Archive for February, 2009
Celebrate Open That Bottle Night [Wine]
Open That Bottle Night is a celebration invented by two wine connoisseurs sick of seeing people leave bottles to gather dust instead of enjoying a great vino. Liberate your wine from the cellar tonight!
Photo by Hans Vink.
This year is the tenth anniversary of Open That Bottle Night, created by Dorthy Gaiter and John Brecher of [...]
Build Your Own SATA Switch [Hardware]
If you’d like to keep your operating systems and disks completely separate without having to keep cracking open your case, creating your own hard drive switch might work for you.
Computer building and modification site Extreme Tech has a tutorial on making a basic selector switch for the power cables of your SATA drives. Why would [...]
Create Crazy Sound Effects with Household Objects [DIY]
If you’ve ever wanted to play at being a Foley artist for your own audio recordings, here’s a list of common household objects that can create tricky but believable sound effects. Photo by M. Keefe.
Sound designer David Filskov posts an interesting list of tricks he’s collected from other designers for turning common objects into audio [...]
Floorplanner Presents Your Plans in 3D [Web Apps]
Looking to re-arrange the stuff of your house or plan a dream room? Floorplanner is a web-based tool for planning rooms and furniture layouts using a simple but powerful editor.
We originally reviewed Floorplanner in 2007, but since then they’ve introduced some helpful new features. We originally dug it because of the easy drag-and-drop interface and [...]
Top 10 Tools for Your Blog or Web Site [Lifehacker Top 10]
Having your own hosted web domain has never been cheaper, or easier, with the vast array of free resources out there. Here are our ten favorite tools to help anyone launch and maintain their internet presence.
Photo by Jasison_Judd.
10. Control access to your pages with .htaccess Editor
You’re working on a project you want to show [...]
Make a Bulletin Board from Wine Corks [DIY]
Tonight is Open That Bottle Night, and we’ve got one more great reason to bust out the good (or just drinkable) red stuff—the leftover corks can make for a crafty note-catcher and paper organizer.
The Apartment Therapy home blog serves up the details on turning your used wine corks into a cool-looking bulletin board. The construction [...]
Production Tech Tips: 3D Camera Systems
Welcome to Production Tech Tips, a monthly video short focusing on the equipment being used and developed for the film, video, and online production world. Episode #3: 3D – Camera Systems Shooting 3D requires a different set of equipment. Wrap your mind around “the platform,” a piece of equipment that looks like a massive set [...]
How to Make an Exploding Confetti Cannon
Learn how to build this homemade confetti cannon. Watch it explode and shoot a shower of confetti! Great for parties, celebrations, weddings, concerts…. Link on www.kipkay.com for the Glow-Plugs.
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How to Add a Favicon - nice & easy
If I had a Big Mac for every favicon tutorial out there, I’d be dead. But hey, I needed one, and figured a video illustrating the process may come in handy, so here goes. Full notes & more guides @ http://guvnr.com
…bloggin’ ’bout a way wiser web.
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How to Install WordPress - fast & easy
So you wanna blog, huh? And you’ve looked at the options, and like WordPress. Me too. And you want the expandability & personalisation that a Wordpress standalone install gives, but are put off by the install process? Don’t be. In this video I’ll show you how simple it is, including that bit about connecting it [...]
