Making jam or preserves for friends and family is one of the sweetest (literally) things you can do for special occasions and the holidays. But sterilizing jam jars can be a pain, often involving cleaning them out with scalding hot water.
WordPress 3.0 adds powerful CMS capabilities with a new menu system. This clip walks though this feature and shows what it can do for you. Every version of WordPress brings with it new features, new functions and new ways of doing things. Fortunately, the very same technology that allows an open-source blog publishing application like WordPress to exist in the first place also makes it easy for its users to share information about the abovesaid things through videos like this one. Take a look.
Having trouble with crating a custom page navigation? Your troubles are about to be solved with the menu feature in WordPress 3.0. Learn how to use WordPress 3.0's built-in menu management system with this free video tutorial. Every version of WordPress brings with it new features, new functions and new ways of doing things. Fortunately, the very same technology that allows an open-source blog publishing application like WordPress to exist in the first place also makes it easy for its users t...
Restoring an old car can be a hassle at times, but the great thing about it is the ability to customize it any which way you want. But for the sake of keeping things original. This tutorial focuses on how to replace the decklid and hood seal to a VW Bug. It may seem like a difficult job, but after watching this tutorial, life may get a little bit easier. So good luck and enjoy!
The linked video shows how an elderly woman named Clara makes pizza from scratch. The first thing she does is flatten out the dough using a roller and then she places it on a pan as she continues to flatten out the dough with her hands, and she suggests that you use extra virgin olive oil on the dough. She then puts her homemade sauce, anchovies and both powdered and small pieces of block cheese onto the pizza. Clara then cooked the pizza at 350 de...
Having a giant firey lizard thing charging at you with a huge axe can be pretty scary, especially when you're playing a game as hard as Dark Souls. Take a look at this guide to make quick work of the Demon Firesage boss and walk away with another boss fight defeated.
Final Cut Pro X has all new effects and transitions that no other video editing software has. This is your video guide to all of the things you can with FCP X on your Apple computer. Learn about the adding Boca effects, aged paper effects, and more.
Are you a champagne lover? While the bubbly, airy light honey drink is delicious on its own, you can spice things up a little by pouring the drink into a cocktail of sorts.
Once you've been browsing for a while on your BlackBerry smartphone you're going to want to clear the cache to make sure things keep humming along smoothly. This simple how-to by AT&T shows you what you need to dump those temporary internet files.
Birthday presents are a great way of showing your friends that you pay attention to their interests as well as what they say (always a good thing). But there's nothing more personal than a handwritten greeting card.
This is a straight up green pig castle. Your Angry Birds must be well-paced to take this thing down. Fortunately, this video will show you just where to but your birds to beat level 3-8 of Angry Birds for an iPhone or Android phone.
More than any expensive exercise machine, more than any fad diet, and more than even having a trainer, the single most important thing you can do to lose weight and keep that weight off is to have willpower. That means having the courage to overcome cravings and eat healthy, and to work out rather than watch "Friends."
First things first: The Mat is a large, well, mat that acts as a fondant tool for pastry chefs. You roll the fondant on, flatten it, and use the mat to apply the fondant layer evenly to your cake.
Wish there were a way to remove less-frequently-used items from the Firefox right click menu? Well, there is! And, with FfChrome, it's easy! For all of the details, and to get started deleting things from your own Firefox context menu, take a look.
This tutorial shows you a very simple thing you can do to your computer in order to maximize Pro Tools' performance on your hard drive and cut down on the number of error messages you might receive - just by making a a few changes to user account controls.
In this video tutorial, we learn how to use the NowDoThis web application to manage to-do lists and get important tasks done. For all the details, including a complete demonstration and detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using NowDoThis yourself, take a look.
The last thing you want is for your animated avatar to accidentally 'flash' your user by letting the flesh peek through the clothing mesh. This tutorial shows you how you can animate the clothing and avoid this situation when working with Autodesk 3ds Max.
Need some help figuring out how to utilize the Alchemy feature when selling things on Etsy? This brief video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using Alchemy yourself, take a look.
Want to prevent Facebook and other apps from posting things on your Wall? This clip will show you how it's done. Whether you're completely new to the Facebook's popular social networking site or simply require a small amount of clarification on how to perform a particular task on Facebook, you're sure to benefit from this helpful video guide. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
For many young people, their computer is the most expensive and cherished thing that they own. If you want to pull a prank of them, why not hit them where it hurts? This video presents a novel idea for a computer prank: loading an image of a cracked LCD screen full-screen on their monitor and unplugging their keyboard and mouse. When your victim returns to their computer, it will seem very convincingly broken.
Angry Birds is far and away the most popular game on the iPhone App Store, and the most popular thing to come out of Finland since Kimi Raikkonen. It is both addictive and ludicrously challenging, so we've collected video walkthroughs that should guide you through all of the game's many levels. This video will show you how to beat Theme 1 Levels 16-21 with 3 stars, making you a master of Angry Bird-launching.
If your brushroll isn't picking up any kind of big debris on the ground, you might have a problem with your vacuum cleaner's belt.
Dogs are cute little things, so why not create a dog card for a loved one (or maybe for the big dog of your house, your dad, for this Father's Day)?
Gambit is one of the most popular and underutilized characters in the X-Men pantheon. Now, you can show you appreciation of this iconic anti-hero by making his likeness out of Legos. This video walks you through the process of making a Lego figure look like Gambit. The only non-Lego thing that you will need is paint, and the effect at the end is very cool.
In this clip, learn how to harness the Rule of Thirds when shooting video. The Rule of Thirds is a concept that consists of splitting a shot into thirds and keeping your subject out of the center of the shot. This adds a more interesting and realistic aspect to your filmmaking and can also be used for things like drawing and still photography.
Rope seizing is a technique that is used when two things need to be held together with rope, like two pieces of timber for example. This video from ITS Tactical demonstrates how to use some cord to perform rope seizing on a big, heavy rope so that you can use it to suspend an object or perform other heavy rope-using tasks.
If you want to learn how to program in the Java language, then the first thing you're going to need to do is download and install the JDK. That stands for Java Development Kit, and is the basis for anyone begging in Java, and you need it to get the Javac (Java compiler) running. This video will show you what to do, and will show you how to set a new variable name and value in the Environment Variables under Advanced System Settings on your Windows PC.
Oats Dosa is a healthy Indian bread dish that combines oats, oil, and dahl, among other things to create a delicious, almost pancake-like final product. It can be dipped in a variety of sauces, including the coconut chutney that the presenters use at the end of the video.
In the PC game, Battlefield 2, you're pit against some of the most talented and dedicated gamers in the world. They know every weapon and all the shortcuts to use against you. So, to compete with them you need to know a few things yourself. In this video tutorial find out how to exactly use the anti-tank rockets. Enjoy!
Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you've come to the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 24th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn see exactly how Excel calculates/evaluates formulas including things like intersections, unions, negation, text operators and comparative operators. Knowing the o...
Mark from Minneapolis Best Buy Mobile Team walks you through the excellent Vlingo BlackBerry application, which allows you to better manage your favorite searching and networking sites from your mobile phone. Mark explains how Vlingo will get you navigating Twitter, Google, Yahoo, and Facebook with your BlackBerry faster and more efficiently than ever before. Stop fiddling around with your thumbs and free your hands for other things by effectively controlling your email, web searching, networ...
Just in time for summer, Playboy Playmate Lindsey Vuolo, Miss November 2001, shows us a thing or two about the family of drinks known as daiquiris.
One thing that you will need to know in order to pass Geometry is how to find the perimeter of a parallelogram. Parallelograms are quadrilaterals with two pairs of parallel sides. It is not difficult to find their perimeter, but you will need to know a few steps. Check out this video for tips on how to do this in your math class and ace that big test.
Flashback Max from Alaskaflyfish.net demonstrates how to tie an odd-looking little thing called the Plasti Dip fry. Plasti Dip is a product that can be used to make a rubbery surface. It doesn't run like epoxy, and sets up quickly. As Max puts it, "Dead-drift that puppy, and see what ya get!"
Geoff walks us through getting the "Chain Reaction" Achievement in GTAIV.
Get a Mac Tip for your Mac computer! There's a million things you can do with your Apple computer, and this is just one of them. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to revert Safari 4 to the old tabs interface on a Mac computer. This technique allows a Mac user to use a terminal hack to revert back to the old Safari browser interface.
Get a Mac Tip for your Mac computer! There's a million things you can do with your Apple computer, and this is just one of them. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to make your Mac computer announce the time. This technique allows a Mac user set the computer up to allow Mr. Macintosh to speak the current time periodically.
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.
In this short automotive maintenance and restoration tutorial Chris discusses the importance and often neglected engine seal in your vintage VW. So if you are restoring a Volkswagen Beetle, bug, thing, then watch this video and get tips on maintaining the engine seal in your vintage car.
Red, itchy, scaly, and cracking feet can only mean one thing, athlete's foot. Watch this how to video and learn how to treat athlete's with a simple home remedy from Pharmacologist Joe Graedon. He shows you over the counter products that you can buy and how to use a solution of vinegar, Listerine and Vick's Vapor Rub to help the foot fungus go away.