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Just because window cleaning methods are simple doesn't mean that they aren't effective. Learn about a simple window cleaner that wows with help from a cleaning expert known as "The Green Cleaning Coach" in this free video clip.
When making homemade pancakes without milk, butter or baking soda, you're always going to want to keep a few key things in mind. Make homemade pancakes without milk, butter or baking soda with help from the founder of Two Prince Bakery Theater in this free video clip.
Making your own facial mist spray is a great way to combat the effects of wrinkles right at home. Make your own facial mist spray for wrinkles with help from a professional makeup artist in this free video clip.
Homemade eyeliner remover is a lot easier to make than you might think. Learn about homemade eyeliner remover with help from a makeup artist in this free video clip.
Making your own mealy bug spray only requires a few key supplies mixed in just the proper proportions. Make your own mealy bug spray with help from an expert on green pest control in this free video clip.
Homemade shoe cleaner only requires a few key ingredients in the proper proportions. Make homemade shoe cleaner with help from an L.A.-based visual artist and product developer in this free video clip.
Yellow spice is essentially an all-purpose curry spice. Find out how to make yellow spice with help from a passionate culinary professional in this free video clip.
Making your own texture pack for Minecraft is a great way to put your own personal stamp on your favorite game. Make your own texture pack for Minecraft with help from a devoted tech power user in this free video clip.
The secret to buttery soft globe artichokes lies within a few basic areas. Make buttery soft globe artichokes with help from a board-certified health coach in this free video clip.
Epoxy is often used to repair wood that is cracked, broken or rotted. By simply applying the product to the unhealthy wood, you make it stronger, protected and more aesthetically pleasing. Epoxy is not only easy to apply, but it will likely last longer than the wood underneath. Epoxy is fairly strong and holds up well against the elements; however, dents, scratches or nicks in the epoxy are always a possibility. Fortunately, you can fix the problem in little time.
A plain prefab backyard shed might be fine for storing the riding mower and outdoor holiday decorations, but a shed in the garden or near the patio or deck requires some style. Add a window that opens to your potting shed to provide light as well as ventilation. Window boxes are optional, but a set of decorative shutters dresses up your shed even more. Casement windows are simple to install but a double-sash window requires only a bit of added framing.
Dogs can become stressed for many different reasons; some reasons might be sudden loud or unfamiliar noises, separation anxiety or unfamiliar guests in the home. Occasionally, your dog may respond to stress by barking incessantly, chewing obsessively on objects or acting aggressively. Help your dog reduce anxiety and aggression by making a simple homemade lavender oil spray. Lavender oil is a pleasant fragrance with healing properties that will help calm and relax your dog.
Keeping you and your valuables safe often means encouraging those you don't want in the house to stay on the outside. A simple window alarm that costs only a few dollars in supplies and takes five minutes to build can help protect what is yours. It's small enough to throw into an overnight bag to also use on hotel room doors and other away-from-home events.
Chimney tops, or caps, block moisture from entering the chimney and potentially damaging the exterior flooring and walls of a home. The caps also prevent small animals, including squirrels and birds, from becoming trapped inside the chimney. Decorative chimney caps can add a nice touch to your home’s exterior, but don’t always fit into everyone’s budget. One way to make a top look fancy is to spray paint an inexpensive steel chimney cap that fits a double or single flue chimney.
Making a footer that hugs the bottom of the window in CSS can benefit your page for a few different reasons. Make a footer that hugs the bottom of the window in CSS with help from a web and graphics specialist in this free video clip.
Just because you want to make your own healthy shake doesn't mean you have to use protein powder. Make your own healthy shakes without protein powder with help from a certified sports nutritionist in this free video clip.
If you need to quickly build a temporary basement staircase, there's no better material to use than wood. Wooden stairs are strong enough to support a great deal of weight yet light enough to easily remove later, and they cost very little to build. With two 2-by-12 boards positioned diagonally for stringers and several 2-by-6s for treads, you can make a set of removable steps in a single afternoon.
A MySpace profile is divided; those divisions are colloquially known as "divs" among Web designers. MySpace divs make it possible to edit the appearance of a complete section of the MySpace profile with a single command, rather than needing to separately modify each individual element of the MySpace profile.
Disk fragmentation occurs over time as you create, modify and delete files stored to the hard drive. Each time you create or make changes to a file, the computer stores the associated data to a different section on the disk. Eventually, disk speed and performance suffers, since the computer is forced to look through several segments to piece together one file. You can use Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter, two built-in Windows tools, to clean up a disk.
A spray nozzle is a device used to disperse or discharge liquid into a fine jet, or spray. It is essential in distributing liquid over a wide area such as when watering your garden with a hose. Additionally, it can create impact force to clean solid surfaces such as windows or carpets. You can make one using plumbing supplies, including a water hose, quick connectors and misting nozzle.
Used to brew homemade wines or beer, brewing kegs -- also called carboys -- are large glass or plastic bottles, much like the ones turned upside down in office water coolers. A narrow bottleneck is required when making home-brew, but the small opening makes cleaning the inside of the carboy a challenge. Commercial food-grade cleaners are available, but you can use a homemade cleaner to sanitize the interior of the carboy or keg before and after use.
A steamer provides an alternative to cooking many types of foods. The machine, commonly used in restaurants, uses the steam from hot water to cook food. To keep your steamer in the best shape possible and extend its life, clean and care for it regularly. This includes deliming the steamer. Limescale builds up on the interior parts of the steamer due to water usage. This can be removed with the right cleaner.
Your Frigidaire dishwasher distributes soap to your dishes through the detergent compartment in the door of your unit. When it’s time to fill the washer with soapy water, the compartment lid opens and drops out the detergent. A broken detergent compartment means dirty dishes and defeats the purpose of the machine.
Grease is a very useful substance around the house, unless it is unwanted. Unwanted grease buildup can be very hard to remove. Many cleaning products on the market promise perfect and stainless cleaning but fail to deliver when it counts. Every new product claims to be better than others and is priced more expensively than the last one. You're often better off making your own grease cleaner that actually works.
Many women use makeup brushes to transform their looks, highlight their positives and downplay any negatives. Though a commonly overlooked part of the process, cleaning your makeup brushes is a must. If you fail to clean your brushes properly, you run the risk of bringing unwanted bacteria to your face. Additionally, an uncleaned brush may not apply makeup as flawlessly as a freshly cleaned one would.
Wallpaper is available in various colors and designs to allow you a virtually endless array of options for your designing needs. In addition, wallpaper comes in different types such as vinyl and paintable. Each type of wallpaper has its own set of pros and cons that you should take into consideration before purchasing the wallpaper.
You can give your bedroom flair by adding awnings to the windows. For adult bedrooms, awnings can provide a sense of sophistication; for children’s bedrooms, a sense of playfulness. Everything you need to make your own awnings is available in most craft stores. With basic sewing skills and a little imagination, you can make custom awnings to match almost any décor.
Headquartered in Seoul, LG Corporation is the second-largest South Korean conglomerate company – after Samsung – and produces electronics, entertainment products, air conditioners, telecommunication devices and chemicals through its 75 subsidiary companies. LG does business actively in more than 80 countries across the globe.
Saving money is top on the list for many individuals during tough economic times. Making homemade hair care products is one way to save money. Such a product is glycerin hair spray that you can make yourself. This alternative to manufactured glycerin hair spray takes approximately three minutes to make and has a shelf life of about one year.
If you’ve asked your grandparents what life was like before vacuum cleaners, washing machines and other automated cleaning devices, they might tell you that cleaning dishes, clothes and the house took hours every day. They may also tell you that if something isn’t broken, then it doesn’t need fixing or replacing. If you have an older dishwasher that runs efficiently, one of the primary considerations is choosing the best dishwasher detergent.
Many people are looking for a way to reduce costs and use fewer chemicals when cleaning the home as well as soften the water used in the cleaner. This, in turn, reduces the mineral scale that can develop over time on appliances and fixtures when hard water is used to clean, leaving a white filmy appearance on surfaces. Making a homemade cleaner that softens water can be done with some basic laundry and household ingredients.
If you find yourself doing repairs on a vehicle’s window and in need of a method to remove the window crank, what you need is a window crank removal tool. This tool is a simple piece of metal that has a specific shape to remove the clip that holds the crank in place. Buying a specialized tool, however, can seem a waste if you do not plan to do any more car repairs in the future. Fortunately, there are a few things around the house that will remove the window crank.
You can customize each shape’s style in your ConceptDraw diagram, including making it transparent, modifying its background colors and customizing its lines. The Alpha sliders in ConceptDraw can adjust the transparency of a shape’s background colors or line color. You can make an image completely transparent or partially transparent. The diagram’s background or other elements behind the shape will appear through the transparent shape. Making a shape transparent won’t make its text transparent, so you’ll still be able to read the shape’s value.
Life’s Good, a Korean company, manufactures a variety of electronics in addition to cell phones, including home theater speaker systems. While the number of speakers varies from system to system, all are hooked up the same way. Once installed, there is a menu that is accessed by the remote control to adjust various speaker settings in order to make certain all of the speakers are working.
The creation of the cartridge for firearms was the end result of hundreds of years of experimentation and practical development in delivering the explosive gas charge to force the bullet out from the barrel. The case, also known as the brass, holds the powder inside it, and when the case primer is ignited by striking it with the hammer the powder ignites and sends the bullet rapidly away. The case either automatically falls to the ground or it falls to the ground when the shooter ratchets the pump or slide to reload the chamber. Those spent cases are worth something.
You can repel mosquitoes using a few products you may already have access to. Learn about home remedies for repelling mosquitoes with help from the operator of a pest control business in this free video clip.
A removable awning can keep your home cooler in hot weather and the awning can be stored away in the basement or attic during cold weather when you want to let more light in. The awning can be made economically from a sturdy bedspread -- not a comforter -- and wooden dowels and tent stakes serve as the awning structure. The removable awning is great for over a patio door, providing protection from the sun inside and outside the house while serving as a covered spot for outdoor dining.
All wireless networking is based on radio signals, and as such are subject to interference from physical objects and other signals in the electromagnetic spectrum. Five gigahertz (GHz) networking is less subject to interference than networking in the more popular 2.4 GHz band, but the same broad categories of interference apply to both.
After jailbreaking your iPhone, you have the option of changing the physical appearance of your iPhone screen. A reflective dock is a modification that makes it possible to change the look of the dock on your iPhone home screen. Implementing this process requires you to utilize the Cydia app store.
Unlike many traditional types of touchscreen, the iTouch -- or iPod touch, as Apple officially refers to it -- does not use a pressure-activated sensor. The iPod touch has a capacitive touchscreen that senses contact with bio-electrical material, such as your finger. Therefore, a hard plastic or metal stylus does not work. To construct your own iPod touch stylus with a soft tip, which will not scratch the device's glass screen, an organic kitchen sponge can be used to substitute your finger.
Corn is a versatile grain that is native to the Americas. It can feed you, fuel your car or clean your windows. Packaged cornstarch, cornmeal and corn grits are products made from dried, ground corn. Homemade cleaners made from these corn products are organic, inexpensive and easy to make.
You use your dishwasher to clean things, but it also needs to be cleaned. With repeated use, stains build up from soap scum and undissolved, congealed dishwasher detergent. A regular, bimonthly cleaning helps keep your dishwasher at top performance. Dissolve congealed dishwasher detergent and remove stains with simple supplies found in your home.
Whether you’re the do-it-yourself type or just looking to save a little cash by avoiding pricy commercial products, making your own dusting solution is a savvy start. Short of living in a bubble, dust is an unavoidable fact of life. Staying on top of the ever-accumulating dust build-up is irritating enough without having to use chemical-laden cleaners to handle it. Making your own dust cleaner saves you money and gets the job done in a manner that is both effective and safe for you and your family.
A sloped backyard can complicate your landscaping plans, create soil erosion and lead to flooding issues, but flattening the yard must be done correctly to address these problems. Depending on the extent of the slope, a perfectly flat yard may prove difficult to achieve. The task involves not only redistributing the soil, but paying special attention to the separation of topsoil from subsoil. Land with steep or long hills will benefit most from a terracing plan, which allows you to create level areas without moving extreme amounts of dirt. Even an average-size yard could demand significant labor when your goal…
You can make your own homemade spray for the yard using ingredients you probably already have. Make spray for the yard with help from the operator of a pest control business in this free video clip.
Smartphones that use the Android operating system can load media that was previously downloaded to a computer. To enable a Android-based smartphone to be used with the Windows operating system, use built-in operations that Windows has inside of it. No added software for Windows is needed.
If you've ever worried that your store-bought dusting cleaner is too harsh to use around children or other sensitive family members, then a gently homemade version provides the perfect alternative. Instead of choosing a pricey, chemical-filled store-bought dusting product, use household items and natural materials to mix your own concoction.
Making homemade window cleaner from household materials allows you to not only save money, but do your part to save the planet. Homemade cleaners use safe non-toxic ingredients such as corn starch and vinegar. Buying the raw ingredients for homemade window cleaner will cost you less money a bottle of store-bought window cleaner. Since you only need use a little of each ingredient, you will have enough materials left over to create multiple batches of cleaner.
A manual brush has a long, thin shaft that you can easily work into narrow champagne glasses for a thorough and efficient cleaning process. There are a variety of cleaning solutions you can use with this brush type, as it is generally made of nylon bristles that aren’t sensitive to many cleaning solutions.
Cedar is known for its delicate grain and beautiful color. However, the large amount of tannin in the wood can cause cedar boards to darken over time and lose their luster. Choosing the right stain depends on the color and condition of the cedar. The right kind of stain can brighten your cedar boards and make them look like new again.
