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Share Your Challenges with Others to Break Through Mental Blocks [Collaboration]
It'll come as no surprise to many of you that the best ways to solve problems is to talk them over with other people, but the same is true for creative and mental blocks as well—not just for problems...
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Mix Your Own Chalkboard Paint in Any Color You Want [DIY]
Chalkboard paint is a great way to turn any wall or surface into a usable writing space, whether it's a storage container or the side of your desk, and we've even shown you how to make your own, but...
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Store Frozen Soups and Sauces Like File Folders to Save Space in the Freezer...
Soups, sauces, and purees that you want to freeze can take up a ton of space if you pour them into plastic containers before freezing. This suggestion, from Lynne Rossetto Kasper of NPR's The Splendid...
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How to Butter Up (Rather than Berate) Customer Service to Get What You Want...
If you have a tendency to get a little emotional when you call customer service you know that it's easier to get angry than it is remain nice. However, being nice and a little brown-nosey is a great...
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Track 8 Music Player Updates with iPhone and AirPlay Support [IPhone Downloads]
iOS: The Metro-styled music player Track 8 has received an update to make it universal. This means the once iPad-only music app is now compatible with the iPhone and iPod Touch. Alongside the universal...
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Quickly Convert Between Fahrenheit and Celsius Without a Calculator [Mental...
If you do a lot of cooking or working with temperatures in a way where you don't need exact accuracy Reddit user quaxon shares a dead-simple method for converting between Fahrenheit and Celsius in your...
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Your Head or Your Gut: How to Know Which to Trust and When [Mind Hacks]
I'd bet that most of you have at least one email in your inbox that you could respond to in less than a minute, but that you've been quietly agonizing over for considerably longer. This is normal, but...
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Unsocialize Lets You Open Social Reader Links Without Installing Facebook...
Chrome/Firefox: When friends on Facebook share a link with the social reader apps popular with web sites like the Guardian or Yahoo, it means you need to install the Social Reader app and share that...
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Track Down Obscure Songs in YouTube Videos with a Proper Comments Search...
Ever found yourself jamming out to the music in a YouTube video only to find the video doesn't properly attribute it anywhere? If the song used is a popular track it's usually easy to find, but for...
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Your Brain, Back, Buns, and Bytes: Four B's Worth Your Money [Money]
Everyone's got their own rubric for how they spend their money, but if you pass the lion's share of your day at a desk and on a computer, speaker and Microsoft employee Scott Hanselman firmly believes...
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How Can I Find Out How Much Bandwidth I’m Using at Home? [Ask Lifehacker]
Dear Lifehacker, How can I check and see how much bandwidth I've been using? Is there any way to keep a running tally of my bandwidth so I can see when I use the most, or if something's using a lot of...
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The Desk at the Edge of the World [Featured Workspace]
For all the design choices a person can make for their workspace, little can outshine a great view. That's what architect Todd Saunders saw when designing this artist residency far out in the North....
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Work on Unimportant Problems [Motivation]
If you hold yourself to an impossibly high standard when you're deciding what to work on, blogger Yossi Kreinin suggests removing "importance" from your limiting factors, noting how many "important"...
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The New Features Coming to OS X Mountain Lion [Os X]
We got a pretty thorough preview of Mountain Lion when it was announced back in February, but Apple's added a couple of nice new features at today's Worldwide Developer Conference. Here's the new stuff...
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"Make Yours a Good Self" [Video]
The advice "be yourself" goes around as some of the most important you can follow, but video blogger Ze Frank decided to break it down, wondering "who else can you be?" He put out a call on Twitter to...
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The New Features Coming to iOS 6 [Updates]
Apple announced the newest version of iOS at WWDC today, and it's packed with awesome new features for iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches alike. Here's a rundown of the best new stuff you'll see in iOS 6...
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How to Get the Best Features of iOS 6 Right Now [Video]
iOS 6 isn't coming to your iPhones and iPads for another few months, but a lot of its best features are available through third-party apps and jailbreak hacks right now. If you want to get in on the...
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MaKey MaKey Turns Everyday Objects Into Customizable Electronics [Stuff We Like]
We love a good DIY project, and MaKey MaKey is a tool that promises to inspire several of them. It's already capable of creating a piano out of bananas, a Pacman controller from a paper drawing, and a...
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Get a Little Exercise in at Your Desk to Burn Extra Calories and Help Avoid...
We all know that sitting all day is killing us and that getting up from time to time can correct the problem, but if you want to stay a little more active when you're in front of the computer there are...
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Add Ambient Notification Lights to an IKEA Desk Surface [Video]
Want your desk to notify you whenever you receive a phone call, text message, or pretty much any other alert? DIYer Michael LaGrasta altered his IKEA desk to shine ambient light across the surface to...
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