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It's long been one of Google Map's      wheels. Google looks for roads
most requested features, and now        with designated bike lanes, tries
it's here. Recreational cyclists        to avoid areas with lots of hill
and bike commuters alike can plot       climbs and drops, and, when
cycle-friendly routes, find trails,     possible, whenever a road has been
and avoid snarling traffic with         designated by a city or cycle
Google Maps' Bicycle layer.             group as bike-friendly. In giving  

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Windows Live Writer, pretty much        drive, a network drive, or any
our favorite Windows Live               other storage space. If you're
application, can be run from a          already running Live Writer, the
thumb drive, and it can even            portable tool will ask you to
incorporate all the settings and        point to it on your hard drive,
sites you've already set up on          and then pick up your setup from
your existing Live Writer setup.        there. If you're planning on being 

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Windows with Outlook: Sharing a         spreadsheets, and other files, and
Google Docs file for group              the PDF mode, in particular, might
collaboration can be a lot more         be a help for those who are all
useful than emailing individual         too handy at losing the right
copies to an entire team. Harmony       document at the wrong time.
makes opening, sharing, and             Harmony also sports a similar
managing Google Docs from inside        Sharepoint integration sidebar,    

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Foursquare users have put a lot of      though, and you can choose to see
energy into leaving tips and raves      all nearby venues that Foursquare
about locations on the geo-aware        users have checked into, only
social app, but that doesn’t      places with reviews/comments, or
help if you’re not a member.      clear your map and start over in
FourWhere publicises and organises      another area. Mouse over a blip on
Foursquare’s venues,              the map, and the user and comment  

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Chrome: If you've got a good stash      really worthwhile, though, is that
of bookmarks tucked away in             your bookmarks can by sychronized
Delicious, you can keep on saving       to your Google bookmarks. Once
and tagging them, and even              they are, you can search them out
synchronize them with your browser      from Chrome's OmniBar by just
bookmarks, using a new, beta            typing in letters related to the
Chrome extension.                       title, the tags, or most anything  

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If bold colours, a big desk and         of the furniture.The desk legs are
plenty of well lit storage sounds       Vika Annefors with a 78″
like your kind of office,               Vika Amon tabletop.
you’ll definitely want to         The cabinets are from the EFFEKTIV
check out today’s featured        system. The EFFEKTIV stuff is all
workspace.                              modular and has tons of options. I
Sometimes after making do with an       looked at several different        

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If you like getting the most use        how they turn a hooded sweatshirt
out of your possessions as              into a laptop bag:                 

possible, this guide will help you      In addition to the laptop bag
turn a hooded sweatshirt into a         video they have multiple photo
laptop bag, baby carrier, and more.     tutorials available at the link
Over at the design site Conceptual      below—including one for the
Devices, they have a project            laptop bag for those of you at a   

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We become invested in our junk,         current state of the item. If not,
through the price we paid when we       it should leave your house.
bought it and brought it home, and      It's all too easy to get caught up
we're loathe to look at that as         in the value of what something was
wasted money. Use the "Stock            and ignore what the value is now.
Theory of Decluttering" to help         While helping a friend clean out
purge your junk.                        his workshop he was very resistant 

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Windows 7: Hailing from the camp        spacing of icons on the actual bar
of "software that does exactly          itself, it alters the size and
what its name implies", Windows 7       spacing of the preview thumbnails.
Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer fine-      See the two images below for
tunes the size, spacing, and            comparison. The top is the default
margins of your Windows 7 Superbar      settings and the second is with
previews.                               the size of the thumbnail doubled  

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No matter how you're getting rid        magnetic disks or solid-state
of a computer or external drive,        memory. Jason has previously
you want all your data removed          detailed the physical means of
from it, because identity thieves       erasing media, but MaximumPC's
love laziness. MaximumPC details        guide, posted at our sister site
the best ways to wipe down a hard       Gizmodo, offers a lot of options
drive, SSD, or USB drive.               for those of different technical   

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