How To
How to Tell Someone You Don't Want to Go on Another Date
Sometimes, after a first date, one person might feel a spark while the other does not. Letting someone know you're not interested in a second date is a delicate conversation. Whether you let them know via text or in person, keep your words polite but dire...
How to Understand Basic Latin
Latin, the language of the Romans, is rarely used these days. However, there are exceptions. For example, the pope and several Latin radio stations. It is also useful for translating texts and poems and, of course, for writing secret notes. Here is how to...
How to Be a Godparent
Being a godparent is both an honor and a responsibility. It entails a lifelong commitment to a child and is a special role to play in that child’s life. This requires giving time, love, and spiritual advice to both the child and their family. When done we...
How to Dive off a Starting Block
In competitive swimming, a good dive off the starting block is a crucial part of the race. During your start you will be generating more velocity than at any other point, so it’s imperative that you learn to harness that velocity and use it to your advant...
A Guide to 3 Simple Heat Conduction Experiments
Whether you realize it or not, heat conduction is an important part of our lives. You probably use it every single day when you’re cooking a meal or using a radiator. The transfer of heat from a heat source to an object is basic heat conduction. If you’re...
How to Find a Website's IP Address: 6 Easy Lookup Tricks
Are you looking for the easiest way to find a website's IP address? Whether you want to look up the IP address of your own web server or for another domain on the internet, we're here to help. This wikiHow article will teach you the easiest ways to find t...
A Complete Guide to Treating Boils
Ouch! Is that a boil you’re seeing? These pesky (and painful!) bumps can appear anywhere on your body, and develop when the skin around a hair follicle gets infected. As annoying as boils are, they’re easy to treat and care for at home—and we’re here to s...
How to Create a Harry Potter Bedroom
You're a Harry Potter fan and want to have a Harry Potter themed room, but don't have lots of spare money for it? Or maybe, you just want some ideas!
How to Get Perfect Eyebrows
If you want perfect eyebrows, you have a few options: you can go to a salon and get them waxed or threaded, or you could can create the perfect shape yourself. First figure out what shape is best for your face, then decide how thick or thin to go and sha...
How to Pet a Turtle
Turtles are arguably the cutest of all of the reptiles. Because of this, they are often desirable pets. However, turtles don’t really enjoy being handled and petted the same way other domestic animals do.[1] X Research source This makes pett...
How to Ask Your Neighbors to Be Less Noisy
It's midnight and you have to be up for work in five hours, but your neighbor's stereo has been blasting for the last two hours, just like it has every night for the past week. Or maybe you've been trying to focus on an important project, but the dog next...
How to Politely Stop Being Friends With Someone
Friends are essential to our lives as social beings—we confide in them, look to them for support when we’re feeling down, and celebrate with them when we experience success. As we grow and evolve over time, our friendships will change, too, but sometimes...
How to Answer the "What Do You Like About Me" Question (for Men)
It's important to offer regular compliments to help your relationship grow and stay strong. Mutual attraction is how relationships get started, but it takes work to make them last. If you want to learn how to offer little compliments to do some of that wo...
How to Create a Fictional World from Scratch
Creating a fictional world can be a challenge, since you may not be sure where to begin. You may be creating a fictional world for a novel or for a series of books set in the same world. Start by detailing the setting (the environment of the world: era, l...
How to Draw Shoes
This tutorial will show you how to draw high heels, tennis shoes, sandals, and men's shoes. Let’s begin!
How to Manually Recover Music from Your iPod
Your computer crashes and you lose your entire music library. Unless you have a backup, you would have to spend several hours importing your music back into iTunes. Fortunately, it is possible to recover music from your iPod. You don't need any special s...