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Mail a brick to junk mailers using paid postage - Creative tips with dealing with spammers and bulk mailers. Breaking heavy textbooks in to smaller books for easy carrying. Summertime New Uses for Old Things - Real Simple. How to get 2 soda's for the price of 1. Masterlock-01.png from wordpress.com. 25 Vintage Baking Tips: Timeless Wisdom. I’ve collected these snippets of baking tips from vintage cookbooks and magazines dating from the 1940′s through the 1950′s…the Timeless Wisdom collection is a regular feature on Tipnut where I organize and share all kinds of tips from the past.

Vintage Rolling Pin, Eggs & Flour Butter and sugar can be creamed easily when butter is hard by warming the sugar slightly.Light-colored molasses can be darkened to make dark gingerbread by adding a teaspoonful of melted chocolate to each cup of molasses.Cream which is hard to whip will whip quickly by adding a few drops of lemon juice.Molasses can be prevented from sticking to the measuring cup if the cup is first greased with butter or lard.Shortening can be measured exactly. How to Fly Anywhere, Anytime FREE - Guaranteed. Ladies and gentlemen, I interrupt this blog to share some new travel tips from fellow blogger and travel fiend Chris Guillebeau.

To find out how to get FREE FLIGHTS please remain seated and listen carefully to the following announcement. Currently in the final two years of a five-year mission to visit every country in the world, Chris is a genius at getting free flights and amazing flight deals anywhere, anytime. Now he’s teaching other people how to get free flights. Sounds good doesn’t it? Now he’s decided to share his travel hacking secrets with us so we too can take advantage of secret flight deals anywhere and go jetting off around the globe for next to nothing or even learn how to fly free.

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Mr. Healthy Living. Life hacks. The Usability of Passwords (by @baekdal) #tips. Security companies and IT people constantly tells us that we should use complex and difficult passwords. This is bad advice, because you can actually make usable, easy to remember and highly secure passwords. In fact, usable passwords are often far better than complex ones. So let's dive into the world of passwords, and look at what makes a password secure in practical terms. Update: Read the FAQ (updated January 2011) Update - April 21, 2011: This article was "featured" on Security Now, here is my reply! How to hack a password The work involved in hacking passwords is very simple. Asking: Amazingly the most common way to gain access to someone's password is simply to ask for it (often in relation with something else).

When is a password secure? You cannot protect against "asking" and "guessing", but you can protect yourself from the other forms of attacks. The measure of security must then be "how many password requests can the automated program make - e.g. per second". Like these: It takes: How to Restore an Abused iPhone (or any gadget) After a few months of use, our gorgeous new gadgets incur a fair share of dings and scratches. However, all is not lost! Learn how one man bought a horribly abused iPhone on Ebay and polished it up to look brand new. It’s a superb tutorial including both case and screen refurbishing which you can apply to all of your neglected gadgets.

Steps to Resurrection: Photos: Unfortunately, the Apple logo is erased in the process, but I’d say it’s a worthwhile sacrifice for the outstanding results. LCD Repair: The LCD repair is a slightly more delicate process since we have to remove the entire front of the device and expose its circuitry innards. Materials: Replacement iPhone LCDCompressed Air ( or bike pump) E-xacto blade ( or something flat and thin)Small Phillips screwdriverSuction cup With this detailed tutorial, just about anyone can refurbish their scratched and damaged gadgets. Final Results: Things to do with your new iPhone: How to Ditch Big Brother and Disappear Forever.

DIY: Wine Bottle Light & Wit & Whistle. November 3rd, 2009 This past spring Daniel and I went on a road trip from San Francisco to the Grand Canyon. Along the way we stopped at Chateau Julien for a wine tasting. I wanted to do something with the empty bottle instead of throwing it in the recycling bin. So here it is! You’ll need: an empty wine bottle a drill safety glasses and gloves (just in case the bottle breaks) 1/2″ glass drill bit masking tape short strand of Christmas lights (with a plug only on one end) How to: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Bootstrapping a Startup. DIY Earphone System. Posted on December 6, 2010 by saya It doesn’t mean that your earphones are no longer usable when something is wrong with them.

In fact with this DIY Earphone System, each part and every wire of which is detachable and replaceable, everybody can easily “fix” their earphones to make them work again. To meet your different needs, the module comes in two modes: basic and Bluetooth. You can also hook up two separate sets to the central module, if you’d like to share good music with your friend. Designer: Choi Hyong-Suk. Install a Penny Countertop. Tips and downloads for getting things done. Block Posters - Create large wall posters from any image for free! 10 Things Every Guy Should Own (But Doesn’t) How would you like to be the guy that everyone guy wants to know and every girls wants to date?

Are you nodding your head yes, but thinking, “that’s impossible, I’m just a cubicle worker who spends my day surfing NSFW websites?” Well cheer up and get excited because here are ten things that you should own if you’re aspiring to be the perfect man. 1. A Musical Instrument - An instrument can serve many purposes, from a profession down to a cure for boredom. A guitar, trumpet, or cello could really light up your place and are guaranteed to start conversations. Truth be told, learning an instrument takes a lot of time and patience, but don’t let that discourage you. Think of all the time you spend sitting in front of Facebook, watching infomercials on daytime TV, and playing video games. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Tips and downloads for getting things done. How to Make Sassy Water To Flatten Your Belly. Decide how exercise will fit into your daily schedule. For weight loss, 250 minutes per week of exercise is ideal, according to Thatsfit.com.

This could be 50 minutes per day, five days per week, or 35 minutes per day on all seven days during the week. According to "Body for Life," exercising in the morning on an empty stomach will provide the most reliable and consistent weight loss results. 10 Tips for Designing Presentations That Don't Suck: Pt.1. Powerpoint has produced more bad design in its day that perhaps any other digital tool in history with the possible exception of Microsoft paint.

In this post we’re going to address the epidemic of bad presentation design with ten super practical tips for designer better looking and more professional presentations. Along the way we’ll see a number of awesome slide designs from Note & Point along with some custom examples built by yours truly. Let’s get started! Also be sure to check out 10 Tips for Designing Presentations That Don’t Suck: Pt.2! Not a Designer? Most of the content on this site is targeted specifically towards professional designers and developers, or at the very least those interested in getting started in this field. You’ve chosen a visual tool to communicate and should therefore take the time to learn a thing or two about visual communications. Follow the ten tips below and see if you don’t start getting comments about your awesome presentation design skills.

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