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Decorate your house on the cheap (or make great gifts for friends) by creating your own scented candles. Tutorial site WikiHow explains that you need paraffin wax, stearic acid, a glass, a wick with...

Reader rintakumpu decided to make his own floppy disk pen holder in all black and the result is quite sleek. Add your own photos or videos of projects you've undertaken to the Lifehacker Tip Testers...

No, you won't actually have a Mac at the end of this transformation tutorial and, yes, it's just a tad bit, well, excessive. But if you're going to go through the effort of turning your Linux desktop...

It's summer, it's hot, and your big chore for the weekend is getting rid of the stump in your backyard? Instead of digging it out, give the stump a second life as an all-natural stump cooler. Design...

Peek over walls and look around corners with a periscope—a long tool that uses two mirrors to show you hard-to-reach places. Over at how-to site Instructables, they've got the step by step for...

With a projector, DVD player, a bed sheet, and an extension cord, Wired's How-To Wiki runs down how to make a movie theater in your backyard this summer.

Photography enthusiast blog Photojojo details how to mount your point-and-shoot camera on your bicycle for fun and creative shooting. The supplies are cheap (under $10), and putting it all together...

When the heat turns unbearable this weekend, get the kids outside anyway: head to the hardware store and pick up some PVC pipe, joints, and small plastic "mister jets." With those supplies, after...

Duct tape is one of the most handy additions to any lifehacker's toolkit. Whether you're fixing, hanging, sealing, making, or healing, duct tape can get the job done. Problem is, a full roll of the...

What happens when you mix a broken Mac PowerBook with an IKEA Ramvik side table? If you're blogger Frederic Sebton, you create a Mamebook cocktail table—that's a simple, old-school arcade...

DIY web site Instructables has a clever step-by-step for turning your broken but snappy cabinet speakers into a DVD storage cabinet. Last week we posted a guide to clearing your DVD clutter, and if...

Instead of shelling out more than $100 (plus refill costs) for a retail vacuum sealer, Instructable poster "Eric Forman" decided to piece together his own re-usable sealer using about $30 in...

Summer is a season to kick back, take things a easier, and indulge in pastimes and projects you couldn't enjoy while hunkered down for the winter. If you've got the DIY bug, that means trips to the...

Instead of buying costly new appliances for your kitchen, it's cheap and easy to give the old ones a face lift. With cleaning fluid, a toothbrush, and some stainless steel contact paper, you can make...

Instead of throwing out those old floppy disks, grab a couple of zip ties and turn them into a roomy, DIY pen holder that pays homage to the old school method of data storage. Do-it-yourselfer...