Whether you are a budding magician, or just a card game enthusiast looking to bone up on his skills, impress your friends and learn some of the many ways to perform card flourishes. Our expert magician will demonstrate each flourish, with step-by-step instructions and tips for properly performing them.
In this online video series learn from expert magician Brandon Nowasky as he teaches magic tricks, fundamentals, and techniques such as the two detectives, trick break, glide technique, the rising card, envelope prediction, the double lift, and how to control a card for a trick.
Card tricks are among some of the most popular and infamous illusions used by magicians. In this free online video series, learn about card forcing. Our expert illusionist will reveal the secret to this magical technique with tips on how to use force cards and how to perform magic tricks based on forcing.
Whether you are a budding magician, or just a card game enthusiast looking to bone up on his skills, impress your friends and learn some of the many ways to cut and shuffle playing cards.
With this series of card trick video clips, our expert magician Malik Haddadi wraps up his lessons for using the Svengali deck. By now you know enough about these trick cards to go public with your new set of skills.
In this second installment of our series on the Svengali deck, our expert magician Malik Haddadi demonstrates more great tricks. Learn how to perform the grand maneuver known as the all alike trick, which transforms what appears to the audience as a normal deck of cards into a deck of cards which are all the same.
Our popular Expert Village card trick professional Malik Haddadi tells you all you need to know about the Svengali deck in this series of magic videos. He begins with prepping the cards and quickly jumps to tricks sure to impress your audience. Pick a card, any card from one pile, even two or three piles and Malik will always go right to the card, or rather one of twenty six cards the same as the one you picked out.
Don't just leave your kid with a sad plastic bag this Valentine's Day to store valentines from his or her classmates! Make the giving and receiving of valentines special this year by crafting this paper Valentine's Day card mailbox.
Most origami shapes are three dimensional. But what if you want to fold a shape to glue onto a Christmas or Valentine's Day card?
Want to make your Christmas just a little bit more personal? Try making Christmas cards this year instead of buying them. You'll save on money, and your friends and family will get the benefits of your creativity. All you need is paper and scissors to start.
Without knowing basic math skills your life would be in disarray. You need math to play card games, you need math to play music (or at least to play music well), and you need it everyday to make sure more money is going into your bank account than out.
In this tutorial, we learn how to heat emboss a stamped image for a handmade card. First, use the stamp to grab ink and then lay it down on a piece of card stock. After this, cover it in ink and start to add heat to it. You will see the image start to change color when you do this. It will turn to a metallic sort of color when you add the heat to it. Once you have added heat to the entire thing, you will be finished with the embossed stamp effect! Do this for any type of stamp you want and ha...
It's time for the festival of lights— Diwali (aka Divali or Deepavali), which is a five-day festival celebrated in Hinduism, Sikhism and Jainism. This festival usually occurs in October and November, and is an official holiday in India and other countries. But you can't celebrate Diwali without a greeting card! Luckily, this video tutorial will show you how to make on yourself in MS Paint. Finding one in stores can be tough, so it's necessary to resort to a DIY version in a program like Paint...
If the exposure for your camera is just a tiny bit off, the skin tone for your shots will be terribly off. You can use an 18% grey card to determine correct exposure, which is useful for setups when you are doing self-portraits or similar projects.
The archenemies of cell phones— puddles, toilets, swimming pools— can cause serious damage to your gadgets. And if your mobile phone has taken the dive, don't panic— there's hope for recovery.
In this tutorial, we learn how to play Texas Hold'Em like a champ. First, you will get two face down cards. After this, there will be a round of betting, followed by the dealer putting down the flop. After this, there is another round of better. Then, the dealer will deal the next card called the turn. Another round of betting occurs, then there is a river dealt by the dealer. Now, you can bet or you can stop playing, depending on what cards you have. After this, if you have the better hand t...
Everybody has place card holders that can be bought from various stores. However, this video by Ngai Chen Cheung shows how you can make your own place card holder using only a square piece of paper and a bit of origami skills.
Christmas may not be until a few months from now, but it's never too early to start crafting for the holidays! If you're excited about the holiday season and can't wait to begin crafting gifts and cards for your loved ones, check out this video to learn how to make an accordian folded Christmas paper flower.
If you're an avid paper crafter, then you have probably been frustrated more than once when you're in love with a particular stamp but you only want to use one part of the stamp image and omit the other part. Rather than getting frustrated and simply stamping down everything at once, why not learn how to separate the image from the stamp?
Sound card or microphone on the fritz? With a little bit of savvy, you can troubleshoot and solve the problem yourself. 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 ten minutes. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
One thing that irks everyone, customer and seller, is fraud. And if you have an e-store, you're unfortunately going to come across some credit card fraud. There are some ways for you to protect yourself, your company and your customers from credit card fraud, and Volusion has five tips for you. From picking the correct e-commerce provider for your store, watching up for unusual large orders, to how to be proactive and avoid any case of fraud.
If you want to have any kind of impact in the discussion of video games online (and that is one big and jaded discussion) it will behoove you to be able to capture images of the games you're playing, be they console or PC. It's easy for the PC, but many people have no idea how to capture screenshots or videos of their console gameplay that they can share later on their computer. This video is here to clear up that confusion, showing you how to install a PCI TV card in your PC that will allow ...
When you hear the word "watercolor," the image of Monet sitting in his garden in Giverny slowly whittling monumental versions of his garden's lillies on canvas probably comes to mind. But you don't have to be a superstar painter to be able to create beautiful watercolor prints.
Interesting in making your own music box? This video will walk you through the steps to creating your own makeshift music box, and the main ingredient… a musical greeting card. This is a really easy idea that's perfect for a gift box during the holidays. So simple, so easy. A great project for the kids!
The best cards are always homemade with a lot of love (the same can't be said for presents; sometimes Dad just needs that power saw). And since Father's Day is coming up quickly, why not make your daddy a card rather than purchase a personality-less mass-produced one?
If you are playing a serious game of golf you will need to keep score. This tutorial will show you how to fill the score card out if you are a beginner. Filling out a scorecard in golf involves counting one point for every stroke taken at each hole, and the first nine holes are scored on the front of the card while the second nine are scored on the back of the card. Fill out a golf scorecard accurately, taking handicaps into consideration and make sure you have the best possible game, with he...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make a 3D flower pop up card. The materials required for this are 5 pieces of paper, scissors and glue. Begin by folding the paper in half 3 times and then fold down the sides to a triangle. Now fold a bit of the triangle flap up to make a slimmer triangle. Then cut around the top with a half circle shape. When opened, it will be a flower shape. Cut one of the pedals off and decorate it. Make 7 more flowers and glue the points together. Now take a ...
The man in the video says there are three major things to be aware of when obtaining and using a fake ID card. The first thing and most important thing is to actually look at the fake ID before you are buying. A regular ID should have a name, date of birth and a photo. Make sure your fake ID has all those before using it. The second thing is to act confident when using it. Don't give out any clues from your expression or body language. Look at the bouncer in the eye, say hi and be polite to h...
In this how to video, you will learn how to create a finger board kicker from simple materials. You will need a saw, wood glue, an index card, and thin wood. First, draw three shapes. The top is a rectangle while the sides are triangles. Put glue on the top of the side pieces and place the top on. Glue the index card at the bottom of the kicker. You can also print a photo of a stop sign on a piece of paper with the index card under it and glue it to the kicker. Once you have done that, your f...
One way to keep your budget in line is with MoneyWell. This video tutorial for beginner users teaches you the ins and outs of setting up credit cards accounts, and how to manage them.
Check out this computer tutorial on how to upgrade your Mac Pro's hard drive, memory, and PCI-e card. In just five minutes, you will be able to perform this easy upgrade on your Macintosh computer. Guy Cochran from the DVeStore shows how to upgrade three key components of the Apple Mac Pro: hard drive, RAM, and the PCI-e card.
If you're considering buying and installing a new serial hard drive and PCI card in your Power Mac G4 Quicksilver, then watch this video and see how it's done. Hopefully you'll still want to do it yourself, but maybe not?
Embroidering on cardstock is a wonderful way to add a personal touch to your holiday and greeting cards. You'll be giving your friends and family the gift of yourself, along with all your good wishes. Watch this ebroidery instructional video for tips on mastering the art of cardstock embroidery.
Draw scary cartoon witches for Halloween cards and birthday cards. You might be able to use a dry erase marker to trace the drawing steps directly off of the computer screen. Of course, you can only participate in this practice if you have a glass computer screen. Otherwise, use paper.
Here's a quick paper craft project that will allow you to use up those ribbon remnants! This project takes about an hour to make. A great starter if you are interested in ribbon embroidery. So watch this arts and crafts tutorial to learn how to decorate your greeting cards with embroidered flowers.
Watch this video to learn how to perform the coin matrix magic trick. This tutorial will teach you how to magically make 4 coins under four different card all reappear under one card.
Learn how to make saltines explode in midair with WSOP champion Chris "Jesus" Ferguson slices them with a deck of cards.
This video shows how to do the popular disappearing quarters trick. A quarter under each card and by the end you'll have four quarters under one card.
An easy way to save a bit of cash on your wedding reception is to create your own table place cards for your guests. See how to arrange the spreadsheets, print the labels, and customize them to your wedding colors or theme.
This website (www.someecards.com) is full of interesting e-cards that say what you really think instead of sugar coating it. Have fun with this one :-)
