School’s almost here, which means so’s the task of buying school supplies. If you’re a high school or college student—or if you’re buying stuff for someone who is—one of the items on that list is ...

There’s a lot of talk about CAD software these days, and don’t get us wrong, they’re an essential tool of the trade. But for roughing out an idea, nothing tops paper and a pencil. Even the back of a ...

Tired of erasing holes in your graph paper or having to start over from scratch? Here's an easy way to create your own custom graph paper in Excel. This past week, I started mapping out new flowerbeds ...

How many of you have dug a hole in the fall only to find a nest of bulbs you forgot were there or dug a hole in the early spring and found a perennial that was dead to the ground and slow waking up?

These are the graph paper sketches that became 'Super Mario Bros.' Looking at the technological wonders emerging from this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, it's hard to imagine that, not very ...