We are happy to announce that James Young’s photo of his recent craft project is the 10,000th photo in our CRAFT Flickr Pool. James says, ” I made these from materials found at Bring Recycle here in Eugene. I was looking for a way to spruce up this wall in our kitchen. I didn’t really […]
The Purl Bee has one of the best tutorials I’ve ever seen on how to get your knitting tension correct on your knitting projects. The section on adjusting tension is filled with essential tips all knitters should read. Link.
Over at Diary of a Mobile Addict, Mordy has a great write up of the various ways you can trick a Pocket PC app into running on a Windows Mobile Smartphone. It starts out with the first thing you should do: just try installing it because it might work. From there, the article moves on […]
I grew up on 50-in-1, 100-in-1, 150-in-1 and I think a 200-in-1 which were electronics kits that radio shack put out that let you mock up different circuits like an alarm for your room, a crystal radio, and others. Here’s a similar kit, but for microcontrollers. I haven’t tried it out yet, but it looks […]
Judi sends us a simple tutorial on how to make your own fabric appliques from clip-art. Link.
We’ve all seen the rough tapes of the landing on the moon, but it turns out that the original tapes were of much better quality. Not long ago, Lebar learned why the footage had looked like mush: The transfer and broadcast had degraded the image badly, like a third-generation photocopy. “What the world saw was […]
Anyone who’s had to share a link to a podcast in the iTunes Store knows the painfully long URLs you’re forced to deal with (in this case, for the Make Magazine Podcast): http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=74069835 Well, over at the O’Reilly Network, Digital Media blogger David Battino uncovers a quick hack to chop it down to its essentials, […]
