A table teeming with paints, brushes, and watercolor paper isn’t an uncommon scene in my household, even if I wasn’t reviewing palettes. My partner, Joe, studied fine art in college, and I happen to love painting tote bags and other textiles. Watercolors are not necessarily our medium of choice, but that makes us the perfect candidates for trying out a few different watercolor sets like M. Graham’s Basic 5-Color option and determining whether or not they’re good for beginners....

In this article, I will give you a list of best websites for finding micro jobs. You can do these small part-time jobs from the comfort of your home. What are Micro Jobs? Micro jobs are small jobs. Micro jobs are also known as micro labor or micro tasks. These are the tasks that can be finished within a few hours or days. Once you’ve finished doing your job, you get paid for it and the contract terminates....

In such situations, don’t you feel like if you could open two copies of the document in front of you? Take heart folks! You can do this. MS-Word provides a feature just to suit your requirement. Split MS-Word Window to Open Two Copies of Document Open an MS-Word document. In the top right corner, just a notch above the horizontal scrollbar, you will see a thick dash ( – ) like mark....

When caught in such a situation, for the life of you, you just somehow want to get back to straight quotes (it happened with me a week ago –and that it why this post!). MS Word does not provide a simple way to toggle between smart and plain quotes. But thankfully there is a way! Here is how you need to deal with the situation. Go to the Office button given in the top-left corner of MS Word (its a colorful spherical button bearing MS Office logo) A menu will appear....

The concept of a world chess champion started to emerge in the first half of the 19th century, and the phrase “world champion” first appeared in 1845. Since then, there have been a number of chess masters to claim the title, officially and unofficially, but for the purpose of this article, we’ll address only those officially recognized as World Chess Champions. However, it’s also worth noting that there were several unofficial champions previous to 1886 when the World Chess Championship first occurred, such as Paul Morphy....

As time has passed, the names have become more obsolete but continue to be used in collecting circles. The advantage of knowing both old and new names for these things is being able to search for them online if you’re shopping, and, to capitalize on keywords in titles if you’re selling. The glass collecting genre has a number of these terms to learn. Take a look at the illustrated definitions below to find out more about some quaint definitions that will come in handy as you further explore both selling, collecting, and using antique and vintage glass in your home....

To use Silver Black, cover your work area with an old towel, have some paper towels nearby, and set out a small bowl of water and a sponge for application purposes. Make sure you are working in a well-ventilated area. This is a toxic chemical, so you want to make sure your children or animals can’t be exposed and that you aren’t breathing in the fumes. Select Your Jewelry Items Now you need to determine what you’d like to oxidize....

Do you know where the .pst files are located on your computer? Do you know if you can change the default location of the .pst files without data loss? If you are not sure where the .pst is located, do not worry. This article intends to help you identify the .pst file location and walk you through the process of changing the default location of the .pst files. The location will vary depending on the Outlook version that you are using....

How does Autocorrect Work? If you are not keen to leave your kids with the Ghost to wait for Satan, then let us understand how autocorrect works. Look at the words used in the above phrase – Host and Santa. As soon as one types Hos, or San autocorrect immediately suggests Ghost or Satan. If you continue to type, autocorrect inserts Ghost or Satan automatically. To select the correct word, you need to go back and select the correct word from the options provided....

You may also want to experiment with needle position to obtain the results you want. Remember, you are in the driver’s seat and you decide where the machine is going to stitch the fabric. When you force-feed the machine or tug fabric through the machine, you can bend the sewing machine needle and create all kinds of problems. Let the machine do the work and just guide the fabric at a steady pace....

Design of Facebook is such that by default it allows anyone to send you a friendship proposal. People feel hopeful without realizing that some people could be facing a barrage of such unwelcome approach. Let’s see how you can change the default behavior of Facebook and stop unsolicited friend requests. At the onset, let me tell you that on Facebook it is not possible to disallow everyone from sending you friend request....

“Instructors have worked for the likes of Disney, Sony, and Marvel, and you’ll also be able to receive one-on-one coaching.” Best Variety: Art Production Fund’s Digital Art-Making Workshops “From famous artists like Ryan Flores, Angelica Hicks, Lakela Brown, Lucy Sparrow, and Portia Munson, you’ll learn to paint, draw, or sculpt.” Best for Art History: Courses at MoMA “Each lesson dives deep into its subject, using artists and designers, as well as works in the MoMA’s collection and exhibitions....

Complete rules are also available for other games under the rummy umbrella, including gin rummy, Hollywood gin, Three Thirteen, Oklahoma gin, Phase 10, Manipulation, and canasta. Players Play rummy with two to six players. Deck Use a standard 52-card deck. The king is high and the ace is low (see “Ace Either High or Low” below for a common variant). Goal Your goal is to be the first to play (also known as “meld”) all of your cards....

What is TTY mode in Mobile Phones? When a mobile phone user goes to her phone’s settings, they often find an option labelled as TTY mode off. People wonder what is this TTY mode and what’s the use of it. TTY mode is required to be enabled if you want to use a teletypewriter (also known as teleprinter) machine with your mobile phone. When TTY mode is on, the mobile phone will communicate with you through a TTY machine....

Search for Multiple Hashtags at Once Let’s say we want to search for #usa and #europe in one go on Twitter. For this the search syntax would be: #”usa” OR #”europe” Here the keyword OR is an operator that tells the Twitter Search to look for both the tags. In this case, however, only those tweets would be listed where any one of the hashtags has been used. Search for Tweets Containing Multiple Hashtags If you want to get tweets which are tagged with more than one hashtags, then you can use the AND search operator: #”usa” AND #”europe” Only those tweets would be listed that would contain both the above hashtags....

Type Degree Symbol in MS Word There are several methods of typing degree symbol in MS Word. This symbol can either be typed with keyboard or inserted as a symbol. I would recommend that you learn the keyboard method because it works quick and save you time while working in MS Word. Method 1: The easiest method of typing degree symbol in MS Word is to use the key combination of [email protected] and then press space bar....

History of U.S. Uncirculated Mint Sets The U.S. Mint has sold coins to collectors since it was founded in the late 1700s. In 1947 Official Uncirculated Mint sets were specially packaged by the government for sale to coin collectors. They contained uncirculated coins for each of the denominations produced for general circulation. There was no special handling or consideration for the quality of the coins placed in the uncirculated mint sets....

How to Use the Zigzag Seam Vary the stitch width and stitch length to prevent extra bulk that may prevent the seam from laying neatly or may cause extra bulk that would show through to the correct side of the seam when it is pressed. The goal of the zigzag stitching is to enclose the threads of the fabric and prevent those threads from fraying away from the fabric. Adjusting the stitch width and stitch length allows you to control how much of the threads are enclosed and how much bulk the zigzag seam finish is creating....

Basically a factory method is a method which returns an object (just like a factory manufactures goods -a factory method manufactures an object -and that’s why the name). To understand it with an example, lets assume you have an interface, very creatively called MyInterface, which you want to implement. So, you implement it in a class called, say, FirstImplementation. And then you make use of FirstImplementation in, say, 120 odd other classes in your software....