How-To Guides from WonderHowTo: Page 201

Tame wild horses when running the popular Mo Creatures Mod in Minecraft! This Minecraft players guide will teach you everything you need to know to fulfill your equestrian ambitions. For complete instructions, watch the video!

If you can play bar chords, there's no reason you can't play a two-five-one jazz progression! This clear and helpful video shows you how to build on skills you already have, adds in some theory and has you ready to get jazzy!

In this clear how-to video, ukulele master Glen Rose introduces the viewer to a series a jazz chords and then shows how to put them altogether to play a jazzy little number. Get strumming people, your uke awaits new music.

Stop hoofing it! This Minecraft player's guide will teach you everything you need to know to build a minecart station with redstone. For complete instructions, watch the video!

Bento Boxes might be the most esthetically pleasing and efficient means of lunch storage on Earth. Part of this is the awesomely shaped food within, originally shaped to fit into the bento boxes but now done with creativity and flair. This video will show you how to cut a hot dog into an octopus or a squid that will fit into a bento box, ensuring extra enjoyment for whoever will be eating your bento.

exist†trace is a popular Japanese all-female metal band, and their singer Miko is something of a heavy metal beauty queen for modern times. This video will teach you how to replicate her makeup look from the band's video for "Vanguard".

In Minecraft, traps provide an easy and safe means of harvesting monster-specific resources. This gamer's guide will walk you through the construction of a simple fire trap. For complete instructions, watch the video!

Getting bored with Minecraft? Looking to spice things up a little? Install the SDK Gun Mod! This gamer's guide presents a complete, step-by-step overview of the process. For complete instructions, watch the video!

Create hidden switches on a multiplayer Minecraft server running the CraftBook plug-in! This gamer's guide presents a complete, step-by-step overview of the process. For complete instructions, watch the video!

Want to know the easiest way to get eggs in Minecraft, the popular cube-based sandbox game? It's surprisingly logical: Build a pen, put some chickens in it and wait! This gamer's guide presents a complete, step-by-step walkthrough of the process.

This tutorial for PHP beginners introduces the viewer to the concept of class inheritance. As your coding career takes off, you'll need to know as many ways to work efficently and code with speed to save time and money. Check it!

This PHP newbie video with teach you what a Singleton Pattern is and how to use it in your PHP programming. PHP OOP Singleton is great for a database connection when you only want one consistent connection in your application. So, to prevent wasting space accidentally by calling it twice in different areas, this is good way to protect it. Singleton is very popular and used often in Database Connections.

It's not Keebler or Nabisco that rules the cookie market.  It's your daughter.  It's your next door neighbor's niece.  It's that uniform-clad girl with the badges on her chest sweetly smiling at you in front of Walmart, trying to get you to buy some cookies for her organization.

In this tutorial you'll learn about a simple PHP login script that serves to check your MySQL database against a user/password. The code in this video is a quick and dirty procedural code, but it's enough to get you going so you can try it out yourself.

Meet Aperture 3.1.1, Apple's powerful photo post-production tool with the Amazing Shrinking Price Tag. First released in 2005 for $500, Aperture is now available in the Mac App Store for a measly $79.99—a price reduction of 83.67%! That means a lot of new buyers and, as a result, a lot of new users.

This tutorial provides some more useful information for PHP beginners. You'll get a quick overview about post, get and request superglobal variables. From this you'll learn how to handle a URL and a form. Don't be shy, jump in and see if PHP is right for you.

This tutorial provides a quick and clear example of how string manipulation works. A string is a line of text, and once you're up to your elbows in zeros and ones, you'll want to do lots of manipulation. Let's get digital, digital.

If you're programming with PHP and you generate a list of music files, you'll want to find a way to play them. This video shows how to use the Yahoo Media Player to play the list of mp3s you've created, with your PHP coding.

In this clip, we learn a basic digital photography workflow, one which will enable you to enhance your favorite digital photos with both ease and speed. (Note: To follow along, you will need to have the application installed. Learn how to download and install the Mac App Store here.)

In this tutorial, learn to setup private properties(variables) and private methods(functions) with your PHP OOP programming. This tutorial will have the file logger run through some private methods. Check it out and open the door to the world of PHP programming.

If you're tired of paying $60 for new XBox 360 games or waiting years for them to get cheaper, you should probably mod you system. This will allow you to play burned copies of games for free (no time to get into the moral implications here). The first step in that process is flashing your disc drive and installing custom firmware on it that will recognize your burned game discs. This video will show you how to flash the Lite-On drive used in many XBox 360's. If you don't have the Lite-On drive...

Abstract classes can not be created and should be thought of as template classes. If you're programming in PHP OOP, check out this tutorial to get and idea of what abstract classes are and how to use them. Good luck!

If you're doing some OOP programming you can use Magic Methods to help you out. This tutorial will show you three of the methods and they all have good uses if you need them. Magic methods alwasys start with two underscores!

When you're doing PHP programming, you'll likely want to have some regions that are strictly off limits to the user and should be accessible only to the programmer. This is when you'll want to use encapsulation to create an area within your coding that's for your eyes only.

Wish you could make the shift to electric or hybrid, but you can't afford it? If you've got more than a few free weekends on your hands, you may want to consider undertaking Benjamin Nelson's ambitious (to say the very least) car conversion project.

Are you getting STOP error while accessing files from Windows XP operating system-based hard drive after upgrading to Windows XP? Are you unable to access files from hard drive? Well, this behavior may occur due system or operating system related problems. It prevents you from booting your system properly and access files from Windows hard drive. The problem leads to severe file loss situations, if you are unable to fix it and do not have valid backup of files. At this stage, file recovery is...

Here's one way to get your fill of ice cream without the calories. These miniature cupcake charms are adorable and can be used to adorn charm bracelets, necklaces, and earrings.

Cake decorating requires A LOT of materials. But that doesn't mean you have to purchase everything you use. In fact, you can make many of the things you need, including your icing bag.

Make your cakes look delectable and tempting by piping these easy floral chocolate shapes. You can make any designs you'd like, but check out the video to learn the technique.

Want to know how to decorate a cake like a pro? While you can blow hundreds of dollars on classes, one of the easiest ways to learn how to do it yourself is by watching the pros do it.

Want to make your cupcakes look simply irresistable? Then check out this cake decorating video for a tutorial on how to create mini rose swirls, plus petals, on a cupcake.

Cupcakes are delicious as they are, but they're even more wonderful and charming when you pipe a beautiful design on top with frosting.

A strapless dress is a smoldering, make-'em-weak-in-the-knees choice for any glamorous occasion. But getting both a beautiful dress and one that fits you to a tee is rather difficult.

Baking soda is like a miracle in a box. Whether you need to clean a doggy doo doo stain on your carpet, need to deodorize your refridgerator, or need an all-natural face scrub, baking soda has a cure for it all.

Load JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) data from an existing database file into jQuery by following along with this informative and illustrative video tutorial from JREAMdesign. Here, a database query is used and the results are returned to jQuery via AJAX formatted in JSON.

Chaining methods in PHP can be simple and straightforward if you follow along with this informative video tutorial on PHP OOP methods from JREAMdesign. The key action is to return the object after running the function so that you can run another function to the object directly afterwards.

Learn to create and use the Decorator pattern in PHP by following along with this instructional video from JREAMdesign. The Decorator pattern is very handy when it is time to "decorate" an object by "adding", for example, frosting, nuts and sprinkles to a cake by sending it to various "decorating stations."

This tutorial from JREAMdesign reviews the Facade design pattern and how it specifically relates to PHP programming. In the facade pattern, a complex subsystem and calling class are hidden from each other through the use of a Facade class. This video guide walks through the construction of a Facade and demonstrates its use.

Learn to work with PDO in PHP with this informative video tutorial from JREAMdesign. The PDO extension is a consistent interface for accessing several types of databases in PHP and it has a ton of options. This knowledge is also required for Zend Certification.

Learn to utilize SimpleXML in this PHP tutorial to load and access XML from within PHP. This video shows how to load an XML file into a PHP array variable and get values from within that array. This informative video from JREAMdesign shows you step by step.