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Give Wireless Charging Mats A Natural Wood Look
6:30AM Sarah Rae Trover | 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. More »
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Use An Over-Under Wrap To Keep Your Headphones Kink-Free
5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Headphones have a magic way of tangling themselves in inexplicably complicated knots. Many techniques for keeping headphones tangle-free work but they badly kink and over-tighten them in the process. Use an over-under wrap for easy and cord-friendly storage. More »
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Use A Paring Knife To Sharpen Your Vegetable Peeler
3:30AM Sarah Rae Trover | It’s important to keep your knives sharp for a safe and efficient kitchen, but it’s easy to neglect the other bladed tools, like your vegetable peeler. Food weblog Chow shows us how to keep a sharpener’s edge with a paring knife. More »
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YouTube Adds Machine-Generated Automatic Captions
10:00AM Sarah Rae Trover | YouTube clips have previously allowed for captioning, but it was a system that was a little buggy and only worked from YouTube’s site. That’s all changed with the advent of machine-generated captions and auto-timing. More »
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7:00AM Kevin Purdy | Google offered up everything but a finished Chrome OS today, releasing its source code and explaining how it’s different from other operating systems. Here are the features, functions and screenshots you’ll want to know about. More »
First Glimpse At Google Chrome OS
7:00AM Kevin Purdy | Google offered up everything but a finished Chrome OS today, releasing its source code and explaining how it’s different from other operating systems. Here are the features, functions and screenshots you’ll want to know about. More »
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Google Translate Adds As-You-Type Translations, Pronunciation
3:00AM Kevin Purdy | Google Translate added a few features to its main web home, including instant translations as you type. What’s really helpful is a bit more tucked away: phonetic pronunciations for non-Roman alphabets, like Chinese and text-to-speech pronunciations for translating to English. More »
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Taweet Makes Scheduling Twitter Updates Easy
1:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | While Twitter might have been founded on the idea of people sharing what they are doing right that moment, what about if you want to share what you’re doing in the future? Taweet solves the dilemma with scheduled tweets. More »
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12:00PM Angus Kidman | One of the big complaints about Foxtel Downloads is the fact it’s not available for 64-bit Windows users (let alone Mac or Linux). Foxtel still doesn’t have an official timeline for cross-platform support, but with a little messing around it is possible to access downloads on 64-bit Windows. More »
64-Bit Foxtel Download Manager Hack
12:00PM Angus Kidman | One of the big complaints about Foxtel Downloads is the fact it’s not available for 64-bit Windows users (let alone Mac or Linux). Foxtel still doesn’t have an official timeline for cross-platform support, but with a little messing around it is possible to access downloads on 64-bit Windows. More »
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Make Easy, Less Messy Bacon In A Waffle Iron
12:30AM Kevin Purdy | You love bacon, but cooking it in a pan is tough to time and leaves you with scalding-hot grease to dispose of. The microwave? Please. Food science miracle worker Alton Brown shows how a waffle iron makes the best bacon. More »
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