How To: Balance a Wine Glass on Top of a Playing Card
Looking for a cool trick you can perform in a bar? Check this out! In this tutorial, learn how to balance a wine glass on top of a seemingly ordinary playing card.
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How To: Make a Coin Seem to Appear Out of Thin Air
Do you remember all those coin tricks your parents played on you as a kid? Ever wonder how they discovered all that money behind your ears? Well, in this tutorial, you will learn how to make an ordinary coin appear out of thin air.
How To: Pack dishes, plates, platters, and bowls for moving
Moving soon? Don't know how you'll ever get your possessions packed and moved in one piece? Well, fret no more...
How To: Sharpen a kitchen knife with an ordinary coffee mug
Learn this great trick for getting the sharpest knife. You don't need a sharpener. All you need is a coffee mug. It must be ceramic coffee cup to work. This is how to sharpen your knife using cup! What a magical kitchen trick!
How To: Fold a CD case with just one sheet of paper
What's a good way to transport compact discs without scratching them when you have no case? Make your own of course... watch this video tutorial to learn how to fold a CD case with just one sheet of paper. With just one ordinary piece of printer paper, you can make two different versions of a glueless CD case. You just need the paper, a pencil, and some scissors!
How To: Tie a tucked half blood knot on a fishing line
The Tucked Half Blood Knot is a normal half blood knot where the tag end is tucked in the final step. This will make the knot stronger and prevent it from slipping open. The tucked half blood Knot is used for the same applications as the ordinary half blood knot - to attach hooks, swivels and lures to the line. Watch this video fishing tutorial and learn how to tie a tucked half blood knot.
How To: Make a beaded candle decoration
This beaded candle decoration adds some extra embellishment and flair even to ordinary candles. To make the candle charm, you will need beads, a wire coil, and pliers. Learn how to craft this beaded candle decoration by watching this video beading tutorial.
How To: Style your hair like Victoria Beckham
Watch this video and see how to take ordinary hair to extraordinary by styling it like Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham's famous "Posh Bob".
How To: Make a telekinetic pen
Watch as an ordinary Sharpie Pen comes alive! You can make it move with your mind...or can you? Make Magazine shows you how in this video.
How To: Prank friends with an electrified door handle
You'll need to know how to build a taser (or tazer) from a disposable camera first, but this tutorial will teach you how to turn your ordinary door into a entertaining prank shocking door that tazers anyone that uses the door handle. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Work medial deltoid muscles with shoulder exercises
This video demonstrates how to work the medial deltoid muscles on an ordinary gym machine, the lateral raise. This video walks you through setting up the machine to your body type and doing the excercizes correctly on the machine.
How To: Make a Picture Frame Jewelry Organizer
Frustrated with how to organize your jewelry? Why not make your own jewelry organizer! In this episode, learn how to make a frame to transform an ordinary picture frame into a DIY jewelry organizer, using easy to find materials and simple tools. You will be able to store your jewelry on the wall, out of sight, while at the same time displaying a beautiful photo. Having decorative items like this DIY jewelry holder that also function as storage is perfect for small space decorating.
How To: Dress up a poinsettia plant with gold foil for Christmas
What's the easiest way to turn a plain old poinsettia plant you can get for cheap at the grocery store into a dazzling centerpiece that any hostess would appreciate as a gift? Add a beautiful gold foil wrap to the pot.
How To: Wrap a round present easily using tissue paper and ribbon
You know those oddly shaped presents that ordinary wrapping paper just can't maneuver around without awkward bulges or rips? Rather than trying to wrap up your chocolate orange in traditional wrap, why not try tissue paper instead?
How To: Create a simple and feminine braided hairband
A braided hairband is basically a headband that's made out of your own pretty hair. This means no painful pinching or tightness that comes with ordinary headbands.
How To: Circuit bend a Yamaha PortaSound PSS-80 keyboard with 10 modifications
If you just happen to own a Yamaha PortaSound PSS-80 keyboard (1989), why not try something a little out of the ordinary— like circuit bending? Circuit bending can help you create a new musical sound via your keyboard, and this video tutorial will show you 10 different ways to circuit bend.
How To: Make a stash box for valuable with a deck of cards
This stash box is super cool. No one will ever think to look inside this seemingly ordinary deck of playing cards. You can even fan out the cards to make it look even more real! You can bet that a thief is not going to nab your deck if they rob you, so you can feel better knowing your valuables are safe inside. Have fun!
How To: Perform a bending rubber coin illusion
In this tutorial, learn how to confuse and impress anyone with this funky illusion. In this video, you will learn how to adjust your fingers to make it appear as though an ordinary coin has turned to rubber in your hands.
How To: Perform the Impossible Bending Cigarette Trick
In this video, learn how to bend an ordinary cigarette in half without breaking it! With this amazing trick, you can bet your friends that you can bend a cigarette in two, so that both ends touch without breaking the cigarette.
How To: Do colorful electrolysis
No, colorful electrolysis has got nothing to do with zapping the hair off of a punk rocker's head. Electrolysis of water, according to Wikipedia, is "the decomposition of water (H2O) into oxygen (O2) and hydrogen gas (H2) due to an electric current being passed through the water." In this video, you'll watch in amazement as a young scientist colorful electrolysis to transform ordinary water into a psychedelic display.
How To: Make fresh homemade hash browns
Tired of those same old frozen hash browns? In this cooking how-to video Chef Mario impresses Rachel with some hashbrowns that are anything but ordinary. All the ingredients you need for this hash brown recipe are: butter, onions,
How To: Use slang from 19th century America
Check out this instructional English language video with Moujan Z. as she talks about slang in 19th century America. This was a colorful period for the American vernacular with references to agriculture, the Civil War, and the frontier. Any ordinary sentence can suddenly be turned into a fun parade. Practice your 19th century American slang with this English language tutorial.
How To: Bake peanut butter brownie cupcakes
Join Paula Deen as she bakes one of her all-time favorite sweet treats. Use an ordinary brownie mix from the grocery store. Top some of the wet batter with peanut butter chips and layer one more layer of brownie mix over the top. Bake to a gooey perfection.
How To: Turn milk into solid balls
Few household products can turn ordinary milk into cool solid balls. Check out this instructional science video to learn how to turn milk into solid balls using average household products. This is a great experiment to make with your kids. Just don't let them eat the balls.
How To: Fold a JKF-188 jet paper airplane
Admit it, you want to fold a JKF-188 jet plane (It's not really origami, because you need scissors). This video tutorial shows how to take an ordinary piece of office paper and create a really fancy paper airplane: the JKF-188 jetplane.
How To: Cut postage stamp wooden jigsaw puzzles
This video tutorial will show you how to make a wooden jigsaw puzzle, but not an ordinary one -- a postage stamp wooden jigsaw puzzle. This puzzle video will show you how to cut a postage stamp into ten poplar jigsaw puzzle pieces using the freehand continuous method.
How To: Origami a Chinese star
Are you interested in Origami? Watch this video tutorial to learn how to origami fold an ordinary sheet of paper into a Chinese star.
How To: Origami a pig head
Learn how to make an origami pig head. When doing this, instead of using the ordinary square origami paper you need a rectangular paper, so just cut the square in half in order to make an origami pig head.
How To: Use general beginner chess opening principles
Learn some simple, general chess opening principles. If you're a beginner, then this is the place for you! Learn fool's mate and some ordinary sacrifices to win the game.
How To: Pronounce the word "fathomable" in English
Today's word is "fathomable". This is an adjective which means knowable or comprehensible.
How To: Pronounce the word "extraordinary" in English
Today's word is "extraordinary". This is an adjective which means exceptional and beyond what is ordinary or mediocre.
How To: Play the flute
This simple video, from what seems to be an ordinary housewife, goes over the basics to playing a flute, all while reading the instructions out of her flute book. Watch this 2-part video to be a master.
How To: Perform a cigarette into money trick
This shows you how to turn an ordinary cigarette into cash. Stump your friends with this simple magic trick.
How To: Make a Bawls bottle blue LED light
Kipkay shows you how to turn an ordinary Bawls bottle into a cool crystal LED light.
How To: Use glass as a mulch in your yard
Raise your glass to an extraordinary garden! Landscape designer Michael Glassman demonstrates how the use of glass mulch around plants, rocks, or fountains elevates an ordinary garden into a masterful work of art.
How To: Turn an Ordinary Apple into a Deliciously Artful Swan
The next time you come across a basket of fruit, don't just eat it—have fun with it. In this guide, I'll be showing you how to turn ordinary apples into exquisite-looking edible animals. More specifically, I'll be showing you how to cut an apple into a tasty, decorative swan, a design that has a few modifications to the original idea.
How To: Grow dry beans in your home garden using soup beans
Did you know that you can grow beans in your garden just by buying ordinary packs of soup beans at your local grocery? Once you start growing beans, you can keep growing them for a lifetime--just keep the seeds around. Soon beans will be sprouting in your garden every year!
How To: Mod an ordinary webcam into a super spy scope
Now that most computers have internal webcams in them, what are you going to do with that external webcam eating up precious desktop space? Kipkay shows you the perfect hack— the "Super SpyScope".
How To: Design an electric logo button in Adobe Flash and After Effects CS4
Want to add a clickable button to your website, but want something a little more exciting than just the ordinary picture or text button? If you have Adobe Flash and After Effects CS4, then you can design yourself a really cool, electrified button with your logo on it. Click here for the source files.
How To: Make homemade duck egg pizza with a puff pastry crust
Try your hands at duck eggs instead of chicken eggs. Duck eggs are practically the same, a little bit larger than chicken eggs, but the yolks contains a lot more fat (making them richer) and the whites contain a lot more protein. They're perfect for baking because they make desserts light and fluffy! But forget about dessert— we're talking pizza here.