Grafting, also known as "top working," is simple-but-essential technique that enables you to change the variety of fruit a tree bears. In this tutorial, Stephen Hayes of Fruitwise Apples Heritage reviews the essentials of top working while discussing an apple tree that was successfully grafted a year prior.
Here is a video tutorial on how to make a USB Drive from a Floppy Disk.
Learn Green Deane's quick and easy technique to make hard cider or any lightly fermented fruit juice in season.
This shows you how to modify a webcam so that you can attach it to a telescope. Just think, you'll never have to look in that eyepiece again. Just stuff this thing down there.
Learn awesome freestyle basketball tricks, passes and shots from Professional basketball trickster, Q-Mack!
Learn how to make a pen in which to easily conceal and retrieve test and exam answers by watching this how-to video. If you're too lazy to do your reading, or you don't think you have a prayer of passing, try a cheat sheet. Check out this video tutorial and learn how to hide answers or notes on a pen. Just remember, you're only cheating yourself by not studying.
This screencast from Matthew MacDonald, author of Excel 2007: The Missing Manual, guides you through creating and modifying a combination chart in Excel 2007.
Cool treats for the whole gang! You'll be the hit of any summer event with this adorable porcupine-shaped fruit centerpiece. A watermelon, lemon, cantaloupe and grapes make the shape of this cute critter's body and the quills are brightly-colored Sour Power Bomb Pops. Watch this how to video for a tutorial on how to assemble the fruits into this colorful and edible centerpiece.
In order to make a smoothie that will give you healthy and glowing skin, you should begin by considering the nutritional value and restorative nature of certain fruits. To make a smoothie that will support your collagen, elasticity, and your complexion, combine the following fruit in a smoothie: blueberries, oranges, strawberries, mango, bananas, and water. These will also provide beta keratin and antioxidants.
This video from Family Fun shows how to make football cupcakes. You will need some cupcakes that you have already baked, some green frosting, white decorating gel and icing, fruit leather, pretzel sticks and chocolate covered almonds.
Make your old iPod Video look like the new iPod Classic. This is a tutorial on how to change your iPod Video (5G/5.5G) to a iPod Classic interface. Your iPod must have the 1.2.1 firmware or lower. But don't worry you can downgrade your 1.2.3 by writing The Ultimate Background Hack 1.2.2 You get the background hack and it downgrades your iPod to 1.2.2. You can use any other custom firmware. Watch this video iPod tutorial and learn how to modify an iPod Video to use the iPod Classic interface.
Cool, refreshing fruit, ice-cold margaritas (or beergaritas), and popsicles... this combination of food and drink just screams summer. Turn up the chill jams on the stereo, fire up the grill, and throw on your shades—you're just one pool away from the best summer party ever.
Juicing fruits and vegetables is very beneficial to your health. For some, it's a trend; but to me, it's a part of my morning routine.
For those who like grilling fruit and desserts in general, we take it up a notch with this great video tutorial that shows you how to make a great dish from cooking Peaches directly on hot coals.
The best sangria I ever had in my life was made by a Spanish friend for my birthday party. The ingredients included a giant box of Franzia red, one bottle of Bombay Sapphire Blue, one cup of sugar, a liter of 7-Up, and some cinnamon sticks. She put everything but the 7-Up in a giant zinc bucket from Home Depot and insisted that it had to sit overnight so the flavors could blend (and so the Franzia wouldn't taste so, well, Franzia-ish).
Despite its deliciousness, the pomegranate is one of the hardest fruits to eat. Once you cut it open, the seeds are stuck behind a bitter-tasting white membrane, and trying to pull them out with your fingers just results in a huge mess.
A Data Grid lets you organize information on your website or other Flash project. Create lists or schedules, like concert dates, by using the Data Grid component included in Adobe Flash CS4, and then modify it using Action Script 3.
We're tired of imitation foods. From the "substitute cheese" in our elementary school pizza to imitation crab, we're wondering where all the real food went and just what all those preservatives and genetically modified ingredients are doing to our bodies.
Ubuntu Linux is capable of many cool effects that other systems don't offer. This video tutorial will show you how to enable all of these effects, such as minimizing and maximizing windows. What? All operating systems do that, right? Yes, but this video will help you to select and modify them. Click here or here for more information about desktop effects.
In this clip, you'll learn how to tweak any existing Code Snippet when working in Flash CS5. Whether you're new to Adobe Flash or merely unfamiliar with Flash Professional CS5, you're sure to benefit from this free video software tutorial from Lynda. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
Learn how to modify your old databases for use in Microsoft Access 2007. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular data management application or a seasoned MS Office professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the Access 2007 workflow, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, and to get started using old databases in Access 2007 yourself, watch this free video guide.
Rock candy is a fun way to learn about science and make something delicious in the process! In this video, learn how to make rock candy the easy way with a step by step process. Spend a boring weekend creating rock candy and by Monday, you'll be enjoying the fruits of your labor!
One of the first things you may want to know when learning how to animate in Flash is how to orient an object to a path — the path, in turn, serving as a sort of metaphorical track for your Flash element.
Need to make a sample or draft of a booklet from your home computer? Caren Borowitz provides a straightforward way to complete the task. She presents a step by step method for organizing the pages using a total pages grid that can be modified to fit as many pages that your booklet or brochure may contain. She uses straightforward dialogue, visuals, simple tools and supplies to show the viewer, piece by piece, the process of organizing and assembling draft brochures.
Many people try to play blues harmonica without understanding the blues. This video describes blues music in terms of a modified major scale and then shows how this can be applied to both keyboard and harmonica.
There’s nothing quite like a thick slab of Irish soda bread slathered with butter—be it St. Patrick’s Day or just any old day.
Learn how to make a beautiful origami swan. Watch this origami video for all the correct folds - be sure to practice if you want your origami swan to come out flawlessly.
Modify a hot glue gun and shoot streams of sticky web goo all over your haunted house with the Spiderman gun in this how-to video. Add a little extra something to your Spiderman costume, to impress while trick-or-treating or at a Halloween party. You will need a hot glue gun, an air-compressor, air-compressor tubing, and copper fittings. Watch this video Halloween tutorial and learn how to make a Spiderman gun.
This web development software tutorial shows you how to create a custom left panel for a website using XSitePro 2. The options for XSitePro 2 have changed from XSitePro 1. Now, it's easy to change the right panel, but the options to change the left panel have been hidden. Watch as Jason shows you how to rebuild the template in XSitePro 2 to allow you to modify and customize the left panel.
Here is a tutorial on using Httrack to download websites for off line viewing.Httrack is a website copier and 99% of the people on the web will use this software responsibly. This tutorial is for that 99%. Using Httrack is a great way to download a site you need to modify when the site server passwords have been lost.
Don't get us wrong: We love the iPhone, but given that every other person we know has one, it doesn't exactly make us feel unique. Yes, it comes in black and white, but that sure doesn't give us a lot of options, you know?
Sure, junk food offers lots of calories for not much money. But you can create your own "happy" meals that are tasty, nutritious, and inexpensive. Certain foods to think about are oatmeal, evaporated milk, frozen and canned vegetables, seasonal fruits, bananas, apples, nuts, meat, peanut butter, beans, brown rice, and tuna. Watch this video nutrition tutorial and learn how to feed your family cheap, healthy meals.
Watch this video to learn to do power yoga. In Ashtanga yoga, also known as power yoga, the yoga postures flow with an emphasis on strength and agility. In this video clip learn step by step yoga moves that will help you unite your body, mind and breath. And remember each pose can be modified to suit the practitioner's level of skill.
Is Windows XP just not customizable enough for you? Well, it was made that way so you don't eff up any of the settings to the point of no return. However, if you are confident in your computer expertise then modifying user accounts may be something of interest to you.
Hardy bananas have become a new popular plant, but how do you get them to bare fruit after the long cold winter? Watch this video to see how the experts do it.
This is a video tutorial about how to boost your cigarette lighter and get a much bigger flame. This is great for playing a joke or prank on a friend, or maybe you just need a bigger flame. You know what they say, "the bigger your flame, the bigger your..." Watch this how-to video and modify a lighter to get a tall flame.
During World War II, GIs in the field built really amazing simple radios to listen to. These were made with materials that they could get their hands on and were small enough to carry around in a big pocket. You can modify this design if you want to set it up so that it's tuneable too! To see all the plans, go to makezine.com/podcast!
Learn the ins and outs of do-it-yourself network cable installation including how to modify other cables into Ethernet cables.
The perfect drink for a Halloween party. A zombie is made with light rum, dark rum apricot brandy, and tropical fruit juices. To make it flaming, top with over proof rum and fire it up. Be sure to blow out the flame before drinking.
This tutorial teaches you how to download sheet music from movies, video games, and tv series. Learn to modify the sheet music to transpose the notes to any instrument and print it out. Again if you can get sibelius or finale, it might be better but Noteworthy Composer works fine.
