Dreams are often very fun to shoot, as they allow the filmmaker a lot of freedom to include otherworldly content and visual styles. This video will help you make your dream scenes even more dreamy by teaching you how to add some dream effects (including blur and little bit of motion) to your footage using Adobe Premiere Pro.
In this tutorial, learn how to mod your MW2 game into split screen using your PC and a data transfer cord. This clip will show you step by step how to get up and running with this neat modification.
A great number of audio editors don't support importing/exporting AC3 files, luckily the awesome—and, of course, free–Audacity does. Whether you're new to computer recording, new to the Audacity DAW (digital audio workstation) or just looking to pick up a few new tricks, you're sure to benefit from this free video software tutorial, which presents a complete overview of how to open and edit Dolby Digital AC3 audio when working in Audacity.
Learn how to send emails using Blacktree's popular Mac OS X application, Quicksilver. It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this home computing how-to from the folks at CNET TV can present a complete (and somewhat talky) overview of the process in just over a minute's time. For the specifics, watch this handy how-to.
Want to know how to back up your data to an external hard drive? Protect yourself against data loss and heartbreak with this free home computing how-to from the folks at CNET TV, which offers complete instructions on how to back up your important files either manually or automatically. For specifics, and to get started backing up your own stuff, watch this handy how-to.
Have an external hard drive that you'd like to use with both an Apple computer and a Microsoft Windows PC? With the FAT32 file format, it can be done! And this home computing how-to from the folks at CNET TV will show you how. For more information, including detailed instructions, and to get started sharing your own HDs between Mac and Windows computers, watch this free video tutorial.
If you've ever received that grim error message from your iPod that tells you that you have to restore it, then you know what it feels like to stare down the threat of losing all your hard-acquired music files. This video teaches you how to make your iPod work again without having to restore it, preserving both the functionality of the iPod and your extensive MP3 and video library.
Is your Android phone's home screen a mess? One of the salient advantages of a Google Android smartphone over, say, an Apple iPhone, is the inherent extendibility of the open-source Android mobile OS. There are a seemingly infinite number of settings to tweak and advanced features to discover and use. This free video tutorial will show you how to create and use file directories on your Android device.
Looking for a guide on how to set a custom default ringtone on your Android smartphone? One of the salient advantages of a Google Android smartphone over, say, an Apple iPhone, is the inherent extendibility of the open-source Android mobile OS. There are a seemingly infinite number of settings to tweak and advanced features to discover and use. This free video tutorial, in particular, discusses how to tell your Android mobile phone to use a specified audio file as its default ringtone.
XML is a file type that can cause a lot of compatibility issues when you are working on multiple operating systems. With iPhone being the newest medium people work on, it presents new problems. But don't leave yourself in the dark. This video will show you how to open XML on your iPhone.
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 487th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use a hyperlink to open a different workbook, file or sheet within the existing workbook.
It's unfortunate, but the fact of the matter is computers crash and you can lose a lot of important files when this happens. Your music doesn't have to be part of that. If something goes wrong with your iTunes, you can take the music on your iPod and transfer it to another iTunes. This video will show you how.
Network mapping lets PC users organize multiple computers into a system that provides informational data access. This video tutorial shows how to set file sharing permissions and assign users designated privileges within a network. Establishing a network provides functionality within a workplace and facilitates virtual communication among users.
Bowman shows you how to resize your photos using Shrink O'Matic. Resize your pictures by doing the following: Open Shrink O'Matic and choose your settings, for example output size, pixels, ratio, etc. Highlight the pictures you wish to resize, and drop them into Shrink O'Matic. Open the Output Folder and you will be able to see the images in their new file size.
This video will help you learn how to create an Explosive rainbow color swath in Photoshop. First open a new file, keep the width 845, height 475, RGB color mode and white background.
Watch this video to learn how to upload and play video on your LG enV3 phone. Now you can watch your favorite videos at the gym, on the bus, or share them with friends. You'll have to first compress your video to about 400MB, format it, and use a card reader to move the files from your computer to your phone, but once they're on there, you'll never have to part with them again. The quality ain't so bad either!
Download the P2 Step-by-Step Reference Guide. With Avid, editing footage captured with the Panasonic HVX200 camera is fast and easy. Avids system uses the same native file format as Panasonic P2 memory cards, so theres no need for any transcode, capture or file conversion process at all. You can edit directly and immediately from the P2 cards if you like or have Avid Media Composer create a rapid backup of your files. Nothing could be simpler or more immediate.
In this Photoshop video tutorial, see how to make an animated dancing GIF picture in Photoshop. With Adobe Photoshop, you can do virtually anything, and with one single photograph, you can create a dancing animation of your character. After a little manipulation, save it as a Compuserve GIF and there you have it, you're very own dancing GIF file to spread around on the Internet, much like this Steve Urkel dance.
Simple steps to make a Hot Wheels USB key with working wheels. Mod this classic hobbyist favorite or kids' collector toy into a high tech portable flash drive carrier. You insert the flash drive or USB key into the body of the toy Hot Wheels race car and voila! A very cool dongle to backup your files. Great for rolling across a conference table!
This scripting software tutorial shows you how to use Russell Brown's Merge-A-matic script in Photoshop CS3 and CS3 Extended. Learn how to open, and combine, multi-layered Photoshop files into one layered document. Merge-a-matic works with CS3 and CS3 Extended.
In this tutorial, Mike Lively of Northern Kentucky University discusses the MVC (Model Viewer Controller) architecture, installs Cairngorm into Adobe Flex 3, and discusses one of David Tucker's examples. The MVC model is comprised of a Model (encapsulates information from the d base (XML file), View (presentation layer that the user interacts with, and Controller (processes and responds to events and invokes changes to the model and viewer). See how to use the MVC model and install Cairngorm ...
This web application tutorial teaches how to deploy a Flex 3 application on to a webserver for Internet use. Learn how to figure out what files you made in Flex Builder 3 need to be uploaded to the web to make your application run.
Have sensitive data that you want to make sure you securely delete? Or maybe you're getting an external drive ready to recycle or to give to a colleague. In this video tutorial, you'll find instructions for securely emptying your trash and also securely delete the contents of an external hard drive. For more, and to learn how to remove data from your Mac computer securely, watch this video tutorial from Apple.
Grabbing things off the Internet is common procedure for most internauts. This tutorial demonstrates a neat hack for the Automator Mac OS X application. To get started using Automator to scrape mp3s or other content from web pages, take alook.
This video shows you how to add subtitles to AVI or other video files using the subtitles provided by www.moviesubtitles.org.
This is how you use the slide card on a fat PS2 to play Guitar Hero Custom Songs.
How to record your XBox 360 video games onto video files to share over the Internet.
In this screencast from screencast central we look at how you can add passwords to your files and folders quickly and easily for free.
In this episode of Ask the Techoes, D.Lee and Brandon answer viewer questions on how to defrag a Mac hard drive, erasing an NTFS hard drive on Mac OS 10.4, how to uninstall programs and their related files on a Mac, questions with Parallels, and how to create a wireless USB hub. Send us your questions at askthetechies@gmail.com Hosts: D.Lee Beard & Brandon Jackson http://AskTheTechies.com
See how to use Audacity to duck or fade music behind voice tracks, most frequently used when preparing audio files
Make the magic remover cloth shown in this how-to video which will remove all the scratches on your favorite CDs, your LCD display or just remove some scratches on plastic. You'll need egg whites of and a microfiber cloth. Don't throw away anymore CDs, DVDs, or lose important files. The trick in this video tutorial will rescue scratched CDs so you can still keep using them.
Virtual CD technology allows you to copy CDs and DVDs to your hard drive so that you can play them without a disk. Learn about ISO files and how to use a virtual drive program like Daemon tools to create and open them.
Do you have an old computer that may be too slow to play video games? You may think it's totally useless, but CNET Video teaches you how to turn it into a network server that functions as a centralized depository for your files!
I may be a bit weird, but I enjoy listening to music at night as I fall asleep. Sure, you could create a playlist of songs so that it stopped after all the songs finished playing, but I have a rather extensive database of music and I enjoy listening to them randomly. Also, I like to ensure it terminates after a specific amount of time (I don't want it playing all night). Or sometimes I use it when I am cooking so that when the music stops, I know I need to check on my food, etc.
Add a little bounce to your crafting with Trampoline v1.3 for Minecraft 1.8. This mod will allow you to build a trampoline in Minecraft that will bounce your character to new heights (along with other creatures and objects that land on it). Visit the official Trampoline mod thread on the Minecraft Forums to download the file.
The Minecraft 1.9 pre-release is out, and Jeb has recently tweeted a link to version 2 of the 1.9 pre-release. If you're interested in downloading and installing it, take a look at this guide to learn how to update your Minecraft to the 1.9 pre-release.
The process of changing your iPod touch, iPad, or iPhone unlock slider is a little lengthy, but is easy if you watch this step-by-step guide. Once your iOS device has been jailbroken, you'll need to install the 'Winterboard' app and have access to photo editing software such as Photoshop. There are also three different files in iOS for each of the different screens:
So, you've got a MacBook, an iPhone 4, an iPad 2... how do you keep track of everything? With Apple's new cloud computing service iCloud. iCloud allows you to store and share files and information between all of your iOS devices.
If you are on Verizon and have iOS 4.2.8, download this file. For AT&T iOS 4.3.3, download this one. Now, watch this video and follow along to learn how to jailbreak your phone. You'll also want to download Sn0breeze 2.7.1
This video will show you to use Minecraft 4kids and HD MCPatcher to install HD texture packs in Minecraft beta 1.6. Once you've downloaded all the files, follow along with the instructions in this video to learn how to make your Minecraft world HD.
