A cucumber and yogurt mask is great for all skin types and is particularly good for dry skin or sunburnt skin. Begin making the mask by washing the cucumber, then cutting it in half. Use a vegetable peeler to remove the dark skin from one cucumber half. If you don't have a peeler, carefully slice the skin off with a small knife. Cut the peeled cucumber half into large chunks, then place the pieces in a food processor. You don't have to be precise with the pieces, just cut them small enough so that they can be easily blended. If you don't have a food processor, you can also use a blender, the mixture may just be a little chunkier. Measure out a tablespoon of yogurt and add it to the food processor. Try to use plain yogurt for the mask rather than a flavored variety that may have added ingredients. If you have dry skin, consider adding a teaspoon of coconut or olive oil. Yogurt contains lactic acid, which is great for refining and tightening pores. It is great for all skin types because it is gentle yet cleansing. Use the puree setting on your food processor or blender to blend the two ingredients. Puree until the mixture is fully blended into a wet paste.
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One-sentence summary -- Peel the cucumber. Slice the cucumber into chunks. Add a tablespoon of yogurt. Puree the cucumbers and yogurt.

3D Analyze can trick your games into thinking you're running a more advanced graphics card. Some of the graphics card computations are then handled by your CPU instead. This can be good if you have a very old computer and want to run a slightly less old game. This is a very finicky process, and will likely not work for many game. There are many versions of DirectX, and if your card is old it may not support newer versions. You can determine which version your game requires by checking its system requirements. You can use 3D Analyze to move to the version of DirectX immediately following yours. For example, if you have DirectX 7, you can emulate DirectX 8, but not 8.1 or 9. DirectX 7 - Check "emulate HW TnL caps", "emulate bump map caps", and "emulate cube maps". DirectX 8 - Check "emulate other DX8.1 caps", "emulate pixel shader caps", and "skip pixel shader version 1.1". DirectX 8.1 - Check "skip pixel shader version 1.4". DirectX 9 - Check "skip pixel shader version 2.0". Test the game to see if your DirectX emulation is allowing the game to run. If you get an error message about an unsupported video card, read on. The game you are trying to run may give you a message about your video card being unsupported. If this is the case, you can use 3D Analyze to change your graphics card's hardware ID information so that the game thinks a different card is installed. Look for the "VendorID" and "DeviceID" fields in 3D Analyze. Find a card listed to the right that is compatible with the game you want to play. Enter the ID numbers listed below the card into the corresponding fields to change what your computer reports as the installed graphics card. If you need to switch back to your actual hardware ID information, enter "0" into both fields.
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One-sentence summary -- Understand the basic process. Determine which version of DirectX your game requires. Set the appropriate options for the version you want to switch to. Try running the game. Use 3D Analyze to change your video card information.

Before moving your goldfish into its tank, let the water sit for at least a few weeks. This time is necessary for the tank to provide a healthy biological environment for your goldfish, so be patient! More specifically, allow the tank to build colonies of bacteria, which will develop on the filter and in the gravel. You'll maintain this biological environment via a process called cycling. Once your tank is setup and the filter is installed and turned on, add ammonia. Continue adding ammonia while trying to keep it's amount at 0.06ppm until enough bacteria have developed to eat both the ammonia and nitrites in your tank. Determine your levels of ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates by using test kits designed for this purpose. Continue the process until you get readings that indicate zero ammonia and zero nitrite. Regularly cycle the fish tank by changing 100% of the tank's water while taking care to keep the bacteria that are present in the tank alive. This will help your water "cycle" nitrogen, which is necessary to keep your fish alive. After the emptying the tank of water, add fresh, conditioned water. Repeat the process of adding ammonia and testing for ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates. Once you have reading of zero ammonia and zero nitrite, as well as a bit of nitrate in the water - which is produced by the bacteria - your tank has been successfully cycled. Keep the water slightly warmer during cycling to increase the speed of bacteria growth. You can even borrow bacteria from a friend who already has a well-established, recently cycled fish tank. Seed your own tank by taking some of their gravel or cutting off a piece of their filter's sponge and adding it to your tank. Alternatively, add a bottle of ready-to-go bacteria from the fish store. If you go this route, still expect to add some ammonia and test until the tank is balanced. You need to change the water even more often than you cycle it. To curb the buildup of waste, change 25-50% of the tank's water once a week. Leave some of the water in the tank, however, to maintain a healthy amount of bacteria developed by less frequent cycling. When changing some of the tank's water, rinse the filter and any tank decor with water your remove from the tank. Never use tap water to rinse anything that goes in your tank. Only add clean water that you've treated with conditioner.
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One-sentence summary -- Grow healthy bacteria in your tank by adding ammonia. Cycle the fish tank's water once a month. Speed up the cycling process with a few tricks. Change some of the tank's water once a week.

7-Zip is a free utility that can quickly decompress TGZ files. It's a good idea to download a .exe file of the most recent version (that isn't a beta). Be sure to click the link next to the right version of Windows (32-bit or 64-bit). This opens the 7-Zip installer. 7-Zip will now install on your computer. Once the installation is complete, move to the next step. A menu will appear. An additional menu will expand. This tells 7-Zip to create a new folder (named after the .tgz file) in the current directory. The contents of the file will now extract to the selected location. If the only file that appears ends in .TAR, double-click it to extract the remaining files. To select a different location, choose Extract Files instead, then choose a location.
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Go to http://www.7-zip.org/download.html in a web browser. Click Download next to the correct version. Double-click the file you downloaded. Click Install. Right-click the .tgz file. Navigate to the 7-Zip menu. Click Extract to (Folder Name).