Are you sick of constantly feeling tethered to your smartphone? Are you sick of feeling like you must have the latest and greatest model…that if your phone has beveled versus rounded edges, you are somehow out of pace with the.
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Securing your valuables looks a lot different in the digital age than it did in the analog one. You used to be able to stuff your gold doubloons in a chest, lock it up and you were all good. Nowadays,.
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In 1956, IBM offered its RAMAC 105 digital storage system. It was the size of two refrigerators and cost about $1.4M in 2014 dollars. It held an industry-leading 5MB of storage on its 50, 24″ platters. 25 years later, the.
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The Amazon Fire phone came out last week with great fanfare. Besides its nifty dynamic perspective capabilities, the Fire features the Firefly technology, which, depending on your perspective, is a great blessing or a major curse. Firefly has some beneficial or benign applications:.
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Awareness can be a bitch. For example, it’s one thing to have an intellectual understanding that factory farming is bad based on articles and some statistics. It’s another to visit a factory farm or see one of those gnarly PETA videos..
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Is your inbox teeming with email from lists you have little or no recollection how you got on them (the LifeEdited newsletter being an obvious exception)? Going through every email and unsubscribing can be tedious. For some lists, we might.
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We know it might sound crazy, but one day, not too long from now, it will be warm. After the warmth, it will be hot. And though there are many ways of mitigating heat without air conditioning, in the dead.
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The combination of a recent move, a succession of junk-food-filled holidays and an unusually harsh winter have wreaked havoc on this author’s exercise regime and fitness level. A couple weeks ago, I ran across an app called Quick Fit, which.
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Books are great. They are instigators of imagination, chroniclers of the ages, companions in meditation and erudition. They are also some of the clumsiest, heaviest, most space-intensive objects most of us carry. When this site first started, we presented what.
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Many of us carry around several cards in our wallets: a personal credit card, debit card, business expense card, family account card, award card, etc. This stockpiling of cards leads to bloated and cluttered wallets. A startup called Coin has.
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