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Umbrella Etiquette: Four Things To Remember When You’re Using A Brolly

As rainy days become more prevalent, taking an umbrella with you makes good sense, but too many umbrella owners don’t stop to think about how their behaviour impacts others. Make sure that staying dry doesn’t ruin the day for everyone in your vicinity by remembering these simple guidelines.

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The Lonely Island Explains Semicolon Usage

Mind Your Language exists to offer narky advice on accurate language usage, but we’re more than happy to let others do the work. This new song from legendary comedy musicians The Lonely Island (featuring Solange) offers a reminder in humorous form on the correct use of the semicolon.

Deployment

Windows 8 Users Don’t Run Windows 8 Apps

Windows 8 apps are radically different in design and approach to their Windows predecessors, but Windows 8 can also run older apps. New usage figures suggest that most people running Windows 8 are taking full advantage of that, with more than half of them rarely running Windows 8-specific apps.

Design

Weekly Wallpaper: Show You Know Your Memes

The internet is full of wonderful memes so why shouldn’t your desktop be too? We searched high and low for wallpapers centered around these internet pop culture phenomena. Join in by setting you desktop to one of these many options.

Entertainment

Is It Safe To Pre-Order An Xbox One?

The Xbox One doesn’t even have an official release date, but that hasn’t stopped some online stores allowing customers to place pre-orders for the device. Is doing that risky?

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Ask LH: How Can I Play My Old PC Games On A Modern Computer?

Dear Lifehacker, I have a couple of old PC games from the Windows 95 days that I’d like to keep playing. However, I use Windows 7, which creates an obvious problem. Is there a way to play it on my current machine? More importantly, will I just have to give it up some day?

Deployment

Motivator: Spaghetti Is Great To Eat, But Horrendous To Manage

Many workplace server cabinets are a locked cupboard of shame, with cables overlapping in such a way nothing gets sorted. The same often applies to our overall infrastructure. It’s horrendous to deal with, and the feeling of relief when it gets sorted is tremendous.

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The Basics Of Music Production: Recording Audio

You can have a lot of fun making music, but getting a good recording and arrangement of your song requires some work and knowledge. Last week we set up a home recording studio. This week we’re going to start recording.

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Twitter Adds Two-Factor Authentication, How To Enable It Now

Twitter has finally added two-factor authentication and you should enable it right now if you can. We probably don’t need to tell you why, but just in case you forgot about social engineering hacks, you want to enable this feature to protect yourself.

Productivity

Google Drive For Android Adds OCR Scanning

Android: Google has updated its Drive mobile app with a cleaner, cards-style look and several awesome new features. Among them: the ability to download a copy of documents directly to your device and scan papers using OCR.

Productivity

Learn Anything In 20 Hours With This Four-Step Method

With just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice, you can go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing well. That’s the message from Josh Kaufman, author of The First 20 Hours. In the video above, he reveals the four steps to learning any new skill, fast.

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