Toast is a special kind of food that can be the epitome of a breakfast, or the sign of a bad day just starting to unfold. Getting burnt toast makes the morning ritual take longer, and means that you’ve wasted food if it has passed a point of no return. If only you could see your toast becoming delicious from the side instead of peering down over top of it, maybe then you would never again have to deal with…
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It is a million times easier to deal with being cold than it is to be hot. You can put on layers, sit next to a heater, or drink something warm. If you’re hot and sweaty, and it’s boiling outside, then there’s not a whole lot you can do, aside from cranking up the AC. Seeing as it’s winter time, we’re all looking for ways to stay toasty. While we may have long-sleeve sweaters and tall socks to put on,…
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Yep, it’s that time of the year again (what, you hadn’t noticed?) and we’re all expected to rush around like mad people buying things that we’re not sure of, for people we don’t really know that well. Well, maybe we do know them, but maybe not as well as they hope, otherwise how do you explain all those pairs of socks and bottles of cheap perfume in bottom drawers? So we thought we’d jump in and offer a little help…
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Words are words, and on the Internets there are plenty of them. Lots. But there’s also a huge amount of copying going on, with exam papers, theses, even business presentations all suffering from plagiarism in all forms. There are tools to help fight it, which scan texts for proof of copying, but we have typically found them to be too difficult to use or accessible only via registration, which is a bore.
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There’s something very personal about jewelry, whether it’s the most expensive piece or a bargain from a local flea market. It says something about the wearer, and of course it says a lot about the giver too, in many cases. But unless you have lots of money it’s been difficult to find a way to create your very own style of jewelry, until now that is.
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Yes, we know about the Rubix Cube. It’s been around since the dinosaurs, and there are a bunch of different versions of them. Most all of them have some form of color coordination that help you know when the puzzle is “complete”. However, what if those hues were removed, and all you had to look at to figure things out were a series of mismatched curved lines?
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New parents have a tendency to worry about how their baby is doing every second of the day. Newborns don’t exactly know how to communicate, so you never know if they’re hungry, gassy, sick, or otherwise. If you want to have peace of mind while baby is sleeping so you can catch up on housework, work, or gardening, you’ll probably want a baby monitor. Just hearing them fuss around and crying sometimes isn’t enough to let you know that things…
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When you look at your watch, you get one thing from it. The time. It’s just a few numbers put together that we were taught how to read a long time ago. We can now look down at a glance and immediately put together what those numbers mean, and carry on with our day. The same goes for saying what time it is. We read the numbers, and can say what they are. If you have any interest in learning…
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So you need an ultra lightweight laptop computer, but you also want a touchscreen tablet. And you don’t want it breaking on you, so you’d really like it ruggedized to make it tough and strong. Sounds like an impossible product to build, unless you’re one of the development team at Japanese giant Panasonic, because they’ve just released exactly the product you seek.
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It’s the time of year when people look back as well as forward, when memories of events come up to haunt or enchant. And one of the best ways to capture these moments is with a paper and pencil. Or perhaps not. Maybe a small video camera would be easier, right? None of the smudging and mess. And why not take it one step further and carry around your very own retro footage maker, to give your memories instant historical…
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Social networks like Facebook, Twitter et al are still massively popular despite occasional problems with privacy and suchlike. It seems that we’re willing to forgive and forget lots of things as long as we can stay in touch with our friends and family using these online tools. But that’s a bit of a problem, because it’s all done online, and what’s more it’s really difficult to retrieve and remember events which passed last week, month or year. Now there’s a…
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The Web Audio Drum Machine is a great sounding free online drum machine with 6 rhythm tracks, as well as multiple presets, kits and effects and a small but useful collection of mix and tweak settings. It’s a perfect way to get a beat quickly out of your brain and into your earlobes. You can save your patterns and revisit them later online by loading them up again, but if you’re serious about your beats, you’re going to need to…
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If you love taking photos of nature, you know what kind of changes come with your photos during seasonal shifts. If you like taking a large landscape shots, you might wonder what it would be like to see the change happen in action. If so, you’ll have to either set up the camera every day, or weatherproof it for a longer period of sitting in one spot. You can go all out and buy fancy camera equipment for it, or…
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When you’re playing a game, sound can be extremely important. You’re not going to know if an enemy, monster, or zombie is behind you if you can’t hear them very well. There are tons of headsets out there to choose from, but you want to make sure you get one that is not only going to give you good audio quality, but one that will cater to what you want.
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If you’re paying a large sum of money for a product, you expect to get a great deal of quality out of it. Massage chair and chair toppers can be hit-or-miss depending on what your personal preferences are. When it comes the the bigger, multi-mode chairs, you don’t want to put down money on something unless it’s going to work for you. The problem with these things is that they’re usually a “one size fits all”, and shorter or taller…
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