Internet famous pumpkin carver Ray Villafane recently nabbed the world record for carving the world's largest pumpkin. Inhabitat attended the carving event, held at the New York Botanical Garden, and captured some great photos. The pumpkin weighs in at 1818.5 pounds!
Red Frog Bungalows Eco-Ocean Resort is the only resort in Bocas specializing in all ocean activities. Surfing in Bocas Del Toro is world class. We have the largest selection of new longboards, short boards and we have added 4 new Stand up Paddle boards to our quiver. We are the first and only resort to offer Stand-up Paddle surfing in Bocas
A hearty, warming, Italian pasta dish which will satisfy even the largest of appetites. Taste this Baked Cannelloni recipe. Make baked cannelloni.
Android devices are becoming more and more popular with each passing day, so why is it that Google has yet to design a software program that allows users to manage their music and video libraries on their computers? Apple's iTunes offers iPhone users an easy way to control their media files, as well as effortless syncing capabilities. But where's the option for Android smartphones? Is there no easy way to synchronize your media library with your DROID?
Browsing and displaying your music library on the iPad is a cinch with Apple's iPod app. But by no means would it be considered exciting. Thankfully, there's another option for sorting and playing your iTunes library. It's a unique iPad-only application for those of us who want something more visually stimulating, something otherworldly—something galactic.
Yesterday, the much anticipated iOS 6.1 jailbreak was released. With the wide array of Cydia apps that are newly available to jailbroken iPhones came an unpleasant surprise—evasi0n causes the built-in iOS Weather app to crash over and over.
Boston.com's The Big Picture posts 2009's most amazing Guinness World Record holders. My favorite fanatics below.
This Adobe CS4 tutorial shows you how to create menus in Encore CS4. Learn how to use predesigned menus or the assets that come with the Library to create menus in Encore CS4. You will also learn how to import menus from Photoshop. Make menus in Encore CS4.
Two new and radically different ARGs (Alternate Reality Games) have burst into the news in the last week, and illustrate the very best of an innovative phenomenon: the commercial tie-in ARG, and the public service ARG.
Via WonderHowTo World, Zine Fiends: "Looking for a good source of information on how to pick a lock?
Learn the many ways to find and preview just the right frame in Frame It. Frame It is one of the tools available in the Essentials 2 plug-in for iPhoto. This tutorial covers using the Frame Library and the Frame Grid within Frame It to find the perfect frame for your iPhoto images. Find frames in Frame It Essentials plugin for iPhoto.
Stu Maschwitz, creator of Magic Bullet and veteran visual effects artist, demonstrates the tools within the finishing app Magic Bullet Looks within After Effects. Watch and learn how to build a look from scratch or apply a look from a library of presets available withing Magic Bullet and then apply the look to your footage in After Effects. Use the Magic Bullet Looks plugin in After Effects.
This video explains how to import a certain song into your iPod Shuffle through iTunes. It demonstrates how to connect your iPod to a computer, open iTunes, find the song in your library, and drag it onto the iPod icon. Import specific songs into your iPod Shuffle.
This video shows how to make the volume the same for all the songs in your iTunes library. To do this, just go the the preferences menu in iTunes, click the playback tab, and check the sound enhancer box. Make volume levels consistent for iTunes songs.
In this video tutorial you will learn to edit symbols in Macromedia Flash. Please note that if you modify a symbol stored in your library, all the instances of that symbol will be changed too. An example of changes you could perform is to modifiy a fill color and stroke appearance. Edit symbols in Flash.
This video shows you how to use the Color Guide panel in Illustrator CS3 to find, create, and save color groups. Learn how to save time using the new variation grid and by limiting color selections to a specific library. Check out this cool video by Brenda Sutherland now! Use the Color Guide in Illustrator CS3.
Feel that chilly draft coming through your doors and windows? It might not be as difficult or costly to solve as you might think!
You may not do it in public, and you might not admit to it among your friends, but you do it. We all do it... sing. We sing when we're alone in our cars, at home when no one's listening, and when we've had a little too much to drink and don't care anymore, all inhibitions aside. We love to croon and belt out lyrics to our favorite songs because it makes us feel good, no matter how good or how awful we are, or how well we know the words. Well... now you can at least be proud of one of those th...
At Google I/O this morning, Google finally announced the launch of its much awaited Google Music service. It's currently in invite-only beta mode, but they claim it will open up to the masses soon enough. To start syncing your music library with Google's Cloud now, you need make sure you're signed into your Google Account, then click here for a personal invite. It's currently free for a limited, undisclosed amount time.
Calling all curious minds—scientists, anthropologists, relentless tourists: Saturday, April 9th, is International Obscura Day, the day to "explore hidden treasures in your hometown," or so says Atlas Obscura, a website dedicated to public curiosities and esoterica. If you're the kind of person who appreciates public oddities every day of the year, tomorrow is icing on the cake. Celebrate Obscura Day in one of hundreds of locales—from Los Angeles to Sydney, from Berlin to Manila.
Back in Backtrack5 there was a nice GUI addon for the aircrack suite called feedingbottle. I liked it because it simplified easy tasks like fake auth with a click of a button. I was hunting for sources and it seems that all I could find was an ubuntu deb package from 2013. It was a little tricky installing it on a 64-bit system so I thought I would write a quick how to. Feedingbottle is an x86 package so you must install the corresponding libraries. If they are missing you will get a "bash:.....
This past spring, British TV show Fifth Gear aired stuntman Steve Truglia performing a Hot Wheels inspired feat. The daredevil completed the world's largest 360° loop-the-loop. Death was a definite risk.
Picture this ... a 200ft diving board with Preston Lacy standing on top. Looking into the water below.... looking quite shallow now. Preston leaps off, flying through the air, stretching out as he approaches the water.... BM. BELLY FLOP. as he emerges from the water he sports the reddest belly anyone as ever seen in their lives. Steve-O goes next comparing the red belly results.
Gorillas are 400 lbs and 6 feet tall. They are the largest primates and the silver back, the dominant male is known to become aggressive if confronted. It begins with chest thumping and then a charge. If it charges you should crouch down. Don't run or chest thump.Your body language communicates that you are not aggressing the animal. Survive a silver back gorilla encounter.
iTunes is one of the best music programs out there. You will need this program to use an iPod or download anything from the iTunes Music Store.
jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
You don't need a Kindle or a library card to read! Reading stimulates the brain, exercises the emotions, and you may actually learn something too! :)
I believe that this picture characterizes my struggle to get things done in the college situation. With so much input currently being presented to us, how do we get through it all? The world does not stand still while we try to do this, so we have to use a bottom up approach to get things done.
Follow this link to find PDF downloads on the following: "The Zinester's Guide to US Mail", "How To Pick What Zine Library to Donate To", "Zines 101: A Quick Guide to Zine Making", "Bringing Zines to the Community", & more.
There's something undeniably naughty about upcycling your boyfriend's old tie into a thong. Japanese site Panty Hanty offers a library of free sewing patterns in the art of underwear-making.
Papercraft website, AXM Paper Space Scale Models, offers a whole library of incredibly detailed, realistic space shuttle paper models. Some free, some pay. Perfect weekend activity for the outer space lovin' geek.
For most, anatomy dissections stopped at the frog. We can all experience med school cadaver picking thanks to an excellent library of videos published by the University of Wisconsion. No MCAT's required.
Granted the iPhone is an awesome phone... but their choice for default ringtones kind of, well, stinks. They have plenty of apps you can BUY to PURCHASE ringtones... but why waste money when you can make an unlimited amount of ringtones yourself forFREE? At first glance, it looks complicated and confusing, but I'll break it down so simply, you'll be making ringtones for everyone in iTunes.
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to sync to an iPod or iPhone. Begin by connect the device to your computer using the provided cable. If connected for the first time, an assistant guides you through the setup and registration process. During setup, you will give your device a name and choose which items to automatically save. Make sure that your device is selected in the iTunes window and click on the Music, Video or Photos tab. Then simply select an entire library or specific file t...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to create playlists in iTunes. Begin by clicking on the + button at the bottom of the program window. An untitled playlist will appear. Name the playlist. To add a song to the playlist, drag a song from your library into the playlist. Users are able to add as much songs as they wish. To view the songs in the playlist, click on the playlist. Users are also able to rearrange the song order by dragging songs up or down. This video will benefit those view...
It’s not looking good for the Spanish banking system. Standard & Poor’s just slashed the credit ratings of five banks and said the country is headed into a double-dip recession. One of them, Bankia, just asked the government for 19 billion euros in aid - a roughly $23.8 billion boost.
With more and more vehicle owners simply deciding refuse to pay red light camera and speed camera tickets, private, for-profit companies and municipalities are growing increasingly desperate. America’s second-largest city shut down its photo ticketing program last year largely because residents who could not afford the $500 citations did not pay them. On Monday, Las Cruces, New Mexico announced it would shut off the utilities of city residents who refused to pay Redflex Traffic Systems, the A...
Truly spectacular and one the most breathtaking DIY endeavors to grace the front page of WonderHowTo, a recreation of Pixar's UP house was launched to an altitude of 10,000 feet in a private airfield near Los Angeles this past week. The project was executed by a team of engineers, scientists and veteran balloon pilots—(meaning, please, Do Not Try This at Home).
Artist Jim Denevan works on a massive scale. He's "painted" the northern beaches of California, and etched away at the Nevada desert.
Gotta be the silliest PR stunt I've heard of in a long time... but, still...DIAMOND(!) sprinkles. ROX (Scottish diamond and jewelry chain) have paired with Cupcake Glasgow to create the world's most expensive cupcake, sprinkled with 100,000 British pounds worth of sparkling diamonds.
