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How to Call Someone You Haven't Talked to in a Long Time
Sometimes time can get away from you. You start thinking about someone and realize that even though you used to be so close, you haven't talked to them in years. The truth is it's totally natural to drift apart from people as you move through life. If you...
How to Welcome the New Kid at School
In the middle of class, a student that you've never seen before walks and sits at the empty desk next to you after they introduced themself to the teacher. Let's say you have been a new kid before, and remember how tough it was getting used to the schedul...
How Does Someone Become a Saint?
In Catholicism, a saint is someone the Catholic Church recognizes as having lived an exemplary life of faith. Becoming a saint is no small thing—it requires years of investigation and approval, not to mention a whole lifetime of living a pious and grace-f...
Easily Translate a Movie to Another Language with Subtitles
This wikiHow teaches you one of the easiest ways to translate or add subtitles to a movie. If you downloaded a movie that's in the MP4, AVI, MKV, MOV, MKV, or other video file format, you can easily add subtitles in your preferred language.
How to Boil Peanuts
Boiled peanuts are a favorite southern, summer snack. Fresh from the farm between June and September, “green peanuts” are easy to boil and delicious when flavored with salt and other seasonings. Whether you are boiling green peanuts or dried peanuts, afte...
5 Easy Ways to Configure a Virtual Private Network (VPN)
This wikiHow teaches you how to set up a Virtual Private Network (VPN) on your computer or smartphone. In order to configure a VPN, you can either download and sign into the VPN's app or use the VPN's host information to set up a VPN connection in your co...
How to Add Fractions With Like Denominators
Fractions are composed of a numerator and denominator, and when two fractions have the same number for a denominator, it is known as a common, or like, denominator. Adding fractions together when they have a common denominator is easy to do, because you c...
How to Make Shrinky Dinks
Shrinky Dinks are popular arts-and-crafts plastic sheets that people use to create designs. They saw great popularity with children in the 1980s. Shrinky Dinks are still sold by many major retailers and online commerce sites. You can use them to create co...
How to Get Rid of Scars
Scars can be annoying, unsightly, and uncomfortable. In some cases, they can cause more serious problems, such as limiting your range of motion. Fortunately, if you have a bothersome scar, there are a variety of natural and medical remedies you can try. F...
How to Train for Parkour
Parkour combines walking, running, and acrobatics with jumping skills to get you from 'A' to 'B' in the quickest and most efficient manner possible. It is a way of "flowing" between places to get there quicker than if you took the normal route. It is not...
How to Make a Candy Buffet
Candy. Everyone loves it. A candy buffet is great for any occasion; a wedding, birthday party, family gathering, holidays, baby showers, or just a get-together with the neighbors. In essence, a candy buffet is easy to put together: simply put the candy in...
How to Take Notes on a Book
In many high school and college classes, instructors assign reading material that may be extensive and challenging. You might need help reading a work of fiction for your literature class, or a non-fictional biography for your history course. To read effe...
How to Be Cyber Goth
Cyber Goth is quite the opposite of some other gothic styles, which focus on the past. Cyber is more a look toward the future, where UV, progressive fashions, huge shoes and boots, wild hair extensions, goggles, cybernetics, and body modification are the...
How to Fade Your Tan Fast
Whether it’s unsightly, unwanted tan lines or a full-body rebuttal of that antiquated, “bronzed god” ideal, you want to lose your tan fast. It can be tough to speedily—and safely—combat the sun’s rays, but we have a few options available to us nowadays.
How to Calm Your Nerves Around the Guy You Like
Getting nervous around the guy you're crushing on is totally normal, but you don't have to let your nerves get in the way of getting to know him better and making a good impression. There are some simple tricks you can try the next time you see him to slo...
How to Separate First Names and Last Names Into Separate Fields in a Microsoft Excel List
If you work with spreadsheets and get a spreadsheet with first and last names combined, you know you cannot sort by last names. Sorting by the field with both first and last combined is of no use. In these cases you need to separate the first and last n...