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How To: Work with exponential growth functions in mathematics

Exponential functions are functions which contains terms which are integers raised to the power of variables. Note that the variables are not raised to the power of integers, but the integers are raised to the power of variables. Variables raised to the power of integers are called as polynomials and are a different class of functions. But exponential functions grow very fast than polynomials with the increase in the value of the variable. To understand the growth of these functions take a si...

How To: Understand your lens & its affect on depth of field

In this Fine Art video tutorial you will learn how to understand your lens and its effect on depth of field. The lens in the video has some inscriptions which are interpreted like this. 50mm is the focal length of the lens. The aperture is from f1.4, which is the widest lens opening to f16, which is the smallest lens opening. The higher the number the lesser the lens opening. Aperture determines the amount light that comes through the lens. Aperture also decides the depth of field. With a wid...

How To: Make a tinted moisturizer using foundation and lotion

In order to make your own Tinted Moisturizer, you will need the following: lotion and foundation. In advance, you will need to select an appropriate foundation and moisturizer. The foundation that you choose should be very close to your current complexion. Mixing it with lotions will dilute it a bit, but it will still need to be close to your current complexion to blend in well.

How To: Use gain and neutral density on a video camera

A common problem when shooting in low-light situations is that even if you open your lens to its lowest f-stop number, you're left with an image that's far too dark. One obvious remedy is to add more light. But what if you don't have more lights available to you? That's where the gain increase switch comes in. This free video cinematographer's guide will show you how to use digital gain settings to amplify available light to get better shots in less-than-ideal environments.

How To: Enable smooth scrolling in Mozilla Firefox

In this Video of TheFirefoxAddons,Vic (MasteroftheXP) teaches us a very easy way to make Firefox's scrolling smoother. This makes surfing long pages with a lot of content a more pleasant experience and does not have a significant increase in Firefox's use of resources.To enable this feature, you must go the ¨Tools¨ Menu in Mozilla Firefox.In the menu you must click on options.After that click on the Advanced tab and check if the box labeled ¨enable smooth scrolling¨ If it is not, click on...

How To: Prevent yellow jackets from nesting in your home walls

Rick Steinau with Ask the Exterminator demonstrates how to prevent yellow jackets from nesting in your home's walls. In mid to late summer yellow jacket populations increase. Yellow jackets can find spaces in the veneer or in cracks in bricks or siding. You can hear scratching noises in your walls as the wasps move. Observe wasp activity late in the day when they return to their nest for the night. Treat reachable holes with pesticide dust and a bellows. Leave the hole open to let the wasps f...

How To: Play "Learning to Fly" by Tom Petty

If you want to play "Learning to Fly" by Tom Petty on acoustic guitar you should first pay the chords, F, C, Am and G. These same four chords will be played over and over again to complete the song. The strumming pattern is as follows: When playing F strum down up. When playing C strum up up down. When playing Am strum Down up and finally when playing G strum up up down. You'll want to repeat this through the song. First, you should start out slow then increase in speed with practice. For the...

How To: Start your own business & build your brand

Johnny Cupcakes teaches viewers how to start their own business and build up their own brand! You should create an interesting atmosphere for your customers! Find your niche and your theme and go for it! Your store and niche may evolve, and that's okay, it will happen! As your brand grows, you will be able to hire more people and expand. The best idea for your brand and longevity is to make sure you do not sell out to larger corporations or groups. By doing this you will increase your longevi...

How To: Build confidence in your children

Jerry Lavender demonstrate how to build confidence in your children. Use secure attachments to provide a stable base for your child. Your child will fee safe to explore the world. Provide structure and predictable environment for your child. This will enable your child to relax. Use a stable routine so that your child knows what to expect during the day. Encourage your child to play with people in their environment. Sports and physical activity raise endorphins and increase happiness. Remembe...

How To: Speed up Windows Vista in three steps

This video will show you how you can increase the speed that your Microsoft Windows Vista runs by using several different methods. You can disable the transparency function and go to a basic mode. Clearing disc space will also make your computer run faster. You can just run a disk clean up. Finally you will want to do a disk defragment your computer. If your computer is running a little slower than you’d like then try doing these three things and you should gain a little speed.

How To: Play DJ Hero using advanced directional scratches

This will illustrate us how to play DJ Hero using advanced directional scratches. Here are the following steps.Step 1: First of all insert the disc in the player and switch it onStep 2 : As soon as you will switch it on the Hero song can be heardStep 3: now using your hand and the musicometre play the video and in between increase and decrease the intensity of the audio sounds.Step 4: now rotate the disc to and fro and as well in the forward direction to make a screeching sound and here you a...

How To: Digitally modify your eye color for free with GIMP

Stevmay09 will be teaching you how to digitally modify your eye color for free using GIMP. First you need to zoom in on the eyeball then click on the free select tool. Then start on the corner of the eye and make your way around the entire eye. Once you have the area around the eye selected you need to create a new layer. Make sure its filled with transparency then select the color you would like the eye to be. Then get the paint brush tool and select the icon shown then increase the scale an...

How To: Configure Mozilla Firefox for faster performance

Mozilla Firefox is a popular browser for accessing the Internet, but can perform slow over time depending on your settings. This video tutorial shows how to speed up Firefox by deleting excess cache and reassigning your boolean values. Certain password add-ons can also increase functionality, but refrain from enabling too many, as each one will slow your system down a bit.

How To: Make Windows Vista'saero glass borders fat

Customizing Window Vista's glass borders is relatively simple. In order to expand the borders, right click and choose properties, then choose appearance. Scroll down and click on 'open classic appearance properties'. Under Windows Aero, choose advanced settings, and click on desktop and choose border padding. You can then increase the size to your choosing and click 'ok' and 'apply'. After a few short seconds, you will notice that your borders are fatter than they were before! You can also us...

How To: Use Auto-FP high speed sync for Nikon SB speedlights

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to use Auto-FP high speed flash on the Nikon SB camera. Begin by attaching the SB speed light onto the camera and turn on the speed light. This video will be setting up vie the camera menu. In he menu, set it at 1/250s and exit out the menu. The "FP" icon will now appear on the LCD panel. Increase it to 1/8000s or stop up to F/2. 8. This video will benefit those viewers who are interested in photography and would like to learn how to use Auto-FP on a ...

How To: Use the Nikon SU-800 Commander

This video tutorial is going to show you how to use the Nikon SU-800 Commander speed light. It requires only one 123A 3V Lithium Battery. A tiny switch allows you to switch between close-up. Another flash can be connected to it by a long cord. SEL button allows you to select. With the left and right arrow buttons increase or decrease the flash power. You will use the MODE button to program the speed light. TTL is for through the lens, AA for auto aperture, M for manual and so on. Watch the fu...

How To: Properly measure flour

Maggie Ruggiero, a food editor with Gourmet Magazine, and Test Kitchen demonstrate how to correctly measure flour. To properly measure flour, first spoon the flour into a measuring cup. Then level the flour in the measuring cup by taking a knife and sliding it across the top of the measuring cup. Never pack the flour into the measuring cup. If you pack the flour into the measuring cup, you will get a significant difference and increase of about three tablespoons of the flour in the measuring ...

How To: Have fun with the liquify tool in Photoshop

In this Software video tutorial you will learn how to have fun with the’ liquefy’ tool in Photoshop. The video is by Yanik Chauvin. Open Photoshop, select a picture that you want to have fun with, go to ‘filter’ and click open the ‘liquefy’ tool. This video is looking at 3 tools under liquefy. They are Forward Wrap Tool, Pucker Tool and Bloat Tool. These tools can be modified by the brush options on the right hand side. The Pucker Tool reduces the size of a feature on the image. The Bloat Too...

How To: Massage through the colon to relieve constipation

The man in the video teaches a very helpful massage routine to help relieve constipation. He explains where and how hard to put pressure on the area. He even goes to explain that where the fecal matter is pushed through the abdomen. The video also shows a very good demonstration by using a patient. What you want to do, is start with very easy low pressure. You then gradually increase in pressure. He explains that you want to start with the sigmoud part of the colon, just around the hip bone. ...

How To: Add a Facebook fan box to your website or blog

Rich Brooks of the web design and internet marketing company Flyte New Media shows you how to add a Facebook Fan Box to your website or blog. This video briefly explains the importance of using Facebook Fan Box as a social networking tool to help build your business and increase your fanbase. Adding a Facebook Fan Box is as simple as following a few simple steps. You'll begin by clicking on the Fan Box button your Facebook page which will allow you to choose where to add this widget. You'll b...

How To: Build confidence by being organized & killing clutter

In this Craving Confidence video the instructor Patricia Stark talks about how to gain confidence. When your disorganized you are all over the place. You have trouble focusing on one thing because you see piles of more than one thing all around you. This clutter kills motivation by overwhelming you. Clutter makes you good stuff look bad. You cant see the quality and care for the finer things that you have invested in when they are all crammed in with all that stuff you collected over the year...

How To: Stretch a PNF hamstring

This is a presentation about PNF (Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation) Stretching exercise especially for guys. The first is hamstring stretch. In this stretch the body have to resist some blocks or holding desks and then push down our body when the leg is stretched in the blocks and we have to repeat this procedure for 4 or 5 times. After this stretching, we can able to move our body further and further. Then, the second is groin's stretching and we have to keep our body in the floor a...

How To: Work out your top abs with stomach exercises

In the video, a physical trainer, namely Daryl Stain, explains Fatloss life style exercises. In the video, he explains an exercise to develop top abs with the most time-efficient body transmission exercises. For the exercise, we need a decline bench and a medicine ball. First, take a decline position, then toss the ball to a partner in a slightly bent position. Catch back the ball from your partner. Keep it behind your neck, and go down slowly. Take a deep breath. Relax a second, and come up ...

How To: Make a building explode in After Effects

This video shows you how to create a building explosion (more specifically, the Statue of Liberty) in Adobe After Effects in less than ten minutes. The smoke and fire are downloaded separately, while the shattering of the statue is created in After Effects. First, duplicate the layers into what will and what will not explode, then create a mask around each one. Then, set the shatter effect to the exploding layer. Set the shape pattern to glass to make it more realistic. Also, you can raise th...

How To: Use navigation & selection techniques in MS Word 2007

User mel_bone teaches you how to use navigation and selection techniques in Microsoft Word 2007. You will notice in the bottom right corner of the main window a slider. This controls the zoom. You can thus increase the page size or decrease it, as you need. When you have a document that has more than one page, you can go to the end of the document by pressing ctrl+end. Ctrl+home brings you to the start of the document. Clicking and holding the mouse button pressed on the navigation bar lets y...

How To: Keep your vinyl LPs in perfect condition

Do you have an old collection of vinyl records but can't keep them in good condition? First, take an empty syringe and fill it with clean water. Add the water from the syringe as the record plays. The water will spread throughout the record and increase the sound quality. The stylus also has to be properly cleaned. This will help you clean your old and dusty records, as well as help with recording music on your CDs.

How To: Do selective desaturation in Photoshop CS4

If you want to learn how to do selective desaturation in Photoshop CS4, you should watch this video. Go to File and choose Open. Open the file you want. Go to Image, select Adjustments, and then Replace Color. Select the second droplet or the droplet with a plus sign. Increase Fuzziness, say 106 but you need to decrease Saturation. Set Saturation to -100. Click on the image except for the selected part that you want to have a color. Decrease Fuzziness to know the parts that you need to click ...

How To: Understand the Cambrian Explosion

This energetic video shows what the Cambrian Explosion is and when it occurred in relation to a 24 hour clock that represents Earth's life. The Cambrian Explosion was a huge increase in multicellular life forms that occurred about 542 million years ago. The video then demonstrates how the Cambrian Explosion was only a small part of the history of life on Earth. It goes through the major developments of life on Earth and shows how it relates to a 24 hour period. This video is a tool in underst...

How To: Create a YouTube subscribe button in Photoshop

This task tutorial explains how to use Photoshop to create a YouTube subscribe button. First, select the rectangle tool and draw a bar. Select color options and deselect the color overlay. Then, go to gradient. Using the dropper tool, select the first and second color. Open layer options again and select the stroke color using the eyedropper tool. Increase the stroke size and change the position to inside. Click okay. Select type tool, create text field and type in the text. Open layer style ...

How To: Edit your digital photos easily

In this video Dionne from the Gadget show explains how to improve your digital photos easily using widely available free software. The first thing she instructs us to do is to download and install Google's free photo editing software Picasa. Next, once Picasa is installed you can use it's one click settings to easily remove red eyes from photographs or increase the brightness of a photo. The next thing we learn to do is to adjust the white balance of a photograph. This makes the photo appear ...

How To: Use cruise control on the 2010 Toyota 4Runner

ToyotaUSA shows us a quick video detailing cruise control on the 2010 Toyota 4Runner. Cruise control is standard on all 4Runner models. Behind the lower right side of the steering wheel there are switches for the cruise control. To activate it, press the on/off button at the end of the stock. A green icon will be illuminated on the instrument panel. Accelerate or decelerate to desired speed and push the stock down to set it to that speed. To increase the cruise control speed, move the stock u...

How To: Vectorize a human eye in Illustrator

This is how you can vector an eye in Adobe Illustrator. You will first want to upload your photo to PhotoShop and then increase the contrast to highlight your picture better. Increasing the highlights is not a necessary step however. This is an intermediate process but the end result with be a cartoon looking eye on a real person. If you used this effect for the whole picture it would look very neat like your own cartoon character! If you only subtly vector the eye then you still have an edit...

How To: Lose belly fat with hardcore stomach workouts

Darin Steen of Major League Health demonstrates how to lose belly fat with stomach workouts. Using a boxing technique, you can get your heart rate up to 160 and boost your hormones to gain muscle and lose fat. It works your abdominal muscles in a unique side-to-side plane of motion to tone your midsection. Focus on pulling as much as you focus on punching. Use your pointer and deliver two punches on the right and then deliver two punches on the left while focusing on pulling. Increase the pun...

How To: Create 3D text in After Effects without plugins

ChadandToddPodcast shows how to create 3D text in after-effects without plug-ins. This can be accomplished by an effect called shatter. First turn off the text layer, then apply shadow to your text image. Change your pattern to custom; it will go blank. Take the custom to text layer then increase extrusion depth. If you take up extrusion you can play with the style of the text. If you play around with fronts your whole image can also be 3-D.

How To: Subtract fractions with uncommon demoninators

In this tutorial the author shows an easy and simple way of subtracting fractions with uncommon denominators. He says that to subtract fraction with uncommon denominator, we need to make their denominators equivalent first and after making the denominators equal, you need to increase the numerators proportionally to maintain the original ratio of the fraction. Now as the denominators are same, we can directly subtract the numerators arriving at a new fraction. He further shows how to deduce t...

How To: Look taller by dressing better

This video gives you 6 surefire tips on how to look taller just by dressing better. 1. Change your diet. Eat better and healthier. 2. Change your hairstyle because certain hairstyles can make you look taller. 3. Wear long dresses and high heels. 4. Fix your posture. 5. Sleep. With adequate sleep you can grow taller.6. Exercise, you can increase your height in 2-3 weeks with exercise. Following these steps you can look taller in no time at all.

How To: Draw a basketball shoe

Michael Weisner, 2D illustrator and animator will take you through the easy process of drawing a basketball shoe. All you will need is some paper, a pencil, and a marker. Follow along with Michael in this easy to make drawing that will increase your artistic abilities. In a matter of minutes you will be left with your own creation of a basketball shoe that you can later incorporate into other drawings. You will gain artistic knowledge and learn from a professional animator.

How To: Understand Tagalog grammar terms

This how to video describes how to understand and use Tagalog grammar terms properly. The author suggests reading the book "Conversational Tagalog" to help increase your basic understanding of the language. He then covers the use of verbs and other grammatical devices in the Tagalog language. This video is perfect for those who are studying the Tagalog language or for those who need a quick refresher. The video lasts about eight and a half minuets and leaves you with a better understanding of...