Cool Things to Do with a Laptop

Want to know how to play some good music on the acoustic guitar? Well, this video tutorial will show you how to up your guitarist skills by learning to play "Not an Addict" by K's Choice. When you play this song from the lesson, play it like you mean it. Chords: Intro & Vers ...more

Let's face it: Rock stars wouldn't be half as cool without their hardware. We're talking those tough studded leather jackets, piercings, and of course rings. Get your rock band groupie thing on by crafting this simple DIY rocker chain ring. It graps onto two fingers and dips ...more

Aero slowing down your Microsoft Windows 7 PC? Want to speed things up a little? This brief video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started speedin ...more

If you're interested in making a giant origami ninja star, this tutorial is for you. OIn the video you'll be using foil to make the ninja star a very cool looking thing. You can use multiple layers to make it heavier. It's something cool that you and your friends will like. En ...more

This video has three parts: two that will teach you how to do things and one that is just a badass montage. The two how-to parts of the video will teach you how to first simulate a steadycam / dolly shot with only a tripod and the other will teach you how to create fake crushe ...more

Called a "crazy paper thing" by the owner, the description is perhaps a little too vague to describe the sheer genius of this transforming paper module of cubes. Using only a rectangular sheet of paper, tape, and a pair of trusty scissors, you'll learn how to make this module ...more

The great thing about owning a car, is that you're able to customize almost every part of it. This can result in better performance and something that sounds cool or looks cool. In this tutorial, you'll be finding out how to install a sprintboost on a 2008 Mini Cooper S. This ...more

Gambit is one of the most popular and underutilized characters in the X-Men pantheon. Now, you can show you appreciation of this iconic anti-hero by making his likeness out of Legos. This video walks you through the process of making a Lego figure look like Gambit. The only no ...more

If you've played with Legos for long enough, you know that there are few things in this world that cannot be replicated in the medium. This video is a demonstration of how to build a working replica soda machine out of Lego blocks. While you may not be able to serve guest in y ...more

Butternut squash come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, but despite that one thing remains the same: it can be used to make a warm meal. In this tutorial you will be taken through the process of making butternut squash soup. It's a perfect dish for any time of the year and loo ...more

One of the things you can do to manipulate your images in Photoshop CS3 is to change and replace colors. You can use this tool to edit your photos to your liking and enhance their appearance. This tutorial will show you everything you need to know about Photoshop's color repla ...more

Ever wondered how to make slime? Now you can learn! Make slime just like they use on Nickelodeon for Halloween, pranks, or just to play with! So gather up your ingredients and get cookin'! We have used many creepy and gross things in the production of the Creepy Puppet Project ...more

Learn how to primitively dry meat to make jerky for use in long term wilderness survival. You cannot always eat fresh meat. Drying meat into jerky is also good for traveling light as it dehydrates it into a lighter substance. Making jerky is also a cool thing to do while on lo ...more

Watch this video tutorial to see how to make a colorful density bottle. To do this science lab experiment, you'll need food coloring, a plastic bottle, clear baby oil and extra things to put into the bottle, like glitter or sparkles. Now, keep in mind, you can't drink this... ...more

Want to learn how to play cool songs by the Beatles on the guitar? With this tutorial you can learn how to play "Every Little Thing" by the Beatles. This lesson is geared towards intermediate guitarists because it assumes prior knowledge of guitar playing. Watch this how to vi ...more

Lure luck your way at your workplace by arranging things according to the ancient Chinese design philosophy known as feng shui. De-clutter your desk and workspace, which is the most important thing you can do to balance the _chi_—or energy—in your office. Repair or get rid of ...more

One of the saddest things that can happen once you've painstakingly piped a gallon of icing onto a gingerbread house, delicately applied each and every little gumdrop, and formed the marshmallow snowmen is that it collapses because the dough isn't hard enough. So check out th ...more

In this tutorial, we learn how to make & decorate a butterfly cake. First, you will use a butterfly shaped pan to bake the cake in so it's already shaped. After letting it cool, you can cover the entire thing in a thin layer of white icing. Then, fill some icing into bags, usi ...more

How cool are smoke grenades? You toss 'em into the air and they explode into a vision of thick clouds and smoke, preventing your enemy from seeing you as you stealthily sneak past him and shoot him upside the head with a paintball gun. The great thing about smoke grenades is ...more

You can make saline (salt) or lye (NaOH) solutions. So first you will have to arrange these things to do it which are 2 500ml bottles, 1/2 LB table salt, measuring cup, kitchen scale (optional) and pan for heating. Now first heat the 500-700 ml water in about 100 degrees temp ...more

What is the absolute, most basic thing you need to know in order to asemble an earring? Attaching the earring to its earring hook, of course. By learning how to do this, you'll be able to create a neverending host of funky earrings, from cool guitar pick earrings to drop penda ...more

Satanorium is a Flash old-school point-and-click horror adventure game (say that three times fast) hosted on PlayHub. This video will walk you through the entire thing, which looks pretty darn cool for a free game. Tasselfoot has devoted much of his personal and professional ...more

Cooking chicken tonight for dinner? It may be a dinnertime staple in your home, but you're probably used to store-bought chickens that you store in the freezer. Well, sometimes the best tasting poultry comes from the chickens with their heads still attached… well, at least bef ...more

Making your own clothes or items from scratch has its advantages. One being able to wear clothes that don't cost very much and will fit you perfectly and the other being that you can design them to look like whatever you want. One thing that can come in handy is a pouch to ca ...more

Does a fishing rod seem like a boring thing to hold to you? Would you rather it be a lightsaber? Well now it can be, at least for the WoW characters that you are making a machinima with in After Effects. This video will teach you how to create a lightsaber in After Effects and ...more

L4D2, or Left 4 Dead 2 to the uninitiated, is a popular 1st person shooter from Valve with a very good, but complex, level editor. This video will teach you how to do one cool thing in the editor: create door with breakable glass panels that will move properly with the door. D ...more

A really cool feature in Camtasia 7 is the ability to draw directly on the screen during a recording. This is helpful if you want to circle something onscreen, or if you want to highlight some text during your screencast. There's plenty of other options also in the ScreenDraw ...more

There's cool features in Camtasia 7, including a zoom option for video and a little thing called "Callouts". Zooming is pretty self-explanatory, but what are callouts? There cool shapes, like arrows or explosions, that you can add to your video to bring attention to something. ...more

There are a lot of different fruit smoothie recipes out there. This particularly delicious-looking recipe includes the traditional smoothie fruits strawberries, bananas, and oranges, with a bit of lime and salt to give it a bit of a kick that many of the other recipes out ther ...more

Keeping things like food and water refrigerated while you're camping in the bush is nearly impossible. Unless of course you've chosen to camp somewhere freezing cold. But if you haven't, evaporative cooling can be an effective technique to utilize for keeping water cool and fo ...more

The cool thing about Just Cause 2, is not only do you play a shoot first, ask questions later type of character, but the game is stocked with a lot of hidden secrets. Or as they are referred to, easter eggs. This video tutorial is presented by the guys at Achievement Hunter an ...more

3D seems to be all the rage right now. You don't want a logo that is behind the times! In this tutorial, learn how to make text look 3D using Adobe Photoshop CS3 or CS4. Your graphics will look much more up to date and really pop out of the page with this cool technique. This ...more

In this Arts & Crafts video tutorial you will learn how to use clear stamps & make a card. You will need acrylic stamps for this project. The products used in the video are from papertrayink.com. The stamps are clear and have a sticky back with which you can attach them to an ...more

Using a huge jar and with water colored with die in it you can make clouds. To do this set up the apparatus as shown in the video. Now open up the top valve and blow air into the jar. Now this causes the air inside to be compressed as we are pushing more air into the confined ...more

Ready to play scientist? This video will show you how to make a cool electro magnet out of a 9 V battery, a 9 V battery connector and parts from a Nokia phone charger. Use a fully charged battery for stronger magnet. Then solder the two parts together and plug in your battery. ...more

In this video, the instructor shows us how to tell if a device (cell phone or other device) is tethered or un-lockable. Before you begin, you must download a tool called f0recast onto your laptop or desktop computer. After the application is downloaded, you must plug in your d ...more

Learn to pick up girls by acting cool and being a natural flirt. You can learn how to be totally relaxed, confident and natural when you approach girls. Don't over-analyze every situation, sometimes you just have to not care and let it be, that way you'll just come across as a ...more