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How To: Improve your child's tennis technique

Tennis professional Francis Ribeiro explains that to help children improve their tennis technique, you should first help them hold their racket's string toward the sky. You can also tell them to line up and have them hit forehands and show them a fun way to pick up tennis balls. Improve your child's tennis technique.

How To: Improve your outfield catching

Buddy Mason describes how you can improve your outfield catching for the game cricket. You should get in position, get your hands ready, and then make the catch. A dropped catch can be the difference in a key match, so see a ball all the way into your hands, and make sure it stays there. Improve your outfield catching.

How To: Improve your close catching

Buddy Mason demonstrates how you can improve your close catching for the game cricket. You should relax as the ball comes to you, get in position, get your hands ready, and then make the catch. Fielding close to the bat means catching opportunities come at you quickly, so here's how to get a pair of safe hands. Improve your close catching.

How To: Improve your groundstrokes

Tennis professional Francis Ribeiro says that there are three drills you can do to improve your groundstrokes: thrown ball drill, progressive thrown ball drill, and side to side drill. Both the thrown ball drill and the progressive thrown ball drill develop your control and accuracy while the side to side drill makes you quicker. Improve your groundstrokes.

How To: Improve your javelin throw

Britain's only female javelin thrower in Athens shows you how to improve on your throwing. Keep the javelin horizontal on the run up, plant the final foot before the line and make sure the throwing arm is straight as possible with the elbow high. Improve your javelin throw.

Out Today: How to Play the Gears of War 3 Beta Version on Xbox Live

Gears of War fans around the world are excited (possibly drooling) over the upcoming release of the third installment in the series, Gears of War 3. There's a lot of hype about the game and its new features, which includes a 4-player co-op mode and a slew of new female characters. But there's one problem—it doesn't come out until September 20th. But for a lucky circle of gamers, the Multiplayer Beta just opened up today.

News: How Controversy Changed SCRABBLE

OSPD1 In 1978, the first SCRABBLE Dictionary was conceived and published by Merriam-Webster, with the help of the National Scrabble Association (NSA). The idea was to include any word that was found in one of the five major dictionaries at the time:

How To: Use the Menu Strip control in Visual Basic 2005

Interested in creating your own dynamic, web-based applications using Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition? In this installment from the Absolute Beginner's Series of VB/ASP.NET form control video tutorials, you'll learn how to use the Menu Strip control which provides a standard Windows style menu in your applications. For more information, as well as tips for being a smarter user of Microsoft Visual Basic, take a look! Use the Menu Strip control in Visual Basic 2005.

News: HTC to Make This Year's Nexus Devices

HTC is developing the latest Nexus phones for Google, according to a recent tweet from Evan Blass, a well-known phone leaker. Blass reported that the new Nexus phones will run Android N, and are being referred to as the M1 and S1. Android Police backed up Blass's tweet and added that a source told them the new handsets will be named "Marlin" and "Sailfish."

News: KitKat Rolling Out for the HTC One

HTC has started rolling out it's KitKat update (Android 4.4.2) for the HTC One to French carrier SFR, expanding on the original update to it's Google Play Edition devices from November. Update roll outs tend to begin in Europe, Asia, and Africa before hitting stateside, but the release means we can't be too far away from a public build. As always, US carriers take much longer than their international counterparts, but the French OTA (over-the-air) update means that, for all intents and purpos...

How To: Get Your Free 90-Day Trial of Windows 8 Enterprise Edition Today

Yesterday, Microsoft announced that Windows 8 RTM is available to its MSDN subscribers and TechNet Professionals. But they've also included a free 90-day trial for developers that anyone can download, no subscription needed. The download is actually for the Enterprise version, so after the 90 days are over you won't be able to upgrade, you'll have to do it from your original operating system when the non-Enterprise version is released in October.

How To: Tie the improved cinch fishing knot

Watch this knot tying instructional video and learn how to tie the improved clinch knot for fishing. The improved clinch knot has become one one of the most popular fishing knots for tying terminal tackle connections. It is quick and easy to tie and is strong and reliable. The improved clinch knot can be difficult to tie in lines in excess of 30 lb test. Five+ turns around the standing line is generally recommended, four can be used in heavy line. This fishing knot is not recommended with bra...

How To: Use towel folding techniques to improve your bathroom

If you're looking for ways to improve the look of your bathroom, the answer may lay in the towels. Although some may think it's dumb, folding your towels a certain way can help improve the style of your bathroom and give off a sense of being clean. This tutorial will give you some adivce on how to achieve a clean look. Enjoy! Use towel folding techniques to improve your bathroom.

News: Special Edition Gold PS3 'Ni No Kuni' Bundle -- Another Reason to Move to Japan

Studio Ghibli is the most well known anime feature film studio in the world. For over 26 years, their films have represented the peak of mainstream anime, and since Disney began distributing their films in America back in 1997, they've become a household name here in the States—not just in Japan. In 2001, they even bested Disney and Pixar, taking home a Best Animated Feature Film Academy Award for Spirited Away. Eight years later, Ghibli and Fukuoka-based developer Level-5 announced that they...

How To: Tie a clinch knot with a knot tying animation

Learn how to tie the Improved Clinch Knot for fishing. This animated knot tying tutorial is the best you'll find. With this knot tying how to, you can tie the improved Clinch Knot fast or slow, or pause it at every step along the way. Learn to tie knots for your next fishing trip. Tie a clinch knot with a knot tying animation.

How To: Create a nighttime stretch routine

This is Fitness for Dummies. Learn how to do simple stretching exercises. An evening stretch routine improves flexibility, warms muscles, and relaxes you before bed. This stretch routine works your arms, legs, and back and can improve your sleep, as well as prevent nighttime cramps. Create a nighttime stretch routine.

How To: Improve hip girdle strength and flexibility

In this video tutorial, viewers learn a workout routine that will strengthen and improve the flexibility of the hip girdle. This routine contains 12 exercises. The exercises and the amounts of reps for each exercise are: clams (8 reps per leg), lateral leg raises (15 reps per leg), donkey kicks (8 reps per leg), donkey whips (5 reps per leg), fire hydrant (8 reps per leg), knee circle forward (5 reps per leg), backward knee circle (5 reps per leg), forward leg hurdle (5 reps per leg), backwar...

How To: Improve your swing

Two wrongs don't make a right, and if your swing is erratic, it probably means you are compensating for a bad set-up or grip. Golf gladiator Rickard Strongert explains some of the most common such mistakes. Improve your swing.

How To: Play the Crysis 2 Multiplayer Demo on Xbox 360 (Coming Soon to PC, March 1st)

Crysis was an amazing game. And Crysis Warhead was great, too. If you haven't played them, you sure missed a great ride on the action train. But don't worry, you can get your feet wet with the newest edition to Crytek's Crysis series—Crysis 2—available from Electronic Arts. A demo of the multiplayer mode became available earlier this month for the Xbox 360 on Xbox Live, and now the multiplayer taster is slated for March 1st on PCs (sorry PS3 gamers). The PC demo will feature two new maps call...