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  • Top 10 Online Freebies and Deals
    "Unless you're a financial Jedi Knight or economic Sith Lord, you probably don't have a ton of control over our turbulent economy. What you can reign over is your spending and saving—and when you know where they are, you can take advantage of deep discounts and general freebies across the web."
  • Five Best Travel Sites for Cheap Tickets
    "If you've got travel plans for the upcoming holiday season, the time to book your tickets is now. The question is, where can you find tickets cheap enough to offset the extra $40 you'll have to spend to check your bags and enjoy a snack on your six-hour flight."
  • Five Tweaks for Your New Ubuntu Desktop
    "With the recent release of the popular Linux distro Ubuntu's 8.10 version, code-named Intrepid Ibex, we've recently detailed some productive-minded Ubuntu Kung Fu, as well as a user-minded tour through 8.10."
  • Is Your Printer Wasting Your Ink and Money?
    "Everyone's been there: You just bought an expensive ink cartridge for your printer, you use it for a while, and then suddenly—much sooner than seems reasonable—your printer tells you that you're either low on or out of ink."
  • Dilate or Shrink Your Pupils on Command
    "If the eyes are the window to the soul, being able to manipulate how your eyes appear to others is a rather tricky life hack."
  • Five Memberships Worth Signing up for
    "Smart Money magazine crunches the numbers on the cost versus benefit of various paid memberships to find you five with a high value."
  • Brain-only Computer Interfaces Becoming Reality
    "In the clip below, see how a completely paralyzed man, who could otherwise only communicate by moving his eyes, uses his mind to type out thoughts on a computer."
  • New Windows 7 Taskbar, Peek Feature Look Awesome
    "Microsoft has already caught some flack for "copying" the OS X dock with the new Windows 7 taskbar; the video above from the Professional Developer's Conference both addresses that criticism and takes you on a guided tour of the new taskbar."


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