In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to rip a DVD with the program, Handbrake. Begin by opening the video in the program by clicking on Source and locating the DVD drive. Handbrake will start scanning the all the titles of the DVD. When finished, it will automatically select the correct title for the movie. Under Destination, click on Browse to select your saving destination. You are also able to change the name of the file. Now select the video format and aspect ratio. When finished, cl...
There are a few ways to bring pictures into a Flash file. This tutorial shows one simple way to do that. You can work with the photos in many ways, which will be discuss in later tutorials. Importing a .psd directly into Flash can be very useful because it maintains the layers in CS3, making it easy to animate or apply action script later to the layer. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular Flash-development platform or a seasoned web developer looking to better acquaint yourself with Flash CS...
Add interactivity to your Flash files with this basic tutorial on start/stopDrag functions in ActionScript 2.0. This function allows the user to manually move objects with their mouse clicks. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular Flash-development platform or a seasoned web developer looking to better acquaint yourself with Flash CS3, you're sure to benefit from this free software tutorial. For more information, and to get started using startDrag and stopDrag in your own projects, watch this ...
The registry is like a filing cabinet for your operating system; it contains everything from the last web site you visited to the last program you opened. Over time, it gets loaded with junk and that slows things down. Fortunately, cleaning it up is easy. So easy, in fact, that this home-computing how-to from the folks at Butterscotch can present a complete, step-by-step overview of the process in just over four minutes' time. For detailed instructions, and to get started tidying up your own ...
What's the difference between a webpage and a text file? CSS. See how to use CSS styles to format your content when working in Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular WISYWIG HTML editor or a seasoned web development professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the CS4 workflow, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including a step-by-step overview, watch this free video guide.
In this video, learn how to restore rundll32.exe on your Windows XP machine. You can also use this method to fix or patch a missing or deleted Rundll32.exe file.
Camtasia 7 has a new feature, and it's called the Library. The Library section in Camtasia contains audio files, and effects like digital radius, fiber waves, rounded angles, silver streaks, sound effects, and a thing called target blue. You can use some of those visual effects to create title clips for your screencasts. The effects make the video look like Flash, even though it's obviously not. See how to add a Flash title clip from the library folder.
Screen recording should be easy, right? So why can't you figure out how to edit your video in Camtasia 7? Well, you probably know the basics, but just in case you need a little help learning the editing must-knows, this video will show you how… learn to edit and cut video and audio in Camtasia. One of the main things you'll probably want to know is can you cut the audio and video indecently, or will it always be a joint venture for the two? Yes, you can easily edit the audio and video separat...
The Motorola DROID is the hottest new mobile device on the market, and playing all of your favorite music on it is a cinch. The new Android platform makes it easy to navigate through your music files. Want to know how? Best Buy has answers. The Best Buy Mobile team explains how simple it is to access the music on your Motorola DROID cell phone.
An animated GIF is a great addition to any website. By animating your image, you will draw someone's eye to it almost immediately. This is especially useful if you are creating an advertisement or a logo.
If you are interested in listening to music on your PSP but do not have the time to transfer all of your files from your PC, have a look at this video.
The Internet is full of crooks just waiting and waiting for the chance to steal your information. One way that people are getting into your system these days is with fake or rogue applications. These viruses sneak themselves onto your PC either through hacked websites or when you download other types of files. They piggyback on other things you do and install themselves. If you think you have been infected, have a look at this tutorial.
If, for whatever reason, you need to show someone else a photo of your computer screen, you will need to take a screen shot. In this tutorial, learn how to copy your screen on a Windows based PC.
If you are looking to get your point across even better, why not add video to your Powerpoint presentation?
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to change the flashing white screen-shot on an iPod Touch or iPhone. Users will need to have their iPod device jail-broken and have the Winter board application. Begin by opening the application and install SB-Flasher. Now go to the link in the video description and select an image that you would like. Rename the image to "SBScreenShotBG.png". Then download the file from the video description and extract it. Now drag the image into the SpringBoard.app...
In this how to video, you will learn how to use Daemon tools lite. First, download the program and install it on to your computer. Click, next and agree to the terms. From here, select what components are going to be used. Click next until you are finished installing. Now you can run the program. It should be on the system tray. The virtual drive should automatically be installed and be called device 0. You will see it if you right click the icon on the system tray. Now you can mount ISO file...
In this how to video, you will learn how to set up Outlook Express for Gmail. This is useful if you want to use the program to access your email. First, log in to your Gmail account and go to settings. Next, go to Forwarding and Pop and select Enable Pop for all Mail. Save this and then go to Forwarding and Pop. From here, select Outlook Express. Click Run the Auto-configuration Tool. From here, you must save a file and open it. Once it is open, type in your account information. Press configu...
Insert DVD containing Mac OS software into system drive. Reboot system. Confirm installation and agree with license. When prompted to select drive, select disk utility from menu bar. Select hard drive and click on erase button. Select Mac OS extended file system. Confirm erasing all data. Once drive formatted, close disk utility. Select to install in hard drive that was erased. After installation completes and system reboots, select Language and Keyboard for your country. When asked if alread...
In this video, Nub shows us how to delete a user account. First, you will click "start" then "control panel". Then click on "user accounts" and then "manage another account". You must be logged in as the administrator to do this. A new window will pop up once you click on this and you will see all the user accounts on your computer. Click on the user you want to delete and a menu will show up. Click the button that says "delete this account". A message will appear asking if you want to save t...
Brad Garland guides us through the process of sharing our media files so that they can be stored on a single computer in our home, and played on any computer that is connected to this computer with iTunes 9. Using this technique, he and his wife can not only play the music that's stored on the central computer via their laptops, but also copy the desired music and videos over to their laptops much like they would for an iPod. Brad explains that he does not include Podcasts in this process, be...
First you have to open your internet browser and then go to Google.com. Then search for "outlook connector download". Go to the top hit it gives you go to the site. Scroll down to where you can download the outlook connector and pick the top one of the two there. Run the file and agree to the terms and conditions. Run the install and once it is finished installing open up Outlook. Click next and input your hotmail user name and password. Enter the name you want to appear on emails sent, click...
This is a video tutorial that is showing its audience how to make a glossy Vista wallpaper in the program Photoshop. The first step is to open Photoshop. Photoshop is a very large program so it might take a few minutes to open fully. The second step is to go to file open and open up your wallpaper folder that is on your computer. Choose one of the images and click okay. Then you should select different parts of the wallpaper that you chose and use the elliptical tool and the paint brush tool ...
MacIsTheGeek explains how to quickly and easily run Windows software natively on the Mac, without installing an emulator, or using BootCamp. The software that enables this, called Darwine, is available as a free download from Softpedia. Darwine comes with Notepad, Minesweeper, Explorer, and various other Windows programs for use as demos for Darwine. However, once Darwine is installed, using any other Windows application is as simple as installing the executable file on your Mac hard drive, j...
This how to video will show you how to create outlines of fonts with Adobe Illustrator. This is useful when you send a file to someone and they do not have the font you used to view it. This will allow them to view the text without worrying about what fonts the computer they are using has. First, select the text tool and type your text out. Next, go to type and select create outlines. From here, click it. The outline for the text has now been created. This video shows you an easy way to make ...
The Voda Phone Help Center's video provides you how to hints and tips to get your email onto your Blackberry Storm. This video will help you send and receive emails. To receive emails, click the main message button, which looks like an envelope, you will then see you inbox where all your messages are stored. Next if you wish to send a message, click the compose button in the lower left hand corner and select which type of message you want to send. Enter in the email address in the top box, wh...
To format an external hard drive on Windows Vista, plug the hard drive in, then click on start menu, right click on "computer", and select "manage". Go to "storage" on the left hand menu and select "disk management". Right click on the letter of your external hard drive, and select "Shrink Volume". Choose the size of the partition you want to create, and click shrink. After it is done, there will be 2 seperate drives, with the new one being allocated. Right click on the unallocated drive and ...
In this how to video, you will learn how to style documents with the Google Docs CSS editor. First, create a new document in Google Docs. First, click on the drop down menu for style. Type in a title in the document. Select heading 2 in the menu and type in the section title. Next, take off the style and type in the body for the content. Select some of the body text and click the hyperlink button. Type in the address and click okay. Now you can click this text to go to a website. Go to file a...
This video demonstrates how one might be able to successfully create an Ubuntu Bootable CD-ROM. The procedure described involves downloading the Ubuntu Desktop Edition Operating System image off the Ubuntu web site. In order to successfully create a usable disc, one needs to burn the image file onto a blank CD-ROM, using the Disc Utility application. Once the disc is burnt, one needs to insert the disc into one's computer, and then boot from it using the menu that pops up. If you are new to U...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to add custom music in the game, WWE Smack Down vs. Raw 2009. Users will need a blank recordable CD and cannot use MP3s or any other audio format. Begin by recording all the music files into the CD and the insert it into the Xbox360. In the Xbox360 dashboard, go to My Xbox and select Play CD. Click on Rip CD and name the information of the CD. Now select the song that you want and add in into a play-list. Now to select the song in the game, select use...
This video shows you how to remove acrylic nails using a nail tip. It takes a long time to soak the nails in acetone to remove them, and this method is quicker. To do it, slide one of the corners under any part of the tip. Force it in and slide it over across the nail and you will be able to see the acrylic nail lift up. Gently work on it to pull the nail off. It might hurt a little bit. The nail will look kind of rough, so you'll have to file it, and use some nail strengthener. Nail technici...
In order to install Windows 7 from a USB drive, while you are running XP, you will need a pen drive. You will also need a Windows 7 DVD and a pen driver.
In this Computers & Programming video tutorial you will learn how to reformat your hard drive to install Windows XP. You will need a copy of window XP. Insert the CD in to your CD drive. Restart your computer and the command prompt will show. Press any key to boot from the windows XP set up CD. The set up screen will be displayed. Click enter and agree to all the terms. Then select the driver on which you want to put the XP and click enter. Then select the NTFS file system and not the ‘quic...
In this how-to video, you will learn how to reduce freckles in Photoshop. This is useful for editing people who have a lot of freckles. First, open the file in Photoshop and copy the background layer. Apply a Gaussian blur to the layer. Adjust it so that the freckles are no longer visible. Click okay and then open up the history palette. Click on the duplicate layer in the history window. Set the source for the history brush. Set the mode to light. Next, paint over the freckles. Now the freck...
In this how to video, you will learn how to keep your Windows operating system secure by look for and closing open ports. First, you will need to run the program called Net State. Once this is open, type in netstat -a. This will list main connections. Next, type in netstat -an. This will give you the numbers of ports that are open. Some may be used for file sharing and anti-virus programs. If you want it completely secured, you should only have one running. This video shows you how easy it is...
This video is a tutorial on how to create your own custom screen savers from your favorite movies on a Windows computer. The first step is to download the Movie Screen Saver Software from www.vijusoft.com. When the program is finished downloading from the website then you will have to open the installer package and follow the instructions. The download should only take a few minutes and then you might have to restart your computer when it is finished. The second step, once the program is down...
Here is a simple technique to resize multiple pictures in Photoshop by creating an action, to adjust the image size. The only requirement is for the pictures to more or less the same size. First we go to windows and select action then we open up an image to determine the appropriate size that we require. Then click on the create new action and, give it a name then hit record now go to image the image size resize the image and then save and hit ok .You can see that its still recording your act...
Have important files that you want to put on a USB drive but do not want anyone else to be able to access them? Put a password on it using USBSecure.net free resource.
In this Computers & Programming video tutorial you will learn how to update websites from Firefox with the FireFTP add-on. Go to the Firefox add-ons page, search for FireFTP, add it to Firefox and install it. Restart Firefox to activate the add-on. Go to tools and click on FireFTP and that will open up a new tab with the FTP client. To configure the FTP to your account, create a new account by giving it a name. The host will be your domainname.com and use the login and the password for the ho...
This video describes how to make a system restore point. First we have to go to click the start on the keyboard. Next select the computer and go for the properties. Next go to system protection. Next go the protection settings and highlight the operating system and give option of “on” on the protection and just click the create. Then you will get a box of system protection. Next you can give a name and then click ok to that it will take some time. Next if you go for system properties you ...
In this video, we learn how to do basic text effects in Adobe Illustrator. First, open up Adobe Illustrator and make a new document. Now, type in your desired text and change your font to one that you prefer. To make your text turn into a radiant, you will click "file" then "type" then "create outline". Now you will click on your text then click your radiant swatch. Then, go to "gradient" and adjust your colors to which you prefer. You can now put a stroke on it using the "stroke" tool and ch...
