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Use Scrap Paper To Make Your Own DIY Notepads

6:30AM Sarah Rae Trover | It’s become common in most households to recycle your discarded paper. Instead of tossing it in the bin, try making your own notepads, customised with a photo or two, to squeeze a little more life out of your scraps. More »

Paper Fix Binds Your Papers Without Staples

5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Not a fan of paper clips? Wish your stapler had an infinite supply of staples? The Paper Fix is a stapler-substitute that binds paper together using just the paper itself. More »

Fold A World-Record-Setting Paper Airplane

6:00AM Adam Pash | A few years back we pointed you toward the world’s “best” paper airplane, and while we couldn’t entirely back up the “best” claim, this Sky King paper aeroplane is a legitimate world-record holder. This video shows us how to make it ourselves. More »

HowPack Prints Packing Plans For Nearly Any Object

6:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Whether you need to package a single fragile ornament or fold an elaborate gift box, HowPack has an enormous number of printable paper folding templates for every kind of object and configuration you can imagine. More »

Use A Printer For Counting Stacks Of Pre-Printed Documents

4:00AM The How-To Geek | Reader Gavan writes in with an interesting tip for using your printer to quickly count documents that might come in handy next time you volunteer to hand out fliers. More »

Pop-Up Paper CD Case

3:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’re a fan of papercraft and looking for a novel way to gift a CD or DVD, this DIY pop-up case is tough to beat. Chung Da Lam—a design student with with a passion for papercraft—has a variety of interesting papercraft tricks on his site, including this clever guide for turning a piece of paper into a folding beak that lifts your disc straight up when you open the case. Although the audio isn’t the highest quality the following video provides a great visual demonstration of the case in action: More »

Try The Love Machine Cubee For A Quick Valentine’s Gift

3:00PM Angus Kidman | Since we posted about Cubees earlier this month, I’ve become mildly addicted to building these block-shaped paper characters. If you’re looking for a quirky extra.gift for your special someone on Valentine’s Day, try out the site’s 2009 project, The Love Machine. But do it properly — Cubees work much better on stiff card than plain old office paper. Cubeecraft More »

Build A Papercraft Cubee

6:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Cubeecraft has dozens of Cubees, or block-shaped characters made from folded paper, modeled after pop culture icons as old as the 1960s-era Batman, and as recent as President Barack Obama. Armed with a printer, some paper (the heavier the better), and one of the many templates at Cubeecraft, you can fold icons from nearly any genre. Politics, obscure cartoons, comic book characters, television stars and more have all been carefully modeled in cubic 3D glory. Finally you’ll be able to craft that diorama depicting how the rebels could have held the ice planet Hoth—if only they’d enlisted Earthworm Jim. The templates are all in .JPG format, which lends itself to easy tinkering in Photoshop if you’re up for it—I turned the Cubee of Dwight from The Office into my boss, for example, with a quick face transplant. Cubeecraft [via Glimmer] More »

Make An Origami Reindeer

11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | What better way to spend a slow pre-holiday morning at the office than folding your own army of reindeer. Over at the how-to website wikiHow there are step by step instructions on turning a square sheet of paper into an origami masterpiece. The folds aren’t too challenging, but if you’ve never attempted anything more daring than a paper air plane you’ll want to look at the pictures carefully as you fold. Aside from impressing young relatives over the holidays with your ability to turn paper into reindeer, the only other proper application of your new found folding ability to to make an army of them to cover your desk. When asked anything of importance from now until Christmas, reply calmly in a Dilbert’esque way “Ask the reindeer.” If you’ve got reindeer and office mayhem on the brain, check out how to turn a cardboard box into a reindeer. How to Make an Origami Reindeer More »

How Do I Preserve Newsprint For Archive Or Display?

1:37AM Lifehacker US Edition | Dear Lifehacker, Let’s say, just a hypothetical, that you have a newspaper that you want to save for posterity. Anyone have any tips on doing so, cheaply? Signed, Give ‘Em Hell Harry More »