Keeping up with current events is a good step towards becoming a well-informed person, but sometimes it's a chore. In-between work, school, commuting, social lives, and hobbies, it can be extremely hard to find time to pick up a newspaper or browse CNN to find out what's going on in the world.
We've already taught you a few tricks for getting chilled, rock-hard butter to spread easily on toast, and some of you probably bypass that issue entirely by purchasing spreadable butter from the supermarket. But why waste your money when you can make a healthier, tastier version at home for a fraction of the cost?
After much hype and even more leaks, the HTC One M8 has finally been unveiled at the company's New York release announcement.
The Nexus 5 is the current Google flagship packed with the latest and greatest of all things Android, but what if you never made the leap from your Nexus 4 smartphone?
Apple is set to release its latest operating system for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch this fall, and if you haven't noticed yet from our iOS 7 softModder guides, it's going to be pretty slick.
Many of us experience highly emotional "freakouts", so to speak, more often than we'd like. Weather you experience them personally, or via your loved ones, it can be very difficult to think rationally during an episode, and for some people it can take quite a while to calm down.
There are two options when it comes to a dent in your car — live with it, cringing each time it enters your view, or get rid of it. While the latter is obviously the best option, most of us will probably just live with dents and dings since spare money is better spent on the actual functionality of the vehicle. However, there is a way to knock out automobile dents yourself with relatively little cash in the bank.
*Updates* March 6, 2013
With the new year right around the corner, it's time to talk about the end of the 19th century, a time which plays an enormous role in Steampunk. If you've done any reading of British books written from about 1890 to 1899, you may have come across the phrase 'fin de siecle' and wondered what it meant. You also may have come across this term in reading about the late Victorian era. No worries, I'll tell you all about it! Image by Giovanni Dicandia
MAC addresses (not to be confused with Macs) are unique identifiers assigned to network devices in order to access the internet. Hotels use these Mac addresses in order to check if a registered patron has agreed to their terms and conditions, how much bandwidth is being consumed, and of course, whether they've paid or not.
I can imagine you sitting there thinking to yourself, "I've played a lot of games! I bet he won't have any that I don't know about!" Well, that's entirely possible. I'm only drawing from my own personal experience here, so you may, in fact, know of all these games.
The concept and structure of Christmas hasn't changed much since its inception. In its infancy, Christians recruited Roman pagans by associating Christmas with the Saturnalia, an ancient Roman festival in honor of the deity Saturn (also held in December). The pagans had long worshiped trees (as did other historical cultures) and would bring them into their homes and decorate them, something that influenced our modern holiday decorations. While certain things such as gifts and ornaments have b...
People are always looking for ways to save money, and for the most part, saving money and cheating the system are synonymous when it comes to things like free internet access. Practically every new gadget is capable of connecting to the web, which means more and more people are looking for ways around those hefty internet bills.
All kinds of people pretend to be someone they're not on the internet, including scammers, people attempting to wind others up, hackers and web predators. Almost all of these people will leave bases uncovered and they're all easy to expose when you understand how to. Here are my favorite ways of finding out when somebody is lying quickly. Image Search
Summer is in full swing! Everywhere you look, plants are in full bloom and green is a way of life. Gardeners are clearly living up to their full potential. I cannot think of anything else that personifies summer better than gardening.
Unless you're a high-schooler building a nuclear fusion reactor, the hardest part of a science investigatory project often is coming up with a good idea. You want it to be cool yet feasible, novel but still useful.
Sonic is back for more side-scrolling action in Sonic the Hedgehog 4, available on the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, WiiWare and iOS. This version is reminiscent of the older Sonic games played on SEGA, and in this one, save your friends from Dr. Eggman! This video series provides a complete walkthrough for Sonic the Hedgehog 4, so shine your spiny coat and stretch— it's going to be a fast and fun ride.
This walkthrough guide will cover the complete Overload DLC mission pack for the Mass Effect 2 action role-playing game on the Xbox 360. Overload became available for download in June 2010 on Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA), and features four different missions. Watch this series for all the gameplay action from Mahalo.
Often used to settle scores, 21 is a continuous, fast-paced version of basketball with few rules and little room for error.
Learn how to do super legs exercise. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life. Benefits
Learn to use the Autopan effect in Abelton Live to control the audio panning in your tracks.
A swamp fan is an air conditioning substitute that blows air over cool water to cool a room. If you live in an AC-free dorm room, house, or apartment, it's not too hard to build one yourself, and this video will show you how to do it.
Janet Collection brings you this instructional video clip that demonstrates how to apply their products. These videos are the live taping of their products being prepared and attached. It will show you step-by-step, from beginning to end.
Learn how to draw an old-world style tattered scroll that's all beat up. It's all drawn from scratch in Photoshop with a wacom tablet and then the final drawing is imported into Adobe Illustrator for Live Tracing. The finished product is a nice piece of vector art. In fact, there will be a new Tattered Scrolls set in Go Media's new Vector Pack 12 to be released later this month and this piece will be in it.
A certified butcher demonstrates how to slaughter and dress a goat for the grill. This step by step guide shows how to go from a live goat to a barbecued goat meal. Watch this video butchering tutorial and learn how to skin, drain, and clean a goat for the BBQ.
Fireplaces make a great focal point to any living room, unless they are not properly decorated. In this Home & Garden how to video Kim Myles adds lots of glamour with a modern mantel makeover. Get great tips and ideas for decorating any outdated fireplace or mantel.
Home improvement tools and equipments make do-it-yourself enthusiasts' lives easier. Among these tools are the Festool MFT 1080 and saw. Watch this video tutorial to learn how easy it is to use the Festool MFT 1080 in conjunction with the Festool 55 saw to cut threads and risers for fitting in an exciting stairway.
This is a video tutorial made to help out all those cosplayers on how to look more masculine using make up. This was originally made to help out guys who are pretty new to make up, but need to learn it for photo or cosplay purposes, and for girls who are trying to crossplay a male character and need to look more masculine. So, live anime and manga... cosplay it out with costumes and wigs and makeup and everything else.
We all need more origami food containers in our lives. This video will show you how you can fold your very own origami cup, in which you can place drinks or candy.
A professional Black Jack trainer explains in detailed and thorough live demonstration, the rules of the game, from the basic idea of the game to the most advanced rules. You will get to understand the mistakes made by players, and how to interact with the dealer.
A professional Roulette trainer explains in detail and through live demonstrations the rules of the game, explaining the differences between single and double, money management, and percentages. You will get to understand possible mistakes.
In this tutorial, Jeff Dykhouse demonstrates how to use the powerful Enigma Editing Software to assign MIDI message to all the different controllers that the Axiom 61 keyboard has at its disposal. Jeff covers: Downloading Presets, Creating User Banks and Loading and Creating Presets. You can use the Axiom 61 with Reason, Ableton Live, Pro Tools and even GarageBand.
A beaver trap is set up on a pond showing many techniques on how to make a good set. These techniques will apply whether you are using a live trap, snares, long spring, coil or conibear traps.
In this video learn how to run a drill to practice the cross court. This is basically an on line drill modified, the players are hitting a running forehand and then, playing it out.
A short demonstration on how to build a compost powered hot shower. This is a part of the greater effort for permaculture in desert living.
Check out this video to learn how to level the bad audio off a cheap digital camera preventing extreme highs and lows. In this episode of How In The Hell, Nick Allain shows how to level the audio from video taken with a digital camera at a live concert using a free program called Audacity.
This video is a tutorial. The video shows how to recharge batteries in a battery charger. It may help people who have lived in a cave and have never been exposed to civilization.
In this video series, learn how to throw an adult Halloween party. Matt Cail gives you advice on everything you need to know to plan a successful party. Learn how and when to send out Halloween invitations. Also, learn about Halloween music for dancing, Halloween decorations, and Halloween games. Also, learn how to structure and manage your Halloween party. So, if you are looking for a little bit of fun during this special time of year, learn how to plan a Halloween party today!
If you are going to travel outside the United States on a ski trip with Skitravel.com, you will need a passport. From Skitravel's website you can click the "get a passport" link. The link will take you to the US Department of State's passport form (the DS11 passport form). On the Department of State's form, you have two choices, a passport book or a passport card. The passport book is good for ten years and you can travel anywhere in the world with it. The second choice is the passport card. ...
Taking up fishing anytime soon? The first thing you'll need to learn is how to bait a hook. Different types of bait require different methods of getting them onto the hook. Follow these steps.
