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Tired of seeing the Japanese shirt folding video on Digg or your favorite forum for the 9 milliontyth time? Well, now it’s time for the good ole’ western style shirt folding video! That’s right, you’re about to witness a high point in innovation and learn how to create your own shirt folding “machine” with a little cardboard, a box cutter and a little sweat.
Watch and learn how to make your own shirt folding machine after the jump..
Two parts home improvement, one part software development and all nerd, a 24 year old computer programmer who sometimes goes by the name MacGuyver decided he needed a dancefloor in his house. So he did what any self-respecting nerd would do, build it himself. From the carpentry to the coding of the light controller application (in .NET 2.0), everything in the tutorial was all done by “Mac” and thoroughly documented for us to enjoy. Now if only there were plans for a smoke machine, this party would be on.
Read more: Program and build your own dancefloor | USB controlled dance floor blog
Did I miss something? I knew the how-to was one of the most overused stories to get a blogger more linkbacks and rankings, but where did all these how-to video sites popup from? I’m not complaining really cause I love these sites and love learning new and often times useless tricks and DIY. Instructables and Video Jug are both extremely useful video sharing sites with a focus on how-tos and distribution of knowledge, one of the many great uses of this here internet thingy we’re filling up pipes with. Both are social internet services, allowing users to sign up, download, rate and create video how-tos and share them among their similarly DIY-addicted friends. Quick hint fellas, over at Video Jub there’s a how-to on the front page for giving yourself a testicular exam!
Read more: Instructables - Step-by-step Collaboration | Video Jug - Life Explained. On Film
We recently received a tip (thanks!) about ViewDo which is a site I can’t get enough of. ViewDo is a giant social video community, featuring hundreds upon hundreds of video tutorials on just about anything you could imagine, and if they don’t have it, you can request that another user create a video sharing their knowledge with you. Even cooler, all videos are downloadable in iPod and Playstation Portable formats. Just today I’ve learned how to make origami stars, how to break-dance, how to make an ethernet cable, tie a double windsor and throw a split-finger fastball. I’ve finally found a reason to actually use my PSP!
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If you’re like me or half of the vacationing world, you end up with 2 or 3 bags full of junk when travelling, especially on long holidays. But thanks to Doug Dyment, my next trip will be lightweight and hopefully a little less stressful when it comes to check-in time. Doug has created a travel how-to named One Bag, covering what he calls the art and science of travelling light. His site is full of useful tips and how-tos on travelling light for your next holiday or business trip, such as different ways of doing laundry while on your trip (it seems every smart traveller plans on doing laundry on their trip!?) or the most efficient ways of packing and bundling just about everything you could imagine. Bon voyage…
The lifehack community has posted a 16-step beginners guide to project management. A great summary for beginners, even going so far as to stress the importance on team commitment, happiness and enthusiasm level, a very important lesson for those beginning a career in project management/production. Click through to read the complete list.
16 Steps to a Finished Project
1. Determine the objective and specific desired outcome. Write it down.
2. Identify and organize the people who might be interested or are required in order to bring the project to completion. Ask them to participate, and comment on their level of enthusiasm or belief that the project can or will be successful.
3. Identify a project leader and coordinator, this should be accepted by all involved in the project. No consensus, keep trying.
4. Begin “brainstorming” and create scenarios on how to achieve the desired outcome (this may have be broken down into sub-tasks). Make a date when all this creative thinking will be finished and a written draft can be printed and shared.
5. Identify factors that influence or limit the project that are beyond your control (global economic forces, natural disasters, competition, etc.) and factors that are in your control (capital invested, personnel, prices, etc.). Identify the risks or warning flags that might surface. Write this down.
The current trend in green-living is reducing your consumption and usage of resources. One of the many ways that we can do that is by tweaking the power consumption of our portable devices, laptop computers especially. How you ask, enter the ever inspiring Guide to Green Living with a useful How-To on reducing the energy consumption of everyone’s favorite mobile computing device, the laptop. From lowing your screen’s brightness, to disabling the auto-saving feature on Word, there are several easy changes that you can do to lower the overall power consumption of your laptop’s battery, which in the end lowers the amount of time you’d need recharging.
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