Has it been a while since you last changed your guitar strings? This video tutorial presents a complete, step-by-step guide to the string changing process. Specifically, this tutorial addresses how to buy the right strings, what tools you'll need, and how to remove and replace your guitar's old strings. For more, take a look!
Professor of RVing Jim Twamley demonstrates how to install a new revolutionary shower head, the Oxygenics Body Spa. Follow the instructions outlined in this video tutorial to learn how to install the new shower head as well as how to remove the old shower head. Start showering in luxury with the Oxygenics Body spa shower head.
In this software tutorial Lindsay Adler will show you how to add an extra dimension to your images in Photoshop: texture. Adding texture to images can help create the appearance of an image being old, tattered or worn. Texture can also add an emotional dimension to a photograph, making it moody and more expressive. Watch this tutorial to see how easy it is to add textures to your images and make them look older using Photoshop.
Want a change from your boring old pink and white French manicure? Learn how to create red French style nail tips with white polka dots with this manicure tutorial. You will need base coat and top coat, red and white nail polishes, and Q-tips or corrector to clean up corners. With this how to video you will be able to create a red French manicure style nail tips with white polka dots.
A complete step by step automotive installation video on how to change a '79 F150 truck from drums to rear disc brakes. Disc brakes are newer technology that provide more stopping power and easier maintenance than older drum brakes. If you have a Dana 70 (1979 F150), bring it up to date and replace those old drum brakes with newer, better disc brakes. The guys at Redneck TV will make it easy for you.
This Adobe Photoshop tutorial covers using adjustment layers in Photoshop CS2 to help out a badly desaturated photo from the early '70s. Learn to use Photoshop levels, curves and color balance tools to color correct and fix faded old photos.
In this video you will learn to properly clean a Nintendo 64 game. This can be helpful if you are thinking of throwing any of those old games away. A Nintendo 64 is one of the first systems, and has very large games which break easily.
We're kickin' it olde school in this craftacular how-to video sampling from the Impatient Crafter crew. Join Margot as she shows you how to ink acrylic letters so they look like buried glass and make an adorable pendant from a vintage optical lens to boot.
Captain Disillusion takes a poke at an old Hollywood urban legend on the YouTube videos using dated camera tricks.
This is a quirky little how to video that teaches you how to repair and replace that worn out speaker surround you wanted to toss out or just bought at a garage sale for $1. Get to that yard sale and repair those old worn out speakers and make them worth thousands again!
Create a lovelier looking bathroom with a DIY lesson. Learn from Meg as she makes a bath mat out of old towels and goes 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea! Learn how to weave towels from an eco-friendly quick tip that shows you how to make a homemade cleaning supply. You can thank Threadbanger for this one.
Papa Tom teaches veiwers how to easily make a terra cotta roof for a realistic looking house for a diorama or school project. This is easy to do and provides incredibly realistic finishing touch to any plain old miniature building.
Here's how to find and use Free Public Domain Movies and old TV commercials in your work. Also in this episode, a few inexpensive utilities that will convert video formats so they are ready for editing in your editing program of choice.
I show you how to hack your old keyboard to make a wallet in minutes.
This video may be old, but shows you the basics of setting up and giving an enema to someone. Leave it to these Navy guys to show you how to give it in the rear, so to speak.
Thread Heads Quickie: turn an old afghan (or some piece of fabric) into a cute little flower applique.
Make fire starters that can be used when camping, fishing, or any other outdoor activity involving fire...or just for use in your home fireplace. Requires only dryer lint, a paper egg carton, and some old candles
Circuit bending is when you take an old sound producing machine and change the circuitry to make new sounds. Make Magazine's Bre Pettis and circuit bending expert Justin Gerardy discuss the various tips and tricks of circuit bending.
Do you have an old computer that may be too slow to play video games? You may think it's totally useless, but CNET Video teaches you how to turn it into a network server that functions as a centralized depository for your files!
Apple software engineer Andrew Carol built a fully-functional replica of the Antikythera Mechanism, the world's oldest known scientific computer. The 2000-year-old analog device was used by the ancient Greeks to predict the year, date, and time of future solar and lunar eclipses accurately to within two hours. Carol put together the 110 gears (made with 1,500 LEGO Technic parts) in just 30 days. See how it works below. For more information, check out Fast Company's interview with Carol.
Greg Gillis is Girl Talk. Girl Talk is pioneer of the popularization of mashups and digital sampling. To some, Girl Talk may be old news in today's over saturation of remixes and mashups. To others, Gillis is master.
Indian pole gymnastics? Was this born from the primal urge to show off in nothing but the brightest and shortest orange shorts by Indian wome- wait, these are men? Burn them!
What a ballplayer does prior to puberty is no indicator of his future potential. Whether he plays 30
So why not join the party? (Oh, plus they also happen to quilt, as well). Via WSJ,
Not sure I quite understand the point of modding two Powerbooks into a snowboard, but I admire the energy behind the project. Very rough translation via YouTube:
If you are traveling to a different country, whether on a business trip or vacation, you must have an up-to-date passport. Luckily, passport renewal is relatively easy for people living in the United States. All you need to do is mail in some paperwork and photos.
Got a box full of Christmas lights but don't exactly have a picturesque rooftop to hang the lights from? Or, have too many Christmas lights and too little space to decorate with?
In 1859, 22-year-old chemist Robert A. Chesebrough accidentally discovered petroleum jelly when he visited a working oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania. Oil workers complained of a gooey substance referred to as "rod wax" which kept getting into the machinery and slowing them down. Chesebrough noticed that oil workers also smeared this same substance on their burn marks or dry skin to help speed the healing process.
ok i know lately the jack ass guys have had to resort to the old man bit to get some funny stuff in joe public so iv had this idea first as a high school prank but my friends thought it was just wrong so i assume its perfect for you guys (at least i think it would make a good prank) anyway. the prank goes that we go to some random public pool and fill the whole thing up with red die or enough to make it look like a body was thrown in there and then just throw some random plastic body parts li...
Take a good skater from the Cast (Bam Margera) or hire someone like Tony Hawk, Mike V
Perpetualplum demonstrates how to make a repurposed lamp out of old materials. First, you will need a candlestick and light fixture parts like sockets, extender rods, washers and cords. You can also find materials around your house to use as the lamp base like coasters, ashtrays or tiles. Stack the repurposed pieces together until you find a shape that is pleasing. Beads also can add decorative accents to the lamp. Be sure to align the socket with the socket cover. Twist the leads together be...
Well, the online beatbox world champion. Still, pretty incredible, considering the title winner is a cute 17-year-old girl hailing from Canada.
Wu Yulu's life story belongs in a Disney movie. The 46-year-old Chinese farmer has built 26 robots over the past 30 years, with no education beyond high school. He says he loves his robots more dearly than his own sons and rides around his village in a robot powered rickshaw.
It isn't a disco ball, but it does shine just like one. If you have some old cd's around the house use them to make a decorative chandelier for your room. Watch this how to video to learn how to put your CD chandelier together. All you need is: CDs, glue, and and old lamp shade. Make a chandelier with CDs.
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