Apple's iMovie 11 comes with some great new video effects and this quick tutorial shows you how to put them to use. Whether you want to slow down, speed up, fade to dream, or replay your video sequence, iMovie 11 has the tools to make it happen. Slow motion, fast motino, replay, fade and flash & hold are all at your disposal. Ready... and... action!
Lots of designer purse companies, especially Coach and Kate Spade, LOVE attaching beaded charms to their purses and clutches. Sparkly little bits and pieces add extra pizazz to anything they're attached to.
Sometimes you want to look fabulous as can be in as little time as possible. And no, a ponytail with a pretty hair clip is not as good as you can do on a time constraint.
The difference between mohawks and faux hawks is that the former is punk while the later is in fashion. From Rihanna to Blake Lively, young Hollywood's starlets are totally digging the faux hawk trend and wearing it to movie premieres and awards shows.
This video will show you how to get the "Ramblin' Man" achievement in Halo Wars. You will need to get to Level 8 of the game to obtain the achievement. You will need to create 100 units with your Elephant. You need to kill all of the enemies and you need to send one unit at a time. You can also find the Black Box and the Rebel Skull by searching the map. Repeat this process until you get the achievement. Just follow these quick and easy steps in order to successfully complete the "Ramblin' Ma...
Are you out of time and need a quick way to get yourself in the Halloween spirit? Then check out this all-inclusive Halloween video. You'll learn how to do three things:
Sure, you could muster up hundreds of dollars to have you hair done by a professional hairstylist on your wedding day, but why do so when you can do just as great a job on your own (or with the help of a friend)?
Now that we're approaching the holiday season (i.e. the season of friends, family, and gain ten pounds) boxes of chicken stock are soon going to be flying off the shelves to be tossed into soups, to flavor meats, and to add a richness to vegetable dishes.
Preserving lemons can sometimes take weeks to accomplish, especially if you want the marinade to absorb well. But what if you want to make preserved lemons as a gift for a hostess in a few days and you simply lack the time?
In Fallout: New Vegas, you will eventually end up having to check out the other factions and tribes in the game. One of them happens to be the Boomers over at Fort Nellis Air Force Base, a clan of old vault dwellers who took over the base and have been making use of their heavy artillery to keep intruders away.
You don't need a football team of makeup artists to look great (not that we'd say no to our our styling team). While most celebrities swear by their makeup artists and get primped and prodded by them any moment they're not in front of the camera, all you really need to look good is three things: Good skin, shiny lips, and big eyes.
Curling your hair without either a curling iron or a flat iron? It sounds preposterous, but it can be done - and to great effect - after you watch this video. Sure, curling irons are great and quick ways to add bounce and volume to your locks, but they eat up electricity and damage your beautiful strands.
With Halloween coming up in a matter of weeks, it's more important than ever to know how to get your makeup to STAY. While you can always slap on primer to get even the boldest makeup colors to adhere to your skin for hours, getting glitter to stay on your skin is a whole other problem.
At the very end of Left 4 Dead 2's new DLC "The Sacrifice" there are two achievements that you can receive in the game, Kill Bill and Supreme Sacrifice. Although it's easy to get Supreme Sacrifice, in order to get both at the same time you have to play as Bill when you go to turn on the generator. Not quite getting it? Check out this video for a quick tutorial on how to get both of the achievements!
Of all the things that go bump in the night, zombies are the most often neglected in popular culture. We've got more vampires than we'll need for a lifetime with the Twilight yuppies, True Blood hotties, and Vampire Diaries boys, and we've got werewolves intermixed with these vamps in the movies/shows, but zombies haven't been all that big until The Walking Dead came out. And let's face it—you don't see many good-looking zombies on there.
As far as makeup skills go, knowing how to create a dramatic smoky eye is as important as knowing how to paint on the perfect red lip. Learn how to do this basic makeup trick and you'll be ready for any fabulous occasion, from bat mitzvahs to Christmas.
Looking for a quick primer on how to create a new email account on a BlackBerry phone running version 6 of the BlackBerry OS? This clip will teach you everything you'll need to know. Whether you're the proud owner of a BlackBerry smartphone or are merely considering picking one up, you're sure to be well served by this official video guide from the folks at Blackberry. For detailed information, including step-by-step instructions, take a look.
It's a classic dilemma parodied in so many TV shows and movies we now roll our eyes every time we see it: Two women are trying to pry open a jar of jam (or some other condiment) but, despite their best efforts, the lid just won't pop. So they enlist the help of a pretty boy who lives next door to finish the "manly" job.
For kids and grown ups, hot dogs are a staple of the American diet. But try to bring one with to school, or work, without a microwave isn't exactly tasty, and trying to eat them either cold and uncooked or heated early and then eaten later is not the best way to go. In this video you will learn how to make a hot dog in a piping hot thermos that will keep it hot enough until you pull it out for lunch.
If we could we would totally eat baked potatoes every day. Tender and fluffy, they taste great alone and also topped with favorites like bacon bits, sour cream, scallions, and really whatever else suits your fancy.
Grapes as dessert? After watching this food video you'll think twice about these juicy purple orbs. While we think popping some grapes into our mouths is delicious enough as it is, this recipe combines grapey goodness with icy coldness for a delicious, almost popsicle like snack.
It's never a good idea to wake the dead, or to try to communicate with spirits. You never know what sort of sleeping beasts you may awaken. But, if you're really keen on it and are wondering how to conduct a seance of your own, check out this video. You will get a quick tutorial on how to set the mood, place the food offering, call the spirit and speak with it. Also includes some troubleshooting tips, should things go awry, in which the most inevitably will.
They always did say, "simple music is the hardest to play, and Blues is simple music." Playing the Blues requires a specific touch that takes practice as well as a great compilation of licks! In this video you will learn how to play a signature Freddie King lick (ripped off by Eric Clapton, Stevie and other great guitar players, because that's what we do) over the IV chord of the progression (the fourth chord in the scale of the key). The faster you get with it, start to add trills, quick ham...
The blues is where it all began. Before you learn how to play rock or jazz or metal, you should start with the blues. Learning the basic 12 bar form can help you feel out measures and develop your sense of direction in music, and learning how to play the shuffled rhythm will help to increase your proficiency with learning other rhythm patterns. In this fantastic video you will get a basic over view of the Blues on the acoustic guitar and a quick variation on the standard blues shuffle.
We always cringe when we see that a recipe calls for sundried tomatoes. Not that we have anything against tomatoes, but the sundried and preserved kind is all wrinkly, odd tasting, and too sterile. These oven-dried tomatoes, however, are incredibly delicious.
Now that fall has officially begun, corn is soon to be in season and will be abundant and ripe at most supermarkets and local farmers markets. So if you're looking forward to making corn chowder or tossing some in a slad, simplify the task by checking out this knife skills video.
It's officially football season, which means of course it's also all-American comfort food season. After all, hot dogs, french fries, chips, and beer are as American as the game itself.
Lateral lifts are an excellent exercise because they tone multiple parts of the body at the same time, saving you workout time if you're busy and offering excellent results. By lifting your arms out laterally from resting position while holding a weight, you're strengthening your biceps, triceps, forearms, shoulders, and pectorals. That's a pretty big result for such a simple move.
Looking for a quick guide on how to make your computer shut down or restart at a specified time? This clip will show you how it's done. It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this handy home-computing how-to from the folks at Tekzilla can present a complete overview of the process in about two minutes' time. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
Are you snowed in at home? Or simply too lazy to get up off the couch, pick up your keys, drive over to the grocery store to bake an elaborate cake? No problemo. For those days when you've got a sweet tooth but not many ingredients lying around, you can still bake a simple and quick cake.
If you're not sure about creating reports in Visual Studio, this two-part video will cover the entire process. This assumes that you already know a few things in Microsoft Visual Studio and the C# programming language. So, if you're not a beginner and still need help to create reports from data in the SQL Server, this is how you do it. Also, learn a quick and easy way to pass parameters to reports in C#.
Everyone we know remembers the first time they took a bite out of a cold, creamy tiramisu like it was yesterday. That's because that sumptuous first bite begins you on a lifetime journey of addiction to the creamy Italian dessert.
Looking for a quick guide on how to really make your model's eyes pop when retouching a digital photo in Adobe Photoshop CS5? This clip will teach you what you need to know. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular raster graphics editing software or a seasoned professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the program and its various features and filters, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch ...
Going back to school means meeting new friends, new love interests, and the oh so dreaded early mornings. No more sleeping in, gals! But if you're a girl who always wants to look good no matter how rushed or tired you are, then there's an easy way to style hair that's both quick and pretty.
Looking for a quick guide on how to withstand a Zerg raid when playing as a Terran in Starcraft 2? It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this clip can present a step-by-step overview of an effective defense technique in about under twenty minutes. For more information, and to get started defending your own Terran base, watch this video guide.
Christmas is The holiday of the year for many bakers, as the festive occasion offers more than enough excuses to bring out their best cookies, cakes, cupcakes, and yummy desserts. All red and green and Christmas-themed, of course. Christmas allows those creative juices to flow, but offers up very specific icons to work with.
Everyone knows what a hotkey is. They're keyboard shortcuts that help you be more efficient, and they come in particularly good use in real-time strategy games like the new StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty video game.
This is a quick Zerg tutorial for the upcoming StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty game using the StarCraft 2 Beta game. HuskyStarcraft gives you all the advice needed for the standard Roach opener with the Zerg race. It's a really great build to your own friends. Check out the build order below.
Fish tail braids are basically the grown up version of the braids mom used to put in your hair every morning for school. With less of an uptight, "braid-y" look and more of a loose, touseled appearance, fish tail braids offer us a fun way to experiment with hair without looking like an 8-year-old.
Let this video be as integral a part of your pre-club prep as hairstyling and putting on makeup. After all, we know that even if we're looking our sexiest in our six inch Blahniks, once we actually hit the dance floor it becomes Awkward Central. Some gals find their groove naturally, but for others, it takes a bit of trial and error (and maybe some Jack Daniel's) to loosen up a bit.
