A really great alternative to browsing is subscribing to sites and blogs via RSS feeds. It’s quick, it’s easy, and you always get the freshest content from you favorite sites. DapperFox is a Firefox add-on that lets you “RSSify any website.” It’s supposedly a replacement for that RSS button that you have on the address [...]

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Some would say that cleaning non-stick pans is a breeze. Sure it is. Not much can really stick on it’s slick surface. So not much of an effort in terms of scrubbing cooked on crud. But easy to use as they are, non-stick pans still need some care. In fact, they do require a bit [...]

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Pets can part of the family. If you won’t even take care of it as one of your own, then I suggest that you don’t own one. Some people even find comfort in them rather than with other people. So if you’re thinking of getting one, you might want to read on these few tips.

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Pesticides are made to get rid of bugging critters. But be careful when handling or storing them because these can cause you harm too. While you may always have the common sense to take care in handling these things, careless storage poses a threat to those other curious creatures in your home – children and [...]

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If you’re a movie fan, then it’s probably a sworn mission to watch all the significant movies of the decade (yes, we’re into the 2000s). You probably know of IMDB, probably the one-stop for movie details and information on the Web. They’ve got this section called IMDB Top Rated 2000s Titles where it features the [...]

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Okay, I’ve got to admit, I do have a Twitter but I seldom find time to post stuff since I always seem to forget to have it open. Yes, that means dedicating a tab for that. And I’ve got just too many tabs open. And since I don’t like my mobile phone buzzing me with [...]

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Had a “few” rounds of brewskies last night, went to bed piss-headed drunk, and you wake up like your head was squashed by a steamroller driven by the Incredible Hulk. Yup, that’s a hangover, all right. So instead of feeling so wasted the morning after, why not try to prevent the symptoms? Here are some [...]

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Personal or otherwise, crises should be dealt with urgency, efficiency and with a clear head. It can be something really minor that makes us anxious or something really major that it causes panic. Either way, large or small, there’s a way out of a crisis. Here are some tips on overcoming a crisis.

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Search engines and web services can rank search results differently. Like Google ranks results through their mystical PageRank algorithm. StumbleUpon ranks sites by the number of thumbs up signs a page gets. Alexa ranks site by traffic. In any case, I find myself deferring to . So how about a meta search engine that lets [...]

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Bidding on eBay can really have you score a lot of bargains on a lot of things. However, in the vast number of products and sellers online, you may miss out on some really great deals if you don’t search hard enough. Especially when sellers aren’t too keen on typing titles and descriptions. That’s where [...]

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Here’s one from the Apple Gazette. This comes really handy when moving files to an external drive for backup or transfer. So you copy them to the new destination and delete the ones in the original machine. But here’s a way to make this faster: If you press Command when you drag those files as [...]

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Here’s an article by The Associated Press that’s republished in many journals and papers – Schools banning iPods to beat cheaters. So kids have it much better nowadays and even the adventure of cheating in exams have gone hi-tech. But is banning gadgets from school a stop-gap solution?

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Normally, I try to inject a bit of humor into my posts here. That’s my “style”, I suppose…but on this particular subject there is very little to make light of. If there is someone in your life that is hurting your, or scaring you by doing what you consider to be “stalking” you…you need to [...]

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I’ve been trying out a heck of a lot of DVD converters and I think HandBrake‘s one most user-friendly converters. HandBrake’s an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter. So as easy as a few clicks, your DVD is on its way to be converted to a MPEG-4 video that can be saved either [...]

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Children are just accidents waiting to happen (and no, not the accident that happen in the backseat then 9 months later, poof!). They’re active, curious, and very eager to explore the world around them that they tend to be in harm’s way. Unless, of course, you always keep an eye on them or to accident-proof [...]

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