Useful Links: How To
Manuals & Instruction Guides
- ManualsOnline "ManualsOnline helps you locate user manuals, installation instructions and tutorials from thousands of manufacturers and hundreds of thousands of products. We offer the most expansive repository of free product support information on the Internet. We found it, so you don't have to! " Search over 600,000 products and 300,000 manuals.
Technology
- Computer Help from your friendly How-To Geek Self-proclaimed as the friendliest source, The How-To Geek aspires "to be the best source of How-To articles anywhere, with content easy enough for beginners but useful enough for geeks as well." Articles are searchable by keyword and visitors also may view alphabetized lists of articles on topics such as Microsoft Office or Windows Vista. The site offers several Blogs, including The How-To Geek's own, and Forums, where computer questions are welcome. The newest articles and postings are easy to find throughout the site.
General How-To Collections
- 50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do The Marc and Angel Hack Life blog shares "Practical Tips for Productive Loving." The list of links here begins with how to build a fire, operate a computer, and perform CPR and goes on to include social skills such as how to give a compliment, listen to others, or flirt without looking ricidulous. There are skills relating to cars; changing a tire, jump starting a car, and driving with a manual transmission. There are high-tech skills like hooking up a home theater or managing computer security practices and low-tech tasks like sewing on a button and holding a baby properly.
- DIY Home Repair Guides This site offers very basic repair guides on topics including: Appliances, Door & Window, Electrical, Garden & Yard, Home Theater, HVAC, PC Repair, Pest Control, and Plumbing.
- Easy 2 DIY asy2DIY.com is a website devoted to providing the home improvement do-it-yourselfer with a complete library of interactive project tutorials & product demos. Our goal is to make you comfortable with your project. Whether you need a step-by-step tutorial about toilet installation or information about a power drill you are considering for purchase, you will find it here. Our interactive tutorials & demos will literally show and tell you all about your project, what tools you will need and how to use them.
- eHow A granddaddy of how-to websites, eHow offers "more than 1.5 million articles and 150,000 high-qualilty videos, written and produced by experts, and also, by people just like you -- people who've figured out how to complete a variety of tasks, simple and complex, and are willing to share their knowledge." If you bookmark only one do-it-yourself site, this should be the one.
- FindHow If other DIY websites don't have the information you need, try this How-To Search Engine. Unlike the other sites here, when you search FindHow by keyword or browse by topic, you will be led to links to how-to information on other websites. FindHow focuses on indexing only high-quality how-to's, typically from well-known, recognized brand names or individuals.
- HomeTips HomeTips has been serving inspiration and expert, trusted advice to homeowners through the Web, books, magazines, and television for more than 30 years. HomeTips.com offers more than 1200 expert articles for do-it-yourself home repairs and improvements, buying guides, and much more.
- Instructables Dubbed “the World’s biggest Show and Tell,” Instructables offers a place “where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others.” In other words, a website full of do-it-yourself information on a seemingly endless variety of offbeat subjects. Headings include Art, Craft, Food, Games, Home, and Life. Learn how to turn an old telelens and a webcam into a powerful telescope that is capable of seeing craters on the moon. Read multiply versions of how to solve the Rubik’s Cube or just take the Instructables guided tour. Some of the postings are clearly intended for an adult audience and many others are silly or outrageous. Use caution when viewing. Free registration is required to create a your own Instructable or to comment on someone else's.
- The Natural Handyman We have thousands of pages of home repair tips and guidance from some of the best home repair authors, contractors and professional handymen and, of course, NH himself !! Whether your are a do it yourselfer, a professional handyman or a handyman groupie, we will help you find the information you need.
- wikiHow…to do Anything “Mission: By creating the world’s most helpful instructions, we will empower every person on the planet to learn how to do anything. Because wikiHow is editable by anyone, our content changes every day. Each edit can be seen on our list of recent changes, which gets reviewed constantly.” (From the website) As can be the case with wikis, the content varies greatly both in depth and seriousness, but the website includes categories as diverse as Arts & Entertainment, Cars & Other Vehicles, Education, Family Life, Finance, Health, Pets & Animals, Sports, Work World and Youth. [For other helpful sites along these lines, don’t forget eHow.com and Howcast.com.]
