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Use A Crock Pot To Make Homemade Candles

If you’re looking for an easy way to make candles or a great homemade gift to give this Christmas, this tutorial will show you how to use a crock pot to make candle-creation a snap.


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Five Best Collaboration Tools

The internet has ushered in a level of collaboration unimaginable to workers of decades past. Today we’re taking a look at five popular tools for collaborating with your team to get things done.


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Improve Your Guitar Amp’s Sound With A DIY Sound-Enhancing Stand

If you’re looking for a super-cheap way to squeeze some extra performance out of your guitar amp, this simple and inexpensive hack can help you turn something like a thrift store printer stand into a sound-boosting amp stand.


November 21, 2009
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From The Tips Box: Gmail Remember The Milk, Repelling Mosquitoes

Readers offer their best tips for updating Remember the Milk with Gmail’s canned responses, avoiding mouse jumps while typing with touchpads, and repelling mosquitoes with Listerine.


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PST Desktop Live Makes Performance Benchmarking Simple

Linux Live: If you want to put your computer through the paces and get some feedback and benchmarks, you’ll be hard pressed to find a tool more packed with tests than the Phoronix Test Suite Live CD.


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Twitter/Facebook Client Brizzly Open For Sign-Ups

Brizzly, the web-based social-media manager that ranked as one of our readers’ favourite Twitter clients, has dropped the invite code requirement and is available for anyone to log into. It’s still technically in “beta”, but mostly to keep up the fairly rapid pace of feature development. [via TechCrunch]


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Windows Surface Scanner Finds Bad Hard-Drive Sectors

Windows: When your computer starts acting hinky and spitting out error messages, it’s hard to know exactly where to begin to diagnose the problem. Windows Surface Scanner gives you a place to start.


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MinimizeToTray Revived Puts Firefox In Your System Tray

Windows only: Firefox extension MinimizeToTray Revived puts Firefox in your system tray, and replaces the popular MinimizeToTray extension that has been abandoned and doesn’t support Firefox 3 or later.


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Give Wireless Charging Mats A Natural Wood Look

Wireless charging mats are a clever way to charge your gadgets without cords or power bricks, but a big black mat can easily stick out in any room. Instructables shows you how to make a more stylish wooden induction charger.


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YouTube Will Soon Block Access From Set-Top Devices

It won’t affect your PS3, Wii, TiVo or other licensed YouTube partners, but Google’s streaming video service will start blocking access to TV-connected devices as of December 2.