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This is a guest post from Kim Roach of The Optimized Life. In today’s Information Age, reading is now a prerequisite for success in life. In fact, many presidents, including Kennedy, have required their staff to take speed reading lessons. Brian Tracy, a best-selling author, points out that just 1 hour per day of reading will make you an international expert in your chosen field within 7 years. If you’re looking to increase your learning rate while decreasing your effort, speed reading is a method you should consider studying. The Brain’s Power Speed reading actually began as part of military training to identify enemy war planes. But what was interesting about this method of military training is that it began to unveil the idea that the brain could process more things visually than was previously thought. What many people don’t realize is that the mind becomes bored when it’s not constantly stimulated. 1. In fact, I would suggest skipping parts of a book that you don’t need. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Features on iPhone Features on iPhone Browse with a swipe Dolphin Android Gesture simplifies the way you navigate the mobile web. Open your favorite site with the touch of your fingertip. Learn More Voice Search Dolphin Sonar allows you to search, share and navigate by shaking your phone and telling Dolphin what to do. Learn More One-tap sharing Right from Dolphin, you can tweet web pages, post them on Facebook, or share them via email. Learn More Save to Evernote, Box Grab web content while browsing Dolphin & save it directly to Evernote or Box. Learn More Sync bookmarks, tabs With Dolphin Connect, sync bookmarks, tabs, history, & passwords across devices. Learn More Classic or List View Tabs make browsing the mobile web as easy as on a desktop. On Dolphin for Android, iPhone &iPad. Mobile + desktop mode Switch between desktop & mobile view with the Dolphin Android User Agent. On Dolphin for Android, iPhone & iPad. Learn More Optimized Interface Make the best of a limited mobile interface via Dolphin Sidebar.

Turn Your Home Router Into a Super-Powered Router with DD-WRT Wireless is everywhere and routers are the force that makes it happen, so why not supercharge yours to take proper advantage of it? DD-WRT will let you boost your router’s range, add features, and more. DD-WRT has a ton of features—more than we can cover in this guide, which is focused on helping you get your router upgraded. Stay tuned, as we’ll go into more depth in a couple more days on all the great things you can do with it, but even if you don’t use the additional features, DD-WRT is worth installing to make your router work better. What Is DD-WRT? Here’s our router. DD-WRT is an open-source alternative firmware for routers. Router Support Turning your home router into an almost professional-level tool is a great project that has one major caveat: support. For our purposes, the important spec to consider is NVROM, or ROM. Preparation The most important thing in any project is research. The friendly forum gave us some useful info for our particular model. The Process

10 homemade natural beauty and spa treatments found right in your kitchen - Special Sections 10 homemade natural beauty and spa treatments found right in your kitchen BY JANUARY THOMAS For Sun-Times Media Reprints Forever searching for the Fountain of Youth, many people may find themselves spending hundreds, even thousands, of dollars on beauty products, salons and spa treatments each year hoping to achieve the latest and greatest skin, hair and body. You'd be amazed to find many natural and low-cost ingredients found right in your kitchen cupboard that produces amazing results and often work better than the expensive brands. Refrigerator of Youth, anyone? Brown Sugar Lemony Body ScrubThis particular scrub has lemon, which works as a natural disinfectant. Milk Foot SoakAdd 4 cups of warmed whole milk, 2 tablespoons of Epsom Salt and 6 drops of your favorite essential oil such as lemon, sandalwood or lavender to warm footbath. Invigorating Coffee ScrubCoffee contains Magnesium and Vitamin E. Strawberry Bleach MaskCelebrities, such as Catherine Zeta-Jones, swear by this.

10 Minute Mail By clicking on the link below, you will be given a temporary e-mail address. Any e-mails sent to that address will show up automatically on the web page. You can read them, click on links, and even reply to them. The e-mail address will expire after 10 minutes. Why would you use this? Maybe you want to sign up for a site which requires that you provide an e-mail address to send a validation e-mail to. Get my 10 Minute Mail e-mail address. When I launched 10minutemail.com, tons of forum admins decried the idea. A month goes by, and let's see what we have. 70,000 a day!? This drives home the importance of the service. In order to save my server from the crushing spam, I've swapped out the e-mail domain to fificorp.com, and then fificorp.net, and will continue to swap out the e-mail domain on a regular basis. Info on languagesVideo Tour Choose Your Language:

Take typing lessons, test your typing speed and practice typing for free! This is keybr.com, a web application that will help you teach touch typing. Touch typing is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. A person possessing touch typing skills will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memory. It can improve any individual's typing speed and accuracy dramatically. This is a short tutorial that will explain how does this application work. You can use the left and right arrow keys to navigate through these slides. This tutorial is based on these few principles: No boring, repetitive exercises. Initially it starts generating words from a small subset of the most frequent letters of the alphabet. When you are typing these words, keybr measures time to type a key for every letter in that subset. Once you familiarize yourself with the current subset of letters, the algorithm expands it, including more and more letters to it. So at any time, you will by typing the letters you are least familiar with. This is the text board. ? ? ? ? ?

Bow to the Brow: Brow Grooming If you know anyone in your life who does makeup, one thing they will always attest to is the importance of good brows. I can't say enough about how much brows can completely make or break your face, and no one wants a broken face! I, myself, have problem brows. I used to fight and fight with my brows, trying to make them have more of an arch, until one day I realized my brows look terrible with a fake, forced arch. It seems pretty obvious, but a lot of women tend to think that the more arched and the higher their brows are, the better they will look. Take a look at all of these brows. To help you on your journey to great brows, I've put together this step by step for maintaining and grooming them. Here is what you will need: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. This is what my brows look like before I do anything to them: See? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Ta-da! Recommended Products:

Ten Tips and Tricks Every iPhone and iPad User Should Know The microhydro plant My little paradise has a stream that provides enough water flow and head to run a small turbine, to provide electricity to my home. While writing this, the microhydro plant is being implemented, and here are some photos of the process. Since I usually like to start at the end, the first thing I built is the controller: It is an implementation of Jan Portegijs' "Humming Bird", with some changes and adaptations. The largest cost of the plant, by far, is in the piping for the rather long penstock. A smaller number of pipes were stored closer to the turbine site. Only for the last part of the run, where the pressure exceeds 2 bar, I will use blue class 4 PVC pipe. To change from the low slope run of the white pipe to the much steeper run of the blue one, a change of direction is required. My neighbor Gabriel and his son took the hard work of digging the channel. The open channel has a rounded cross section and runs with a very small slope. The flat area is where the forebay will be built.

7 Basic Things You Won't Believe You're All Doing Wrong If you're like us, you might sometimes have a problem with complex tasks, like trying to drive an ambulance and send a text message at the same time. But hey, at least most of us have figured out the simplest things that get us through the day, right? Except, you know, some of the simple things we've done every day of our lives, like ... What could be simpler than taking a good crap? The one who just threw up on the other one's shoulder is better at pooping. Chances are the pooping facility nearest you is a sitting toilet, a relatively recent invention that flushed its way into mankind's heart with the advent of indoor plumbing in the 19th century. GettyFuture toilets will exist just to kill us. So how the hell are we meant to do it? Luckily, there's a relatively simple way to end this poop dilemma. In fact, toilets that require you to squat that way have been the standard for most of human history and are still widely used in the non-Western world. GettyFor no reason, here's an icing pipe.

Conversion Central: 101 Tools to Convert Video, Music, Images, PDF and More Posted by nitzan on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 Mega Tools There are lots of specialized tools out there, but sometimes you just need one good tool to get the job done. These mega tools are great for general conversions. Zamzar: Zamzar does all sorts of conversions, ranging from documents and images to music and video. Media If you use an MP3 player, download movies, or even just rip CDs, there’s a good chance you’ve had to deal with the frustration of having a format that’s incompatible with your device or software. Audio Audacity: Audacity is a great tool that can be used to convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. Video Koyote: This tool can covert FLV, DIVX, AVI and other formats to an iPod video format. Images Graphic designers, professional photographers, and point and shoot enthusiasts can all benefit from using these easy image conversion tools. Documents Adobe Online PDF creator: For quick PDF conversions, check out the official Adobe online PDF Creator. Excel

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