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How To: Properly care for a pet parakeet

Parakeets are small, colorful, friendly and chatty and all of these reasons make them great pets for kids. In this clip, learn how to select and care for your little feathered friends with pet expert, Marc Morrone. You will get the 411 on these colorful critters and learn how to keep them happy, healthy and singing all day long.

How To: Use selection masks in Autodesk Maya 2011

Want to select a certain object and nothing else? This clip will show you how to use Maya 2011's selection mask feature to achieve just that. Whether you're new to Autodesk's popular modeling software or a seasoned 3D artist just looking to better acquaint yourself with the Maya 2011 workflow, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For specifics, watch this free video guide.

How To: Calibrate your jointer

You will to learn set up and calibrate your jointer for optimal woodworking and creating a clean and straight edge on a rough board to later use as a reference. You will also learn a system on how to set up your knives to achieve the perfect cut using a jig and how to select the best jig to work with.

How To: Use MS Excel 2010's NORM.DIST & NORM.S.DIST functions

New to Microsoft Excel 2010? Looking for a few good tips and tricks? Look no further. In this free video tutorial from everyone's favorite MS Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 6th installment in his series of Excel 2010 video tutorials, you'll learn how to use the new NORM.DIST and NORM.S.DIST normal distribution functions. They have new screen tips to help you select the correct argument.

How To: Simulate a hand drawn picture in Photoshop

This Photoshop tutorial video teaches you how to make any photo look like it was hand drawn. The image selected should have a relatively simple background, because a too detailed image will not turn out properly. Use the high pass tool and the sketch paper tool and you pretty much have your hand drawn image. Follow this video for extra tips on how to get your image to look like hand drawn perfection.

How To: Use Dr. Brown's Background Remover Photoshop script

Introducing a new script from the notorious pirate, Dr. Brown! This Photoshop tutorial shows you how to use Dr. Brown's Background Remover Photoshop script. Discover amazing video compositing treasures when you use this script to remove a selected background color. Beware maties! This script works best, if you be use'n high quality video files. This script will only work with Photoshop CS3 Extended.

How To: Export LiveType projects to Final Cut Express

When you've finished a LiveType project, you can import it directly into Final Cut Express. The LiveType projects looks and behaves like an ordinary clip, but it has a .ipr file extension. Edit it like a normal clip, and you can change its attributes after importing by right clicking and selecting "Open in Editor." Final Cut Express automatically updates the imported file.

How To: Get high definition wallpapers using Google

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to get high definition wallpapers using Google. Begin by opening your web browser and go to the Google website. Then click on Images from the top menu and type in "HD wallpapers" in the search bar. Now click on Google Search. In order to get the best picture quality, be sure to select Large images from the Showing drop-down menu. Once you found an image of your liking, click on the image to have it full sized. Now right-click on the images and select ...

How To: Reformat your computer step by step

This video tutorial belongs to the Computers & Programming category which is going to show you how to reformat your computer step by step. Go to BIOS by restarting your computer. Go to BOOT menu, select CD/DVD ROM and press f10 to save and exit. Now insert your operating system CD, don't let it run, restart your computer again and keep tapping f8. When the set up page is displayed, press 'enter' to set up Windows XP. Select your partition and press D to delete. Then press L to continue deleti...

How To: Speed up Windows XP start menu for better performance

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to speed up the Windows XP Start menu. Begin by clicking on the Start menu and select the Run program. Then type in "regedit" and click on OK. Now select H KEY_CURRENT_USER, go to Control Panel and click on Desktop. On the right side of the window, scroll down the list to find Menu Show Delay. Double-click on it, change the value to 0 and click OK. This video will benefit those viewers who use a Windows computer, and would like to learn how to speed u...

How To: Recover music from an iPod without software on a PC

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to copy music and videos from an iPod to a computer. Begin by opening iTunes. Do not plug in your iPod device. Then click on Edit and select Preferences. This will make iTunes blind to the iPod. Now connect your iPod and open the drive folder. Click on Tools and select Folder Options. Now check the option "Show hidden files, folders and drives" and click OK. Then open the "iPod_Control" folder and open the "Music" folder. Now copy all the files into i...

How To: Convert between DOC and PDF file formats with doPDF

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to convert word documents to PDF format. This task is very easy, simple and fast to do. Users will need to download a program from this site: DoPDF. Once downloaded and installed, open the program and open the file that you want to convert. Then click on File and select Print. Choose the printer name as "doPDF" and click OK. When a window pops up, select the location where you want to save the file. This video will benefit those viewers who have a tex...

How To: Edit PDFs with Infix PDF Editor

Websupergoo demonstrates how to edit PDF files with the Infix PDF editor. Infix can replace an existing image with another image loaded from a file. To accomplish this, use the object select tool and choose the image for the replacement. The clipping mask is denoted by a pink border and will be retained and applied to the image that you would like to replace. Select the replacement by choosing the replace object option. Next, choose the replacement image from your computer files. After you re...

How To: Use a pen drive as ram on your XO

To use a USB (flash drive) pen drive as RAM on your computer. First open the drive by clicking on "My Computer" then double clicking on the drive. Next open the eBoostr control panel. When the control panel dialogue box opens click "Add..." this will open the "Add cache device" dialogue box. Once this dialogue is open click the select device drop-down menu and select your removable USB drive (pen drive) from the list. Then click "OK" and wait for the "allocating cache file..." process to comp...

How To: Convert AVI files to DVD format with Xilisoft

In this how to video, you will learn how to convert an AVI file to a DVD with Xilisoft. First, you will need to download the Xilisoft AVI to DVD Converter. Next, click the add video files icon on the left and select the AVI file that you want to convert. Select it and click open. Next, change the destination so that it is saved as an ISO file. Enter the new name of the file and click save. Click start burn on the right side. Now your AVI will be converted to DVD format. Once it is finished, y...

How To: Open ports in Windows 7

This video tells us the method to open ports in Windows 7. Click on myu icon and go to 'Preferences'. Copy the port number from the resulting window. Go to 'Start', 'Control Panel' and 'System and Security'. Go to 'Windows Firewall' and 'Advanced Settings'. Go to 'Inbound Rules' and 'New Rule'. Click on 'Port' and select 'TCP' and 'Specific Local Port'. Type the port number in the text box. Click 'Next' and 'Allow Connection'. Press 'Next' twice and put the name in the space provided for it. ...

How To: Free up disk space in Windows Vista

In this how-to video, you will learn how to free up disk space on your Windows Vista computer. First, go to my computer and right click the drive that you want to free up space on. Next, click on properties. Click disk cleanup on the new window. Select which files you want to delete by checking the appropriate boxes. Once this is done, click okay. You can also select clean up in the other tab to free even more space. The first section will allow you to remove programs you do not need, while t...

How To: Beat the World's Hardest Game in a few seconds

If you want to beat the worlds hardest game in a few seconds this is for you. The first step is to load the worlds hardest game. After the game is loaded right click on the pane and scroll down to the settings tab. Select the settings tab. After the setting tab is selected click the picture of the microphone located in the window pane. After this right click on the arrow using your mouse. To make this work loop and play must be ticked. After the game scrolls through all of the levels click th...

How To: Unzip and zip files on your PC with Windows XP

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to zip and unzip files on a Windows XP computer. To zip a folder, begin by creating a new folder and drag all he content that you want to zip. Right-click on the folder, go to Send To and select Compress (zipped) Folder. To unzip a file, right-click on the file and select Extract All. Then follow the instructions to extract the file. This video will benefit those viewers who want to learn how to create a zipped file to compress the size or unzip a fil...

How To: Share a wireless connection with your Xbox 360

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to share a wireless connection with a Xbox360. Begin by click on the Start menu and select Control Panel. Click on Network and Sharing Center. Under Tasks, click on Manage Network connections and disable the wireless connection. Right-click on it and select Properties. Go to the Sharing tab and check both boxes. Now enable the wireless connection and then go on your router website to find out the primary and secondary DNS. Now input both DNS numbers a...

How To: Tweak eye color in Photoshop CS3 with the masking tool

hotarrows223 demonstrates how to manipulate the eye color in a photograph using the masking tool. First, you must open the image with the eyes you intend to work on with Photoshop CS3. Next.], you must zoom in on an eye. You should be at the point where the iris fills up more than half of your screen. After that, you must select the iris, outlining it with the selection tool. Then, select image>adjustments>Hue/Saturation. Make sure all the boxes are checked, then adjust the hue or color bar t...

How To: Use Windows Movie Maker for simple video editing

You can edit videos in Windows Movie Maker. Movie Maker allows you to make videos. What you will want to do first is open pictures or a video that you will want to use. Select however many images or videos you want to use. Create a title and credits for this video. You can select whatever type of font and font color that you want to use. The next step you will want to do is add Audio. You can do this by looking under Tasks on the far left side of the page and add whatever audio from your hard...

How To: Connect to XBox Live without a modem

Take one end of the Ethernet cable and plug it in the back of the XBox, the other end of the cable you have to plug on your computer. On your computer go to Start and then go to My Network Places, now select View Network Connections. Right-click the Wireless Network Connection, and go to Properties. Select Advanced tab on top of the window and make sure the two boxes are checked, press OK to continue. Now turn on your XBox and go to Test XBox Live. Wait until the test ends and then you will b...

How To: Make Google your homepage

In this video you will learn how to make Google your homepage. This is a very simple tutorial and it will show you what the instructions are. The first thing that you need to do is to open your browser. Now go to 'Tools' and select 'Options'. The next step that you need to do is to click on the 'Main tab'. From there go to the Homepage writing section and just enter the Google address. Another way to make Google your homepage is to go to the Google homepage and click on the "Select Google as ...