How To: Do frontside crooked grinds on the skateboard
This nifty tutorial will show you how to pull off a frontside crooked grind on the skateboard.
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How To: Make a cut-paper portrait
Learn how to make a cut-paper portrait by taping an image to a paper, cutting out the silhouette, cutting out the details, checking your progress, cutting off the tape, making some final touch-ups, and placing and gluing the image.
How To: Use a pressure washer to clean asphalt roof shingles
Ask the Builder host, Tim Carter, walks you through how to use a pressure washer to clean moss, lichen, and algae off your roof without damaging the shingles of your home.
How To: Prepare your child for ski school
Skiing lessons are a great way to start your children off on the slopes. Parents TV will show you what clothes and equipment they'll need, and what you can expect from the ski instructor. Check out this informative video to get the most up to date tips.
How To: Pass the test when you haven’t read the book
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.
How To: Heel toe downshift when racing
This video shows you how to heel toe when downshifting. This racing technique can be applied to daily driving, but practice off the streets first.
How To: Make a battery that runs off water
Make a homemade battery out of things laying around the house. It may not be the strongest thing around, but hey, that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it.
How To: Make parfait sea salts & soap
An ideal favor for parties or showers. Layers of colorful sea salt in a plastic champagne glass topped off with a layer of soap. A few sprinkles of colored salt and a bath oil bead add the final finishing touches. An ideal favor for baby or wedding showers. An easy soap making craft for kids.
How To: Make a miniature volcano model
This video shows you how to make an extremely realistic, miniature volcano. You can get the Ammonium Dichromate off of eBay for around $10 a pound; a pound will easily yield over 25 volcano demonstrations. This easy DIY pyrotechnic demo will amaze any audience. Don't you just love chemistry?
How To: Fix a leaking tap
Watch this step-by-step guide to replacing a washing and fixing a dripping tap. First, turn off the water supply of the tap.
How To: Solve sudoku by slicing and dicing
This is a video guide that demonstrates the basic technique used in solving sudoku puzzles. The technique is called slicing and dicing. Not that helpful with more difficult puzzles, but it's good to start off with.
How To: Use a pawn breakthrough technique in chess
This is a breakthrough technique that covers how to get a pawn to pass when 3 pawns square off against 3 pawns. If you ever get into this, remember these hints to get a queen out of it.
How To: Pronounce the word "procrastinate" in English
Today's word is "procrastinate". This is a verb which means to put off doing something, often out of laziness.
How To: Master the whip finish knot for fly fishing
Here, we'll demonstrate how to finish off your fly with a whip finish knot. Next, you'll be fishing in the gloomy waters of your hometown, sipping a beer, and relaxing. Catching fish? Well, that's up to you.
How To: Solve a Rubik's Cube, when you just can't solve it
This video shows you how to get out of weird situation at the end steps of the Rubik's Cube solving process. Watch this to figure out how to finish it before you end up just taking the stickers off and satisfying yourself the wrong way, the cheater's way.
How To: Learn the basics of loom knitting
This video demonstrates the basics of loom knitting: knit stitch, purl stitch, twisted knit stitch, and basic bind off. Watch and learn.
How To: Organize your office
Office organization is that task we all know we need to do but always put off. Well, you'll be buying office organization supplies once you see what Meghan Carter discovered during her interview with the organization experts at White Space, a Chicago-area organization firm. Your desk will never be the same.
How To: Rinse colored short dark hair before styling
In this episode, Michael shows how to rinse the color off the hair, and then shampoo (using a mild shampoo as you've just colored the hair) and condition it. Don't forget to rub the scalp gently as a massage to help remove the color from staining the skin.
How To: Make chocolate lava cake
The dessert for this particular event was to be individual chocolate cakes, but someone took them out of the ovens to soon and the centers where not cooked enough and still liquefied. Well, there was no time to take them off the plates and cook them more, so the Chef simply had his wait staff introduce the dessert as Chocolate “Lava” Cake! Brilliant!
How To: Drive in the mud (the right way & the wrong way)
Land Rover Magazine journalist, Mark Saville, gets some expert off-road driving instruction from Ed Cobley about how to tackle various muddy conditions.
How To: Fake a severed finger with bubble gum
Here is an easy and cheap way to fake a realistic finger partially cut off. Just need bubble gum and makeup. Very good tip to scare your friends or just make an evil prank.
How To: Refinish a wooden propeller for an airplane
Learn how to refinish a wooden propeller for an airplane and repair small nicks using epoxy. Watch how to sand to prepare for the epoxy. (Afraid the epoxy will flow off? Learn how to keep it in place!) Be careful not to sneeze . . .
How To: Make fake tears with Vapor Rub
Making fake tears by staring off into the distance can take a while. Here is a quick way to get the water works rolling. Don't get it in your eyes though.
How To: Make a solar-powered plastic bottle toy car
Watch and learn how to make this awesome DIY toy car that runs off solar power. This makeshift mini-vehicle is made from a plastic bottle, small motor, tires, supports and a solar panel. See if you can replicate this interesting solar toy, or see if you can come up with a better and cheaper design!
How To: Perform the Shut Egg bar trick
The best is that you can shut an egg between two shot glasses without touching the two shot glasses with your hands. Learn how to pull this bar trick off.
How To: Photoshop a photo realistic ice cream bar
This week, Bert shows off his new Wacom Cintiq tablet and learn how to create a photo realistic ice cream bar.
How To: Do a side flip correctly
This video shows you how to do a side flip. With a breakdown of each movement, you should be able to pull it off.
How To: Go off road on hills with a Jeep 4x4
Tips and techniques for traversing hills. These videos are using Jeep Wranglers to demonstrate. Stay safe with these excellent tutorials.
How To: Drive off road on gravel roads with a 4x4
This video shows you how to drive on gravel roads with a 4WD vehicle.
How To: Do a super bounce trick on Zanzibar on Halo 2
In this Halo 2 trick tutorial you will learn how to do a super bounce at Zanzibar. Its pretty simple, but we top it off with a showdown at the end.
How To: Prank the mouse click buttons
This is actually a really easy and fun prank to pull off. What it does is simply switch the right click on your mouse, to the left click, and switch the left click, to the right click. Confused yet? Follow these simple instructions to test it out yourself, and enjoy your victims reactions when they get this prank pulled on them, trust me, it's funny!
How To: Replace the LCD screen on a Nokia 6280 cell phone
This video shows how to take off the top part of the housing and replace the LCD Screen and put it back together.
How To: Pull a bathroom stink bomb prank
Prank a bathroom by rigging the toilet with a powerful stink bomb that'll go off when someone closes the lid. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Cut out hair in Photoshop
Removing/adjusting any odd shape in Photoshop is a pain in the ass. But it probably doesn't get more complicated than cutting out hair. Whether you need to trim a bit off that fro or just want to fix your hairstyle, check out this Photoshop tutorial to learn how to cut your hair using layer styles.
How To: Practice a yoga arm balance sequence
Sadie Nardini teaches an arm balance sequence for any level to help you learn the foundation of all arm balances and then an advanced series of poses that branch off of the root.
How To: Make a trip wire alarm
Want a heads up next time that annoyingly chirpy coworker is heading over for some annoyingly chirpy chitchat? Rig up this little system and you’ll never be caught off-guard again.
How To: Cook a T-bone steak
16oz of absolute perfection topped off with a few healthy bits on the side to make you feel less guilty! It just doesn't get any better than this recipe for T-bone steak!
How To: Create a flip book
Doodles are fun, but turn them into a flipbook and they spring to life on the page—your flower blooms, your rocketship blasts off, or, if your doodles are a little on the primitive side, sure: your stick figure walks.
How To: Avoid bothering your neighbors with your loud music
Too loud, it is never too loud, or is it? First off, if you play it too loud you are going to loose some of the sound and drive your neighbors crazy. In this video I will show you how to set up your speakers for the best sound and you won't have to turn it up so loud.
How To: Burp a baby
Whether nursing or taking a bottle, babies tend to suck in air as they eat. Burping helps them get the bubbles out—and heads off little tummy aches at the pass.