Games for Education - Making BINGO cards using a spreadsheet

I teach English in China to seven year old students. We have been learning phonics and if effort to help my students pay attention to phonet...

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How to fix the popup flash on your camera (Canon DSLR)

Here is the problem: You are trying to take a photo with your Canon DSLR camera. The lighting is a bit dark, so the flash should pop up, but...

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Cooking Banana Bread in a Rice Cooker

One thing I have noticed in China is that I have had to be a bit more creative here when it comes to cooking. I can't use a full size ov...

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Banana Frosting for your Banana Bread

If you are looking for a way to spice up your banana bread, you should try making some banana frosting! Read article »

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Blender Banana Bread Recipe - The Quickest and Easiest Way to Make Banana Bread

I am always looking for the cheapest, fastest and easiest way to do things. I think I have it perfected as far as banana bread goes. Below t...

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Make your own low (or zero) calorie soda pop

I have always been a huge fan of making home made root beer. It is super fun and easy, but more importantly, it is super delicious. The conc...

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Making the ultimate exercise equipment on the cheap!

Exercise equipment is great, but can have a lot of drawbacks. To name a few, exercise equipment is a bother to move around, takes up space i...

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Some tips for hand made cards

Growing up, I remember my older brother was always really good at making cards. I don't remember if he actually taught me how to make ca...

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How to make a simple and free plant waterer

Yesterday I was filling up my plant waterer and realized that I have been using it for over 15 years. I made it when I was a kid and it has ...

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Bacon Candle; Fact of Fiction? How to Make a bacon candle.

Recently on Lifehacker.com I read this article on making an oil lamp using bacon grease. I did a bit more Googleing found a site where som...

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How to make a DIY Phone Charger Stand using Tennis Balls

This is a pretty simple project for making a phone charger stand out of tennis balls. It can be used for just about any type of phone with a...

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Tip of The Day - Removing labels or glue with WD-40

For this tip of the day I am going to talk about two of my favorite things in the universe. WD-40 and hydrogen peroxide.  They both have abo...

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How to clean your vehicle's headlights - Use toothpaste

Before After For the longest time I have thought that my headlights looked very dim and that I could probably clean my headlight covers...

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How to make a flash diffuser and reflector from your existing built in flash

  There are hundreds of easy ways you can build a flash diffuser and reflector, but I think this is by far the easiest and cheapest. Rea...

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How to make Wassail - The cheap and easy way (the geeky way)

Yay for Christmas!  Yay for wassail.  This is the quick and easy way to make it.  Since this is a blog for geeks, this is NOT a recipe; just...

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Fix the flash on the Nikon D70 DSLR

This morning I fixed my girlfriends pop-up flash on her Nikon D70 camera.  I decided to document the ordeal hopefully to help others with th...

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