How-To Geek

Slowly drifting through space on a journey to a new galaxy…

Ever wonder how the planets in our solar system maintain their balanced orbits around the Sun? This quick physics lesson video shows you just how the balance is maintained.

The direct line of sight, the smell of burning popcorn, we too have seen the horrors of a terrible office.

Redundant backups are important for everyone; this entertaining animated short highlights how an accidental backup saved the Toy Story 2.

Amazing what you can find to use and make do with when you really need to…

Dedicated film scanners are pricey and farming out the scanning of a bunch of negatives is also a chunk of change (and you lose control over the process). This cheap but effective setup turns your camera into a negative scanner.

The guys are really close to capturing the enemy flag when a serious problem arises. Do they go with the crazy suicidal plan their leader proposes or an alternate plan? What was the real reason their leader offered up such a crazy plan?

There is a right way and a wrong way to deal with a water soaked laptop…and an oven is definitely not the right way…

What’s the perfect final project for an Advanced Mechatronics class? A functioning and armed Portal turrent, of course.

You know the old bit about putting tin-foil on your head to keep the government signals out of your brain? It turns out cladding your head in tin-foil has the opposite effect.

Do you need to quickly find out what the local time is in another part of the world compared to your current location? Then ‘Every Time Zone’ is the perfect site to visit!

If you love watching a good Domino construction come crashing down but you just don’t have the time for a long video, you can watch 60,000 come crashing down in seconds here.

This beautiful video was created using 121 megapixel images of the Earth’s surface–to date, the highest resolution images available.

Brick layers, coal miners, historians… there’s a long list of things that the doctors of Star Trek simply aren’t.

This inexpensive camera hack turns a garage door opener into a wireless shutter remote with a 150 foot range–perfect for the awesome light paintings the tutorial author creates.

finally, a rock-solid PC [Reddit]

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The problem with many home automation hacks is that they are extremely complex and often (for fun) include extra features. This garage door hack keeps it simple: press button, open door.

This silly spoof of Ghostbusters was surely never intended to see life outside of Apple.

Are you looking for a theme with an artistic touch for your Windows 7 desktop? Then you may want to download the ‘Photography by Felicia Simion’ Theme for Windows 7. The theme comes with six images showcasing the ...

What do the illustrations in medieval manuscripts have in common with the side-scrolling antics of the Super Mario Bros? More than you’d think.

Why?!!

Are you or someone you know new to LibreOffice? Want to get the most out of the free office suite or have questions about how to use a particular app from the suite? Then you will definitely want to grab your own free copies ...

This stunning fractal-based video was generated by a single and elegant 4k application. Check out the video and then grab a copy of the app.

Windows: Text2Folders is a simple batch folder creator that can generate folders (including sub-folders) from a manually entered list or a text file containing the folder names.