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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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How to Lift Fingerprint: 11 Steps (with Pictures)

How to Lift Fingerprint: 11 Steps (with Pictures)

Ever wondered how detectives find fingerprints at crime scenes? Actually this process is not too difficult. With simple tools and techniques, you can lift fingerprints in your own home. This activity is just for fun – don't go to a real crime scene and try it – it's illegal!

How to Submit a Check: 10 Steps (with Pictures)

How to Submit a Check: 10 Steps (with Pictures)

A third party check is a personal or business check that is handed over as payment to someone else. Not all financial institutions accept third party checks; However, knowing the best practices of third-party checks can help you increase your chances of using this form of payment.

How to Calculate Shareholder's Equity: 9 Steps (with Pictures)

How to Calculate Shareholder's Equity: 9 Steps (with Pictures)

Shareholders' equity essentially reflects the amount of company assets that are not funded by debt or loans. If you are a novice accountant, to invest in or buy company stock, you will need to know how to calculate shareholder equity. In accounting, shareholder equity forms one of three basic equations for the double-entry bookkeeping method:

How to Calculate Marginal Utility: 11 Steps (with Pictures)

How to Calculate Marginal Utility: 11 Steps (with Pictures)

In economics, marginal utility or MW is a way of measuring the level of value or consumer satisfaction when consuming something. In general, MW is equal to the change in total utility divided by the change in the quantity of goods consumed. One common way of looking at this is that MW is the utility that a person gains for each additional unit of a good consumed.

3 Ways to Rent a House Quickly

3 Ways to Rent a House Quickly

Find a new house before the old one sells out, or are forced to move temporarily for official business and want to get extra money to cover the mortgage? Want to try investing in property? Whatever the reason, you'll want to rent out a house quickly so that the income goes straight to your wallet.

How to Open a Small Business (with Pictures)

How to Open a Small Business (with Pictures)

After determining that you want to start a small business, creating a business plan, arranging financing, and setting up your website, it's time for you to open a physical store. Although planning a business is challenging, the act of opening up and realizing the concept presents its own difficulties.

How to Calculate Owner's Equity: 6 Steps (with Pictures)

How to Calculate Owner's Equity: 6 Steps (with Pictures)

Owner's equity is one of the simplest and most useful accounting concepts. It would be a mistake for some to think that owner's equity is the amount of money that could be earned on the sale of your business. This concept actually allows you to know how big your share of ownership in a business is from an accounting point of view.

How to Contact Jeff Bezos: 8 Steps (with Pictures)

How to Contact Jeff Bezos: 8 Steps (with Pictures)

Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon. If you want to contact him, the easiest way is to send him an email. You can also try contacting him via Twitter. Either way, you're unlikely to get an immediate reply from Bezos. If you want to seek help with Amazon's website, try contacting its customer service.

3 Ways to Check Your Bank Balance

3 Ways to Check Your Bank Balance

If you usually make financial transactions electronically, you may find it difficult to monitor the amount of expenses. Fortunately, banks keep records of all your transactions, and all you need to do is check your account balance. The easiest way to monitor account balances is to use online banking via the bank's website or app.

3 Ways to Fill in the Deposit Slip

3 Ways to Fill in the Deposit Slip

All banks require documentation in the form of a deposit slip with complete data for the process of depositing funds into your savings or check account. The process of filling out a deposit slip is almost the same as writing a check, in that you have to fill in certain fields in the deposit slip with certain information, such as the date, bank account number, amount and total deposit.

How to Prepare a Cash Flow Statement: 13 Steps

How to Prepare a Cash Flow Statement: 13 Steps

The Statement of Cash Flows is one of the four main financial statements that companies usually prepare at the end of the accounting period (other reports: Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Statement of Retained Earnings). The Cash Flow Statement provides an accurate description of the amount of cash receipts, cash disbursements, and changes in cash balances for one year.

How to Calculate Salary Proportionately (Prorate): 12 Steps

How to Calculate Salary Proportionately (Prorate): 12 Steps

Calculating an employee's salary proportionately is easy & in general, you just need to determine the fraction of the normal salary period the employee works for and then pay the appropriate amount. The daily pay and period percent pay methods below are legal under American federal law.

How to Overcome Poverty (with Pictures)

How to Overcome Poverty (with Pictures)

Poverty can mean having no money, but it can also mean having no hope. Poor people often feel they don't have enough power to change the situation. They can feel isolated from society. If you want to overcome the poverty that plagues you, you need to get into the habit of planning your finances and being positive and open to the help of others.

4 Ways to Manage Your Finances

4 Ways to Manage Your Finances

Personal financial management is something that is not taught in many schools, but is something that almost everyone has to deal with in life. According to one study, 58 percent of Americans do not have a savings and investment plan for the afterlife.

3 Ways to Study Business Accounting

3 Ways to Study Business Accounting

Business accounting is very important because it is useful for conducting income and expense analysis so that you can get a big picture of the financial health of a business unit. This science separates business accounting from bookkeeping which focuses more on recording business activities and documenting transactions.

How to Prepare a Power of Attorney (with Pictures)

How to Prepare a Power of Attorney (with Pictures)

A power of attorney is a legal document used by a person to give written power of attorney to another person in making decisions on behalf of that person related to financial, health, personal, or other purposes related to the law. A power of attorney is useful if you are sick or physically disabled, or when you want someone to make decisions for you in your absence.

How to Audit: 14 Steps (with Pictures)

How to Audit: 14 Steps (with Pictures)

Dealing with auditors may be very inconvenient because the auditee has many difficult tasks. It may seem unfair, but the reality is that the auditor's job is no less. The difference is, the auditor has a lot of pre-employment research and the auditee is given many tasks during the audit process.

How to Convert Bitcoin to Dollars: 11 Steps (with Pictures)

How to Convert Bitcoin to Dollars: 11 Steps (with Pictures)

Bitcoin has been heralded by many as the currency of the future, but few places are willing to accept it. Fortunately, exchanging bitcoins for usable currencies like dollars is quick and easy. If you want to know what the bitcoin exchange rate is, look it up on the internet.

How to Earn Money from People Who Owe You

How to Earn Money from People Who Owe You

Sometimes the person you lend money to does not want to pay the debt. If the person breaks their promise, you shouldn't feel guilty about asking for your money back. No matter what the reason for giving a debt, when the debtor refuses to pay, there is always a way to collect it.

How to Cash Out a Money Order: 5 Steps (with Pictures)

How to Cash Out a Money Order: 5 Steps (with Pictures)

Notes are used instead of cash to make payments. Because the note is paid in advance, the payee is guaranteed to receive it in full, which is better than a check that runs the risk of being rejected or a bad credit card number. To cash out a money order, all you have to do is find the right place to either keep it or exchange it for money.