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  • Accentuating the Negative

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    December 18, 2006, 9:26 pm From the NYTimes By Richard Conniff One of the most daunting and widely repeated insights from recent social research holds, in essence, that your marriage is doomed if you and your spouse can’t muster up five positive interactions for every negative one. “Five seems like a lot,” I suggested to…

  • All Freeware Index in Popularity Order

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    All Freeware Index in Popularity Order | Gizmo’s Tech Support Alert All Freeware Index in Popularity Order This is a list of all freeware categories on this site sorted in popularity order. To search for a particular category such as “editors” use your browser’s search feature – normally that’s Ctrl F.

  • Aging Brains Take In More Information, Studies Show

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    Memory Loss – Aging – Alzheimer’s Disease – Aging Brains Take In More Information, Studies Show – Health – NYTimes.com May 20, 2008Older Brain Really May Be a Wiser BrainBy SARA REISTAD-LONG When older people can no longer remember names at a cocktail party, they tend to think that their brainpower is declining. But a…

  • Geek to Live: Encrypt your data

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    Geek to Live: Encrypt your data Geek to Live: Encrypt your data by Gina Trapani Everyone’s got files they’d like to keep out the the hands of intruders or casual passerby. Ever concerned you’ll lose the thumb drive where you backed up four years of post-graduate research? Every worried your 5-year-old will accidentally open the…

  • A Letter to My Son, on Starting Out In Life

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    A Letter to My Son, on Starting Out In Life | Zen Habits A Letter to My Son, on Starting Out In Life Dear Seth, You’re only three years old, and at this point in your life you can’t read, much less understand what I’m going to try to tell you in this letter. But…

  • How-To: Get TV shows off of your TiVo and onto your iPod (with video)

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    How-To: Get TV shows off of your TiVo and onto your iPod (with video) by Peter Rojas, posted Oct 18th 2005 at 12:40PM This week’s How-To comes to us courtesy of Dave Zatz, a long-time Engadget pal who we finally convinced to join the staff as a contributor. Dave is the master of all things…

  • Hacking the ORiNOCO Silver into an ORiNOCO Gold

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    http://www.inertramblings.com/2004/08/05/hacking-the-orinoco-silver-into-an-orinoco-gold/ The ORiNOCO Classic Gold PC Card is the radio of choice for Wardrivers and Netstumblers worldwide, and its massive internal antenna and external antenna jack make it an extremely versatile radio for both portable and mobile applications. Distributed under many different monikers, the PC Card may sport a decal for WaveLAN, ORiNOCO, Lucent, Agere,…