Adam Savage talks about the Dodo Bird and the Matelese Falcon

How to be Awesome

While searching for this weeks “How-to” post I stumbled upon an interesting site call Wiki How.  On this site I found a little article called How to be Awesome and I figured this is perfect adn decided to share it with you here.

From WikiHow…How to be Awesome.  Click here for the entire article.

1. Develop the aspects of yourself that aren’t so awesome. Remember that there is no standard set of things that everyone wants to be in life. For some, this may mean getting in shape. For others it may be growing musical talent, or reading more books.
2. Be optimistic. If you start realizing life is good, then you’re that much closer to being awesome. Try thinking of how much worse life could be to help you appreciate what you have. Also realize that if you are having hard times right now, that things are going to get better, especially if you start feeling optimistic about your life. Being optimistic is easy!
3. Find more things to laugh about. Watch stand-up comedy, listen to comedy cds, podcasts, etc. Listening to comedy will help you see life in a more humourous manner, which is awesome.
4. Try to find your own way of doing things. It will work out for you.
5. Start discovering what you love.
6. Work to try to create the awesome things you love. People will know instinctively that someone who creates things is awesome.
7. Listen to your favorite music and don’t be afraid to rock out to it. And if you do it in public, some might think your crazy, but there’s also the possibility that others will think you’re awesome for dancing to the beat of your own drum rather than the masses.
8. Don’t be afraid of what other people think. There are six billion people on the planet so there is no way that you can get along or please everyone. Instead concentrate on pleasing you first then your loved ones.
9. Tell yourself that you are totally awesome. Confidence is crucial to being awesome, so always believe in yourself.
10. Make a list of the qualities you think are awesome in others. Ask yourself why you think these things are awesome. Is it something you can attain in yourself? If not, is there something different you could do?
11. Be awesome to others and they will not only be awesome to you but tell everyone how Awesome you really are!

How To fashion your own Club Card Organizer

Use a old club card to help organize the cables on your desk. Click here to see the whole tutorial.

How to do Just about Anything

It’ Saturday again and time for your weekly Awesome-Blog How To.  This week I bring you a web site that will teach you how to do just about anything.  eHow.com boasts just that.  From what I saw its true you can learn how to live on budget, do yoga, throw an inauguration party and even how to make love (haven’t read that one yet).  So check it out, you just might make yourself a better person…or at least a better lover.

eHOW.com

6 Pack Abs

With the new year already upon us and people vowing to get back in shape, I figured we all can use some help with this.   I found a nifty site that promises 6 pack abs in 16 weeks.  Now I really have no desire nor the time to put into getting 6 pack abs, not that I  or my wife wouldn’t appreciate the benefits of me being cut but….you know…life.  But this site gives you a lot to look at so you can devise your own routine, a lot of the workouts that don’t require much if any equipment.  Enjoy and good luck.

I want 6 Pack Abs Week 1.

I want 6 Pack Abs Weeks 1-16.

Tekzilla’s Top 10 Tips & Tricks of 2008

Continuing with our Daily Year End Top 10 lists….

The good folks over at Tekzilla and Revision3 have put together their top 10 tips and tricks of 2008.  Tekzilla is a technology Q&A show that airs weekly online over at Revision3.

• Speeding up file transfers in Windows.
• Moving music off your iPod.
• What’s taking up space on your hard drive?
• Finding out what -exactly- is on your PC. (Inventory that Windows machine!)
• Speed Browsing in Windows.
• Vista Power Button: make it more useful.
• More tips in the show!

Get Ipod on your Tv Cheap

Do you have and older iPod, one that’s version 5.5 or old with video capabilities? And you want to watch those iPod videos that you download to your iPod from iTunes on your new LCD television or your old television for that matter. You can do one of two things. you can go out and buy an Apple iPod to TV cable for about $30 or you can follow this simple guide.

I can tell you that you probably already have the cables you need just sitting in the camcorder box in the closet. All you need to do is use the mini jack to composite cable that you use to connect your camcorder to the television.

Just follow the simple instructions listed here at macdevcenter.com.

FYI, the newer iPod Classics and Nanos will not work with this technique.

In other words, if you have video capabilities and Coverflow on your iPod (or nano) this trick won’t work.

Apple changed the iPod so you can no longer access video through the headphone jack, you have to output it through the dock connector, and you have to pay Apple $50 for a cable that will work.