How To: Make a schoolyard chic scissors holder with kids
With inflation making even simple household wares like cups and pencil holders going for $10 a pop, it's easy to see how attractive making your own home essentials is.
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How To: Create a rock goddess makeup look with Joelle
Do you feel like a rock goddess? Whether you are naturally born to rock or need some inspiration to feel that way, check out this super simple makeup look. This style is quick and easy to apply and you will look like a true queen of rock and roll for sure. Rock it during the day, all night long or anytime for a chic pop star appearance.
How To: Do Katy Perry's "California Gurls" music video makeup
Katy Perry is one quirky cutie who always puts her own spin on looks on the red carpet. Whether it was her shocking Smurf blue hair at the MTV Video Music Awards or her glittery cat eyes for her "California Gurls" music video with Snoop Dogg, she's always ahead of the game.
How To: Do the "Top Pop" trick with a Zippo lighter
This beginner Zippo trick is fun and easy to learn. This tutorial will take you on a step by step for how to offer a light to anyone in style.
How To: Create a Jessica Alba/Greek goddess updo
Starlet hair need not be complicated, fussy, or difficult to do - it just needs to look damn good on the red carpet when the flash bulbs are popping.
How To: Make popsicles to keep your dog cool in the summer
In this clip, learn how to make delicious 'pup'sicles for your dog at home. These pops are made from meat and chopped food so they are not human friendly but they are perfect for keeping your pet hydrated and cool in the hot summer months.
How To: Play Lady Gaga's controversial "Telephone" on piano
Whether you love her or hate her or just don't understand her, Lady Gaga is a phenomenal performance artist who accomplished exactly what she wanted with her music video for "Telephone": shock and offer the grotesque.
How To: Create dreamy illuminated scenes in Adobe Photoshop
Looking to add to your digital bag of tricks? In this installment from his series of free Adobe Photoshop tutorials, Justin Seeley shows you how to to take any photo and transform it into a dreamy illuminated scene using Camera Raw, Smart Objects, and a little creative brushing. For detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using this eye-popping effect yourself, watch this video lesson.
How To: Get a retro 80's Madonna makeup look from "Lucky Star"
In this tutorial, learn how to create the perfect 80s look. This look is taken from the early days of the Queen of Pop, Madonna. Madonna wore this style around the time she released her debut album.
How To: Create an animated logo in Flash 8
Want to make animated logo that will pop for your business website or ad? Look no further. In this video, learn how to take a logo and go through some different stages of animation using masks and both shape and motion tweens, as well as a neat trick for creating animated sparkles with relative ease. Get your flash animated logo up and running with help from this free tutorial!
How To: Create a colorful summer eye makeup look
Admit it: Your go-to neutrals and nude lips get boring after a while. Quit going yawn-o-rama with your makeup by adding some dazzling color!
How To: Jump rope to increase your swimming stamina
Relive your favorite recess exercise by watching this video on jumping rope, a simple but very effective cardio exercise that'll increase swimming stamina.
How To: Import songs from your iPod to iTunes on Windows Vista
If you have recently changed computers, or lost your music files, or even if you are just looking to share amongst multiple PCs; check out this tutorial and learn how to import songs into iTunes off of your iPod. This is a sort of backwards import, because normally you would be exporting your music ONTO your iPod.
How To: Secure your iTunes music collection with iPodRip
In this video tutorial from Get Connected TV, hosts AJ Vickery and Mike Agerbo will show you how to safely move your iPod files to your home pc, for back up purposes, just in case something were to happen to your iTunes account or your iPod is damaged, or music directory accidentally deleted. The program they introduce in this video is called iPod-Rip, and they lead you through the steps necessary to back up your iPod files safely and easily, without damaging or deleting your files.
How To: Create a neon light text effect Photoshop CS3 or CS4
In this video tutorial, learn how to create a really beautiful, eye popping, neon light "magic effect". Brighten up your asthetic presentation with this cool Photoshop trick, originally found on this blog. This tutorial is constructed using Adobe Photoshop CS3, but please note: This trick does work with CS4, but yields sightly different results. One can download the font used in this tutorial, here.
How To: Apply Michael Jackson makeup look
Make-up artist, Kandee Johnson transforms herself into the King of Pop, Michael Jackson! With just some shading and contouring, watch as Kandee remarkably alters the shape of her face with the illusion of makeup!
How To: Dance Michael Jackson's float moves
Lindyhopper49, a huge fan of the "King of Pop", will teach you how to dance like Michael Jackson. He's not a professional dancer, but he does have some great advice and information on how to to Jackson's most famous moves.
How To: Dance Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" footwork
Lindyhopper49, a huge fan of the "King of Pop", will teach you how to dance like Michael Jackson. He's not a professional dancer, but he does have some great advice and information on how to to Jackson's most famous moves.
How To: Boogaloo dance with basic popping skills
This is a how to BOOGALOO dance lesson. This tutorial covers the basics. Historically, it has been a difficult style to learn. I started learning online with dance clips, but then got the opportunity to learn from JAZZY J (EBs) and other poppers in NYC. This is another great Russian Tiger tutorial on pop'n'lock dance moves.
How To: Pop with head isolation skills
Instructional video showing how to do head isolation dance moves. These are a bit difficult, but are a really cool effect once you can do them well. Just takes some practice time (use a mirror).
How To: Open a bottle of champagne
The trick is to pop the cork with style and flair—and without creating a dangerous projectile. You will need a cold bottle of champagne, a towel, a bucket of ice water, and salt (table or rock). Tip: To speed up the chilling process, ass cold water and a little salt. Watch this video to learn how to open a bottle of champagne.
How To: Edit drums in Logic Pro
This audio editing software tutorial will show you two different types of editing in Logic Pro. First, Connor Smith shows how to edit multitrack drums in a group (to fix timing of hits) in Logic Pro. Then he covers how to ungroup your drums and take out pops, clicks (etc.) on individual drum tracks in Logic Pro.
How To: Make a surprise popup greeting card
This tutorial video will show you how to make your very own greeting card that not only has a sliding element, but pops up as well. This popup card is great for special occasions, and people are sure to love it. Hurry up and start making this wonderful greeting card!
How To: Sync music to your iPod with iTunes
iTunes gives you two easy ways to sync music to your iPod: automatically or manually. This tutorial applies to iPod Nano and iPod Classic.
How To: Start using your iPod with iTunes
To get started using your iPod, you'll first want to put some of your music on it. You'll use iTunes to manage your music and video. If you don't already have the latest version installed on your computer, you can download it for free.
How To: Import movies to Garageband
Adding music to iMovie projects is a great way to create ambiance for your movie. With Garageband, you can create your own music for your movies. You can also add sound effects and enhance the sound recorded with your movie. When you're finished, you can export your movie to share it in a number of ways.
How To: Authorize and deauthorize computers in iTunes
Authorization allows you to copy your music store purchases to other computers and burn them to CD and protects the artists. Each computer you use to play your purchase must be authorized using your music store account. You can authorize up to 5 computers; yours is automatically authorized.
How To: Play music wirelessly from your stereo with iTunes
With AirPort Express and AirTunes, you can play your iTunes music on your stereo wirelessly.
How To: Move your music to another computer with iTunes
To use your iPod to move your music, you must sync your library to your iPod as data into a folder.
How To: Find lost music with iTunes
Although rare, sometimes a purchased song or video doesn't download properly. If this happens, there are methods iTunes provides to look for the lost music.
How To: Play the D add F sharp chord on your acoustic guitar
Learn how to play a D Add F Sharp on your acoustic guitar with Charles Sedlak. What more could you want? A record deal? Maybe you should slow down a bit, and learn the basics, no? Have you even popped a string yet? I didn't think so.
How To: Krump with the basic moves
These are your basics to krump. Arm swings, chest pops, stomps, buck ups, tricks, and taunts. Only thing not included is complete history. Video 2 covers labbing and how to bring all of the moves together.
How To: Drive a golf ball (basics)
Learn how to drive a golf ball with PGA professional Darrell Kestner. He begins by discussing the driver itself and how it affects the shot. He shows where to start the shot from on the tee box, the speed in which the club is swung, the arc of the shot, and proper body positioning. Tips appear through the video in the form of pop ups.
How To: Practice stripper moves
This is another "Hottie Workout" that gives you some excellent tips on stripping. This concentrates on popping up using strategies from yoga, stretching and dance to achieve the sexiest moves!
How To: Do pop and lock moves
Learn how to do the pop and lock - a basic street style dancing move. Darrin breaks down the simple steps of a poppin' dance routine. Watch and follow along to your favorite hip hop music and start popping and locking in no time.
How To: Code a Simple Java App to Kill Any Process After a Specified Time
I may be a bit weird, but I enjoy listening to music at night as I fall asleep. Sure, you could create a playlist of songs so that it stopped after all the songs finished playing, but I have a rather extensive database of music and I enjoy listening to them randomly. Also, I like to ensure it terminates after a specific amount of time (I don't want it playing all night). Or sometimes I use it when I am cooking so that when the music stops, I know I need to check on my food, etc.
How To: Do Lady Gaga's trendy dance from "Alejandro"
To many, Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" was a very mystifying - or just outright weird - music video with gay trysts, frozen hearts, and android costumes. While the music video itself has themes and motifs yet to be explored and explained, the dance moves are easily broken down.
How To: Make a fake computer virus
In this video from g0tst1ngs we learn how to make a fake virus. Go to right click and go to New and then shortcut. in the pop up menu type shutdown -s -t 900 -c Then you can put a message in quotations that will appear. Name this shortcut Fake virus and click finish. Now right click the icon and change properties and you can change the icon this way. To make it become the Windows logo, click Browse, my computer, logo disk, program files, and search for MSN and double click on that and the ico...
How To: Improve your math skills by playing card games and playing music
Without knowing basic math skills your life would be in disarray. You need math to play card games, you need math to play music (or at least to play music well), and you need it everyday to make sure more money is going into your bank account than out.
How To: Enter keyboard notes in the Pizzicato music software
Learn the art of notation in Pizzicato. Pizzicato has three different levels of music software: Light, Pro and Beginner. And with this video tutorial you can learn about entering notes with a MIDI keyboard. You just have to have a MIDI keyboard and the right hardware to connect it to your computer, then learn about all the shortcuts and tools to get your music on the page quickly.