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A note block can be used to make some fun noise in Minecraft. Find out how to make a note box in Minecraft with help from a video game expert in this free video clip.
Parenting a young man who seems to have no motivation is a difficult task. Your knowledge of what the future holds may not influence his behavior today. If his school work is suffering, his college applications are doing nothing but collecting dust on his desk, or his seeming indifference to learning the skills he'll need to support himself as an adult has you worried, you have to find a creative way to motivate your young man.
If you're giving flowers to a Valentine, one thing you definitely want to be is unique. Get unique floral ideas for a Valentine with help from a world renowned floral designer in this free video clip.
You can make a great bumble bee Valentine box right at home using a cereal box and a few other basic items. Make a bumble bee Valentine box made out of a cereal box with help from a longtime crafts expert in this free video clip.
When creating birthday cards, you always want to remember a few important tips. Create great birthday cards with help from an experienced crafts expert in this free video clip.
Making a Valentine's Day profile picture for Facebook is a great opportunity to really get into the spirit of the holiday. Make a Valentine's Day profile picture with help from an Internet and social media expert in this free video clip.
Making an HTML check box bigger can be accomplished by modifying the existing code in a very particular way. Make an HTML check box bigger with help from a well-versed programmer in this free video clip.
Making a checkable box in Word can be necessary for a wide variety of different types of documents. Make a checkable box in Word with help from an experienced web developer in this free video clip.
Making a smoothie for the next day is a great way to start your morning off right. Make a smoothie for the next day with help from a registered dietitian in this free video clip.
You’ll quickly discover that pet ferrets need a lot of toys, of all different sorts. They like toys that provide climbing, exploring, chasing and digging opportunities. The last could be messy if the ferrets decide your houseplants need some attention. A tidier alternative is to add a dig box to their toy selection. As with most ferret toys, it is cheapest to make this yourself.
One way to make Valentine's Day cards is through the use of regular old manila folders. Make Valentine cards out of manila folders with help from an experienced teacher in this free video clip.
Valentine's Day is a time when your child can exchange meaningful notes with her classmates and friends. However, carrying all of those valentines home can be difficult. One solution is to construct a whimsical Valentine's Day box in which your child can put her collected valentines. Valentine's Day boxes can even be designed to match your child's style and interests, such as making a princess castle valentine box using materials that can be found around the house.
Cold-box core is a mass of sand placed within a mold box to create a hollow cavity for shaping castings. The phrase "cold box" specifies the process used to make the core. Chemically bonded sand such as silica sand is packed in a four-sided container. The sand is then compressed with water and an object is pressed into it to create a cavity with the desired impression. The process does not require firing or baking.
Valentine's Day boxes can be used to hold cards given out at school and can vary widely in design and style. Instead of using a standard rectangular or square box to hold your valentines, you can make your own, more creative-looking box using basic household items and craft materials. You can even make a big Hershey Kiss-shaped box by forming it out of paper-mache and aluminum foil.
Because of AJAX's wide variety of scripts and abilities, you can use this simplified Web scripting language to create Web components that perform multiple functions, such as a website search field that works like a drop-down menu when it is clicked. This menu will allow users to search your website for specific content and see a list of search results while typing via the drop-down menu.
Playing Neopets allows you to make some serious cash -- in Neopets money, that is. If you're a Neopets lover, you might wonder how to make the millionaire status that some of the elite members hold. The trick is to diversify your games, shops and items so that you're constantly earning money. Between games and items, you can also participate in lotteries and bonus games to earn you even more points to hit that elusive 100,000 per day mark.
Avid card collectors know the dangers their decks face without proper storage. Scuffs, small bends and fading all are problems you can encounter unless you store your cards appropriately. A sturdy deck box protects your cards from harmful elements and shows that you respect your cards. Not every deck is the same, so tailor your deck box to the size and style you need to reflect your personality while providing a sturdy safehold to make your cards last for years.
The microblogging network Tumblr allows you to format posts according to the content you’re sharing. For instance, if you’re posting an image, the site allows you to choose the “Photo” format to enhance the appearance of the image on your blog. Likewise, you can create a link box for sharing a URL on your blog using the “Link” option. The format of the link box is automatically dictated by the theme you’ve assigned to Tumblr, but it can be edited using Tumblr’s CSS editor if you want to change the appearance of link posts.
The Adobe Photoshop software has become synonymous with several types of digital design tricks of the eye, but one important process the program accomplishes is its ability to add transparency into an image. Take a standard photograph or drawing of a box and let viewers know there’s a little more to see even when they’re seeing less with Photoshop’s opacity slider.
A slotted lock box is useful for collecting donations or saving money and keeping the money reasonably secure. The most complex part of making a slotted box is the lid – the slot itself must be cut to a template, drilled at either end with a drill bit the width of the slot, cut out with a jigsaw and sanded smooth. Otherwise, the materials and carpentry skills necessary for the box are basic – no other power tools or cutting are required.
A space shift box is a device that stores digital content such as movies, music and games, but gives access to the media from other computers and devices over a network. You can make a space shift box from any computer placed in a centralized location. The purpose in doing this is to keep all media on one device and protect the other computers and devices on the network from virus infiltration.
Tether boxes, or mobile hotspots, enable users to share a mobile broadband connection with other network devices. A tether box can connect to computers via a USB cable, known as "tethering," or connect to the computers via a Wi-Fi connection. But because of the mobile nature of a tether box, its output signal depends heavily on its proximity to a cellular tower. If you're getting poor output from your tether box, you can take a few steps to boost the hotspot's output signal without relocating your setup closer to a tower.
There are a few symbols synonymous with Valentine's Day. Thoughts of hearts, cupid and of course, roses, come to mind. One craft idea matches one of the symbols, roses, with a tradition often carried out in elementary and grammar schools: passing out valentines. Using a shoe box, create a decorative box where kids can place and store the Valentine's Day cards they receive.
When looking for interesting Valentine's Day ideas, sometimes the most simple supplies are overlooked. Basic things like Valentine's Day candy can be used to create decorations that can be given as Valentine's Day gifts that are exciting and unexpected, without having to cost an arm and a leg. Even lollipops in the shape of hearts and flowers can be used to make something special.
Shabbat is the Jewish sabbath, which occurs on Saturday in the regular solar calendar. On Shabbat, strictly observant Jews are forbidden from working, exchanging money, and other activities, including operating electrical equipment and driving. While many Jews do not follow these strict laws, it is customary for them to have a Shabbat dinner, which includes challah, traditional Jewish egg bread and to light Shabbat candles. You can make a Shabbat box that contains these and other important items to celebrate Shabbat on a weekly basis.
If you, like most people, struggle with a busy schedule, it can be difficult to keep all of your appointments and events straight. Since purchasing planners or digital calendars can be expensive, you can save money by making a day planner on your computer. By using Word templates, you can choose the exact type of planner best suited to your needs, edit the dates and text, then print out your planner for daily use.
A mummy box, or coffin, is a hauntingly eerie accessory for Halloween decorations or for an educational lesson about mummies and Egyptian philosophies about the afterlife. Mummy boxes are where mummified bodies lie, all wrapped up. In ancient Egyptian times, a mummy coffin or box was encompassed by a larger box, called a sarcophagus. For purposes of a craft project, you can make one mummy box and decide whether it should be the coffin or the sarcophagus, since they are both shaped the same.
Learning how to make an entry box in Python can help you capture information from the user that you can then use in your program. A computer program commonly uses information entered by the user to generate some type of result, and entry boxes are one of the best ways to capture information from the user. An entry box widget is also known as a text box control in other programming languages, and it allows a user to enter a line of text.
Butter box rails are long-time staples of skate parks where both skateboarders and snowboarders go for fun, practice and neighborhood competitions. Essentially, they are slightly inclined ramps where skaters can practice various moves on their boards without fear of serious injury. Some skaters and snowboard enthusiasts build their own butter box rails in their backyards. You can make them out of almost anything, and get creative with designs and features.
Valentine's Day is the most romantic day of the year. Use this day to show your special someone how much he means to you. It's imperative that you give your love a card with a romantic message written inside on Valentine's Day. It can sometimes be nerve-wracking trying to come up with the words to describe how much your special someone means to you, so put a lot of thought into your message. Get it just right.
Root cellars used to be a common feature of houses in temperate environments, either being dug underneath the house or into the side of a hill. These structures, which use the insulating and cooling properties of underground construction, help keep food cold enough to store for an extended period of time, until they are ready to be used.
Here's an idea: Use parts from obsolete electronics to make a box with scale circuits. Scale circuits are found in the motherboard of computers and internal parts of printers and compact disc players. Scale circuits are primarily made of plastic and silicone. If you have a few old electronics around the house, remove the scale circuits to make a futuristic box. Free up precious storage space in your home and reuse the electronics for parts.
A microwave box is the ideal way to position one of your most useful kitchen appliances at a more convenient height while freeing up counter space for cooking and baking. Depending on the microwave design, there may be built-in lights or fans underneath the microwave which make a suspended box an extremely practical improvement in the kitchen -- something often discovered about secondhand microwaves. Hanging a microwave from the wall with a box will allow the designing freedom to place the appliance in any location on any wall with the studs to support it.
Habbo is a social networking site that takes the form of a hotel. Users can customize various guest rooms with virtual furniture, known on the site as furni. You can also hide this furni by replacing it with a PH box. A placeholder box takes the place of the furni, to show that it is there without displaying it.
Your Mac has the ability to automatically draw a black box around the mouse cursor, making the cursor less difficult to locate for those with eyesight difficulties. When used in conjunction with the Zoom feature, the box displays a preview of the area that the screen displays if you zoom in for a closer look.
Belgian inventor Joseph Merlin famously introduced the roller skate to the world in 1759 by skating into a ballroom while playing a violin, then crashing into a wall when he didn't know how to stop. Since then, rollerskating, and its sister sport rollerblading, have taken the world by storm, with millions of adrenaline junkies taking immense pleasure in the sport's scope for performing tricks and pushing boundaries. If you want to start perfecting your tricks at home you can build your own basic rollerblading grind box in under two hours.
Box-and-whisker plots are graphical representations of a set of numerical data. In other words, these plots allow you to see the relationship between a group of numbers in a clear visual format. Traditional box-and-whisker plots are used with one set of numbers, while double box-and-whisker plots illustrate two sets of data, allowing an easy comparison.
Succulent collections can take up a lot of space. If you love succulents, but are running out of space, make a succulent box where you can take cuttings from your collection and combine them into a piece of living artwork. This DIY project is very simple to assemble and plant. After planting, you’ll need to wait 12 weeks before hanging the box on the wall in order to give the plants time to establish strong roots.
The most practical way to add a scroll box to an HTML form is to build the form on an independent Web page, and use an iframe with scrolling enabled on another page to view the form. An iframe, or "inline frame," is an element on a Web page that contains another page or document within it. From this design perspective, it resembles looking in through a window, or another screen within a screen.
Valentine craft projects often include heart shapes. The heart shape resembles a ladybug, with a pointed end for a face and two rounded ends for wings. Beginners or experienced crafters can recycle a heart-shaped candy box to look like a ladybug. Make any size box to hold a gift or Valentine cards.
Servant days are all about serving others. Planned servant days encourage acts of service even when the recipient cannot return the favor. A community servant’s day draws the community together to pay it forward with acts of kindness not just to friends, family or acquaintances, but also to strangers in need.
Hearts are immediately recognized by young children as a symbol of love. If you’re designing homemade cards for your children or helping your children design cards for people they care about, a heart-shaped card cut from the child’s favorite color of paper will make it more personal. You can further personalize the card by decorating it with the child’s preferred craft supplies such as glitter glue, markers, tissue paper or pipe cleaners.
Nothing says Pajama Day quite like snuggling up with a good book in class, so don't snooze on your opportunity to turn this fun, silly day into a valuable learning experience. There are a variety of pajama themed titles you can read with your students, as well as games, crafts and other exercises that will help you reinforce literacy skills in an entertaining manner.
Taking reptiles out of their natural habitat can cause stress unless the new environment mimics the reptile's original habitat. By making a humid box, you give your reptile an area within its living space to adjust to temperature and climate changes. Moisture, ventilation and temperature affect humidity in the living space of the reptile. Since the needs of a reptile differ from the needs of a human, it's difficult for an owner to understand the needs of a pet at a specific time. Instead of playing a constant guessing game, add a humid box for your reptile to get the…
Homemade boxes add charm and individuality to token gifts. Consider making a batch of plain boxes in advance for a bulk shopping holiday, such as Christmas. You can disguise the generic appearance of the plain boxes by wrapping them in thin cloth or decorative paper and personalizing each with a handwritten note. Or, you can adapt the measuring procedure for making a sloped box out of paper to make a decorative storage box out of wood, sheet plastic or clay.
An accordion box is similar to an accordion book -- it has pages that are folded back and forth in a zig-zag fashion. The pages on an accordion box are attached to the lid so they unfold and reveal their message when the box is opened. You can also tuck a small gift in the box for an extra surprise.
For kids, Valentine's Day is not about showing love to one particular person. At 9 and 10 years old, most fourth-graders are still focused on the friendship aspect of the holiday, giving Valentines to classmates and perhaps special Valentines to parents. Teachers can help students prepare for Valentine's Day by guiding them to create cards, decorations and special crafts.
Although you cannot style a drop-down box to look exactly how you want without some JavaScript involved, you can change its size. Possible changes to the overall size include setting width and height of the box itself, using a larger font size or using padding around the text of the box. When setting the dimensions of the box, it is best to leave height alone, but you can set the width to make the box longer. Font size and padding will make the height of the drop-down grow to fit the text and extra spacing.
Microsoft Word boasts a variety of text, image and object editing tools. While typically used in a word processing capacity, you can also use preformatted documents to create files for address labels, resumes and newsletters. In addition to the tools and templates contained directly in Word, you can choose from a selection of preformatted templates on the Microsoft Office website. Use these templates to create complex documents, such as day planners.
While sweets and flowers often rule Valentine’s Day, a little creativity may help you dream up different gifts to share with little loved ones. Many youngsters love a brand new pencil, so if you make a Valentine card pencil holder, you can present a colorful and special card and gift in one pretty package. The card is simple enough to whip together quickly with only a few basic art supplies.
