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Web: To beat the pressure of gift-buying, we recommend you give experiences instead of objects. So how do you find these experience-based gifts, and which one is right for whom? Unstuff Gifts makes it easy by aggregating, sorting and recommending the best "non-stuff" gifts for the holidays. Read...

The Nexus 7 is arguably the leading Android tablet, and for good reason. It's slim, trim, powerful, and affordable. If you want to keep it safe though, you'll need a decent case or protective sleeve for it—one that'll protect it from drops, bumps, or other things in your bag. This week we're...

Web: To beat the pressure of gift-buying, we recommend you give experiences instead of objects. So how do you find these experience-based gifts, and which one is right for whom? Unstuff Gifts makes it easy by aggregating, sorting and recommending the best "non-stuff" gifts for the holidays. Read...

Every week, we share a number of downloads for all platforms to help you get things done. Here were the top downloads from this week. Read more...

The next time you need to squeeze a lemon, you don't need fancy juicers or squeezers to get the most out of it. Just stab it with a fork and move it while you squeeze the lemon. It'll get all the juice out, and much more easily than usual. Read more...

Android/iOS: If you are travelling and can't speak the local language, having Translate (by Translate.com) on your phone might bail you out. The app gives you easy translations using text, voice or camera and works with a wide variety of languages. Read more...

When you are looking to form a new habit, it might be wise to set up rituals to start and stop, says Hannah Braime, author of The Ultimate Guide to Journaling. Read more...

Here's a neat little weekend project. With an unused wireless mouse (or you can pick one up for $7 on Amazon) and a pair of gloves, you can build yourself a cool 'power glove' that acts as your computer's mouse. Read more...

Taking photos of an event impairs your memory, finds a new study by Fairfield University. But instead of dropping your camera entirely, you can eliminate this "photo-taking-impairment effect" by zooming in to a specific part of the object. Read more...

Send Twitter DMs on Apps That Won’t Let You with This Trick Some Twitter clients, like Twitpic, only let you read and compose tweets on your timeline, not offering access to Direct Mentions (DMs). But if you still want to send someone a DM on these services, just use the old SMS Code. Read...

The number one rule to financial success: spend less than you earn. And the best way to do that is to keep track of what you spend. Here are 10 tricks for crafting the perfect budget (and sticking to it). Read more...

To give someone a boost, ask them about a specific aspect of their life where they are doing well, and follow it up with a generic question about their overall happiness. It sounds simplistic, but it works wonders, according to Nobel laureate psychologist Daniel Kahneman. Read more...

2013 was a huge year for Apple's iPhone and iPad. With new hardware comes new software, and love it or hate it, iOS 7 changed how we use the iPhone. Here are the most popular iOS-related posts of the year. Read more...

We're coming down to the wire, but you still have time to get a few gifts for the holiday season before time runs out. Deals are still available if you know where to look, and this weekend is your last chance to get them. Read more...

Dec. 20, 2013 — For years, scientists have assumed that if mercury is high and increasing in fish in the North American and European Arctic, the same is true of fish elsewhere in the Arctic. But a team of scientists from the U.S., Russia, and Canada has discovered that assumption is wrong in...

Dec. 20, 2013 — A team of material scientists, chemical engineers and physicists from the University of Pennsylvania has made another advance in their effort to use liquid crystals as a medium for assembling structures. In their earlier studies, the team produced patterns of "defects," useful...

Dec. 20, 2013 — New research using data from NASA's Van Allen Probes mission helps resolve decades of scientific uncertainty over the origin of ultra-relativistic electrons in Earth's near space environment, and is likely to influence our understanding of planetary magnetospheres throughout the...

Dec. 20, 2013 — When it doesn't show signs of stopping, most of us just mumble a few choice words and get out the snow shovel. Scientists, however, wonder where all that snow is coming from, particularly in pristine places like the Arctic. Raymond Shaw and his colleagues may have found an...

If you write a lot in notebooks, chances are you have a large pile of the things. Some notes are worth saving, but others you could do without after awhile. Wipebook allows you to take those temporary notes and wipe them away when you're done, just like a dry erase board. Read more...

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