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How To: Create shorthand link aliases

If you like to share websites via email, are a writer who needs to share email in her stories, or just need to make a quick written note of a website address, you need to know how to use web address shorthand. Some URLs can be hundreds of characters long and therefore too tedious to reproduce in writing. To make an easier-to-communicate link, you'll need to use a URL minimizer, like TinyURL. Learn how with this address-minimizing how-to!

How To: Make tender flaky homemade scones

This cooking how-to video demonstrates a technique for light and flaky scones with food writer, Julie O'Hara. Scones are type of quick bread. Watch this video cooking lesson to learn the best method for preparing this quick bread recipe for delicious tender flaky scones. Serve your warm scones with tea.

How To: Want to Appear Smarter? Stop Using Impressive Vocabulary

We've all been there: facing a lengthy, complex word that ignores the phonics we were taught in elementary school, unsure of not only its pronunciation, but also its meaning. These words, from autochthonous to esquamulose, are both terrifying and impressive. After all, if someone knows how to use them—and even say them—they must be quite smart. Yet before you begin stuffing every email and presentation with verbose prose, you might want to reconsider what others perceive to be intelligent.

How To: Work with sections in Pages '09

Check out this informative video tutorial from Apple on how to work with sections in Pages '09. iWork '09, the office productivity suite from Apple, is the easiest way to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Writing and page layouts are easy in Pages. Numbers gives you simple ways to make sense of your data. You'll captivate your audience with new and sophisticated features in Keynote.

How To: Use outline mode in Pages '09

Check out this informative video tutorial from Apple on how to use outline mode in Pages '09. iWork '09, the office productivity suite from Apple, is the easiest way to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Writing and page layouts are easy in Pages. Numbers gives you simple ways to make sense of your data. You'll captivate your audience with new and sophisticated features in Keynote.

How To: Use full-screen view in Pages '09

Check out this informative video tutorial from Apple on how to use full-screen view in Pages '09. iWork '09, the office productivity suite from Apple, is the easiest way to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Writing and page layouts are easy in Pages. Numbers gives you simple ways to make sense of your data. You'll captivate your audience with new and sophisticated features in Keynote.

How To: Create and edit charts in Pages '09

Check out this informative video tutorial from Apple on how to create and edit charts in Pages '09. iWork '09, the office productivity suite from Apple, is the easiest way to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Writing and page layouts are easy in Pages. Numbers gives you simple ways to make sense of your data. You'll captivate your audience with new and sophisticated features in Keynote.

How To: Create and edit tables in Pages '09

Check out this informative video tutorial from Apple on how to create and edit tables in Pages '09. iWork '09, the office productivity suite from Apple, is the easiest way to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Writing and page layouts are easy in Pages. Numbers gives you simple ways to make sense of your data. You'll captivate your audience with new and sophisticated features in Keynote.

How To: Work with Word users in Pages '09

Check out this informative video tutorial from Apple on how to work with Word users in Pages '09. iWork '09, the office productivity suite from Apple, is the easiest way to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Writing and page layouts are easy in Pages. Numbers gives you simple ways to make sense of your data. You'll captivate your audience with new and sophisticated features in Keynote.

How To: Get started using Pages '09

Check out this informative video tutorial from Apple on how to get started using Pages '09. iWork '09, the office productivity suite from Apple, is the easiest way to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Writing and page layouts are easy in Pages. Numbers gives you simple ways to make sense of your data. You'll captivate your audience with new and sophisticated features in Keynote.

How To: Create a quick print button in your word processor

Interested in creating a quick print envelope button in your word processor? With this video tip, you'll learn how to create a quick print button for access to envelope printing in Microsoft Word 2007, previous versions of Microsoft Word and OpenOffice Writer. For more, and to learn how to set up your own quick print button, take a look!

How To: Use the new features in the Google Voice online phone service

This video series come straight from Google. It's about their new web-based product called Google Voice, which provides you with one phone number for all of your phones (landline, cell phone, etc.), giving you full online control of your telephone experience. Google Voice also allows you to make free domestic calls anywhere in the United States and Canada, gives you a cool voicemail account that's just like an email account, and many enhanced calling features.

How To: Create and call a simple web service in ASP.Net

In this video tutorial, Chris Pels will show how to create a web service in ASP.NET and then call the service from another ASP.NET web site. First, learn how to create an .asmx component which represents a web service in an ASP.NET web site. When creating the web service learn how to control several aspects of the web service functionality with web service attributes. Next, see how to test the web service in the Visual Studio web service test page. Then learn how ASP.NET allows many .NET data...

How To: Hide hard drive icons in Windows with NoDrives Manager

Video demonstrates tutorial of how to hide the logical drive icons in Windows. In the demonstration there is two partitions C and D and also there is a DVD drive, DVD Rom and DVD Writer. Here drives C, D and F from My computer is going to be hidden with help of utility called “No Drives Manager”. If you don’t want your young ones to access some of your important data you can hide it. It will just be hidden. This means if go to the address bar and types the name of the drive you can go to that...

How To: Make a "The 2 of Us" scrapbook paper bag mini album

About a minute into the video, the narrator/instructor, Kathryn, shows the viewers the items that were used in making the mini album scrapbook. She shows the layers in which the contents are placed. She also shows what the finished product should look like, in the beginning of the video. A little past halfway, she shows her audience how the scrapbook is organized. Her prime examples were having a picture on one page and the person's written thoughts on the adjacent page. With each page, Kathr...

How To: Do a Business Part 2 of 5

Although a business plan is a technical document, remember that this first draft will not be. The audience and author of this document will be the owner/manager of the small business. The purpose is to get as much information written as possible so this draft can be used as a starter for versions of the business plan that are crafted for other audiences. It eliminates the possibility of the first business plan you write for other audiences actually looks like your first attempt. Since the lat...

How To: Make nachos

In this video food writer Molly Watson shows you the real way to make nachos. She points out the common mistakes that are made while making nachos and demonstrates the correct way. The common mistakes in making nachos are using cheese dip instead of real cheese, microwaving nachos and ruining the cheese, and piling the toppings on the top. She shows you that the correct way to do it is to arrange in a single layer in a oven safe dish. Then she shows you how to arrange topping and cheese. The ...

How To: Draw realistic graffiti on a wall in GIMP

This tutorial describes how to create a realistic graffiti effect in a program called GIMP. You must first make sure that you have the font "writers original" installed on your computer. If not, you must download it to create this graffiti effect. Simply open a brick background on GIMP and put whatever text you want to have. Enhance the text by creating multiple layers and create a multi-dimensional image by creating contrast among those layers. Lowering brightness opposite layers and changin...

How To: Write the letter P in calligraphy copperplate

This video demonstrates how to write the letter P in calligraphy copperplate. The technique that is illustrated in this video show you the proper way draw the letter P effectively and beautifully. The video first shows you how to draw the capitalized letter P. The first step is to create a slightly S-curved stroke downward from the top margin to the bottom-middle margin--thickness in the middle. You end the line with a curled tail. To complete the letter you then have to draw a looping, curle...