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Marmite: either you love the stuff or hate it. ("Love" meaning you are British and grew up eating it, and "hate" meaning you are everyone else.)
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How To: Unlock This Hidden Setting to Make Your Android's Layout Better for Left-Handed Use
Left-handers only make up about ten percent of the world, which means they typically have to use things made for the majority, i.e., right-handed people. If that wasn't annoying enough, there are studies that show that lefties actually get paid less.
How To: Store Thanksgiving Leftovers for Maximum Longevity
By now, you've stuffed yourself with enough cranberry-soaked turkey to last you until next year. Still, there's a formidable amount of leftovers, and you're kidding yourself if you think you won't be craving them when you wake up tomorrow with a food coma/hangover.
News: 5 Common Mistakes That Will Ruin Your Thanksgiving Turkey
When I was 12, for some mysterious reason, my dad put my little brothers and me in charge of cooking the Thanksgiving turkey. Naturally, my brothers and I spent the rest of the day playing hide-in-seek in the backyard and forgot all about the humble bird defrosting in the sink.
How To: Make Neon Children's Umbrella Using EL Wire
Here's a children's umbrella lined with neon green EL wire. It's definitely an easy and fun project for kids to do with their parents, and more importantly, it keeps the little mischiefs safer if they're out and about on rainy days.
How To: Find permutations and combinations in math probability
In this permutation and combination math tutorial, we will learn how to find the number of possible arrangements in a set of objects. So, if you need help with your algebra or geometry homework, watch this.
How To: Make a holiday decor trivet for Christmas with Etsy
This week on Etsy How-Tuesday Kristen Couse aka cakehouse shows us how to make a decorative holiday trivet for the dining table. You can spice up your home decor, whether you're hosting Christmas or a potluck with friends!
How To: Make an awesome birds nest Easter hat for a boy
Why should women get all the pretty hats at Easter time? You can make a fun and seasonal Easter hat for a boy quite easily! This video shows you how to take a plain hat and turn it into a birds nest hat. You will need: a hat (a plastic party fedora will work just fine), a wide strip of ribbon for the brim, a pair of scissors, some raffia, artificial leaves, a stuffed or toy bird and some craft glue.
How To: Cut a pretty flower food garnish from a carrot
You want to know the real reason you pay so much money to dine at four and five-star restaurants? Well, the quality of the food is obviously a factor. But the biggest discrepancy is quite simply the presentation. Order something as simple as pan-seared tuna with sesame seeds and it'll come drizzled in a posmodernist Pollock-esque pattern of soy sauce and a miniature dragon made out of a carrot. It's pretty impressive stuff, almost as impressive as what your bill will be.
How To: Make DIY skin-nourshing papaya and cucumber soaps
Acne sucks - or, more correctly, acne oozes. Which is why it's so important to take care of your skin with oil-reducing, calming products. Most anti-acne medications you can buy are severely drying and irritating, meaning they can cause the adverse effect of making your skin compensate by producing even more oil.
How To: Make a DIY peppermint cinnamon sparkly lip gloss plumper
If you were born with skinny, thin lips, then lip plumpers are probably your best friend. We get it: Plump, pillowy soft lips are gorgeous, but at the same time we don't know if we trust all those gnarly ingredients that most lip plumpers contain.
How To: Craft custom earwires from eyepins and earrings with filigree designs
Want to make your own jewelry? While there are loads of pre-made earrings and necklaces and bracelets out there, it's often hard to find one that suits your personality to a tee, so we totally feel you. But before you start haphazardly strining stuff onto a wire, check out this jewelry making video first.
How To: Sew an urban chic pattern lined hoodie
Plain hoodies are among the most versatile pieces of clothing you can own. But while they're comfortable and chic, plain hoodies can also look a little dull, especially if all you're wearing is sweats or blue jeans with them.
How To: Save money on mailing Christmas gifts by using soda/milk bottles
While the holiday season offers a lot of festive joy in putting up holiday decor, shopping for Christmas presents, and baking cookies, it also offers up a lot of opportunites to spend money. So that means that by the time you've purchased the presents, wrapped them in tissue paper and wrapping paper, and send them off in a box, your wallet is probably shedding a tear.
How To: Make lamb and rice stuffed cabbage leaves with tomato sauce
You know how sometimes you'll look up a recipe from a famous chef, and then when you take a gander at the ingredients list it looks longer than the last "Harry Potter" book? Complex, "high art" dishes sometimes do requires what seems like a million ingredients - and precise stirring and heating times - to accomplish.
How To: Tone your entire core with an exercise ball move
No pain, no gain. Well, at least when it comes to toning your flab and revealing those hard six-pack abs that have been hiding under all that stuffing you got from last winter's holiday revelry.
How To: Create a feminine twisted French braid updo
French braids are timeless hairstyles that make you look elegant and put together whether you're simply headed for Biology class or you're assembling a beautiful hairdo for a wedding.
How To: Craft homemade Christmas cards for the holidays
When it comes to Christmas gifts, stuff that comes from the heart and is handmade is nice, but often times we really DO want that new iPad.
How To: Create a high dowager princess bun for holiday parties
A dowager bun may not sound familiar to you, but you've probably seen more than a handful at fancy holiday parties and soirees. Dowagers are the widows of deceased landholder husbands. But while this is the grim origin of dowagers and "uptight" and high dowager buns, today the dowager bun is more an elegant statement than anything else.
How To: Make homemade Southern pimento butter using heavy cream
Thanksgiving is coming up within a matter of weeks, which means soon enough you'll be gobbling down truckloads of turkey, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, and stuffing. Not to mention copious amounts of butter, which is used to add flavor to nearly every dish.
How To: Dye your hair and touch up your roots at home
Getting your hair done and dyed at the salon feels luxurious and is as much a rejuvenating, spa-like experience as it is a practical coloring session. But with the economy as it is and hair color appointments costing upwards of $100 average, it's quite a costly expense.
How To: Make Kitana's sexy fighter costume from "Mortal Kombat" for Halloween
Kitana from "Mortal Kombat" was the original gal whos looks literally could kill. Killer curves plus killer butt-whooping skills? The girl knew how to work it.
How To: Eat Healthier at Your Fourth of July Barbecue
Fourth of July is, at its core, a foodie holiday. When you get together with friends and family to celebrate the occasion, it's almost impossible to avoid stuffing your face with grilled meats, excessive BBQ sauce, coleslaw, hot dogs, french fries, and more.
How To: Calculate liquidity ratios in Microsoft Excel 2010
As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is finance math. Brush up on the stuff for your next or current job with this how-to. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 16th installment in his "Excel Finance Class" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to calculate liquidity ratios including current ratio, times interest earned and cash Ratio. Also see how current ratio changes when certain trans...
How To: Create a sexy Poison Ivy costume for Halloween
Before Christian Bale and Christopher Nolan there was the original "Batman" with with George Clooney as the masked hero and Uma Thurman as the villainous Poison Ivy. While the movie is ranked as one of the worst superhero flicks of all time, Uma Thurman's getup was probably one of the most fascinating and beautiful superhero costumes we've ever seen.
How To: Create a lacy gold and white greek goddess costume for Halloween
Really the question is why you WOULDN'T want to look like a greek goddess for Halloween. After all, many of them, like Aphrodite and Eos, are damn near perfect in all their glowing gorgeousness, at least we assume from the artistic depictions.
How To: Make crispy deep-fried calzones with Guy Fieri
When you see the words "deep fried" in the description of a recipe, you know it's going to be good stuff. This time we're hitting you with an irrestible deep fried calzone filled with mounds of ooey mozarella cheese and loads of pepperoni. Check out the video to get the details.
How To: Create a side curled ponytail wrapped with braids
What we love about braided an/or curly hairstyles is that they're so romantic and make us feel like princesses. What we don't like is the fact that they take forever plus a day to do, which doesn't make us happy when we're in a rush to go to school in the morning.
How To: Create an elegant low side French braid updo
Once you've mastered French braids you've opened yourself up to an entire universe of hairstyling options you never had before. Take the elegant low side French braid updo in this hairstyling tutorial, for instance.
How To: Make a hedgehog plushie
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a hedgehog plushy. First, choose a fabric to use, then cut out the shape of it. Once you have done this, cut it out again and pin the two pieces of fabric together. After this, use a sewing machine to sew all of the sides together, leaving a hole in the bottom. Now, turn the hedgehog inside out and then iron him flat. Place some stuffy cotton into the plushy until it is as full as you would like it. Then, sew the hole together so none of the stuffing can...
How To: Make a kawaii donut pillow with strawberry frosting and sprinkles
Homer Simpson would have an absolute fit over this delicious-looking kawaii donut pillow. Embellished with a thick layer of strawberry frosting and then topped lightly with candy-colored sprinkles, this pretty donut looks almost good enough to eat.
How To: Make a floral bib necklace back to school accessory
Don't worry, just because you're wearing a bib necklace doesn't mean you have uncontrollable drooling urges and drop food out of your mouth like a one-year-old.
How To: Craft a ferocious origami eagle for intermediate origami students
Eagles are the most effective of the predator birds. With eyesight like nobody's business, a huge wingspan for excellent air foil control when flying and diving down for a yummy little mouse, and a strong, muscular body, it seems eagles were designed to, well, kill.
How To: Create a dramatic Blue Dahlia look by Estee Lauder
Tom Pecheaux, Estee Lauder's new creative director, came to the company with a vision in mind: Bold, more unexpected drops of color for their eyeshadow palettes, lipsticks, and glosses. And bold is the only way to describe his Blue Dahlia palette, which is filled with intense electric blues, blacks, and silvers.
How To: Make a historical gundam (Japanese Shogun) origami hat
The Shoguns were ancient Japan's most brutal and elite warriors. As military dictators, they were said to maintain order and subdue barbarians. Shoguns were fierce in battle and, as bloodshed was a daily thing for them, equipped themselves with state-of-the-art armor and helmets.
How To: Use the camera, lighting, and cinematics in the StarCraft 2 Editor
Starcraft 2, like it's predecessor before it, has a very robust level editor that allows you, the DIY modder, to create nearly any scenario within the bounds of the Starcraft 2 engine that you could imagine. We have compiled videos on how to do all sorts of fun things with it, from making RPG's and Tower Defense games to just making you dream Starcraft 2 level. This video will teach you how to lock the camera as well as create lighting effects, city terrain, and short cinematics in the Starcr...
How To: Make a Japanese colorblock origami wallet for beginners
Yeah, you can probably find a countless number of videos on YouTube about how to make "origami wallets." But let's be honest here: Just how usable are these wallets? While you could probably stick a few dollars inside, we doubt you can put in any more safely.
How To: Draw a malevolent killer clown with Wizard
Clowns are the stuff of the most horrible nightmares for us, but if you're one of the few who either find them funny or find them entertaining in a really creepy way, then this is the perfect drawing tutorial for you.
How To: Make a simple origami paper wallet for beginners
When you muse on the topic of origami, you're probably imagining some pretty advanced stuff that sends your head - if not your fingers - for a spin. Modular dodecahedrons (what?) and magic squares, done by the more advanced origami artist, make the art seem too difficult for common butterfingers like us. But fear not; no matter how clumsy you are with crafting, we've got an origami project that you can do easily.
How To: Braid your hair into a simple fish tail
Fish tail braids are basically the grown up version of the braids mom used to put in your hair every morning for school. With less of an uptight, "braid-y" look and more of a loose, touseled appearance, fish tail braids offer us a fun way to experiment with hair without looking like an 8-year-old.