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How To Use Android [How To]





Android is awesome and powerful, but it has, shall we say, a learning curve. That scares some people away. After all, iOS is so intuitive that babies can use it. Literally. But you're not a baby. More&n...
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720p vs 1080i HD Explained
Very good video explaining 720p, 1080i and 1080p HD video formats. Benjamin Higginbotham of Technology Evangelist describes why 720p is better choice, not 1080i.
But in reddit we can found another opinion:
He ranks 1080i below 720p in quality because he d...
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How to Never Get Tricked By a Shortened Link Ever Again [How To]





You might have some hilarious friends who still think rickrolling someone is funny or know people who toss around NSFW links while you're at work. You can't help yourself, you click, you shriek, you close ...
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The Tip Box Is Back: Give Us Your Dirt [Announcements]





It's been way too long. Our tips hotline has been sitting cold, neglected, mostly forgotten. Screw that—we're online, and we want to hear everything you've got. And we mean everything. More &...
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Grandparents Send Awesome And Awkward Wedding Toasts
Kenny & Selma share their tips, learned from 72 years of being wed,  for a long and healthy (and possibly hilarious) marriage with newly weds Michael and Sue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fSudcJnqaQ
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10 Tech Stupidity Taxes You Should Never Pay [Tips]





People are lazy—that's why we love technology! But not everything's as good a deal as it seems. Here's a list of tech products and services you shouldn't ever blow your money on from our friends at L...
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100 Tips from a Professional Photographer [Photography]





Here's a list of tips, advice, rules and just things to know about photography from Eric Kim, a street photographer who also holds photography workshop classes. I think the gist of it is to keep taking pi...
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The Best Tip For Success With Girls
Now ladies, don’t take this as a judgement on you, but let’s be honest, this tip helps… a lot.
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Best Use For Sanitary Towels Ever
Forget what sanitary towels are supposed to be used for and stick them on your head instead. Just makes sure that they haven’t been used first, unless you’d like to add a splash of color to your Easter Bunny costume.
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How to Install Wood Flooring for Cheap [Home Mod]





You. You have a dream of turning a basement, garage, or some other unloved room into a decent place to hang out. That wasted space could be a study, or a spare bedroom or a sweet home theater! The first st...
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How to Quickly Open Saved Email Drafts in iOS [Tips]





Here's a tip for you iPhone users: if you want to quickly open your last email draft in iOS, just hold down the compose email button for a few seconds. Your last email draft will open up right away. Nice. ...
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Best Tip Ever?
We’ve seen a lot of tips that people thought were both awesome, geeky and crappy (at the same time), but this may take the award of best tip ever.
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Failbook: How to Get Rid of Facebook Timeline

If you don’t like Facebook’s new layout, the folks at Lifehacker made a quick video to show you how you can simplify Timeline so it resembles the older look.
Submitted by: UnknownVia: lifehacker
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The Best Way to Get Tips
This is too easy, Batman wins every time.
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Setting up XFS on Hardware RAID — the simple edition
There are about a gazillion FAQs and HOWTOs out there that talk about XFS configuration, RAID IO alignment, and mount point options.  I wanted to try to put some of that information together in a condensed and simplified format that will work for the majo...
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Poorly Dressed: Eye-shadow is not to be trifled with people




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App.bg pulls together local Instagram photos, foursquare tips, and tweets
Even though Instagram, foursquare, and Twitter let you find all of the activity going on around you no matter where you are, one app brings local content from all three services together.
App.bg is a fairly basic app, in that it grabs your current locatio...
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Woz's Greatest Foursquare Tips [Woz]






Everyone knows that Steve Wozniak co-found Apple with Steve Jobs and that other guy everyone forgets about, and that he loves Segway polo. What you may not know is that Woz is a Foursquare guru. More&n...
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Dating: Victorian Courtship Required Genius-Level Study Skills



Never feel Forever Alone again with, Dating FAILS!



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How to board a plane in a fraction of the time [Video]

One of the unseen slowdowns of air travel is the time it takes to properly board an airplane. After clearing security and practically disrobing in front of strangers, you still have to wait your turn to enter the plane, then tango in the aisles while fin...
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Don’t trust your valuables to the hotel room safe

You’d be shocked to know just how easy it is to crack into a hotel safe. Sometimes it’s as easy as punching in all “0′s” until your worldly possessions are in the hands of a thieving maid, or bellhop. We’re not making ...
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Last-Minute FCC Communications Tips to Get You Through Hurricane Irene and Out the Other Side [Hurricane Irene]






Are you still there? Has power cut out yet? It's Irene, baby, and she's barreling down the New England seaboard as I type this! But don't panic. The FCC is here with some last-minute tips on communicating...
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How to take incredible photos with your phone
We recently discovered that the iPhone has become the most commonly used camera among Flickr users. Of course, there are photography purists who will say that taking a photo with your phone isn’t the same as using a sophisticated SLR camera, but the...
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10 things you need to do to be supremely productive
We live in a busy world. Whether you're looking around online or off, there's "stuff" going on all around us. Some of us are trying to keep up and some of us aren't. Either way, both parties are inevitably going to miss out on some of this "stuff" I'm all...
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6 easy ways to get the most of your desktop
GeekTool can get you awesome results like this on a Mac. And Windows users can take advantage of Rainmeter, which is an elaborate way of placing all sorts of information on your desktop. But they're pretty complicated applications, requiring a fair bit of...
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How to Make Photoshop Faster [Photoshop]






Pro tip: make Photoshop millions of times faster by changing the cache levels and file handling in preferences. Dan Rubin shows how it's done: [Make Photoshop Faster via DesignWorkLife via SwissMiss] M...
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Do you run, cycle or walk to work? There’s a new type of members club just for you
Founded by cyclist commuter Piers Slater, H2 is a club located in Soho, London with an awesome twist. Founded with commuters who run, cycle or walk to work, H2 Soho is the first club of its kind in the city, and the first of many to come.
H2 was born out ...
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The 10 Coolest Windows Shortcuts You Never Knew About [Tips]






Keyboard shortcuts are the essence of PC productivity. While newbs slowly mouse around their screens in search of buttons to click, seasoned tech vets hammer through a day's work with ease thanks to a wea...
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Staring blankly at your screen? A gluten-free diet could boost your stamina
A gluten-free diet might not just be solution to an allergy, it could actually improve your physical and mental performance too.
Newly-crowned Wimbledon Men’s tennis champion, Novak Djokvic attributes a recent upturn in his on-court performance in p...
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How to Dress Well: Advice From Professional Puppies


Via Obsessive Corgi Disorder
Summer’s here, and for the newly-graduated, that means it’s time to start job hunting. Searching for employment is never a fun process… and that’s why we here at Daily Squee want to help those looking...
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Aligning IO on a hard disk RAID – the Theory
Now that flash storage is becoming more popular, IO alignment question keeps popping up more often than it used to when all we had were rotating hard disk drives. I think the reason is very simple – when systems only had one bearing hard disk drive ...
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America’s Waitresses: Are They Hitting On You?
Onion Investigative Stalk...umm...Reporter Gavin Fisher attempts to understand whether he should give his waitress a large tip or the entire shaft.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UUW_4_L8ew Via.
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Basic Email Etiquette; move everybody from the CC to the BCC
Most people are receiving too much email. That is a fact.
One of the most annoying email features as far as I know is the CC field. I wish application builders would have supplied us with a few warnings for that one. Like “You are about to send this...
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Sexual Assault Prevention Tips
Some common sense tips to avoid the specter of sexual assault.Via.
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The single easiest way to massively extend iPhone battery life
If there’s one complaint I hear about the daily use of the iPhone more than any other, it’s the length of time that the battery lasts. With the iPhone 4 those complaints subsided a bit but many people still remark to me that they have to charg...
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Simple Methods to Clean Up Your Digital Life and Manage Information Overload [Information Overload]






People who have been around the Web for a while know how difficult it can be to keep up with the sites you read, your friends on Facebook or Twitter, and the productive things you know you should be doin...
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What Are the Best ISO Settings for Canon DSLR Video? [Video]






Self, I'm glad you asked that question, because DSLR video is becoming the norm, it would seem, and it's going to be really important to know the answers to such queries. More »





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Aspersa tools bit.ly download shortcuts
I use Aspersa tools a lot and I find myself going to the website just to download one of the tools all the time. I love I can download maatkit with a simple wget maatkit.org/get/tool command so I made bit.ly shortcuts for all of the current aspersa tools....
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How to get the most out of SlideShare
SlideShare.net is the world’s largest online community for sharing presentations with more than 50 million monthly visitors, helping to make it rank amongst the 250 most visited websites in the world.
But, it is more than just a simple presentation ...
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Cheat Sheet: 10 Quick and Easy Photoshop Tips [Tips]






In the world of photography, Photoshop is the industry standard in post production work—capapble of doing nearly anything to any given photo. Though the rabbit hole is extremely deep, there are a fe...
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How to: Use Your Mac and iPhone to Transfer, Edit and Annotate Images in Seconds
Getting screenshots and images from your iPhone or iPad to your computer, or the reverse for that matter, is an exercise in time wasting frustration. A combination of two already great apps for your Mac and iPhone can take that process from frustration to...
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How to Get Books Into Your iPhone or iPad Without Using iTunes [How To]






Did you know that now you can get books into your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch without having to download them first in your computer and synchronizing? It's very easy. Just follow these steps: More ...
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Optimizing slow web pages with mk-query-digest
I don’t use many tools in my consulting practice but for the ones I do, I try to know them as best as I can. I’ve been using mk-query-digest for almost as long as it exists but it continues to surprise me in ways I couldn’t imagine it wo...
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Innodb row size limitation
I recently worked on a customer case where at seemingly random times, inserts would fail with Innodb error 139. This is a rather simple problem, but due to it’s nature, it may only affect you after you already have a system running in production for...
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MySQL caching methods and tips
“The least expensive query is the query you never run.”
Data access is expensive for your application. It often requires CPU, network and disk access, all of which can take a lot of time. Using less computing resources, particularly in the clo...
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How to Automatically Pause and Resume Music using AppleScript
If you weren’t around yesterday, I wrote about a brilliant little menubar utility for the Mac called Take Five, which lets you pause and automatically resume iTunes playback after X minutes.
If you don’t want to spend $2 on the app, or you do...
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Police Tips
These tips would be awesome if they hadn’t been written by a drunk Yoda





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Maatkit’s mk-query-digest filters
Have you ever seen BIG weird numbers in mk-query-digest report that just seem wrong? I have! Here’s one report I got today:

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# Attribute total min max avg 95% stddev median
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Using Flexviews – part one, introduction to materialized views
If you know me, then you probably have heard of Flexviews. If not, then it might not be familiar to you. I’m giving a talk on it at the MySQL 2011 CE, and I figured I should blog about it before then. For those unfamiliar, Flexviews enables you t...
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