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Archive for Ноябрь, 2009

Pomegranates are a delicious but        pain to get them out without
extremely frustrating fruit to eat.     crushing them, making a mess, and
Using the technique outlined here       getting the pile of seeds you've
you'll put more pomegranate in          scooped out completely covered in
your mouth and less all over the        white flakes from the membrane.
kitchen.                                The secret? Quarter the
For those of you who have never         pomegranate and then place it into 

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Deal-of-the-day site Zazz               different to other offers out
doesn’t normally promote its      there, especially given the $14.95
offers ahead of time, but               shipping charge. However, if you
it’s made an exception this       pay via PayPal and score an
week by announcing it will have         additional $30 off, it comes in at
(amongst other things) a 1TB            $105, which is fairly reasonable.
Astone ISO GEAR 481E drive on sale      If lack of space has been your     

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With the holidays fast approaching,     landmark, such as local tourist
it’s important to start to plan         information centre, hotel, service
your trip. If you’re thinking of        station or bank you may need along
travelling domestically, a              the way.
portable GPS device can be your         Selected devices also allow you to
best friend on the road in an           search business listings to find   

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Linux: When you need to drill down      file, from the song title in an
deep into your files and folders        MP3 to the sender's name in an
to find something stored in the         email. The handy search app even
depths of your Linux-based              scours external hard drives and
operating system, open-source           removable media.
search tool Beagle is your best         Beagle works on the GNOME or KDE
friend.                                 desktop and requires a handful of  

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Services abound for finding music       the song.
by genre or musical-relation, but       In addition to building a playlist
what if the parameter you want is       for you based on the mood you
your mood? StereoMood lets you          select you can also see which
pick music by your mood.                artists and groups are the most
Using StereoMood is as simple as        popular in that mood-category.
clicking on one of the tags in the      Beach House is, for example,       

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Many of us will be throwing             equals how many people can fit
holiday parties in the weeks ahead,     comfortably in your home. Then,
but for those who aren't regularly      assume that 80 percent of your
party throwers, it can be               invitees will accept the
difficult to know how big of an         invitation, but that five of those
invite list your place can handle.      people won't end up coming. For
This simple formula can help.           example, if you've got 100 square  

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Windows/Mac/Linux: Popular desktop      you understand how tweets are
Twitter client TweetDeck just           spreading and where they
released an update boasting             originated, and the geolocation
support for a few of                    feature can give you a quick view
Twitter’s new                     of where someone you’re
features—including lists,         following is tweeting from if
geolocation and                         their client supports it.          

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Windows: Want to open certain           can set up your standard Windows
files with the portable apps on         image viewer to open up JPG files
your thumb drive when it's plugged      when you double-click, but have
in, but revert to default when          Photoshop open them when you hold
it's not? Wish you could have a         down Alt and double-click.
"secondary" app for particular          There's a lot more to the app then
documents? Coffee makes those           that, if you want to dig into its  

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Eager to play with Google’s       hardware in the list is of the
just-released Chrome OS but             netbook variety, but it’s a
don’t want to waste your          good place to get started if
time if your hardware isn’t       you’re an early adopter but
supported? This simple chart from       you don’t want to waste your
Google helps you figure out             time if your hardware’s not
whether or not your equipment can       going to play nice.                

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If you’ve recently created        everyone’s schedule for the
an event in Google Calendar, you        day or time span you’re
may have been asked to take part        creating an event for, and can
in a “Sneak Preview”        move your event around physically
of a new event interface. You           in between everyone’s
probably should, as it could save       appointments. It adds a nice
you from reading lots of                Outlook-like capability to GCal,   

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