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Readers offer their best tips for keeping your USB cables safe, measuring out coffee in the morning, and hiding app purchases from iOS. More »

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USB Breakaway Cables, Coffee Measuring, and Regretful App Purchases [From The Tips Box]

Whether you made a mistake when setting it or you’ve been mind-wiped by aliens sometimes you just can’t remember the PIN number or unlock pattern for your phone. Here are your options for getting back into your device. More »

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What to Do If You’ve Forgotten Your Android Phone’s Passcode [How To]

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]

You’ve likely heard that body language accounts for up to 55% of how we communicate, but reading non-verbal cues isn’t just about broad strokes. The same gesture can indicate a number of different things depending on context. In this post, we’re going to take a look at three common situations in which non-verbal cues are especially important—detecting lies, going on a date, and interviewing for a job—then explain how to interpret body language more accurately so that you can read between the lines when a person’s words aren’t necessarily conveying the way that they honestly feel. More »

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How to Read Body Language to Reveal the Underlying Truth in Almost Any Situation [Communication]

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]

A Bulgarian training bag is a great exercise tool to increase muscular endurance and general fitness. Originally developed for Olympic Greco-Roman wrestlers, the bag has a wide range of exercises including anything you can do with a shoulder-loaded barbell. Commercial Bulgarian bags cost around $250, but you can make your own for around $20 with a large tire inner tube, zip ties, duct tape, and wood pellets.

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Make and Use a Bulgarian Training Bag [Video]

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]

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]

Be careful what you wish for! That’s what they say, right? Or maybe it should be: be careful how you phrase your wish. Because one wrong word, and your genie might end up with terribly deformed fetus legs.

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This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Aladdin’s Big Mistake [Video]

For as revolutionary a style Steve Jobs created, it wasn’t derived from thin air. One of his biggest and most direct influences was Dieter Rams, a 40-year veteran designer with the Braun Company. Here are 15 of Rams’ best products from our friends at Oobject . More »

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15 Classic Braun Gadgets that Inspired Apple [Design]

The iPhone 4S is the best phone you can buy right now. That’s been true of every iPhone, really. More »

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iPhone 4S Review [Video]

Okay, so we sort of blew it back in May . False alarm! All of you non-believers with your funny jokes might have missed the part where THE REAL RAPTURE IS TODAY AND YOU ARE NOT PREPARED. But don’t worry (unless your worry is for your eternal soul)—Giz can get you through this. More »

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Six Tools to Survive the Rapture (Again) [Video]

Bikes are complicated! But this image breaks down all the parts for you so you know what’s what. More »

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This Guy Totally Doesn’t Understand Bikes [Image Cache]

Earlier this week we asked you what’s in your minimalist bags to see how you get things done simply on the go. You responded with tons of strategies and useful tools that help you every day. Here’s a look at five great bags and their contents. More »

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What’s Inside Your Awesome Minimalist Bags [Show Us Yours]

OpenELEC aims to make home theater PCs as much like your DVD player as possible, using a lightweight, instant-on version of XBMC that updates itself for a maintenance-free media center. More »

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OpenELEC Is a Fast-Booting, Self-Updating Version of XBMC for Home Theater PCs [Downloads]

In iOS 5, Apple added some slick multitasking gestures to the iPad that allow you to four-finger swipe to pull up the multitasking drawer, swipe left and right between apps, and five-finger pinch to view the homescreen. They also added AirPlay mirroring, which allows you to view your iPad’s screen on an Apple TV. Both of these features are great, but for whatever reason, Apple decided they were best relegated to the iPad 2. Here’s how to enable the new multi-touch swipes and mirroring on your first generation iPad, no jailbreaking required. More »

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How to Enable Multitasking Gestures and Display Mirroring on the iPad 1 (Without Jailbreaking) [Video]

iPhone: Previously mentioned personal cloud data searching tool Greplin has released an app for the iPhone that sifts through data in your various online accounts as you type. If you have a web-based Greplin account already, you just need to sign in and everything is ready to go one your phone. More »

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Greplin Searches Your Personal Cloud Data on Your iPhone [IPhone Downloads]

You know that queasy, heart-racing, gut-wrenched feeling you get when you’re scared or feeling anxious? Everyone has experienced this because fear is normal—a helpful mechanism, even—preparing us for dangerous situations like a vicious-looking dog or a twister approaching. But irrational fears hold us back and keep us from enjoying our lives as much as we might like to.

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How to Overcome Your Worst Fears [Fear]

Readers offer their best tips for storing remote controls, creating ZIP files that extract themselves, and making your Android phone run a little smoother. More »

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Remote Stands, Self-Extracting Archives, and Android Speed [From The Tips Box]

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 Corel Paintshop Photo Pro X3 Ultimate for Only $19.99 with Coupon Code [Deals]

M83′s latest double album, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming falls somewhere inbetween the neon synths of Before The Dawn Heals Us and the poppy nostalgia of Saturdays = Youth , yet manages to take the best of both and mesh it into a kind of electronic masterpiece. More »

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Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming [Video]

If you thought there were tons of to-do app options for Mac , meet the iPhone. You could fill pages with all your different choices. We’ve tested plenty and Wunderlist was an easy favorite thanks to its focused feature set, great syncing capabilities, cross-platform support, good looks, and $0 price tag. More »

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The Best To-Do App for iPhone [Iphone App Directory]

See a side-by-side shoot-out between the iPhone 4S and a professional camera that costs four times as much, watch the livestream of the Google and Samsung Android event, and experiment with Google’s concept of a digital bookcase. More »

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Remains of the Day: The iPhone 4S Shoots Impressive HD Videos [Video]

You don’t need to waste time poaching your own eggs for a McMuffin-like experience at home. Weblog All Things Homie shows us how to bake your own breakfast sandwich in the oven using a muffin tin. More »

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Make a Quick and Easy Batch of Breakfast Sandwiches with a Muffin Tin [Clever Uses]

I only discovered Yppah’s You Are Beautiful At All Times last week, but it’s already made its way into my “I gotta get stuff done but still need something to listen to” playlist. On the sale of the Work Sounds we’ve done so far, it’s a bit more energetic than Boards of Canada , but maybe a little less than Explosions in the Sky . More »

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You Are Beautiful At All Times [Video]