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How To: Hold it in when you have to pee & there's not bathroom

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How To: Limit the Volume Level on Your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch

According to the American Osteopathic Association, "1 in 5 teens has some form of hearing loss," and some experts believe it's because of an increase in headphones use. While I understand that music, movies, and video games help keep children preoccupied, there's no reason why they can't be entertained at a healthy hearing level.

How To: Leave a Group Chat on Your iPhone (Finally!)

Group messages make for some hilarious conversations with your friends, and are also a great way to update multiple people without sending individual text messages. But as awesome as they can be, they can also be as equally annoying.

How To: Customize leather shoes

Painting custom leather kicks like Dunks is increasingly popular as the art community realizes what great canvases these big bold shoes make. If you want to get in the game watch this video for a one-stop guide to customizing leather shoes (in this case Dunks) with whatever paint designs you want.

How To: Style your hair like Alison DiLaurentis in the hit show Pretty Little Liars

Pretty Little Liars is the newest part of the increasingly puzzling lineup of shows on ABC Family that seem to be creating a new demographic to target as they go along. The girls on it are very pretty, and this video will show you how to create a makeup look inspired by the show's star Alison DiLaurentis.

How To: Smooth shade (Gouraud) objects in Maya

Smooth shading and make all the difference in the quality of your graphics - this is especially true with the increasingly popular HD video and computer formats. If you would like to know how to use Maya to smooth and shade your objects, follow along with this video. You will get a step by step walkthrough.

How To: Read and play chord lines on guitar

In this beginner guitar lesson, learn how to read chord lines - a very popular way to write out chords that is used in the guitar playing community.

How To: Buy a good extension ladder

When buying extension ladders, you have various options. There are metal ones, fiberglass ones and (increasingly rarely) wood ones. Each kind has its own plusses and minuses. In this video, Mark Donovan of HomeAdditionPlus.com talks you through what to look for when shopping for an extension ladder.

How To: Optimize your Windows PC

Has your Windows PC grown increasingly sluggish over time? In this how-to, Digital Connector James Vargas (recalling a young Jean-Pierre Léaud) guides users through speeding up and optimizing a Windows PC. Take a look. Whether you run XP, 2000 or Vista, you're certain to benefit from this tutorial.

How To: Cut a door jamb to install flooring

Installing hardwood flooring is becoming increasingly easy with all the DIY flooring kits. But the difficult part is getting the flooring around your door jamb. Cutting the door jamb instead of the flooring is a much easier alternative. Home improvement expert, Danny Lipford shows how to cut a door jamb to install flooring in this tutorial.

How To: Snooze Notifications for Later with This Android App

These days, there's almost an expectation that you have to deal with messages as soon as you get them. But that's not always the best way to handle things—sometimes, you're preoccupied with something, and it would be better if you could deal with a new message when you have a chance to give it your full attention.

How To: Draw a gangsta graffiti spraycan holding a gun

Just a few years back, spray cans glorified their artists, writing reputations in stone with florid colors and extreme street stylization. These days, though, graffiti artists are increasingly glorifying spray cans, the very tools of their art and, for some, livelihood.

How To: Build a hoophouse

Hoophouses (or high tunnels) are unheated greenhouses that are becoming increasingly popular with home gardeners and farmers eager to extend the growing season. In this two part series, learn how to make one of your own. Adam Montri is the hoophouse specialist for Michigan State University and in this tutorial, he takes you through all of the necessary steps for building one.

How To: Cook marinated flank steak for tortilla wraps

Flank steak is an increasingly popular cut of meat - mostly because it is inexpensive, can feed many and is versatile to cook with. In this two part tutorial, follow Aaron as he shows us how to marinate flank steak for tortilla wraps. Follow these steps and you will be enjoying these easy to make Mexican style wraps for dinner this evening!

How To: Draw a tattoo cherry blossom

In this informative how-to video, David from ElementTattooSupply.com guides you through the quick and easy process of drawing a Japanese cherry blossom. From beginning to end you too can be an artist in just 3 minutes. This cherry blossom design is very easy to learn to do and is increasingly popular in the tattoo industry, especially with the ladies. If you're looking to improve your tattoo sketching abilities, or just love to draw in general, this video can help you expand your portfolio th...

How To: Beat the logic puzzle game King of Bridges

King of Bridges is a Flash game that challenges the player to connect increasingly ornate series of islands with bridges. This video will give you a walkthrough of all 30 levels.

How To: Do the splits using the yoga Monkey pose

Splits are easy when you're a little kid and flexibility is your friend. But joints and muscles naturally stiffen as you get older, making extreme stretching - including splits - increasingly difficult. You also get jipped of that wonderful hyperactive playtime called recess, when such physical tricks usually take place.

How To: Draw an anime eye

Anime is a funky style of cartooning. Japanese animation is increasingly popular these days but takes a bit of practice to draw.

How To: Apply dramatic eyeshadow for beginners

This tutorial is perfect for beginners to learn how to apply dramatic eyeshadow correctly. This technique will require several layers of eyeshadow to be applied and if done correctly, will highlight and bring attention to your eyes. First apply lighter shades of eyeshadow to your eyelids, stopping at the crease. You can then layer and blend colors on top of this, with increasingly dark colors towards the outside of your eyelid crease. A matte color should be used which matches your eye color ...

How To: Give a basic Swedish massage

The techniques of Swedish massage are increasingly popular. Swedish massage entails mostly gliding strokes, a lot of gliding strokes. Learn the art of giving Swedish massage in this free health how-to video.

How To: Build backyard planters

Planters or organized beds with planter borders can not only provide mowing definition, but contain the flowers and hopefully keep out weeds that may grow into them from surrounding areas. Backyard planters can be big or small, permanent or portable. The simplest planters consist of edging for flower or vegetable beds. In the past, many used recycled railroad ties for this, and they still add a distinctive rustic appeal to garden beds. In recent years, however, pressure-treated landscaping ti...

How To: Choose cheeses

Master cheesemonger Steven Jenkins gives a quick primer on putting together a selection of cheeses. Stop at four cheeses: "To serve more than three or four cheeses at a time is an insult to all the other ones that you've chosen."

How To: Get Siri to Play Music for You on Spotify—Without Jailbreaking Your iPhone

While Siri's integration with the iPhone is becoming increasingly substantial, restrictions with the intelligent personal assistant are apparent when it comes to third-party apps like Google Maps, Netflix, and Spotify (unless your iPhone is jailbroken, of course). As an avid Spotify user, it's distressing that I can't use Siri to navigate through the music streaming service's extensive library. In the car, I use Spotify about 90% of the time and it can become increasingly frustrating to chang...

News: 'Diminished Reality' App Does Augmented Reality in Reverse

Coming soon to an Android device near you: Diminished Reality! What's Diminished Reality? A lot like Augmented Reality, really, but with one big difference: Where AR giveth, insinuating virtual elements into a live representation of the real world, Diminished Reality taketh away, hiding actually-existing objects within a live feed.

How To: Give a shiatsu massage with your fingers

Shiatsu massage is increasingly popular. In shiatsu, we use the tools of our hands, especially our thumbs. We also use our elbows and forearms for rolling. Learn the art of giving Shiatsu massage in this health how-to video.

How To: Fold a complex dodecahedron using modular origami

While basic origami allows for the usage of only one sheet of paper, modular origami increases up to many sheets of paper allowing for increasingly complex shapes. This video tutorial shows how to use the Japanese art of modular origami to create a dodecahedron. Start watching and start folding!

News: First Look at the iPhone 6's Unbreakable Sapphire Crystal Display

It's increasingly difficult to keep any secrets at bay, and that has become especially true for Apple's upcoming iPhone 6.

How To: Do Anti Bullying Nails

Anti bullying Nails Art Designs 2012! Check this step by step Bullying Awareness Ribbon Nail Polish Tutorial where there are no decals or stickers for this design being used.

News: Budget Airline easyJet Packs Augmented Reality Luggage Checking Feature into Its Mobile App

Mobile app publishers are using augmented reality to solve everyday measurement problems from measuring the length or height of items to previewing furniture in the home.

News: As It Turns Out, Seniors Love Getting News on Their Smartphones

Amidst reports of the newspaper industry struggling to survive, it's becoming more and more clear that people are increasingly turning to their smartphones for the news. In fact, a new study by the Pew Research Center has found that 85% of US adults check the news on mobile devices. Surprisingly, seniors constitute a sizable portion of this.

How To: Make Healthier Food Choices by Clenching Your Fists

We've all walked into a restaurant with the best of intentions only to order something absurd, like a cheese-injected burger topped with bacon on a brioche bun. It's delicious for the few minutes it takes to eat the thing, and then you're left with a bellyful of regret and an inability to directly look at the numbers on your scale. Turns out that getting yourself to make healthy choices isn't as hard as one might think.

How To: Know When You're in Labor

Dr. Keith Eddleman explains in this video tutorial on how a woman can really tell when she is going into labor. Sometimes, it's hard for a first-time mom to naturally know when she's going into the process.

How To: Create a Shepard Fairey "Hope" poster in Photoshop

Ash Davies believes that it is important to understand how to properly use Photoshop, especially with the Obama "Hope" posters that have become increasingly popular. The first step is to cut out the image that you want to use for the poster. To do this, you have to use the polygon tool and trace around the object you wish. After done, select Layer via cut to separate. Creating a new layer and choose color fde5a9 for the background layer. After this, you can create the different blue and red l...

News: How Governments Around the World Are Undermining Citizens' Privacy & Security to Stockpile Cyberweapons

In a world increasingly regulated by computers, bugs are like real-life cheat codes. They give you the power to break the rules and do good or bad without ever leaving your seat. And government agencies around the world are discovering and stockpiling unreported bugs as cyberweapons to use against anybody they see fit.

How To: Do speed end of bench tricep push ups drop set

Learn how to do speed end of bench tricep push-ups drop set and sculpt your body without weights. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life.

How To: Beat the Candystand Flash game Electric Box 2

Box 2 is a fun and educational Flash game on Candystand that teaches people about the joys of renewable energy generation in increasingly complex puzzles. This series of videos will show you how to beat all 40 levels, including the alternate level 38 in it's own section.

How To: Create a "crocodile tears" makeup look

YOUTUBE Logan Salter presents a video demonstrating a method to create "Crocodile Tear" Makeup. The entire video is demonstrated through visual action, with typed titles in green appearing on the screen prior to each new step, and electronica music played throughout. Logan begins by applying moisturizer, demonstrated visually in the video by applying moisturizer to his facial area and moves at an increasingly faster rate through steps visually demonstrating how to apply various powders and br...