Take a few seconds and glance into your garbage can.

Yes, we know… not a pretty introduction or fun task, but how many of those items in there do you think you can reuse? Here are 5 “disposable” items that you can reuse!

1. Dry Cleaning Bags - These are fairly strong and large bags, can easily be stored then used again to pack your “expensive clothes” such as a suit or dress. It will also help prevent wrinkles!
2. Dryer Sheets - You may want to throw a few of these in your clothes drawers; especially socks to keep your clothes smelling fresh!
3. Business Cards - Turn them around and with a little tape they can make great labels for miscellaneous things such as boxes.
4. Cardboard Rolls - Can be used to keep cables nice and clean, even your old Christmas lights! Example
5. Cardboard Egg Cartons - Can be used as a great fire starter! Example

One of the more interesting additions to the last Apple iPhone/iPod update was that ability to add Safari bookmarks to the Springboard.

When most sites are bookmarked, the icon on the Springboard becomes a screen shot of the page. However, if you want, you can provide a custom icon to make your site stand out.

Heres How:

1. Create a 57×57px .PNG file.
2. Add your artwork. Try a logo or something that relates to your site.
   NOTE: You do not need to add any glossy effects. The iPod/Phone will do that for you.
3. Save your icon as… apple-touch-icon.png (It has to be exact!)
4. To add it to your site simply add the .png file to your websites root directory.

Heres the example I made:

Happy bookmarking!

For those of you who have a PSP laying around and want to take advantage of the many hacks you can perform on it… this tutorial will help you install Windows XP on your PSP in less than 10 minutes

Lets get Started!

1. Open up your web browser and click here to download the ONLY file you need.
   What your downloading is PspWxp, which stands for PlayStation Portable Windows XP.
2. Now that you have the one file you need. Connect your PSP to your PC.
3. The folder that you download is called PSPWXP. Put it in the root of your PSP Memory Stick Duo. You have done every thing with your PC. Go to your PSP and open up its web browser.
4. Type in “file:/pspwxp/index.html”
5. Now you have Windows XP on your PSP!

Simple enough, enjoy!

*Disclaimer*

This is not a real XP Install, it is only webpages that look like Windows XP, just a cool thing to show friends.

Here is a simple card trick that involves the use of only 21 playing cards!
Impress your audience every time with this mathematical hoax!

Artists can charge large amounts of money to take any picture and make a sketch out of it. Have you ever wished that you could do the same thing for free? Well it’s not difficult. All you need is Adobe Photoshop and a picture!

The Steps

1. Open your desired photo in Photoshop. Hit ‘Ctrl+Shift+S’ and save it as a Photoshop (PSD) file.
   (So the original is not altered)
2. Go to the Image menu and choose Adjustments > Desaturate to remove the color.
3. Right click the layer and duplicate it. Now, Making sure you are on the top layer, Hit ‘Ctrl+I’ to Invert it.
4. On the Inverted layer, change the mode from Normal to Color Dodge.
5. Under the Filters menu go to Blur > Gaussian Blur and choose the setting that will make it look like a professional sketch. (Normally somewhere within 2.0 and 5.0).

And you’re done! Heres the one I made:

Computer programming is difficult, right? WRONG. Using new programs such as Microsoft Visual Basic 2008, you can create your own programs with ease. This tutorial will show you how to build your own fully-functional web browser in just a couple of minutes!

First off you’ll need a copy of Microsoft Visual Basic Express Edition 2008 (you can download it from here, and by the way… it’s free!) After installing and opening the program…

1. Goto File > New Project
2. Select ‘Windows Application’ and give it (your application) a name.
   For example: “WebBrowser”
3. Hit the ‘OK’ button and your project will now load up!

Getting Started

Once your project is loaded, all you will see is a blank canvas window and lots of buttons. We will start off simple:

1. In the “Toolbar” panel (found at the left of the screen), goto “Containers”. Then drag the “Panel” control onto the top left of your window, then stretch it out to make it fit the top half of your canvas (window).
2. After that’s done, minimize the containers menu and click the “Common controls” button.
3. From there, find the “Textbox” control and drag it into panel you previously added to your canvas.
4. Again, from the “Common Controls” menu, find the button control and lay it into your panel beside the text box.
5. Next, select the “Button1″ control found inside your canvas. On the right side of the screen, you’ll see a small properties window. Find the “text” text field and change “Button1″ to Go!
6. Now select the “Web Browser” control found in the toolbox. Drop it into your canvas window under the panel and stretch it out to fit your window.

Inputting your code

1. On the canvas, double click your “Go!” button. A code editor will pop up.
2. In the code editor, under the “Private Sub…” text, type: WebBrowser1.Navigate (TextBox1.Text)

Finishing up

1. Click the “Form1.vb (Design)” tab near the top of your window.
2. Click the top border of your canvas, mouse over to the “properties” box, and like you did with the Go button find the “text” text and replace “Form1″ with anything you wish.

Test it out!

Now that you’re done, time for the fun part: actually seeing your program in action!
To test out (debug) your program, hit F5 or press the small “Play” button near the top of your screen!

And now you’re done! Enjoy!