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The Right Drink for Every Situation. Most of us may have water on tap and milk chilling in the fridge, but did you know these budget-friendly bevs (and more!)

The Right Drink for Every Situation

Could do more than quench your thirst? We’ve rounded up 21 drink suggestions for every type of situation and need. From pickle juice to whiskey to cherry juice, these drinks can boost endurance, ease colds, and even help beat upset stomachs. Make 20 Meals to Feed a Family of Four for $150 and One Trip to Costco. How To Clean Your Filthy Baseball Cap. SExpand Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist.

How To Clean Your Filthy Baseball Cap

How to Turn Your Favorite Fruit Juice into Cheap Homemade Booze. How to Turn Your Favorite Fruit Juice into Cheap Homemade Booze Making your own alcohol at home sounds like fun, but it's a long, complicated, and sometimes expensive process.

How to Turn Your Favorite Fruit Juice into Cheap Homemade Booze

You need all sorts of equipment, and by the time you're finished, it's been a few weeks—even months. If you want to try home-brewing without all the hassle, one of the most painless ways to do it is to start with fruit juice. Claire Lower over on xoJane tried this method using two different types of yeast powder to see which one produced the highest alcohol content. Here's how to try it yourself. Step 3: Wait Now, just let it sit for a few days.

Broken Gear? Fix it with the ‘Play-Doh’ of Camera Repair. Imagine a colorful self-setting rubber that you can keep in your camera bag and bust out at any time to repair on-the-job cracks, breaks and tears.

Broken Gear? Fix it with the ‘Play-Doh’ of Camera Repair

Sugru is such a product, a moldable Play-Doh-like synthetic that can also be shaped into custom camera grips, monopod and tripod mounts and can add color and texture to existing buttons on your DSLR. When you open a packet of Sugru, you form it and shape it by rolling it in the palm of your hand and fingers. You then apply it and form it to your satisfaction, as it will remain pliable for 30 minutes before the 24-hour period it requires to set. Sugru is waterproof and electrically insulating. Unopened packets last for six months at room temperature but will keep three times as long if stored in a refrigerator. From now on, I keep a small packet of Sugru in my bag whenever on location. 1.

Photo courtesy of Jeremy Allen / jeremyallen.500px.com 2. iPhone charger cable. 3. Related New Gear and Discounts from ThinkTank and MindShift In "Gear" Tie a Regular Tie Into a Bow Tie. Connectify Dispatch Merges Your Available Internet Connections into One Fat, Super-Fast Pipe. You know, that's a really good question.

Connectify Dispatch Merges Your Available Internet Connections into One Fat, Super-Fast Pipe

My gut says it's actually load balancing, partially because there's no ownership of the multiple connections, and that the algorithms the app uses actually determine where best to send traffic dynamically so you get the best overall performance, not that it actually can fill all of those connections at the same time. That said, when I ran speedtests when the service was running versus not running, Dispatch did seem to be able to max out all of the available connections at once to determine a complete, whole bandwidth measurement, so I could be wrong here. Edit: It's load balancing: Going to add that to the article, I think that's good information to include. Definitely load balancing. Build this DIY Ring Light for Your Smartphone and Take Better Photos On the Go. Four More Custom Searches You Should Enable In Your Browser Right Now. Forgive me, total noob with these using Chrome.

Four More Custom Searches You Should Enable In Your Browser Right Now

I can't get any of them to work. 1. I pasted the following, into "Add a new search engine" named it Google Cache, keyword:cache. Then, I went to a site and typed cache then space from the address bar. Hit enter, and was taken to a normal Google search for cache. Learn the Basics of Photoshop: The Complete Guide. Basics of Photography: The Complete Guide. How Do I Pick the Right Lens for My DSLR? You should mention that, for Canon anyway, some lenses are designed to only work with crop-frame cameras (EF-S lenses) and won't be compatible if you upgrade to full frame.

How Do I Pick the Right Lens for My DSLR?

Conversely, traditional (EF) lenses will work on crop and full frame. Memorize the 1,000 Most Common Words in a Language Before Immersing Yourself In It. Top Sites To Find All The Serials You Need. Extend Free Trials Indefinitely to Try Out Services for as Long as You Need. "May I suggest that instead of trashing Adam or this site, you save that anger and direct toward sites that explain how to make pipe bombs or dirty bombs.

Extend Free Trials Indefinitely to Try Out Services for as Long as You Need

They have to be higher on your list, right? " Not really. I don't frequent those kind of sites. Do you know many people that do? "How about writing constructive opinion pieces on things like the EU debt crisis, or US foreign policy, or hell go learn about neurology or the mating habits of earthworms. Want to Read Faster? Stop Saying The Words in Your Head As You Read. I'm like you.

Want to Read Faster? Stop Saying The Words in Your Head As You Read

I naturally read without subvocalization and I read absurdly fast as a result. Any novel that's not horribly complex in terms of plot that is written at about a high-school level of reading is done in less than a day. More advanced stuff takes longer. A Dance with Dragons was a two day read, I think. I was also, like you, reading at a Grade 10 level in Grade 4 and at a college level shortly after that. All that being said, I cannot remember things people tell me. Yeah, I find it to be very useful when my ADD kicks in, and I start thinking while reading, and then later realize I have no clue what the past five pages were about. I'm the exact same way, on all counts. Story of my time in elementary school. Top 10 Ways to Make Yourself Look (and Be) Smarter. How terribly obnoxious of you.

Top 10 Ways to Make Yourself Look (and Be) Smarter

Thanks for sharing. Well, it is probably not the smartest move ever to call monolingual people dumb. But here in Europe (or at least in most countries) learning a second language is compulsory in secondary school. Therefore not speaking a second language often goes along with a lack of general education, probably leading roelroelroel to this bovine conclusion. People in Europe need only travel a few hours to encounter another language, and bi- and tri-linguality is essential to business and communication there. Top 10 Ways to Modernize Your Old, Retro Gadgets. Defrag Your Brain With a Spark File. How to Block Annoying Political Posts on Facebook. Add "i" to the end of "/Romney|Obama|republicans|Republicans|democrats|Democrats/" to make it case sensitive. Then you can just do this: /Romney|Obama|republicans|democrats/i Amazing! Top 10 DIY Projects That Cost Less Than $3. How to Make Limited-Time App Deals Last Forever. At least in the case of the Starbucks free apps, the developers get paid.

(At least that's how I understand it. I know, it gets in the way of consumer-bashing, but you can have your fill of that on the Consumerist.) You know the developers still get paid in these sales, right? Make a Smarter Notification System for Your Phone or Tablet with Pushover. Best Torrents: The Top 35 Torrent Download Sites of 2012. Updated May 11, 2016. Disclaimer: About.com does not condone the illegal sharing of copyrighted files.

Please use good judgment when using a torrent file-sharing site. This list is in random order. This list reflects a collection of reader suggestions. Unleash the Power of Android with These Automated Apps. [Android] Share your Tasker recipes - Quarter To Three Forums. Make Your Own Chick-Fil-A Sandwiches at Home. My view is that you're an idiot. Does that offend you? Not to be argumentative but: by sharing one's opinion in a public forum, one is inherently inviting others to share opinions of dissent. Stating one's views is easily one of the most offensive things one can do, especially when that opinion contains a dogmatic/kerygmatic judgment of others.

In essence, just as What-his-nuts (I believe that is, in fact, his legal name) is free to share his opinions regarding the homosexual community, others are free to share their views of his fucktardedness. It is confounding to me to see people defend What-his-nuts' opinion with the "don't denigrate him for what he believes" argument (note, probably a better term for this) — of COURSE I will judge him based o his opinions and beliefs; I should.

That said, I take a different tack on much of this, from a personal view, but I would argue that, just as one opinion is covered under protected speech, so is the expression of dissent to that opinion. Top 10 DIY Miracles You Can Accomplish with a $1 Binder Clip. Sworkit Pro Talks You Through Randomly-Generated Exercise Routines Based on Your Preferences. The Three Button Home Screen. How to Turn Your Android Phone into a Fully-Automated Superphone. Yes, That’s a Tampon in My Mouth: The Swiss Army Survival Tampon — 10 Survival Uses. How I Got Over the Jogging Beginner's Hump. 99% of men who run bare-chested really ought not run bare-chested. Too many components work against you: chest hair, moobishness, or other parts of you that jiggle when you run that look rock-solid when you are standing looking at yourself in the mirror. DIY Rubberized Phone Backing. I Learned to Speak Four Languages in a Few Years: Here's How.

Roll a Powerful Media HTPC for Less Than $500. Failin.gs: what don't you like about me a platform for completely anonymous feedback. DjRun for Android Plays Tracks that Match Your Pace While Jogging. How to Get Better Battery Life and Performance on Your Android Phone with a New Kernel. Tunes.io Offers Up a New Playlist of Great Music Every Day. The 10-20-30 Running Concept Can Increase Performance in Less Time. DIY $2 Pad Keeps Cash Handy. Steve Wozniak does this a little differently. As a prank he carries around pads of $2 bills, but with 4 bills to a page and with perforations between the bills. He then pays for stuff by tearing bills off the pad.

He tells people that he prints the bills himself, but that they are perfectly legal. The truth is that he buys these as uncut sheets from the Treasury department, and then has the sheets perforated and padded by a local print shop. Here's where Woz, and anyone else can buy such sheets [www.moneyfactorystore.gov] The $2 sheets are currently not available, with availability projected sometime this summer. This is also expensive, the price of uncut sheets varies by the denomination and how many bills are on the sheet but it's significantly higher than the face value of the bills on the sheet.

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