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Antique silver requires different care than regular silver pieces. Learn some tips to keep your antique silver shining, including how to clean, polish, and store your silver.
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How To: Clean and polish antique silver
Antique silver requires different care than regular silver pieces. Learn some tips to keep your antique silver shining, including how to clean, polish, and store your silver.
How To: Make flavored homemade soy milk
Sure, you can buy it at the store, but homemade soy milk is not only easy, it's delicious. See how to turn a bag of uncooked soy beans into fresh soy milk. Flavor with orange, ginger, or vanilla.
How To: Make container candles
Many candle makers get their start making container candles - they are fun, pretty easy, and you can use any variety of containers to store them. See how to get started in container candle making.
How To: Reset a toilet
There are many reasons to remove a toilet and store it elsewhere. Maybe you want to paint the bathroom or re-tile the floor, or you've got house guests that just won't leave. Mag has some tips for you when it's time to put the old porcelain potty back on her moorings.
How To: Make a great ten buck television antenna
Make a great TV antenna for just ten dollars worth of items you can find in your home! This will make a better than average antenna to replace those expensive ones at the store.
How To: Buy chicken at the grocery store
In this lesson of grocery school, host Sarah East explains what to look for when buying chicken. Look for fresh, USDA Grade A chicken.
How To: Use Google sites to create & manage secure group sites
Google Sites makes it easy for anyone to create and manage simple, secure group websites. You can create and publish new pages with the click of a button, edit web pages like documents, and move content and pages around as you please. Information is stored securely online, and you decide who can edit or view the site. Google Sites is powerful enough for a company intranet, yet simple enough for a family website.
How To: Make a saturn pattern dessert presentation
Whether it's homemade or store bought, desserts are usually the grand finale to the end of the meal. Don't just place it on the plate. Learn how to make a presentation that will be almost as impressive as the dessert itself with this saturn pattern.
How To: Make Indian cabbage chana dal salad with Manjula
Learn to make this healthy summer brunch salad with Manjula. Cabbage chana dal salad is a colorful Indian salad that is make with cabbage, tomatoes, cucumber, carrot, mint leaves, and yellow chana dal(chana dal is the split version of kala chana, can be purchased from any Indian grocery store.
How To: Create better lighting for your film project
Xander and Calvin give some helpful tips on how to light your films and videos! You can use common household lamps or ones at the hardware store. Remember, safety, get some workgloves.
How To: Put your new home server to work
Use an old PC that has been setup as a server to perform helpful tasks such as backing up computers on your network, storing media files in a central location, share one printer with every computers computer in the house.
How To: Make a leveled camera holder for self recording
To record yourself from a distance with a video camera, build this. Not just for boring static shots, like using a tripod, but for moving shots that you can take along with you. Yes, now you can follow yourself around all day, taping every move, you narcissist.
How To: Make tentacle face costume makeup for cosplay
James St. James, author of Party Monster, teaches you how to make a tentacle face makeup prosthetics...out of cereal! Your host for the show is Lenora Claire. Perfect tutorial for those interested in cosplay. Use liquid latex, which you can get at any theatrical supply store.
How To: Build an igloo with a recycling bin
Improvised igloo building on the Vermillion Lakes outside Banff, Alberta, Canada, using a recycling bin, a toboggan and tools from the local hardware store.
How To: Insert video into a PowerPoint presentation
In this video, Ask the Techies explain: •How to insert video into a PowerPoint presentation on both Macs and PCs and how to avoid cross-platform snags. Using Photoshop’s extraction tool to extract a face out of one document and insert into another. •Gettings songs onto an iPod including using the iTunes music store and digital rights management.
How To: Test and inspect lead acid batteries
This two part video goes over the procedure for testing and inspecting lead acid batteries. A machine is required to test the battery itself. You can do the visual test at home, and then bring it to an auto parts store for the machine test part.
How To: Install a trailer wiring harness on a Chevy Aveo
If you want to pull a small trailer with the Chevy Aveo, you are going to need some wiring for the trailer lights. This video will demonstrate how easy it is to connect a modulite circuit protected wiring harness. Now, even though you don't have a truck, you can run to the hardware store to pick up supplies and it will be safe, convenient, and legal.
How To: Make a hand held jib
How to build a hand held jib out of easily obtained materials from a building supply store to make more interesting videos.
How To: Make magicians' wax and invisible thread
You need wooly nylon string and a candle. This is pretty easy and you can get these things at any fabric store.
How To: Temper and store chocolate
Jacques Torres explains why it's important to temper chocolate when you plan to use it in molds or candies and demonstrates how it's done.
How To: Cut your own veneer
Learn how to saw your veneer at home, rather than using store bought commercial veneer.
How To: Make mango dal
If you love mangos but go to the store and find them too unripe to purchase, buy them anyway and make mango dal! Mango dal is an Indian dish of unripe mangoes cooked with yellow lentil.
How To: Make Sweeney Todd Victorian trash costumes
This week, in celebration of Tim Burtons new movie Sweeney Todd, Thread Heads hangs out with the Oscar award winning costume designer, Colleen Atwood, in this instructional video. Plus we turn some neighborhood thrift store finds into some Sweeney Todd inspired Victorian trash outfits. This is one how-to video you won't want to miss.
How To: Freeze beans
Love to cook beans from scratch but hate to wait for them to soak? Well, sorry to say, you still have to soak them. But by soaking an extra-large batch in advance, then storing the pre-soaked beans in zip-top bags in the freezer, they'll be ready to cook at a moment's notice.
How To: Toast nuts
Toasting nuts really brings out their flavor, not to mention it gives them a delicious crunch. Spread nuts in an even layer on a rimmed baking sheet and bake in a 400-degree oven, watching them carefully so they don't burn, for 10 to 15 minutes. Cool and store in an airtight container for up to two weeks.
How To: Understand potential and kinetic energy in trebuchets
This video explains the science behind a trebuchet. The trebuchet is a medieval machine designed to throw objects at or into castles. This video explains that the gravitational potential energy stored in the raised counterweight is converted into kinetic energy in the projectile. Trebuchets make excellent science fair projects.
How To: Give yourself a facial with stuff from your fridge
Kate Somerville gives you the inside scoop on how to create her famous facial at home. The coolest part is everything you need you can get at the grocery store!
How To: Make homemade wonton crisps
Chef John tells us that he normally would avoid any in-home deep-frying, but as you’ll see in this clip, these go so fast, and we use such a small amount of oil that it’s actually quite fast and easy. Most grocery stores carry both round and square “wonton wrappers” or, as they are sometimes called, “wonton skins.”
How To: Create patterns with Adobe Photoshop pattern maker
Whether you need a repetitive background for Twitter or your Tumbler account, an attractive pattern is crucial for establishing your personal style and brand. And you don't have to resort to mass-distributed image software or online pictures to fill your walls with.
How To: Use the dodge tool in Adobe Photoshop
Are some of your most precious memories stored on pictures that look too dark? Brighten or highlight parts of your digital pictures using the Adobe Photoshop Dodge Tool.
How To: Pick out and cook artichokes
For years, Tom has avoided "creepy looking" artichokes. Thanks to Chef Paul and a grocery store visit, the cooking novice successfully confronts his fear by eating Sautéed Beef tenderloin tips with artichokes, tomatoes, mushrooms and kalijira rice and stuffed artichokes Le Jeune Chef. Tom hopes his steely display of courage will inspire others.
How To: Choose fresh fish
Part of the romancing you palate series, Patricia Fine goes to the store and gets some great tips on how to select and buy fresh fish.
How To: Buy a massage chair
Are you interested in buying a massage chair for your home or office?Massage chairs have built-in electric rollers, nodes, and air bags, all designed to emulate the fingers and hands of a massage therapist.
How To: Make tombstones for Halloween
Don't buy those expensive allready made tombstones at your local party store. We will help you with tips on where to buy your supplies and make your own tombstones for your holiday decorating. Its easy and a lot of fun.
News: Breathtaking "City of the Gods" by NEWDeStRoY1 Wins This Week's Minecraft Staff Choice Awards
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News: Hidden Redstone Treasures and Pixel Art Top This Week's Staff Choice Awards
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News: Winners of Minecraft World's Weekly Staff Choice Awards: Week 3
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News: Copycat Apple Stores Emerge in China (Don't Let Them Fool You!)
It's no secret that Apple has retail stores in China, along with a large amount of Premium and Authorized Resellers. But a recent post by blogger BirdAbroad has caused quite a commotion in the world of all things Apple, claiming that in her home city of Kunming, there is another breed of Apple Store locations... "Un"Authorized ones.
How To: Read, Write & Speak Foreign Languages Instantly with Help from Your Phone or Computer
Have you ever gotten into a taxi in a foreign country and had trouble expressing where you want to go? Or tried to ask a waiter what's in the dish you're eyeing on the menu? Perhaps you just want to know what's happening in another country, and the news outlets don't offer a translated edition.