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- inactive, on 11/29/2007, -2/+31DerekZoolandersWebsiteForKidsThatTeachYouHowToDoReallyCoolStuff.com
- lowerlogic, on 11/29/2007, -0/+28Video: Ron Paul calls Steve Jobs on Apple iPhone and says: Vista sucks when I try to play the top ten retro games [list] when it is emulated on an iPod running Ubuntu [PIC] NSFW
- BenBenMan, on 11/29/2007, -4/+29The digg algorithm? It's really easy, all you have to do is include two or more of these items (more will increase your probability of getting onto the front page):
- Lists (especially a Top Ten)
- Apple
- Ron Paul
- Steve Jobs
- VISTA SUCKS
- iPod
- iPhone
- Video
- Retro Gaming
- Ubuntu
- iPhone
- [PIC]
- iPhone
Here the submitter had a List, and videos, so it got dugg. - Trax91, on 11/29/2007, -2/+21***** off, spammer.
- staffrocket, on 11/29/2007, -0/+18Great site for general curiosities: http://www.howstuffworks.com/
- inactive, on 11/29/2007, -1/+10When you get bored with those sites try this one.
http://www.totse.com/en/bad_ideas/index.html - Intensity, on 11/29/2007, -0/+8Where's wikihow?
- SaxmanTrav, on 11/29/2007, -0/+6I became worried when I saw the domain of this website...totse...
- theDevilsDue, on 11/29/2007, -2/+7The Household Hacker site is *****. None of those tutorials work. I wish people would stop spreading that site around. None only can you ***** up your electronics, but the ***** is using MetaCafe which means he can get paid for putting out that garbage.
Other than that, it's a good list. - Fatcheeseguy, on 11/29/2007, -1/+6Digg.com
- inactive, on 11/29/2007, -2/+7OMG I love doing stuff!
- alextiming, on 11/29/2007, -4/+9 * Instructables - "The World's Largest Show and Tell," as the site calls itself, is a community where people can create and share guides that cover a variety of topics from art and crafts to food, technology, and the home. The multi-page guides are well illustrated and users can rate and discuss them.
* SuTree - The recently redesigned SuTree aggregates video tutorials from over 250 sources. Their library includes over 11,000 videos covering just about every topic you can imagine. They republish videos from a bunch of other sites on this list.
* TrickLife - A user generated video tutorial site covering a large number of topics. Their "Computing" section is one of the most active and features a number of great tutorials about how to use various computer programs.
* VideoJug - VideoJug is one of the largest general purpose professionally produced video tutorial sites. They host over 15,000 video tutorials in just about every subject under the sun, including some tongue-in-cheek tutorials like this one: How To Use CSI Techniques To Find Out Who Used Your Coffee Mug. The videos include text as well to make them easier to follow.
* Expert Village - Expert Village calls itself the world's largest video tutorial site, and with nearly 49,000 videos, they might be right. Expert Village produces videos using a network of "experts" in various fields. Anyone can sign up to be an expert and the site contacts those it feels would do well hosting a video tutorial series.
* eHow - eHow is a very large tutorial site covering a wide range of topics. Many of the tutorials were created by their editorial team, though some are user submitted. The presentation of the tutorials isn't very compelling (generally on a single page, broken into steps, without much in the way of rich media to aid instruction), but the site does have a small and growing video tutorial library.
* Household Hacker - A really cool video tutorial blog that instructs on how to achieve a number of "hacks" using common household items (usually these have to do with technology). As an example, the video embedded below demonstrates how to charge and iPod using an onion and some Gatorade (not sure why you'd ever want to do that, but, still pretty neat):
* Make: Podcast - Make Magazine is, in general, one of the coolest DIY magazines out there, instructing each month on a variety of awesome projects. Their online video podcast is a great collection of tutorials on how to do cool things like make a potato cannon or screen print your own t-shirt
* 5min - The "videopedia," as the site calls itself, 5min is another repository of user created video tutorials. Their hook? All the videos must be under 5 minutes in length. This site is great for someone who wants to learn how to do something on a tight schedule.
* ViewDo - Another video tutorial site that relies on user contributions, ViewDo also mixes in some tutorials created in house. ViewDo covers a ton of topic areas, and one of the nice things about the site is that videos can be downloaded to a portable media player (like an iPod or PSP) and watched on the go.
* Sclipo - Sclipo not only encourages people to share their knowledge, but also provides a utility for them to do so via webcam. As on most video sharing sites, users can rate and comment on clips.
* Helpfulvideo - This is a rather strange site that mixes up video tutorials with video classified ads. I'm not really sure where the crossover is, but if you're looking to buy a used car then learn how to change its oil filter, then perhaps this site is for you.
* TeacherTube - TeacherTube is a straight up YouTube clone aimed at providing an outlet for educational videos that I gather can be used by teachers in class. Some of the videos were pretty good, but the site seems really unfocused compared to the rest in this round-up. Then again, what kid wouldn't love Dr. Loopy Discusses the Water Cycle? (Um, don't answer that.)
* Koonji - Offering people-powered guides, in my August review of Koonji I compared the site to Instructables and Squidoo.
* Squidoo - Speaking of Squidoo... While not totally focused on tutorials, Squidoo's lenses are a font of information about all sorts of stuff and often include how-to guides (or links to them!).
* About.com - Who could forget About.com? Not us! Buried in the editorial of About.com are hundreds of tutorials, including a growing amount of video content -- you just have to dig for it sometimes. - cranium, on 11/29/2007, -1/+5That's pretty funny that they specifically called out the charge-your-ipod-with-an-onion video.
- andrewcsayer, on 11/29/2007, -1/+4If only there was a way to get my hands on the Digg algorithm
- spikespeigel42, on 11/29/2007, -0/+3What do you think this is, myspace?
THIS IS DIGG! *chest kick* - raffyoh, on 11/29/2007, -0/+3ummm i guess my penny isn't shiny enough for hi-def plate action.
- Bluerayusa, on 11/29/2007, -0/+3hmm.. i am out of onions.
- stelriah, on 11/29/2007, -0/+3Shouldn't the title read: OMG! The Top 16 Best Sites That Teach You How To Stuff Best
- arjie, on 11/29/2007, -0/+3Your list is a case in point.
- Faelenor, on 11/29/2007, -1/+3The list is interesting, but please don't give a metacafe hoax as example! Metacafe is a just a joke...
- freddo, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2All those that are listed on that page, and more (unless they don't provide a feed) are probably included in my google reader opml file, if you use firefox, have a look at:
http://headology.net/greader.xml
Check the howto section, you'll just need to copy/paste that part an use the import feature of your feed reader.
Have fun ;-)
Btw, i'm also interested in other's opml files... - kenbiz, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2a good list to find doing stuff online, i especially like ehow.com because it gave me plenty of brainstorming ideas for researching my products creation
- haterrade, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2you forgot NSFW
- 1337zork, on 11/29/2007, -1/+3"The web can help you learn how to do just about anything you can imagine."
Right.. Where's the danish sign language I want to learn? - n2dasun, on 11/29/2007, -1/+3Yeah! Welcome to DIGG!!!
- MasterOrange, on 11/29/2007, -1/+3Dugg down for household hacker.....
- hander, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2What are you talking about - Everything at Household hacker works! You can't be doing it right ...
- CCoe, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2I want to learn how to build a website. I want to create a blog-style NHL page. I've experimented with a yahoo free site and the reception was very good, people generally liked my writing - so I'm hoping to hit the web running.
- kacymartin, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2a better list would have had systm
- d3bruts1d, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2A "big" list? Looks like a small list to me. I've seen top 20 lists that contained more items than this list.
- Hase0, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2wow so much household hacker hate, never really used it but is it really that bad?
- NineThousand, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1"TrickLife - A user generated video tutorial site covering a large number of topics. Their "Computing" section is one of the most active and features a number of great tutorials about how to use various computer programs."
TrickLife computing section:
How to hack xp passwords
How to change the password for any account on a Limited Account
How to hack school's computer.
etc. - Herald42, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1Don't worry, it's not .cx
- eLenka, on 03/11/2009, -0/+1Great list. Bookmarked
- freddo, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1If some people are annoyed because this isn't sorted alphabetically, i think i made a script somewhere to sort the xml on some attr values, the file up there is just an export from GReader that have been "tidyfied"... just ask if you need such a thing.
- kcoo, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1will reach the front page
- jamdogg, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1had to digg it but wouldn't mind something USEFUL,
- spect3r, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1Lifehacker?
- axelo, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1also "most", "awesome", "amazing" and "best"
- bxyldy, on 12/05/2007, -0/+1&totse... man, i remember racking up the long distance minutes with hyperterminal back in the day...
- mastertop, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1I've seen a big ant... It was 1 foot large ! But oh.. wait.. I saw a normal sized elephant and it still was much bigger than the ant! The ant must have been really small then!
- mattottam, on 09/29/2009, -1/+2A Big List of Sites...
yawn - carusen, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1I also recommend The How To Geek site and Windows Vista for Beginners.
- EnricoForte, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1Thanks to example of this website I've created an emergency list of videos and tutorials related to travel
http://www.mandalatrek.com/blog/2007/11/29/technol ... - SublimeRuin, on 11/29/2007, -2/+2www.google.com
- lomboss, on 02/06/2008, -0/+0Try this one for learning computer tricks and creating your own how-to videos to share with others. http://www.utipu.com/app/
- OglethorpeMall, on 12/06/2007, -0/+0A good starting point.
- littletownblues, on 11/30/2007, -0/+0Nice list. I'm amazed at how often I read Make, but how infrequently I try any of the ideas myself. I guess I am an 'armchair tinkerer'.
- masterm1nd, on 11/29/2007, -2/+2Ask jeeves.
- inactive, on 11/29/2007, -0/+0http://www.epanorama.net/
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