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15 Ways to Accelerate Your PC’s Slowest Component: You!
There's nothing more soul-sucking than sitting there picking your earwax while you watch Windows 7's blue ring of fire. Yet, to be fair, your poor laptop spends a lot more time waiting for you to act than you waste watching it load applications, boot up or finish processing. If your computer takes .8 seconds to load your browser, but you take 5 unnecessary seconds to type in a username and ...
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From the brink of suicide to a two million hit website
From fainting during a Class 12 exam to failing the NDA thrice, Arun Pandit would easily have succumbed to his suicidal urges, had it not been for a friend whose motivational SMS changed his life forever.
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Ask LH: Do I Really Need To Update My Drivers?
Dear Lifehacker, I recently updated my video drivers and discovered that a lot of my other drivers were out of date. Do I really need to keep them updated all the time? Will I notice any improvements in speed or features if I have the latest versions?
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Hurricane Trackers: Survival tools for Smartphone, Tablet and even Desktop users
Your tablet and smartphone can be invaluable tools to help you stay out of harm's way during hurricane season.
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Get Personalized Help to Max Out Social Security
Several useful tools have sprung up in recent years to help people maximize Social Security benefits.
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Afghanistan, I can’t quit you
The heat. That's what I remember most. Shimmery and bright. Blinding. Stifling. Heeee-eeaat. The kind that's not just on you, wrapped around you, but balled up and pulsing inside you -- a desert blanket with teeth. It's a type of heat that makes your skin cry and your eyeballs sweat, even in the shade; heat like a predator you can't run away from. I notice it right as I get off the plane -- not ...
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When the 1 percent say no
Cities need public transit and affordable housing. But outdated laws make it easy for the wealthy to block progress
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15 Current Technologies A Child Born Today Will Never Use
From the moment that I found out my wife was pregnant with our first child, a son, I’ve thought of his development in terms of tech. When pregnancy sites described our six-week-old fetus as the size of a “lentil,” I referred to him as the length of an RFID chip. When the doctor said he had reached 1.3 pounds, I told all my friends that my son was the size of an iPad. When he was born this week ...
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Indy 500: Sarah Fisher team kept afloat thanks to Wink Hartman
Suppose you're having a financial struggle, so big that it's on national television. Strangers send you emails offering help. There's even one from a guy named Wink who says he's going to wire you a massive amount of money.
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SlingShot: Smartphone Video Stabilizer (Kickstarter Review)
The crowdfunding website Kickstarter has become the launch point for a number of clever and useful smartphone accessories in the past two years. Now Portland-based photographer and design engineer Charles Waugh is using Kickstarter to raise funds for his own addition, the SlingShot smartphone video/photo stabilizer. It's already at over 250% of its goal.
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