Thursday, January 14, 2010 - Page 2
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Make Your Own Snack Packs To Help Lose Weight

Even if you’ve hacked out some less-than-healthy food from your diet, it’s still possible to overdo it with healthy food. Use this simple hack to help control your portions.


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The ChoKolate Linux Desktop

Reader naaamo2004′s Linux desktop sports a chocolate-coloured theme that is slick, polished and beautiful, with an impressive Firefox theme to match.


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Swipe To Start Voice Input On Android

A new-to-me Android 2.1 shortcut: If you want to use voice input without hunting down the microphone button on the keyboard, swipe your fingertip across the entire keyboard to start it instead. Start at 0:25 into the video to see it in action.


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Spice Up Your Sandwich Routine To Make It More Appealing

Everyone knows that packing your own lunch is an effective way to save money and eat healthier food, but it certainly get a bit predictable. Mix things up with these tips.


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How To Tether Your Android Phone

There are three ways to tether your Android handset and get sweet internet love even where there’s no Wi-Fi in sight: the risky-but-free rooting method, the still-geeky-but-not-as-bad free route, and the $US29 easy way. Here are the pros and cons of each.


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Cooking By Numbers Helps You Make A Meal With Leftovers

It’s a drag to get home at the end of a long day and try to piece together dinner from whatever’s in the pantry. Food website Cooking By Numbers helps you whip something up from the ingredients you have on hand.


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Competitious Helps You Get A Leg Up On Your Competitors

Even if you’ve got an extremely original idea for a business, software or product, it’s hard to succeed if you don’t keep up with your competitors. Free web app Competitious helps you track your competition with collaborative feature comparisons, news feeds and more.


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The Definitive Guide To Making The Most Of Your Netbook

Netbooks are a great compromise between pecking away a smartphone keyboard or hauling a tank-size laptop around — but they aren’t without shortcomings. Make the most of your netbook with these netbook-friendly tips, tricks and applications.


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Use Goo.gl URL Shortener Without Google Toolbar

If you like the idea of a URL shortener powered by Google but you’re not really sold on the idea of having to install the Google toolbar to get access to it, the Goo.gl Bookmarklet takes care of that problem.


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Flip Your Complaints To Get Them Heard

Author and entrepreneur Seth Godin has a handy suggestion for making complaints — to customer support, bosses or anyone, really — that will actually get heard and acted upon. The secret? Reverse your starting preface, and leave out the word “but”.