Monday, May 25, 2009

In-N-Out Burger's six secrets for out-and-out success

In-N-Out Burger, the iconic West Coast hamburger chain frequented by celebrities, is not slashing jobs or making major cutbacks during this recession. In fact, the regional chain, which has 232 locations in California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah, took in an estimated $420 million in revenues in 2008, and claims per-store sales of about $1.94 million.

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TwitVid.io Lets You Tweet Directly From Webcam

Tweet videos directly from your webcam on your computer. It will be ready by the end of the weekend, says TwitVid.io co-founder Chrys Bader. You’ll just hit a button directly on the site that says “Direct from webcam,” and it’ll take your video and upload it to your tweet as soon as you hit stop.

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Can you trust that new PC to be malware-free?

When you unbox a brand new computer, you presume that it's lean, clean and pristine, right? The last thing you expect to find on a new system is malware. However, that's one of the first things researchers at Kaspersky Labs found after purchasing and firing up a Companion Touch netbook.

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Is Aging an Accident of Evolution?

Prevailing theory of aging challenged by Stanford University Medical School researchers. Their discovery contradicts the prevailing theory that aging is a buildup of tissue damage similar to rust. The Stanford findings suggest specific genetic instructions drive the process.

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10 Tips to Help You Cope With Stress When You Quit Smoking

Learning how to cope with stress without a cigarette in hand is difficult when we first quit smoking. But with a few tools and some practice, you'll find it's less challenging than you might have expected.

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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

The High Cost of Poverty: Why The Poor Pay More

You have to be rich to be poor.That's what some people who have never lived below the poverty line don't understand. The poorer you are, the more things cost. More in money, time, hassle, exhaustion, menace. This is a fact of life that reality television and magazines don't often explain.

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What happened when this teen auctioned her virginity

A teenager who sold her virginity online for £8,800 has revealed the details of her tryst with the winning bidder.

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WTF: It's OK to Expel 16-yo HS Girls Suspected of Lesbianism

The dispute at California Lutheran High School in Riverside County started when a student told a teacher that one of the girls had said she loved the other. The student advised the teacher to look at the girls' MySpace pages; one displayed a photo of the girls hugging. "Basically, this decision gives private schools the license to discriminate."

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Monday, May 11, 2009

10 Free Linux Ebooks For Beginners

No matter how experienced you are with Linux systems, there is always something new you can learn from a good book that focuses on specific aspects of a Linux system.

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Sunday, May 10, 2009

Best Linux Distros for Power Users, Gamers, Newbies and More

What kind of user are you? Take a step back and ask yourself what you need from a Linux distribution. The answer isn't as obvious as you might think, and which distribution you do choose will have an effect on that distribution's future, and indirectly, that of Linux.

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Transparent plastic solar cells fitted into windows

Solar company Konarka has developed a transparent solar cell that it hopes will be built onto electricity-generating windows. Konarka makes organic solar cells made from flexible plastic. Last fall, it opened a factory in Massachusetts to manufacture the cells which come off assembly lines as spools fitted with wires to carry electricity.

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Saturday, May 09, 2009

Mozilla, Opera blast Microsoft over IE8 upgrade practice

" Browser makers Mozilla and Opera accused Microsoft yesterday of force feeding Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) to users with Windows Update and silently changing the default browser on PCs." ... I say they shouldn't be able to force any web browser as the default that's not FULLY CERTIFIED as being W3C.org Open Web Standards Compliant.

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Facebook Implements The 'Konami Code' to Add Some Flare

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start.

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

9 Foods To Eat For A Killer Immunity

While an all-around diet is the key to stronger immunity, these particular immune system-boosting foods and ingredients can keep you in fighting condition. (Click on "Print this" to view all on a single page)

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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Obama plans to campaign for economic stimulus package

Reporting from Washington -- President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to lead a full-scale marketing blitz to pass the massive new stimulus package that he says is needed to revive the slumping economy and put the nation on the course he laid out during his campaign.

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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Windows 7's PC Safeguard sandboxes user accounts

One of the first pieces I wrote when I joined Download Squad covered Microsoft SteadyState, a free application that caches changes to your operating system and can remove all traces of them on rebooting. Now it looks as though that functionality will be part of the Windows 7 core - with one major improvement.

Whereas SteadyState will lock down your entire system, PC Safeguard can be configured on a per-user basis. Making changes under SteadyState can be a bit cumbersome and usually requires at least one reboot. With PC Safeguard, you've got two options. First, you log off the protected user and log in with your administrative account.

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