30
Jun
Microsoft Windows can be incredibly annoying at times. The pop-up windows in particular.
Most windows user will have at least let out a sigh of deep annoyance at some point.
Here’s how to disable the annoying re-start box:
And you’re done!
21
Jun
Summer has arrived and everything’s in bloom. Not a nice time for hay fever sufferers and dreaded by many Barbeque enthusiasts. Not only is it the hot season but also the insect season.
Whilst most people try not to let the little bugs spoil the summer fun, many hit the shops for insect repellents.
What I hate about these products is the amount of chemicals that goes into them.
Wouldn’t it be much nice to repel annoying insects with the help of natural oils?
If you’re planning a big Barbeque feast, here’s a natural essential oil outdoor fly repellent:
- Clean out a small tin with a lid.
- Take a clean piece of cloth or a small piece of dish sponge able to fit into the container. Saturate it with one of the following oils (after it has been diluted appropriately, see Tips):
- Lavender oil – lavender is considered to be particularly effective against flies
- Citronella oil (dilute with water first)
- Eucalyptus oil (dilute with water first)
- Pennyroyal oil (dilute with water first)
- Peppermint oil (dilute with water first; likely more effective against mosquitoes but also considered to work against horse-flies)
- Lemongrass oil (dilute with water first)
- Place the cloth in the tin and shut the lid. Allow to sit for 24 hours.
- Use. Whenever you need to use the tin, remove the lid and place on the entertaining table. Make as many as you wish to put around the entertaining area to deter flies.
- Replenish the oil after each use; once open to the air, the strength weakens and needs to be topped up.
and here is how to build a cheap and quick mosquito trap:
You will need:
2000ml (2 liter) bottle
50 gram (brown?) sugar
1 gram yeast
Thermometer
Measure cup
Knife
Black paper
1. Cut the top of the bottle as shown
2. Put 200ml hot water in the bottle, stir with 50gram brown sugar. Put the sugar water in cold water to cool it down til 40C (temperature).
They use a bigger container with cold water – put the small cup that they use to make sugar water in that container and that stick is a thermometer because they want the sugar water to cool down to 40C (temperature).
3. After cooling down, put the sugar water in the bottle then add the yeast.
4. When you cut the bottle, dont throw the top part away because that’d be needed for step 4 – you see they put the top upside down to fit into the bottle.
5. Put black paper around the bottle since mosquitos like dark places and carbon dioxide. This mosquito trap will then start working.
Mosquitos fly around the corner, so the best place to place the trap is at some dark corner.
TIPS: Put the trap in some dark and humid place for 2 weeks, you’ll see the effect. You’ll have to replace the sugar water + yeast solution every 2 weeks.
(source: diyhappy.com/quick-and-dirty-mosquito-trap/, wikihow.com/Make-Natural-Outdoor-Fly-Repellent-with-Essential-Oils)
11
Mar
How-to manual from Wikihow on how to break a glass with your voice. You’ll need some things like an amplifier, microphone, ear protection and protective goggles.
Happy shattering.
wikihow.com/Break-a-Glass-With-Your-Voice
8
Mar
Technorati Tags: food,coconut,how to,drink coconut,open coconut,wiki,wiki how
I love coconuts. Everything about them; their shape, flavour, colour and smell. WikiHow has a 5-step guide on how to cut open and drink a coconut:
To reduce the possibility of spraying or splitting, be very slow and careful with the knife blade on the initial cut. Water does not compress, nor does the coconut hull stretch appreciably; so if the coconut is full and you add a small volume of steel, via the tip of the knife blade, there is no place for the water to go except out, by any means necessary!
Link [WikiHow]
6
Mar
Technorati Tags: photoshop,how to,adobe,adobe photoshop,photochopped,picture,editing,beauty,effect,tutorial,web
If you open any fashion / celebrity magazine, you cannot look past the fact that most of their pictures have been photoshopped to or close to perfection. Blemishes, moles, wrinkles, even excess weight have been erased and disguised by the master of all virtual beautifiers: Adobe Photoshop.
Photoshop can be a mostly powerful tool if you know how to use it. Anyway, all ethics about digital beauty aside, some effects are just simply amazing and we could all use some Photoshop in our lives.
Fortunately the Internet offers plenty of tutorials, guides and how-tos to use Photoshop for each and every purpose. Reality is the limit.
Anyway, here’s some I have found to be rather interesting and useful:
Quick and effective facial photo retouching – [PSDTuts]
You’re probably thinking there’s not much difference between the before and after picture… I like this fairly easy and quick tutorial because it doesn’t look photoshopped yet it enhances the face. It still looks natural and un-edited. Btw, PSDTuts is a site to watch for great Photoshop tutorials.
