text files, web sites, Excel files and Microsoft Office Access files. Also see how to import currency rates and major indicies from ...
This video shows us a tool that can be used to split and merge pdf files without having to buy any software.
This video shows us the method to add a file to your PBWiki page. Go to Edit on the top left corner of the page. Click on 'Images and files' on the right side of the screen. Now upload the file from your computer. Now you may need to name the file something else on your page. Type the new name of the file on your page. Select the name and then click on the file name on the right hand side. Save the name by clicking on the Save button at the bottom left corner of the page. Thus you have succes...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to convert .docx file format to a .doc file. Begin by downloading and saving the file to your desktop. Then open your internet browser and go to this link: Zamzar/]. In Step 1, click on Browse and locate the file that you want to convert. In Step 2, select .doc as the format that you want to convert the file to. In Step 3, type in your email address. In Step 4, click on Convert and wait for it to upload. Now open your email to find the sent converted ...
Oh no! You've just accidentally deleted an important computer file! Have no fear. When you delete a file on your computer, it is not necessarily destroyed. This video will show you how to search for and restore your file before it is lost forever.
This video from CNET Insider Secrets tells you how to recover deleted files from a data drive. If a disk is still readable by the computer, files may be recovered. Files may be recovered using the PhotoRec program, PC Inspector or other programs that may be available. An example is shown where mp3 files are deleted from a flash drive. We are then shown how files are recovered using the PhotoRec program, including how to select the correct file system. The mp3 files are recovered along with va...
In this video the instructor shows how to hide any kind of file in a .Jpeg image file. To do this take the image in a new folder. Go to start button and then to run. Type cmd in the run and hit enter to open the command prompt. Now browse to the directory that contains the picture and also the file that you want to store using the CD command. Type the command to create our required file as shown in the video. Now a new file will be created that contains your image as well as the file that you...
If you ever download a game you find sometimes not a exe file but an ISO file. First, you need the program called "Daemon Tools." This is a very simple tool to open ISO files like you put CD or DVD in a DVD rom and open it by just going the drive.
