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Two things that always seem to be in surplus around the holidays are empty wine bottles and strands of Christmas lights. Turn the two into a novel lamp with this simple hack.
You'll need a wine bottle, a short strand of Christmas lights—they used a 50 bulb stand for the bottle pictured above—and some basic shop tools like a a drill with a glass drill bit, masking tape, and safety goggles and gloves.
You drill a hole in the bottom of the bottle—the near the bottle on the side, not into the bunt—and feed your lights in through the hole. Plug it in and you've got yourself a rather novel little bit of mood lighting. Check out the full tutorial at the link below for tips and tricks on drilling glass.
Have a novel holiday decoration or mood lighting idea? Let's hear it in the comments.
If you checked out the bike repair stand we shared with you earlier this month and were disappointed because you don't have a sturdy enough ceiling to attach it to, you'll want to check out this free-standing design.
Whether you're living in an apartment or you just don't want to permanently attach anything to your garage rafters, this design let's you work on your bike anywhere you want without having to screw it into a support structure.
Using basic off the shelf parts from your local hardware and its plumbing aisle, you can make a sturdy bike repair stand. Check out the video below to see the construction process and the stand in action:
For as guide a little easier to follow when you're working on the stand, you can download the PDF instruction from Make Magazine here. Have a DIY bike-related hack or project to share? Let's hear about it in the comments.
Windows: The Windows Media playback field is a crowded one, and it's tough to find a tool that can handle multiple playback formats. SPlayer is a gem of an app that manages just about everything audio and video.
SPlayer gets the job done thanks to binary codecs, and even plays Blu-Ray and DVDs. It has most of the bells and whistles you'd expect to find in a media player, including fullscreen mode, basic audio controllers, continuous playback options, and subtitles. SPlayer even sports a screengrab button so you can capture still shots from video.
One of the only drawbacks to SPlayer is that its web site is in Chinese, but it's easily translated via Google Translate. The app's controls and user interface, however, are available in English. If you're looking for something with a different interface, and maybe some unique features, over house favorite VLC Media Player, SPlayer is a free, open source download that runs on Windows 7, Vista, and XP.
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