Add Tranquil Beauty to Your Desktop with the Waterdrops Theme for Windows 7

Sometimes beauty can be found in the most unexpected of places such as water drops on the petals of a flower. If you love the look of peaceful, beautiful backgrounds then you will definitely want to give this theme a try. The theme comes with eleven wallpapers full of water drop goodness for your desktop.
Download the Waterdrops Theme [Windows 7 Personalization Gallery]

Use High Voltage to Erase a CD like a Mad Scientist [Video]

You could throw your CDs in the shredder to erase them–if you want to be pedestrian and safe with your data disposal needs–or you could wide them down to the bare plastic with a massive blast of high voltage electricity.
YouTube user Photoinduction really loves playing with electricity and is always looking for new ways to put it to good use. In the video above he demonstrates how you can literally wipe the data layer right off a CD or DVD using a sustained burst of high voltage electricity.
Erase a CD with HV [YouTube via The Daily What]

CraigsEasy Converts Craigslist Searches to Image Galleries

If you spend most of your Craigslist time filtering to show only pictures and then checking out those listings with pictures attached, CraigsEasy will save you the leg work by converting any Craigslist search into an image gallery.
Visit CraigsEasy, add the bookmarklet to your bookmark toolbar, and then any time you want to view a set of Craigslist search results in an easy to browse image-gallery format, you just click the bookmarklet. Watch the video above to see it in action and then visit the link below to grab a copy for your browser.
CraigsEasy [via Unpluggd]

How To Save, Share, Download, and Install Custom Photoshop Actions

Photoshop Actions, you may remember, allow users to do record and replay complex tasks with no programming skill. But exporting, sharing, and installing downloaded actions can be confusing. Here’s simple instructions on how you can do all three.

Build a PVC Didgeridoo to Jam Out like an Aborigine [Weekend Project]

If the warm weather has you itching to open the garage door and get tinkering, this PVC didgeridoo–a 1,500 year old aboriginal instrument–is a fun (and noisy) way to kick off a summer of tinkering.
Didgeridoo’s are an ancient instrument that is at minimum 1,500 years old–probably much older but the first rock art depicting the use of one appears around 500 AD. The instrument is essentially just a resonance tube the player uses to generate music that sounds like a deep and rhythmic humming. You can hear a traditional

How to Convert a Hard Drive or Flash Drive from FAT32 to NTFS Format

If you’ve got a hard drive formatted with the FAT32 file system, you might have found that you can’t copy large files to that drive. So how do you fix that, and convert the file system over to NTFS? Here’s how.
Scratching your head? Here’s the deal: the FAT32 file system, which most external drives are still shipped with, can’t handle files larger than about 4 GB in size—which means most full-length movies and anything

Add Interstellar Beauty to Chrome and Iron with Cosmic Fringe Themes

 Recently we featured a beautiful Cosmic Fringe theme for Windows 7 and today we have matching themes for Chrome and Iron to share with you.