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How To: Create a skewed checkerboard pattern in Illustrator

Check out this simple Adobe Illustrator CS4 tutorial to learn how to create a skewed checkerboard pattern. This technique will save you the trouble of having to use the Option and Drag method multiple times. Veerle Pieters expertly takes you through this easy pattern technique. For more Adobe Illustrator tutorials, search for Illustrator on WonderHowTo.

How To: Make a Milkshake

Forget the smoothies, granitas, cool lattes, and other frozen imitators—there’s nothing that satisfies your sweet tooth like a good old-fashioned milkshake. Learn how to make a delicious milkshake at home.

How To: Perform a Backflip 360 for Trampoline

This tutorial is made for people who are having trouble learning or have no clue how to go about learning a back complete with a spin. Here's how you spin: initiate the spin by throwing your arm around your chest and looking over your shoulder. This will cause your chest to start rotating; the rest of the rotation is in the hip movements. You start your rotation until you are facing the opposite direction, and then you use your hips to spin the rest of the way.. on double fulls and triple ful...

How To: Design for the WordPress blogging CMS

WordPress is a hugely popular blogging content management system, or CMS. This video offers a walkthrough of designing for WordPress. In part one, you will be downloading and installing WordPress. Then you will install the "Starkers" theme by Elliot Jay Stocks to start with a completely fresh slate for our new design. No sense starting with the default theme; it's more trouble than it's worth! In part two, you will go over the theory behind designing for WordPress and how it's much like "work...

How To: Perform the basic two handed spiral for poi

Perform the basic two handed spiral poi move with tips from this how-to video. This poi how-to video is for beginners and those at the intermediate level. The basic two handed spiral poi move is also known as hand spirals, spiral wraps, and double hand-wraps. To do this poi move, you need to have good split-time and wall-plane control.

How To: Skin bones for a character in Maya 8.5

Having a little trouble putting skin on your 3D animated characters in Autodesk Maya 8.5? Well, check out this five-part video tutorial on how skinning is done for your animation. You'll need those bones built, a nice skeleton structure to put some skin on, so get started. In this video you'll see how to bind bones together, create geometry, make your character move, and skinning. So, if you want to make a realistic skinned character in Maya, go no further.

How To: Make German paper stars for Christmas

This video shows how to make German paper stars for Christmas.Step 1. Measure and cut strips of paper.Step 2. If we are using shorter pieces of paper glue the strips together.Step 3. Weave the strips.Step 4. Starting with the upper left strip. Fold down. Repeat all the way around. Skipping every other strip.Step 5. Tuck the last strip under the first strip.Step 6. Flip and repeat. If there is a trouble getting some of the strips to go under the other strips cut the ends at an angle.step 7. Fl...

How To: Back-up & compress UMD games on a memory stick

If you’re having trouble getting games on your memory stick, this video will walk you through the steps of just what you will need to do to compress files onto a thumb drive. There are a variety of steps you will have to follow and you’ll have to have a little bit of time to wait for your game to compress but the effort is well worth it.

How To: Crochet a slip stitch to end the round

Are you having trouble ending the round when you are crocheting? Shred Betties shows us how to crochet a slip to end the round. You will need the following: crochet hook, yarn. Procedure: Use a slip stitch to end a row. Insert the hook in the middle of the third stitch of the chain that started the row yarn over and finish round 2 by pulling the yarn through the loops on the hook. Follow these steps and you will no longer have trouble ending the round the next time you crochet.

How To: Draw a simple bull (toro)

If you're looking for an easy way to draw a bull, you've hit the bull's-eye in this drawing tutorial. So, if you've been having trouble drawing this mighty land beast, take the bull by the horns and start sketching! See the illustration process, which outlines an easy male cattle art piece. "Toro" is the Spanish translation of bull.

How To: Beat the Priest in Shank for the Xbox 360

The Priest in Shank, not the best model of the Christian faith, that's for sure. And a man with one hell of a chip on his shoulder. If you're having trouble landing a hit on this holy man, then look no further. In this video you'll learn what NOT to do, and what you should do against The Priest.

How To: Beat the SWAT boss in the co-op multiplayer mode in Shank on the Xbox 360

The SWAT boss, a terrifying foe if there ever was one in Shank, but not impossible to beat. If you are having trouble getting down the strategy to beat him, then don't worry, this video has you covered. You will learn that the easiest way to beat him is to: have one partner counter while the other partner prepares to grab him, if you both can sync up your efforts, you will come out victorious!

How To: Do a frontside 720 on a snowboard

Performing a 720, or two full revolutions, on a snowboard can be daunting, especially if you've had trouble doing 180's and 360's. Really, they are much the same though, you just have to keep spinning! This quick video breaks down how to perform a 720 successfully in a halfpipe. They make it sounds a little easier than it actually is, but the tips they offer are valuable and should have you spinning like a dervish in no time.

How To: Use a Bumpits for long, thin hair

Having trouble covering your Bumpit due to thin hair? In this video tutorial, learn how to situate the Bumpit hair insert so that it doesn't show using a rat tooth comb, hairspray, comb, a Bumpit, straight hair, and a hair piece (which is explained). Don't let thin hair stop you from adding heighth to hair ever again!

How To: Knit 1 below when knitting

Having trouble with your knitting? Specifically, the k1b? What exactly is the k1b anyways? It means knit one into the stitch below, and is also referred to as knit 1 below or knit one below. But this is actually showing how to knit 1 below increase, which is knitting into the front and back of the stitch below the next stitch.

How To: Get ChickHEN R2 to work on a PSP 1000

Many people are having trouble getting ChickHEN R2 to work on the PSP 1000/PHAT, so this video will show you how to get it working. There are many little tricks to getting ChickHEN working after installing it. Try scrolling around for a bit and heading into your pictures.

How To: Crochet patterns

Changing patterns is easy once you get the simple basic stitch idea in your mind. With consistency, you can complete a large blanket without trouble. Watch this instructional crochet video for some advice on how to count out stitches with a complex crochet pattern.