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How To Make Your Brain Stronger

How To Make Your Brain Stronger

Grab an avocado, pull up a puzzle, and hang out with your friends – these are just a few ways to “hack” your brain into getting stronger and more agile – in other words, methods you can use to improve the way you think. The full list includes other ideas, and unlike those sessions at [...]

Automate Windows Actions

Automate Windows Actions

Windows is your friend, and it wants to help you do your jobs – especially the short, repetitive tasks that can suck the life out of users who need to repeat them over and over. Anyone can program Windows to complete simple jobs with the click of a button, making their OS behave sort of [...]

Does an Invisibility Cloak Exist?

Does an Invisibility Cloak Exist?

The short answer, unfortunately, is no. And we all know this. So why do scientists keep pointing out all the ways in which an invisibility cloak wouldn’t work? Can’t they let us dreamers have our fun? Well, no, frankly, and here’s the latest of reasons why not. First, an invisibility cloak would only be able [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Hard Truth 6: Rain Will Sometimes Cancel Play

Hard Truth 6: Rain Will Sometimes Cancel Play

In Glen Allsop’s article “8 Truths that Will Improve Your Life”, he discusses eight harsh truths that he has learned from life.  Although life has its ups and downs, how we deal with them can sometimes make all the difference.   The sixth truth, “Rain Will Sometimes Cancel Play” is of particular interest.  On some occasions [...]

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Great Version of Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing – One Man Accapella

Great rendition of a traditional Journey song with great self-promotion.

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Video Online is Picking Up Steam

Video Online is Picking Up Steam

Over the last few years, there has been a growing popularity of web-based videos, including the video sharing colossus YouTube.  If you haven’t noticed the upward trend of online videos, then you must be living under a rock (or at least a location without Internet access).  A study by comScore showed that in October 2009, [...]

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Another Google Labs Project

Another Google Labs Project

Since the launch of Google Labs in 2007, it seems like more and more helpful tools and projects are being developed by Google.  The next project is to reinvent the idea of “news”.  Google notes that there’s been no shortage of talk recently about the “future of news.”   Should viewers have to pay for access [...]

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