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Specific places instantly trigger different responses in us: sinking into a favorite chair, we automatically relax; entering the gym puts us in active mode. Using this principle and setting up special zones in our workspaces, work activities could be more effortless. More »

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Boost Productivity by Setting Up Mission-Specific Zones for Your Workspace [Workspace]

iOS/Android/BlackBerry/WP7/Web: Personal finance web service Pageonce already allows you to keep tabs on your bank accounts, investments, bills, and other expenses from your mobile phone. Today the service announced an update that allows you to pay almost any bill right from your mobile phone, anywhere you have a data connection. More »

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Pageonce Updates, Offers Mobile Bill Pay So Your Bills are Never Late Again [Video]

You’ll probably be carving a few pumpkins this Halloween, so why not use the leftovers to make a nice meal? Here are some great pumpkin-based recipes to turn your dinner table orange before heading out to trick-or-treat. More »

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Use Your Pumpkin Leftovers to Cook a Proper Halloween Dinner [Food]

The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. More »

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Daily App Deals: Get Splashtop Remote Desktop for Android at 90% Off the Regular Price in Today’s App Deals [Deals]

We love a good cable management scheme , and today’s featured workspace has a great one. Flickr user jahue was inspired by the seemingly cable-free tables at the Apple Store and decide to make his own that has nothing but a power cord exposed. More »

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The Single Cord Workspace [Featured Workspace]

Late last week Google changed the way one of their most useful (but lesser known) search operators works: The + (plus) operator. What’s that mean for you? Next time you want to make sure any single word or phrase appears in your search results, wrap it in quotation marks.

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Use Quotation Marks Instead of + to Require a Search Term in Your Google Results [Google School]

When you’re drilling holes, it’s incredibly easy to drill deeper than you need to if you’re not paying enough attention. Home improvement show host Ron Hazelton suggests wrapping your bit in copper wire as a temporary depth gauge. More »

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Wrap a Drill Bit in Copper Wire or Tape to Prevent Over-Drilling [Clever Uses]

When I was an IT admin, I had the pleasure of dealing often with people who would submit urgent service requests and then leave for the day, leaving their office empty and computer locked by the time I could get there to help. Fortunately, I was often able to fix their problem while they weren’t there. Why? Their password was somewhere on their desk in one of these easy-to-find locations. More »

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The Most Common Hiding Places for Workplace Passwords [Passwords]

OS X: If you think it’s a bit odd that clicking on the time in OS X’s menubar doesn’t give you a calendar, Day-O is a simple app that adds that functionality. More »

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Day-O Is a Dead Simple Calendar Replacement for Your Menubar Clock [Mac Downloads]

Halloween is one week away, and to celebrate, we’re turning our gaze to the dark side of life hacking. This is Lifehacker’s Evil Week. More »

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Welcome to Evil Week at Lifehacker [Evil Week]

Admiral James Stockdale was held as a prisoner of war for eight years during the Vietnam War and was tortured in excess of twenty times by his captors. He was able to withstand all of this without losing his mind by employing two seemingly contradictory views: faith that he would prevail in the end no matter the difficulty and facing that he must confront the worst aspects of his current reality. More »

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Utilize the Stockdale Paradox to Help Achieve Personal Growth [Brain Hacks]

If you’re trying to avoid a Costanza-sized wallet and you routinely travel by car you may wish to consider creating a second wallet to hold all of your store loyalty cards, punch cards, and other miscellaneous wallet items that you don’t use everyday. More »

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Keep a Second Wallet in Your Car for Store Loyalty Cards [Wallet]

Like to make Sesame Chicken, Kung Pao Chicken, or any number of other Chinese-American dishes that involve little pieces of fried chicken? Save a few steps by buying chicken nuggets from Popeyes, Zaxbys, Bojangles, or any other chicken restaurant instead of breading and frying your own chicken. More »

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Make Easy Chinese-American Entrees with Fast Food Chicken Nuggets [Kitchen Hacks]

If you don’t want to give out your real email address to register for a site and don’t want to go through the hassle of creating a spam email address, just point your browser to Guerrilla Mail; upon loading the page you’ll have an automatically assigned email address from the domain sharklasers.com that is good for one hour. More »

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Get a Free One-Hour Email Address with Guerrilla Mail [Email]

If you buy large sacks of flour, oats, or rice at warehouse clubs you should be on guard for weevils. Weevils are small beetles that feed on whole and processed grains, nuts, and seeds. Commodity grains are often treated with diatomaceous earth to kill the pests, which works well but can’t get all of them. An easy way to surely kill any potential weevils in your foods is to freeze the the entire package for two days. More »

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Freeze Grains to Avoid Weevils [Pest Control]

Mobile hot spot plans from Sprint will get a data cap, Hulu Plus will stream to your Nintendo Wii, and ebooks from Amazon are getting more media features. More »

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Remains of the Day: Only Smartphones Can Get Sprint’s Unlimited Data Plans [For What It's Worth]

Winter is creeping up. Luckily, your pet dog is there to greet you and offer the opportunity for a warming hug the minute you get home. But for animal lovers who are allergic to furs?

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USB Animal Cushions: Providing The Warmth You Never Had [Gadgets]

iOS: The 1.3.1.1891 update for Google Voice on iOS, available now, fixes the constant crashing login bug introduced by the update last week. That’s the only thing this new version fixes, but hey, not being able to use the app is a pretty severe bug. More »

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Google Voice Update Fixes iOS Crash Bugs [Updates]

Today, our president said every soldier in Iraq is coming home, leading many to believe The War Is Over. Except it’s not. Getting humans out of there is great, but the fact is war today doesn’t need humans at all.

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Drones Mean the Iraq War Is Never Over [Iraq]

Sleeptiming is a simple web app that calculates exactly when you need to go to sleep in order to wake up when you’ll be fully rested. All you have to do is input how long it usually takes you to fall asleep and how long your usual sleep cycles are. If you don’t know, it’ll make assumptions for you based on the average person. Once you’ve added this information (or accepted Sleeptiming’s defaults), you’ll be provided with a good time to wake up and feel rested.

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Sleeptiming Helps You Calculate When You Need to Go to Bed in Order to Sleep Well [Web Apps]

We’ve been dismissive of Apple HDTV rumors , even when we laid out a case for why it actually makes a lot of sense . But according to the new Steve Jobs biography, it turns out we may have been very wrong. More »

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Strong Hints of Apple HDTV in Jobs Biography [Apple]

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Are Cellphones Officially Safe to Use or What? [Ask Lifehacker]

If you’re heading out on the town tonight, here’s a simple tip to solve one barfly annoyance: Lifehacker reader scarbrti and reddit user Dracomantis suggest sprinkling a little salt on your drink napkin to prevent it from sticking to your bottle or glass every time you pick it up. It’s not the world’s largest annoyance, but hey, nobody likes dealing with a sticky napkin clinging to their drink. More »

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Sprinkle Salt on a Napkin to Keep It from Clinging to Your Drink [Annoyances]

It’s Friday. The weekend starts tomorrow, but that doesn’t mean you don’t deserve a quick moment to relax at work before you head home. This week’s open thread starts now.

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The Puppies Are Playing in Leaves in This Week’s Open Thread [Open Thread]

It’s no secret that millions of people are having a hard time finding work. The US Labor Department’s new Social Jobs Partnership page on Facebook is designed to connected these job-seekers with little-known career resources and job openings. More »

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Find a Job and Get Career Advice from The Labor Department’s New Social Jobs Partnership Facebook Page [Job Search]