Don't use any more expensive chai extracts or powders! You can make your own delicious chai latter at home. All you need is some black tea (English breakfast works well), a little milk and a few spices like cinnamon, cardamom, cloves or nutmeg.
In this video, you'll learn how to extract a person or object from the background when working with photographs in Adobe Photoshop CS5. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular raster graphics editor or a seasoned designer looking to better acquaint yourself with the new features and functions of the latest iteration of the application, you're sure to benefit from this free software tutorial. For more information, watch this video guide.
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 249th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use Advanced Filter to extract records from a database (table or list) to a new workbook.
Velvety on the inside, crisp on the outside, great French toast is like the delicious love child of bread and custard. Here's how to make it yourself. (Plus it is cheap and easy to make! Great for college students)
How to make hot chocolate from scratch. Stir things up with this decadent hot chocolate recipe. You will need:
Here's how to remove the RFID chip and antenna from a London Oyster travelcard. You can then put it in anything you want. You need a jar and acetone.
This week, Windell Oskay of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories joins me to teach you how to make a super clever little circuit called the Joule Thief! The Joule Thief allows you to squeeze the life out of what most people think of as "dead" batteries!
This is a great quick and easy recipe and a great healthy alternative to store-bought frosting. My husband and children love this frosting, and it's also a hit at my PTA meetings. It goes great on cakes, cupcakes, cookies, or anything you desire to put frosting on.
learnaniche shows you how to unzip compressed .zip files using his own example. You'll need an unzipping program for this; usually, WinZip is standard. If you don't have it or if it's expired, you can search "WinZip" on a search engine and click "WinZip - Download Evaluation Page" or CNET's download page. If you're on CNET, just click "Download Now" to download it quickly. Save it to a destination and then open it from there to install it. When you click on the link to download the file, your...
You can make your own bread from scratch with wheat grain. You will have new appreciation for the ease in buying store brought bread but absolutely nothing beats having warm homemade bread. If you like to cook then baking your own wheat bread is a must.
This how-to video is about how to bake and frost a carrot cake. Ingredients required:
In this cooking HowTo video Ellen Pruden features a delicious exotic and fruity cake. Watch as she demonstrates how to make a coconut raspberry cake using heart healthy canola oil.
OnePlus phones are easy to root, but that also means they're easy to brick if you get trigger happy with your superuser privileges. If you find yourself in this situation, you'll quickly realize the OnePlus firmware download page doesn't provide files you can flash in Fastboot mode.
The Galaxy S9 was announced February 25, and it's jam-packed with features like AR Emojis and and a Dual Aperture camera. You really love the cut of its jib, but maybe you don't have the means to get your hands on one. Well now, you can get the Galaxy S9's notification sounds and ringtones, to help you feel like you own one.
It seems like everything old is new again these days where food is concerned, and that includes the recent renaissance of babka. The name of this rich, rolled yeast bread, with roots in both the Jewish and non-Semitic Eastern European communities, means "little grandmother" in Ukrainian, Russian, and Yiddish.
In the world of breakfast, a great trench of injustice divides French toast and pancakes. Just look at the average brunch menu. While pancakes are treated to a wealth of variety (chocolate chip, silver dollar, blueberry, banana, and even some with pop culture references), French toast is often regarded with a one-size-fits-all attitude.
If you have a ton of photos and videos on your iPhone, backing up to iCloud is probably a no-go since it only provides 5 GB of free storage. Yes, you can buy more storage, but who wants to do that? And what happens if you run out of storage, stop backing up, and your phone gets lost, stolen, or damaged.
Bad news, guys. The shelf life for liquor leftovers does not apply to your two-buck chuck. While an opened bottle of your favorite whiskey will stay respectable for ages thanks to its high ABV (which makes it inhospitable to outside elements), an opened bottle of merlot will sour quickly. However, it turns out that red and white wines have different life spans once they're opened—for reasons which we'll cover below.
This naan is much better than any restaurant you have ever been too. Watch this how to video to see how its done. Naan can be eaten with just about anything. Serve as an appetizer with curries or soups.
Do-it-yourselfer Kipkay salvaged parts from an old parallel port scanner and made a flexible, super-bright light in this how-to video. The modification is done by extracting the lamp and running it through clear tubing. He mounted the new lamp above his keyboard for night typing. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to turn an old scanner into a keyboard light.
Get a red cabbage from the grocery store, and tear up about two or three leaves and put them in a glass jar. Cover the leaves with water and microwave, then strain out the leaves. You can mix the extract with different household chemicals and watch the color change!
The Motorola Droid is the reigning king of the Android family, but it's getting a little old and you're probably looking for a way to improve your phone's performance if you own one. Why not root the dang thing and install a custom ROM on it so it'll at least be organized the way you want it to be! This video will show you how to install custom ROM's (basically phone UI's) on a rooted Motorola Droid phone, allowing you nearly limitless customization options for your awesome phone. The ROM in ...
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 185th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to to use Advanced Filter to extract records from a table with 1 criteria, then use a Macro to automate the process.
Pecan pie is a Southern tradition, and is oh-so-yummy, so having a great recipe is essential. In this video, Betty shares her fabulous pecan pie recipe. Betty's recipe has been proven yummy for over 40 years! Just try and resist eating this delicious pie!
This Photoshop software tutorial demonstrates how to combine the refined edges of the Pen Tool and the soft transparent qualities of the Extract Tool to create monster masking effects. The results are well worth the effort. Learn how to use advanced masking techniques to make cool smoke effects coming from a monster in Photoshop.
Want AAA batteries for cheap? Learn how to hack a 9-volt battery with this money-saving video tutorial from Make Magazine's Kip Kay. All you'll need to replicate this hack at home is a pair of needle-nosed pliers and one or more Energizer 9-volt batteries. For instructions on how to extract quadruple A batteries from an Energizer 9-volt, watch this how-to video.
This Houdini 9 CHOPS lesson shows one aspect of the usefulness of the Channel Operator editor. In this case we extract a curve from a geometry surface and use that curve to animate a ball moving across the surface. To learn more about animating with chops in Houdini 9, check out this tutorial.
Ivan and Mick from New Scientist show us how to get the iron out of fortified breakfast cereal. You won't believe how much you can find!
In this tutorial, we learn how to install fonts onto GIMP. First, go to the website DaFont, then click a font you like. Download the font and then right click on the zipped folder and extract all that is indie of it. Now go to control panel then fonts, then view installed font. Copy and paste the font you have extracted into it. After this, go into GIMP and try out your new font in the software. If you like it, you can use it whenever you would like to! If you don't, you can simply uninstall ...
Alana tells us how to fix acne and zit emergencies in this tutorial. If you have a zit you need to get rid of right away, look and see if it's red and has a white head. If it has a whitehead, then you will be able to extract it and heal it in the same night. To do this, take a wash cloth and heat water up (don't boil). Once it's hot, put your cloth underneath it, then press the cloth on your pimple for 20 seconds. Keep doing this until the pimple comes to more of a head. After this, move the ...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to zip and unzip files on a Windows XP computer. To zip a folder, begin by creating a new folder and drag all he content that you want to zip. Right-click on the folder, go to Send To and select Compress (zipped) Folder. To unzip a file, right-click on the file and select Extract All. Then follow the instructions to extract the file. This video will benefit those viewers who want to learn how to create a zipped file to compress the size or unzip a fil...
This video is about how to install new fonts in Windows XP. The first step that you will need to do is open your web browser then search for fonts. If you have found the site, just simply click on it. Then the next step is have a browse and look for the font you like. Once you have found the font that suits you best, just simply click the button "download" then save the file in your computer. Once you have saved the file in your computer, simply right-click the file and click on the "extract ...
This video teaches you how to open .zip files with a just few easy steps. First, you need to download a program Winrar. The download can be found at http://www.rarlab.com/download.html and the download should start immediately. Once the download is complete, open the program.
Move over whole wheat — white bread may be back in style after a new study shows that it may be your gut microbes that decide what kind of bread is best for you.
Call them what you will—moss piglets, water bears, or by their real name, tardigrade—but these intriguing tiny creatures can come back from the brink of death. They can survive boiling, deep freezing, UV radiation, completely drying out, and even a trip to space—without the benefit of being in a spacecraft.
If you really want to play Gran Turismo or Castlevania on the go, Sony's PlayStation Portable is a great way to do it. But it gets harder and harder to justify carrying around a PSP handheld gaming console when you've got an equally powerful Android phone in your pocket already. The PSP had a good 10 years before being discontinued, and your Android can pick up the slack now.
NANDroid backups are one of the best reasons to root your Android device and install a custom recovery. They're essentially a snapshot of your phone's entire operating system and all installed apps, so if you ever screw something up when installing a flashable ZIP or custom ROM, you can restore your NANDroid backup to get everything back to normal.
Beer isn't just for drinking anymore. There are many useful and surprising things that an ice-cold brewski can help you accomplish, from household chores to better-tasting food. It can even help you look and feel healthier.
In my opinion, vodka gets a lot of undeserved flak. It seems like most people have a bad experience in college with a plastic bottle of vodka and never go back. I can't blame them; it took me a few years after graduating college to start to enjoy vodka again—but now I adore it.
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." We've all seen the quote, attributed to Benjamin Franklin, on numerous shirts, glasses, and bar signs. It's a good, if overused slogan. It makes one clear, indisputable point: beer is great, and life is better with it.
