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Escape Zip Tie Restraints with Paracord Shoelaces [Video]
Many home invaders and kidnappers use heavy-duty zip ties to keep victims restrained. If you replace your existing shoelaces with paracord you can use the paracord to form a friction saw that will cut...
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Speed Up Ketchup Flow with a Drinking Straw [Food Hacks]
Do your fries go cold while waiting for the ketchup to come out of the glass bottle at some restaurants? You can force some air into the bottle and speed the pouring process by using a drinking straw....
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DIY Automatic Cat Feeder [Video]
While you're away you can let your cats have the run of the place, but if you put out too much food at once hilarity may not ensue. You can make a pretty easy automatic feeder using a glue stick,...
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"Any Tips for Quieting a Noisy Keyboard?" [Ask The Commenters Roundup]
Any tips for quieting a noisy keyboard? Any advice for someone submitting an app to the App Store for the first time? When turning a soft-tail motorcycle into a hard-tail, is bolting enough or must it...
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Clean Garden Tools with Wax Paper [Clever Uses]
This Old House's site recommends using wax paper as a cleaner for garden tools. The rough texture of the paper will loosen grime and the the wax will coat exposed metal surfaces to help prevent...
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DIY Camping Fish Smoker [Outdoors]
If you like to fish when you're camping or backpacking you can make an inexpensive and handy smoker using an 8-quart camping pot, a small steel grill or steaming rack, and a few basic hand tools....
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Turn a Bad Bottle of Wine into Wine Jelly for an Easy to Make, Delicious...
I'm a bit of a wine fan, so it's rare there's an unfinished bottle of wine in my fridge for more than a day, but I have stumbled on some really bad wines that I just don't want to drink any more of...
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Fruux Synchronizes Your Contacts, Calendars, and To-Dos Across Systems, OSes,...
If you're wedded to one platform, it's a good bet you already have a tool that keeps your life synchronized and organized pretty well. For those of us who have to deal with multiple platforms,...
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Build Your Own Rolling Camera Bag and Keep Your Photo Gear Safe On the Cheap...
If you're a professional photographer, you probably haul your gear around in well insulated protective cases, but if you're an amateur with a few lenses and a decent camera you want to keep safe while...
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Is Your Smartphone Helping You as Much as It’s Hurting You? [Ask The Readers]
Most of us have a smartphone in our pocket, and most of us have been known to use it for work from time to time—some people more than others. The theory is that owning a smartphone makes us more...
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SAM Unlocks Any Jailbroken iPhone Running iOS 5 and Up [Jailbreak]
iOS (Jailbroken): Unlocking your iPhone and taking it over to another carrier has been a relatively painless process in the past, but it wasn't always foolproof and didn't work on some modern devices....
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Make Your Mac's Dashboard Actually Useful [Mac OS X]
The Mac Dashboard doesn't seem to get much love these days and a decrease in the amount of widgets being made for it means people have likely moved on to dedicated apps for most of their widget...
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Dropbox Sharing Gets Easier with Direct Links to Anything in Your Dropbox...
Dropbox has updated its file sharing system to make it easier to share direct links to files inside your Dropbox folders without having to give up access to your account or dump content into your...
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iConvert Instantly Converts Audio and Video for Your iOS Device, Is So Easy a...
OS X: There are a lot of tools that'll convert videos for your iPhone, iPod, or iPad (like our favorite, Handbrake), but they aren't always easy for the average joe to use. iConvert makes it as simple...
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The Stupid Things You Do in the Kitchen (and How to Fix Them) [Cooking]
Love cooking or hate it, much of your time in the kitchen is likely wasted by easily correctable mistakes you probably don't even know you're making. You waste time prepping ingredients, use your...
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Adobe Introduces CS6 and Creative Cloud for Subscription Based Design Tools...
Adobe has announced the sixth version of its Creative Suite alongside a new subscription based service called Creative Cloud that gives you access to Adobe's entire suite of programs for $49.99 a...
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DIY Headphone Adapter Adds Pause, Play, and a Microphone to Any Smartphone...
Have a pair of expensive headphones that you love but you wish they had a remote for your smartphone controls? Or do you hate the fact that when you're driving with your phone connected to the...
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What's Your Monitor's Resolution? [Reader Poll]
People who make things for the web obsess about your monitor's resolution; the higher the common user's screen resolution, the more developers can pack onto your screen. Last week, web analytics firm...
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What’s The Best Way to Back Up My Data for the Long Haul? [Ask Lifehacker]
Dear Lifehacker, I have some files that are very important to me, and I want to make sure they stay safe and secure forever. I don't mean months or years, I mean decades—I want to make sure they're in...
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When You're Constantly Checking Your Email, You're Putting Your Needs Behind...
As we noted last week, email is not the problem—we are. And it's not just the productivity drain or the antisocial effects of constantly checking our phones and computers for new messages. There are...
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