Gather Supplies Ready to make the best Scrabble tile pendant possible? This easy tutorial will show you how to make your own custom necklace out of a Scrabble® tile. It will take about 1 hour of work, but there is time needed to let the pendant dry and cure. Ready to start? ...more
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 685th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the ...more
Want to mod your HTC HD2 Microsoft Windows smartphone to use wireless charging—without breaking your warantee in the process? It can be done! And quite easily at that. For complete details, and to get started modding your own HD2 phone to work with wireless chargers, watch thi ...more
The XBox 360 has mammoth cooling problems, and people have devised all manner of products and mods that address that. This video will show you how to install one of those products: heat sinks that will cool your motherboard directly. This will keep you XBox a lot cooler withou ...more
In this tutorial, learn how to take apart an old Playstation 1 controller and mod it into a fully functioning iPod or iPhone dock. This makes for a very cool dock and is pretty easy to do. Check this out if you have old controllers laying around your house and need something t ...more
Had enough of tie-on uke straps? Learn how to install strap buttons onto your ukulele with this how-to. For detailed, step-by-step instructions on this handy ukulele mod watch this helpful video guide.
This is a hack to create a Roomba covered in LEDs that will munch your dust. See how to do this cool mod for the Roomba, the robotic vacuum cleaner made by iRobot.
How to play your Import Gamecube games on a Nintendo Wii with the use of a Freeloader or any other kind of mod chip or swap disc. Takes a few tries to perfect the technique, but you'll quickly get the knack of it.
In this episode the Mighty Car Mod team shows you how to install a blow off valve. NOTE: make sure you have the right pipe or connections from the new BOV to your motor type - otherwise welding may be required.
Want more firepower for your Nerf guns? Here's an instructional video that shows a simple mod to make your foam darts fly! Increase their range by 25%. Watch this video tutorial and improve your game playing, but please, use caution!
Watch this mod video to learn how to install your own window into your computer case or tower using simple tools and cast acrylic. Follow the easy steps to cut a basic shape or get creative and cut your own shape.
How to hack and mod a Microsoft Zune Mp3 player and upgrade the hard drive to anywhere up to 100GB Part 1 of 2 - How to Hack a Microsoft Zune for a larger hard drive. Part 2 of 2 - How to Hack a Microsoft Zune for a larger hard drive.
5 minute video on how to overclock your graphics card. Includes installation of coolbits registry mod. Links to featured tools are included in the video.
Many people wonder if it's hard to install mods on the Playstation 3 (PS3) version of Unreal Tournament 3. The host of Epileptic Gaming, djWHEAT, takes you through the very EASY process of downloading a mod, and loading it onto your PS3 using a computer and a USB Memory Stick.
Mod your leaf blower by attaching a vacuum hose and use it as a party prop creator. Make a foam party or a confetti cannon to excite your guests. You can also make a sky guy, the creature that gets your attention at every intersection with its crazy blowing arms!
These are real instructions on building this crazy and fun death machine. Mod your car to hold this contraption to it's roof and give your friends the ride of their life, without the lines of a normal roller coaster.
Jeb just announced a great new feature that will be added in the 1.2 update. This map format, titled "Anvil," will open Minecraft to so many more possibilities with the new update to mod compatibility. "The purpose of the new format is to prepare for modding, especially to al ...more
This is an excessive performance mod for a computer, but ecxessive is good in the computer world.
Is this what you think it is? Yes! animal breeding now comes to Minecraft, which has baby animals that grow up into adults when you give them wheat (not immediately I believe). This was something that was there only in the Baby Animals mod but now....its actually there.
Why take the stairs when you could use the Minecraft pistons mod to build an elevator? Watch this video to learn how to build a piston powered elevator for your Minecraft home. Get from point A to point B without losing your breath.
Like most Terraria players, you're looking for a way to kill that annoying guide. If you'd rather not download an install a mod just to do it, then you should watch this helpful video. Follow the technique shown here and rid your Terraria world of the guide.
Check out this video to learn how to use Seas0nPass to jailbreak your Apple TV 2G. This mod works on either Mac or Windows. This jailbreak is for Apple TV with firmware 4.2.2. Once you've jailbroken your Apple TV2 you'll have administrator access to all files on it.
The Google Chromebook may be simple, but it is not limited. Watch this video to see how the Chromebook works as a kind of rudimentary Google TV when hooked up to a large monitor. This easy mod will let you enjoy your Cr-48 Chromebook in a whole new way.
If you've got an extra DVD drive laying around not being used, watch this video and learn how to give the lens new life—as a powerful macro lens for your camera phone! You'll be able to take incredible pictures on your camera phone using this clever mod. Video: .
Give your iPhone 4 a real makeover. This video will show you how to take apart an iPhone 4, which allows you to replace the front screen and back cover. The iPhone 4 is a sophisticated, and expensive, piece of equipment so be sure to watch carefully and do your mod the right way.
Lasers really can do everything! Next time you want some popcorn, don't reach for one of those microwaveable bags! You can mod a laser to make it the ideal tool for perfectly popping a delicious, fluffy batch of fresh popcorn.
Forget splurging on a fancy digital camera. All you need to do is attach a lens from a pair of dollar store reading glasses, and you'll get your macro shot. From Sean Lee, how to make a fifty cent macro lens. Before After Previously, Easy! Cell Phone Camera Macro Mod (5X Zo ...more
In this video tutorial, JREAMdesign looks at the task of choosing a PHP framework and a CMS. He helps simplify the act of choosing between the major framework contenders (Zend Framework, Symfony, Yii, Code Igniter, CakePHP) and content management systems (Drupal, WordPress, Jo ...more
A minimap is a small inset box on your game screen that can show you the immediate area for your Minecraft island. This is a mod for your game, and the video shows you where to get it and how to install it.
This tutorial won't necessarily work for multiplayer mode, but you can set up a hack in Minecraft that will let you instantly create a block of whatever substance you are trying to get. This is a very easy mod that anyone can do.
Why stay with only what you've been given by the basic game? Make your MineCraft game more exciting by giving your character a different skin, and downloading new texture packs for your game. This is an incredibly easy mod for your game.
This is a lovely craft project you can do with kids - make a bunch of acorns that you can use as fall or winter decorations. You will need: small foam balls, mod podge, brown acrylic paint, glitter and brown yarn for the cap.
You will need to be playing Fallout: New Vegas on the PC, and make sure that you have enabled the console. This is not a mod, but you will need to enter a few console commands in order to get the enclave power armor.
Yes, there's bling in Fallout: New Vegas! And no, it's not a fan mod. You can get the Pimp Boy Three Billion in Fallout: New Vegas. Make sure you go to the right store, and then here are the right dialogue options to unlock a hidden quest.
This is a great way you can mod your new Kinect - wire up the Kinect to a laser projector. All you need is OpenCV (an open source computer vision library) and a cardboard box to train your Kinect with.
These mods will only work for people who play the game on PC (including Steam). Go to the Fallout: New Vegas Nexus and browse their files. Download the ones you like, and then use the Mod Manager to incorporate them into your game.
Overheating will kill your Xbox quicker than almost anything else - but what to do the next time you want an all night Halo marathon? This tutorial shows you a quick and easy mod you can do to increase the cooling capability of your Xbox's fan system.
Fan made mods can be a fun way to add extra content to your game, and the mod community for Dragon Age: Origins is vibrant and active. This tutorial shows you where to find mods, download them and how to add them to your game files to include for play.
Start with a toy bullhorn that alters the sound of your voice when you speak into it. Then mod it using a few potentimeters and a few resistors as demonstrated in this video. Now you have a toy with an even crazier pitch!
Take a pair of headphones with a broken case (though with the inner electronics still intact), and then get together the hardware listed in this video. Once you have gotten the circuit board out of the headphones, you can mod this into a wireless receiver box for your favorite ...more
Start with just a few hula hoops, and then get some polyethylene film and a small soldering iron. Fit the film to your hoops, then gently mod your soldering iron and make a few spot welds. Be careful not to melt anything! Make a few vent bubbles, and you now have a pool warmer!
This mod will run you about $130, but you'll have your own laser torch at the end of it. You'll need a high end flashlight, a Aixiz module, an AR coated lens and a blue diode. Then assemble according to the instructions, and get a laser at the end of it!
The Unreal 3 Engine is one of the most common and prevalent engines used to create and mod video games. This tutorial shows you how to integrate UDK and Papervision 3D to increase your productivity when creating a game, 3-D animation or other similar content.
Part of the fun of games like StarCraft II is being able to design and mod your own maps. This tutorial shows you how to use the map editor included in the game to create a small map of your own.
If you want the mouse pointer in StarCraft II to act more like the pointer from Diablo, here's a tutorial which explains how to alter your user interface in the game to create this mod. You'll start by going into the game's map editor and then distributing invisible drones thr ...more
XBox 360 avatars were added a couple of firmware updates ago, and added all sorts of new options for customizing your presence on XBox Live. Do you find them too limiting? This video will teach you how to mod your avatar's skin and hair color using your PC and some free softwa ...more
Thanks to Steam's Summer sale, we got to play Killing Floor over the weekend. It's a multi player survival game where up to six players roam around a map killing wave after wave of zombies. The different between this game and left 4 Dead is that Killing floor is a strickly no ...more
The Wii is one of the most popular systems to mod because of the ease of doing so and the relative lack of high-quality games for it relative to its competitors. This video will show you how to run backup Wii games from an SD card using some basic free software. Get to modding!
In this clip, learn how to make a super cheap stash can that really works! This can is made from an old Lynx or Axe deodorant bottle and looks completely real and inconspicuous. If you have some things you need to hide from your roommates, mom, siblings, the police.. check out ...more
Once you've spent the time to mod your Xbox 360, likely voiding the warranty in the process, now you need some game image files to burn to dual-layer DVD's so that you can start playing. This video shows you one way to track down the .iso files for Xbox 360 games that you need ...more
Here is a great LEGO mod for your Laptop, via ETSY. Turn all your keys into LEGO keys.
For all you Nintendo Wii fans out there, this tutorial will show you how to softmod your Wii in order to play certain games. Those games are backups or downloaded Wii games that can be made using some tricks with your computer. Note: There is always a danger to damaging your d ...more
Mark and Stefani at HomeStudio share their secret to turning old SCRABBLE tiles into lovely pendants. Anyone with a crafty mind will enjoy these pendants, which "are great for necklaces, charms, and gifts to give." Supplies needed: Paper · Scrabble Tiles · Scissors · Craft G ...more
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 466th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to SUM eve ...more
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 377th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to add eve ...more
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 370th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the ...more
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 370th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to apply c ...more
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 579th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the ...more
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 336th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the ROWS, COLUMN ...more
Just in case you wanted to know the PSI you're pushing, you could mod your potato canon to include a pressure sensor.