With the weather warming up and the days getting longer, fruit salads are starting to appear at backyard BBQs, beach picnics, and pretty much everywhere else. Often these sweet side dishes are unremarkable, with each colorful bowl blending into the next. Luckily, there are easy ways to spice up your fruit salads so that everyone will still be talking about them next summer.
There are tons of ways to make a macro lens for your smartphone, but if you need one for a DSLR, it's not quite as simple as using a magnifying glass or a drop of water. If you have an old kit lens, though, you can turn it into a macro lens in no time—all you have to do is remove the front element. For this hack, Juha Loukola over on PetaPixel used a Canon 38-76mm lens, but says that the process should be pretty much the same for other lenses.
Sure, you can make boring tables inside PowerPoint 2008 for Mac, but who wants to add that dull element to their slideshow presentations? Nobody! Tables can be more than just numbers, they can be eye-catching and visually striking. The Microsoft Office for Mac team shows you just how to create great-looking tables by using Tables Styles in this how-to video.
Is your garage a little more cluttered than it should be? Well, it's time to get organized! And Lowe's is here to help! In this video, Mike Kraft gives some great tips for shaping up your garage or basement, in a neat and organized room that you can finally walk through.
Two college students; Kevin Martin and Joey Smokey introduce the concept of Molar Mass. They start of by explaining what molar mass is, which is the relationship of a mole and a gram, it totals up the weight(in g)of a molecule. An example: say you have this compound, Sodium phosphate (Na3PO4). You know you have three sodium atoms, one phosphorus atom, and four oxygen atoms. You basically find the weight of each atom, if you have three sodium atoms, you multiply it's atomic mass by 3 (the numb...
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 ...
Looking to cut your monthly expenses down? Brown-bagging is one of the easiest ways to save money, especially if you stock several key items. In this video, ways to pack a lunch for a dollar a day are gone over.
This seafood recipe comes to us from Oliver Rowe from the Konstam restaurant in London. Follow along in this how-to video to learn how make pan fried skate fish cheeks with lovage and lemon dressing.
In this home-science how-to from Household Hacker, we learn how to create an exothermic reaction by combining sulfur with iron, producing iron sulfide in the process. For all of the details, including step-by-step instructions, as well as to see what happens when these two elements meet, watch this video guide.
New to the PSE gradient tool? 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 this free video guide.
Searching for a primer on how to create masks within Adobe PSE? 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 this free video guide.
In this tutorial, you'll see how easy it is to bring your footage into PFTrack and then quickly take that data into Cinema 4D to begin to add your elements. Whether you're new to MAXON's popular 3D modeling application or are just looking to get better acquainted with Cinema 4D and its various features and functions, you're sure to enjoy this free video software tutorial. For more information, including complete instructions, watch this 3D modeler's guide.
This clip presents on a guide on integrating CG with real-life or real-world images using the basic capabilities of Blender: nodes, and sequencer. Whether you're new to the Blender Foundation's popular 3D modeling program or a seasoned graphic artist just interested in better acquainting yourself with the application, you're sure to be well served by this free video tutorial. For more information, including detailed instructions, take a look!
Learn how to create a transitional motion graphics element in After Effects CS4 or CS5 with this video guide. 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, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video guide.
Sunbursts are very cool looking, both psychedelic and evocative of the Japanese cultural elements that are so popular in modern America. This video will teach you how to create your own sunburst effect using Flash CS3, which you can then use in your Flash website, game, or movie. Don't make it spin too fast or your audience might pass out!
In this tutorial, from graphic designer Ali Edwards, you will learn how to use cool, hand drawn lettering on your photos in Photoshop. You can buy packages of hand drawn letters and words from various sources (or make your own) and this clip will show you exactly how to add these brushes to your photos for scrapbooking, advertising, logos or anything else.
Materials and lighting are two of the more basic elements of making good 3D models on the computer. This video teaches you how to use and manage these two important facets of a 3D model using Cheetah3D, Apple's popular free 3D editing suite.
Learn how to morph objects when working in Apple Motion 4. Whether you're new to the Apple's popular motion graphics editor/compositing application or simply wish to get a little bit better acquainted with Motion 4, you're sure to find value in this tutorial. For more information, including step-by-step instructions, take a look.
Want to extract an image from its background? In Adobe Photoshop, the process is simple. So simple, in fact, that this free video software tutorial can present a thorough and complete overview of the process in just over five minutes' time. For detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started extracting foreground from background elements in your own digital images, watch this helpful guide.
Have you seen extravagant graphics on web pages or in the GUI (Graphical User Interface) of a commercially published program? Do you wish you could create graphics comparable to published works? Now you can! This tutorial will take you step by step in creating visual elements in CSS. Cascading Style sheets are the present and future of web pages and this tutorial will make sure you are not left behind. The visual aspect of web pages are of utmost importance and the major determinant of a user...
One of the first things you may want to know when learning how to animate in Flash is how to orient an object to a path — the path, in turn, serving as a sort of metaphorical track for your Flash element.
Get all of the info on Thesis themes for you WordPress blog. Watch this video tutorial from 4Blogger to learn how to add a background box and color in a Thesis sidebar.
If you were lost in the forest, how would you shelter yourself from the elements? In this video, Reggie Bennett from the Mountain Shepherd Survival School teaches us how to build an A-frame structure in the woods, even if you don't have standing trees or cord available. You never know, this info might just save your life someday!
This is how to false and death chord scream. This is an element of most death metal and hard rock vocals. The scream utilizes a different breath, lung exhale and vocal control than regular talking or singing.
Whether you're interested in trying out for the lacrosse team for your school or would like to brush up on basic positions and responsibilities, this video offers a great run through of the most basic elements of lacrosse. The four lacrosse positions will be covered: Midfielders, attack men, goalies, and defensemen.
Whether you're hosting a sophisticated soiree or a raging bash, toga-themed costume parties add an amusing element to the event. See how to make your own toga out of a bed sheet by watching this how-to video, and you'll be kicking it Roman-style in no time.
Say you're interested in using Photoshop for your photography, but you don't want to spend the money on Photoshop Elements or CS3. What to do? Well, Adobe has a solution for you! It's called Photoshop Express, and it's free. Check out our interview with Tom Hogarty of Adobe, as well as a preview of what you can do today with Photoshop Express.
Onshore, or on a boat, have you ever wondered what swims below in the dark water? Using standard equipment and a new process, marine scientists can now get a good look at what is swimming by—just by analyzing the water.
Greetings, fellow NBers! Welcome to my sixth iteration of my sorting series. Today, we'll be discussing a personal favorite: Quicksort, or Quick Sort.
Welcome back, my fledgling hackers! In an earlier tutorial, I introduced you to probably the most popular scripting language for hackers, Python. To become a professional hacker, you need to have some scripting skills and Python is a good choice if you want to master just one. In this latest guide, I will expand your background in Python and offer you a tidbit of Python code to whet your appetite for all of the hacking to come.
Learn how to make a paper origami teo flower instructions. This origami flower is my improvisation, and I haven't seen any similar flower from the nature. I named the flower to my wife Teofila (Teo) because i gave to her the first model of a complete paper flower :). The model is easy and the stamens make the flower looks one idea more beautiful :)
This is chemistry at its best! Europium is the chemical element (Eu) which was named after Europe. Dysprosium (Dy) is a rare earth element of a metallic silver luster. Watch this science video tutorial from Nurd Rage on how to make europium and dysprosium nitrate salts with Dr. Lithium.
Check out this video guide to learn how to install the pistons mod for Minecraft beta 1.6. This Minecraft guide will show you how to download and install the pistons mod so that you can add a whole new element to your Minecraft world.
This video will show you how to build a pole in Minecraft. Poles are a great design element that you can sue when creating a number of different structures. You can make entrances, light posts, whatever you can imagine once you've watched this Minecraft video.
Get familiar with the keys and parts of the Nokia N97, and with the elements on the home screen. It's an easy process. And this clip will teach you everything you need to know. For all of the details, including complete, step-by-step instructions, watch this brief, official N97 owner's guide from the folks at Nokia!
Learn how to create a video of holographic images appearing from an iPhone, using video footage and After Effects software. The basic elements used here are the built-in motion tracker (although you can also use the Mocha tracker bundled with CS4) and creating icons within After Effects with simple partially-transparent solids.
A stylesheet helps keep the design elements for your website consistent - such as making sure all your headings and links are formatted exactly the same way. This tutorial shows you how to set up an external stylesheet for your own HTML based website.
This tutorial gives a beginning web designer a few useful strategies for improving efficiency and productivity when working with HTML and CSS. Hierarchy is one of these concepts, and the video also covers grouping elements, overriding groups and Document Oject Model.
If you want to print web pages but don't want all sorts of aimless clutter then check out this video and learn how to edit those pages before you send them to the printer. With a little Firefox extension called Print Edit!, you can remove unwanted elements from the page and then just print what you need.
If you live somewhere with harsh winters, you know that they can be hell on your garden and the flower pots therein. Watch this video for tips on protecting different kinds of flower pots from the elements during the winter.
