Archive for January, 2009
Sony Vegas Tutorial: How to Get Widescreen/HD Quality w/ YT and Batch Render
This tutorial covers how to use Sony Vegas 8 Pro (will work with Vegas 7 and prior as well) to achieve the settings needed to take advantage of the new YT HD support and how to do batch rendering.
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Best Super Bowl Snacks from Lifehacker Readers’ [What You Said]
Earlier this week, we asked you what snacks you’re indulgingin this Super Bowl Sunday, and now we’re back with a few of our favorite gridiron recipes of the bunch.
Snack Food Stadium
It’s by far the most decadent snack option suggested, but the weblog Holy Taco’s Snack Food Stadium—made from ingridients including guacamole, sausages, twinkies, cheese, [...]
Sony Vegas Tutorial - Update: How to Render in HD for Youtube with Xvid and Divx
This is an update to my tutorial on how to achieve HD settings with Vegas using Windows Media Video. This update covers getting the same results using the DivX and Xvid codecs. These render in about 50-60% less time than WMV.
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DIY Beauty Dish Enhances Your Portraits [Photography]
Beauty dishes are great flash modifiers for portrait photographs, but even a cheap model will set you back at least $100. Skip it—a surprisingly effective DIY beauty dish costs less than $20.
The F-Stops Here photography blog posts a project by David Tejada that combines a plastic salad bowl, en empty CD spindle, a plastic downspout [...]
Adopt a Word to Save it From Extinction [Language]
Save the Words is a website dedicated to keeping underused English language words in the dictionary. Pick an underused word and pledge to save it from extinction.
Lexicographers analyze the frequency of word usage in popular culture and media to decide which new words will go into the dictionary, but they also track the falling [...]
Two Days Left to Cast Your Bloggies Vote [Announcements]
Wanna show your love for the weblogs that get you through the day? You’ve got two days left to vote for your favorites in the 2009 Bloggies—where we’ve been nominated for the Best Computer or Technology Weblog.
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Build a Papercraft Cubee [Fun]
Cubeecraft has dozens of Cubees, or block-shaped characters made from folded paper, modeled after pop culture icons as old as the 1960s-era Batman, and as recent as President Barack Obama.
Armed with a printer, some paper (the heavier the better), and one of the many templates at Cubeecraft, you can fold icons from nearly any [...]
Super Bowl Party Tips for Non-Football Fans [Super Bowl]
Just because you’re not a football fan doesn’t mean you can’t have a great time this Sunday. Here are some simple strategies for enjoying the Big Game when you’re not a big fan.
Photo by Saquan Simpson.
Don’t sweat your lacking knowledge: You might be worried that you don’t know don’t anything about football and that [...]
Super Bowl Party Tips for Non-Football Fans [Sports]
Just because you’re not a football fan doesn’t mean you can’t have a great time this Sunday. Here are some simple strategies for enjoying the Big Game when you’re not a big fan.
Photo by Saquan Simpson.
Don’t sweat your lacking knowledge: You might be worried that you don’t know don’t anything about football and that [...]
Happy Birthday, Lifehacker: Our Best Posts from 2005 to 2009 [Lifehacker Birthday]
The first Lifehacker post hit the tubes four years ago today. Since then, we’ve published thousands of tips, tricks, guides, and tools to streamline your life. Here’s a brief history of Lifehacker, 2005 to 2009.
Below, we’ve taken a look back at all of our posts from 2005 to present and pulled out the five most [...]
