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I'm just beginning to use Google Calendar. Here are some tips from Stopdesign.

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Coming up with passwords that are simple to remember but tough for others to crack isn't easy. One trick I learned a few years ago was to replace letters like 'B', 'I' and 'S' with the numbers 8, 1 and 5. So, if your password is 'rabbit', change it to 'ra881t'.

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Here we go again. Gas prices are higher again and now the silly email forwards are back. The one about boycotting Exxon and Mobil gas stations is my favorite. It sure sounds good, but it’ just won’t work.

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Those green Coinstar kiosks in (primarily) grocery stores will now turn your spare change into iTunes credits. Change in $1.08 and you'll get a receipt that can be used at the iTunes store. Yes, $1.08, as Coinstar charges a 9% transaction fee. Ouch. Last year Coinstar announced it would let customers convert change to Amazon.com [...]

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Over at Lifehacker they've got a nifty little post on using your cell phone's built-in camera as a way to record the everyday stuff you'd like to remember, but often don't — like a favorite bottle of wine you had a dinner, the hours of a store you infrequently visit, etc.

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I tend to work a little faster when my programs are always in the same order on the taskbar. If you run more than a couple of programs at a time, download Taskbar++. Hold down the ALT button and slide your taskbar buttons into that order that works for you.

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You've no doubt heard that newer Mac computers can now run Windows XP and Windows programs. Apple's announcement of the software that makes it happen helped its stock jump quite a bit, but long-term I don't see this helping Mac sales all that much. Macs are beautiful machines, but why do I want to switch [...]

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From HackingNetflix.com: The The New York Times is reporting that MovieLink is now selling movies via download. While the selection of movies is limited to about 300 movies, you can buy King Kong ($19.99), The Big Lebowski ($13.99), and My Best Friend's Wedding ($9.99). For now, these movie downloads are a bit cumbersome, and the [...]

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While looking through my archives I saw this story from 2005:
At Daniels Farm Elementary School in Trumbull, Connecticut, Karwoski’s teachers grade papers by giving examples of better answers for those students who make mistakes. But that approach meant the kids often found their work covered in red, the color that teachers long have used to [...]

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Silly me — I thought Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth, who was burned up in a barn a short time later — end of story. Boy was I wrong. I'm a bit of a history buff and from the moment I picked up Manhunt at the bookstore I was drawn in. Author James [...]

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