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"Is there any reason I should use something other than Windows Media...
Is there any reason I should use something other than Windows Media Player to rip CDs? I'll be starting college in Michigan from half a world away. Any tips on college survival, staying warm, or...
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Shave Raw Asparagus for Salads and Stir Fries [Video]
Since roasting or grilling asparagus can get tiresome after a while, culinary weblog Chow recommends shaving raw asparagus with a vegetable peeler and using the shavings in your salad. I imagine this...
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Make a DIY iPhone Tripod Mount with Two Binder Clips [DIY]
Since a current iPhone 4S has better photo capabilities than most non-DSLR cameras it's no wonder that many users seek the stabilization of a tripod. Get around the iPhone not having a tripod mount by...
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Use a Muffin Tin to Portion Out Ice Cream for Quick, No-Waiting...
Muffin tins are great for lots of things, not just making muffins, and the folks at America's Test Kitchen have one more use for them that we love: pop in your muffin papers, and serve out single...
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Gmail Attachments to Docs for Chrome Auto-Saves Gmail Attachments to Google...
Chrome: Heavy Google Docs users know it can be a pain when you get an email with an attachment—even if it's in Gmail—and want to save it in Google Docs for later. You have to view the attachment...
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Schedule Relaxation and Break Time to Keep Your Work-Life Balance in Check...
Whether you're hopelessly overworked by a slave-driving boss, or you do what you love for a living and have a hard time walking away from it at the end of the day, the simplest of tricks may be just...
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Place Old Potholders Between Mixing Bowls to Keep Them Safe While Stored...
Most people are familiar with the old trick of putting parchment paper or butcher's paper between mixing bowls or other stacked kitchen gear to keep them from scratching one another, but this tip...
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Turn Your Keychain into a Pocketable Toolbox [Keychains]
You have your keys with you everywhere you go, but they're probably completely useless for anything other than opening doors. You can always fill up your keychain with goofy trinkets you find on...
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iTransmission Updates with Support for iOS 5 and New Download Options...
iOS (Jailbroken): iTransmission has been the only good BitTorrent option for a jailbroken iPhone's for a while, but after it was abandoned by the developer it was never updated to run properly on newer...
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Accent Your Stairs with Cheap LED Strips and an Arduino [DIY]
If you're looking for a way to spice up your boring staircase, DIYer Geert shows off a simple way to safely light up your stairwell with programmable, color changing LED strips mounted directly to the...
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Get the Garlic or Onion Smell Off Your Hands by Rubbing Them With a Spoon...
If you've chopped garlic before, you've probably noticed that the smell likes to stick around on your hands, and soap doesn't do much to get it off. If you want to really get rid of that smell, you...
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Fill Out This One-Minute Form Every Day and Find Out Why Your Life Sucks (or...
Ever wonder why you're having a bad day, or even a good one? Is there an ongoing problem in your life that you just can figure out? If you've got a free minute, just fill out this daily form to help...
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Make Apple Mail Badges Show Only Personal Emails [Email Filters]
Dealing with the persistant notifications from your email inbox can be a real productivity killer, but they still can be handy now and again. If you want to personalize those notifications a bit and...
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Turn a Job You Hate Into a Job You Love by Negotiating a Change in Your Job...
Sometimes you land a good job at a great company, but over time you start to hate it because it's boring, unchallenging, or worse, too difficult. To remedy this without switching jobs completely,...
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How Can I Stop Someone Impersonating Me Online? [Ask Lifehacker]
Dear Lifehacker, I started getting emails from people accusing me of trolling their sites, and other messages letting me know someone was pretending to be me on some forum. I went to check, and sure...
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Think of Supermarkets Like Obstacle Courses to Avoid Overspending and Buying...
Supermarkets use plenty of marketing tricks to try and get you to buy more than you actually want or need. The Consumerist and Consumer Reports point out that looking at your local grocery store like...
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Fixing My Most Common Gmail Annoyance [Video]
Every Gmail user's dealt with this annoyance: You're writing an email, you copy and paste some text from another page, and the text's formatting comes along for the ride. It's not the end of the...
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Create a Change Map So You Don't Forget to Adapt to New Circumstances...
Change is rarely easy, but it is inevitable and it's important that you account for it. When you don't, problems arise because one part of your life is now different yet the way you go throughout your...
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Reward Yourself for Paying Your Taxes with a Bunch of Free Stuff and Tax Day...
It's tax day in America, so naturally companies everywhere are offering discounts and so much free crap you couldn't possibly find time to get it all. But if you want to join in and celebrate paying...
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How to Make Your VPN Even More Secure [Privacy]
In the past few years, VPN services have hit the big time—especially among BitTorrent users. These days more and more internet users see running a privacy enhancing service as a requirement rather...
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