How-To Guides from WonderHowTo: Page 240

Quince is a fruit very similar to apples and pears in that it grows on a deciduous tree, but it is far too astringent to eat raw. Quinces are usually cooked for a long period of time until they lose some of that acidic flavor and become tender.

Handstands are hard to do in general, whether you're a yoga veteran or a little tyke trying to impress his friends in P.E. Yoga junkies, however, possess a much butter control of the muscles that hold a handstand in place, including the core and arms.

Sneezing is more than just a nuisance, it's a danger to the health of innocent bystanders. The amazing Richard Massingham, hypochondriac and master of PSA filmmaking, demonstrates how to sneeze properly, therefore preventing the spread of toxic germs.

Apple has always been better at GUI design than Microsoft, and the useful features in Mac OS are nearly limitless. Watch this video to learn how you can not only quick-view files in the Finder in a window, but also in full screen with one extra keystroke.

Below, learn to detect the markings of a Satanic cult member. Hard to believe, but yes, this is a bonafide HowTo (truly, it's on the FBI's official list of resources on "Beheadings & Ritual Murders").

People respond so much better to requests when you add the word "please" in front of them. So if you're stuck in a foreign, Spanish-speaking country, it's vital that you add "please" when necessary to establish good manners, so that people will help you out.

Many people think that once they start a business of their own they'll be cruisin' through life. No set hours, no boss to insult you, and no getting up at 6 AM to commute to work. But being your own boss comes with a lot of responsibility. If you're ready to take the good with the bad, check out this video to learn how to begin a home-based business.

While the holiday season offers a lot of festive joy in putting up holiday decor, shopping for Christmas presents, and baking cookies, it also offers up a lot of opportunites to spend money. So that means that by the time you've purchased the presents, wrapped them in tissue paper and wrapping paper, and send them off in a box, your wallet is probably shedding a tear.

Finding oil on your land is no easy task. Usually experts do this sort of thing, but why shell out money when you can do it yourself? We'll be the first to tell you that finding oil in your yard is not easy, though.

Your car is a well-oiled machine...when you first get it. Once the new car smell wears off and the excitement of driving the latest and greatest model lessens, car maintenance becomes a chore and some of us even forget to do it regularly.

An octopus? Indeed! There is a secret Easter egg which is an octopus hidden within the game Assassin's Creed 2. This short video shows you how to find this hidden critter on a replay of the right level and then open the right door.

This is a very specific guide, which shows you how to find the achievement High Dive in the game Assassin's Creed 2. You must jump off Giotto's Campanelle to get this achievement, and it's somewhat difficult to climb to the top.

To earn this trophy, you will have to find and train a recruit up to the rank of Assassin within the game Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. Be sure to choose your pupil wisely, this achievement or trophy is worth 20 gamerscore.

To achieve full synchronization in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, you will have to execute missions exactly how Ezio did. At the beginning of every mission, you will be given a restraint, and if you successfully work around that restraint, you will be that much closer to the perfect assassin.

Cheat Engine is a free program that you can use to hack into nearly any Flash game on the web. It's recommended you have these games running in Firefox. Then open up Cheat Engine when the game is running, and hack away!

This effect will not only work on every item in the game (except for the trees), it will also be permanent! You can unlock everything, all you need is Cheat Engine. This video shows you how to do to the rest!

Looking to get an extra edge on your Robot Rage game? If you're playing on a Mac, you'll need the app IHaxGames; and if you're playing on a PC, you'll need to get Cheat Engine. Then, just watch the video to find out how to cheat!

Cheat Engine is a pervasive program that will attach to your browser when you play web games, and let you hack into the games and cheat. This tutorial focuses on the free web game Dragon Fable, and shows you how to use Cheat Engine to hack the game.

If you have already downloaded the latest version of Cheat Engine, you can use it when you play MineCraft to hack and edit your inventory. Give yourself rare items, or unlimited items, using the simple steps outlined in this tutorial.

Get more stuff without cheating! You need an empty chest and a bag of the items you would like to duplicate. Put the items in the bag and then execute a save and reload maneuver so you can come back and get even more items!

Whether you're looking for just one or two items, or want to dramatically increase your inventory, you can use these programs to hack into MineCraft and edit or cheat your inventory. This video shows you how to cheat on both a Mac and PC.

Want to be the master of your domain? Make zombies and other monsters spawn where you want them. This tutorial shows you how to use the free software NTB edit to hack MineCraft and alter the spawn points for monsters.

Now that Thanksgiving is less than a week away, the holiday season is in full swing. And that means you're probably busier than ever, what with all the decorating, cookie baking, and present buying and wrapping.

It's hard enough to get through the holidays without strangling your relatives. It's even harder when you and your family don't speak the same language. Get through at least the beginning of your Thanksgiving dinner by checking out this video.

The best part of science class for many was the awesome demonstrations and experiments teachers use to demonstrate scientific principles. This video will teach you how to capture some of that magic by performing ten awesome science party / magic tricks, like relighting a match with smoke and rolling a can around on it's rim.

Are your relatives coming over for Thanksgiving? It's probably hard enough entertaining the adults with conversation while trying to keep the kids from drawing on your walls, and probably even harder when some of your relatives only speak a foreign language that you don't speak.

Make sure you have perfected the triangle before moving onto this part of 3-D origami. This tutorial shows you how to make limbs (or any other kind of appendage or protrusion) sturdy and easily for your next 3-D origami project.

Got relatives coming over for Thanksgiving? While entertaining - and sometimes trying not to strangle - loved ones is hard enough on Turkey Day, when those relatives only speak a foreign language, things get plain awkward.

Although this walkthrough was made while playing an Xbox version of the game, this will still work for PS3 or PC versions as well. A complete playthrough of Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, with all the achievements, Easter eggs and secrets revealed (and spoilers!)

This is an achievement you will have to earn when you're playing Desmond. After one of your sessions in the Animus, climb to the highest point of the roof of your building and then find the hidden feather in a damaged area of the roof.

This video is an extensive and in depth analysis of how you can best play a four-person team on a multiplayer match in Call of Duty: Black Ops, especially on the Kino Der Toten maps. Always know where to look out for campers!

Looking for Mercy, the unique machine gun in Fallout: New Vegas? To get it, you will have to fight past the legendary Deathclaw. Make sure you are at least a mid to high level character before attempting to retrieve this weapon.

Your family and estates have come under attack, and you must defend them! This walkthrough for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood shows you how to get through this part of the game, in large part by manning the cannons against your enemies.

Stuck in the middle of Memorial Valley? Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is the newest and highest rated racing game, where you can play as either a street racer or a cop. This video shows you how to get through the Breach of the Peace mission.

Maybe not Muhammad Ali, but you can definitely learn how to dominate the ring when you try boxing with Kinect Sports. This video shows you three moves that you can use to win nearly every boxing match you play using your Kinect.

This is a great way you can mod your new Kinect - wire up the Kinect to a laser projector. All you need is OpenCV (an open source computer vision library) and a cardboard box to train your Kinect with.

The Kinect is more than just a toy for your Xbox 360. While it's primarily a gaming accessory, it's also a fairly powerful high-tech camera. This tutorial shows you how you can use a Kinect to measure objects in 3D, using the Kinect's own box.

A Kinect is a great new toy for tracking motion, especially since it is more forgiving about lighting conditions and extraneous motion than most other cameras. Here's how you can set up your own Kinect as a motion capture camera.

There's a glitch that you can exploit in Kino Der Toten when you are on Call of Duty: Black Ops in multiplayer mode. By positioning your teammmates in just the right way on the map, you can erect a zombie proof barrier.

Think you know all about fighting Nazi Zombies? Well, you're probably WRONG! There's much to learn about killing the walking dead, especially those Nazi Zombies in Call of Duty: Black Ops. And even if you think of yourself as a veteran zombie killer, you can greatly benefit from this two-part walkthrough of zombie annihilation in the Kino Der Toten map in Black Ops. You'll learn some good tips and strategies for destroying those dead Nazis! The best and most obvious strategy though is to...