December 17, 2012
YouTube is indisputably the world’s biggest video sharing site but for many, Vimeo is where the comments and critique really matter. Not only a place to showcase your artwork, Vimeo also has a passionate community full of indie filmmakers, experimental artists and those with a penchant for the moving image. This makes it an incredibly creative and helpful community, complete with a Video School section.
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November 25, 2012
Students who like to learn on the go will get a fillip with the launch of Khan Academy’s new app for iPhone and iPod Touch. Now, nearly 3500 videos, let’s call them micro-lectures, on video will be instantly accessible to students worldwide for free. The thousands of videos cover a wide variety of topics from K-12, humanities, and more advanced topics in math, finance, and economics.
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October 22, 2012
YouTube is full of such tutorials for anything from a smiley face to complex characters, but many of them are hard to follow or just plain bad. How can you know which channels to focus on if you want to learn to draw, or hone your drawing skills? That’s what MakeUseOf here for! Below you’ll find a list of the top YouTube channels, arranged by drawing level from simple to more advanced, that will help you learn how to draw.
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May 1, 2012
Recently, I covered a little bit of DSLR video for those of you stepping out to see the low-cost solution to production. My focus has been on helping those who don't necessarily do much video production themselves learn the basics so that they can take advantage of the cheaper cameras. However, we have four dedicated resources to help you venture further into your DSLR studies.
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March 19, 2012
How do you prefer to learn graphic designing and Photoshop? Is it through text and screenshot based tutorials or through video lessons which seems more direct and natural? If you have been learning Photoshop for a while, I am sure you will opt for a mix-n-match of both.
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January 7, 2012
What do you do if you want to make a video tutorial on Linux yourself? You've may have seen some people use their video camera to point to the monitor, but those look very unprofessional when compared to others that show only what the monitor shows, without the monitor acting as a border around the video. The tool for the job is a screencasting software. Kazam Screencaster is an easily available free screencasting tool that you can use on Linux.
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June 15, 2011
With the advent and growth of YouTube and plenty of other high-quality video-sharing websites and tools like flashcard software, learning new things visually by yourself has never been easier. Since it never hurts to learn something new, especially a skill set like programming in different languages, we will go over some of the best channels that will introduce you to the world of programming.
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May 20, 2011
How 'digitally' educated are we about the web and the many apps and tools it throws up? Grovo is another fresh ‘n new online learning tool you can use if you want to grade up your internet education. All the education and training on Grovo is through online videos.
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November 5, 2010
Having a job interview probably comes second to a stage performance when it comes to calling up butterflies in the stomach. An average man or woman will change quite a few jobs in their lifetime. And unless their father-in-law owns all the places, they have to sit in front of a grand inquisitor at least [...]
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October 18, 2010
This post is written by a guy with two left feet. With a yearning to learn some cool dance moves, but too shy to go for a dance class. Sound familiar? I bet there are many of my kind with a similar social phobia when it comes to a bit of hop, shimmy, and jig. [...]
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October 13, 2010
I’ve already described several reasons why iMovie ’09 is a useful movie editor for general users, but the program does have some limitations. With previous versions of iMovie, third-party plug-ins could be used to add effects and get beyond the limitations of the program. But for some odd reason, Apple decided to close the program’s [...]
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October 12, 2010
Have you ever uploaded a video to YouTube? If you have, what was it of? Did it get a lot of views? Getting a lot of views or “going viral” is one of the main reasons people put videos of themselves online, but the formula for creating a hit video is a tricky one. You [...]
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September 29, 2010
Learning English can be just as challenging as learning any other foreign language, but YouTube offers a great series of English language tutorials available for free to anyone that wants to learn to speak English. As I researched this article, I tried to find YouTube channels in which the list of tutorials are well organized, [...]
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September 27, 2010
You can find a myriad of written tutorials and websites on GIMP, the open-source Photoshop alternative, as well as YouTube channels dedicated to GIMP tutorials, but which tutorials are more suitable and totally worthwhile for beginners? Since I’m also a learner of GIMP, I thought that tutorials illustrating the first few points of the official [...]
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September 17, 2010
How to invest, where and when to invest, are as beguiling as the investment options we have today. This kitchen soup of investment options needs a sprinkling of sound financial advice. In the spirit of things, to save some money, it should be free too. It would be difficult to dial Warren Buffett (although his [...]
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