How To: Use a clay extruder and make beads with it
This video covers the basics on using and cleaning a Makin's Ultimate Clay Extruder plus a tutorial on how to make coiled extruder beads from polymer clay.
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How To: Crop scrapbook photos
Are some of your memorable pictures in need of shaping up? Keep your scrapbook photos clean and centered by cropping them.
How To: Install laminate flooring
In this video, you will learn how to install laminate flooring. Make sure the floor is clean!
How To: Make a volcano project
Check out this nice volcano project that has a removable bottle for easy cleaning and reuse. It also has a tray to catch all the magma and lava!
How To: Use a polishing cloth for silver
Learn the proper method to use a polishing cloth to clean sterling silver jewelry. Remember to keep the cloth dry and use both parts of the cloth to remove tarnish.
How To: Clean and reorganize your room
With allergy season in full swing, this video can help you clear the clutter from your bedroom and add a fresh coat of paint to create a soothing sleep sanctuary. Learn alternatives to the traditional headboard and create a new one from faux wood contact paper.
How To: Clean a vehicle before painting it
Kevin Tetz of Paintucation gives tips for painting your own car - this video goes over giving the car a final wipe down before starting to repaint.
How To: Percolate a paint gun
Kevin Tetz of Paintucation shows how to percolate a paint gun to properly clean it.
How To: Clean chewing gum stains from your clothing
Learn how to get rid of those very nasty and stubborn gum stains from your clothes and shoes using a very simple trick. Use vinegar!
How To: Defragment your hard drive in Windows XP
In this screencast, we show you how to use the Disc Defragmenter in Windows XP, to clean up your hard discs, and group fragmented files to make access to them much quicker.
How To: Repair the edge of a wooden propeller for an airplane
This video will show you two different methods of repairing the leading edge of a wooden aircraft propeller. Learn how to properly apply epoxy, clean the area of the repair, and make the edge look like it was never damaged!
How To: Install a Mach 1 Grille Delete Kit on a Mustang
Sometimes less is more. If you want to clean up the front end of your Mustang try installing this grill delete kit from Classic Design Concepts.
How To: Make selections in Photoshop
In this lesson, learn how to make difficult selections in Photoshop easily and how to save them for later use. Part two specifically covers how to use the clone stamp tool to "clean up" unwanted areas of digital images.
How To: Fight climate change with cow dung
Cow manure contains methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Farmers who collect and burn methane keep it out of the atmosphere while generating clean electricity.
How To: Install a trailer hitch on a Jeep Liberty
This video covers some great tips on how to make your trailer hitch installation go smoothly. It will explain how to clean out the bolt holes, make sure the hitch is aligned properly, and how to get a stubborn hole to line up.
How To: Give a male perineal wash
Once each day, or according to your doctor's instructions, you will need to clean the urethral meatus - the opening where the catheter enters the body. This video shows you how to give a proper male perineal wash.
How To: Disassemble and reassemble a Halo B loader
Here is a video showing you how to completely take apart and reassemble your halo b loader. This will help you keep your equipment clean, and working properly.
How To: Give yourself a facial
You don't need a trip to the spa to treat yourself to a facial. All you need is a half an hour and some key items to emerge with a clean, fresh, and relaxed face.
How To: Polish a valkyrie wheel
Clean your valkyrie wheel the correct way, using your own tools.
How To: Cleanup disk space on Windows quickly
Find the biggest files on your computer ordered by size. Learn to order folder by filesize so you can find the ones harboring the most diskspace terrorists. Learn to clear up your private data automatically and wipe it clean from being undeleted.
How To: Drain yogurt
Yogurt makes a healthy and delicious addition to dips, sauces and soups, but sometimes it can make a recipe taste watery. The solution is to drain the yogurt in a sieve lined with cheesecloth or a clean, lint-free dish towel in the refrigerator overnight until the yogurt becomes thick and creamy-looking.
How To: Clean a granite countertop
With the proper care, your granite or marble countertop will stay new-looking for years. Stone is one of the easiest surfaces to maintain. And granite, being 7 on the Mohs hardness scale of 1 to 10, is virtually unscratchable.
How To: Clean up your edges on your snowboard
Frank Crow talks about keeping the edges of your snowboard in shape. Edge maintenance is crucial to preserving your ride.
How To: Prune your plants properly
Elderly woman shows how to prune plants properly. Video covers which plants to prune, when to prune, cleaning prune tools and how to prune the individual plants. Watch video for best results.
How To: Take a shower properly
Robert Jackson shows how to take a shower properly. He covers things such as shower curtains, shower structure and cleaning. Watch video for best results.
How To: Wash a car
Save money and give your car a professional car wash at home using a hose and two simple products. For this project you will need: a garden hose with spray nozzle, car wash soap, wash mitt, car wax
How To: Preserve paint brushes
Tim Carter shows some sweet tips on how to keep paint brushes looking like new, how to seal paint can lids and how to get professional results when painting two different colors.
How To: Auto-Import New Contacts & Clean Up Existing Ones on Your Google Pixel
Your Pixel has a few hidden features you probably don't know about, like the ability to clean up your funky contacts list. Since I'm sure you haven't manually organized your contacts since the inception of Android, there are likely some incomplete and duplicate contacts. Thankfully, your phone can fix this automatically.
How To: Most File Cleaners Are Trash — Here's Which Ones You Can Trust
Since the release of the T-Mobile G1, the Play Store has been flooded with apps that claim to improve performance by clearing cache and storage. These apps are typically useless, rarely providing more than a temporary fix which Android undoes immediately. As Android has continued to improve cache and storage management, such apps have become more trivial. However, there are few decent ones out there.
News: Contaminated Breast Milk Devices Lead to Devastating Infant Injury
Foodborne infections often occur through the contamination of equipment, food-prep tools, and unsanitary surfaces. A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reminds us that breast pump parts are part of the food-delivery chain — and they can become contaminated too.
News: So Long, Bird Poop! Waymo's Plans for Dirty LiDARs Revealed
Waymo has done a lot of things over the course of their driverless journey, but their solution to little birdies pooping all over a self-driving car's LiDAR system is definitely our favorite.
News: Your Pet's Bowl Is One of the Dirtiest Things in Your Home—Collecting Yeast, Mold & Bacteria
According to the National Safety Federation (NSF), pet bowls and toys carry coliform bacteria, including Staph bacteria, yeast, and mold. Additionally, an (unscientific) survey from Petco found that almost one-third of pet owners do not know the extent of contamination that their pet toys contain.
How To: Keep Android's Notification Tray Clean & Clear with a Centralized Hub
Android's notification system is quite robust, especially now that Google added bundled notifications and quick reply features to Android 7.0 Nougat. However, things can still get quite cluttered when you have several unread messages, which fills your status bar with icons and makes your notification tray take up half of the screen by itself.
How To: Trust Us… Use a Lemon Peel When Loading the Dishwasher
If you're lucky enough to have a dishwasher, you probably use that sucker to clean everything (minus your good cooking knives), and maybe even to cook your food, too. However, dishwashers are not without their faults. Dishes can still come out spotty and even with chunks of food on them, which usually leads to some hand-washing afterward.
How To: 5 Apartment Improvements You Can Do in an Hour
Presented by Apartments.com When looking for a new apartment, it's hard not to notice the improvements (on large and small scale) needed prior to moving in. While your landlord may be taking care of new carpeting, cleaning the central air vents, and fresh paint on the walls, there may be some additional improvements on your list that you can take care of on your own. Here are five quick improvements you can check off your list before the big move.
How To: 7 Little-Known Food Hacks Starring Salt
Salt is one of my favorite ingredients, by far, and also one of the most overlooked foods in the kitchen. This is probably due to the fact that it's an essential component of almost any recipe; because salt is a necessity, it's easy to forget how dynamic and versatile it can be as well.
How To: The Easiest Way to Clean Up Your Twitter Timeline on Your iPhone
Technology allows us to communicate with others like never before, providing us with the ability to stay connected with past and current coworkers, classmates from high school, and even relatives in far-away countries.
How To: Clean "Uncleanable" Scorched Spots from Pots & Pans
You're in the middle of cooking and a car alarm, cute kitten, or neighborhood brawl made you step away from the stove for a few minutes longer that you should have. It happens to almost every home cook. Most of the time, nothing dramatic happens, but every now and then, you end up with something like this:
How To: The Simplest, Most Natural Way to Clean & Disinfect Wooden Cutting Boards
A good cutting board is almost as important as the utensils you use on it. The wrong type can cause your blades to dull faster, and certain materials hold onto juices (and therefore bacteria) from food. You can wash a plastic board with just about anything, but what about wood?
How To: 7 DIY Ways to Remove Oil Stains from Your Asphalt Driveway
If you have an oil stain on your asphalt driveway, wipe up the excess oil with an absorbent cloth or mop it up, then act quickly using the common household items below to make sure that it doesn't become a permanent eyesore or a headache to clean up later.