News: USA Today Turns to Augmented Reality to Tell the Story of Corruption in Chicago
To punch up the launch of its new podcast, USA Today has created an augmented reality experience to introduce listeners to the story of corruption in Chicago.
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News: New York Times AR Coverage of Guatemala Volcano Disaster Shows AR Isn't Ready for Breaking News
The latest augmented reality feature from The New York Times gives readers a close-up view of the damage left behind by the eruption of Volcán de Fuego in Guatemala earlier this month.
How To: The Ultimate Guide to Using Instagram Stickers
Something that always brings a tear to my eye is uninspired Instagram stories. When you have a bunch of like-minded friends, you end up with like-minded stories. While it may seem difficult to stand out, stickers were designed so that you can differentiate yourself from other users — and knowing everything there is to know about Instagram stickers will make you a sticker master.
How To: Stop Oversharing & Reduce Your Online Footprint with These 9 Instagram Privacy Tips
As with most social media platforms, Instagram can be a double-edged sword. On one hand, it's a great way to share and express yourself — but on the other, it can be just as effective at compromising your privacy. Thankfully, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself.
Instagram 101: How to Zoom In & Out in Instagram Stories
Zooming in and out within Instagram Stories is a good way to take your videos to the next level. Whatever a next level is. Sometimes I just run out of words to describe how fun using Instagram is, so for today, I got "next level," which means whatever you want it to mean.
The Clone Wars: Snapchat's New Numbers Mean More Bad News for Troubled App
You were the chosen one, Snapchat! The new download numbers for the social media app show just how hard it will be to bring them back to the light after the rise of the Instagram empire.
News: Fly Lufthansa? Snapchat Will Introduce You to Your Flight Crew
What companies do you think have a unique and compelling take on social media? Wendy's is certainly confident, to say the least. But Lufthansa Airlines is taking a different approach than most — and it seems to be working — as they give passengers a look behind the scenes through Snapchat Stories.
News: Facebook Copies Snapchat Again by Putting Augmented Reality Camera Filters in the Main Facebook App
Facebook is aware that Snapchat is killing the social media game amongst the youths, which makes sense, because in 2017, video is king in social media currency. Facebook has continually shown that Mark Zuckerberg and crew seem to think the best strategy to keep up is to simply copy them.
News: WhatsApp Stops Trying to Be Like Everyone Else & Brings Back Its Text-Based Status Option
In February, the popular Facebook-owned WhatsApp Messenger service jumped on the "stories" bandwagon and replaced their in-app, text-based "About Me" status (you know, those lovely little messages where you can say "Sleeping" or "Not Sleeping" under the tiny nub of your profile picture). Taking its place was a clone of Snapchat's Stories feature, continuing the social media giant's recent trend of shamelessly copying Snapchat.
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News: Inklewriter Lets You Write and Share Your Own 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Books
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...
How To: Craft a laminated kid's spring bookmark
One way to get your kids to read more books is not by forcing them to do so, but by making the reading experience fun by giving them these cute handcrafted bookmarks.
How To: Make your own Brown Jenkin from H.P. Lovecraft's stories
This tutorial shows you how you can make a stop motion puppet modeled after Brown Jenkin, the eldritch horror that features in in the Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft. Brown Jenkin is a rat familiar with a human face, and this video shows you how to pull off this incredily creepy character.
How To: Play the song "Asterisk" from the Bleach OST on piano
Bleach, like many other popular anime series, features some really stirring piano compositions in very parts of it's story. In this video you'll learn how to play the melancholy but hopeful song "Asterisk" from the Bleach OST on piano. You may not be able to slay the spirits of the dead, but you can learn to play this.
How To: Turn your kids into puppeteers with John Lithgow
In this video, learn how to make your own puppets and put on a puppet show! Let the mayor of Paloozaville, John Lithgow, show you how to make your own hand puppets with your kids and act out stories and songs with them! You will make cheap, fun sock puppets and then build a theatre using old sheets and your living room! Have fun!
How To: Dominate the challenge rooms in Batman: Arkham Asylum
In this clip from IGN, learn how to dominate the challenge room in Batman: Arkham Asylum. This video will give you some essential do's and don'ts to survive Story Mode in this game. You won't be able to complete the game 100% until you've completed all 16 maps and in this clip you will learn the easiest and fastest ways to do that while staying alive.
How To: Arrange your clips in iMovie
With your video footage imported, you're ready to start arranging your clips in the way that tells your story best. Use the iMovie clip viewer to organize your clips.
How To: Add narration in iMovie
Adding narration or voiceover to your movie is an excellent way to enhance your story. You can use the built-in microphone on your Mac, the built-in microphone from a connected iSight camera, or an external microphone connected to your Mac.
How To: Style simple Renaissance style braids
The Renaissance was a beautiful, romantic time in history. You don't have to look dated to grab this classic, story book style. All you need is to update it a little bit and you will look classically gorgeous in any decade.
How To: Write better action beats in a screenplay
Writing a script is easy, but writing a script that the Hollywood elite would actually like to pick up is a totally different story. Any aspiring screenwriter will find this information about action in scripts helpful.
How To: Make meals from the Great Depression: Poorman's meal
91 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the Depression.
How To: Make meals from the Great Depression: Cooked bread
93 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the Great Depression. Keep your stomach and pockets full as you learn how to make panecotto (cooked bread).
How To: Make meals from the Great Depression: Breakfast meal
93 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the Great Depression. Make sugar cookies and coffee.
How To: Make meals from the Great Depression: Pasta with peas
The Great Depression of the 1930's and 1940's and today's recession: now is a good time to prepare a meal inexpensively. 91 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the Depression. In this cooking how to video, Clara demonstrates how to make pasta with pees.
How To: Take a fashion portrait photograph
A fashion portrait should convey emotion and follow a story line. Delightfully, besides these two rules, it doesn’t have to make sense. Art photography can be dramatic or goofy. Make sure you don't just leave it all for Photoshop. Make an effort to get the right lighting before you start flashing away for your beauty shot or headshot.
How To: Find the Crows Nest Pelican Easter Egg in Halo 3
This is a glitch walkthrough to find the Pelican in the bottom of the crow's nest. Its shows how to get to the bottom of crow's nest and get on that random pelican.
How To: Find the Halo 3 Easter Egg Da Vinci Tower glitch
This glitch walkthrough tutorial shows you how to get out of Covanent. Once in this area proceed to the shown area, load the loading point & the Da Vinci Towers appear.
How To: Make a mini booklet with Crayola
Create a travel journal, make a doodle book, or write a story about yourself with this how to video from Crayola. All you need is paper and scissors to create your own 8-page mini book. This is a fun and east project for your whole family to do. With this arts and crafts tutorial you can make a mini booklet with your children.
How To: Origami a fox puppet
Watch this instructional origami video to fold an origami fox puppet. Kitsune is the Japanese word for fox. Japanese folklore depicts foxes as intelligent magical creatures who can sometimes assume human form. Fold this origami fox puppet to make your kitsune talk and tell stories. Don't forget to draw a cute face on your origami fox.
How To: Create a page curl effect in Adobe Photoshop
Bring your Adobe Photoshop images to life with this wonderful effect, the page curl. Create a sense of movement and tell a story by adding the page curl, also known as page peel, effect. This is a simple procedure that you can master once you've watched this video.
How To: Beat Chapter 6, 9:03PM in Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective might make the coolest use of a ghostly protagonist since The Sixth Sense, and also makes for a challenging puzzle game. This video will teach you how to get through Chapter 6, 9:03 PM, by which point the story is starting to get pretty hectic right?
How To: Free up disk space on your Windows PC by deleting hidden temp files
Scratching your head trying to figure out where all of your hard disk space went? Quite a lot of it might be tied up storying temporary files that you don't really need. In this home-computing how-to, the Tekzilla team will teach you how to delete those temp files and free up HD space.
How To: Plot a dramatic and exciting crime novel using Freemind
You can download Freemind for free from SourceForge.net, which will let you create and customize your own mind maps. These, in turn, you can use to plot a dramatic and exciting crime novel by organizing all the different aspects of the story, such as plot, setting, characters and motive.
How To: Improve Your Story by Letting a Character Take Over the Scenes
If you are writing a character who is in-depth enough, you will be able to let the character out of the box and improve your writing by taking over the scene completely. Master the exercise outlined in this video and get a better grasp on both your plot and character.
How To: Get a pet mabari hound in Dragon Age: Origins
If you don't start with the Human Noble origin story, you'll need a different way to earn your friend for life. Find the white flower in the Korcari wilds, and then the hound will rejoin you later (with a +100 approval rating that never goes down!)
How To: Build an art deco style mansion for your sims in Sims 3
Want to make sure your sims live in a classy, elegant house? This tutorial shows you how to build a lovely, art deco style mansion from the ground up, complete with multiple stories, a garage, Spanish roofs and an expansive backyard.
How To: Fake a skyscraper in Sims 3
The limit to the heights of buildings in Sims 3 is five stories, so what to do if you have your heart set on urban sims? You can certainly create the mockup of a skyscraper by following this tutorial that shows you how to build something that at least has the appearance of a tall building.
How To: Make your own copy of the Necronomicon
If you're a fan of either H.P. Lovecract or Sam Raimi, you'll appreciate this tutorial which shows you how to construct your own prop copy of the Necronomicon, the Book of the Dead which features quite prominently in stories of eldritch horror.
How To: Add conflict to a story when writing a novel
In this video tutorial from published author Donna Sozio, we learn how to create conflict when writing a novel. For all of the details, and to learn more about incorporating conflict into your own written works, watch this writer's guide.
How To: Create and edit items in the Dragon Age: Origins toolset
If your Dragon Age story calls for an "Excalibur" or some other type of legendary weapon, armor (armoire of invincibility, kekeke, 5 points to whoever gets the reference!), or any other type of armor but aren't sure how to make them in the toolset you're covered! In this video you will learn how to create, edit and customize your own items! So go on, make that over-powered weapon and go have some fun slaying the Darkspawn!