DIY

Forget YouTube! Fliggo Helps You Make Your Own Video Site

by Austin Keenan

Maybe you're a casual video watcher, or maybe you spend your days vlogging, or maybe even you and your friends all make your own videos. Whatever the case, you'll definitely be interested in a new site that lets you build your very own social media web site. Fliggo makes creating your own video site a snap.

Bailout Your Sleep Debt with Yawnlog

by Austin Keenan

YawnLog is here to help you catch up on some much-deserved shut eye by tracking your sleeping patterns with a simple calendar-based formula. It's kinda like Twitter, but for catching Z's instead of micro-blogging about Obama's Congressional Address.

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A Do-It-Yourself Cat Bed: Ample Sample

by Lady Bee

Okay, I should have thought to do this cat bed myself, but I didn't. Portuguese designer, Helder L. Santos did, however; and I'm going to share his Ample Sample 2008 DIY project with you, with modified instructions. This cat bed is really easy to make!

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Flipping For An Upside Down Tomato Garden

by Must Love Gadgets

The Upside Down Tomato Garden is an invention that's about time in coming. After years of trying to grow tomatoes in the ground and humanely keeping the gophers and rabbits from destroying them, I'm flipping for this gadget.

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Urawaza: Time Tested Tips for Troubled Times

by Steve Levenstein

Thrifty is Nifty! Urawaza, Traditional Lifestyle Tips From Japan

Urawaza is Japanese for "clever lifestyle tips and tricks", and that's what this colorfully covered book by Lisa Katayama delivers in spades. What's more, the current financial crisis has made Urawaza's blend of folk wisdom and cheap fixes all that much more helpful.

Use Your Own Handwriting to Create Fonts with YourFonts.com

by Austin Keenan

Ever wish you had a font that was truly "you". Well, now you can!

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Cut The Hassle With Uncle Norman's 4-In-1 Pet Sponge

by Lady Bee

It's a hassle to bathe your pet at home, even if he's only teacup size. Not all dogs, and no cats that I know of, enjoy being bathed. Most of them don't just sit still while you wet, shampoo, rinse, rinse again, condition, rinse, etcetera. They squirm and cry and shudder, and make you believe yourself that you are wickedly mistreating them.

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Income Boosting Businesses Help You Sell Your Junk

by Beth Hodgson

Selling things you don't need can be a great way to boost your income when times get hard during this economic downturn. These businesses may not have been created with the recession in mind, but their unique existence sure comes in handy at a time like this. Read on and learn about how you can turn items lying around your household into money in your pocket.

Creating HTML Code From Text is a Breeze With FCKEditor

by Austin Keenan

We all know that coding can be tedious, but with FCKEditor you can convert any formatted text into HTML code with just a few clicks. On January 30, 2009, the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor's latest release hit the web, and we got a chance to give it a test run.

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Vertical Wind Turbine Could Be Successful

by Gloria Campos

Imagine spending your life savings on an invention you are sure will someday be successful, even if skeptics think it is impossible. It's pretty risky right? Well Adam Fuller from Racine, Wisconsin has done this very thing. He has spent his life savings designing an invention he believes in, a vertical wind turbine. Will it work?

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Decoupage Anyone? My Best Design Gift For Valentine's Day

by Toby

For Valentine's Day, Cardboard Safari has created a Heart Pattern Gift Box Puzzle and a Heart Pattern Wreath. While they are lovely as is, the heart puzzles make a super base for a decorate-it-yourself project. That you can paint, wrap, glitter, and paste-upon the puzzles while they are flat, make this DIY project an ideal one!

Volcano & Earthquake Kit Brings Back Memories Of Science Fairs and Rabbit's Feet

by John P. Barker

Remember the days of your youth when you had to compete in the annual science fair? I do. And this kit sparked a few recollections from my past--and why I never really liked science fairs...

Need A New Floor? Doodle-It-Yourself!

by Toby

If you're living with a floor you hate, but you don't want the mess of tearing it up, don't have the money to replace it, or you just want a temporary change, then you may like designer Olle Hemmendorff's idea of doodling one.

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Yikes! Kids Can Use Kit to Extract DNA!

by John P. Barker

The words "DNA extraction" and "toy" seem incongruous to me. Yet here it is--a kit that allows children to sample DNA... and do stuff with it.

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DIY Blood Type Test Kit? In the Toy Section?

by John P. Barker

I'm sometimes amazed at what qualifies to be a toy. For example, I wouldn't put a chainsaw--yes, a real chainsaw--in the toy category. Nor would I list surgical rip spreaders among the list of items that I would let a kid play with. But somehow, the DIY Blood Type Testing Kit slides into the toy arena--with interesting results.

Adam Norton’s Apartment Inside an Armoire

by Gloria Campos

My husband and I bought an armoire a few years ago from a consignments store. We fell in love with at first sight and it appeared to be worth every penny we spent on it (a couple of hundred dollars), but alas when the center right door fell off 3 weeks ago we began to wonder if there was a way someone could restore or recycle it for us. We never imagined turning our armoire into an apartment like Adam Norton did with his.

Restaurant Lets Patrons Experiment With Flavors

by Beth Hodgson

Who doesn't like to smother their meals with ketchup, barbeque sauce, and other garnishes? Okay, well maybe that's primarily the younger generation that makes those food choices. However, now a new restaurant in Germany takes the meal flavoring concept to the new level in a classy way that appeals to the grown-up crowd by allowing diners to add flavor-infused olive oils to their meals.

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Be Your Own Plumber With PermaFlow

by Must Love Gadgets

The PermaFlow sure saves the environment from the toxic liquid drain cleaners being poured into it. And it's likely to save you a few bucks in plumber's bills.

New Japanese Export: "Hako-Ie" (or) Room In A Box

by Toby

A special space of one's own, where you can rest, meditate, create... is what Japanese architect Asao Sakamoto was after when he created the Hako-Ie. Literally, "room in a box," Hake-Ie won a 2008 international Good Design Gold Award for Sakamoto's do-it-yourself pre-fabricated room for your home. Like Japanese food, clothing, and cars, the Hako-Ie can be exported and enjoyed all over the world.

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IKEA Finally Brought To Nashville With ModerNash’s Convenient Delivery

by Beth Hodgson

ModerNash creates a smart business idea, by using someone else's to make their own. IKEA, inarguably, is one of the most popular, affordable furniture distributors around the globe. But, because locations are lacking in some regions of the United States, ModerNash offers a delivery service of their products, with no actual partnership with the company.