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7 Ways to Take Screenshots on Mac OS X

7 Ways to Take Screenshots on Mac OS X

2025-10-04 22:10

If you want to capture a funny chat conversation, show someone an error message on your computer, share instructions on how to complete a task, or even contribute to a wikiHow, screenshots are the ideal solution. With screenshots, you can show others what appears on your computer screen.

How to Use Twitter (with Pictures)

How to Use Twitter (with Pictures)

2025-10-04 22:10

This wikiHow teaches you how to use Twitter, including how to create an account and upload tweets. Step Part 1 of 7: Creating a Twitter Account Step 1. Open Twitter Visit https://www.twitter.com/ through your computer's web browser.

How to Create Icons Using Paint (with Pictures)

How to Create Icons Using Paint (with Pictures)

2025-10-04 22:10

This wikiHow teaches you how to create a Windows icon file using Microsoft Paint and Paint 3D in Windows 10. However, there are some limitations you'll find with the regular version of Microsoft Paint when creating icons. Therefore, you can use Paint 3D to create more complex icons if necessary.

3 Ways to Study for Tests

3 Ways to Study for Tests

2025-06-01 06:06

It's called a test/exam that thrives like weeds, right? You take one exam and there's another exam waiting around the corner. It's time to show those exams who's in charge: you're sure to get a lot of "A" and "B" marks soon.

How to Make the Most of Life as a Teen (with Pictures)

How to Make the Most of Life as a Teen (with Pictures)

2025-06-01 06:06

You may want to make the most of your teenage years. Living seriously in this time can help develop good habits for adulthood. There are several ways to improve life as a teenager. Set goals and desires, pursue success academically and in other areas, cultivate a sense of self-worth and image, and make sure you develop positive relationships.

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4 Ways to Restore the Condition of the Vocals

4 Ways to Restore the Condition of the Vocals

Experiencing hoarseness, sore throat, or a change in tone of voice? Most likely, you are experiencing vocal cord disorders. To recover, make sure you take time to give your voice a break, especially if your profession requires you to speak or sing at high frequencies.

How to Prevent a Dry Nose and Throat due to Oxygen Therapy

How to Prevent a Dry Nose and Throat due to Oxygen Therapy

When your lungs cannot function effectively to deliver oxygen throughout your body, you may need oxygen therapy. While it is very useful for ensuring that all cells and tissues of the body are functioning properly, this therapy has some side effects.

How to Prevent a Runny Nose in Cold Weather: 8 Steps

How to Prevent a Runny Nose in Cold Weather: 8 Steps

Runny nose often occurs in cold weather. This is because your respiratory tract tries to warm the inhaled air before it enters your lungs by producing additional fluid (snot). Therefore, the way to prevent runny nose from appearing is to warm and humidify the air before it enters the nose.

How to Feel Better When You Have a Cold (with Pictures)

How to Feel Better When You Have a Cold (with Pictures)

Colds are easy to attack everyone. Colds usually affect a person and go away on their own in 3-4 days, although some symptoms take longer to completely disappear. Symptoms of a cold include runny nose, sore throat, coughing, body aches, headache, sneezing and low-grade fever.

3 Ways to Treat Fungal Infections in the Ear

3 Ways to Treat Fungal Infections in the Ear

Fungal infections of the ear, known as otomycosis or Swimmer's Ear, mainly affect the ear canal. Otomycosis is responsible for 7% of cases of otitis externa, or inflammation and infection of the ear canal. The most common causes of otomycosis are the fungal species Candida and Aspergillus.

How to Find the Cause of Tinnitus: 10 Steps

How to Find the Cause of Tinnitus: 10 Steps

Are you bothered by ringing, buzzing, or ringing sounds in your ears? If so, you have a condition known as tinnitus. Tinnitus is a common problem that affects approximately 50 million adults in the United States (there are no exact data on the number of tinnitus cases in Indonesia).

How to Get Rid of Itchy Ears: 14 Steps (with Pictures)

How to Get Rid of Itchy Ears: 14 Steps (with Pictures)

Although small, the ear contains many nerve endings, which when irritated can cause itching and discomfort. There are many reasons that cause itchy ears, and the source must be known to determine the right treatment. Step Part 1 of 3:

How to Soothe Cough Naturally (with Pictures)

How to Soothe Cough Naturally (with Pictures)

An acute cough (lasting less than 3 weeks) is most commonly associated with the flu, pneumonia, and whooping cough (pertussis). This condition can also be caused by inhaling irritants from the environment. A chronic cough (longer than 8 weeks) can be caused by postnasal drip (which irritates the throat and triggers the cough reflex), allergies, asthma (especially in children), chronic bronchitis, or gastric acid reflux disease (gastro-esophageal reflux disease, GERD).

7 Ways to Relieve Tinnitus Naturally

7 Ways to Relieve Tinnitus Naturally

Tinnitus is a condition when "the perception of sound is created even though no external sound is actually sounding". These sounds are most often thought of as ringing sounds, but can also be a buzzing, roaring, gust of wind, swinging, clicking sound, or hissing.

3 Ways to Overcome Blocked Ears

3 Ways to Overcome Blocked Ears

Blocked ears often feel like pressure in the ear and are sometimes accompanied by pain, dizziness, tinnitus (ringing in the ears), and mild hearing loss. Blocked ears can be caused by a cold, allergies, or sinus infection. In addition, this problem can also be caused by the accumulation of pressure during flight, scuba diving, or rapid changes in altitude.

How to Get Rid of a Dry Throat: 11 Steps (with Pictures)

How to Get Rid of a Dry Throat: 11 Steps (with Pictures)

While the term dry throat may seem obvious, it can refer to any type of discomfort, such as irritation or itching, which can cause pain in the throat, difficulty swallowing, decreased appetite, or a feeling of dust in the back of the throat.

3 Ways to Get Fluid Out of the Ear

3 Ways to Get Fluid Out of the Ear

Water or fluid in the ear can be very annoying, but you don't have to leave it alone. While this will usually go away on its own, you can speed it up in a few simple ways. Remove fluid from the ear with a few simple movements or open the canal inside the ear.

How to Blow Your Snot: 11 Steps (with Pictures)

How to Blow Your Snot: 11 Steps (with Pictures)

While blowing your nose with all your might is an instinctive step for most people to deal with a stuffy nose, understand that it actually risks making the blood vessels in the nose inflamed or causing a sinus infection if not done properly.

How to Remove Wet Wax from Infected Ears

How to Remove Wet Wax from Infected Ears

If you experience pain and a buildup of wax in your wet and/or infected ear, the best and safest course of action to treat it is to ask your doctor to remove the earwax with special tools and techniques. If you can't see a doctor, there are things you can do to remove earwax yourself.

How to Know If You Have Laryngitis: 12 Steps

How to Know If You Have Laryngitis: 12 Steps

Laryngitis is a condition in which the voice box, or larynx, becomes inflamed. In laryngitis, the voice box becomes irritated, and the voice becomes hoarse, or even lost. Due to inflammation, pain is sometimes associated with the condition. The acute type of laryngitis lasts for two or three weeks, at most.

How to Move the Ears: 5 Steps (with Pictures)

How to Move the Ears: 5 Steps (with Pictures)

We all have muscles we can use to move our ears. It is a common agreement that this ability is influenced by heredity caused by certain genes, which are no longer activated by some people, although there are those who cannot simply move their ears even though they have that gene.

3 Ways to Get Rid of Mucus

3 Ways to Get Rid of Mucus

Mucus or snot usually has a negative, and often unsightly, connotation associated with cold weather and allergy season, snorting and sucking noises, and the use of lots of tissues. While there are steps you can take to get rid of mucus, make sure you do it right so that it doesn't block your body's natural processes or make the symptoms worse.

4 Ways to Stop a Sore Throat

4 Ways to Stop a Sore Throat

Sore throats can be caused by allergies, talking or shouting too much, pollution, or a respiratory infection. Just as there are many different causes of a sore throat, so there are many treatments that can be used. If you're fed up with sore throats, there are many home remedies and over-the-counter medications that you can try.

3 Ways to Stop Drooling

3 Ways to Stop Drooling

Excessive drooling, or hypersalivation, can be very annoying. In a serious context, this can affect your quality of life. To treat mild symptoms, avoid foods and smells that stimulate saliva. Grape juice, tea, sage, and ginger can make your mouth feel drier, reducing saliva production.

How to Remove Inner Ear Blockage or ''Eustachian Tube''

How to Remove Inner Ear Blockage or ''Eustachian Tube''

The eustachian tube is a small tube inside the head that connects the ear to the back of the nostril. The eustachian tube can become blocked due to a cold or allergies. Severe cases require professional medical care from an ear, nose and throat specialist.