Giveaway Tuesdays has officially ended! But don't sweat it, WonderHowTo has another World that's taken its place. Every Tuesday, Phone Snap! invites you to show off your cell phone photography skills.
Before jumping right into becoming the next James Neely or Moose Peterson, you're going to have get situated with your new digital SLR. No matter if you purchased the Canon EOS 5D Mark II body and lens separately or together, you've got everything you need to get started except the CompactFlash (CF) card. If you plan on shooting in RAW or capturing HD video, I suggest getting an 8GB or larger CF card. If you can afford it, maybe even opt for a high-speed UDMA card.
This one is much higher quality than the last video! Feature | Time
Hermès is all about giving out the free goodies—this week I posted a tutorial for making your own papercraft "Kelly bag" and for years now they've created "knotting cards", a set of DIY illustrations presenting different ways to wear their iconic scarves.
Ingredients ½ teaspoon active dry yeast
Ingredients: 1/4 cup fresh cilantro leaves
This is not an entry, obviously, but we wanted to try to make the mascot too (Kari and I). A few days ago the server we played on was down for two days so we were playing around making the mascot in a temporary world.
Don't want one of your Facebook "friends" knowing your status updates? Prefer to keep a few of those "friends" out of your photo albums? Would you like to prevent a few "friends" from accessing your address?
A box mosaic is an interesting technique you can use to add interest to your project in Adobe Photoshop. This tutorial shows you how to set up a brush effect and then use that brush effect to create the patterned box mosaic look for your next project. Create a box mosaic effect in Adobe Photosop.
WASINGTON: Just the ring of a cell phone can pose a dangerous distraction for drivers, especially when it comes in a classroom setting or includes a familiar song as a ringtone, says a new study.
This place lets you post profiles WITH LINKS, images, shows, resources, all free. Best part...RANKS HIGH ON GOOGLE! worth the hassle of setting up a profile.
There's never a bad time to pull a prank on someone, right? Well, how about you consider setting up this prank during lunchtime? Next time you see a co-worker leave his/her takeout food unattended, that's when you'll strike. Follow the simple steps below and you'll be known as the master prankster at work. Tools and Materials Needed
Below, two different sets of schematics for mixing cocktails: the first is the "Engineer's Guide to Drinks" designed some time in the '80s; the second is a set of sleek infographics for mixing the perfect drink, from Brazilian illustrator Fabio Rex.
INTRODUCTION If you are a part-time blogger and owns a blog which is hosted on blogger, then the first thing which you could want to do is to convert your blog layout to a professional looking website. You can either edit the XML file yourself or you could choose to use a template designed by others. If you have no idea of XML editing and neither you want to use a template created by other, then hopefully there's a way to convert your blog into a website.
It took him a year to build and about $30,000 in parts, but Steve Hassenplug has created a truly magnificent robotic chess set, inspired by the magical chessboard in the first Harry Potter movie. Quite a task, but Hassenplug did an incredible job!
For this prank you will be pranking someone on the crew, well set up a fake prank with a nonpoisionous snake that the person who is being pranked must be bitten by....manny the expert can be there fake panicing say that the certain snake was hightly poisionness and that he needed to be rushed to the hospital because they didnt have the right antivenom....if you REALLy wanna get twisted with the prank you can have the car "breakdown" and make him start running, then down the road you can set u...
From LAist: Meg Whitman has set a new record, having now spent more of her own money on her gubernatorial campaign than any politician has spent in US history, according to abc7.
Oh, don't look so grumpy, Coco. I'm sure Nylon's secret formulas will only be used in the direst of situations:
You set up a toilet, could be a public toilet, or one at a fair ( it doesnt really matter where as long as people use it ), and play certain pranks when people are on it. When people they sit down they could get electricuted, stuck to the toilet, you put cling film over the toilet, a monter pops up when they lift up the toilet seat, when they flush the toilet poo explodes everywhere. That kind of thing!
Beautiful textile illusion by artist Timur Si-Qin! How Does it Work?
Warnings go to the streets and hand out trophies to people for whatever reasons and make the trophies out of very strong magnets
By "God," I mean Morley Davidson, John Dethridge, Herbert Kociemba, Tomas Rokicki and about 35 CPU-years.
Here at WonderHowTo, we appreciate the fine art of photography (including its extensively vast bag of mind boggling tricks). We also enjoy playing with fire. Sorry, most of us are little boys at heart, and we can't get enough tutorials that fall within the playing-with-matches realm.
The art of the sunny side up, fried egg. Master it, and you're sure to impress. Luckily, Apartment Therapy is here to instruct with another Home Hack.
You could read through Facebooks Privacy Guide, but I found it a little confusing and a lot of people have been asking me for specific settings. SO here are some screenshots of the privacy settings so you can find where everything is located really easily!
The Tarantino Mixtape - via Eclecticmethod.net Quentin mashup sets his most memorable movie scenes to his own eclectic soundtracks
The worst can always happen. Even if you think you're absolutely prepared, you can somehow find yourself stranded in the middle of nowhere by yourself. It can happen. Without a map, without a compass, without a cell phone... without food and water.
How To Make Your Television Play Anything in 3D It could be a while before studios release home versions of big pictures like Avatar (rumored 2011) and Alice in Wonderland in 3D. But you don't need to wait. Provided that you have a 3D-capable HDTV, turning it into a 3D home theater that is capable of playing any off-the-shelf DVD in 3D is surprisingly easy. Here's how to make the conversion
Trusty LifeHacker brings us another helpful HowTo, but this time it's in the travel department.
Adjust the convergence while your 3D camera is on a boom. Then watch on a Panasonic Bt-3DL2550 - 3D monitor to see if your convergence is correct. Panasonic introduced the new BT-3DL2550, a 25.5-inch 3D LCD production monitor with full 1920 x 1200 resolution. The BT-3DL2550 provides 3D display with true-to-life color in a durable, production-tough LCD panel package. Use special glasses to view the display in 3D, great for setting up shots while on the set.NAB 20210NA
Here is an interesting mini-doc about the set designer Ken Adam. Here he discusses working on the Dr. Strangelove War Room set. This style would influence many films to come and would become one of the most memorable graphic elements in film history. The funniest thing about this doc is his story about Ronald Reagan who thought the War Room from Dr. Strangelove was a real place and he wanted to see it, now that is great design! Here is the very MOD movie trailer for "Dr. Strangelove"
Prepared to transition into watching TV and movies for free? Whether you're interested in using apps like Boxee and Hulu or set-top devices like Roku and TiVo, LifeHacker offers an exhaustive guide to ditching your cable bill. Check out the pros and cons of switching to web only viewing.
Our Thrillbilly-Tricycle-Flip hero is back, and never fails to astound. Travis Pastrana is both an X-Games gold medalist and star of MTV show Nitro Circus. The daredevil kicks ass at supercross, motocross, freestyle motocross, base jumping and rally racing.
A Guinness World Record has been set by nine-year-old student Rohan Ajit Kokane, from Belgaum in the Southern Indian state of Karnataka.
We love these Gomi Style guys. Creators of past sensations like the cardboard chair and aqua mirror, here they come with a new inspiration. Steampunk!
This Adobe CS4 tutorial shows you how to use Dreamweaver CS4 to set up a connection to an SVN (Subversion) version control server to control your website directly. This is a new feature of Dreamweaver CS4 so even if you are familiar with CS3, you'll want to learn these new website server controls. Connect to an SVN Server in Dreamweaver CS4.
This After Effects CS4 tutorial covers animating essentials. Learn how to animate properties in After Effects CS4 including how to use the stopwatch, move the current-time indicator, and set values. You will also learn how to create, edit, and delete keyframes in this After Effects CS4 animation tutorial. Animate in After Effects CS4.
In this software tutorial you will learn how to create printer-friendly web pages using Dreamweaver and External Style Sheets.
Corn is a Thanksgiving tradition, and corn husk dolls, like the ones in this how-to video, make great holiday decorations! So set a festive mood this Thanksgiving with a homemade craft. You will need 6 corn husks (dried from craft store), twine, scissors, and the step-by-step instructions in this video activity tutorial. Make Thanskgiving corn husk dolls.
Learn how to get started with Enlarge It - one of the tools available in the Essentials plug-in for iPhoto. This Essentials tutorial covers setting the pixel dimensions and document size controls of your iPhoto images using the Enlarge It tool. Learning how to use these controls will help you resize photos without destroying the final print quality. Use Enlarge It in the Essentials plugin for iPhoto.
