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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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3 Ways to Reduce Spicy in Curry

3 Ways to Reduce Spicy in Curry

Did you manage to make a big pot of curry but found it too spicy for your taste buds? Do not worry! Basically, the spiciness of curry can be easily reduced using simple ingredients that you probably already have in your kitchen. For example, you can add coconut milk, dairy products, or extra oil to your curry.

How to Cut a Starfruit: 11 Steps (with Pictures)

How to Cut a Starfruit: 11 Steps (with Pictures)

Starfruit is one of the fruits that looks beautiful. Also known as starfruit because of its distinctive shape resembling a star. This golden yellow fruit is quite decorative and can be cut into thin, star-shaped slices to decorate lettuce or fruit bowls.

3 Ways to Freeze Blackberry Fruit

3 Ways to Freeze Blackberry Fruit

The delicious blackberry fruit is one of the sweetest summer fruits. However, because the fruiting season is short, it is difficult (if not impossible) to get good blackberries at other times of the year. To maximize the summer harvest - freeze blackberries at the peak of their ripeness to ensure you have this delicious fruit all year round!

3 Ways to Warm Rice

3 Ways to Warm Rice

If you've ever tried warming rice just by putting it in the microwave, you'll know that it only results in dry, unpalatable rice. However, if you add water and seal the rice to steam it, you will get delicious rice from the microwave, stove, or oven.

How to Warm Pancakes: 9 Steps (with Pictures)

How to Warm Pancakes: 9 Steps (with Pictures)

You'll agree that there's nothing more delicious than eating a pile of soft and warm pancakes in the morning, or even in the afternoon and evening! Although pancakes are more commonly served as a weekend snack, there's nothing wrong with serving them every morning, you know!

4 Ways to Cut Bok Choy

4 Ways to Cut Bok Choy

Bok choy is a vegetable from the cabbage family that has a bright green color with a crunchy, fresh, and light taste. This vegetable contains many vitamins and nutrients, and has a nice texture and smooth taste. Bok choy is widely used in Asian cuisine, but you can also add it to salads, soups, stir-fries, and so on.

3 Ways to Cook Hemp Seeds to Eat

3 Ways to Cook Hemp Seeds to Eat

Hemp seeds are rich in protein, fiber and fatty acids, making them on par with other healthy grains such as pumpkin seeds and flaxseeds. Store your hemp seeds in an airtight container in the refrigerator before you are ready to use them. Hemp seeds are suitable as an addition to salads, baked pastries, snacks and yogurt.

3 Ways to Remove Cherry Seeds

3 Ways to Remove Cherry Seeds

Cherries are a delicious and healthy food. Unfortunately, cherries happen to contain large, inedible seeds. The drupe is the last thing you want to bite into when eating a fruit salad or a slice of homemade cherry pie. The three main methods for preparing cherries include cutting, picking, or pushing the seeds out.

4 Ways to Keep Food Hot

4 Ways to Keep Food Hot

Whether you want to keep dishes warm while serving or are concerned about food safety, maintaining a temperature to keep food hot is important. Fortunately, there are many easy ways to do it yourself at home. You can use kitchen utensils or airtight containers to keep them warm, use coolers and make them portable heating containers, or serve food on hot plates to keep dishes from chilling.

How to Cut Broccoli: 10 Steps (with Pictures)

How to Cut Broccoli: 10 Steps (with Pictures)

Broccoli is a delicious, healthy vegetable that can be added or made into a main ingredient in a variety of dishes, such as stir-fried broccoli, capcai or vegetable soups. However, it can be difficult to prepare broccoli if you don't know how to cut it.

3 Ways to Dice Tomatoes

3 Ways to Dice Tomatoes

Tomatoes are used in a variety of recipes that often have to be diced. Dicing tomatoes is quick and easy, which anyone can master with a little practice. Roma tomatoes (small tomatoes) and regular tomatoes can be diced and added to soups, salads, casseroles, or other dishes.

3 Ways to Freeze Plums

3 Ways to Freeze Plums

If you have a lot of plums this summer, by freezing them, you can store them for up to twelve months, until you can enjoy them until the next harvest. Cool, sweet plums straight out of the freezer are delicious, or you can use them to make pies or plum cakes.

3 Ways to Germinate Lentil

3 Ways to Germinate Lentil

Lentil sprouts are a good choice for enjoying lentils and are grown as easily as other sprouts. The taste is similar to the taste of fresh peas. You can add lentil sprouts to salads that are usually topped with sprouts and also put on sandwiches with a dressing, such as hummus.

How to Identify Whether or Not to Peel Potatoes

How to Identify Whether or Not to Peel Potatoes

Have you ever wondered whether potatoes actually need to be peeled or not, before they are processed? In fact, potatoes don't always have to be peeled, and one of the determining factors is the type of food you'll be making. In particular, some types of potato-based foods have a soft texture and require peeled potatoes, especially since potato skins can make the texture of the food feel crunchier when eaten.

How to Check Baking Powder Freshness: 10 Steps (with Pictures)

How to Check Baking Powder Freshness: 10 Steps (with Pictures)

Love to make cakes? If so, of course you already know that baking powder is one of the ingredients that are often mixed into various types of cake batter, cookies, ice cream, to meatballs! Unfortunately, the freshness of baking powder doesn't last forever, and when it's expired, the chemical reactions that should have occurred won't be optimal.

5 Ways to Freeze Peaches

5 Ways to Freeze Peaches

Peach season often passes before you even know it. But if you freeze your peaches, then you can enjoy the sweet warmth of summer all winter long. To preserve and maintain the peach's aroma and flavor, pick the peaches at their peak of ripeness.

How to Grow Yeast (with Pictures)

How to Grow Yeast (with Pictures)

Yeast is a single-celled organism that is vital to most bakers and brewers around the world because of its ability to convert sugar into carbon dioxide and alcohol. You can make a yeast-filled bread starter, or sourdough starter, using only flour, water, and regular maintenance.

How to Serve "Foie Gras": 13 Steps (with Pictures)

How to Serve "Foie Gras": 13 Steps (with Pictures)

Foie gras means "fatty liver" in French, usually referring to duck and goose liver. You might be a little scared the first time you serve it, but it's actually quite an easy process. All you have to do is cook the foie gras to the right temperature and slice it into small pieces.

3 Ways to Seal Glass Bottles

3 Ways to Seal Glass Bottles

In glass bottles, you can store dry and wet food cleanly in a cool and dry place to keep it durable. This boiling method for preserving food in glass bottles is probably the most common way to seal mason jars. However, you can also purchase an airtight seal or use an aesthetically pleasing wax sealing method for bottle craft projects.

5 Ways to Freeze Coriander Leaves

5 Ways to Freeze Coriander Leaves

Coriander is an herb that is perfect for use in a variety of Asian, Mexican, Indian and Middle Eastern cuisines. The cilantro has a bright color with a crunchy taste, and can make a dish interesting. Unfortunately, these leaves tend to wilt easily when you don't need them, and don't dry out well, unlike other leaves.