Posts Tagged ‘diy’

If the kitty litter bucket set didn’t tickle your fancy, perhaps this pair of more normal-looking toolbox saddlebags will inspire you to add some storage to the sides of your bike or motorcycle. They’re cheap, easy to attach, offer a lot of storage, and look good at the same time. More »

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Add a Pair of Toolbox Saddlebags to Your Bike or Motorcycle on the Cheap [DIY]

When you’re drilling holes, it’s incredibly easy to drill deeper than you need to if you’re not paying enough attention. Home improvement show host Ron Hazelton suggests wrapping your bit in copper wire as a temporary depth gauge. More »

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Wrap a Drill Bit in Copper Wire or Tape to Prevent Over-Drilling [Clever Uses]

Cardiologist Dr. Clyde Yancy has compiled a list of the seven main lifestyle changes that lead to a longer-than-average lifespan, and while they’re mostly common sense, it’s compelling to be reminded of just how much of a difference the right changes can make. In this case, Yancy claims that adapting all of the strategies can add a decade or more of healthy years to the average lifespan. More »

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The Seven Lifestyle Changes That Can Add a Decade to Your Life [Health]

You’ve likely heard that body language accounts for up to 55% of how we communicate, but reading non-verbal cues isn’t just about broad strokes. The same gesture can indicate a number of different things depending on context. In this post, we’re going to take a look at three common situations in which non-verbal cues are especially important—detecting lies, going on a date, and interviewing for a job—then explain how to interpret body language more accurately so that you can read between the lines when a person’s words aren’t necessarily conveying the way that they honestly feel. More »

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How to Read Body Language to Reveal the Underlying Truth in Almost Any Situation [Communication]

Even if you’re fully decked out in reflective coating, riding a bike at night can be a dangerous thing, which is why Instructable user NEIN decided to rig up a simple system to add blinking turn signals to his bicycle. More »

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Add Turn Signals to Your Bicycle For Less Than $40 [Video]

Admiral James Stockdale was held as a prisoner of war for eight years during the Vietnam War and was tortured in excess of twenty times by his captors. He was able to withstand all of this without losing his mind by employing two seemingly contradictory views: faith that he would prevail in the end no matter the difficulty and facing that he must confront the worst aspects of his current reality. More »

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Utilize the Stockdale Paradox to Help Achieve Personal Growth [Brain Hacks]

Like to make Sesame Chicken, Kung Pao Chicken, or any number of other Chinese-American dishes that involve little pieces of fried chicken? Save a few steps by buying chicken nuggets from Popeyes, Zaxbys, Bojangles, or any other chicken restaurant instead of breading and frying your own chicken. More »

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Make Easy Chinese-American Entrees with Fast Food Chicken Nuggets [Kitchen Hacks]

If you don’t want to give out your real email address to register for a site and don’t want to go through the hassle of creating a spam email address, just point your browser to Guerrilla Mail; upon loading the page you’ll have an automatically assigned email address from the domain sharklasers.com that is good for one hour. More »

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Get a Free One-Hour Email Address with Guerrilla Mail [Email]

If you buy large sacks of flour, oats, or rice at warehouse clubs you should be on guard for weevils. Weevils are small beetles that feed on whole and processed grains, nuts, and seeds. Commodity grains are often treated with diatomaceous earth to kill the pests, which works well but can’t get all of them. An easy way to surely kill any potential weevils in your foods is to freeze the the entire package for two days. More »

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Freeze Grains to Avoid Weevils [Pest Control]

If you love mushrooms, growing delicious oyster mushrooms in your fridge is an easy if not quick process. You’ll need a fresh Oyster mushroom with it’s woody base still attached, sterilized sawdust (pet cedar shavings), a few handfuls of straw, and common household items such as paper bags, 1-gallon freezer bags, and hydrogen peroxide. The entire process will take six months to result in free mushrooms, but your total time and cost investment is minimal.

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Grow Oyster Mushrooms in Your Fridge [Video]

Having your toothbrushes, razors, and other bathroom tools strewn about your sink can get pretty messy, not to mention keep things wet and gross. This simple magnetic hanger will keep everything mounted on your wall for a cleaner look. More »

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Magnetic Toothbrush Holder Cleanly Mounts Your Toiletries for Easy Access [DIY]

Instructables user flaming_pele devised this motorized secret entrance for Halloween 2010, but it’s still just as relevant now. More »

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A Motorized Secret Entrance For Halloween (Or Any Time) [Video]

If your laptop’s integrated graphics just aren’t cutting it for the games you want to play, you can actually connect a desktop graphics card to your ExpressCard slot with an external dock. More »

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Crank Up Your Laptop’s Gaming Power with an External Video Card Dock [DIY]

It’s that’s time again for pumpkin carving, and the food experts at Serious Eats have some great tips for creating your masterpiece, including this one for what to do if your carved pumpkin starts to shrivel: give it an ice water bath. More »

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Revive a Pumpkin with an Ice Bath (and Other Pumpkin Carving Tricks) [Halloween]

While perhaps not the most appetizing option, if your food strainer has gone missing and you need an alternative according to Instructables user Carleyy you can use pantyhose: More »

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Use Pantyhose as a Food Strainer in a Pinch [Clever Uses]

Among the big enhancements to iOS 5 is Apple’s new iCloud suite, which keeps your mail, contacts, calendars, documents, and other data stored in the cloud and synced to all your Apple devices. Most people currently use Google services for these features, so we played with iCloud for a few days and looked at how they stacked up against one another. Here’s what we found. More »

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Should I Switch to iCloud From Google? [Lifehacker Showdown]

Every day we’re on the lookout for ways to make your work easier and your life better, but Lifehacker readers are smart, insightful folks with all kinds of expertise to share, and we want to give everyone regular access to that exceptional hive mind. Help Yourself is a daily thread where readers can ask and answer questions about tech, productivity, life hacks, and whatever else you need help with. More »

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Ask and Answer Questions About Flying [Help Yourself]

A major part of how I cut my electric bill by a third* was swapping out old incandescent light bulbs to CFLs, which use less energy and last longer. On paper, the CFLs are better in every way, but apparently, Unpluggd says there are some times when you shouldn’t use them. More »

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When Should You Not Use a Energy-Saving CFL Bulb? [Energy Savings]

Mac OS X is blessed (or perhaps plagued) with more to-do apps than you could ever use. Our favorite is Wunderlist thanks to its solid set of features, syncing capabilities, cross-platform compatibility, and $0 price tag. More »

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The Best To-Do App for Mac OS X [Mac App Directory]

Many people like to bring paint samples into a home to make sure the color will work properly, but frugal living blog Apartment Therapy suggests it might not be enough and you should leave them on the wall for several days before painting. More »

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Leave Paint Samples on the Wall for Several Days to Help Pick the Perfect Color [Home Improvement]

If you’re getting ready to put the barbecue grill away for winter, organization blog Unclutterer suggests leaving the baked-on crust intact on the grill to keep it from rusting. More »

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Hold Off From Cleaning Your Barbecue Grill Until Spring [Grilling]

iOS: Adobe has released an iOS version of its popular PDF reader for iOS as a universal app for both iPad and iPhone. More »

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Adobe Reader for iOS Now Available [Ios Downloads]

If you spend any time on video at your desk, either video chatting with friends or recording work you may be doing so you can show other people, you know it can be difficult to get a camera in position while you work with your hands. This hack gives you a jig perfect for a web cam or a phone to keep it still and in one place while you’re recording. More »

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Use a Cheap IKEA Lamp to Build an Affordable Desktop Camera Jig [Ikea Hacks]

Most bike shops recommend that you purchase mechanical bicycle chain cleaners or pay their repair shop to clean dirty chains, but you can clean a chain simply and inexpensively using a wide mouth bottle, any degreasing dish soap, and a chain tool to break and rejoin the chain. More »

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Clean a Bicycle Chain without Special Cleaning Tools [Bicycle]

If you need a wall-mounted bedside lamp you can easily hack one together using an Ikea $1.99 Rationell Variera plastic bag dispenser by adding a cheap lamp socket and a piece of translucent plastic from a binder. More »

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Hack an Ikea Bag Organizer into a Bedside Lamp for $5 [Ikea Hacks]