CraftRoulette is a wonderful website that lets you randomly search for crafty things you can create with your hands. These things can be anything, ranging from dresses to paper crafts. All you have to do is select the category of crafts you are interested in – you can select only one category or multiple categories. Next you click on the “Spin Again” button; this randomly searches for a crafty item relevant to the categories you selected; the item’s name and picture are shown in the center pane. You can click on the item’s name to open the official URL where you will find instructions on how to create it.

Features:

• A user-friendly website.
• Lets you randomly search crafty items.
• You can select the categories of crafts you are interested in.
• Provides links where instructions on creating the items can be found.

Check out Craft Roulette @ www.craftroulette.com (By Umar from TechCityInc)

The YouTube Creator Program is a competition that YouTube is holding for residents of the US who are more than 18 years of age. Along with submitting a video you will need to answer two questions that resemble personal statements. Since YouTube videos comprise of shorts, webcasts, and a variety of other forms, YouTube has not placed any restriction on the genre of video you submit. The format restrictions include a maximum length of 2 minutes and the complete absence of any music, even your own.

People selected by the program will earn video-making tuition, round-trip airfare, food, and rooming costs. Members of the program will learn from a newly-created new media curriculum while using new media tools. They will engage intimately with world-class faculty, industry leaders, YouTube leaders, and top YouTube stars. They will build a customized and upgraded brand channel, video blog on experiences, and start building a global audience.

Finally the members will produce a single piece of work, whether it be a talk show, nature video, short film, etc, that, by the end of the program, will be promoted by YouTube and its partners.

Demo video:

Features:

• Get free YouTube video making tips.
• Provides online video tutorials.
• Similar sites: VideoSchool.
• Also read related article: Top 5 Online Tools to Make a Movie Online for Free.

For submission and other details on the YouTube Creator Program, pay a visit to www.youtube.com/creators (by MOin from ThumbPress)

App Demo Store is a collection of smartphone-related demos that range from the usage of apps to the execution of regular phone functions. The site lets developers create demos and then display them for free public viewing. The developer creates the demo by first entering its details; next pictures of different stages of the demo are uploaded. In each picture, the developer points out the region where the user has to click / tap. While the demo is played this region is highlighted in a red box. When a person clicks on this box, the next picture is loaded. This is how the demo progresses ““ through a series of pictures.

App Demo Store offers a paid and free account. The free account lets you load create 3 demos with the storage size of each demo being not more than 1MB.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you view smartphone-related demos.
• Lets developers create smartphone-related demos.
• Demos include application demos and task execution demos.
• Demos are animated as a series of pictures.

Check out App Demo Store @ www.appdemostore.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Internet Buttons is a free to use website. The site lets you place brightly colored buttons on a webpage. These buttons act as shortcuts to other URLs. You choose how many buttons to place on your webpage; your selection is saved through the account you create. You can name the buttons whatever you want and choose a different color for each button. Through a public URL to your buttons page you can access the startpage from anywhere.

This simple way of labeling the web shortcuts through brightly colored buttons will definitely be preferred by people new to computers and the Internet.

Features:

• A user friendly web service.
• Lets you create a startpage brightly colored buttons for net illiterate.
• Buttons are shortcuts to URLs.
• The buttons are completely customizable.
• Helps make the Internet easier to use.
• Similar tools:  Teach Parents Tech, LMPTFY and Let Me Google That For You.

Check out “Internet Buttons” @ www.internetbuttons.org (by MOin from ThumbPress)

IKEA Hackers is a great website to visit if you want to make something creative and useful out of IKEA parts. On the homepage you will find user-submitted accounts and pictures describing their IKEA creations. You can search for specific projects by browsing categorically or by using the supported keywords search feature.

You can also visit the site’s “Instructables” section to get how-to guides on different creative furniture pieces.

If you ever need any special help, you can log onto the site’s forums and interact with more experienced IKEA furniture enthusiasts to get advice and suggestions.

Features:

• A user friendly website.
• Helps people share details of creative IKEA furniture creations.
• Lets you browse and search others’ IKEA creations.
• Provides how-to guides.
• Has a forum that helps interact with others and get furniture building advice.
• Similar tools: IKEA Fans and IKEA SpaceMaker.

Check out IKEAHackers @ www.ikeahackers.net (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Vimeo, as everybody knows, is a popular video sharing website. The site is full of videos that showcase the creative talent of numerous filmmakers. The site also has its very own learning portal for amateur filmamkers: Vimeo Video School. The school contains online tutorials on various aspects of filmmaking. The tutorials are quite detailed and their textual form is always accompanied by a demonstration or explanatory video.

The tutorials cover a wide range of filmmaking topics from camera details and filming gear to lighting and editing your movies. You can easily jump from one category to another by using the links published in the right pane of the site. This way you can quickly jump to filmmaking skills you need to improve right away.

Features:

• A user friendly website.
• A great amateur filmmaker school online.
• Contains instructional videos and explanatory textual tutorials on filmmaking.
• Tutorials are organized to start from the basics and progress to advanced topics.
• Tutorials can be viewed categorically.

Check out Vimeo Video School @ www.vimeo.com/videoschool (By Umar from TechCityInc)

As you can see in the screenshots above, you can fill in the details, select the videos you want to include and then share it via email (or via social sites). The resulting email is neatly organized, no matter how many videos you choose.

Features

• Tech support for dummies.
• Send how-to videos to your parents to help them understand computers.
• No registration needed.
• Select from over 50 videos in different categories.

Check out Teach Parents Tech @ www.teachparentstech.org (by Abhijeet from GT Cool Stuff)

The website provides detailed step-by-step instructions along with photos to construct many types of  boats for various purposes. The interface and navigation is a little sub-standard but if you are a boat lover that won’t keep you from devouring the plethora of information this resource contains. It also has general articles about materials, methods and accessories related to boat building and several other useful topics.

Features:

• Learn how to build boats.
• Step-by-step instructions with photos and drawings.
• Reference articles about materials and methods.
• No registration required.

Visit FreeBoatPlans @ www.koti.kapsi.fi/hvartial

LMPTFY is a free to use website that lets you teach your friends how to search on The Pirate Bay. Suppose your friend asks you to find a particular song titled “X” and then send him the download URL. You search for X on LMPTFY and obtain the URL the site generates. Now send this URL to your friend. When he visits it, he will see a small animation of the search being conducted. The animation will label all three steps that need to be taken to search for “˜X’.

Step 1:

Step 2:

Step 3:

After the animation, the results for “˜X’ on The Pirate Bay, which is what your friend had asked you for, will be automatically displayed. From then on, your friend will no longer ask you for online search favors.

Features:

• A user friendly website.
• Lets you search on The Pirate Buy.
• Creates an animation of the search.
• Lets you teach friends how to search for things online.

Check out “Let Me Pirate That For You” @ www.lmptfy.com (via Switched) (by MOin from ThumbPress)

The site offers a unique reference point on identifying, preventing, and eliminating pests. On No More Pests you will find detailed articles written particularly for the website. From these articles you can learn about different pesticides and their effectiveness; different types of indoor and outdoor pests and what are they attracted to; pests that attack your plants; tips on getting ridding of pests; and tips on how to choose a pest controlling company and what to expect from it.

The site also has a monthly newsletter that you can subscribe to. This will help you stay updated on any new techniques to get rid of pests.

Features:

• Website where you can find how to get rid of pests.
• Contains a lot of information about pests.
• Helps you learn what causes pests and what can get rid of them.
• Provides tips and advice on going with a pest control company.
• Similar sites: GetRidOfThings, DayTipper and HowToCleanStuff.

Check out  NoMorePests @ www.nomorepests.co.uk