18 Jul
Posted by Alex as Crafts and Hobbies, Home and Garden
Now this is a real nifty trick. If you’ve been too drunk to have punched the cork into the bottle and the morning after, you decided that the bottle’s a keeper and you may want to reuse it. But you taking out the cork seems to be impossible without smashing glass. Then you won’t [...]
No-deposit wooden pallets are often found in wholesale stores and establishments and warehouses that handle larger stocks. In any case, you might want to try out some of your local stores if you can get their no-deposit wooden pallets for free. Most of them discard these cheap wooden pallets anyway since the sturdy (usually with [...]
Summer’s a great way to enjoy the great outdoors. Previously here on LifeSpy, we’ve featured this nifty guide to packing your camping gear. We just think that if the weather’s fine, do some outdoor activities. Live a little. If your life has been all work, try to do some more exciting things this summer. Hiking’s [...]
15 Jun
Posted by Alex as Crafts and Hobbies, Family, Holidays and Tradition, Vacation and Travel
Camping is probably one of the great family traditions. While you may have your RVs or campers to use as your mobile home, I guess there’s just more to the tent, sleeping bags, and campfire to really have that outdoors experience. In any case, planning and packing for a camping trip can be a really [...]
14 Jun
Posted by Alex as Computers, Crafts and Hobbies, The Web
Here’s another one to help you with your design woes. As I’ve mentioned for a few posts, one of the best ways you can design your site is through proper color schemes. However, even if you have web tools and palette generators, you might still find it hard especially if you aren’t a pro [...]
12 Jun
Posted by Alex as Business, Communication, Crafts and Hobbies, Work and Career
I helped out in my former company’s headhunting efforts and reading resumes had always been a treat for me. While I really don’t find them on one’s resume nowadays, I’m still interested in knowing what a person does on the side. Don’t get me wrong, I think that those information will stick out like a [...]
06 Jun
Posted by Alex as Crafts and Hobbies, Entertainment, Money and Finance
Subscriptions are sometimes the better route than to buy magazines off the stands at full price. Subscriptions can sometimes save you a couple or so copies a year or get some value-added gifts for your troubles. But magazine subscriptions can be quite expensive in the long run.
If you’re only out for a great reads (and [...]
04 Jun
Posted by Alex as Crafts and Hobbies, Home and Garden
Antique furniture may give at out one time or another. And these breaks usually happen in the joints where they take much of the stress over the years. If you are planning to repair the joint, it will be a lot easier if you get down into separating the joints.
Here’s a great tip on how [...]
01 Jun
Posted by Alex as Attitude and Outlook, Crafts and Hobbies, Home and Garden
There have been plenty of sitcoms featuring couples bickering over paint jobs at home. Usually they end up wrestling over buckets of paint for a whole messy finale. But seriously, picking colors for your home isn’t just about who likes what. If you end up not getting to decide because of preferences, then try deciding [...]
If you ever done a paint job and cleaned all your brushes, you would probably have sent your used paint thinner down the drain. I mean what would you have to do with paint thinner with all sorts of colors in it, right? But anything you’ve discarded would definitely have some dollar values to it [...]
It’s a weekend and with nothing much to do, I’m just checking out random sites and found this one. It’s a nifty trick that you can do out of boredom or out of sheer desperation. Here’s how you can get one last light from an empty lighter.
19 May
Posted by Alex as Crafts and Hobbies, The Web
Designers often have a keen eye on fonts. Some can even identify the font and its details down to the name, size and style. Pretty amazing if you ask me. But how about the rest of us normal people who’d just want to know what a certain font’s name is so that we could [...]
15 May
Posted by Alex as Attitude and Outlook, Crafts and Hobbies, The Web
Motivator posters can try too hard at times. I often found them a bit too much when hung at workplaces. Honestly, when I see one of those on the wall of a boss’ office, it comes to me as something insecure. Haha. Especially the one with “Leadership” on it.
But don’t get me wrong, these [...]
14 May
Posted by Alex as Computers, Crafts and Hobbies, Firefox Tips, The Web
ASCII art has been around for a long, long time. And generators have been around too. And here’s one of them - Photo2Text. It’s an online conversion site that lets you upload an image and download a TXT of the generated ASCII art.
I could’ve featured this as a web raid. But since it’s got [...]
I remember our dad buying my sister a piano. Just a simple upright piano great for kids who were just about to learn playing. It’s still around even if no one really plays it anymore. In playable condition. Now I’ve been thinking if we only took better care of it.
In any case, if you have [...]