DIY Spirit

The long awaited revision to the Apple TV is out, but it’s not quite what I had longed for. I am an original apple TV user and I love it,  but the reason it works for me is because it has a hard drive.  The giant plus side to it is that the new Apple TV [...]

Instead of firing up your car to drive to the hardware store to buy a bird feeder shipped here all the way from China you can dig though your recycling bin and have a good looking bird feeder in a few simple steps and save money in the process. I used two large plastic bottles. [...]

I used to think that washing dishes by hand was actually good for me in that it gave me a long amount of time to think and reflect on life.  After installing this dishwasher what I actually found out was the stress level around the house decreased because I no longer had to employ subliminal [...]

If your switching from a windows small buisness server to an apple server you may notice there is no longer  an email pop connecter like windows small business server has so installing fetchmail on an apple server may be the only way to continue downloading your pop mail from your internet mail server to your [...]

You can have a stainless steel looking backsplash for under $40. For us we just couldn’t spend more on the backsplash than we did the countertop. Stainless steel tiles were too expensive and sheet stainless steel required someone to fabricate it. By using aluminum roof flashing you can fabricate the metal yourself and save on [...]

What do you do when you have a giant acrylic rod & some solar panels lying around. You have to find some use for it. You can’t just let them sit there on the shelf. What’s cooler than a 3′ glowing rod in your yard. I created the solar saber for an experiment in building [...]

There are places for screened in porches and some of them can look great if done correctly, but unfortunately most modern screens don’t add any value architecturally to your old home. When my house was originally build it had wooden framed windows that could be hooked to the ceiling if you wanted to leave the [...]

I have an old wooden garage door going into the basement of my house. In winter the garage gets really cold and so does the bedroom above it. I decided to insulate the door instead of replacing it because first it is a nonstandard door size and second it was cheap enough solution to give [...]

I was first interested in the ihome alarm clock because of it’s ability to charge the ipod and use it as a radio. After browsing ebay for one I noticed that a lot of the ihomes were being sold “as is” with the ipod function no longer working. So I bought a broken IH5 for [...]

Who knew it’s so easy to make microwave popcorn on the cob. Put a cob of popping corn into a brown paper bag, fold the bag shut, place it in the microwave for 3 minutes & presto popcorn on the cob. It makes around 3 bowls of popcorn per cob and most of the popcorn [...]