You can use the FreeForm plugin to create the look of cloth blowing in the wind - like an animated ribbon, or a banner waving in the wind. The key is in designing the displacement map to get a truly realistic effect.
When you use Gmail, Google Maps, Google Documents or any of the other Google products, you send trackable information about yourself to Google. By going in and configuring your account settings in Google Dashboard, it's possible to manage the information about yourself that you send them. This informative video shows how.
Destroy everything on the map! This tutorial shows you how to defeat the army of crabs, without ever being able to summon the Mama Crab. The solution, of course, is as many explosives and bombs as you can fit onto a rocket.
For this tutorial, you will need the app Cartagraph, and the free software program GIMP (or another graphic program that supports multiple layers). Once you have those, follow this tutorial so you can reveal where the caves are on your island.
Throne of Tides is the second instance in the newest expansion for World of Warcraft, Cataclysm. Be aware of all the perils and monsters in this map, know how to beat the final boss and make sure to get the best loot drops!
This short tutorial shows you how you can earn the You Ate All the Chips achievement in Halo: Reach. You will need the Noble Map Pack to be able to complete this tutorial, and it is worth 42 gamerscore when you do.
There are ten rifts hidden throughout the map in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, and you will need Eagle Vision on to find them. This video shows you how to find the rift in the Vatican, and solve the fifth rift puzzle as well.
This map is slightly south of the thieves' den. Find your way through the maze, which makes it a little tricky. But this video shows you everything you need in order to navigate the maze when playing Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.
Survive to Round 40 and beyond! This tutorial focues especially on the Kino Der Toten map in Call of Duty: Black Ops. If you're fond of playing either one person or two person games, this video was made for you!
There's a glitch that you can exploit in Kino Der Toten when you are on Call of Duty: Black Ops in multiplayer mode. By positioning your teammmates in just the right way on the map, you can erect a zombie proof barrier.
The Cuba maps in Call of Duty: Black Ops are incredibly extensive and detailed, full of opportunities to ambush and snipe. This is a very thorough walkthrough, pointing out all the spawn areas to be wary of, including where some people tend to get cheap shots.
In this sequence, you play as Desmond in the modern day and have to sneak around using the skills you remember from your ancestor Ezio. This walkthrough shows you how to solve the various puzzles and get through the whole map.
Want to find out where all the radios can be found on the Der Reise maps in Call of Duty: Black Ops? This tutorial shows you where each radio can be found... so you can shoot all of them to bits.
Want to dominate your matches in Nuketown? This tutorial shows you how you can master the map when you want to play team deathmatches on Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer mode. Hold your ground and find the best tactical spots.
If you manage to shoot the head off every mannequin in the Nuketown map when you're playing Call of Duty: Black Ops in multiplayer mode (which means you're going to have other things to worry about), you can find a great little secret!
There are seven different snowglobes scattered throughout the various maps in Fallout: New Vegas. This video shows you precisely where you can find each of the seven snow globes - the Goodsprings cemetery, Mormon fort, Mt Charleston, test site, the Strip, Nellis AFB and Hoover Dam.
You can get the Light Foot trophy on the eighth mission in the game. Make sure that every enemy on the map is dead before you arm the explosives, otherwise they will only slow you down as they shoot at you.
Want to be an absolute killer at Call of Duty: Black Ops? Whether you're in multiplayer or single player mode, this video shows you five easy ways you can improve your game play and dominate whatever map you're fighting on.
This video covers various points of team play for Halo: Reach. Use some good strategies to help your team, and figure out some effective tactics to use against your enemies, no matter what map you're using or what your objective is.
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.
Neptune's Net is one of the first missions on Day 2 of Medal of Honor. This tutorial has Neptune's Net on Hard Difficulty, and shows you the best way for you to get through the map, find the achievements and beat the level!
Getting stuck at some places in the Medal of Honor mission, Friends From Afar? This tutorial walks you through the whole map and shows you what to avoid and strategies to use in order to beat the entire mission on Hard Difficulty.
You need to find eight rubies to appease the Fortune Teller and convince him to give you a Destiny Stone. This tutorial shows you where you can find each of the eight rubies on the game map easily and quickly.
Trying to complete the Sammie's Lost Dollies quest in the superhero MMO, Champions Online? Some of them are hidden quite ingeniously throughout the map. This tutorial takes you on a tour of the city, and shows you precisely where each dollie is hidden.
The Keening Blade is one of the best one-handed swords in the game, and you can find it by completing the quest to kill Gaxxkang. This tutorial shows you all the different steps you have to complete in all the different maps to be able to find Gaxxkang.
This is a cool new cheat you can use when you play Sims 3, that will let you teleport your little sims around the map (even into other peoples' houses!) You don't even need a teleport pad to use this cheat.
Interested in better integrating Mozilla Firefox with your favorite Google Services (like Gmail, Reader and Maps)? It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this home-computing how-to from the folks at TekZilla can present a complete overview of the process in just over two minutes. For more information, including step-by-step instructions, take a look.
Interested in creating a map of all of your Facebook friends? With Microsoft's Bing, it's easy! So easy, in fact, that this home-computing how-to from the folks at Britec can present a complete overview of the process in just over two minutes. For more information, including step-by-step instructions, take a look.
There are several types of barrier breaker glitches in Gears of War 2. The one described in this video might be the easiest one of all. It will allow you to escape from many multiplayer maps. The only caveat is that this won't work if you are hosting the game. Simple, get one of your friends to host and glitch on!
Flying is fun, even when you aren't supposed to do it! This video will teach you how to use one popular exploitable glitch in Gears of War 2 to skywalk your way through the Stasis multiplayer map. You will need to enable ragdoll smokes and use the barrier breaker glitch for this to work, but once you've got it, it is soooo much fun!
Check out this instructional DJ video that takes a look at how to use your DJ gear at a typical nightclub setup. This tutorial also provides a walk through demonstration on how to map the Novation 25sl for use with Traktor 3. Set up your digital DJ gear in a club and start mixing beats like a master DJ!
This is a short clip examining the use of the Eraser tool for 2D and 3D painting in modo 201 and higher. The eraser tool will erase pixels from the currently selected texture map on a modo model according to the currently selected brush. Choose the size brush you need and simply paint across the surface you need to remove the texture from. Learn how powerful a painting tool the eraser tool is in this modo tutorial.
Typing Chinese characters on a US QWERTY-style keyboard is difficult, but by no means impossible. In this how-to video, you'll learn how to install a Pinyin keyboard mapping for a QWERTY keyboard in Windows. For step-by-step instructions, take a look.
Watch this instructional drawing video to draw a landscape composition. Before starting any drawing, decide on your point of perspective. Which angle are you standing from in relation to the horizon line? Begin to map out a landscape drawing with an awareness of points of interest and points of view.
You can create some great image effects when you combine Google SketchUp with other graphics software such as Photoshop or Gimp. Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to use the fog setting in SketchUp to create a depth map that you can use in Adobe Photoshop for some very interesting effects.
Palm reading can be complicated because chirognomy, the study of the mounts of the hand, sometimes contradicts chiromancy, the study of the lines of the hand. For that reason, it's best to do a reading as a whole. In this particular video palmistry tutorial, Peter John explains the significance of the thumb, highlighting the areas on a detailed map of the hand. Watch this instructional palm-reading video and learn how to interpret the meaning behind the thumb.
Palm reading can be complicated because chirognomy, the study of the mounts of the hand, sometimes contradicts chiromancy, the study of the lines of the hand. For that reason, it's best to do a reading as a whole. In this particular video palmistry tutorial, Peter John explains the significance of the mount of Venus, highlighting the areas on a detailed map of the hand. Watch this instructional palm-reading video and learn how to interpret the meaning behind the mount of Venus
Watch this electronics video tutorial to learn how to customize your ride. This how-to video will show you how to install fun vehicle icons in various colors, makes, and models to personalize your on-screen map in your Garmin Nuvi.
Orienteering is a challenging outdoor adventure sport enjoyed by people of all ages and abilities. This video teaches you how the race works and how to read the maps. You can compete in the race, or simply participate, walk or run, whatever suits your fitness level.
This tutorial explains how to setup the gps cell phone app. Go to http://www.websmithing.com for the full explanation and source code, you'll find it on the programming menu tab.
