From the Tips Box: Tangled Headphones, Old TV Armoires, and More Laptop Stands [From The Tips Box]

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Readers offer their best tips for tagging songs for storing earbuds without getting them tangled, uses for old box TV armoires, and more cheap, household laptop stands.. Don't like the gallery...

Remains of the Day: The Internet Explorer Voodoo Doll Edition [For What It's Worth]

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Netflix adds hundreds of independent films to their streaming Watch Instantly section, iTunes gets a minor update, Chromium nightly builds automatically translate foreign-language web pages, and we...

After the Deadline Brings Better Grammar and Spellchecking to Firefox, and It’s Awesome [Downloads]

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Firefox: As you make the rounds commenting at your favorite blog or composing a lengthy email, avoid misspellings or a bad turn of phrase with After the Deadline's excellent grammar and spellcheck...

Shed Your Shoes and Try Barefoot Running [Running]

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The next time you go out for a run, try leaving your shoes at home. Proponents say it'll give you a better stride, stronger calf muscles, and... well, a bunch of callouses. But the benefits will...

Chrome 4 Supports Greasemonkey Userscripts Without an Extension [Userscripts]

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The Greasemonkey extension has long been one of our favorite tools for Firefox, allowing us to bend the web to our will with light and simple scripts written in JavaScript. Now most Greasemonkey...

Taskbar Eliminator Ditches Your Windows Taskbar [Downloads]

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Windows: If you use a 3rd-party application dock in place of the Windows taskbar, you may have noticed that you can't completely get rid of the taskbar. Taskbar Eliminator helps you turn it off and...

Expertise Requires Time over Talent, So Get Busy [Expertise]

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Career blogger Penelope Trunk carries a 2007 article from the Harvard Business Review with her everywhere she goes. The article, called The Making of an Expert, discusses the reality of expertise,...

Jelli Brings User-Driven Content to Online Radio [Radio]

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Many online music services allow you to give a thumbs up or thumbs down to songs that you enjoy or don't enjoy listening to. Jelli however leverages the thousands of votes logged by its users to...

“You’ve Got Waves”: How to Get Google Wave Notifications [Notifications]

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Once you're active in Google Wave, you want to know when something new happens there—even if you don't have Wave open in your browser. These notifier tools monitor your Wave inbox, letting you...

Store-Brand Foods That Save You Money Without Sacrificing Taste [Saving Money]

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If you take a pass on supermarket brands at the grocery store in favor of name-brand foods, Consumer Reports' comparison test might interest you. Turns out there's often very little difference...