News: Tough-As-Nails Tattoed Truckers Knit, Too
So why not join the party? (Oh, plus they also happen to quilt, as well). Via WSJ,
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News: Fake Cakes
The average cost of a wedding cake is $543, according to The Bridal Association of America. The more people you need to feed and the more elaborate you want your cake to be, the more it will cost you.
News: Glow-in-the-Dark Tattoos Hide During the Day, Come Out at Night
Want a tattoo that's daytime work-safe (invisible), but nighttime party-friendly (UV blacklight)? At first sight it may be hard to believe these tattoos are real, but in fact, they are. UV light tattoos are the perfect way to hide it from mom.
How To: Mount a Canon 5D Mark II on a Glidecam 4000 HD
Dave Williams from Lens Rentals demonstrates how to properly affix a Canon 5D Mark ii to a Glidecam's 4000 HD rig. Laying out all the included parts, he explains how to assemble and balance the rig with the camera attached. It's important to note that you'll need to rebalance the camera with each modification: lens, follow focus, filter, etc.
News: Humanoid Robots To Take Over the World
Don't worry, the robot apocalypse is not upon us...yet. Wired reports it may be closer than you think:
How To: There's a Satisfying Way to Remove Apps from Your Home Screen
If you're like me, you reorganize your home screen every few months. But instead of dragging the old icons and dropping them on that "Remove" button up top, there's a much faster, and quite frankly, more satisfying way to do it.
How To: Make an Easy No-Bake Watermelon Cake
When it is too hot to use an oven but you want to have a dessert for a summer party, you can very easily make your own no-bake cake out of watermelon, whipped cream, chopped almonds, and fresh fruit.
How To: Make Your Own Non-Synthetic Citronella Candles to Keep Mosquitoes Away Outdoors
To prevent mosquitos from bombing your next outdoor summer party, make your own DIY citronella candles using soy wax, glass mason jars, citronella oil, candle wicks, and a little superglue.
How To: Your Illustrated Guide to Different Types of Carbonated Water
Unless you're a bartender or a hardcore drink aficionado, understanding the different types of carbonated water and their best uses can get confusing. This is especially true since most people use the terms "club soda," "sparkling water," and "seltzer water" interchangeably when ordering drinks.
How To: 9 Nifty Ways to Use Washi Tape
If the letters on your laptop keyboard are faded or dirty, cover them with strips of washi tape. A high-quality, decorative tape made of rice paper based in Japan, washi tape is an extremely versatile craft tape known for its eye-pleasing decorative patterns and low-adhesive quality that makes it easy to unstick, reposition, and reuse again and again.
How To: 6 Useful Things You Can Do with Leftover, Undrinkable Red Wine
Too much leftover red wine after a big party? Rather than forcing yourself to drink everything before the flavor goes bad or pouring it down the drain, save some for non-drinking household and beauty uses, such as trapping fruit flies, marinating steak, and conditioning your skin.
How To: Enable "Unknown Sources" to Install Third-Party Apps (APK Files) on a Nexus 4 or Nexus 5
Here's one of those modding must-haves that's basic, yet easy enough to forget about. If you're going to install apps that don't live in the Google Play Store, like the Google Experience Launcher, the OnePlus One lock screen, or something that needs root privileges like the Xposed Framework, you need to turn on this setting.
How To: Make Spooky, Last-Minute Jack-O'-Lanterns for Halloween Without Any Pumpkins
Love carving jack-o'-lanterns but hate dealing with all the gunky pumpkin seeds afterward? There are plenty of no-carve ways to decorate a pumpkin for Halloween, but what if you're sick of the orange pumpkin aesthetic and still want to get your hands dirty carving something?
How To: 12 Innovative Ways to Reuse Plastic Cups
Don't add your plastic cup to the trash bin just yet. The sturdy plastic material of these ubiquitous containers makes them perfect to use as miniature DIY greenhouses for seedlings, smartphone sound amplifiers, Christmas ornament storage, and even packing material.
How To: Your Survival Guide for Awkward Holiday Gift-Giving Situations
In an ideal world, the art of gift-exchanging is a joyous, wonderful thing that makes both parties feel equally good. But as many of us already know, gift-giving is also an emotionally charged social minefield that can leave many of us feeling... awkward.
How To: Treat Yourself During the Holidays with These Tasty (And Tipsy) Christmas Marshmallows
'Tis the holiday season—a time for family and the best damn drunk uncle stories that you'll hear all year. Which is all the more reason to make these tasty little alcoholic treats... Spiked eggnog may be the more popular holiday vice, but these Baileys-infused homemade marshmallows from blogger Devon are looking to make a case for the top spot. Here's what you'll need to make these fluffy holiday party treats:
How To: Make a Christmas Cracker
If you have a bunch of spare toilet paper tubes lying around, you're in luck this holiday season. With wrapping paper, a couple trinkets, and a pack of cracker snaps, you can make your very own Christmas crackers.
How To: 10 Super-Practical Uses for Dishwashing Soap
Bored of using your bottle of dishwashing soap for just washing dishes? You're in luck. Not surprisingly, the soapy liquid commonly used for removing stubborn food build-up from your eating utensils can also be used as a general cleaner for washing windows, removing clothing and carpet stains, and cleaning your blender without taking it apart. For more unusual uses, dishwashing liquid is surprisingly useful for prepping your nails before a manicure and can even be used to kill fleas.
How To: Play Music Simultaneously on Your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch with the Seedio Loudspeaker App
It seems like Apple is always releasing something new, so there must be a lot of lonely iDevices out there going unused, right? With Seedio, you can make the most of your Apple products by connecting them to make one synchronized loudspeaker. As long as all the devices have the Seedio app installed, you can connect as many iPads, iPhones, and iPod touches as you want. All you need is a wireless connection. You can play music from anywhere: your library, YouTube, or the Web. It also works as a...
News: Party in Paris (Under the Biggest Disco Ball in the World)
Conceptual artist Michel de Broin has created the biggest disco ball the world has ever seen, which he suspended over Paris for one night.
News: Perform an awesome white boy Body Wave
Think white kids can't dance? Meet Jeff. This 17 year old from New Jersey can move.
News: Open Champagne with a sword
Obama's inauguration may have been Tuesday, but why not party to the weekend. Here's a lesson in the Napoleonic art of Champagne sabrage.
How To: walk and Hula Hoop
(Note: I am taking a chance. These Youtube embeds have been so tempermental since the Pakistan routing problem. Try hitting refresh if the video does not play through.)
How To: Get Your WordPress Blog Up and Running within Minutes
Getting your own blog is easier than what you can imagine. Thanks to WordPress. One need not be a techie to follow the steps mentioned below (though certain stages might require third-party advice).
How To: Make an airsoft party popper
Make your own airsoft party popper. Make an airsoft party popper.
Vidify: The Best Automatic Video Editor App for the iPhone
There’s a race on to see who'll be the Instagram of moving pictures. This makes sense, since many of our phones are clogged with video that, so far, no one is going to see. Wouldn’t it be great if there were a simple app that could take our video content, edit it for us, and then publish it to all of our networks?
News: 5 Deliciously Warm Bourbon-Spiked Holiday Cocktails
With those icy winter months setting in, it's time to start sipping your bourbon warm. Spike your classic eggnog, hot chocolate, and even lattes with a splash of Wild Turkey bourbon. Below, five recipes to add a little fire to your typical cold weather beverages. Adjust the recipes to get more servings, and you've got some great ideas for Christmas party favors.
News: Super Massive Video Games
Today we pay homage to a phenomenon. One as diffuse and amusing as the internet itself, and as pointless as dog Halloween costumes. I'm speaking, of course, of giant games.
News: My favorite superfoods
I remember once listening to a Christian comedian making fun of the way some Christians pride themselves on all the "evil" things they don't do.
News: FIX WINDOWS 7 SLOW STARTUP TIMES...
How to Fix Windows 7 Slow Start Up Is your Windows 7 slower on start up? Wondering how to make Windows 7 super fast? There are various reasons why this operating system performs slower but one common reason is that mostly it happens because of too many start up programs and services running in the background.
News: Apple iTravel to Eliminate Airport Torture
The folks over at Patently Apple have uncovered some very promising looking plans for a future iPhone app called iTravel. iTravel plans to cover ticket-buying, electronic check-in, car rentals, and possibly even Apple designed airport kiosks. Fingers crossed it comes out soon. Apple excels at making dummy-proof, intuitive, easy-as-pie user interfaces, and man, the airline travel process sure could use a little streamlining.
News: Scotch Whisky Tasting Notes
What better way to start off a blog about Scotch whiskies than to write about our first impressions of some of our favorites? These notes are from a Scotch tasting party we threw a while back. It was fairly simple: we made meat, we asked people to bring individual bottles, and we drank. And drank.
Protect Your Facebook Profile: 10 Ways to Increase Privacy
Don't want one of your Facebook "friends" knowing your status updates? Prefer to keep a few of those "friends" out of your photo albums? Would you like to prevent a few "friends" from accessing your address?
How To: Tell Whether a Credit Card Number Is Valid Just by Looking at It
Think credit card numbers are just a meaningless jumble of digits? A sort of number soup? Think again! Your credit card number isn't even number at all but rather a composite of four separate numbers, each of which plays an important, fixed role.
News: Bride$hare
What if you could plan your wedding twice as easily, on half the budget? How does the thought of saving some green - while being green - sound? If this kind of wedding planning is right up your aisle, then you're in the right spot!
How To: No-Nail Wall Art Ideas for Your Rented Apartment or Home
Just because you live in a rented space where you aren't allowed to nail stuff into the wall does not mean that your walls have to be completely bare for the rest of your rental agreement.
News: Surprise Party
Get Bam to come to a party for the Jackass 3 movie. When he gets to where the party is have him enter the location and be greeted by many non poisonous snakes and lock the door but only for a little. When you unlock the door and he comes out give him a nice doce of paint balls and for even a little more shock outside of the door have one of those mats when you step on it a very loud alarm goes off and fire crackers. (for even more amusement tell him its a black tie occasion and get him to wea...
News: Weaknesses in GameStop's Rewards System Produces Free Game Rentals… Even Cash
Yes, you read the title correctly. GameStop has problems, and if you're lax in morals, you can take advantage of them for free games and cash. I'm bringing you all yet another exclusive Null Byte that falls into the fascinating category of life hacking.
News: Friday Indie Game Review Roundup: Grand Theft Auto's Sci-Fi Genesis Granddad
Grand Theft Auto 3 was the biggest video game of the last decade, by far, introducing open-world adventure games to consoles, a genre that now rivals shooters and sports games for market dominance. A huge map, decentralized narrative, and myriad of interlocking quests and objectives that happen in a flexible order all became hallmarks of the "new" genre, along with the ability to shape the morality and reputation of your character. And most importantly, all of the quests and stories are compl...
Tera Online: Shortcomings
No game is perfect. Well maybe except for Super Mario Brothers 3. In the last two posts I've been praising Tera but it's not without its shortcomings.