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How To: Embed your Ustream video feed in your WordPress blog

WordPress is a free, open source blog tool and publishing platform, popular for its customizability. This customizability, however, can be a double-edged sword for, while set up process is easy, intermediate users might get themselves into trouble when, looking to change particular setting, they seemingly find themselves lost in a veritable sea of tweakable parameters. In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to use the WP-Ustream WordPress plug-in, which will allow you to easily embed your U...

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: Make holiday-inspired peppermint soap & body butter

ThreadBanger's Corinne visits with Luca of Lolibomb to learn how to make winter-inspired vegan beauty products in a DIY fashion. Way to save some money on gifts! In just fifteen minutes and a few easy steps, make an animal-friendly body butter for your best buds with these ingredients: cocoa butter, hazelnut oil, emulsifying wax, stearic acid, liquid glycerin, distilled water, and a vitamin E preservative of your choice. Add the body butter to a decorative jar and you have a great gift that m...

How To: Create better RSS feeds for a WordPress blog with the PuSHPress plugin

In this clip, learn how to create better RSS feeds with the PuSHPress WordPress plugin. 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.

How To: Send more traffic to your website or blog

Are you using your website or blog for exposure or business? If you would like more people on the web to notice your masterpiece, check out this clip. In it, you will get real, helpful tips on how to get people to your site, so they keep coming back. There are plenty of ways to promote yourself and you will learn all about them here. So, grab a pen and take some notes and get ready to become the next Internet superstar.

How To: Add, change links and add link categories in WordPress

Adding links to your blog will provide people with more information. In this video, Cindy will walk you through adding and changing links in your WordPress blog. You'll also learn how to add link categories, which will provide the reader with more information about your links. After watching this tutorial, adding and changing links will be a snap!

How To: Embed YouTube videos on a blog or website

Almost every video on YouTube is embeddable. Only those that choose not to feature an embed code or non-embeddable. This embed code can be accessed directly on the video page of the video that strikes you. If you want to embed it, simply click the "Embed" button underneath the video player to generate the embed code. You can tweak this embed code to better serve you and your WordPress blog or website. It will generate the code automatically, and you can grab it and use it for yourself. This c...

How To: Create main and subpages on your WordPress blog

See how to create a main page with a drop down menu revealing secondary pages — also known as parent/child or main and sub pages (subpages). 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.

How To: Insert an image gallery in a WordPress 3 blog post

If you need to display thumbnails on a WordPress page and link the smaller thumbs to the original larger pictures, this post shows the process involved, using the Lightbox plugi,n which creates a special overlay effect when an image link is clicked on. 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 mak...

How To: Build Star Wars Christmas Tree Ornaments Out of LEGOs

LEGOs are more than just a toy for young children— it's an emerging art form combining photography, stop-motion (i.e., brickfilms), and imitative models that portray today's pop culture as it is. It's something visual culture analysts are sure to be studying over the next decade, and Chris McVeigh, from Halifax, Nova Scotia, is sure to be studied for his LEGO mastery.

How To: Build a guerilla-style camera dolly

MatttChapman shows you how to build a guerilla-style camera dolly to add to your filmmaking bag of tricks. This guerilla dolly is so simple, made with a rain gutter and cover from a local hardware store. This is ingenuity at its best. Don't spend a ton of money for a dolly to simply pan, build this rain gutter dolly!

How To: Create a WonderHowTo Widget

This simple tutorial takes you through the process of creating a widget from any list of videos from http://www.WonderHowTo.com. These customizable widgets can be created in various sizes and colors and then added to your blog or website. Enjoy.

How To: Make DIY customized soap

Looking to give a personalized gift for a birthday or for the holidays? How about a personalized bar of soap, specific to your friend or family's style? In this episode of ThreadBangers's Decor It Yourself, Meg visits Bobbie Thomas, an editor for the "Today Show" and learns how to make your own soap, and how to customize it to be just about any color, shape, or size!

How To: Create a new account, add and edit in Blogger

In this Computers & Programming video tutorial you will learn how to create a new account, add and edit in Blogger. First go to Blogger. On the home page click on ‘create a blog’. You will be taken to the account setting up page. Feed in all the details including our email. Then open your email and click on the confirmation link. You will then be taken to your dashboard or your home page. On this page you can click on ‘new post’ button and start writing your blog. When you do this a word proc...

How To: Get around a broken HOME button on your iPhone

Looking to fix your iPhone home button? Do you have a broken HOME button on your iPhone? In this video, learn how to get around it with an application called "mquickdo", formerly known as iHome for jailbroken iPhones. This also works for iPhone 1G or 2G and iPod 1G or 2G. Mquickdo allows you to use a series of finger swipes to function as the home button. This includes putting your iPod to sleep, going back to the home page, the double tap music menu, exiting an application, and more.

How To: Protect your privacy online

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to protect their privacy online. Some information that is exposed every time you visit a website are your I.P. address, operating system and browser. To view what information that you are revealing to a website, visit the site provided in the video. This site will give you all the information that you are exposing in a website. This video will benefit those viewers who visit a lot of websites, and would like to learn how to view the their exposed info...

How To: Kern and typeset in Cinema 4D

Despite a lack of native kerning tools for typesetting in Cinema 4D, it is possible with a little bit of effort. Letters and characters can be spaced individually using Mograph and the plane effector. Another solution is to first kern the entire block of text externally using Illustrator and Photoshop, and then import into Cinema 4D.

How To: Choose the right computer for design and compositing

Increased productivity in Cinema 4D (or other processor-intensive applications) does not always have a linear correlation wtih the speed of the machine that the work is performed on. Nick Campbell of Greyscale Gorilla explains what exactly it is that a fast machine allows one to do, what kind of machine to get, and what kind of work can one expect to do on it.

How To: Create "Predator"-style video camouflage in After Effects

Replicate the Predator-style video camouflage in After Effects by using displacement maps. This uniquely stunning and groundbreaking visual effect has been seen countless times in film and television to show video camouflage, invisibility, heat distortion, holograms, and static interference, among others. This video shows how to replicate this effect by using green screen footage, Fractal Noise and Displacement Maps, all within Adobe After Effects.

How To: Create bulleted and numbered lists in the WordPress post editor

In this clip, learn how to generate ordered lists in the WordPress post editor. 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.

How To: Use the Undo, Redo and Help buttons in the WordPress editor

In this clip, learn how to undo and redo actions in the WordPress editor. 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.

How To: Get Frontierville bonuses visiting neighbors (6/19/10)

Popups citing every little detail of your friends' online lives get pretty bothersome, but you can actually learn how to make them beneficial - and profitable - for yourself by watching this video on hacking Frontierville (06/19/10). You'll learn how to use the popups (the publish screen) to stop the bonuses from fading while you're visiting neighbors for maximum coins.

How To: Create a neon light text effect Photoshop CS3 or CS4

In this video tutorial, learn how to create a really beautiful, eye popping, neon light "magic effect". Brighten up your asthetic presentation with this cool Photoshop trick, originally found on this blog. This tutorial is constructed using Adobe Photoshop CS3, but please note: This trick does work with CS4, but yields sightly different results. One can download the font used in this tutorial, here.