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22 Effective Baking Soda Uses 11. Polish the fine stuff – Use it to gently cleanse porcelain, enamel, tile, fiberglass and stainless steel surfaces. Safely scour away crayon or marker doodles on walls and floors. Personal uses for baking soda 12. Toothpaste – Major toothpaste manufacturers already add baking soda to their products, touting its whitening properties. Plain baking soda sprinkled on a toothbrush and dampened with water works equally well, though the taste is less pleasant. 13. 14. OUYA: A New Kind of Video Game Console by OUYA & Kickstarter We just added game streaming through OnLive! Final Fantasy will be on OUYA...and we have an exclusive game! And VEVO has agreed to put their music videos on OUYA, XBMC adds a streaming media app, with TuneIn and iHeartRadio adding music! We're honored by all of you who are backing us -- THANK YOU. We are focused on delivering for you, first come first served. We can only promise OUYA by March to our Kickstarter backers. Engadget! There's something about a big HD TV and digital surround sound that fills up a living room. We get it – smartphones and tablets are getting all the new titles – they're "what's hot.” You busted your ass just to find out the princess was "in another castle." Let’s open this sucker up! We're handing the reins over to the developer with only one condition: at least some gameplay has to be free. OUYA is a new game console for the TV, powered by Android. We've packed this little box full of power. That doesn't mean OUYA is an Android port. And developers agree:

Finding a Vimeo replacement service to host my company videos | Forest Key's Blog I just went through a very stressful experience that I thought I’d share for the benefit of others that will surely run into the same issues. I made the mistake of signing up for Vimeo and started using the service for my business’ marketing needs, and then was made aware after the fact by a friend that the Vimeo service is strictly for non-commercial purposes and that I was running the risk of being shut-off at any moment by the vimeo team. (they do indicate this on the sign up page, but it was below the fold so to speak, and I did not see it while i was reading their materials–when i saw a for $fee$ “pro” package, i just assumed that was for someone like me, who was willing to pay a fee to host videos on the web–a wrong assumption in this case). This excellent blog post speaks to the less than stellar notification in the vimeo sign up screen. Some features that were NOT important to us, that are important to other customers and are a big emphasis for many of these services, include:

Danny Perez Directs The Music Video For Hot Chips &Look At Where We Are& We’ve been eagerly awaiting Hot Chip’s new album for the past two years (meanwhile listening to old songs “Over and Over” again), so when the British electro outlet released In Our Heads this June, we were psyched to hear their new take on dance music. The band teamed up with visual sorcerer and Creator Danny Perez who directed the music video for “Look At Where We Are,” produced by The Creators Project. Perez’s collaboration with Animal Collective produced the visual album ODDSAC back in 2010—an audiovisual assault on the senses where sound and imagery bombarded the viewer into another world. And Perez brought his unique aesthetic to bear on the video for “Look At Where We Are,” using a combination of abstract visuals and the age old story of a man and a woman. However, this isn’t your average love story, but one that involves the woman becoming a Frankenstein’s monster, laid out while her partner operates on her. Find Hot Chip’s upcoming tour dates here. @CreatorsProject

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25 Spectacular Movies You (Probably) Haven't Seen Pt. 2 Human Traffic Very unique comedy about the drug/club culture in the UK. Five friends ponder society, drug use and their own lives as they go about their usual weekend of snorting, smoking, popping, dancing and sex. The Matador Pierce Brosnan plays an assassin going through a mid-life crisis as he approached retirement. The Good, The Bad, And the Weird Two comical outlaws and a bounty hunter fight for a treasure map in 1940s Manchuria while being pursued by the Japanese army and Chinese bandits. Tucker and Dale vs. A group of college students go camping for the weekend and, through a series of unlucky events, begin thinking that the harmless Tucker & Dale (pictured above) are trying to kill them. New Kids Turbo An absolutely nutty movie from the Netherlands. Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang KKBB is a murder-comedy (?) Big Trouble Big Trouble is one of those movies where all of these different people end up intertwined at the end of the movie. Once Upon A Time In The West Persepolis 13 Assassins Dr. Drive

Stolen Camera Finder - auto search the more reliable "drag & drop" feature is only supported in chrome and firefox <div id="searchbox-noscript"><form action="/search" method="get"><fieldset><input class="search-textfield" name="serial" type="search" value="enter a serial number" /><input name="searchType" type="hidden" value="NOSCRIPT" /><input class="search-submit" type="submit" value="Search" /></fieldset></form></div><div id="noscript-intro"><div class='intro'>use the serial number stored in your photos to search the web for other photos taken with the same camera</div></div> drag & drop photo here use the serial number stored in your photos to search the web for other photos taken with the same camera Searching fail Problem extracting serial number. Try Jeffrey's exif viewer to see if it contains a serial number. If it still doesn't work, please email the photo to us so we can fix the problem. Sorry, something broke! No exif data found. The does not write serial information in the exif.

BLADE - Block All Drive-by Download Exploits The 10 Most Useful Search Engines for Beginners, 2012 April, 2014 Most people don't want 290 search engines, especially people who are internet beginners. Most users want a single search engine that delivers three key features: Relevant results (results you are actually interested in) Uncluttered, easy to read interface Helpful options to broaden or tighten a search With this criteria, 10 Reader Favorite Search Engines come to mind. Below is a changing list of user favorites, compiled from reader email suggestions. Submit a Site: you are welcome to suggest a search engine for inclusion in this list. 1. At first, DuckDuckGo.com looks like Google. 2. The Ask/AJ/Ask Jeeves search engine is a longtime name in the World Wide Web. 3. Bing is Microsoft's attempt at unseating Google. 4. Yippy is a Deep Web engine that searches other search engines for you. 5. Webopedia is one of the most useful websites on the World Wide Web. 6. Yahoo! 7. Years ago, Dogpile was the fast and efficient choice before Google. 8. 9. Try Mahalo. 10.

Recommended Search Engines-The Library Google alone is not always sufficient, however. Not everything on the Web is fully searchable in Google. Overlap studies show that more than 80% of the pages in a major search engine's database exist only in that database. For this reason, getting a "second opinion" can be worth your time. Table of features Some common techniques will work in any search engine. You may also wish to consult "What Makes a Search Engine Good?" How do Search Engines Work? Search engines do not really search the World Wide Web directly. Search engine databases are selected and built by computer robot programs called spiders. If a web page is never linked from any other page, search engine spiders cannot find it. After spiders find pages, they pass them on to another computer program for "indexing." Many web pages are excluded from most search engines by policy.

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