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How to take back a nasty email Hard drive died? Freeze it. How to discourage unwanted advances Unsure if the coffee pot is off? Ask it. Need a parking spot? There’s an app for that.
 
How to take back a nasty email

How to take back a nasty email

If you’ve ever wanted to know how to properly dodge a bullet or wrestle free from an alligator then you could do a lot worse than pick up an instant classic, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook. Through a mix of diagrams and real tips sourced by Navy SEALS, stuntmen, and other authorities, the book manages [...]

Hard drive died? Freeze it.

Hard drive died? Freeze it.

Let’s face it, when a hard drive fails, our first instinct after shrieking “NO, NO! REALLY? NOW? Come ON!” is not to blame the drive, but to blame ourselves for not being better about routinely backing up all our data, which is what we said we’d start doing after the last hard drive failure. After a [...]

How to discourage unwanted advances

How to discourage unwanted advances

You could argue that there are worse problems than receiving unwanted romantic advances, but at the end of the day if the advances really are unwanted, it’s still a problem. Women in particular don’t have to be told that at the very least, unwanted attention from a man can be a nuisance, and sometimes when that [...]

Unsure if the coffee pot is off? Ask it.

Unsure if the coffee pot is off? Ask it.

Reader’s Digest has been reporting on life management trends since before most of us were born, so it’s all the more satisfying that the “next big things” roundup in their May issue is not only relevant, but also includes gadgets that we haven’t seen discussed in too many other places. Among them is Intel’s Home [...]

Need a parking spot? There’s an app for that.

Need a parking spot? There’s an app for that.

Imagine if instead of endlessly circling the block looking for a parking spot, you could somehow search for a space online, find one, and pay five bucks to secure it. That’s the idea behind StreetParkNYC, a Web app that entrepreneur Rufus Davis launched a few weeks ago. It works like this: A parking spot seeker enters [...]

European Supergrid of Offshore Wind Farms

European Supergrid of Offshore Wind Farms

Many argue that global warming is currently the most important issue we face.   They warn that if we don’t change our environmental policies and energy technologies, we could experience a range of global catastrophes, including rising sea levels, global hunger, degraded water quality, and increased frequency of hurricanes, droughts, and tornadoes.  As a result, this [...]

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with beans timesaver #2: Anagram Generator

with beans timesaver #2: Anagram Generator

The term productivity app needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Consider the productivity king of the Microsoft Office suite, Excel. Seldom does an application come along that permits you to do more than this program. Problem is, once you get sucked in to perfecting an Excel spreadsheet, you can spend the better part [...]

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Make your PC wash its dirty hands. Every day.

Make your PC wash its dirty hands. Every day.

How much time do you spend downloading free apps that troubleshoot, cleanse, or optimize your computer? Probably more time than you think. Why? Because half the time, after we download these programs and give them a test run, we learn that in order for the app to fix the 37 critical issues it’s identified, we’ll [...]

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Use your Blackberry to get your laptop online

Use your Blackberry to get your laptop online

If someone told you could get Internet service on your laptop without connecting to a Wi-Fi hotspot, purchasing a cellular Internet card, or paying additional fees through your Blackberry’s wireless network you’d want to know the catch, as well as the cost. The only catch is that you need to already have a Blackberry with a [...]

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