Tuesday, September 30, 2008

How to Get Rid of Foot Odor

Are you suffering from a raging case of stinky feet? Do people wince when you walk by? Do your dogs avoid playing with your shoes? Here are some suggestions that may help tame that fearsome foot odor.
How to Get Rid of Foot Odor

7 Ridiculous Ways to Die While Golfing

If you could choose the means by which you’ll check out of this life, most men would either die old, do something gloriously macho, or in David Blaine’s case find the lamest way possible.
7 Ridiculous Ways to Die While Golfing

11 Refreshing Ways to Bring Out the Awesomeness in Life

It’s hard not to get sucked into the routine of living and take life for granted. Sometimes it’s hard to stay excited about life.
11 Refreshing Ways to Bring Out the Awesomeness in Life

Cool Tools: Deep Fun

Or in other words, how to have good clean fun. Directions for about 25 well-proven games for groups are succinctly supplied by this free PDF book.
Cool Tools: Deep Fun

Monday, September 29, 2008

The Twelve Biggest Personal Finance Mistakes People Make Over and Over Again

Most of the same problems pop up time and time again. Sure, the specifics of the story change, as do the severity of the situation, but these same twelve items come up in almost every story.
The Twelve Biggest Personal Finance Mistakes People Make Over and Over Again

Five fun smartphone tips

Tip #1: See what you’re ordering.
Five fun smartphone tips

10 Timeless Business Tips From 10 Millionaires

Here is what I have learned in the last year from 10 successful entrepreneurs.
10 Timeless Business Tips From 10 Millionaires

A Frugal Family is a Greener Family: Easy Everyday Tips

Who wouldn’t want to make everyday life less expensive? Here are a few ways we make everyday home life a bit more frugal, inevitably coloring our home a slightly greener hue.
A Frugal Family is a Greener Family: Easy Everyday Tips

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Surprising Things You Can Get For Free (Or Almost)

As much as I love the word, I have to admit it makes me suspicious. Just this week I won a “free” vacation, but the fine print says I need to send in a cashier's check to claim my prize. Sadly, “free” is usually a sneaky way to clean out my wallet.
Surprising Things You Can Get For Free (Or Almost)

Top 10 Ways to Stay Energized

Even if you're a hyper-organized, task-oriented worker with an expansive mind and endless ambition, you won't get a lot done if your mind and body are demanding you curl up and doze off. Luckily, you can overcome a late night of net surfing, a rough morning, or just the post-lunch stupor without becoming an over-wired mess.
Top 10 Ways to Stay Energized

How to Get Adult Kids to Pay Their Share

Not quite ready to push your adult fledglings out of the nest yet but getting fed up with their lack of contributions to the household budget? This article will provide you with some ideas on what to do to make the budgetary cycle in your household a little fairer on everyone, as well as getting them to do more of their share around the house.
How to Get Adult Kids to Pay Their Share

Saturday, September 27, 2008

What's your secret tip for saving money at the grocery store?

What's your trick for staying cheap and healthy at the grocery store? Looking for ideas beyond coupon clipping.
What's your secret tip for saving money at the grocery store?

Browser Speed Tests: The Compiled, Up-to-Date Results

Back when Firefox 3's final release candidate dropped, we ran some tests to compare its page-loading, memory use, and technical timing to Internet Explorer 7, Opera, and Safari for Windows. Then Google Chrome arrived, so we pitted it against the betas for Firefox 3.1 and Internet Explorer 8, and shared the results. The tests were by and large the same, but many commenters wisely asked to see all the results, betas or no betas.
Browser Speed Tests: The Compiled, Up-to-Date Results

Friday, September 26, 2008

Clean Your House In 19 Minutes

With a plan of attack, you can maintain a sparkling house in just 19 minutes a day.
Clean Your House In 19 Minutes

Quit Your Day Job: lillyella

Nicole is a planner and her story is jam packed with helpful, honest, and realistic tips for gaining success when considering taking the plunge. Keep reading to find out about how she keeps it all together, the ultimate DIY project she's got going on in her back yard, and the two indulgences she had to sacrifice for her business.
Quit Your Day Job: lillyella

The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time

They're rarely helpful. Actually, they usually add insult to injury. But what would computing be without 'em? Herewith, a tribute to a baker's dozen of the best (or is that worst?).
The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time

50 Tools to Speed Up or Otherwise Enhance Your PC

Is your PC tired and sluggish? Has its get up and go got up and went? If you want a faster system, you could certainly break the bank and buy a new machine. Or you could read this article instead.
50 Tools to Speed Up or Otherwise Enhance Your PC

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Convert Microsoft Word 2007 Files Online

Got a Word 2007-formatted file you need to convert while you're away from your desktop?
Convert Microsoft Word 2007 Files Online

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Fill 'er Up

With rising fuel prices increasingly factoring into our driving decisions, Australians are feeling our fair share of pain at the petrol pump.
To help Australians get the best value for their fuel dollars, Google Australia has partnered with Motormouth to help provide everyone with easily accessible information about petrol prices. We've developed an iGoogle gadget (here) that allows you to find out the price of various fuel types across parts of major metro areas in Australia.
Fill 'er up

29 Steps I Took to Leave the Workforce at Age 29

Leave the corporate world behind!
29 Steps I Took to Leave the Workforce at Age 29

Monday, September 22, 2008

Internet Activity, Australia, Jun 2008

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics
The Internet Activity Survey (IAS) collects details on aspects of internet access services provided by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Australia. This release contains results from all ISPs operating in Australia with more than 10,000 active subscribers as at 30 June 2008.
Internet Activity, Australia, Jun 2008

Sunday, September 21, 2008

10 Reasons You Should Write Something Each Day

The written word is a part of every day life. At its most basic, writing is a way of communicating. This is the one inalienable characteristic of writing itself, whether you’re communicating with a colleague or friend or you’re actually communicating with yourself - though a shopping list, for instance.
10 Reasons You Should Write Something Each Day

Saturday, September 20, 2008

How to Protect Your Email from Hackers

According to Wired, hacking VP-hopeful Sarah Palin's email account was easy: all the hacker needed was Palin's birthdate, ZIP code, and the name of her high school—all of which are no more than a Google search away. In fact, password security questions may have always been the weakest link in email security, since anyone with an acquaintance's knowledge or access to the internet can divine answers to most of your security questions within minutes. So how can you make sure your email account is secure?
How to Protect Your Email from Hackers

10 Unbeatable Tips for Overcoming Micro-Addictions

What are micro-addictions? They are those annoying little habits that prevent you from living the life you truly want. They are small enough to go unchecked, but bothersome enough to get in the way of you living your fullest potential.
10 Unbeatable Tips for Overcoming Micro-Addictions

10 Overused Words in Writing

All words are good words. Some, however, are overused without adding value to what you write. As a result, they reduce the readers’ interest, make text seem redundant, and cause the writer to appear amateurish.
10 Overused Words in Writing

Oxford English Dictionary Adds New Words

You can review the complete list here.
Oxford English Dictionary Adds New Words

Friday, September 19, 2008

How to Be Outstanding

Are you exceptional in your line of work? Do you love what you do? Perhaps that’s why you are or aren’t getting the results you want.
People who consistently achieve outstanding results all have this in common: they are passionate about what they do. It’s no longer work, but an active participation of joy and creativity.
This article takes a deeper look into outstanding performance, and gives guidance as to how you can manifest outstanding results in your life.
How to Be Outstanding

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Reducing Unnecessary Email Intake

It’s not surprising that many people, especially web workers, experience email fatigue. After all, spending hours each day reading and replying to emails can prevent you from spending more time on the work that you actually have to do (unless sending and receiving emails is your line of work).
Archive Reducing Unnecessary Email Intake

anti-theft lunch bag

Stealing your co-worker's lunch is a downright contemptible act, that is, if it's perpetrated by someone other than you. But, if you've ever had your lunch stolen, you know the the frustration and anger it causes.
anti-theft lunch bag

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

How to solve a maze puzzle using Photoshop

Steps to solve a maze with photoshop. 1) find a maze image that has good solid lines (maze should have an open start and finish point) 2) use magic wand to select the border of the maze 3) etc
How to solve a maze puzzle using Photoshop

7 Tips for Money and Marriage

Today, while most of us marry for romantic reasons, marriage at its core is still a financial union. So much of what we want — or don’t want — out of life boils down to dollars and cents, whether it’s how hard we choose to work, how much we consume or how much we save. For some people, it’s working 80-hour weeks to finance a third home and country club membership; for others, it means cutting back on office hours to spend more time with the family.
7 Tips for Money and Marriage

Monday, September 15, 2008

20 superfoods for weight loss

It's time for a new slim-down mantra: Eat more to weigh less. No joke! The right foods help you drop pounds by revving your calorie burn and curbing cravings.
20 superfoods for weight loss

23 Personal Tools to Learn More About Yourself

In the not too distant past, the Web was all about sharing, broadcasting, and distribution. The tide is turning. The Web is moving towards the individual. Applications spring up every month that let people track, monitor, and analyze their habits and behaviors in hopes of gaining a better understanding about themselves and their surroundings.
23 Personal Tools to Learn More About Yourself

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Why Tea Is Healthier Than Water

While nobody is running around extolling the virtues of cola as a replacement for water for daily hydration, researchers at Kings College London want to make sure you don't think every non-water drink is a poor substitute for water. After reviewing numerous studies on the benefits of drinking tea, they've concluded that tea is a superior drink.
Why Tea Is Healthier Than Water

The Falling Man

Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.
The Falling Man

10 Everyday Technologies That Can Change the World

Who knew that providing energy and water for all could be a matter of foot cranks and dirt power?
10 Everyday Technologies That Can Change the World

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Antarctic sea ice increases despite warming

The amount of sea ice around Antarctica has grown in recent Septembers in what could be an unusual side-effect of global warming.
Antarctic sea ice increases despite warming

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Don’t Panic: How to Know When the Large Hadron Collider Spells Your Doom

As anyone who has even a passing fancy of physics knows, the Large Hadron Collider was turned on just a bit ago, and while the Earth has yet to implode, we might not be out of the woods yet.
Don’t Panic: How to Know When the Large Hadron Collider Spells Your Doom

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Ten things you don’t know about the Earth

Good advice from the 60s acid band. Look around you. Unless you’re one of the Apollo astronauts, you’ve lived your entire life within a few hundred kilometers of the surface of the Earth. There’s a whole planet beneath your feet, 6.6 sextillion tons of it, one trillion cubic kilometers of it. But how well do you know it?
Ten things you don’t know about the Earth

Hurricanes, as seen from orbit

Hurricane Ike just rolled across Cuba, and soaked parts of Haiti - both regions still reeling from recent Hurricane Gustav. Ike appears to be weakening now, but is headed tward the Gulf Coast of the U.S., and may yet strengthen. The crew aboard the International Space Station was able to take a photo of Ike from 220 miles overhead last Thursday - one in a long series of great NASA photographs of hurricanes from space. Here are some of the best, from the past several years.
Hurricanes, as seen from orbit

Five Best Password Managers

You've got enough to keep track of in your day-to-day life without filling your head with the countless logins and passwords you've racked up over the years, and the Post-It note on your monitor just isn't an option. Luckily, there are several fantastic and secure password management applications designed to make it easy for you to remember, manage, and secure your passwords effortlessly.
Five Best Password Managers

20 Strategies to Defeat the Urge to Do Useless Tasks

How many times during the day do you check email, or go to see updates of your favorite blogs or social sites, or shuffle paperwork or make phone calls … when you know you should be doing something more important?
20 Strategies to Defeat the Urge to Do Useless Tasks

Why the Brain Follows the Rules

Clues to understanding the human social brain come from a study of punishment's role in fairness.
Why the Brain Follows the Rules

100 Things You Should Eat Before You Die

A meme that has been making its way around the food blogosphere for a few weeks. It's a list of 100 things you should eat before you die.
100 Things You Should Eat Before You Die

21 Easy Hacks to Simplify Your Life

Sometimes life gets in the way, and you need a workaround, some way to get past your usual obstacles and to trick yourself into keeping things simple.
21 Easy Hacks to Simplify Your Life

Here They Are, Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments

Whether they are blasting apart subatomic particles in accelerators, sequencing the genome or analyzing the wobble of a distant star, the experiments that grab the world's attention often cost millions of dollars to execute and produce torrents of data to be processed over months by supercomputers.
Here They Are, Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments

Why You Should Never Talk to the Police

This is an engaging and fascinating video presentation by Professor James Duane of the Regent University School of Law, explaining why -- in a criminal matter -- you should never, ever, ever talk to the police or any other government agent.
Why You Should Never Talk to the Police

Top 10 Amazing Physics Videos

Tesla coils, superconductors, and hilarious music videos are great reasons to be excited about physics.
Top 10 Amazing Physics Videos

Friday, September 05, 2008

The Danger of Stress

You probably think you're doing everything you can to stay healthy: you get lots of sleep, exercise regularly and try to avoid fried foods. But you may be forgetting one important thing. Relax! Stress has a bigger impact on your health than you might realize.
The Danger of Stress

Thursday, September 04, 2008

20 examples of grammar misuse

Grammar just ain't what it used to be, it seems. When we explained the difference between "fewer" and "less than", following Tesco's policy shift on this matter, readers told us what grammar rules they see being flouted or find confusing.
20 examples of grammar misuse

Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century

The sun has reached a milestone not seen for nearly 100 years: an entire month has passed without a single visible sunspot being noted.
Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Six tips for good deeds that take less than five minutes

Here are some ways that you can help other people—and make yourself feel great, at the same time—in under five minutes.
Six tips for good deeds that take less than five minutes

Moment a dolphin gave birth caught on film

The unique moment was captured by a photographer at the Oltremare Aquarium at Riccione in Italy. Normally after a year-long pregnancy, captive dolphins give birth at night and away from the public gaze.
Moment a dolphin gave birth caught on film

Screenshot Tour: Google Chrome First Look

New beta web browser Google Chrome officially hit the streets just a few minutes ago, and we've rolled up our sleeves and taken a quick look at everything the newest browser on the block has to offer. Keep reading for a detailed screenshot tour of the exciting new Google Chrome browser.
Screenshot Tour: Google Chrome First Look

6 Questions to Ask Yourself to Get the Most Out of Life

You never know how much time you have left, and trying to cram a list of things into that unknown time can be futile. Instead, live every day to the fullest. Get the most out of life.
6 Questions to Ask Yourself to Get the Most Out of Life

How to Set Up a Laptop Security System

As students flock back to the library and the rest of us head back to the coffee shop for a warm drink and free Wi-Fi, the safety and security of our laptops—and all of the important and sensitive information they hold—are of the utmost importance. Let's take a look at several free and cheap methods you can (and should) use to keep your laptop safe, secure, and out of the hands of thieves. We'll also take a look at software that tracks and even snaps pictures of the thief in the event he did get away with your precious gear.
How to Set Up a Laptop Security System

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

5 Reasons to Write Down Everything You Eat For a Week

Quick, what did you eat for lunch on Monday? Ok, stop, you have no idea and neither would I. That's a problem if you are trying to lose or maintain your weight. How do you know what is causing gains and losses if you aren't tracking things?
5 Reasons to Write Down Everything You Eat For a Week

Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project

Google Chrome is Google’s open source browser project. As rumored before under the name of “Google Browser”, this will be based on the existing rendering engine Webkit. Furthermore, it will include Google’s Gears project.
Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project

The 10 Worst Job Tips Ever

The world abounds in bad advice for job-seekers. Here are some spectacularly unsound directives.
The 10 Worst Job Tips Ever