How-To Geek

If you missed the solar eclipse a few days back, this short time-lapse video will replay the eclipse in under two minutes for your viewing pleasure.

They really should have known better than to throw those at Mario…

If you’re always on the lookout for fresh multi-monitor wallpaper, you’ll definitely want to check out the dual, triple, and quad monitor spreads available at the MMG Network.

Boba Fett [The Paper Wall]

Zombie apocalypse movies generally deal with outbreaks, fighting to survive, and finding safety but what about afterwards? Spoiler is a short independent movie that answers the question of what could happen once humanity has ...

Your smartphone knows which way is up, how to orient your screen, and can even sense its speed–but how? In this video, we take a peek inside your phone to see how the accelerometer works.

If you’re a fan of tower defense games, but long for something a bit more three dimensional and interactive, Siegecraft–free today–is just the game you’re looking for.

Why does it always go like this when you are watching your favorite movies at night on the computer or television?!

Last year we showed you a simple electric-arc speaker setup you could build at home. In this video, Adam Savage rocks out to Back in Black as played by two giant singing Tesla coils.

What foul and evil challenges await our intrepid hero as night falls in Mario Land?

If I were able to use Photoshop in real life [via MakeUseOf]

In this archival video, courtesy of AT&T, we see how visionaries at the company predicted the future would look from the vantage point of 1961.

This interesting and rather organic computer modification use tubes of soil as heat sinks in order to draw warmth up to a planter built into the top of the case and accelerate the growth of wheat grass planted there.

Do you love learning about obscure trivia, strange story elements, hidden penalties, and more from your favorite video games? Then you will definitely want to browse on over to the ‘Did You Know Gaming’ blog and e...

Yesterday we saw some wood-block style video game heroes, today we’re treated to DC super heroes like Superman and Batman captured in Art Deco-style travel posters promoting their home cities.

Illustrator Jed Henry pays homage to old school video game characters with a very old school method–Japanese woodblock printing.

Today, May 21, YouTube celebrates its seven-year anniversary with, what else, a video retrospective covering the moments and milestones in the history of YouTube.

Although bootlegMIC was designed as a way for concert goers to cheaply and cleanly capture bootleg music, it’s a great build for any project that needs an inexpensive but effective microphone.

Liking Pinterest is one thing, but things get way out of hand when one woman takes her love of the website far too literally (and too far)!

Is there a lesson to be learned here??

Have your dreams of becoming a Tesla Trooper been thwarted by lack of a good Tesla rifle? Fear not, you can follow in this mad scientist’s foot steps to build your own.

Combine the hero of Hyrule and his foes with a Pac-Man board and you’ve got a recipe for an entertaining retro game mashup where Link races to get the coins with goblins on his tail.

Lightning, Clouds, Storm, Desert [Wallpaper Abyss]

Chrome: If you’re a fan of Bing’s eye-catching daily backgrounds but prefer Google as your search portal, this Google Chrome add-on will pull the Bing wallpaper and add it to Google for you.

Sounds about right…