HowTo: Make a 50¢ Macro Lens
Forget splurging on a fancy digital camera. All you need to do is attach a lens from a pair of dollar store reading glasses, and you'll get your macro shot. From Sean Lee, how to make a fifty cent macro lens.
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News: PatternFile Organization Software
I love this software. It's currently in development by a friend of mine, and is a great utility to keep all your patterns organized. Tag them, note where they're stored and included a brief description or sewing notes. The best part is that new features are being added all the time!
News: Getting the best deal on Laminate Flooring
Getting the best deal on laminate flooring can take a little time to research all the choices on the market these days. The two basic choices you have these days are buying online or buying in your local market. Online merchants don't tend to carry the high overhead cost as your local flooring store. There are pros and cons when buying your laminate flooring from either place.
How To: Recycle.
Go to nearest popular grocery store like stop and shop, c town etc. and put plastic bottle and cans to get money and help environment!
News: Sweatshop Free Clothing in L.A.!
There is no need for sweatshops! They exist because the greedy people on top cannot get enough of profit. Here are some stores in Los Angeles where you can shop without feeling guilty. Shop with a conscience. Boycott sweatshop companies. Join the movement!
News: thesubstream.com's TIFF 2010 Preview!
Check out what we've got in store for you over the next few weeks as the Toronto International Film Festival descends upon Hogtown!
HowTo: Make a Flashlight That Will Last Forever
That's right, no batteries required. Ever. Instructables user brunoip demonstrates how to make a flashlight that uses a "small stepper motor to generate energy and many capacitors for keep it stored for several seconds".
News: trust fall
This is simple, Yet fun to get random people reactions. Just go through a city, town, store, yelling out trust fall and falling backwards at people to see if they will catch you. Go up to peoples cars and do it while they are in idle or stopped at a stoplight.
News: Best Buy copy iTunes - launch movie download site
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Top electronics chain Best Buy will launch this month its planned online service CinemaNow that allows consumers to buy, rent and download movies and television shows.
News: Interactive AR on a cereal box
In a store near you! Well maybe not yet, but you can bet that it will be soon.
News: Farm Your Manga
Hmm, what to do with all those old comic books lying around... How about a little Manga farming?
Do-It-Yourself: Bookshelf Rafters
Apartment Therapy posts this neat, space-saving idea for bookshelf rafters. No explicit HowTo, but pretty self-evident.
How To: Change the osCommerce default window title in cPanel X
This tutorial shows you how to change the default window title name from osCommerce to whatever your store name is using cPanel X. Change the osCommerce default window title in cPanel X.
How To: 11 Awesome Uses for Paint Chips
Paint chips, small cards that show different colors from paint manufacturers, can be picked up for free at your local hardware store to help you decide what color you want to paint your living space. They can also be used for a number of crafty DIY projects, such as making your own drink coasters, gift tags, bookmarks, and more.
News: Steampunk Art Doll
Hi, great site - I'm especially inspired by the post on items available at the hardware store. I've used some here in my doll goggles. Mandy at artofdolls.net
Whistleblower: NSA Analyzing Conversations in Real Time
The National Security Agency is storing all electronic communications and analyzing them in real time, according to former NSA employee turned whistleblower William Binney, who warns that the federal agency has a Google-style capability to search all conversations for keywords. » Whistleblower: NSA Analyzing Conversations In Real Time.
News: Bug Salad
Make some kind of food then add nasty things like bugs to it then give it to people at a store then when the take a bit it will taste nasty and it will have crunch stuff in it .
News: Walmart Intercom Interception
Go into a Walmart and find one of the intercom phones.
Holiday HowTo: Colored Flaming Pine Cones
These little babies are meant to be tossed into the fireplace, adding some color to your festive holiday hearth. However, you can do whatever you want with them... Get creative. WonderHowTo sure loves explosives.
News: DIY Super Fancy Potato Chips
Luxirare, my very favorite, over-the-top, superfluous (in the best possible sense) recipe blog. We've witnessed the Pie-On-a-Stick, and marveled the beautiful Jell-O shots. Now Luxirare demonstrates how to make some exceedingly fancy potato chips. These aren't your typical store bought snacks.
How To: Make homemade beef stock from scratch
Does store bought beef stock turn your stomach. This is a recipe for home made stock that has many uses, these bones are used in French onion soup. Make homemade beef stock from scratch.
How To: Mix a Hurricane Cocktail
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How To: Cook a homestyle clam chowder with quahogs or large cherrystones
Sure, you've probably eaten New England clam chowder plenty of times, straight from the can on your local grocery store's shelf. But that's no way to eat a chowder. You have to make it fresh and homemade, right in your own kitchen. The best chowders are made with the freshest ingredients and patience. Jasper White shares his recipe from "The Summer Shack Cookbook", for what is truly a classic homestyle clam chowder. How does he makes it without a thickener? Watch and learn from a master.
How To: Stop Facebook's Facial Recognition Software from Automatically Tagging You in Photos
It seems like nowadays, whenever Facebook rolls out a new feature, it's immediately controversial. Social Ads put your name and face in the spotlight, Instant Personalization shared your information with partner sites, third-party apps were allowed to access your home address and phone number, and now Tag Suggestions implement facial recognition software to automatically identify your friends in uploaded photos. Most are calling it problematic or creepy, some insinuate CIA involvement, and it...
How To: Make Chocolate Covered Pretzels
In the mood for chocolate pretzels? They're easy to make. Get Your Supplies
How To: Make Homemade Egg Rolls
I had a party last week and I made my homemade egg rolls and rice. They all loved them, so I wanted to share the recipe with everyone.
How To: Create a great seasonal infusion of blueberry gin
Infusions make some of the best drinks, especially when made with fruit like blueberries. And gin and blueberries are a perfect match, which is great with tonic water or other drinks.
How To: Get Downloaded Music Playlist Files (M3U or M3U8) to Work with Your Media Player
A playlist is simply a list of songs which can be played in sequential or shuffled/random order. Many people tailor-make playlists to suit a particular style of music or atmosphere, so being able to share these between people is great.
How To: Make Coasters with Scrabble Tiles
Make your own personalized coasters using Scrabble tiles! You design them, so they can say anything you want them to! Pick a theme and make a set or make each coaster completely different from the rest.
News: Hector Martin's Alternate DCPU-16 Proposal Would Allow for a Better C Compiler
The developer community has already made some incredibly quick progress on implementing assemblers, interpreters, and emulators for the proposed virtual computer in 0x10c, Notch's latest game. But the truth is that the majority of programmers out there couldn't be bothered with spending enormous amounts of time writing anything much more complicated than a "hello world" application in assembly. What's on the top of everybody's mind is creating a compiler for a more widely used language.
Making Electromagnetic Weapons: Flashlamp Lasers
In my second article of the laser weapon series (see the first part here on CO2 lasers), I'll be expanding on the potential of pulsed lasers.
How To: Keep Your Computer Organized in Windows 7
At some point, we all go from organized to disorganized. Let's assume you are a business executive working in a busy corporate building. Chances are you are going to get a heavy workload and it will impact how clean your workspace is. However, this article is about keeping your desktop clean and clutter free, along with the use of software to find documents you have misplaced.
How to Make a Jacob's Ladder: Chained Lightning
In this article, I'll show you how to create a simple yet accurate demonstration of the "rising ionized gas" principle. In other words, a transformer, two metal prongs and lots of evil laughter. Remember those large "towers" in the background of Frankenstein movies with a "lightning bolt" rising upwards every few seconds? That's called a Jacob's Ladder; one of the coolest awe-inspiring demonstrations of high voltage. Here's a video of the final product: Materials and Tools
How To: Encrypt Your Sensitive Files Using TrueCrypt
Hello and welcome to another InfoSecurity World tutorial. The intent of this article is to teach one how to encrypt sensitive files. When set up correctly with a strong password, it would be almost impossible to hack. Even the FBI have had issues decrypting this software. I'm here to teach you how to create a general encrypted container—not the complex hidden TrueCrypt volume.
News: CloudOn Is Back, Plus 4 More iPad Apps for Working with Microsoft Office Docs
A few days ago, CloudOn released their free mobile app that brought Microsoft Office directly to your Apple iPad. The cloud-based service effectively runs Office on their end, allowing you to use apps like Word and PowerPoint to edit your documents, which you would house in Dropbox. But after overwhelming demand, they removed the free app yesterday from the iTunes App Store.
News: 5 Cell Phone Photography Apps to Help You Ring in the New Year
It's almost time for the new year and whether or not you believe that the world is coming to an end in 2012, you'll probably still want to document the momentous occasions that are to come. Here are five different types of photography apps that are available for both the iPhone and Android that will aid in capturing that moment when the clock strikes midnight, as well as many more to ollow throughout the year!
News: 500 Scrabble Tiles and Miranda July, Craigslist Reseller
What happens when a struggling writer cannot finish the screenplay to her second film? She writes a book.
Rainbow Tables: How to Create & Use Them to Crack Passwords
More password cracking action from Null Byte! Today we aren't going to be cracking passwords per se, rather, we are going to learn the basics of generating rainbow tables and how to use them. First, let's go over how passwords are stored and recovered.
How To: Remove a Windows Password with a Linux Live CD
Back when I was a Windows user, I know I'm not the only one who has experienced password loss—that moment where you just can't remember your password. Sometimes it happens to the best of us. So, how can we get into the system without paying a local geek or geeksquad to do it? First, we have to look into how Windows stores their passwords.
How To: Make an Unbreakable Linux Password Using a SHA-2 Hash Algorithm
In Linux, all password hashes are normally stored using the MD5 hashing algorithm in the /etc/shadow file, but MD5 is algorithmically weak due to collision vulnerabilities. The new recommended standard are the higher level SHA-2 hashing algorithms, SHA256 or SHA512. As a friend pointed out to me, Ubuntu is currently the only distro implementing SHA-2 as the default. With SHA-2, your passwords take an unreasonably larger amount of time to calculate. This will greatly decrease how many password...