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Digital Currencies Part 1: Using Digital Currency to Increase Your Capital
This is the first part in a series on digital currencies. Sometimes I think I know a thing or two about money. I subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, after all, and I even read it once in a while. Then I look at my bank account, overdrawn and bank fees accumulating, and I remember [...]
How to Opt out of Receiving the Yellow Pages
Hate getting the Yellow Pages? You’re not alone. A recent survey conducted on behalf of the online phone directory site WhitePages.com confirmed that nearly 70% of adults in the US “rarely or never” use the phone book. Unfortunately, until recently, there have been limited methods to opt out of receiving your phone book; some cities, [...]
Guild Wars 2 Closed Beta Open to Applications for 48 Hours
As the highly anticipated release of Guild Wars 2 inches ever closer, ArenaNet has decided to send the call out for beta testers interested in taking part in the largest project the company has ever undertaken. Guild Wars 2 originally started its closed beta in December of 2011. Since then, only a select few have [...]
How to Start Your Very Own License Plate Collection
Ever marvel over the stories a good license plate collection could tell if only it had the power of speech? License plate collector Dan Czarnecki of Milwaukee, Wisconsin writes: Hey, Chris! I just watched your latest video, and now I’m going to share some tips with other people who might be interested in my passion: [...]
Tax Tips for 2012
After the hangover of the holiday season is well diminished and just as I’m settling into the new year, a pestering reminder begins hitting my mailbox every few weeks: it’s tax season again. Typically I toss the envelopes printed Important Tax Information Enclosed in a halfheartedly-organized location — a folder or a pile of documents [...]
Tech for the Clumsy and Accident Prone
I’m so clumsy. “How clumsy are you?” I can almost hear the heckler planted in the studio audience answering me back. I’m so clumsy that I once broke a toe walking around this poorly lit apartment of mine in search of… my own shoes (I tripped over them). I’m so clumsy that I once knocked [...]
Secret Tips from the LEGO Pros
The world of LEGO has exploded over the past few years as kids (and adults) rediscover the art of assembling bricks to create a multitude of things including miniatures, mechanical devices, mosaic, and sculptures that spark the imagination. These little colored bricks have been around for generations, and it’s no surprise that parents are getting [...]
Helpful TeamSpeak 3 Tips
TeamSpeak is one of the most widely used voice chat solutions out there, today. It offers users the ability to talk in real-time to communities across multiple platforms, and even host their own servers for free with options to expand the servers to fit a larger audience with a small fee. So, what makes TeamSpeak [...]
How Music Critics Adapt to the Social Media Landscape
Remember when music critics were a little bit like respected, but much-feared royalty? They wielded the power of life and death over the musicians they both loved and hated, and they were courted almost as lavishly by record labels as the spotlighted stage denizens, themselves. On a critic’s whim, praise or damnation doled out in [...]
How Solar Power, Mirrors, and Steam Can Change the World
It doesn’t take much digging to discover that I am a big fan of the Steampunk genre. The idea of steam power being incorporated into modern technology is intriguing, and little did I know that it could actually be more practical than many of the power-generating systems we use today. The science of generating power [...]
