The gang over at PigPog have collected a great selection of interesting furniture projects. Among the delightful (or freakish) ideas there: A Ladder bookshelf. A foldaway work table. A scaffolding bed. (Sure, I just BOUGHT one at IKEA). Temporary Loft And so many more. Each has links to the howto articles and pictures. So, get making! Furniture and

Giving presentations can be a complete and utter thrill. Too bad attending them can be a complete and utter bore. If you are on the giving side, I want to offer you up a collection of my best presentation tricks to date. I’ve written on presentation and the storyteller’s promise before at my site…

JD over at Get Rich Slowly points us to this article on eating more of your meals at home. It’s got a mix of great tips, as well as further references to strengthen the idea further. There’s even a pizza recipe swiped from Terri’s mom. If you read personal finance blogs long enough, you’re…

MAKE magazine points us to a quick and easy laptop hack to manage your cables and peripherals. It’s not for everyone, but it might be very useful if, like the picture demonstrates, you have lots of gear that would be a pain to lose while traveling. Cable Management – [MAKE Magazine]…

Paul’s Tips wants to share what he’s learned about life. In this installment, Paul has ideas on how to absorb difficult material. In bullet form, these are: Bombard yourself with information Identify the key concepts and make them yours Only memorize what absolutely has to be memorized Get some feedback on your understanding Bombard yourself with some more information…

Summer’s coming and you might be getting ready to take a long trip, either on the road or perhaps a long flight to Grandma’s place. If you’ve got kids along for the ride, you know that keeping them occupied is a strong element of your own satisfaction with the journey itself. Here are some ideas…

There’s a huge wealth of posts at Brandon 3.0 about Getting Things Done. I like them because it’s a personal skinning of the popular book by David Allen (we don’t have to tell you that any more, do we?). Brandon starts us out with a great question to ask yourself: WHY do GTD? How’s it…

Spring is in the air. As the weather warms up, we throw open our windows, and this makes us remember all that cleaning we’ve put off. Don’t fret. Do It Yourself Together has a great list of things to consider around spring cleaning. The best way to get everything done by the Summer is to…

How To Lose the Useless Items that Weigh Down Your Day (Part 1)

After reading this tutorial, you can be a professional photographer too. Lindsay Landis over at Switchboards teaches on using non-professional items to generate the professional looking photos. She teaches how to create a small photo tent using frosted plastic Rubbermaid container, white interfacing, daylight light bulbs andwhite color matte poster board. Then she gives some…

Do you want to be a fast writer? Do you want to write effectively? Does it take you hours to think of what to write and when you get something on paper, and then you tear it off? Well, if you’re interested in writing faster, more effectively and efficiently, then you have come to the…

VMware Player is a new free software that enables you to run any existing virtual machine created by their paid product, such as VMware workstation. By default it does not allow you to create any new virtual machine. John Bokma has written a quick how-to on creating a free virtual machine image using QEmu

Want to make your own elegant quill pen? There is a detailed how-to on cutting a quill pen from feather. It looks pretty damn cool to have one on your desk and use this to write on your moleskine notebook. The section of the how-to describes from cutting, to preparation, cutting and re-cutting: … First, a…

Want a suggestion for your DIY session on your weekend? How about making a case for your Hipster PDA? David Meadows has written a how-to guide on how to create a case using duct tape. Depending on your choice of colors, it is pretty fashionable (Just like the Duct Tape Wallet). Here are the…