Learn how to make a folding reflector from cardboard and foil. This is essentially free if you have all of the materials already, like cardboard, golden aluminum foil, tape and scissors. This foldable light reflector is a good choice for outdoor film shoots on a low-budget. When you can't bring lights to your film shoot outdoors, let the light come to you!
Cakewalk Studio Instruments is made up of four high quality virtual instruments. Throughout this tutorial, Shane Olivier demonstrates how quickly you can integrate midi files and use Sonar's Step sequencer to producing quick, polished results. He also shows how Cakewalk Sonar DAW editions and Studio Instruments work together by adding Rapture LE (of a softsynth of your choice) into the mix. Watch as Shane Olivier shows you how to integrate Studio Instruments with SONAR.
You've had chicken and beef enchiladas, now try the version - vegetarian except for the chicken stock (maybe you can substitute with vegetable stock). This Mexican dish is so simple to make. Follow along in this cooking how-to video to learn how to make Mexican cheese enchiladas.
Learn how to mix a delicious Mir Cocktail drink! Ingredients:
Watch this instructional crocheting video to crochet a pansy flower. Use any size of yarn or thread and your choice of crochet needle. This method will allow you to crochet unique pansy flowers that can be added to sweaters or blankets, or hung as decorative ornaments on their own.
Raw food is super healthy and easy to make. This how to video shows how easy it is to make living breads and crackers in your dehydrator with your choice of organic ingredients. Watch and learn how to mix flax seeds, tomatoes, chives, olive oil, salt and pepper.
It is a waste when fresh fruits go bad. In this how to video Chef Paul demonstrates how to make your own delicious fruit sauce. Use up fresh fruit you just bought or overripe fruit that has been sitting on your counter. Serve the fruity sauce over pancakes, waffles, ice cream or any other item of your choice.
Perfect your ability to center on a Potter's wheel with these tips from Andy Ruble. There are several different ways to go about centering, but the general principle is to put equal pressure on the top and side of the ball of clay and clay has no choice but to go in the middle. This instructional ceramics video is designed to help the beginning through advanced ceramic student improve their throwing skills.
Walking into a pharmacy with a cold can we overwhelming with all the choices of over the counter drugs. In this how to video Pharmacologist Joe Graedon shows you how to prevent the common cold with home remedies.
This is a very simple, classic cocktail recipe. It can be made with bourbon, rye or whatever your favorite happens to be. If it is made with scotch whisky, then it is a Rob Roy, but to make the traditional Manhattan, use bourbon whiskey. Watch this video mixology tutorial and learn how to make a Crown Manhattan. You will need Crown Royal or a whiskey of your choice and sweet vermouth.
Braising, one of Olive Garden Executive Chef Paolo Lafata's favorite techniques, is a slow cooking process that produces extremely tender and flavorful meat without much effort. A great choice for the cooler months, the dish is anchored by tender beef short ribs that are slow cooked in a Chianti wine sauce and accompanied by a savory Portobello mushroom risotto, with a hint of Marsala wine. Watch this how to video to learn how to cook Olive Garden's Chianti braised short ribs.
This video tutorial takes front and side reference images in Adobe Photoshop and prepares them for use as reference plates in your 3D modeling package of choice, like Autodesk's 3D Studio Max. Distortions introduced by the lens, camera, and photographer are removed and key features are lined up for easy digital modeling in 3ds Max 8.
Are you in the market for a new television? Before you pull out your credit card, we'll help you sort through the lingo, from HDTV to LCD, and find the best television to fit your needs.
The firm and fatty flesh of Chilean sea bass makes it an ideal choice for the grill. A hot-sweet grilled mango and red pepper salsa provides delicious contrast to the rich fish. When shopping for seafood, make sure it bears the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) label to ensure it was harvested in an environmentally sustainable manner.
Watch this video and learn to make a German favorite, schnapps. This video shows you how to make an American version with the flavoring of your choice.
You can tye in or clip into the rope for glacier travel. It doesn't really matter it is your choice. You may as well know both methods. The tie is great if your short of gear or you don't want your guests getting away. Clipping in eases the process of getting in and out of the rope (climber speak there, sorry)
Slim stalks of asparagus just scream of spring. Blanching or steaming has long been the cooking method of choice for these tender spears, though all that moisture can leach out the bright green color and make asparagus stringy, even mushy. Roasting or grilling asparagus concentrates the sweet, green-ness of the vegetable and adds a crispy, caramelized crunch that makes it irresistible.
Kabinett or Spatlese what is your choice? Gary Vaynerchuk goes through the white grape that has his attention these days. He tastes the following wines: 2005 Von Hovel Oberemmeler Hutte Kabinett Riesling, 2005 Schafer Frohlich Estate Kabinett Riesling, 2005 Reinhold Haart Spatlese Wintricher Ohligsberg Riesling, and 2005 Gunderloch Spatlese Nackenheimer Rothenberg Riesling.
Watch the lab rats as they breakdown their way of choosing the right mp3 player for you. Maybe its based on flashram or harddrive, the choice is based on your use. These guys explain how they work and what criteria to use to choose the one thats right for you.
Update: August 1, 2014 Earlier today, President Obama signed into law the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, making the act of unlocking your unsubsidized cell phone 100% legal.
Remember those Choose Your Own Adventure novels? If your school was anything like mine, they were so popular you were lucky to find one to check out at the library. But there's no worries now, thanks to this handy HTML5 app, which makes it easy to write and share your own 'choose your own adventure' novels. inklewriter is a free tool designed to make writing interactive stories simple. Basically, you start typing and inklewriter helps you organize your story, making it easy to add, remove and...
HealthyCook teaches viewers how to make healthy but easy granola cereal bars! You can use oatmeal oats, grains and all different types of oats (You don't only have to use just one kind). Choices range from jumbo oats, barley flakes, rye flakes and ordinary oatmeal oats. Gluten free choices are barley flakes, brown rice flakes (in small quantity), millet flakes and finally quinoa flakes. Use 100 grams of softened butter and mix it in a large bowl. Add in 75 grams of dark molasses sugar and mix...
Whoop, there it is. McDonald's makes its food even faster by partnering with UberEats to bring orders to your doorstep in over 1,000 locations around the country.
Think eating food is as easy as putting it in your mouth? It's considerably more complicated than that. Your brain plays a big role in determining what and how you eat. Understanding how your brain interprets food choices is key to managing your eating habits.
Microsoft's Kinect is gaining popularity with Xbox 360 owners, but what's really more fun? Playing games with this revolutionary hands-free gaming device or gutting the sucker to see what it's all about? We'll take the latter choice.
Thor is the synth of choice for many Reason 4 users, including Dave from Boyinaband.com, the maker of this video. Herein he will teach you how to use some advanced features of Thor to create new and unconventional sounds. These features include the phase mod, wavetable, and FM Pair oscillators; comb filters; and the modulation bus routing section.
In this video, we learn how to install games to the Xbox 360 hard drive (Xbox 101). When you install a game to your console, it can have a lot of positive effects. The first one is: the disc won't spin constantly. This means less stress on the console, making it happier. Next, it will have a better overall performance and make the games load faster. Your system will also run quieter than before! You can install any game by going to the game details and then installing your choice of game. Usi...
In this tutorial, we learn how to get Games on Demand on Xbox LIVE (Xbox 101). You will find all the newest games as well as classics and downloading is easy. It's the same process as downloading the demos. Just head to the marketplace and select from the title choice. You have the option to charge the title to your credit card or using points to purchase it. Each game is several gigabytes in size, so give it lots of time to download. To familiarize yourself with games, go to the website for ...
In The Netherlands, Gabber Hardcore is the music of choice for rebellious young people, much like punk and underground hip-hop in the US. It is a blisteringly fast style of electronic music which might seem hard to dance to at first. Enter the hakken, the dance of choice for the Gabber listener. Watch this video to learn how to do the hakken, and you will know what to do next time you're at a hardcore club in Holland.
We normally advocate you don't pile on the glitter for most makeup looks, even nighttime ones, but on Halloween you have no choice but to pull out all the stops - and all your glitter tubes.
Can't afford a high-speed camera? Fake it! In this clip, you'll learn how to achieve a slow-mo frame-blending effect with Adobe After Effects CS4 or CS5 and two digital photos of your choice. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular motion graphics and compositing software or a seasoned video 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, s...
Michael Myers from the Halloween movie franchise might be one of the scariest villains ever to be depicted on screen. He is a popular Halloween costume choice, but most of the newer masks and other costume products made of Mike Myers are not very faithful to the original—or they're extremely expensive.
Even princesses need help getting pretty. Take one of our favorite (faux) princesses, Princess Mia from "The Princess Diaries," who walked around sans makeup and with pore strip on nose before a big event (which she then speedily - and painfully - ripped off when Michael came in the room).
In this tutorial, we learn how to create ink drop and spread effects. You will need: coffee filters, fish tank, dropper, black ink, water, and a bowl. Next, pour water into your fish tank, then pour your ink into the dropper. After this, add in water into the bowl and place the coffee filter in it to soak it, then place it on a flat surface. For the first effect, drop the ink into your water and see what it looks like when you drop it into the tank, getting this on tape and using the proper l...
In this tutorial, we learn how to create an everyday contoured look. First, apply a full coverage foundation to your face. Mac is recommended, using a color that is a match to your skin. Blend this on the face using a foundation brush. Next, apply a loose powder over your skin with a brush to settle the foundation onto your skin. After this, you will brush a bronzer of your choice onto the cheek bones, followed by a blush brushed onto your cheekbones. After this, you can also brush the bronze...
Just in case you've been living under a rock (AKA without internet) for the past couple of days, here's a quick update: "Gossip Girl" star Taylor Momsen has officially become the new face of Madonna and her daughter Lourdes' new fashion line, Material Girl.
Photoshop is the photo-editing software of choice for just about everyone these days. It is very complex; but you're in luck! We have many videos here on site dealing with how to use Photoshop's many functions. This video will teach you how to display a picture inside of text by using masking. The effect is very cool, and sure to zest up your website or film.
As good as Swype's word prediction software is, sometimes we all make mistakes. If you are wondering how to go back and fix something that isn't right in your text messages, check out this tutorial. Fixing words with Swype is just as fast as texting with this lightening fast application.
There's a reason witches are a timeless costume costume choice worn year after year on Halloween. They're sexier than fairy costumes and far more lurid than ketchup bottle costumes.
Jungle Juice is a college frat party classic. In this tutorial, learn how to dump all of the left over liquor and juice in your kitchen and make this intoxicating cocktail.
