How To: Use a HVLP cup gun to stain concrete
Watch this video to learn the proper function and use of the HVLP (high volume low pressure) cup gun tool. This is used for staining concrete surfaces to create vibrant colors and intricate designs.
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How To: Make samurai armor and a ninja death star
Adam shows you how to make samurai armor and a ninja death star for filmmakers on a low budget. You'll need spray paint, cardboard, scissors, and masking tape.
How To: Make a stop motion person from junk
Adam shows you how to make a stop motion person for stop motion filmmakers on a low budget. You'll need small shoes, duct tape *(who would have guessed), white tack, metal wire, cardboard, and a little bit of clothes.
How To: Use open C tuning on guitar
Herbert Midgley,the Internet Legend, teaches how to using Open C Tuning on Guitar. From low to high string tuning is
How To: Perform a defensive slide drill
Learn how to move correctly and quickly while playing defense on the low post.
How To: Use noise textures with Sony Vegas
This advanced Vegas tutorial (versions 7 or higher) shows you how to use noise textures. You should have a good understanding of Sony Vegas and the interface to follow along since the clarity is low - verbal explainations do get you through it.
How To: Practice four player rebounding basketball drills
Learn how to practice rebounds and low post play with this great 2 on 2 basketball drill. For this drill you want to use guards, and teach them to crash from the outside.
How To: Practice rebounding one on one basketball drills
Learn a great 2 player drill for practicing rebounds and low post play - the rebounding one-on-one drill.
How To: Microwave a baked potato
Healthy and low in calories, baked potatoes are easy to prepare if you have the right techniques. With this quick microwave recipe, you'll have your baked potato ready in no time! Watch the video and let us know what you think. Enjoy!
How To: Protecting shrubs and trees in winter
In the winter, the weather can be especially unpredictable. Ice, snow, low temperatures, and high winds can all play havoc on our trees and shrubs and these can be expensive losses. In a two part series, Allen Smith gives some tips on how to protect your garden.
How To: Prepare shrimp fried rice
Learn the steps for making an easy shrimp fried rice, including a trick for frying the egg in the middle of the ingredients. You will need cooked rice, frozen cooked shrimp, frozen baby peas, green onion, olive oil eggs and low sodium soy sauce. Fried rice can be made with any type of protein - enjoy making this Asian dish for your family!
How To: Automate web testing with PAMIE
This Pamie Demo shows how to setup, install and run a simple automation script. It shows you: how to install Pamie, how to create a Pamie test script to Automate a form using PythonWin IDE, how to write the script and how to run the test. The volume is really low so crank your speakers way up and make sure you have the proper Python and programs downloaded.
How To: Prepare baked acorn squash
Acorn squash is a delicious and filling low calorie vegetable. Learn how to choose, cut, and bake acorn squash. Ingredients needed are acorn squash, butter, brown sugar, maple syrup and a dash of salt.You can eat it right out of the shell, or spoon it out into a bowl. You can mash the squash with a fork right on the bowl and enjoy.
How To: Cook a low carb Chinese chicken and broccoli dish
Chef Franklin Becker starts with a diced boneless and skinless chicken breast with a mix of soy sauce, sesame oil and corn starch to set in refrigeration. After marinating he mixes broccoli with the chicken while cooking over a stove adding mushrooms and water for broth. The dish is seasoned with garlic, ginger and scallions.
How To: Make a diabetes friendly smoothie
Chef Chris Smith makes two different types of smoothies including a chocolate peanut butter and a berry smoothie usng berries, soy milk, tofu, banana extract and fiber fruit smoothie. Both demonstrations are low carb smoothies.
How To: Make healthy, low calorie tortilla chips at home
This video shows us how to make tortilla crisps for a delicious snack. You will need some tortillas, cooking spray, Italian seasoning, garlic powder and onion powder.
News: Dream Home...ummm...for Trolls and Treehuggers
This low impact woodland home in Wales is the cream of the crop. The woodland home was built entirely of natural materials, and best of all - only took 4 months and $5000 to complete.
How To: Easily decorate your home using outdoor urns
Decorating a space can be a time consuming and frustrating experience for any homeowner or decorator. But once everything comes together, it makes all the pain worth it. In this tutorial, you'll find out some helpful tips for decorating the outside of your home using outdoor urns. So check it out and good luck!
News: Formufit Structural PVC
I'm new here, but wanted to add formufit to the list of links on your cork board. They are solely sellers of structural PVC items, used to build greenhouses and such. I am currently building some outdoor PVC furniture as the weather here in Missouri has destroyed our previous 'durable store bought' furniture. I saw some other resources on here, but I just bought a slew of products from formufit.com and I thought I would share. I will post some photos of the completed furniture soon.
How To: Win at QuiBids Auctions—Which Might Just Mean Stay Away
If you're looking to acquire the newest iPod model or latest Xbox without breaking the bank, your first stop would probably be eBay, maybe even the Amazon Marketplace, or any of the other reputable online marketplaces and auction sites. But you probably haven't hit up the penny auctions yet, and that could be a good thing, depending on how you go about it.
How to Hack Netflix: Free DVDs and Money Saving Tips
I remember a time when I had to rent a VHS from the local video rental store. It wasn't all that bad, with the only real annoyances being the trip to and fro, having to rewind the movie and the possible malfunction of my VHS player, which liked to eat tape from time to time.
News: Call to Artists, Embracing Our Differences® - Deadline January 10, 2011
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News: Bocas Del Toro House and Land For Sale
Through our friends at Azucar Surf we found this lovely surf house for sale. This house is for sale by owner Michael Lawson. This is what he has to say about it:
How To: Make magical handheld fireballs (that won't burn) with common household items
Don't get burned playing with fire——know how to play with it right, just like those crazy magicians do when it comes to magical fireballs that you can hold in your hand. You can juggle them, too, but you need to know the secret to making them safely.
How To: Create an adorable floral formal teen bun
Little girls are always in a rush to look just like their mommies. Just think pint-sized fashionistas like Suri Cruz and Courtney Cox's daughter Coco, who was recently caught by the paps wearing the same ruby lipstick as her mommy on a stroll. While we don't think that wearing makeup is all that age appropriate for a five year old, beautiful, youthful hairstyles are.
How To: Do the Wobble soul line dance
While we admit the Wobble isn't the most sophisticated name for a dance, in practice its actually very sexy and infinitely bootylicious. If you've ever seen a Beyonce music video - or really any R&B/hip hop video with girls in booty shorts and low-cut tank tops - then you've witnessed the glory of the Wobble. Part Hustle and part gyrating, this dance will not only make you look like a goddess, but will also help sculpt your midsection and lower body into tightened perfection.
How To: Make a top-down twin-stick shooter in LittleBigPlanet 2
The top-down twin-stick shooter has become a fixture of low-budget gaming since Geometry Wars showed the world what the genre could be. LittleBigPlanet 2 contains all the tools to make one, as it does with most types of games, and this three-part video series will take you step-by-step through the creation process for an awesome zombie TDTSS (top-down twin-stick shooter).
How To: Get an achievement and avatar awards on Monday Night Combat
If you're looking for a great game, but at a low price check out the Xbox Live Arcade section for a great list of games. One of the more popular and talked about games is Monday Night Combat. It's a third person shooter game that features different classes like Team Fortress 2. It's a fun addicting game that is sure to attract many gamers.
How To: Create a sultry Eva Mendes makeup look with bronzy eyes
Firstly, looking like modern screen siren Eva Mendes requires confidence. Lots of confidence. The stunner has posed nearly nude for Calvin Klein and doesn't flinch at wearing extremely form-fitting, low cut frocks at red carpet events. Plus, the girl loves having fun with her makeup.
How To: Cook absolutely perfect Italian risotto
In this video, we learn how to cook absolutely perfect Italian risotto. To start, you should not rinse the rice that you are using. Also, make sure you are using a wide and low pot to let the liquid evaporate evenly. The dish should be prepared according to the seasons, so you have the most fresh spices and vegetables available. Butter and olive oil are traditional to start this dish and should be used to sautŽ the garlic or onions, making sure not to brown either of them. The sixty seconds w...
How To: Make a double-barrel sawed-off shotgun prop
Using guns in low-budget films is tough. You probably can't afford a real gun or a replica can you? Especially for more specialized guns. Fortunately, this video has the solution. It will show you how to make a really realistic sawed-off shotgun prop for cheap. You will need some carpentry skills and tools, but the gun looks so cool that even if you don't have those things now, you should probably invest in them. You'll be able to use them to make more props later anyway.
How To: Make Green Modifications to Your Toilet to Save Water
Toilets are one of the greatest boons to public health of all time, but they do use a ton of water when they flush. If the old adage "If it's yellow, stay mellow. If it's brown, flush it down," disgusts you, but you still want to find a more green way to flush, then watch this video. I will show you how to modify your toilet at home, making it use less water without sacrificing flushing efficiency. Don't waste money on a low-flow toilet or destroy the planet. Watch this video.
How To: Gift Wrap Using Recycled Materials with Threadbanger
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to gift wrap using recycled material. The materials need for this project are: a potato, large paper bag, tape, ribbon and paint. Begin by cutting the potato in half and draw a simple shape onto the sliced surface of the potato. Then cut out the negative part of the shape with a knife. Now open the bottom of the paper bag and cut down the side so that it lays flat. Then brush some paint onto the potato stamp and press it down along the paper to form a...
How To: Clarify butter
In order to make Clarified Butter, you will need the following: butter, a saucepan, knife, measuring cups, and a spoon.
How To: Model a guitar using 3DS Max
For beginners, learning the intricacies of modeling 3D art can seem insurmountable. This video for 3D beginners is here to help you through it. Its four parts are a detailed and slow walkthrough for making low poly BC Rich guitar with splines using 3D Studio Max, a popular 3D modeling program.
How To: Use Adobe After Effects CS4 to prepare HD videos
Adobe After Effects is powerful but difficult-to-use video editing tool. Youtube is a massive index of videos, most of which are low-quality and poorly edited. This video tutorial teaches you how to combine the two effectively by using After Effects CS4 to prepare HD videos for uploading to Youtube. It also includes other tricks like how to make a moving log as part of your video. Uploading HD quality videos will make your channel stand out and get more views.
How To: Play lead guitar licks like Angus Young from AC/DC
Angus Young of AC/DC is one of the true icons of rock guitar, both for his style on stage and for his amazingly simple but awesome-sounding blues rock licks. This video teaches you how to play six very cool such licks on electric guitar (did you think you were going to play Angus on acoustic? Come on.) quickly and easily. It breaks the licks down at low speed so that you can practice, practice, practice them until, even as a novice guitar player, you end up shredding just like the legend hims...
How To: Make a duct tape backpack
Are you a regular backpack user? Do you tire of that generic Jansport look that seems to be all your low backpack-budget will buy you? Do you want to rock something a bit more distinctive without breaking the bank? Do you like duct tape? Then look no further! This 2-part video provides wonderfully detailed instructions for making a full-sized backpack out of only 45 yards of duct tape! A must for the DIY-happy student-about-town.