DIY Book Rack

DIY Book Rack

This is one creative idea to reuse an empty 1.5 liter ice-cream container - make it into a  book rack or open book rack.

Use a pencil and trace an outline on the side of the container

Use a sharp pair of scissors to cut out the required shape

These narrow slits are very important as they hold the board in place

 

Cut the slits according to the thickness of the board. It should fit snugly.

Place a writing-board or hard cardboard into the slits

The book rack is strong enough even for a big heavy book

If the ice-cream container is too flimsy, just add another box to reinforce it.

Use a clip to hold the pages in its place

Great for the kitchen

Excellent for children to do their school or homework

It's excellent as a message board

DIY Lego Minion Costume

         
                                   Minion (noun) is a favored or highly regarded person.

                                   Minion (adjective) for dainty; elegant; trim; pretty

Minions are small, yellow, cylindrical, creatures who have one or two eyes.

They are impulsive creatures with little self-control, but with a wide-eyed wonder and odd innocence that endears them to viewers and makes them so easy to relate to.

How to make your own Lego Minion costume

* Start with a sketch

Do a sketch with dimensions

* Make a proto-type with cardboard 

Use cardboard and masking tape

Front view

Side view

Once you're satisfied with the prototype, cut out the various pieces using cardboard paper

 

 

HandBrake - The open source video transcoder

HandBrake

HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.


Reasons you’ll love HandBrake:

• Convert video from nearly any format
• Free and Open Source
• Multi-Platform (Windows, Mac and Linux)

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Built-in Device Presets

Get started with HandBrake in seconds by choosing a profile optimised for your device, or choose a universal profile for standard or high quality conversions. Simple, easy, fast. For those that want more choice, tweak many basic and advanced options to improve your encodes.

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Supported Input Sources:

Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection.

Outputs:

• File Containers: .MP4(.M4V) and .MKV
• Video Encoders: H.264(x264 and QuickSync), H.265(x265) MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 (libav), VP8 (libvpx) and Theora (libtheora)
• Audio Encoders: AAC / HE-AAC, MP3, Flac, AC3, or Vorbis
• Audio Pass-thru: AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, AAC and MP3 tracks

Simple and easy to use - 4 main items to use for beginners

Even more features

• Title / Chapter selection
• Queue up multiple encodes
• Chapter Markers
• Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT)
• Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding
• Support for VFR, CFR and VFR
• Video Filters: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Denoise, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and scaling
• Live Video Preview

Open the video file you want to convert

Indicate where you want to save the converted file

Click START and see the progress of the conversion

The User Guide

HandBrake has an extensive documentation on most of the features in HandBrake and a detailed FAQ page.

Please see the User Guides and FAQ page on HandBrake wiki.

License

Most of HandBrake's source code is covered by the GNU General Public License, version 2. A copy of which is included with every release in the COPYING file. Portions are covered under BSD 3 Clause.

Credits

HandBrake uses a lot of (L)GPL or BSD licensed libraries. Thank you, authors!