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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Online suicide is painless

Online suicide is painless

It’s fitting that the creators of free Web app Web 2.0 suicide machine are from the Netherlands. Why? The Netherlands is known for its windmills, among other things, and the phrase “tilting at windmills” from Don Quixote refers to the pursuits of battling imaginary enemies and chasing an impossible dream. And that gets to the [...]

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You’ve only got one life. Log it.

You’ve only got one life. Log it.

Even if you’re not a fan of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” (but if you’re not, ask yourself why) you may know of one of its characters, a highly-capable but emotionally-challenged android named Data. Thinking about it, the name Data was quite appropriate. He was clinical about everything. And that’s precisely why we like data, [...]

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Another Paywall Blocking Unpaid Access to Content

Another Paywall Blocking Unpaid Access to Content

Doesn’t everyone want to know what’s going on in the world of entertainment? Even if you don’t read the stories every day, you have to admit that they are mildly entertaining.  Let’s face it, everyone from your children to your grandmother read the story about Tiger Woods.  But did you pay to read that story?  [...]

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Why Don’t Loud Snorers Wake Up in the Middle of the Night?

Why Don’t Loud Snorers Wake Up in the Middle of the Night?

Everybody knows a friend or family member with a bedtime snore that seems louder than a lion’s roar.  The snore is so loud that you have to fall asleep before they do; otherwise you aren’t getting to bed anytime soon.  Have you ever noticed that the loud snorers never wake up in the middle of [...]

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