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Master the New Gmail with These Tips, Shortcuts, and Add-Ons

Master the New Gmail with These Tips, Shortcuts, and Add-Ons

Flex your rights: The top 3 things to do in every police encounter By Stephen C. WebsterSaturday, November 5, 2011 17:19 EDT Dealing with police in the U.S. can be a touchy situation, no matter who you are, where you’re going, or what you’re up to. That’s why three law enforcement experts attending the 2011 Drug Policy Alliance conference in Los Angeles decided to stage a panel discussion about what people can do to prevent police encounters from becoming seriously detrimental to one’s life. While the conversation was wide-ranging and covered a lengthy variety of topics, there were several main points they all made that can help every single person to deal with police in a manner that limits the potential for arrest or violence. 3. Chino Hardin, an organizer with the Institute for Juvenile Justice Reform and Alternatives, recommended making mental notes of the officer’s words, and getting their name if possible. 2. “You have to own these things,” Hardin explained. 1. For more information on avoiding arrest during police stops, visit FlexYourRights.org.

Socializer 5 Tips to Make Your House Appear Cleaner Than It Is | Apartment Therapy San Francisco So you get a text message that tells you company is dropping by and they're only 10 blocks away. Don't panic. Take a deep breath, now panic and check out these 5 tips for making your house appear clean in a flash. That's right, I said appear. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Do you have a quick clean-up tip that helps you out when company calls? Productive Web Apps | WEB APPS TO HELP YOU AT WORK AND PLAY Slide Design for Developers So I gave this talk called How GitHub Uses GitHub to Build GitHub. Someone submitted my slides to Hacker News, where it stayed at #1 for most of the day. This was pretty strange to me at first. My slides are not designed for people who didn't see the talk in person. They're designed to support my words, not some online audience. What's more, many commented that they found the design of the slides to be noteworthy. Working on your slide design pays off for the audience in front of you and for the audience online reading your slides later. Colors Color is the very first thing people will notice. Head to a color site like Colour Lovers and find a palette you like. Size Make your text huge. Most of my text in my entire deck is at least 90pt. For the curious, I use Yanone Kaffeesatz as the typeface for both my slide deck and the headings on my blog. One of my favorite tweets from my New Orleans talk said "Great slide design- I was way in the back and could read every single word!" Repetition

Privacy alert: Verizon is now monitoring your mobile Web habits By JR Raphael (@jr_raphael) Verizon Wireless users, listen up: Verizon is making a significant change to its privacy policy for mobile users this week. By default, the company will now use a bunch of your info for "certain business and marketing reports" and for "making mobile ads you see more relevant." This info includes the URLs of websites you visit over Verizon's network and also your device's location data. Some of those details may be shared with outside companies as well. You can view the full scope of the changes in Verizon's privacy policy change notice. If you don't want Verizon to use your data in this way, you need to go to verizonwireless.com/myprivacy and opt out. By default, you will be opted in to this new program -- so if that isn't what you want, take a minute now and change those settings.

How to Sound Like You Know What You're Talking About (Even When You Don't) Your response says it all-you're reinforcing exactly what I said, that I'm denigrated because I expect what any critical thinker expects: honesty about the facts, theories and accuracy of prediction capability. ANY research has limits, and discussing those limits is part of what makes research useful. Denying the limitations of the research is, well, DENIALISM. No where did I "deny" anything, I stated that I get labelled a "denier" because I ask for information so I can make informed judgements of my own, rather than follow either party line. I'm a fairly smart person, I can understand studies and research data. Right now I struggle to get to the data through the noise-the noise on both sides. I want to know what the theories say, and what the limits are, and not be preached to that "the answer is this". It's the religious fervor (that both sides use) that I take issue with - I can't ask questions without being labelled a non-believer - I must simply "accept" what I'm being told.

Coffee Shop Computer Etiquette  – Geeks "…these are Starbucks customers who buy a cup of coffee and then occupy a table/power outlet with their laptop and basically camp out for countless hours." First and foremost, I would like to express my sincerest condolences to the family of the late great Mr. Steven P. Jobs who has, without a doubt, more than influenced the world’s personal/business computing, engineering, science, and academic industries with the advent of Apple’s products. He will be sorely missed and such a loss of a legendary visionary and pioneer is a blow to the continued advancement of our society’s computing technology and innovation. That being said, this Tech Tip is a list of experiences that I have found to be a hindrance but can otherwise be remedied for all you mobile tech commuters. This Tech Tip will help outline a general etiquette list so mobile tech commuters can share a common courtesy in this world filled with laptops, e-book readers and coffee shops! 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.)

How to Do Laundry on a Road Trip Like John Steinbeck Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Jeff More. You’re packing for a road trip and you’re down to deciding how much clothing to bring. You could have a fresh change of clothes every day, but that adds up to a lot of space quickly, especially if you have multiple companions. Or you could just suck it up, not change, and reek a little. Here’s a tip I got from Travels with Charley (sadly missing from the Art of Manliness’ 100 best reads, but no one’s perfect), John Steinbeck’s 1962 travelogue documenting his road trip circumnavigating the Lower 48 with his French poodle, Charley, and how the American landscape had changed over his lifetime. What You’ll Need: 5-gallon bucket with lid (I use an orange Home Depot bucket)Jug of clean water (Get a jug with a screw-on top, not a snap top. Here’s how it works. In the Morning When you’re breaking camp, throw your dirty clothes into your five gallon bucket. Secure the lid and place the bucket somewhere in your vehicle where it won’t tip over.

In Case of Emergency: 13 Things You Should Keep in Your Car When I was growing up, I noticed that my dad kept the trunk of his car well-stocked with supplies. A lot of the equipment in his car was for his job busting poachers as a game warden, but most of the things he packed in his trunk were for emergency situations. And there were plenty of times when my dad was able to put his trunk equipment to work. For example, about 20 years ago my dad was driving home to Oklahoma from New Mexico in his old burgundy Caprice. Just outside of Groom, TX, near the famous leaning water tower along I-40, a hellacious snow storm hit. It was a complete white out, so my dad had to pull over until things settled down. But things didn’t settle down until a day later. My dad had to spend the night in his car in the middle of nowhere while a blizzard roared outside. Many of you will be hitting the road this holiday season to visit family, so I consulted my dad, Tom McKay, and asked him what supplies he thinks every man should keep in his car. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

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