Archive for September 18th, 2006
15 ways to get more out of Pandora
There’s just so much you can do with music discovery engine Pandora: create your own personalized radio stations, find new, original music and share your stations with friends, just to list a few. But listening to Pandora can be a drag on your system, and its song recommendations can go off the rails if you’re [...]
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Web site The Straight Dope has a brief Q&A on the subject of credit card security and whether or not you should sign the back of your credit cards. The verdict:
Don’t sign it. It’s useless as a deterrent, as anyone who takes your card then has a sample of your signature which they can not [...]
Understand what exercise can do for you
The New York Times has an article covering the ins and outs of exercise and weight loss designed to give you a better understanding of exactly what exercise can do for you.
Aside from detailing the outcomes of different exercises, like which workouts will burn the most calories or which will improve your metabolism, the article [...]
Find a routers login and password
Our tongue-wagging tech gossip pals at Valleywag sent us this web page chock-full of default usernames and passwords for hundreds of routers.
Since we know that many of you are your friends’ and family’s default tech support, it’s nice to have this kind of thing handy when you’re helping someone set up or fix their router [...]
Top ten energy-giving foods
All of us want more energy, and the Food Network has a great list of ten top energy-giving foods.
The list includes berries, vegetables, salmon, lean proteins, tea, and more; with an explanatory blurb for each one. Get a few of these in your fridge or cupboards on a regular basis and I can almost guarantee [...]
WARFARE AND THE GLOBE
If history has shown the observer one thing, it is that war is a part of life. Strange as that may sound, documented records report only 300 years of known peace on our planet, leaving the rest to wallow in the path of war. What that statistic tells us is that there has been some [...]
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