In this clip, you'll learn how to perform a simple strum on the ukulele. If you want to get really good at playing the ukulele, it stands to reason that you'll need to practice. Happily, the Internet is awash in high-quality video lessons like this one from the folks at Ukulele Underground. For more information, including a step-by-step overview, watch this free video ukulele tutorial.
Cereal boxes make great craft materials during the winter holidays, standing in for the much harder to bake and make gingerbread for faux gingerbread houses and making excellent durable ornaments.
You may or may not have known, but mowing your lawn can actually help keep it healthy and promotes root growth. It also makes your yard look great and helps it stand out from any other bad looking yards on your block.
In this tutorial, learn how to create an absolutely perfect profile picture for your Facebook Fan Page. Often your fan page is used to boost your business or make yourself more popular and having the right picture can make all the difference. Check out this clip and get all the facts and tips for making your fan page stand out and get the message across.
In the UK, it's currently festival season, which means days of outdoor concerts and dance performances. If you're planning to visit Glastonbury for their performing arts festival, prep your skin and do your makeup for the event by watching this video tutorial.
This plump goldfish requires even less maintenance than the real things, and will look adorable as a conversation piece on your desk or a countertop. Composed of orange origami tissue paper, this fish stands up all on its own despite its rotund belly.
Chucks are a classic shoe beloved by people from all walks of life because of their minimal frills, comfortableness, and urban cool. But if you're walking around school feeling like a sheeple (sheep + people), make your Converse sneakers stand out from the rest by adding some bling.
The flamingo is a somewhat obscure flatlands skateboarding trick in which the skater swings the board around their leg and stands in a flamingo-like pose for a moment, supporting the board at an angle with their legs, and then drops back into skating from there. No fancy ramps or rails needed for this trick, get practicing!
What do you do with origami flowers after you've made them and they're just sitting limply on the table? Stick them into a flower stem!
This punk rock look was inspired by rocker Lacey Mosley of the band Flyleaf. Lacey is tough as nails and looks the part. If you are looking for a rock and roll party look and want to stand out, this is the look for you. You will be ready to jump on stage in no time!
Not since Lady Gaga's "Telephone" Coke Cans and Madge brow'n'lips has a music video makeup look been so universally dissected and copied by YouTube makeup savant.
There's been no greater spiritual and musical collaboration in recent times than the "We are the World" song by artists like Justin Bieber and Jennifer Hudson for the Haiti relief effort.
This video will show you exactly how to re create Lady Gaga's "Telephone" look. This is a fierce, sexy, look everyone will being going gaga over. Learn how to stand out in the crowd just like Lady Gaga herself. After watching this, all you'll need is some coke can rollers.
Nick from Greyscale Gorilla demonstrates how to do the effect from "The Matrix" in which time stands still and the camera whips around, continuing the action from another perspective. Go here for Nick's blog entry:
A mailbox can be the first thing people see on your property, so it's important to get a nice one and install it correctly. But installing a mailbox post and mailbox can be a surprisingly tricky project, involving making holes in the ground and trying to get the post to stand at just the right height. In this video, Mark Donovan of HomeAdditionPlus.com shows us how to install a mailbox the right way.
Make sure this year’s live holiday Christmas tree is not only pretty, but safe, too. Here's how to safely put up a real, live Christmas tree. You will need:
This medical how-to video demonstrates the proper technique for evaluating a patient with knee pain. Follow along and learn how to do a knee examination. Always begin the knee exam with the patient standing and observe any abnormalities. Please note this instructional video is intended for medical professionals.
This video is part of the grip it an rip it series with Tony Gwynn. Discussed is where to stand in the batters box, what type of bat to have, the proper stance, how to swing the bat and follow through. As Tony describes how to do each aspect of batting, he illustrates each one. Throughout the video, popups and sidebars appear with additional tips making it easy to understand.
Do you have free time? Then build your own bridge out of Popsicle sticks. Bre Pettis goes over the basics of building bridges. As a bonus, you get to watch other people stand on their own bridges and break them.
Meddlesome mother in laws are pretty cliche these days and a common problem made fun of in many romantic comedies. And while on the big screen the pesky, overbearing mother in law is something to laugh at, having a woman of her nature in your own, real life is ego deteriorating and detrimental to your marriage.
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to do flip turns in three easy steps. The first step is to be able to do a regular somersault. Begin by standing on the black line away from the wall and execute a flip. The second step is to stand at arms-length away from the wall and execute a flip without touching the wall. The third step is to execute a flip that is arms-length away from the wall. Land the feet on the wall and pause with hands above the head. This video will benefit those viewers ...
The limbo. Everybody knows what it is, but amazingly, only a small percentage of the population has actually participated in a limbo dance. Most think it's a thing for a huge party, but you only need a few to have fun with it. Find out just how low you can go by dancing the limbo with your friends.
Chinese calligraphy is amongst the most beautiful but also most difficult word art forms in the world, and practitioners spend years honing their skills, even devoting their entire lives to daily practice.
In this how-to video, Nisha Obaidullah will show you how to do proper dead lifts. Start off with an olympic bar. Step up to the bar. Keep the bar as close to your body as possible. Pick the bar up with your knuckles facing outward. Make sure you drive through with the glutes. Stand up with the bar. Next, squat down with the bar. The hips will be brought backwards and your head looking forward. Use the glutes to drive back up to standing position. The bar should be just below the knees when yo...
Kick up your look by adding dresses you make yourself to your wardrobe. It's simple to create a patter and sew a dress that will fit your exact measurements. You'll be amazed at the differene of having a drees you made yourself makes.
TheFlowergod teaches you how to design an exotic bride's bouquet for a wedding. You will first need a stand for the flower bouquet, which you can make out of plastic or wood. Place the longer stem flowers inside so you have a working station. For this bouquet you will be working with a few ferns as the base and then flowers with similar colors, like red, yellow, purple. The whole bouquet should say warmth and pleasant weather. Once you are done with the designing, you simply extract the bouqu...
This fitness how to video discusses a few standing poses that might work for tight hamstrings and hips. Ask any non-yogi office worker to sit down on the floor and cross his legs, and 9 out of 10 times, his knees will be way off the floor and his back will be hunched up like Quasimodo. If your hips are really tight, your average yoga class will only help you make small gains. In order to double or even triple your progress, keep going to class, but take ten minutes each day and practice the p...
How to build a Hall Table from recycled wood pallets. I love pallet furniture and this wooden pallet project is no exception. It's easy to build and costs very little money. The hall stand is made entirely from old pallets and hardwood fence palings. Hall tables are very practical and are suited for those narrow areas where a normal table would be to big. My hall table, or hall stand also includes drawers which makes it a handy spot to put your car keys or mail.
If you're into photography, you're probably no stranger to the myriad of ways you can take macros with your smartphone. Your phone's built-in camera may not take great pictures up close, but you can modify it to do so with anything from a magnifying glass to a drop of water. However, those types of DIY macro lenses can only get so close.
I've never really liked to type on a flat or low keyboard. Even the small flip-up stands underneath most keyboards were not good enough for me, as those little legs aren't usually more than 2 or 3 centimeters high. I'd like a minimum of 5 cm, so I decided to make this keyboard base for myself. Aside from giving me the right height and angle, this DIY keyboard base also features LEDs that light up my monitor, the table, and gives a nice background to my desktop. It's even got a built-in stand ...
Looking for a musical instrument that will really make you stand out? Check out this video to learn how to make a Harmoni-kazoo... or should it be called a Kazoomonica? With just tape, rubber bands, card stock, and popsicle sticks, you can make your own musical instrument.
Looking for a cool way to get your lunch to school or the office? Want to stand out from the rest of the lunchroom crowd? Make yourself a lunch box out of duct tape! The duct tape lunchbox is completely customizable and will keep your food nice and cold.
Adding interesting themes to your iPhone and iPod is like wearing vintage clothes to school rather than clothing yourself in a few finds from Abercrombie & Fitch like everybody else: You stand out. While we'd be happy with any (current generation) iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, installing a theme makes our iGadget extra special.
There are some BIG MEAN bosses in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, but with this walkthrough from IGN, only you will be standing victorious at the end. Follow the tips and tricks and see what you'll need to do to win and unlock all the achievements.
Lift up your text or push it back down with Firework's inlay & emboss feature. Works for FW CS3, CS4, and CS5. Don't be shy with your words, make them stand out! This same trick can also be used with GIMP and Adobe Photoshop.
Close talkers suck. While having an intimate, one-on-one conversation with someone is nice, being able to see every pore on his face is not. Plus, there are the inevitable spit sprinkles that shoot out of his mouth at every interjection.
Are you an advanced dancer - maybe even a teacher of modern dance - who's looking for an interesting way to transition standing work into floorwork?
Eager to try the Firesheep Firefox extension yourself? It stands to reason that you'll need to download and install it from its official GitHub page first. You'll find all the details, including easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions on how to find and run the Firesheep XPI installer, in the clip. Get started capturing your friends' Facebook passwords with this video guide.
Taking someone down from standing is oftentimes the best way to gain the advantage in an MMA fight. In this video UFC star Joe Lauzon demonstrates how to do an armdrag to double leg takedown on the lovely and sporting Joanne of MMA Girls.
Darth Maul and his double lightsaber were by far the coolest part of Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. If you've got some DIY knowhow and want a costume / prop lightsaber that will stand out from the pack, watch this video to learn how to make a Darth Maul double lightsaber out of hardware store parts for $15.