If you don’t exercise, at least stand up a lot!

A U.S. study has found that whether people exercise or not on a regular basis, simply standing up frequently throughout the day helps to increase the burning of fat and cholesterol within the body.
If you don’t exercise, at least stand up a lot!

Music 1000 albums

1000 albums to hear before you die...
Music 1000 albums

File Sharing: Share Large Files Instantly with EatLime

Brilliant new file sharing web site EatLime expedites online file sharing by allowing your friends to begin downloading the file as soon as you start uploading it, meaning you don't have to wait for the file to finish uploading before they begin downloading.
File Sharing: Share Large Files Instantly with EatLime

Bad luck at the casino? Blame your brain

Ever wondered why the horse you back never wins a race, or why any shares you buy promptly fall in value? It's not bad luck, researchers say. It's bad brainwaves.
Bad luck at the casino? Blame your brain

Latest new entries - Oxford English Dictionary

On 13 March 2008 the New Edition was updated with revised entries in a series of discrete alphabetical ranges, as well the addition of new entries from across the alphabet. In some ranges, not every entry was revised, as editorial effort was concentrated on the most significant groups of related words. In addition, about 30 virus names were revised across the alphabet.
Latest new entries - Oxford English Dictionary

The Australian Newspaper Plan

The Australian Newspaper Plan is an ambitious, ongoing project designed to collect and preserve every newspaper published in Australia, guaranteeing public access to these important historical records.
The Australian Newspaper Plan

Recycle or go to Hell, warns Vatican

Failing to recycle plastic bags could find you spending eternity in Hell, the Vatican said after drawing up a list of seven deadly sins for our times.
Recycle or go to Hell, warns Vatican

Make Yourself Stick With These First Impression Tips

When you’re interviewing for a job, one of the keys to success is your first impression. If you’re about to go in for an interview, maybe its time to re-evaluate the first impression you give off. Do you come off as likable? Do you exude professionalism and charm?
Make Yourself Stick With These First Impression Tips

ADrive: Big Bucket of Free Storage

There’s another way to compete in online file storage besides offering unique features: just offer a lot of storage. That’s the plan of ADrive, a new entrant in the market (currently in beta) giving out a whopping 50GB of online storage for free.
ADrive: Big Bucket of Free Storage

How to Cram for a College Exam

If you haven't cracked a book before now or if you just want to be as prepared as possible, cramming the night before an exam is a must. This how-to will guide you through the process.
How to Cram for a College Exam

How to Meditate

There are many different meditation methods, but at the core is the ability to focus and eventually quiet your mind. As you progress, you will find that you can meditate anywhere and at any time, accessing an inner calm no matter what's going on around you. But first, you have to learn to tame your mind.
How to Meditate

Top 10 Ways to Get Cables Under Control

When you finally decide it's time to do something about that rat's nest of cables that's spreading like kudzu, you don't have to spend a lot of time and money to get it under control. Whether you're looking to stow your headphone wires tangle-free in your gym bag, hide the ugly wire spaghetti you keep kicking further under your desk, or organize your gadget chargers and power plugs, we've got some cord management tricks for you.
Top 10 Ways to Get Cables Under Control

Flip Your Karma: 8 Tricks to Turn the Bad Into the Awesome

It’s inevitable: sometimes, life just doesn’t go your way.
Your schedule gets all messed up. You fail to follow your exercise plan. Someone is mean to you. You feel like quitting something. You want to curl into a little ball and cry.
Flip Your Karma: 8 Tricks to Turn the Bad Into the Awesome

The Shy Person's Guide to Talking to Strangers

One of the easiest ways to improve your networking ability and invigorate your social life is to develop the skill of talking to strangers.
The Shy Person's Guide to Talking to Strangers

Tech Support Gets a Reprieve While Users Take a Hit

It’s time to place half of the tech-support blame where it belongs: at the feet of Them. The Users.
Tech Support Gets a Reprieve While Users Take a Hit

20 very easy tips for lowering your daily stress level

When we’re stressed, we tend to become more stressed. That’s because when we’re rushed and harried, we cut corners. We don’t take the time to do the little things that, though not difficult or time-consuming themselves, can end up saving enormous amounts of time and trouble.
20 very easy tips for lowering your daily stress level

Empty Your Inbox with the Trusted Trio

Managing the steady stream of email that gathers in your inbox every day can feel like an impossible task. Not long ago, I kept a lengthening list of folders in my email software to track messages by topic, sender, project, urgency and any other context that seemed relevant that hour. I'd spend lots of time carefully dragging and dropping every message from my inbox into the folder it seemed to belong in that day.
Empty Your Inbox with the Trusted Trio

Planning a Kitchen Garden

What’s a “kitchen garden”? A kitchen garden merely refers to a garden that consists almost exclusively of plants intended to be eaten. Although one might put a few decorative plants around the edges of such a garden, the vast majority of the garden is intended for food.
Planning a Kitchen Garden

Rename Multiple Files Efficiently Using Excel or Google Docs

Renaming multiples files on your Windows computer is easy. Select all the files, press F2 and type some descriptive text. Windows will append a unique sequence number to each of the file names.
That’s a fairly quick solution but not very flexible because you don’t get to specify any choices or criteria.
Rename Multiple Files Efficiently Using Excel or Google Docs

Driftr Travel Blog

Driftr is a travel blogging site. The layout is very simplistic and rather elegant and it formats your trips in a uniformed manner. When viewing a trip, you’ll see the location marked on the map (in relation to all of your other visited locations). Further details are shown below, along with images, including suggested places to eat, visit, sleep, how to get around, and additional notes are found in the trip blog section.
Driftr Travel Blog Opens its Public Beta