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The Most Useful Websites You Problem Never Heard Of

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:19:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Tons of sites here, You can Vote and add your own.

How to clean almost anything. From toilets to barbeques, this is the place for you. Need help we have thousands of tips to search through

This website provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 Minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame.

Guerrilla Mail

Google Translate
Google's free online language translation service instantly translate text and web pages. This translator supports: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russ...

English Wiki Browser

FullBooks.com - Thousands of Full-Text Free Books.

Try Phone

Dear Cupid agony aunt: relationship help and advice

News Map

Study Guides and Strategies

Free Worldwide Travel Guides - Wikitravel

Fix It Club

Tags: website, internet, interesting, education, technology, lists, help, howto, usability

Best 50 hacks for your Life

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:50:33 GMT

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Clip Source: www.lifehack.org

Communication, Writing, Studying

My Best Presentation Tricks

The Business Card Game

Persuasive Writing for Students, Webmasters, Bloggers, and Everyone Else

7 tips of handling your Emails without feeling overwhelmed

Writing as a Form of Self Healing

Advice for students: Writing by hand

Yes, But Do People Like You?

Writing – Just do it!

A good place to study

Blog your way through Writer’s Block

14 Tips for Communicating Ideas

Productivity, Creativity, Motivation

9 Top Secrets of Naturally Born Organizers

Fight The Flab!

More Fight The Flab!

Limit Creativity, Get Innovation

Precious Moments

5 Ways to Improve Your Productivity in the Office

A Geek’s Best Lifehack

What Kind of Paranoid Are You?

Being A Creative

There’s No Time!

The Mysteries Behind Motivation and How To Manipulate Them

Time Management: Handling Disruptions in Daily Schedules

Productivity Hack: Write Mini Process Flows

Design an Online Workflow

Management, Self-Management, Entrepreneurship

Bare Bones Project Hacks

The 10 Beliefs of Great Managers

The Simplest Path to Success

Letting Things Go

Closet Entrepreneur

Time To Discard The Portmanteau

5 Important Keys to Bootstrap Your Entrepreneurship

The Most Underutilized Tool for Effective Communication

Everyday Performance Reviews

Meetings, @&!!$*@ Meetings!

What Are You Worried About?

How to Ruin Your Career In Five Easy Steps

Procrastination, Goal Settings, Life

9 Steps to Define your Goal Destination and Devise a Plan to Get There

Pro-Active Steps to Prevent Procrastination

Improve Your Life By Following A Schedule

The Causes of Procrastination And How To Conquer Them

How To Make Resolutions You’ll Keep

Literal Life Hack: Cut your window of time in half

New Year’s Resolutions and Deficit Thinking

6 Sleep Tips

Risks versus Rewards Worksheet

5 Tips for Getting Out of Debt (and Why)

Deep Breathing: A Great Health Trick

8 Expenses to Cut and How

Desk-side Fitness

Tags: hacks, lists, life

Neat tricks to teach your body

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 04:46:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Some little-known practical tips about your body, such as:
If your throat tickles, scratch your ear. If your hand falls asleep, rock your head from side to side - etc.

Clip Source: thrillingwonder.blogspot.com

Neat tricks to teach your body

Some little-known practical tips about your body

1. If your throat tickles, scratch your ear.

2. Your right ear is better than your left at following the rapid rhythms of speech (good tip for spies!) The left ear is better at picking up music tones.

5. Clear your stuffed nose!

Forget Sudafed. An easier way is by alternately thrusting your tongue against the roof of your mouth, then pressing between your eyebrows with one finger.

7. Cure your toothache

Just rub ice on the back of your hand, on the V-shaped webbed area between your thumb and index finger... reduces toothache pain by as much as 50 percent

15. If your hand falls asleep

rock your head from side to side. It'll painlessly banish your pins and needles in less than a minute.

Tags: health

5 tips for winter photography

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:51:59 GMT

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Clip Source: files.acdsystems.com

Here are 5 simple tips to make your winter photography more enjoyable:

Knowing what the weather has in store will save you a whole lot of headache. During the winter months the weather can change dramatically in a matter of hours, so plan your shoot location the night before to get the most out of your trip.

Wear form-fitting gloves that keep your hands heated and nimble while you operate your camera in the shivery temperatures.

Take only what you need. Don’t load your camera bag with every piece of equipment you own. If you’re going to be out taking pictures all day, you’re much better off going as light as possible. This will help preserve your energy and keep you from overheating.

Look for details in the landscape. Snow, ice, and frost give texture to your pictures and help create atmosphere in most subjects. Morning frost is also good for close-up photography. At dawn there are also a lot of interesting light patterns in the landscape. Play with your camera’s depth-of-field and see how much of the breadth of the landscape you can capture with dramatic effect, or try focusing in on particulars of the scene like ice-sheathed bulrushes and craggy roadside fences.

In the early morning hours, try placing your camera at oblique angles to the sun - this will give your images strong shadows. It will also add mood to your shots. Once you’ve found the perfect spot pay extra attention to any foreground interest that will add depth to your image.

Don’t be discouraged if your shots are coming out too dark or too bright. Snow and ice are extremely difficult to expose properly, since they tend to confuse your camera’s metering system. Play with your camera’s exposure settings and keep shooting until you get the image you want. It’s also helpful to start *bracketing your shots to get the possible exposure. When you bracket your shots, add 1 – 2 f stops of light to compensate for your light meter reading.

Tags: photography, photos

An Absolute Goldmine of Web Design Education

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:25:23 GMT

clipped by: Scattered_Fusion

Clip Source: cre8pc.com

Accessibility

Associations

Books

Cascading Style Sheets

Color

Dreamweaver

Evaluation & Testing

Events and Conferences

Flash

Information Architecture

JavaScript

Misc

Navigation & Labeling

Tags: web design, web, internet, code, technology, information, education, tips, reference

7 Tips to Simplify Your Life

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:30:43 GMT

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Clip Source: ineedmoretime.com

7 Tips to Simplify Your Life
by Barbara Myers

1. De-clutter. Begin by grabbing an empty shopping bag. Walk around your home. Fill the bag with anything you don't use or love. Place the bag in your car and drop it off at a charitable organization. Repeat weekly.

2. Control your time. Reduce obligations. Learn to say no more often. Even one fewer activity per week can allow you some down time.

3. Do without. Stop impulse purchases. Each item you buy costs more than the purchase price. Consider upkeep costs in both time and dollars.

4. Pare down. Do you really need six spatulas or 30 pairs of shoes?

5. Have a weekly "no noise" day. Turn off the TV and radio. Tune in to nature and your family.

6. Make a list. Split your current activities and tasks into two columns: things I enjoy and things I don't enjoy. How can your reduce the second column and increase the first?

7. Organize everything. What takes up too much of your time? Simplify your routines, paperwork, wardrobe and your life.

Free "50 Ways to Manage Your Time" tips booklet. Visit www.ineedmoretime.com

Publishers may use this article if the bylines are included.

Tags: organization, life

Dry out your soaked gadgets in rice

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:56:13 GMT

clipped by: Scattered_Fusion

Clip Source: lifehacker.com

A Washington Post reporter who accidentally dropped his Blackberry in the toilet was able to retrieve it and dry it out to working order again: by leaving it turned off in a bowl of uncooked rice. Reader Chris writes in to say:

There's a grain of truth (punny, huh?) to this in that rice quickly sucks up the surrounding moisture. Make sure the environment is free from excess humidity, drop the wet device in a container of rice and let it sit. For a better desiccant, it'd be a good idea to store all those little silica gel packets that come in anything from shoe boxes to moisture-sensitive gadgets.

Here are some more tips on drying out a soaked gadget from our very own Adam, who resuscitated a cell phone after swimming half a lap with it in his pocket. Thanks, Chris!

Tags: technology, tips, gadgets, rice, food

Google Search Tip

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 02:59:36 GMT

clipped by: Scattered_Fusion

Clip Source: lifehacker.com

Productivity blogger Dumb Little Man has put together twenty of the most basic tips that can make your Google searches more efficient.

Most of these are old-hat to our intrepid Lifehacker readers, but they are definitely worth a lookover: anything from quotation marks to cached pages is covered here. If you've already mastered these basic techniques, move on up to more advanced Google searching.

Tags: google, technology, search, tips, internet, web

How to get Google to notice you

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:41:31 GMT

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Clip Source: www.usatoday.com

USA TODAY asked Chris Winfield, president of website consultant 10e20, to look at Balsam's site, yourheartfeltsolutions.com, identify its weaknesses and offer tips on how to improve her rankings. His recommendations are instrumental for anyone with a website, as they are pretty universal.

Winfield has three top tips for Balsam: Her site needs to be linked to from other quality websites. She should have a clear website title. And she needs descriptive copy that includes the search terms (called keywords) that articulate how she wants to be discovered by search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN, he says.

"Keywords direct the search engines to how to find you," Winfield says. "And links are the holy grail. If a lot of sites link to you, that means you have authority and should be placed higher than others."

Balsam's front page was virtually devoid of text, beyond tabs for inside pages and contact information. Winfield says this is a huge no-no. Google's spider crawls the Internet compiling website information, looking to keywords on the page for how to reference the site.

In his analysis, Winfield wrote: "Add some good, descriptive text about you and your services that gently incorporates the one- or two-keyword phrases that you are concentrating on. For example: 'Family therapy specialist in Orange & Los Angeles County — Yaffa Balsam MFT.' "

The first step for many businesses is realizing exactly what their keywords should be. A house painter, for example, shouldn't use "house painting" as a keyword, because it's so broad. Instead, the painter might drill down to the more specific "interior house painting" or "exterior house painting."

Winfield directed Balsam to a free tool Google offers for keyword tips —adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal. There, USA TODAY typed in Balsam's "Family Therapy" keyword, and found many variations, including "family therapist," "family marriage therapy" and "family therapy counseling."

Tags: google, technology, tips, website

How do you fend off a dangerous dog?

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:35:23 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

"Standing still and put your hands in pockets because they like to get hold of something," says Madeleine Forsyth, a veterinary surgeon and non-practising barrister based in York. "A waving arm is an obvious target."

KEY TIPS

No sudden movements

Put hands in pockets

Avoid eye contact

Back away but do not run away

Children can accidentally provoke a dog

Never try to break up two fighting dogs

Avoid eye contact because it is confrontational and it is always unwise to turn your back, says Miss Forsyth, so standing sideways and looking slightly away is advisable.

If a dog does bite, do not pull away because that will tear the flesh, she says, but shout for help.

"Hope there is someone with a breaking stick to introduce between the jaws.

"Anything will do that can be slid between the teeth at the side, but given the strength of the jaw and the leverage, it would have to be a very powerful bit of stick or it will just break."

Never run because the dog will always overtake you, says Stephen Lomax, a veterinary surgeon and barrister from Shropshire.

"Move away slowly and don't make any sudden movements. And don't approach the dog.

"But the most important advice is never ever try to separate dogs having a fight because of the risk of accidental and serious injury."

"If it stiffens up, holds it tail high, snarls and stares at you then be on your guard. If it shows its teeth it may be safest to go no further, but don't turn and run - back away slowly."

And acting in a friendly and confident way will lessen their own fear, he adds.

Tags: tips, animals, dog, attack, pets, people, education

Wet Sponges in Microwave Kill germs - Dry Sponge May Cause a Fire

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:08:12 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cnn.com

Two minutes in the microwave can kill many germs on kitchen sponges, but the sponges have to be WET.

Story Highlights

• Some who tried to sanitize germy sponges in microwave got unpleasant results
• News outlets got complaints of odors, ruined appliances
• Researchers advise that the sponges must be WET before going in microwave

Tags: tips, news, sponge, germs, microwave, education, home

Deep-fried turkey can be delicious, but dangerous

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:12:31 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cbs46.com

Fire officials warn deep-fried turkey can be delicious, but dangerous

ATLANTA Local fire officials are issuing a warning to families taking part in a popular new Thanksgiving tradition: Be careful when frying your turkey.

The Gwinnett County Fire Department has tips for those looking to deep-fry the birds, a trend that has caught on, but proved dangerous for amateur backyard chefs.

Officials say turkey fryers can cause significant injury or ignite a serious fire if used improperly.

So they offer the following safety tips:

_ Before deep-frying, the turkey should be allowed to thaw in the refrigerator for approximately 24 hours for every five pounds of bird.

Fresh turkeys are safer, but if a frozen turkey is used, it must be completely thawed. Placing a frozen turkey into hot oil could cause an explosion or cause oil to spill over and ignite a fire. Oil and water _ including ice crystals _ do not mix.

_ Turkey fryers should be used on a flat, level surface and placed outdoors at a safe distance away from the house or combustible materials such as towels, food packaging materials or pot-holders.

Never use turkey fryers on a wooden deck or in a garage. Do not leave fryers unattended.

_ Wear safety goggles to prevent oil splatter, and use cooking mitts or insulated pot-holders when touching the fryers' pot or lid cover.

_ Lower the turkey into the pot slowly. If the oil bubbles, allow the bubbles to settle before lowering the bird the rest of the way. Do not overfill the fryer with oil.

_ Never allow the oil temperature to exceed 350 degrees, as oil can ignite at 375 degrees. The oil inside the fryer will be dangerously hot for hours after use, and should be allowed to cool completely before removing or storing.

_ Keep a fire extinguisher nearby when frying a turkey.

Tags: thanksgiving, turkey, deep-fry, delicious, dangerous

How to: Colorize B&W Images in Photoshop

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:13:30 GMT

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Clip Source: www.techeblog.com

“Shoks” shows us how to colorize black and white images in Photoshop. If you have any other tips. please leave us a comment. Video after the jump.

Tags: photoshop, application, howto, how to, technology