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Even if we didn’t have the science to back it up, we instinctively know that sitting all day is bad for your posture and back. We’ve already covered how stretching your wrists can prevent pain there, but reddit user thefalcone found this simple back stretch that can alleviate pain and tightness. More »

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A Back Stretch You Can Do While Sitting [Video]

You ditched your landline years ago. Smart! Because the one thing it was good at—buzzing people into your building—can be done better with your smartphone anyway. Here’s how to have that buzzer ring any phone you want. More »

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How To Make Your Apartment Buzzer Ring Every Phone in Your Home [Homemod]

With access to your email inbox, webapp Slice automatically analyzes emails containing order information from your online shopping and organizes all your purchases in one place, giving you quick access to tracking packages, purchase history, and price-drop tracking for everything you buy online. It’s a brilliant idea. More »

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Slice Is a Brilliant Companion to Your Online Shopping [Shopping]

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]

Windows: Searching for files in Windows can be easy if you know what you’re looking for and infuriating if you don’t remember a file name, path, or folder location. 7Files, a free file browser for Windows 7 systems, makes searching easy by highlighting often-used files, organizing your files by date, file type, and file extension, and showing you most recently opened or modified files together for quick reference. More »

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7Files for Windows Streamlines Windows Explorer, Makes File Searches Easier [Windows Downloads]

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]

Apple’s iOS 5 is currently jailbreakable , but only with a tethered jailbreak. That means if your phone ever crashes, or if you have to reboot it for any reason, you need to have it connected to a Mac or PC. That sucks! If someone ever wants to murder you they’d just reboot your phone and you’d have no way to call the cops. But ho! SemiTether solves this problem. More »

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SemiTether Makes Tethered iOS 5 Jailbreaks Rebootable Without a Computer [Ios Downloads]

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]

Chrome/Firefox/Safari (User Script): If you’re like me, you probably avoid most YouTube links because you don’t know what’s on the other end, and you don’t want to waste time finding out. User script YouTube Link Title saves you from NSFW videos, rickrolls, and things that just aren’t worth your time by warning you what’s on the other side. More »

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YouTube Link Title Tells You Where YouTube Links Lead, Lets You Watch Them Without Leaving the Current Page [User Scripts]

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]

Mac: Quicksilver is our favorite Launcher for the Mac , but it’s always been a little less that stellar when running on Lion. Now, the team behind the open source application launcher have optimized the app for OS X Lion, added official support for Apple’s latest OS, introduced auto-updating plugins, and more. More »

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Quicksilver for Mac Updates, Adds Performance Tweaks and Official Lion Support [Updates]

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]

YouTube user Martin Craig shows us an easy way to shuck corn without having do deal with messy corn silk threads—just microwave each ear for four minutes, cut the end off, and slide the corn out as shown in the video above. More »

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Microwaving Corn Cobs Makes Them Easier to Shuck [Video]

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’re nostalgic for your Nickelodeon, slime-infused childhood and want to bring back the memories this Halloween, Instructables user superpants can help you out with a very gooey recipe. More »

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Create Some Homemade Halloween Slime [DIY]

If you’re heading out of town by car and need to do laundry, here’s a simple method originally from John Steinbeck in his book Travels With Charley : Put your dirty clothes in a 5-gallon bucket with lid, cover the dirty clothes with water, add a little detergent, and secure the bucket somewhere in your vehicle that won’t tip over during the drive. More »

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Wash Clothes on a Road Trip with a 5-Gallon Bucket [Laundry]

I’ve daydreamed about having awesome telekinetic superpowers since I first watched Akira —you know, without the whole gigantic exploding Human Blob thing at the end of course. This new video from M83 seems to have tapped directly into my imagination. Simply awesome. More »

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M83 : Midnight City [Video]

A very lucky man in California got his stolen car back after he spotted it on Craigslist. Either Kenny Munyon is quite a sleuth or he ran up against some very stupid thieves. Let’s investigate. More »

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Idiot Car Thieves Busted When Craigslist Ad Attracts Original Owner [Crime]

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]

Because Google and Samsung are being coy about what carriers the Galaxy Nexus is coming to (people registering for more info select a preferred carrier ), we have to wait for the carriers to confirm one-by-one. Today: Verizon. More »

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Galaxy Nexus Officially Coming to Verizon With 4G LTE [Galaxy Nexus]

iOS: If you’re chronically late to all your appointments, GoTime will whip you into shape by tracking all your calendar’s events, their locations, and telling you what time you need to leave based on how long it will take to get there. More »

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GoTime Keeps Track of Your Calendar Events, Location, and Travel Time So You’re Never Late [Ios Downloads]