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How To: Prune and care for trees and shrubs

Trees, shrubs, and hedges in your home garden have not only aesthetic appeal because of their beauty but also are very practical. Trees offer shade from the sun, and hedges provide privacy for your yard. These plants however, must be well taken care of to continue to provide their beauty and function. Tree pruning is an essential part of landscape maintenance that must be done regularly to ensure that your trees continue to look beautiful and grow a large healthy canopy. Similarly, hedge trim...

How To: Fix a lawnmower

Are you having trouble balancing the cutting deck of your small engine lawnmower? Our expert will teach you how to do this and many other things including careful removal of the engine’s cutting blade. You will also see how to sharpen the blade and reinstall it safely and efficiently. Watch as our lawnmower maintenance expert removes and reinstalls a carburetor on a small engine lawnmower. Learn how cleaning the carburetor can improve the working mechanism of your lawnmower and see first hand...

How To: Repair a lawnmower

In this series of expert videos, you will learn more about lawnmower maintenance. Watch these videos to see how easy do-it-yourself lawnmower maintenance can be! You will learn how to clean your lawn mowing machine, and keep it free of dirt, rust, and grass clippings. Get tips on changing the oil and air filter on your lawnmower. Learn how to mix two-stroke fuel for your mower. Watch as our expert removes gas, foam filters, and dirty spark plugs from a lawnmower. When changing the blades of y...

How To: Get a moving wallpaper on your computer monitor

First of all you have to go to Photobucket. In the search option you have to type in '3d gif''. Now click 'search'. You shall get a number of photos and you can select the image that has red color moving screen. It is better to get image this way without a virus. Now you have to right click on the image and save as '3d image animation wallpaper' and click save and then save it on your desktop. Now right click on your desktop and click on the properties. Now go to the desktop and then select ‘...

How To: Speed up your Internet connection

This video takes us through a process of speeding up our internet connection using OpenDNS.com. Open the webpage and go to solutions and click on the icon open the DNS page and it lists computer or router, she selects computer and list of operating system is listed, she selects vista. She goes to start and selects control panel, click on view network status and connection, in that select view status and then click on properties and on the networking page, go to internet protocol version 4 and...

How To: Select speakers/mics & adjust sounds in Windows 7

In this video the instructor shows how to select speakers, microphones, and adjust system sounds in Windows 7. To do this, first go to the start menu and select the Control Panel. In the Control Panel select the Hardware and Sound link when the panel is in view by category mode. In the next page click on the Sound link. This opens up the Sound properties setting window. There are four tabs in that window like Playback, Recording, Sounds and Communications. In the Playback tab you will find th...

How To: Make your own non-toxic disinfecting cleaner

In this video, Jennifer Taggart Of Healthy Child Healthy World shows us how to make a non-toxic disinfecting cleaner. You can use this cleaner for almost any surface in your home. What you'll need is a re-purpose spray bottle, some castile soap, some tea tree oil, and water. For the water, it's preferable to use distilled water, but you don't have to. The distilled water ensures there's no bacteria or anything in it. First, if you're re-using a spray bottle make sure it's clean. Add 2 cups of...

How To: Check and refill engine coolant

For a car to operate normally, it must have some basic care and maintenance. In these free automotive repair videos, learn how to maintain your engine cooling system. The cooling system keeps your car from overheating on the road; a lot of heat is generated by an internal combustion engine, which must be properly dissipated. Our expert will show you how to check antifreeze levels and mix and refill your fluid if needed. He’ll also give you tips on how to find leaks, and how to flush your cool...

How To: Check and fill car fluids

In these videos on automobile maintenance you’ll learn how to check all of the major fluids which keep your car operational. Expert Jon Olson demonstrates how to locate the dipstick to check your engine oil, how to check your transmission fluid, brake fluid, power steering fluid, windshield washer fluid, and battery fluid levels. He’ll also show you how to check all of these components for leaks, and how to troubleshoot mysterious fluids that might appear on the ground under your vehicle. Tak...

How To: Put Youtube files in PowerPoint

In this video maniactive teaches how to embed a YouTube video in PowerPoint 2007. You must have a live internet connection to do this. Make sure your Developer tag is turned on in your ribbon. Click on the PowerPoint logo on top left , click PowerPoint options. Under popular click show Developer tab in the ribbon. Click OK. Now in the Developer tab you'll see a toolbox in the toolbar. Scroll all the way down to where it says shockwave/flash object. Draw where you want the video in your PowerP...

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: Find light photons with LEDs & photosensitive paper

In this video Dr. Carlson demonstrates the properties of light. Light is like a wave and it is also like a particle, which means that it comes in small packets. To demonstrate how we know that light behaves like packets of energy, he uses LED’s in different colors and a sheet of phosphorescent paper. When light with a high enough energy shines on the paper it will cause the paper to glow.

How To: Make a rotating SWF logo in Photoshop

This video shows how to make a rotating SWF logo in Photoshop. Choose any desired logo that will be used later in the SWF file. Save the logo to the desktop. Use any kind of editing pogram. Make sure we only have what we want showing the area coloured with small squares is invisible. Open any version of Adobe Flash. Create a new "Actionscript 2" file. Then set workspace size to 240X320 and background color to match the picture we choose before. Make sure we select Flash Lite 2.0. Then go to F...

How To: Use the filter & sort feature in Excel

In this Software video tutorial you will learn how to use the filter & sort feature in Excel. First create a column chart on an excel sheet. In this example, it is a date and sales chart. Click alt+F1 and the chart is displayed. Then click and delete the legend and the horizontal lines. Now go back to the data set, click on a cell and click ctrl+shift+L and that will add the auto filter. ctrl+shift+L is for Excel 07. For earlier versions, see the commands listed in the video. This is a toggle...

How To: Read a balance sheet in accounting

In this Business & Money video tutorial you will learn how to read a balance sheet in accounting. Yu can learn to read it quickly and easily as to where the company’s came from, where it went and where it is now. There are four main financial statements; balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements and statements of shareholder equity. In the balance sheet, under assets are listed things that the company owns that have value. Liabilities are amounts of money company owes to other...

How To: Animate text for websites using Flash

In this how to video, you will learn how to create animated text flash using Flax. First, open the program. Now go to the menu and insert the text. We can modify the aspect, dimension, and position from here. The dimensions can be modified in the window or in the left menu. The position can be modified in the preview as well. In the right menu, different animations can be chosen. Each animation can be modified in the settings window shown. The text can also be personalized by adding different...

How To: Use text field form validation in Dreamweaver CS4

Here the New Boston shows you some tips about using the Spry Validation Text Field. To begin you will go to the Spry Validation Text Field, on Dreamweaver CS4. Looking at the bottom of the page notice the various options that are available for Properties. You find drop-down boxes for Type, Pattern, Minimum or Maximum values, Required, Enforce pattern, Format, Validate on, Blur or Change and Preview States. You can see the types of text available for validating by left mouse clicking the Type ...

How To: Use spell Florida water

Krazyboytx shows viewers how they can use spell Florida water. You can use Florida Water to cleanse your alter and for your candles. First, you will need a camfur block. Use one of the four pieces of the camphor block and put this piece into a zip-lock bag. Crush this camphor block up into the zip lock bag to get small crystal pieces. Fill up your bowl as much as you can with one block. Next, pour in some of your Florida water up to about it covering the stones. Put this on your alter until i...

How To: Connect your Xbox 360 to the Internet using a laptop

This is a video that is describing how to connect your xbox360 to the internet using a laptop. First what their showing is going to the start menu, and then to the right of it, click on control panels. A little page will pop up, and you click on network and internet. It takes you to another page and then you click network and sharing. It will take you to another page, where you see three computers, and to the very left of that page there it says "tasks" look in the columns under tasks and cli...

How To: Simplify exponential expressions in basic algebra

The video shows how to solved mixed property problems using the exponent rules. See if there are any rules you can apply to the problem until you get to a point where you can't simplify anymore. The instructor shows in the example problem that the two bases are the same, but there is extras happening the numerator. The power to power multiply rule is applied removing the extra issues from the numerator. Next the quotient rules is applied as there is the exact same base to the power so we keep...

How To: Embed a YouTube video in PowerPoint 2007

This video shows how to embed a YouTube video in a PowerPoint presentation in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. First you want to copy the URL of the YouTube video that you want to embed in your PowerPoint. Then, open PowerPoint 2007 and click the office button in the top left corner (circular button with office logo). Then click "PowerPoint options" and check "show developer tab in ribbon". Then click "OK". Click on the developer tab, and click on "more controls". Then scroll down to "Shockw...

How To: Clean out old files in Windows XP

This is a step-by-step guide to cleaning out those old fires in your Windows XP computer. You want to start by clicking the "start" button and then clicking on "my computer". Once there, you are going to want to right click on the C-Drive to clean that one first and click on "properties". Once the box opens you want to click on "tools" on your tool bar and then click on the "defragment now" button. When the box opens click on the C-Drive and then click "Analyze" to

How To: Help stretch marks, teeth, cellulite, and scars

Simple but effective tips for a better and beautiful you. For a whiter teeth use a toothpaste with a high fluoride content such as Sensodyne. Brush teeth as usual but avoid rinsing your mouth and do not spit off all the fluoride and let it stay in your mouth. Do this every night. For scars, stretch marks, cellulite, anti-aging, dry skin, use bio-oil. It is pure saline oil and a non greasy formula that has healing properties. Just spray a little bit of bio-oil to the affected area. for underar...

How To: Use the Grouping factoring method

This video is about using the grouping factoring method. We're using a four term polynomial. There is a even number of terms. We can break them into two groups of 2. The first group of "2" the common factor is "a." The last group, the common factor is "-2b". The reason we use -2b is to assure that what is in the first group is the same as the second group. Because of the distributive property of multiplication over addition, we take the a-2b and put it in one bracket. Multiply by 3x+1. With 6...

How To: Make a side menu bar for your website

In this video the author gives an HTML Website Design tutorial showing how to make a side menu bar. He goes on to show how to write the HTML page, explaining about the different HTML tags like <html>, <head>, <title>, <table> etc., He shows how to set page color and add styling to the page. He shows how to align the page elements and does the font settings. He goes on and makes a HTML table. Next he shows how to make a menu bar using the table element and shows how to do the various settings ...

How To: Make mango chutney

Chutney is a term for a class of spicy preparations used as an accompaniment for a main dish such as chicken or fish. Serve this delicious mango chutney with your prepared fish or chicken dish tonight.

How To: Report a car theft

The first thing that comes to mind when your car is stolen is: ####!! However, once calm, cover these bases when your car is stolen to notify relevant parties and help ensure vehicle recovery or replacement.