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How To: Animate scale in Adobe After Effects

Get started using Adobe After Effects with the help of The New Boston! This beginner's tutorial is bound to answer the many questions you have about the popular digital motion graphics and compositing software. The main purpose of After Effects is for film and video post-production.

How To: Cook scorpion soup with garlic and pork

Eat scorpions?!? Of course! Insects can be a great source of protein. Scorpion soup, which you can cook in a wok, may be served as a main course or an appetizer. Learn the key to cooking this unique soup, and amaze your friends at the next dinner party or potluck you attend!

How To: Prune rose bushes with bypass pruners

If you're looking for tips on how to prune roses bushes, there's no one better than rose expert Muriel Humenick to show you how it's done. First, she shows you the proper pruning tools you'll need for the rose garden, and the main tools are bypass pruners, but there are others, like loppers, goatskin gloves and an elbow and arm cover. Now that you know the pruning tools, watch and learn the rose pruning process

How To: Use multiple accounts with Microsoft Windows Live Mail

Windows Live Mail makes it easy to manage multiple email accounts. The accounts are laid out on the main screen and are easy to access, making Windows Live Mail a convenient email client. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using multiple email accounts with Windows Live Mail yourself, watch this helpful video guide from the folks at Butterscotch.

How To: Navigate and use the main Apple Motion user interface

In this video software tutorial, you'll learn how to navigate and use the graphical user interface or GUI in Apple Motion. Whether you're new to Apple's Final Cut Pro video editing suite or just want to better acquaint yourself with the Final Cut Studio workflow, you're sure to benefit from this free video tutorial. For specifics, watch this Final Cut Studio lesson.

How To: Use the main user interface in Final Cut Pro 7

Meet (and learn how to use) the Final Cut 7 graphical user interface or GUI! Whether you're new to Adobe's popular motion graphics and compositing software or a seasoned video professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the program and its various features and filters, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video guide.

How To: Filter your Gmail with the 'plus' sign

Looking for an easy way to cut down on the spam you receive at your main Gmail account? With plus (+) sign filtering, it's easy! So easy, in fact, that this free home computing how-to can present a complete (and somewhat talky) overview of the process in just over a minute's time. For specifics, and to regain control over your email account, watch this PC user's guide.

How To: Get out of the map/demo barrier in the Skate 3 demo

In this tutorial brought to you by the guys at Achievement Hunter, you'll be finding out a secret in the Skate 3 demo. This video shows you how to get out of the map, or in this case demo barrier, into another skating area. This is the main place where you can find the infamous shark that is so difficult to jump. Enjoy!

How To: Install invisible shelving brackets

Hardware and home improvement expert Ron Hazelton describes his strategies for using invisible shelving brackets. To begin with, he advises that a shelving installation, invisible or not, be installed beginning at the center point, because upon attaching the main support, it will automatically be leveled. Ron suggests that mounting brackets have the same color as the background, so that the brackets depend not only on being hidden for the most part, but that the portions that are present do n...

How To: Use your Mac PowerBook in desktop mode

Get a Mac Tip for your Mac computer! There's a million things you can do with your Apple computer, and this is just one of them. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to use your Mac PowerBook in desktop mode. This technique allows a Mac user to use their notebook in desktop mode, also known as using an external monitor as the main workspace.

How To: Master the classic three light studio portrait

Watch this instructional photography video with Jim Talkington and learn how to light a studio portrait using three lights. This is the classic three light portrait technique using a main light, fill card, hair light and background light in the photo studio. Adding additional lights should bring out texture, extra detail, and three dimensionality. Practice these tips and improve your photography skills.

How To: Play the Dead Ops Arcade game in Call of Duty: Black Ops for Xbox 360

Call of Duty: Black Ops has a great Easter egg on the main menu which allows you shoot and kill tons of Nazi zombies! And it's really easy to find. Basically, from the main menu, look down at your restraints and start tapping LT and RT to break free. This will give you the "Just Ask Me Nicely" achievement. Next, go to the computer and type in DOA, which will unlock Dead Ops Arcade. When you start playing the game, you'll earn the "Insert Coin" achievement. That's it!

How To: Enable Media Playback from the Front Earpiece on Your OnePlus One for Stereo Sound

Starting with the original HTC One and now present on the new Nexus 6, dual speakers allow for smartphones to pump out true stereo sound. OnePlus, however, kept their speakers on the bottom of the device and use different sound drivers for each to produce great sound quality, although it's still mono. While there are mods out there that can further increase the volume of the OnePlus One, none of them can produce true stereo sound.

How To: Create your own massive pork processing plant in Minecraft

In Minecraft, pork is the main food source that you can consume to recover health, although cooking it has a greater effect on recovering health. But if you're looking to get a large supply that automatically filters down for easy collection, check out this video. In it you will learn how to build a towering pork processing plant with pig spawners.

How To: Make a quick sweet potato noodle salad

Sweet potato noodles make some awesome Asian dishes and are usually prepared in stir fry dishes and also cold salads. If you're looking at trying to make them at home, check out this video. In it you will get a basic recipe for making a cold sweet potato noodle salad that's good as a side dish or a main course meal.

How To: Use gendered nouns appropriately in German

Nouns in German have three main genders - masculine, feminine and neuter. Which gender a word is determine several other grammatical rules, so it's always important to know the correct one when speaking German. This lesson shows the difference between the three genders and how the articles and pronouns are spelled differently based on the gender of the noun.

How To: Set up a faucet sprayer for a prank

This trick is really simple, as long as you have the necessary equipment to set it up. The main thing you need is a sink that has one of those dish sprayers that work automatically if they're being squeezed. Then, just wrap invisible tape around it to keep it engaged, and wait for your victim to try and use the sink. They're most likely in for a spray to the crotch.

How To: Create a simple whip animation in MAXON Cinema 4D

This is a tutorial on a way of animating a whip in Cinema4D. The main focus of this tutorial is using Spline Dynamics. Whether you're new to MAXON's popular 3D modeling application or are just looking to get better acquainted with Cinema 4D and its various features and functions, you're sure to enjoy this free video software tutorial. For more information, including complete instructions, watch this 3D modeler's guide.

How To: Draw an edgy tattoo heart by Wizard

Tattoo hearts show you're tough and street smart but are secretly a cuddly teddy bear. Toughen this eternal symbol of love by watching this drawing tutorial on sketching a tattoo heart originally drawn by Ice T (Reckless). With thickly loaded spikes and a smaller heart formed by these spikes below the main heart, this is one guarded spring of affection.