Digging through your fridge for the right kind of mustard, sauce, or produce is annoying, and doubly so when you’re cooking on the fly. Life blogger Susiej uses leftover boxes, wide plastic tubs, and other square-edged containers to group similar items, then simply pulls that box when she knows what she needs to pull out. Sounds somewhat “duh,” but take a look at your own fridge, and you might wish you had a system that made it hard to bury those leftovers until you wish you hadn’t found them. Get more space in your refrigerator [Susiej via TipNut]
Photography weblog Digital Photography School details how to make a fantastic time-lapse photography video like the one above using your DSLR camera. We’ve shown you how to do time-lapse on your low-end camera with the Canon Hacker’s Development Kit or your webcam, but if you’ve felt left in the dark with your fancy-pants DSLR, this post’s got you covered. If you’ve ever made a time-lapse video you want to share, let’s see it in the comments. How to Make a Time Lapse Video With Your DSLR [Digital Photography School]
Looking to embed up-to-date headlines into a personal web page, start page, or other HTML-friendly project? Google makes it seriously easy with its code generating tool. Choose a layout style (basically vertical stack or horizontal bar), type in the names of sites you want to embed feeds from, and you’re off and running. There’s no ostentatious ads or branding, and the code is easily modified for theme matching, making it a great tool for web beginners and tinkerers alike.
Google AJAX Feed API [via CyberNet]The New York Times takes a humorous look at some of the tougher steps in fancy-pants recipes—coddling eggs, precise carving, or anything involving gelatin—and finds that even the most seasoned chefs have pre-determined “deal breakers.” We know there’s some gung-ho cooks amongst our readers, so it must be asked: What techniques or ingredients are deal breakers for you? Better still, what substitutions or work-arounds have you come up with for recipes that have one unnecessarily fussy step? Let’s hear about your triumph over traditions in the comments. Photo—of Truffle Coddled Eggs with Soldiers, no less—by Allerina & Glen MacLarty. Recipe Deal Breakers [New York Times]
