How to watch movies on your Kindle Fire
If you’ve just received a new Kindle Fire, it may not be immediately obvious how to watch movies on your device. Your Kindle Fire comes with a free month of Amazon Prime, which includes not only free...
View ArticleHow to Choose a Creative Writing MFA Program
It’s early in the morning—-the sun is not yet up, but here I am, typing away, coffee at the ready. What’s going on? Why aren’t I sleeping? Though I didn’t get home last night until 1:30AM, I’ve got...
View ArticleWriter’s Quick-Start Guide
A friend of mine, who writes a lot and is now moving to get their work published, asked me for some help on some writing procedural matters. Not information on how to write, but, for example, how to...
View ArticleSend files from your computer to your Kindle with SendToKindle
You’ve always had the option of transferring files to your Kindle using a USB, or emailing a document to your send-to-kindle email address. But now with the SendToKindle application, you can also...
View ArticleHow To Get the Most Out Of A Writing Workshop
Previously I had written about choosing an MFA program, and this time I wanted to talk about a central component to any creative writing program—the writing workshop, where members submit stories for...
View ArticleHow to record an audio interview on two tracks using Soundflower, Linein, and...
For those who might want to record audio over two channels, such as one track containing audio from your mic and one track containing audio from a Skype call, as when conducting an interview, here is...
View ArticleNew life for a Korg D1200 Digital Recording Studio
Towards improving the sound quality of my podcast and other audio and video projects, I recently scored a Korg D1200 Digital Recording Studio. Technology-wise, perhaps it’s a bit old, but I think it...
View ArticleHow To Prepare a New Recording Project in GarageBand
I’m finally taking the plunge on figuring out that piece of software called GarageBand that keeps showing up on all my Apple computers. GarageBand is an easy-to-use Digital Audio Workstation that is...
View ArticleHow to Take Notes
I’ve found that having a good note-taking system helps me in many ways. The interesting thing is that, despite quite a bit of time spent in the school system, I was never actually taught how to take...
View ArticleHow to stuff a heavy bag
Hitting and kicking the heavy bag are great exercises, and heavy bag work is a core component of some martial arts, such as boxing, muay Thai, and MMA. Heavy bags come in a variety of shapes and sizes,...
View ArticleStart with a Strong Password
While there has been a lot in the news lately about hackers, terrorists, and other organizations wanting backdoors into your iPhones, laptops, and other computing devices — which reduces security and...
View ArticleHow to Install Python 3
Before you download or install anything, first make sure you don’t already have Python 3 installed. For legacy reasons, Python 2 is executed with the python command: Python 3 is executed with the...
View ArticleHow To Install VirtualBox
Here’s how to download and install the latest version of VirtualBox: Goto the VirtualBox website and download the latest version for your platform on the downloads page. At the time of this writing,...
View ArticleQuick Python Tutorial
This page provides a set of simple Python 3 examples just to bootstrap you into using this language. Assuming you’ve had exposure to a high-level programming language, the best way to learn Python is...
View ArticleHow to Setup a SEED Lab Environment
Here are some basic instructions for setting up a SEED lab environment for cybersecurity education: Install the VirtualBox virtual machine software (not necessary if you already have VMware). Download...
View ArticleHow to Summarize a Technical Paper
If you are in a technical field, whether in academia, government, or industry, it is important to read technical articles and papers so that you can try to stay current with ever-changing technological...
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