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Archive for the ‘Life Hacks’ Category

July 7th, 2008

Snopes - The Online Mythbusters

I recently received an email from my mom that had what appeared to be some interesting tips and features available on your cell phone to help you in some “emergency” situations. I decided it was probably a good post but did a quick search to see who to give the original credit for if […]

By Jason Bean -- 3 comments

June 14th, 2008

Wait Less With Sprint

A friend shared this site with me recently as a way to shave off some precious seconds from my life wasting time with some pretty mundane activities.
With Sprint’s www.waitless.org website, you’ve got tips and tricks for saving time completing the following tasks:

Quick peel a banana
Tangle-free cord wrap
Speed-dry a manicure
Speedy sorbet
Instant sand removal
Instant baby soothe
Quick-pop […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

June 10th, 2008

PickupPal - Connecting Drivers, Passengers and Packages

Here’s an interesting website I just uncovered that might alleviate some of the $4/gallon gas pains everyone is having.
It’s called PickupPal and it connects drivers with passengers and packages. I’ve seen sites for carpooling and ride-sharing before but this is a bit of a new twist.
PickupPal’s core service is providing a venue for either […]

By Jason Bean -- 7 comments

June 7th, 2008

Partstore.com: A Giant Version of the Drawer in Your Kitchen

Are you like me and if something breaks you take parts off of it that look like they might come in handy and throw them in a drawer in your kitchen? I rarely ever actually go back into the drawer to find something, but it’s comforting to know it’s loaded with stuff that might come […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

June 7th, 2008

My Coaches Call - Making Your Phone an Assistant Coach

My son is at the age where he’s really gotten involved in sports and has been on a variety of teams. He’s played basketball, football and he’s now in baseball. We’ve been lucky to have some great coaches.
MyCoachesCall.com acts like an assistant coach and involved parent by making it easy to […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

June 5th, 2008

WhoCallsMe - Find Out Who’s Tele-Spamming

The WhoCallsMe.com website is pretty useful if you’re trying to find out some information about who it is that keeps calling you, or maybe just that random call.
My personal phone habits are that if it comes up on CallerID as Unknown I’ll never answer the phone. If they need to talk to me they […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

May 29th, 2008

A Little Thursday Afternoon Motivation

For those people who want to take the risk out of everything, they’re really taking the life out of it as well!
Risk. Fail. Learn. Succeed. Rinse and Repeat!

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By Jason Bean -- 5 comments

May 28th, 2008

GMX File Storage Available

One thing I’ve done from the beginning of my days on the Internet has been to take advantage of free e-mail addresses from places like Juno, Yahoo!, Hotmail and Gmail. One of the newest providers I’ve come across is GMX and I’ve been happy with them so far, even though I still don’t use […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

May 16th, 2008

Making Custom Icons for Google Toolbar

I’m a big fan of Google and one of the products of theirs that I use regularly is the Google Toolbar. I’ve started customizing it more than just accepting the standard set of icons that they recommend, but I’ve run into a bit of a snag.
As you can see from the image above, I’ve […]

By Jason Bean -- 7 comments

May 14th, 2008

How to Spot Fishing Messages and Spoofs

This may be a little basic for some of our readers, but I thought I’d take a minute and talk about some Internet security for a minute. As this site is dedicated to uncovering great stuff on the Internet, we’re also aware that there’s plenty of opportunities to uncover some less than stellar sites and […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments