Not sure what to do with that left over streamer paper from a party? Why not save it until Valentine's Day and fashion a bouquet of paper roses out of it? This tutorial will show you how to take that flimsy, colorful party paper and create cute, homemade flowers from it.
One of the easiest and cheapest ways to craft jewelry is out of paper! In this tutorial, learn how to make fun bracelets and necklaces with paper 'beads'. This eco-friendly project is best for kids that are a little bit older, and can be worn by anyone!
Nick from Greyscale Gorilla teaches you how to use audio files in After Effects. MP3 compression can cause problems so it's good to convert to a more edit-friendly format such as AIFF.
Solar lights are a great way to light up your garden. They are both inexpensive and eco-friendly, relying on solar power instead of electricity. In this short video, Mark Donovan of HomeAdditionPlus.com shows you how to set up solar lights.
Renewable fashion is a part of living a green and eco-friendly lifestyle. Instead of getting rid of old clothes and going out to buy something new, recycle things you don't like anymore into something you can use. This fashion how-to video shows a way of revamping a t-shirt into a hand, carry-it-all tote bag. Follow along with the steps and get started on a fun wardrobe recycling project.
Join Molly de Vries and pick up some new holiday tricks with a green conscience. She shows us how to make a festive fabric garland from attractive scraps, then shows a furoshiki fabric gift wrapping technique. Molly is a sustainable textiles maven and creator of Ambatalia "The Fabric Society." Learn how to wrap gifts the furoshiki method.
Happy Halloween! Learn how to put together a budget friendly, quick, and easy gypsy costume for Halloween! Hopefully this may help out as a "last resort" costume for some of you. Regardless, a gypsy makes a super cute and easy costume. Hope you all have a great Halloween!
Learn how to play Wyclef Jean's "Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill)" on the ukulele with this free video lesson, which covers chords as well as strumming patterns. While this lesson assumes at least some chords knowledge, it's beginner friendly and easy to follow. For more information, and to get started playing Wyclef's "Sweetest Girl" on your own ukulele, take a look!
Water saving isn't just eco-friendly, it's economical. Gardens, pretty as they are, can be a big drain on your water supply. Watch this video home improvement tutorial and learn how to save water at home.
In this video cooking lesson Angie uses a slow cooker to turn pork shoulder into tender taco meat. This cooking how-to video is part of Easy Meals, Good Deals show hosted by Angie Ketterman. Watch as Angie takes on the challenge to create 10 dishes that save you time and money. You'll love the results, quick and budget-friendly recipes. Try this inexpensive dish of slow cooker pork tacos.
Watch as Angie makes an inexpensive chicken corn chowder that feeds a crowd. This cooking how-to video is part of Easy Meals, Good Deals show hosted by Angie Ketterman. Follow along as she takes on the challenge to create dishes that save you time and money. You'll love the results quick and budget-friendly recipes. Make a hearty corn chowder for dinner tonight.
Is your Bosch oven on the blink? In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to replace a fan oven element in a typical Bosch cooker. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions on the repair process, watch this friendly how-to.
Is your Cannon oven on the blink? In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to replace a fan oven element in a typical Cannon cooker. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions on the repair process, watch this friendly how-to.
Zeitgeist is a German word that literally translates to something like "spirit of the times." In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to use Google Zeitgeist, which gives you a snapshot of what other people are searching for on the web. For a complete walkthrough, watch this friendly tutorial.
Learn how to create Use Case UML diagrams using with the user-friendly Altova UModel UML modeling tool. In this video tutorial, you'll explore some of the UModel diagramming features in a Use Case diagram.
Watch this instructional origami video to fold an origami Cicada. This friendly origami bug is a fairly easy origami project and only takes a few minutes to fold. While there are many versions of the traditional origami cicada, this model only misses it's signature buzzing noise to come to life.
Chef Desireé and the kids make sushi rolls out of rice, nori seaweed paper, crab, cucumber, cilantro, and avocado. This video cooking tutorial will teach you how to easily prepare sushi at home. It's so easy, and is even a kid-friendly cooking project.
Classy Craft Quickies are video tutorials for cards that can be made in 10 minutes or less. This step by step guide features a masculine themed birthday card. Watch this instructional video and learn how to make a man-friendly greeting or birthday card that can be sent to anyone wary of overly cutesy cards.
This tutorial video will teach you how to apply a face paint job in the design of a tiger. This face paint design is kid friendly and absolutely grrrrreat! Tony the tiger would be proud.
In this video tutorial, Scott Golightly shows how to create an ASP.NET HttpModule to “rewrite” the URL when a request for a web page comes in. You may want to rewrite URLs to create friendly URLs or to direct an old URL to a new URL. We will look at the code needed to implement URL rewriting and also how to handle page post back events.
These paper design projects make perfect kid's activities, or an activity for the whole family. These eco-friendly ornaments are made from recycled scrap strips. When you're done, you can hang them to decorate your home!
Now here's a bar of hand soap you can literally shake hands with. One things for certain; your house guests can't possibly miss it in the powder room. For heaven's sake! Why put out all those cutesy little guest soaps when you can put out a friendly, giant size hand?
Today's word is "amicable". This is an adjective which means friendly or peaceful.
Vamp it up for the holidays with this gorgeous party-friendly step-by-step look, created specifically for all of our glam friends by our one and only go-to-glamour-guy Hank Hoffman.
This dressing is so easy to make, just throw all the ingredients into a food processor and you're done! Try this creamy curry dressing on chicken or your favorite salad, it is eco friendly too.
Watch this video to learn how easy it is to clean your bathroom with natural eco-friendly ingredients. Use baking soda, vinegar and lemon to leave your bathroom squeaky clean.
Watch this video to learn how to make a posh pom-pom from an old sewing pattern. It's an easy & original embellishment for a package, and since it's made from a previously used item it's eco-friendly.
SEO specialist Aaron Wall demonstrates some on the page search engine optimization techniques that will help your site rank better in Google's search results. The key is to improve your site's SEO while keeping it user friendly.
Ryan and Thomas aged 13 and 9 demonstrate how easy it is to install an E85 ethanol FlexFuel conversion kit in to a vehicle. This converter kit is a Full Flex Gold and will allow the car to run on E85, Gas, or any mixture of the two. Full Flex Gold is the only EPA compliant kit available and makes your car more fuel efficient and environment friendly.
Android's permission system doles out access to certain system-level functions. Without it, our favorite apps wouldn't be able to perform their most basic operations. Picture a camera app that didn't have permission to access your camera sensor—now that wouldn't be much fun at all.
Want an electric car without the price tag? You could always build your own, or maybe just hack your old gas guzzler into an eco-friendly electric machine... This weekend at Defcon, security consultant David Brown showed off his "Voltswagon" project, a 1974 Beetle named Shocky that he converted to electric for only $6,000. He removed the old combustion engine, radiator, and a few other unneeded parts to make it lighter. Then he loaded it with batteries front and back, ten Interstate DC-29, 12...
Preserving the environment is not only the right thing to do—it can result in significant cost savings for your business.
When protecting your garden, you can stay green with some environmentally sound solutions. You Will Need
Here is a fun afternoon project that will add a little fare to your dogs wardrobe. Instead of buying your next dog collar, try making one out of an old belt. Some say dogs look like their owners and now they can dress like them too.
Now available for download in the official App Store, Skyfire is a mobile web browser that converts Flash video to iPhone-friendly HTML5 on the fly. Because Apple has heretofore not supported Flash video, that's kind of a big deal! In this iPhone owner's guide, we learn how to use and navigate the various features of functions of the Skyfire smart browser. For all of the details, and to get started watching Flash video clips on your own iPhone 4, 3G or 3GS, iPad, iPod Touch or other iOS devic...
Cosplay-friendly conventions are going through a sort of renaissance right now. AnimeExpo, ComiCon, A-Kon, PAX. All over the country people are dressing up as anime characters and furry animals and filling exhibition halls to mingle. If you want to have a really badass costume, you're going to need the right materials. In this video, a semi-professional costume-maker will walk you through the materials you need to make a great fursuit or other elaborate costume and where to get them.
It's really easy to take lazy route and purchase fire starters at a grocery or hardware store to aid you in creating campfires, but storebought fire starters tend to have massive amounts of environment polluting chemicals and toxins that you probably shouldn't be anywhere near.
The alluring and stylish GiannyL is the DIY fashion design guru of the web. Do-it-yourself has never been so sexy before. Her fashion design video tutorials make new outfits not only hot, but cheap and easy. And recycling and reusing old clothing is not only practical, but eco-friendly.
The alluring and stylish GiannyL is the DIY fashion design guru of the web. Do-it-yourself has never been so sexy before. Her fashion design video tutorials make new outfits not only hot, but cheap and easy. And recycling and reusing old clothing is not only practical, but eco-friendly.
Standing on thin is not perhaps the smartest thing to do during the winter, but miniature tableaus of cute chubby animals standing amongst evergreen trees on a layer of ice are just genius!
