See how easy it is to use the Amazon Kindle eBook reader. This Quick Tips video from CNET shows you how to use the built-in dictionary to look up those hard, mystifying, multi-syllabic words. Finding defintions has never been easier while reading a book.
Watch this CNET Quick Tips video to learn how to add your own MP3s for background music on the Amazon Kindle. Some readers just like to listen to music as they read, and the Kindle makes that easy. It's as easy as dragging and dropping your digitla music files onto your Kindle from your computer.
Nick from Greyscale Gorilla show you how to use the CS Tools plug-in "Cubes" in Cinema 4D. This feature is especially helpful for random shape arrays.
Kayaking is a great way to stay in shape and engage with the outdoors. This video tutorial demonstrates proper kayaking methods and offers a few helpful tips. When paddling a kayak, keep your strokes close to the side of the vessel. Make sure to use your legs to balance the kayak. Finally, adjust your core to get more out of each kayak stroke.
Before you can use Xbox Live 360, you'll have to allow your console to use certain ports that, by default, it may be blocked from using. One way to open up those ports is with port triggering. This helpful home networking how-to will walk you through the process of getting triggering set up in your own wireless router.
In this three-part how-to from everyone's favorite potter (wizard children notwithstanding), Simon Leach talks about the process of building a small raku kiln. For insight into Mr. Leach's kiln-building process, watch this helpful how-to.
Using Canon's EOS Utility Timelapse program, you can automate a timelapse sequence for your Canon 5D or 7D. This helpful software takes the guesswork and the babysitting out of tediuos timelapse photography.
This video gives you a visual walk through on how to block websites on Mozilla Firefox. First, it shows you where to download the add on and it shows you which add on you need to download. Then it shows you how to install the add-on and use it to enter in the websites you would like to block. This is a very helpful video for people who have websites that they want to block but don't know how.
This video goes through the basic step by step process of preparing Betty Crocker instant potatoes. It shows all the ingredients you will need as well as all of the utensils. This video also provide additional information on alternative methods of heating, such as using a microwave. This is a very informational, step by step video of the preparation process of these potatoes, and would be very helpful for someone wanting to better understand the process of preparing this dish.
This video shows how to solve a very basic yet very important geometric problem which is, finding a missing angle of a triangle. This videos shows the viewers more than one basic information about the triangle. It is a short and simple example which is very much helpful for the students who are beginners in geometries and it can be a very useful tip for the people going for interviews since they need to know these basics to solve some very critical puzzles.
The video starts out by showing how a bike rack is helpful in repairing your flat tire. Next it takes you through all of the steps, along with tips and instructions on what you need to do. don't forget to heed the "notes‚" throughout as they are important tips to enable you successfully repair your flat tire. In no time at all you will have fixed your bike's flat tire and once again be ready to hit the road.
Ever wonder how much delicious chocolate pudding you could fit inside a sphere as large as the earth? Maybe not, but after watching this video, you could figure it out! Follow along with the narrator as the formula for determining the volume of sphere is explained, accompanied by helpful visual animations that make the calculations come to life. And if you can't hear the instructions, you may need to check your volume.
Corinne Trang, author of Noodles Every Day, offers a helpful tip on how to easily get the seeds out of a chili pod and still be able to get perfectly round, thin slices.
This video demonstrates how to clean a wood burning stove. Cleaning the wood burning stove is a rather uneasy and untidy task. But this video has good advice and simple to follow steps to simplify the task, in a clean way.
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How many of us think of a simple business suit as something rather humdrum? But that needn't be the case as a well-cut suit is one of the most versatile additions to your wardrobe and truly something worth investing in.
Haven't you ever seen a celebrity or met someone in the flesh and said to yourself, "Gee, they seem so much smaller in person"? Well, it's not that they seem smaller, it's that they know how to dress to look taller.
Here's a helpful house and apartment video tip to help you succeed in your home. Watch this tutorial to learn how to iron your clothes properly.
Here's a helpful house and apartment video tip to help you succeed in your home. Watch this tutorial to learn how to wash you clothes in a washing machine.
Chowhound fayehess, also known as Faye Delicious of Blip.tv, puts the finishing touch on a fried egg. If you don't like that slimy jelly stuff on the white of a fried egg, watch this video to learn how to get rid of it without flipping the egg. Helpful tip on frying eggs.
Check out this video to learn how to chill a glass like a bartender. Bartender Duggan McDonnell shows how to chill down a glass for a better cocktail experience. This is a helpful bartending tip.
Drawing medieval things includes things such as treasure chests, a Fleur de Lis and a sword. Draw medieval things with tips from a professional illustrator in this free instructional video on drawing. Medieval drawing tips are helpful for fantasy artists.
In this video tutorial you'll learn how to play the Three Dog Night version of Hoyt Axton's "Joy to the World" on the ukulele. This video lesson covers both the song's chords changes and various strumming patterns. For more information, and to get started playing Three Dog Night's "Joy to the World" on your own ukulele, watch this helpful video guide.
This video tutorial will get you started playing B flat barre chords on the ukulele. In it, you'll find a number of tips and techniques for fretting the B flat chord and be advised of common pitfalls. For more information, and to get started playing B flat chords on your own uke at home, watch this helpful video guide.
Once you've gotten comfortable on the uke, you might want to take your show on the road. In this tutorial, Nathan Melcher of the Uncle Ukulele Improv show gives seven tips on improvising lyrics when playing the ukulele. Get started improvising your own songs with this helpful how-to.
This video tutorial demonstrates the ukulele strum to Beirut's "Elephant Gun." The strumming pattern is as follows: Up, Up, Down, Down, Up, Up, Down, Up, Down. When you strum, use your finger as opposed to your thumbnail and pluck just the C and G strings (or in this case C# and G#). And that's it. For a complete video walkthrough, watch this helpful ukulele lesson.
This hacker's guide demonstrates a quick PHP script which may allow you to crawl through the operating system on your hosting provider. demonstrate the power of PHP on a Virtual Host, or vhost, if PHP is not correctly secured by your web hosting provider. For more information on this hack, watch this helpful video guide.
Running low on toner in your HP LaserJet 1022 printer and having trouble installing the new toner? In this video tutorial, go through the few steps to make the LJ1022 toner replacement quick and painless. For more information, and to get started replacing your own LaserJet printer cartridges, watch this helpful video guide.
Microsoft Office Excel 2007 spreadsheet manager is a powerful tool that enables information workers to format spreadsheets, as well as analyze and share information to make more informed decisions. In this Excel tutorial, you'll learn about simple formatting, background colour, gridlines, alignment. For more information on formatting spreadsheets within MS Excel, watch this helpful how-to.
If you have a blocked sink, there are multiple solutions. This video tutorial will see to it that you find the right fix for your clog. For more information, as well as to get started unblocking your own sink, watch this helpful plumbing tutorial.
Have you recently switched to an Apple computer? This video how-to demonstrates three helpful techniques to make your transition from PC to Mac as smooth as possible. Specifically, this tutorial addresses workflow management and keyboard shortcuts. For more information, as well as to get started acclimating to your new operating system, take a look at this OS X tutorial.
This instructional photography video provides some helpful tips on how to build narrative ideas surrounding body of photography work that you'll want to create. You can use these techniques when building a book, a web site or a series of consistent images for your story. You will not only make your photography work more interesting, but working with narrative will train you to become a better story teller.
Contrary to popular belief, pictures do lie. So make sure they're saying you're skinnier than you really are. Monochromatic outfits, body shapers, and high heels can help trick the eye. Body positioning and camera angles are also helpful. Watch this instructional video and learn how to look thinner in photographs.
When you press the Print Screen button on your keyboard in any version of Windows, be it 95, 2000, ME, XP or Vista, Windows will take a picture of your display output and put it into your clipboard. Once in your clipboard, it can be pasted into most any image editing program (e.g., Paint). For more information on taking screenshots with Print Screen, watch this helpful Windows tutorial!
This photography tutorial shows you how to make a better shutter release lock for Diana Plus and vintage Diana cameras. This is helpful for low light situations and long exposures. You can make a replacement shutter release lock with a clothes pin and a file. Have fun taking night photographs with this handy tool.
The next time you're remodeling or sprucing up a bathroom in your home, you might consider replacing your old toilet along with the other fixtures. It's easier than you think. Watch these easy steps on how to successfully replace or install a toilet. For more, or to get started on your own toilet removal/installation project, watch this helpful DIY guide.
Learn how to save energy and money on your heating and cooling bills by replacing your existing thermostat with a programmable thermostat. Watch the step by step installation process, and discover some helpful tips along the way as well.
Active Expert Gale Bernhardt provides helpful tips on cornering techniques for cyclists in this instructional cycling video. Depending on the particular situation you're faced with when turning the corner, you may have to turn a corner with a tight radius or a wide radius. See how fast you can go in each situation and learn how to turn the corner the fastest way around a corner in various circumstances with this cycling tutorial video.
Watch this instructional screen printing video to do an emulsion, burn an image, and screen print. These tips are helpful for beginners who want to screen print from a photographic image. If you are taking a screen printing class, this video will remind you of a few key steps and processes for screen printing on your own.
