How To: Winterize your garden
Protect and preserve your garden from winter chill by cutting back shrubs, putting down cool weather fertilizer, transplanting and planting spring bulbs.
Protect and preserve your garden from winter chill by cutting back shrubs, putting down cool weather fertilizer, transplanting and planting spring bulbs.
Learn how to take detailed photographs of outer space using a modified webcam. These are some really cool hacks & mods from a guy on youtube. Avoid the high costs of telescope cameras and supplement with an inexpensive webcam.
Learn how to do high speed photography with Bre Pettis. To do high speed photography correctly, you need to link a strobe to your camera as shown by Mr. Pettis of Make Magazine. Then you can create cool pictures just like him.
The type or text you usually include in your artwork in Photoshop does not need to be in solid color. In this video you will learn to fill type with a photo in Photoshop CS2. Spice up your next artwork with this cool trick!
Are your DVDs piling up? Want to get rid of a few, but don't think you can sell them to anyone? No problem— recycle them! If your desktop is in need of some zest, this hack will show you how to light things up— in style! It's an electric rotating disc that's powered by a motor and has LEDs that create a cool lighting effect.
If you've ever parked your car outside in direct sunlight and it's about 90 degrees out, you know what ends up happening 2 hours later when you get back into the car.
In this tutorial, we learn how to change the physical properties of yellow sulfur. First, take a heat proof water glass and add in 1 teaspoon of sulfur powder. After this, heat the glass on a low flame for a few minutes. After this, the sulfur will start to melt and turn a reddish color. Now, pour the sulfur into some cold water after it's all the way melted and watch the reaction that is occurring. Once cool, you will be able to pick up the sulfur from the water and play with it, although it...
Unless you live in Sarah Palin's home state, you're probably sweating through the hot and humid summer like the rest of us. Sweltering temperatures usually mean heading inside into cold air conditioning, but if you have the misfortune of having to be outside during particularly sweltering weather there is a way you can cool down on the fly.
This video demonstrates how to make a traditional Armenian dessert called boorma, which is similar to baklava. The ingredients are phyllo dough, chopped walnuts, sugar, cinnamon, and butter. Lay out the dough and butter it, then sprinkle the nuts over the dough. Roll the dough around a thin wooden dowel, and remove the dowel. Place the roll on a buttered tray. Make a syrup with boiled sugar and water with a little lemon juice, then allow it to cool. Bake the boorma and allow them to cool. Cut...
Money origami (or dollar bill) origami is cheap, fun, simple, and cute. It only takes a dollar bill with some folding paper skills to make some really cool stuff. Spend that spare dollar in your pocket on some good old fashioned creativity -- you will end up with a cool puffy star origami figure.
Check out this "Juicy Tutorial" to learn how to create the lighten effect in Paint Shop Pro 8. Paint Shop Pro (PSP) is a raster graphics editor and, later in the series, a vector graphics editor for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system. Paint Shop Pro 8 was published by Jasc Software.
Adam from Chemical Reaction wants to show you a little movie magic. This video tutorial will show you how to shoot and edit a cool dance effect for your homemade film. You will see how to position the camera, set up the scene, shoot it twice (once with your legs dancing and once with you standing still), and then edit it in your favorite editing program to make it look like you're dancing without the top half of your body moving.
Want to mix and scratch like a professional DJ? To be a good DJ you need to understand the concepts of mixing tracks, adding cool effects, and of course you need a good sense of rhythm to line up the beats. This how to video explains how to wear the headphones on your head while you DJ. If you have the two cups on your ears, it's a good idea to have what's known as split cue. This is when you can hear one table through one side and the other through the other side. But some DJ's like to have ...
Check out this video tutorial on how to streak an agar plate. What's an agar plate? Well, an agar plate is a sterile Petri dish that contains a growth medium (typically agar plus nutrients) used to culture microorganisms. Selective growth compounds may also be added to the media, such as antibiotics.
This is a makeup look inspired by MAC's Cool Heat collection. With this video tutorial, you can learn how to apply MAC's cool heat collection in order to create a dramatic appearance.
Watch this video to learn how to make a penny operated nitric acid fountain. Nitric acid acts upon copper to yield nitric oxide in an exothermic reaction. The expanding gas displaces water from another flask; actually bubbles in this set up. When the gas cools, the water is drawn back into the flask, dissolving the nitric oxide and forming a blue solution with the copper ions still there. Very cool science experiment with a neat reaction.
First you make the crust by putting a bowl of flour and a bowl of brown sugar together into a large bowl. Whisk the flour and brown sugar together in the bowl. Next add two sticks of margarine cut up into smaller pieces. Use a pastry cutter and work the butter into the mixture until you have a bowl full of small uniform chunks. Next pour the mixture into a parchment lined baking pan. It will look really crumbly but that's okay. Once it is poured into the pan use your hand to smooth it out and...
In this tutorial, Michelle shows us how to make beautiful energy saving wooden sun shades that slide along bard door tracks. These slatted sun shades are perfect for the summer to keep the sun out but leave enough space to let the breeze through. This is an advanced woodworking project and it involves either hand tools or power tools. Watch this how to video and you will be hanging sunshades all over your house.
In order to see through your windshield clearly, you'll want to replace the wiper blades if they're worn out. And once you master this task it will be a breeze in the future.
Making a cool leather wallet is easy. Just get yourself some scrap strips of leather ant you are good to go. No special tool required. You can see full process of making this simple wallet in the video.
Fashionably cool and awesome, this marvelous French Twist hair Style is as simple to make as it is elegant and stylish to flaunt. Just in few easy and accessible steps, this urbane style makes your appearance special and any outing memorable. Step 1: Comb Your Hair Neatly to Remove Any Tangles and Make Them Smooth. Step 2: Hold the Hair Together Like a Pony and Twist Them Till the Middle of the Pony and Make a Roll as Shown. Step 3: Once You Have Secured the Roll, Cover It with Surrounding Ha...
A Prince Rupert's Drop is a very interesting demonstration in physics that shows both the strength that a well-organized crystal structure can provide, as well as how violently such a structure can be blown to pieces by stress if the crystal pattern is disrupted.
This is a cool little trap that me and some friends came up with while messing around with TNT and redstone on a big platform in the sky. The reason we called it the 'Roof Lever Trap' is because it utilizes the ability to place levers on the bottom side of blocks, which was introduced in Minecraft 1.3.1.
Want to see something cool? Get some friends together because as soon as you see the easter egg in this video, you're going to want to find it for yourself. Watch and learn how to find this COD: Black Ops Annihilation Shangri-La Zombies easter egg.
Having incredible superpowers is cool, but having all the PS3 trophies from Infamous 2 is epic. Be epic. Watch this Infamous 2 trophy guide video and learn how to score the Knockout in the Blackout trophy from Infamous 2 for PS3.
Watch this video to learn how to use a hack to make your iPad capable of making and receiving phone calls. With a jailbroken iPad you can have the biggest iPhone on the planet. Check out this guide to some really cool Cydia apps.
They call it Minecraft, so you've got to assume that if you dig deep enough you'll find some pretty cool stuff. This video will show you how to mine for diamond, a valuable resource when playing crafting while playing Minecraft.
One of the best things about minecraft is the ability to create anything you can imagine. It's also cool that you can launch fireballs all over your world. Watch this video to learn how to build a fire cannon in Minecraft.
Looking for a cool way to keep your CD's safe? This video will show you how to craft a CD case out of duct tape. And the best part is, you can customize this case with whatever colors of duct tape you like.
Looking for some cool designs to build in the planes mod for Minecraft? Check out this video to learn how to build a spitfire in Minecraft planes mod. This spitfire is a great looking flyer, you'll rule the air with it.
This video will show you how to use Adobe Photoshop to create a very realistic looking light ray using a Mask, Radial Blur and adjustment layers. Give your images a beautiful sun-kissed appearance with the techniques demonstrated in this how-to video.
If you are looking to expand your inventory of cartoon characters, this video will show you how to draw everyone's favorite great ape, the gorilla. Gorillas make a great addition to any scene in a comic strip or single panel cartoon. Happy drawing!
There's no need to shell out tons of money to wear the latest jewelry trend. Craft your own bohemian, indie-cool jewelry by checking out this DIY video.
Gross out your friends, or just have fun playing with some goo! You can make your own slime at home easily. All you need is some corn flour and water. Add food coloring if you really want to make it cool!
Remember when you were a wee little kid and you used to spend entire afternoons staging epic wars between your T-Rex action figure and the rest of the dinosaur kingdom, making them go "Rawr!" at every lash?
Before you embark on folding this cool empty-centered origami modular ball, be warned: This is not for the butterfingers or beginner origami students among us. With a multitude of sides and a delicate balance of paper that keeps the ball from collapsing in on itself, this is one origami project that should be attempted carefully.
This how-to video shows what you need to know in order to tether your MetroPCS android smart phone. Follow the steps and use your phone's wifi with your laptop. This is a cool new feature and you should check it out.
Ever wonder what happens when you put a bar of Ivory soap (the soap that floats!) in a microwave for a few minutes? This science experiment shows what happens when water molecules in a bar of Ivory get nuked! Try it!
Mmm, free beer. Win some with this coin stack trick! Can you move the coins so that the silver coin ends up second from the top? Yes you can if you watch this video and see how it's done. Cool!
Fishtail braids are like the grown-up, far more sophisticated older sisters of regular braids. Whereas regular braids are chunky, thick, and usually not seen much outside of an elementary school playground, fishtail braids have a bohemian quality that makes them cool and sexy.