How To: Beat the Flash game Grow Valley from Shingakunet
Grow Valley is an educational but fun flash game where you develop a valley with all the niceties of modern life, from cars to dams.
Grow Valley is an educational but fun flash game where you develop a valley with all the niceties of modern life, from cars to dams.
In this clip, learn how to use the Save for Web & Devices feature in Adobe Photoshop to export and optimize your images for use on the Internet. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular raster graphics editor or a seasoned designer looking to better acquaint yourself with the new features and functions of the latest iteration of the application, you're sure to benefit from this free software tutorial. For more information, watch this video guide.
With version 5.0.1, Safari joins the ranks of web browsers that support user extensions. In this home-computing how-to, you'll learn how to install and make use of extensions in your own web browser. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using browser extensions in Safari yourself, take a look.
AJAX (Asyncronous Java and XML) is one of the most important parts of web design, allowing web designers to create much more dyanmic and interactive websites then they could in the past. This video for beginners will show you how to get started using AJAX with jQuery, an easy-to-use but powerful Javascript library, to make websites. It won't walk you all the way through creating a website, but is a good place to get started.
Save your Illustrator CS5 illustrations for the web. This clip will show you how it's done. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular vector graphics editor or a seasoned graphic arts professional interested in better acquainting yourself with the new features and functions of Illustrator CS5, you're sure to benefit from this free software tutorial. For more information, and to get started using this trick in your own Illustrator projects, watch this video guide.
Spooky Halloween parties necessitate a certain amount of creeptastic spider webs, but the cheap cottony stuff that comes in plastic bags at most retailers feel fake and have been overused over the last few years.
Want to protect your privacy when surfing the Internet? Thwart would-be snoopers with this free video guide from CNET TV, which presents an overview of a number of services and good practices one can observe to project one's privacy when using the web. For specifics, and to get started surfing the Internet anonymously yourself, watch this free video guide.
Most Playstation 3 models have massive hard drives, just begging to be filled with the media files from your computer. This video will show you a cool trick for transferring files from your PC to a PS3 over the web. All you need is the simple free program here. Why plug anything into anything else to send files when this is so much more elegant?
Did you know that your copy of Photoshop is already equipped to help you design a web gallery? If you are thinking of publishing your images online, have a look at this tutorial. In it, you will be guided through a quick and easy way to create a web photo gallery in Photoshop using 20 different templates.
Curtis Smith (Extension Horticulturist) and Rick Daniell (Bernalillo Co. Horticulture Agent) examine the bark of a poplar tree. The young bark is smooth and will furrow as it grows older. There are straight horizontal lines on the bark that look like sap-sucker damage but in this case, the markings on the poplar is the normal bark development of the poplar. They also look at and discuss Fall Web Worm cocoons which look like bird nests on a tree. Web worms do not do as much damage to the tree ...
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 94th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use and link a currency web query to a data validation cell drop-down list for money conversion.
In this three-part Dreamweaver tutorial, learn how to create basic web forms using Dreamweaver. The three parts cover the following:
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.
Some governments and organizations employ proxy servers to filter web content, permitting access to some web sites while blocking others. Here are several ways to get around these censorship policies. This is employed in China with YouTube and many other voices of anti-goverment ideas.
This image editing software tutorial will show you how to create a round, curled sticker in Photoshop CS3. The round, curled sticker is popular for web 2.0 site designs. Creating the growing popular round 'curled' stickers in Photoshop is as easy as watching this how-to.
In this episode of Web Design TV Paul Wyatt shows you how to create a horizontal drop down menu in Dreamweaver CS3 using an Ajax widget. Drop down menus are a huge part of web design and website development, so if you use Dreamweaver to develop your sites, get familiar with Spry Widgets and using them to create drop down menus.
How to Use Your Mac as a Server: Turn your Mac Mini into a server! Yes, that's right, with a little know-how and a little spunk, you can turn an inexpensive Mac Mini computer into a server to provide services over you network. You won't even need the Mac OS X Server, just the Mac OS X Client, so there is no extra software to buy, just the Mac Mini and it's operating system.
Using three layers of alpha transparent PNG files, we can can create a pseudo 3-dimensional looking background for a web page using the parallax effect. This video screencast covers how to do that from start to finish. Since Internet Explorer 6 and under do not support alpha transparency in PNG's, this screencase also covers how to create a warning message that will display only in those web browsers. You'll see how to use TextMate, Adobe Photshop, Safari, and VMware Fusion for your CSS build...
You can use Aperture's web pages feature to create websites using images from any project, album, or folder.
See how to make a low budget web show, like Pop17, seem like a grand thing. This is low budget basics including lighting, microphone and an HDV camera. You should also edit it in Final Cut Pro, because that's what Pop17 does.
Learn how to build a an Email Handling PHP script in Dreamweaver that sends info from your web form to your email.
The term blog is a shorthand for web-log. It can be considered as a online and publically viewable diary of user generated content usually sorted by date.
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to disable the awesome bar in the Mozilla Firefox web browser. This task is very easy, fast and simple to do. Begin by opening the web browser and type in "about:config" in the address bar. Press Enter on the keyboard. A warning will appear, click on "I promise, I'll be careful". In the Filter bar, type in "browser.urlbar". Then double-click on the result and change the value to -1. Now restart the Firefox web browser. This video will benefit those vi...
To do this, you must be using Safari; make sure you are not using Firefox or another program. This can be very useful for quickly finding information on web pages. Press Command F. This will open up a toolbar on the top of the page which will ask you what you are searching for. Type the word you are searching for into the toolbar. The word will be highlighted on the web page; you can then click the next arrows to find the section of the page you are looking for. This can be used to find speci...
In this how-to video, you will learn how to light your web show. This is important as it will make your web show look more professional. Proper lighting allows you to see your face, eyes, and the colors of your shirt. If there is not enough light, you cannot see yourself as well. You will also look dark and grainy. Too much light will cause your face to look too hot. Backlit lighting will cause your face to be too dark because the light is in the background. This is why background lighting is...
This video is about making a bookmark for your web browser in Visual Basic 2008.The videos begins with a simple web browser which consists of simple web components, a textbox and a go button. Pull the sides of the browser to stretch it and put in a listbox. Enlarge the listbox and use two buttons below the listbox. Enter the text for the buttons as "Enter current page" and "clear". Now go to selection explorer, double click "my project" and go to settings. Add a new setting called "Bookmarks"...
This video questions whether or not the writer should stay with her boyfriend who is living with his last girlfriend. The advice given is it's dangerous. If you truly love this guy then you want a personal relationship with him. It’s going to be hard with him living with his last girlfriend. He may be truthful about not wanting to be with her. On the other side of the coin it would be so easy for him to accidentally slip up. Since the ex-girlfriend and he have been down that road before it wo...
With divorce rates set to hit a record high this year, 'betterdatethannever' explains how to avoid arguing with your partner. Most people experiencing marital difficulties blame financial reasons for their fights. The easiest way to avoid conflict with your partner is to make sure you communicate and share your problems. Holding things deep inside makes them get worse and worse till they explode into one huge argument. Allow your partner to speak their mind and express things they do not like...
To create a web photo gallery on Photoshop, first go to file show all menu items if you have then automate go to Web photo gallery then to changes the styles click on the style to see them the description on thee right then set up email address after Source images on (use) choose a folder, click all sub folders if you do not have any sub folders in Your folder. Go to options select one that you choose then click OK then in Photoshop it resizes all photos quickly after open up a web browser an...
Looking to buy a home? Why leave your current digs? Using technology has made it easier than ever before to find the home of your dreams. Learn how to buy a home online with help from this how-to video.
Here are step-by-step instructions on how to write a check. 1. Date the check, and ensure it is dated for the day you intend the recipient to cash it.
An invisible number controls your financial destiny. So until the revolution, you might as well learn how to raise your credit score.
Designing a cool app for Android? If you were looking to integrate web content into your Android app, you can—and the Android Developers are here to show you how it's done! It's all done with an embedded WebView, allowing you to embed HTML, Javascript and style sheets from your web content. If you were looking for a quick answer on how you embed your web content into your app, let the pros at Google teach you the right way.
Microsoft ASP.NET is a free technology that allows programmers to create dynamic web applications. ASP.NET can be used to create anything from small, personal websites through to large, enterprise-class web applications. All you need to get started with ASP.NET is the free .NET Framework and the free Visual Web Developer. Generally, the DataPager control is used with the ListView control. The ListView control is data driven. First create a ListView control and provide it some data. Next drop ...
Microsoft ASP.NET is a free technology that allows programmers to create dynamic web applications. ASP.NET can be used to create anything from small, personal websites through to large, enterprise-class web applications. All you need to get started with ASP.NET is the free .NET Framework and the free Visual Web Developer. This video tutorial uses a web template from oswd.org to demonstrate the use of Master Pages and how they are supported in Visual Studio 2008. Specifically, this Visual Stud...
Microsoft ASP.NET is a free technology that allows programmers to create dynamic web applications. ASP.NET can be used to create anything from small, personal websites through to large, enterprise-class web applications. All you need to get started with ASP.NET is the free .NET Framework and the free Visual Web Developer. In this video tutorial, you'll take a tour of the new features and changes to the IDE in Visual Studio 2008. See the updated web page editor, WPF form designer, CSS editor, ...
Microsoft ASP.NET is a free technology that allows programmers to create dynamic web applications. ASP.NET can be used to create anything from small, personal websites through to large, enterprise-class web applications. All you need to get started with ASP.NET is the free .NET Framework and the free Visual Web Developer. Using Visual Studio 2008's improved Designer, this video will demonstrate how to create a Nested Master Page. Nested Master Pages are useful when you build a hierarchy of te...
Learn how you can make a spooky spider web treat bag with this arts and crafts tutorial from Crayola. These easy spider web treat bags are perfect for a trick-or-treat bag or as party favor bags. You will need 2 small white paper bags, Crayola Color Explosion black paper, Crayola Color Explosion markers, glitter glue, scissors, and brass fasteners. With this how to video you will be able to make these fun spider web treat bags with your kids.
Tired of walking everywhere? Does your only ride have two wheels and a bell? Check out this video and learn tips and tricks for convincing your parental units to buy you a car. Pretty soon you will be cruising through town and the envy of all your friends.
There's 6 small techniques to improving traffic on your website via web optimization. Improving your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the key to getting traffic to your site, especially a small business that needs to compete online. Lincoln explains 6 small business marketing strategies for improving your web traffic and small business SEO. Watch both parts of this video series.