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Friday, April 29, 2011

Fed up with Yahoo Mail? Here’s your Escape Hatch

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Thursday’s Yahoo Mail blackout was the source of a lot of headaches, with some 1.2 million users said to be affected. As of press time, Yaho...

What Time Is The Royal Wedding? Google Tells You With Special Box

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Royal Wedding madness had descended upon Google. Do a search for royal wedding, and you’ll be treated to a special box telling you the time ...

Weird things people swallow

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In the 19th and 20th centuries, laryngologist Chevalier Jackson pioneered new methods to remove weird things that people swallowed, from saf...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

What Birthname Makes You Most Likely To Be CEO? [INFOGRAPHIC]

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What’s in a name? Well, according to a new study by LinkedIn, it’s the key to your success. The social network for employment recently did s...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

How to Use the Rule of 72

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The rule of 72 is a handy rule used in finance to estimate quickly the time it takes to double a sum of capital given an interest rate, or t...

Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed

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"Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549 as it crash-landed in the Hudson River in January 2009. What went through his mind as th...

Why should you care about iOS location tracking?

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Over at Wired Gadget Lab, Brian Chen and Mike Isaac have a thoughtful, non-hysterical piece up about the Apple iOS location data gathering i...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

RIP Typewriters: Last Manufacturer Closes Its Doors

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oining other discarded technologies of late, including the Flip video camera, Kodachrome, and the humble floppy disk is the typewriter, whic...

Chernobyl disaster, 25 year later: commemoration around the world

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It's early morning on April 26 in Kiev, Ukraine, where the Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened exactly a quarter century ago. On this da...
Monday, April 25, 2011

Amazon to Zappos

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Shipping Rates and Free Shipping for Over 50 Top Online Retailers. Amazon to Zappos: Shipping Rates and Free Shipping for Over 50 Top Online...

Lifehacker’s 2011 Australian Airport Public Transport Guide

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You’ve planned carefully to score yourself a cheap airline ticket — why jack up the budget by spending a fortune getting a taxi from the air...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

The Importance of Drinking Water

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In essence, if you washed your dirty dishes with orange soda, they wouldn’t come clean. In fact, they would be sticky and disgusting. Water ...

Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 8/2011

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The latest issue of new Family Friendly sites listed on The Black Stump. Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 8/2011

How To Clear A Browser Cache

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Before we start with explanations on how to clear a browser cache, we are going to look at the cache briefly. What is it? Why is it there in...

Top 10 Photography Hacks

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Your digital camera, whether it's built in to your cellphone or it's a hefty DSLR, is an incredible creative tool. If you've onl...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Favorite YouTube Videos This Week: The Earth Day Edition

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In lieu of awkward, Earth-worshipping gyrations, Mashable brings you their weekly YouTube roundup, the Earth Day edition. Now go recycle som...

Late Easter

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Easter Sunday occurs unusually early and late in 2011. Late Easter

Turn a Webcam into a Security Camera with Email Notifications

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This DIY project takes an old webcam and converts it into a motion sensitive CCTV camera, complete with email and growl/prowl push notificat...

Untrackerd Destroys Your iPhone's Tracking Data

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You've probably learned recently that your iPhone is tracking your whereabouts. If you don't like this, Untrackerd is a jailbreak ap...

Convert Web Documents to PDF with Google Docs Viewer

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Google Docs has a built-in PDF converter that supports nearly all popular file formats including Office documents, presentations, HTML web p...
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