Here's how to place grass into your diorama scenery. These tactics may be familiar to model train builders, but there are endless fibers that can create texture for miniature landscapes. Make grass for dioramas, Warhammer, architectural models and other miniatures.
All that stands in your way is Isenberg, the leader of NEVEC, and his tricked out Mech. Here's a tip from G4TV on how to beat the final boss in Lost Planet.
Here's an expert guide for making a mojito. You'll need lime, brown sugar, crushed ice, mint, white rum, and soda water. Watch this video specialty drink-mixing tutorial and learn how to make a lovely Cuban mojito cocktail.
Strawberry season means it's strawberry shortcake time. Here's an easy strawberry shortcake recipe that is sure to please. Watch this how to video to learn how to make a delicious strawberry shortcake with angel food cake mix.
Egg yolk mixed with your egg white? Bits of shell in your egg yolk? Here's an efficient and nearly foolproof way to separate whole eggs. With an added bonus...you get to play with your food! Watch this how to video to learn a great way to separate eggs.
Here’s a nifty little trick that will have you wowing the crowd not once but twice in the very same routine. You will need a deck of red-backed cards, one blue-backed card, the ability to perform the Hindu Shuffle, and double lift skills. Watch this video magic tutorial shows how to perform a great card finding and color change card trick.
Here's a short explanation of how to get a funky strummed guitar sequence from scratch in FL Studio.
Thoreau said, “Water is the only drink for a wise man.” Here’s how to purify yours when you’re out in the wild. To purify water, you will need a camp stove or campfire, water purifier, water purification tablets, and a container to collect the clean water. Learn how to make safe drinking water while camping or out in nature by watching this video nature safety tutorial.
Here's a creative control that let's you decide what will be in focus when shooting with your Nikon digital SLR. Watch this photography tutorial video to learn how to use Aperture Priority Mode on your Nikon D80 camera.
Lost the jewel case for one of your CDs or making a mix-CD as a gift? Don't let that CD get scratched. Here's a real simple method to fold a quick and easy case for any stray CD. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to make your own today!
Here's how to grab video off of a DVD and import it into the timeline of Sony Vegas or Sony Movie Studio video editing program.
The Olsen twins have a distinct makeup look. Some have ventured to call it "cocaine chic." Here's a tutorial on how you can emulate that makeup look without the nose candy.
Got a mystery to solve? Somebody’s been making off with your stuff, and you don’t have a clue who it is, do you? Here’s your chance to catch them in the act. In this how to video you will learn to make a DIY laser security system.
Watch this how to video to get tips and techniques for preparing artichokes. Don't get all choked up, learn to cook artichokes like the the Culinary Institute of America pros.
Here's a an easy to make, dollar store DIY spy microphone that lets you listen from afar and bring the sounds up close. From Make Magazine Volume 14
Wondering how you'll look with a piercing? Wanna find out without actually having to use a needle? Here's how to create the illusion of having a pierced nose without the pain
Imagine if you had to wear a fur coat all summer long. Here’s how to keep your pets comfortably cool. Never leave a pet in a parked car or more might happen than them getting overheated. This is an interesting tip: leave some fur in your backyard to deter deer, which carry ticks.
Are you in the market for a new television? Before you pull out your credit card, we'll help you sort through the lingo, from HDTV to LCD, and find the best television to fit your needs.
The process is a little more complicated than the older Samsung UMPCs, but if you're game, here's how to take the device apart and upgrade the RAM
Here's how to make the eyes in any picture pop in Adobe Photoshop in under 60 seconds.
If your CD or DVD player has become sluggish or is skipping, you may need to clean the lens. Here’s how. You will need a Phillip's Head Screwdriver.
White balance is vital for well composed and colored photos. Here's how to adjust the white balance on Fujifilm digital cameras, demonstrated with an Expodisc.
White balance is vital for well composed and colored photos. Here's how to adjust the white balance on the Canon EOS digital camera, demonstrated with an Expodisc.
Here's the quick way to learn how to perform the wudhu (ablution), the act of washing oneself religiously.
Here's a tutorial that shows how to model a speaker that reacts to a specific sound file. You need Cinema 4D and MoGraph for this interactive project.
You kept putting off reading the book, now the test is tomorrow and you haven’t even cracked the cover! Here’s how to pass anyway.
You know what they say, when you have straight hair, you want curly and vice-versa. I have wavy hair, so I crave curly AND straight. Here's a simple and inexpensive way to curl your hair. No curling iron or hot rollers needed. Your hair is less damaged and more healthy looking.
Here's a video tutorial from Needle 'n Thread for the double herringbone stitch, which is a variation of the herringbone stitch. Just like the regular herringbone, this stitch can be used as a decorative band or edging.
The chain stitch is perhaps one of the most common stitches in hand embroidery. By itself, it's pretty versatile. Add all the variations, and you can do just about anything with the chain stitch! Here's the alternating or checkered chain stitch. Watch this video from Needle 'n Thread to see how it's done.
Here's a video tutorial for the seed stitch used in hand embroidery. This is a very simple filling technique! Seed stitch looks great when it's worked either in a uniform pattern (as it is in the video) or when it's worked randomly. Watch this video from Needle 'n Thread to see how it's done.
Have you been on a "Safari" that you'd rather not let others find out about? Stop living in fear. Here's how to cover your tracks.
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?
If you're a heavy gmail user here's a handy way to sort your incoming emails from spam with a little known trick from Tekzilla.
Annoyed by the way all your video thumbnails look the same in Cover Flow? Well here's a handy tip to make em stand out from each other.
Saffron rice looks and smell very delicious, watch this how to video as Manjula shows you how to prepare it.
Here's a flasher to origami, when the thing is opened it should close automatically. It's really awesome looking.
Here's a slower version of how to origami the omega star.
Here's a somewhat difficult origami project invented by Katrin Shumakov, knock yourself out by making this box for your bonsai.
Need some new threads? Here's how to find secret/hidden outfits using easter eggs in Grand Theft Auto 4 (GTA IV).
Finally, here's a quick tutorial on how you can mix your own homemade mixing medium! It's quick, easy and inexpensive. The challenge is finding glycerin, but its out there.
