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9 Apps All Young Adults Should Have on Their Phones. So you’ve graduated college, moved into your own apartment, and snagged a full-time job.

9 Apps All Young Adults Should Have on Their Phones

As a fully responsible adult human, you’re still a work in progress, but now is the time to really step up your game. Time to set your phone settings to Adult. Here are nine apps you should download to help you get there. It’s time to learn to live within your means, and even save some money. Level is a budget app that will tell you exactly how much you can spend on any given day or week and still make ends meet. Find it: iOS, Android For when you’re grown up enough to know your home shouldn’t be covered in a two-inch thick layer of dust and grime, but not quite ready to invest in cleaning supplies and spend hours scrubbing your shower.

Find it: iOS, Android You’re not as young as you used to be, and that friend-of-a-friend who crashes your party might sue you when he falls off his keg stand and breaks his leg in your kitchen. Find it: iOs, Android. Dayofbirth.co.uk - What day were you born on? 5 Best Things to Say in an Interview. By Catherine ConlanMonster Contributing Writer The best things you can say in an interview won’t necessarily get you the job on their own, but they can certainly pave the way.

5 Best Things to Say in an Interview

Keep these five things in mind as you go through the interviewing process to give yourself the best chance at landing the job. Ask Good Questions According to Howard Pines, founder and CEO of BeamPines, “the best thing a candidate can do at an interview is ask good questions.” Doing so shows that you are thoughtful and interested in understanding the company. Pines suggests several questions, including: What are the biggest short- and long-term issues I would need to focus on in this position? Whether it’s about possible job duties, a potential start date or simply timing for the second interview, stressing your flexibility makes you easy to get along with. Hiring managers don’t like complications, and having to coordinate complicated schedules or haggle over a job description eventually just makes you look difficult.

25 Smart Life Hacking Tricks For 2013. 16 things I know are true but haven’t quite learned yet. There’s a difference between knowing something and living as if it were true.

16 things I know are true but haven’t quite learned yet

At the end of 2013, these truths are all lingering on that awkward threshold, for me anyway. 1) The sooner you do something, the more of your life you get to spend with that thing done — even though it takes less effort (or at least no more) than it will later. It’s the ultimate sure-thing investment and I pass it up all the time. 2) I never regret working out. I can’t count the number of times I’ve negotiated with myself to work out the next day instead of today because I’m worried it will be a “bad workout.” 3) Whenever I’m playing with my phone I am only shortening my life. 4) Nothing makes me more productive and in-the-moment than a clean house. 5) Minute-for-minute, nothing I do is more rewarding than meditation.

How to Find Anything Online: Become an Internet Research Expert. Einstein once said, “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

How to Find Anything Online: Become an Internet Research Expert

The same could be said of intelligence. What they don’t tell you is that the “smart” people of the world are, in most cases, just better at researching and learning things than everyone else. But researching is a learned skill, not something you’re born with. And while some people might be predisposed to learn things more easily than others, it’s generally not enough to make a measurable difference. By learning how to research, you can quickly and fairly easily become knowledgeable about just about anything. It’s all there, online, for free. Start with Wikipedia Whenever you try to learn something new on the Internet, start with Wikipedia. The main reason to start with Wikipedia is that it gives a good overview of most topics. Sure, any given page is bound to have some inaccuracies (as is the case on most user-generated websites), but most of the content is generally reliable.

The revolving internet, constant dullaart 2010. Time.is 08:33am. RSOE - Emergency and Disaster Information Service. 25 Killer Websites that Make You Cleverer. It’s easy to forget that we have access to a virtually limitless resource of information, i.e. the Internet.

25 Killer Websites that Make You Cleverer

For a lot of us, this is even true at our fingertips, thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones and an ever-increasing push for online greatness by tech engineers all over the world. As a result, there are countless websites out there that are geared to make you smarter and more brilliant for either a low or no cost. 40 websites that will make you cleverer right now. The indexed web contains an incredible 14 billion pages.

40 websites that will make you cleverer right now

But only a tiny fraction help you improve your brain power. Here are 40 of the best. whizzpast.com – Learn about our awe inspiring past all in one wonderful place. khanacademy.org – Watch thousands of micro-lectures on topics ranging from history and medicine to chemistry and computer science. freerice.com – Help end world hunger by correctly answering multiple-choice quizzes on a wide variety of subjects. Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills. You're Bored? Are You Kidding Me?