Life Hacks

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• Top 10 Homemade Remedies for What Ails You [Lifehacker Top 10]

  
  Key To Eden — Authority: 145
  Feeling under the weather? Thinking—as you look around your office—that you might be soon? Hone your home remedy skill set with a look at 10 of our favorite DIY cures for illnesses and your body’s annoyances.Photo by Robert Couse-Baker.10. Honey for rough coughsWhen you’ve got a bad cough, it feels like your ...
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• Turn a Plank into a Folding Table [DIY]

  
  Key To Eden — Authority: 145
  If you need a small table for occasional use but you don’t have the space for permanently storing it, this simple folding table, made from a single plank, packs away neatly.This project is a great way to learn some basic wood working skills without spending a ton of money or getting bogged down in complicated [...]
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• From the Tips Box: Multiple Logins, Firefox Betas, and Electrical Tubes [From The Tips Box]

  
  Key To Eden — Authority: 145
  Readers offer their best tips for logging into the same site with two accounts at once, running multiple versions of Firefox on the same Mac, and threading wires through long electrical tubes.Don’t like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page.About the Tips Box: Every day we receive boatloads ...
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• Web Site Theme Park Maps Lets You Plan Your Attack Before You Get There [Maps]

  
  Key To Eden — Authority: 145
  Web site Theme Park Maps rounds up and scans as many illustrated—you guessed it—theme park maps as it can find. Next time you step foot inside the gates theme park, you’ll have worked out your entire plan of attack.We’ve got a soft spot for unwinding like a kid at theme parks, so yeah, we kind [...]
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• Make a Lost Screw Finder From a Blank Media Spindle [DIY]

  
  Key To Eden — Authority: 145
  Even folks with steady of hands can lose an important screw while assembling a project. To find your missing pieces, the DIY mavens at Make share how to turn a a CD spindle into a vacuum attachment to round up lost parts.To create this quicker-picker-upper attachment you’ll need a few pieces of [...]
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• Office 2010 Beta Hits BitTorrent One Week Before Debut [BitTorrent]

  
  Key To Eden — Authority: 145
  Like the Office 2010 Technical Preview, the Office 2010 Beta build, dubbed a “Beta 2″ in some circles, has been spotted in the BitTorrent wilds, among other places, one week ahead of its presumed official debut at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference. This time, though, it’s not all that hard to ...
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• Lower Your Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs by Asking [Health]

  
  Key To Eden — Authority: 145
  Even if you’ve got medical insurance, a bill with your name on it can still end up in your mailbox after a visit to the doctor. Stacy Johnson, author of the book Life or Debt, shares how to lessen your out-of-pocket cost.Photo by Brittany GDoctors, like many businesses around the country, depend on your patronage ...
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• Make Yourself Eligible for an Office 2010 Starter Beta [Office 2010]

  
  Key To Eden — Authority: 145
  Microsoft Office 2010 will offer a free, ad-supported “Starter” edition, in addition to its regular, rather pricey offerings. Beta invites are already going out, and you can increase your chances at a spot by filling out a quick online survey.By quick, we mean three minutes or less. The survey asks what type of ...
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• JetPack Gallery Opens with No-Restart-Needed Firefox Extensions [Firefox]

  
  Key To Eden — Authority: 145
  JetPack, the Firefox add-on system that uses only HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, has opened up its own gallery of apps. The pickings aren’t exactly plush, but there’s some neat stuff that doesn’t require a restart to try out.JetPack, as we’ve previously summed it up, falls somewhere between the site-specific ...
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• Google Latitude Adds Location History, Alerts [Google Maps]

  
  Key To Eden — Authority: 145
  If you’ve been using Google Latitude to find your nearby friends, you’re in luck: Google updated Latitude with location history and alerts for when your friends are nearby. If you don’t love your every step tracked—well, it’s kind of creepy.Clearly if you’re someone concerned about your privacy, a service ...
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• Raindrop’s Universal Inbox Looks Awesome in Concept Designs [Inboxes]

  
  Key To Eden — Authority: 145
  Mozilla’s Raindrop project showed us its one-inbox-to-rule-them-all mission, but a Mozilla designer now shows us how Raindrop might actually pull that off on mobile phones. The designs are impressive, combining email, Twitter, Facebook, and other conversations into one organized stream.Andy Chung has made his ...
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• Get Google Maps Navigation on Your G1 [Android]

  
  Key To Eden — Authority: 145
  Google’s awe-inducing, turn-by-turn Maps Navigation is exclusive to Verizon’s Droid phone—unless you’re willing to hack around with your G1. With either some command-line-fu or a two-part Windows application, you can put Google Maps Navigation on a rooted G1.By “rooted,” we mean a G1 running the latest ...
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• Make Milk Foam in Your Microwave for Gourmet Froth at Home [Coffee]

  
  Key To Eden — Authority: 145
  Wish you could get a good froth on your coffee but don’t want to shell out for a frother? Cooking weblog The Kitchn details how to make your own gourmet froth at home with your microwave and a mason jar.You can save a ton and still make amazing coffee at home, but if you miss [...]
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• Write a Reconsideration Letter to Overcome Credit Card Denial [Credit]

  
  Key To Eden — Authority: 145
  It sounds impossible, but some credit card issuers will actually reject customers. If you applied for a card with just the right perks and got rejected, the Frugal Travel Guy blog suggests writing a “reconsideration letter” that worked for him.Actually, the letter worked for Frugal Travel Guy’s son-in-law, who ...
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• Google’s Better Search, Caffeine, Going Primetime [Search Engines]

  
  Key To Eden — Authority: 145
  Reader Brian came across a new notice from Google this morning, in place of the Caffeine search architecture upgrade that Google’s been letting users test out. It indicates that Google is starting to take its improved search database fully online.Here’s the text of Google’s “error” page for Caffeine, as of ...
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• Why Did You Quit?

  
  The Wisdom Journal — Authority: 562
  It’s okay, we all give up too easily sometimes. You are not alone! It doesn’t matter if it was weight loss, living by a budget , learning to play a musical instrument, blogging regularly, spending time with the kids, learning Spanish , or any one of your New Year’s Resolutions, giving up too easily is a ...
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• Make Darned Simple Pie Dough with Just Your Hands [Video Demonstration]

  
  Key To Eden — Authority: 145
  To inexexperienced bakers, crafting a flaky pie crust can seem akin to walking into a nuclear reactor and pressing a few buttons. Food blogger Chez Pim demonstrates you only need butter, flour, water, and two hands to pull it off.No bowls, fancy tools, or KitchenAid mixers are necessary for the flaky pie crust, which ...
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• Find and Get Rid of Old Files with an Advanced Explorer Search [Search Techniques]

  
  Key To Eden — Authority: 145
  It’s easy to visualize your hard drive usage by file size to get rid of big files you don’t need, but if you want to hunt down the files you haven’t used in ages, this quick search query can help.Whether you’ve installed Windows Search in XP or you’re using the built-in search tools in Vista [...]
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• Photoshop.com Mobile Fixes Photos on Smartphones [Downloads]

  
  Key To Eden — Authority: 145
  iPhone/Android/Windows Mobile: Photoshop.com, the online home of Adobe’s market-leading image editor, has released a native photo editor and photo uploader for Android phones, and it’s a fairly versatile solution for fixing or offloading images while you’re out and about.On Android phones, photos can be cropped, ...
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• Utilize Google Calendar’s SMS Notifications for class schedules!

  
  The Geek Brewery — Authority: 407
  Tomorrow is the start of classes for the second semester in UP Diliman. Students will be confronted with new class schedules. Yikes! Fortunately for those who are lazy enough to take a peek on their form 5 from time to time, there’s this Google Calendar SMS notification for you. Google will text you your next class ...
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