In this series of home entertainment videos, our electronics expert Tony Ramirez tells you what you need to know about Blu-ray and HD DVD players. He begins his series with a discussion of the differences between these two formats and then explains the latest advances in high definition technology.
This is my first contribution in an ongoing series on detailing the best free, open source hacking and penetration tools available. My goal is to show you some of the quality tools that IT security experts are using every day in their jobs as network security and pen-testing professionals. There are hundreds of tools out there, but I will focus and those that meet four key criteria:
I feel like doing a bit of chemistry today, how about you? To my knowledge, thermite is the hottest burning man-made substance. Thermite is a pyrotechnic composition of a metal powder and a metal oxide that produces an exothermic oxidation-reduction reaction known as a thermitereaction.
While we all know that Valentine's Day is supposed to be about the giving and receiving of love and affection, let's face it: These days, the Hallmark holiday is more about the giving and receiving of chocolate and sugar high-inducing candy.
Even if you haven't heard of Facebook's new game "Snake" before, you've probably played it at one point or another on your cell phone or computer.
In this video, we learn how to make a quick & easy peanut butter fudge. To make this, you will need: stick of butter, 1 tsp vanilla, 2/3 c cocoa, 4.5 c powdered sugar, and 1 c creamy peanut butter. First, melt the butter on medium in a pan and then add the vanilla in the pan. From here, stir in the cocoa and mix well. After this, stir in the sugar until everything is dissolved and well mixed together. Keep it over medium-high heat during this process. next, keep stirring while you add in the ...
If you've ever worked at a 9 to 5 job then you know that, as the week goes on, coworkers will start to complain. Some complain they've been sitting for too long, others complaint that they've had a bad day. Whlie there are things that happen to you that you cannot change, the way you deal with these situations determines how they affect you.
In this tutorial, we learn how to get sharp images in low light w/ a digital camera. If you are wanting to take quality pictures indoors but don't have great lighting, there is still a way to make your pictures turn out great. First, you will need to take a camera with a long lens and zoom in on your subject. After you do this, hold the camera steady and take the shot. When you look at the picture you just took, the picture should be brighter than it would be if you took a wider shot and it w...
If you can't find your way back from your hike up the snow covered mountain, and there's a winter storm brewing, you better hope you have your storm shelter in your sack! This video will show you what a storm shelter can do for you when stuck up high on a mountaintop with a windy snowstorm coming in. There's not much to it. Just have one on you, any size, rip it out of the bag and cover yourself up.
CD players are largely a thing of the past, but their audio quality is still top-notch. If your old CD player is broken, watch this video for ideas on ways to troubleshoot common CD player problems and repair them.
If building an underground fortress/tunnel system in Minecraft is one of the strategies that you're undertaking, going back up top side to grab wood is a big pain. Wouldn't it be great if you could harvest wood underground!? Well, in this video, you will learn how and it's only a two step process:
In this video, we learn how to make a scary hip-hop beat. Start with a normal beat and then make a high pitched sound followed by a deeper sound. Use a deep treble as you continue to play the song and then add in creepy tones that you find in the different areas of the program. Explore the different types of scary beats that they have available then start to put them all together. Once you get all the different beats together, you will be able to add more bass or treble. When finished, you ca...
Makeup and clothing maven Kim Kardashian originally started off as a fashion stylist. And Rachel Zoe is about as high in demand in Hollywood as Halle Berry, even helming her own TV show for a few seasons now.
Artists discovered the almighty vanishing point during the early Renaissance and haven't stopped using it since. The genius of the vanishing point is that it gives a three dimensional quality to a two dimensional space, meaning increased depth perception and more believability.
In this video, we learn how to do the break dance "which-a-way" lock. Start diagonal and put your hands together in front of you. Now, kick front and back, then twist. When you twist, your knee will go into your chest and be raised high in the air. Next, extend your leg and then bring it down to the ground, bringing the other leg up, then rocking between the legs. Start to do this between the legs, moving your upper body with you. Do this faster, rocking from side to side, then put these move...
In this Computers & Programming video tutorial you will learn how to get widescreen videos on YouTube from normal videos. This can be done in Sony Vegas Movie Studio. Go to project > properties > video. Here you set the template width to 640, height 360, frame rate 30, field order as none, pixel aspect ratio to square, full resolution rendering quality to good and deinterlace method to blend fields. Next you save this template for future use and click apply. One of the quickest ways of conver...
In our opinion, blowouts at salons are WAY overpriced. A few spritzes of heat protectant, a few good twirls of the blowdryer, and you're done. Well, after you pay $50.
Looking for a way to reduce the amount of processing power used by a certain application? This clip will teach you everything you'll need to know. With Process Tamer, it's easy! So easy, in fact, that this home-computing how-to from the folks at Britec can present a complete overview of the process in just over two minutes. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
Due to the current bohemian/indie trend in music, film, and fashion, vintage and recycled wares are in high demand and sell like hotcakes in many stores. But don't waste your hard-earned money on overpriced vintage goods when you have the materials lying around the house to make them yourself.
Memorable songs either contain a catchy beat - like most pop songs - but timeless songs have a little something extra. In the case of Track 3 from "Songs from a Secret Garden," there is an eternally sad and nostalgic quality about the song that makes it relatable to everyone and relevant now as it will be fifty years from now.
Seldom does a woman want to increase her butt and waist size, but for those who work in theater, a big butt may just be a requirement for a role. However, faux butts and hips will generally rob your wallet of quite a steep amount of money, so why not make them yourself?
In this video our author, Candy Cumming with Sharp Healthcare describes how to add fiber into our diet. Fiber is really good for us because is is high in water content and low in calories, which lets us eat much of it before we are full. It also is really good for our regularity in our digestive tract.
This tutorial gives a start to finish explanation of how to make an Internet Wi-Fi router with Windows Vista. With real time computer screen video and narrative, it is easy to follow along at home.
This Survival Podcast teaches how to water seedings from the bottom up. After you have transfered your plants to new pots, preferably sterilized bins, you put holes in the bottom of the pots. If they are too high, the watering technique will not work. The plants in the pot are placed into a larger bucket. You just add water to the outter bin and allow the plants to "draw up" the moisture through the soil. You want to make sure not to add too much water or the plants will "over-draw". About on...
In this how to video, you will learn how to build up your arm strength for pitching. This involves using exercises that give you more focus on the muscles you will use for throwing. A high cable curl and crunch is a useful exercise for doing this. It involves gripping the rope on a weight machine and combining two different exercises together as one. You first start out with a curl, and then move on to a crunch. Repeat this for as many times as necessary. This will help you get a little extra...
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...
This recipe is a demonstration of a recipe for shrimp stir fry with rice. In a saucepan, put in about 1/4 to 1/2 cup of raw rice per person, and add water, and cook. Prepare the ingredients for the stir fry. Cut up some carrots, garlic, and fresh ginger. Preheat the wok and add cold oil. He uses basil oil, but vegetable oil or olive oil will work, too. Swish the oil around and add the shrimp and the spices. Add broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, and soy sauce. Keep the heat on high and keep stirri...
Forever Yours demonstrates how to get shiny, healthy straight hair that will last throughout the day using a hairdryer, round brush and a ceramic technology flat iron. Apply a heat protectant before beginning the process to protect the hair. Divide all hair into three equal layers, bottom, middle and top. Clip middle and top sections up high on head and begin by drying the bottom section. Dry the hair fully, divide hair into two sections and starting from one side, flat iron from root to end ...
This video tutorial from dproxisback presents how to download and install Handbrake DVD ripping tool.To avoid installation problems, carefully choose application version for each type of computer and operating system.Open your internet browser and visit http://handbrake.fr/?article=download web page.Choose correct version for your type of operating system (MacOS, Linux, Windows).Download and install the application. Run Handbrake once it's installed.Click File-Select Source. Browse for your f...
Mark the Shark demonstrates how to bait a fishing line with a lure for deep sea fishing. Use a three to four foot 50 pound test leader when deep sea fishing. First, put the line through the lure and tie on the hook. This technique is good for high speed trolling when the boat is moving fast because the lure will look like it is live bait. You can also use live bait like herring with a single hook. Thread the hook right through the nose of the fish so that the herring can stay alive all day. L...
This video lesson will show you how to wear black suede boots & flat ankle boots. The flat ankle boots have a wedge inside and they can be turned into a high leg boot. In this video they are going to turned into ankle boots. You should wear stockings that match the color of your suede boots. For example, for black suede, use black color stockings. Then you need to have matching dress with matching scarf and jacket. The video gives quite a few other tips on what to do with different suede boot...
This video is a report by Terry from Good housing keeping. She reports that women of any age should be thinking of bone health and one of the best ways to strengthen your bones experts say is to follow low fat Mediterranean diet.
Golf Link with Chuck Cook demonstrates how to use the punch drill to cure a hook shot in golf. A common cause to closing the golf club face and making the ball hook is the release of the head of the club early on the downswing. This is called casting the head of the club which makes the head of the club arrive at the point of impact before your hands. At the moment of impact you want the back of your left hand flat and the back of your right hand bent so that you can compress the ball. Use th...
Jennifer Lyall and Dr. JJ Dugoua, the Vitamin Junkeys, discuss natural remedies for constipation. Magnesium is a natural treatment for constipation, but you need to be careful not to take too much. Constipation is when you are not having regular bowel movements. Some causes of constipation are dehydration, certain drugs, poor diet and stress. To keep things moving it is good to drink lots of water and to eat a diet high in foods containing fiber, like fruits and vegetables. Probiotic foods ca...
In this video, the author is playing a game called Civiballs X-Mas Edition. The player is showing the viewers how to perform in the game and what should be done to beat the game. The video includes 10 at home levels (the original game has also outdoor levels). In the game, the player has to help Santa get the Civiballs into the right gift-boxes. The task is to put the balls in the box of the same color of the ball. At the beginning, the balls are all green but as the player moves up in the le...
This film explains how to count cards in black jack to gain an advantage. Every suit in a deck is said to add or minus up to a count of zero. So the whole deck has a count of zero. There's some synthesized high speed music in the middle while the presenter extracts the spades to show us. Ten to ace have a value of minus one. Seven, eight and nine have a value of zero and the numbers below seven have a value of plus one. The pluses and minuses cancel each other out to produce zero. The numbers...
This video is a demonstration of how to design a parallel flower arrangement. Every step in the process is shown in high speed format. He starts with a low, square pot and adds pieces of green craft foam. Then he adds foliage that comes out in all directions at a low level. He adds some big fluffy deep yellow flowers with short stems to fill in the bottom, then puts in some tall purple and red stalks. Three yellow roses are added at different heights. Then he adds a tall stemmed gerbera daisy...
Start with a bag of Granny Smith apples. Use either a paring knife or a vegetable peeler to completely remove the skin from all of the apples. Core the apples and cut them into chunks; you should end up with around 7 cups of apples. Place the cut up apples along with 2 cups of water into a large pot and place it on the stove over medium/high heat. Bring this to a boil and let it simmer for 10 minutes. If the apples are still too hard, simmer for another 5 minutes. Mash the apples to the desir...
With the game Crush the Castle, it is now possible to hack the game and get a high score. By following a few simple steps shown in the video, it is entirely possible to achieve a gold medal in the game quite easily. As simple as entering a sequence of number codes into a line will make it possible to do one shot and still win gold, as well as completely crush the castle. Just by putting in the code, you are able to start the game, and, with one shot from the catapult, you are able to complete...
This video shows how to care for your cast iron pan. The guy explaining made some chicken the night before and was to tired to clean the pan. He says never to use soap on cast iron. Run some hot water over the debris that was left in the pan. He uses a scrub brush to get into the edges. Take some salt and pour it on, it's alright to put a lot on. Rub the salt around and rinse it out. Use a towel and wipe it dry. Then put it on the stove with medium high heat for five minutes. Every so often i...
