Category Archives: HowTo

HowTo: Create a Square Foot Garden

As most of you know, over the past little while I’ve been preparing and building my first square foot garden. I have written some posts about this process and thought that I would create a new one that links to each of the different steps involved in making the garden. Enjoy.
Square Foot Gardening [Intro post]:
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HowTo: Test Your Internet Speed

With most sites now containing rich media that requires a lot of bandwidth on the side of the user, internet speed is becoming very important. Internet Frog offers a simple and free bandwidth monitor so you can see how your connection compares to the average bandwidth for your specific type of hook-up. The readings range [...]

Photoshop What?

Who says you need a professional imaging software to make cool digital art? Here is a collection of amazing images made through Paint, the original image editor that comes with the Windows Operating System. Click “read the rest of this post” to see more videos.
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Broadcast Yourself Live

I came across UStream.tv the other day. I’ve been waiting for a site like this for ages and it has finally arrived. Although I don’t really have a use for it, the service is great. The site allows you to do live streaming feeds through a basic webcam. If you don’t know what a live [...]

HowTo: Ease a Sore Throat

The cold season may have already passed, but it’s never to late to post a great remedy post. My cold passed a couple weeks ago and my throat was killing me. If only I had this information at the time, perhaps I could have made things a little bit easier on me.
According to the Earth [...]

HowTo: Create 360 degree Photo Animations

The Warehouse has a very cool tutorial showing how to create an animated image of some object that can be viewed at any of the 360 degree angles. The concept is quite similar to those panarama tours online where you can do a virtual walk-through of a house or attraction. Basically, you just take a [...]

HowTo: Paint with Light

The DIY site Instructables has impressed me once again with another cool HowTo. This time, they show you how to paint with light. It’s quite a simple activity that involves a camera, a dark room, and a flashlight.
All you have to do is set your camera up for long exposure (about 10-20 seconds). This is [...]

HowTo: Remove Annoying Carrier Logo from Cellphone

It has been a while since I’ve posted a howto, so here is an interesting one I came across on Lifehacker. I’m sure I’m not the only one who finds it annoying when cellphone carriers apply a small logo onto the cellphones they sell. You know what I’m talking about, the small Rogers, Bell, Telus, [...]

VTutorial: What Is “RSS”?

Okay, so YouTube is alive again and I have uploaded PBriscoe.com’s first video tutorial. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to use RSS or “Really Simple Syndication.” It’s a great way to view content from the many sites you visit on a day-to-day basis in one place. With the help of an RSS Reader, [...]

YouTube, Where Are You?

As many of you have probably noticed, YouTube is on hiatus. Their website claims that they are creating some new goods for the site. It looks like things may be taking a little longer than expected. I visited the video host last night and was greeted with this nerdy chemist. Since it was late, I [...]

HowTo: Hustle Free Drinks

If you think drinks at the bar are way overpriced… let someone else buy them for you! Here are the top 5 ways to hustle people into buying you a free round. Enjoy.
See the rest of the videos at Wisebread.com

Square Foot Gardening

Midterm exams are here, so I’m going to make this post short and sweet. Last year I started my own garden. Why? Well, for many reasons. Included in these are the fact that I want to be less-dependent on industrial agriculture, organic home-grown vegetables taste much better than store-boughten brands that have been drenched in [...]