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What is something useful I can learn right now in 10 minutes that would be useful for the rest of my life? Edit
Any trait, or small trick, or hack, anything, other than some trivia or fact. Something one can learn in 10 minutes or so (and perhaps with a bit of practice every day, can excel at it), but it must be useful for the person for the remainder of his or her life. Edit
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Upvote 16+ Comments Share (7) Thank Report Updated 27 Jul Raj Rai Suggest Bio Votes by Man Parvesh Singh Randhawa, Sushant Jamdar, Kasper Brandi Petersen, Francisco Lm, and 4332 more. How to speed-read. Following along with your finger is excellent if you want to read a little faster, but speed-reading requires a completely different set of mechanics. Brief background: I learned how to speed-read after some googling. I did this search because I had AP Bio and AP Econ summer reading due in about 12 hours, I hadn't even begun, and I did not want to spend 12 hours reading. I tried to find the page, and I'll add it in as an edit if I can find it. I learned to speed read because of my own laziness, but on a bad day I read at least 5 or 6 times as fast as I used to. Let's start with basics. Most people read word by word, and often say the words to themselves using the voices in their heads. Why do we do this? I fully blame kindergarten reading programs, which force children to read out loud both in class and at home. Who thought of this? Anyway, that is not at all the most effective way to read, in terms of both speed and comprehension. Therefore, the first thing you need to do is eliminate the voice inside your head. This took me at least 1 hour to do. Read with your eyes. ONLY. Whatever you do don't use the voice inside your head. As you learn to do this part go ahead and read word by word and go over the lines with your finger. Just work on eliminating the voice. Why? You cannot say words nearly as fast as you can comprehend them, believe it or not. Don't limit your reading speed to your speaking speed. This process really sucks, by the way. If you really believe that the voice in your mind is your enemy, you will probably be extremely frustrated for the first half hour of your journey. You may get better, then get a snack, then come back to continue your training and realize you are back where you started. Feelings of hopelessness will arise. Be a man/woman, and push on. A tip for those who are having trouble not subvocalizing is to hold your breath as you read. As Sean O'Connor pointed out, we breathe out as we read, even when we do so silently, since we're used to speaking the words aloud. A lot of the time, you even notice yourself making movements with your mouth, though it's closed. Hold your breath as you begin trying to eliminate subvocalization. Breathe in when you need to. (Don't force discomfort or anything) Once you feel that you've effectively eliminated that voice, try to return to normal breathing. Remember to use breathholding as a crutch whenever you are having trouble. It has no noticeable effect on your speed or comprehension, and it helps immensely when you are having a rough time. Once you are able to pretty much eliminate the voice inside your head, you have unlocked a huge amount of potential in terms of how fast you can now read. Since you're reading with your eyes, try reading two or three words at a time, and then move up once you get comfortable. Trust me, if you don't skip the voice elimination step, you will make progress fast. After a couple days I was reading pages out of an assigned novel within 15-20 seconds, the book was The Guide, and with full comprehension. I am not exaggerating. This is when I got really in the zone of course. Not having the initial tunnel vision can be frustrating but after about 10 minutes you get it down and you fly through pages. I was reading about a line at a time. One tip I have that helped me read more words at a time is to think about opening your eyes REALLY WIDE. Actively try to take in as many words at a time as you can and try to move along the lines as fast as you can while doing this. You'll build your own rhythm eventually. Hopefully this helps someone. It really helped me. I was able to finish estimated hour-long reading assignments in 10 minutes or less. I'm out practice right now, but I want to get back into it this summer so I can complete the books listed on the answer wiki for Books: What are some potentially life-changing books? P.S. Here's a link (thanks Mike Stenhouse) that teaches you a lot of about speedreading technique. The explanation it gives encompasses a lot of what I've said, and I found it pretty useful in cleaning up how I read and in increasing my reading ability generally: Scientific Speed Reading: How to Read 300% Faster in 20 Minutes Upvote 105+ Comments Share (83) Thank Report Updated 18 Aug Garrick Saito Suggest Bio Votes by Viola Yee, Faisal Khan, Sanjay Sabnani, Kaushik Chakraborty, and 964 more.
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This requires no practice. Have you ever wanted to chill a drink quickly, but you didn't want it diluted by melting ice? Use frozen grapes. If you dislike the sensation of grapes against your lips you can always discard them (or eat them, if you like).
Upvote 14+ Comments Share (3) Thank Report Updated 22 Mar, 2013 Cyndi Perlman Fink, Life is a banquet and most poor bastards are starving.
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Votes by William Chen, Anurag Bishnoi, Krishna Bindu, Pratik Lade, and 637 more. How to buy strawberries...
Smell them. If they smell like strawberries buy them, they will taste divine. If they look gorgeous but have no smell, they will have no taste. Simple and foolproof. If people give you a strange look because you're smelling the strawberries, let them not smell and buy the tasteless ones. Forgive me if this is already here, at my age I only have so much time left and 159 answers, oh my! Upvote 11+ Comments Share Thank Report Updated 23 Jul Dan Piponi, Mostly Human Votes by Sushant Jamdar, Mark Barton, Elliott Hobbs, Derek Lui, and 1618 more. Take a whole number and add up its digits. If the result has more than one digit, add all of the digits again and keep doing this until you have one digit. Call the result the RSOD, the Reduced Sum Of Digits. For example to get the RSOD of 32987 add 3+2+9+8+7 to get 29. Now add 2+9 to get 11. Now add 1+1 to get 2. So the RSOD is 2. Here's why this is useful. If you add two numbers, the RSOD of the result is the RSOD of the sums of the RSODs. This means you can check any addition by checking single digit RSODs. For example consider this calculation 132+991 = 1223 The RSOD of 132 is 6.
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The RSOD of 991 is 1. So we expect the RSOD of the answer to be 7. So let's check. RSOD of 1223 is 1+2+2+3 = 8. It's not 7. So now we know that the original calculation was wrong. But that's not all. It works for multiplication too. But even that's not all, it works for subtraction too. There's a slight catch because you might need to subtract a bigger RSOD from a smaller one. But there's a trick. If this is going to happen, just add 9 to the smaller one. It'll still give the correct result. But even that still isn't all. It'll work for any exact decimal calculation whether or not they are whole numbers. For example consider 14.32 32.98 = 472.2736 RSOD 14.32 = 1 RSOD 32.98 = 4 RSOD 472.2736 = 4 = 1 4 The original multiplication was correct so the RSODs multiply correctly. (It works for exact division too but rather than give the rule for that I suggest looking at divisions as multiplications and use the method for multiplications.) Even with a calculator on every phone I still find this useful again and again. Update: I think I omitted to mention that an RSOD of 9 should be treated exactly like a RSOD of 0. So if you get a 9 anywhere in the process, just replace it with zero. Upvote 22+ Comments Share (18) Thank Report Updated 8 Aug Carlos J. Amezquita, Change your thoughts and you'll change your world.
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Votes by Man Parvesh Singh Randhawa, Brigitte Novabos, Abhiram Chivukula, George Mills, and 726 more. You can learn the art of packing: Do you have this problem?
Follow this instructions (click on image to enlarge)
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Watch the demo:
. This video explain the same method with some additional tricks: .
Bon Voyage! :) Sources: Leisure / Business Travel Packing List - redoxx.com Upvote 9+ Comments Share (26) Thank Report Updated 10 Dec Sumit Kushwaha Suggest Bio Votes by Sushant Jamdar, Kiran Rahul, Mangesh Urankar, Gigi Tse, and 753 more. well it is from 9gag but worth sharing: How to fold earphones.
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Upvote 15+ Comments Share (17) Thank Report 24 Mar, 2013 Neeraj Jagwani, Capricious Votes by Saleema Firu, Deepesh Matholia, R Praveen Kumar, Rahul Gupta, and 264 more. Rub a Walnut on damaged wooden furniture to cover up dings.
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Shower head cleaner: 1/3 cup baking soda, 1 cup white vinegar, 1 plastic bag & 1
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twisty tie. Leave it for a night. All the deposits will be cleaned out.
Instead of using extra laundry detergent to pre-treat, instead turn to your old school friend - white chalk. Simply rub onto greasy stains and the chalk powder will absorb the grease, making the stain easily removable by the laundry soap in the wash.
Upvote 4 Comments Share (2) Thank Report Updated 7 Jun, 2013 Himanshu Yadav, Life is what goes by when we are busy making other plans. Votes by Sushant Jamdar, Jahnavi Srivastava, Aaron McDaniel, Niharika Verma, and 1888 more. Just came across this on Quora: Set your smartphone to Airplane Mode before you charge it. The battery will recharge twice as fast! It'll just take a shower and a coffee to be fully loaded!
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I just tested it on my iPhone, but it should work with all the phones with 'Airplane Mode' I guess. It's quite simple actually. Your phone charges much much faster (for obvious reasons) if you switch it off. But considering no one likes to go through that pain of switching on and off your mobiles these days, Airplane Mode becomes your saviour if you're running short on time!
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Thank Benjamin Nick for this. Upvote 13+ Comments Share (29) Thank Report Updated 16 Jun, 2013 Tiana Clark, 13 year old. Votes by Dave Larsen, Ricky Winata, Sudarshan Singh Chauhan, Haani Niyaz, and 530 more.
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The Socratic method.
Why the Socratic method you ask? The Socratic method was named after the classical Greek philosopher Socrates and introduced in the 4th century BC Socratic dialogue . It has common applications in law school, teaching, psychotherapy, and human management resources and training. People in those industries and the layman alike can use it to: Build stronger beliefs in arguments, and eliminate misshapen or broken ones. Point out fallacies or flaws in thinking. Clarify feelings or insights about personal actions. Plan out the main train of thought in lessons. Test the logical foundation of any argument out there. Here are the basics: 1. Locate the main argument in a statement or a statement that sums up an argument. In other words, what is the defining argument that sums up a particular statement? Ask your opponent to sum up their argument if you're stuck on step 1. Socrates asked fellow people questions like: ''What is justice?'' or ''What is k nowledge?''. He then let or asked them to make declarative statements like: ''Justice is x because of y.'' 2. Investigate the implications of their argument. Assume that their argument is false and find an example or scenario to prove that the argument is flawed in some way. Say someone is trying to prove that a particular car is green. It seems like common sense at first, but then, using the Socratic method, you can come up with a counter argument to prove the limits of the argument like: ''Is the car still green to a blind person?'' If they say no, then proceed to step 3. If they say yes, ask: ''Why isn't it pink , blue, or purple?'' or ''If they can't see, then what mak es the car green?'' The most important thing is to back your counter argument up with scenarios and examples when they try to defend their own argument. 3. Change their initial argument and take the exception into account. Once you have came up with a reasonable argument to disprove theirs, change their argument so it takes the new argument into account. So change the original argument ''The car is green'' to an agreeable position like: ''It's green to those who can see.''
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4. Attack the new argument with another question. Ask your opponent: ''If you agree that it's green to those who can see, then is it green to other animals who can see?'' Eventually, you will possibly come to a conclusion which your opponent agrees with but completely contradicts their first argument. The fun of the Socratic method is you have the potential to generate an infinite amount of questions, and an infinite amount of discussions. 5. Practice. Obviously, you're probably not going to topple the debate club leader in one go. It should take about 5-10 minutes to learn, but several weeks to months if you want to become a well-versed expert in the field of debate, including the Socratic method. But as Socrates said, If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all. So start off small like I did by using the Socratic method in daily life discussions with family and friends, and work your way up to more complex arguments in topics that you're highly interested in or enjoy. Here's a useful link to get you started on becoming better at practicing a skill: The Only Way to Become Amazingly Great at Something Here's a handy example: Teacher: ''Student, what is goodness?'' Student: ''Teacher, goodness is when you give something to some one else.'' Teacher: ''Is it good to give someone a gun so they can murder someone else?'' ''Is it good if you give someones password to someone else without their k nowledge?'' ''Is it good if you give someone a pack age containing a wrapped up bomb?'' Student: ''Obviously not.'' Teacher: ''So it's good to give something to some one else, provided that what they give will not harm themselves, or other people.'' Student: ''Certainly.'' Teacher: ''If you agree that giving someone something to harm themselves or others is not good, then what about giving a poor farmer a tool to harm a chick en for a short time and k ill it, in order to benefit his starving family? Student: ''I agree that it's good for the family but not the chick en.'' Teacher: ''Yes, but you contradicted yourself when you said giving someone something to harm someone else is not good, because you clearly agreed that it's good in another application.'' Here's a descriptive introduction to Socrates and the Socratic method:
Sources and further reading: Socratic method
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Socratic Method & Scientific Method How to Argue Using the Socratic Method Use the Socratic Method to Easily Win Arguments Socratic Teaching Upvote 12+ Comments Share (12) Thank Report 19 Jul Tzuwei Chen, Web Developer Votes by Faisal Khan, Marco Witzmann, Dhruv Motwani, Ashray Adappa, and 745 more. Folding a t-shirt within seconds. How to Fold a T-Shirt, Japanese Style
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Answered in seven minutes. Upvote 11+ Comments Share (6) Thank Report Updated 9 Apr, 2013 Leo Peo, nothing till now Votes by Zubin Priyansh, Tanvi Jadhav, Man Parvesh Singh Randhawa, Rudra Ramanathan, and 1466 more. It will take 15 minutes but will be worth it
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source-http://9gag.com/gag/3968335 Upvote 28+ Comments Share (30) Thank Report Updated 29 Mar, 2013 Jatin Batra, dcEEite Votes by A C Srinivasan Sharma, Thyag Sundaramoorthy, Willie Aniebiet, Bhuvi Jain, and 266 more.
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Source-Page on Cheezburger 16 Ways to Exploit Cheat Codes You Didn't Know Your Body Had Upvote 1 Comment Share (6) Thank Report Updated 8 Oct Tricia Hosein, Serendipity Votes by Garrick Saito, Pat Burns, Megha Bansal, Gautam Ganesh, and 2188 more. Place T-shirts in drawer vertically instead of laying them flat. Easier to find and so much more added room!
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This works perfectly and came in handy this weekend when I wore my favorite jeans that has a zipper that refuses to stay up.
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Karen Opas, Aspiring surfer and clumsy typist Votes by Tom Byron, Nicki Bindewald, Faisal Khan, Maanas Agarwal, and 1412 more. How to tell if you are about to buy a juicy orange or grapefruit, no matter what the skin looks like: Pick up the orange or grapefruit. If it feels light, it's not juicy and will taste rather woody. Go through the bin picking the ones that feel heaviest compared to oranges or grapefruits of a similar size. They'll be the tastiest ones.
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I was shown this trick by a very ancient and rather irritable gentleman when I was in my early 20's. He literally slapped the orange I was about to bag out of my hand and explained his system. Thanks to him, I've enjoyed decades of juicy oranges and grapefruits. Upvote 14+ Comments Share (7) Thank Report 29 Mar, 2013 Peter Baskerville, Still figuring it out. Votes by Marc Bodnick, James H. Kelly, Garrick Saito, Sujoy Gupta, and 481 more. Learning the actual measurement of your span and your foot will help you whenever your need to measure something but don't have access to a ruler or tape measure. You can then measure anything by number of spans or feet (toe to heel). Then multiply the spans or feet by the known measurement to estimate fairly accurately the actual length, depth or breadth of things. Thanks to Bob Garrish for adding 'thumb to index tip' at full spread, and 'index to pinky' (bull horns symbol) as other measurements to learn.
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Other body parts you can use as units of measurement include:

The distance from the tip of the thumb to the first knuckle. Previously used to measure 1 inch or 2.54cm The distance from tip of nose to end of your thumb with your arm outstretched.
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Previously used to measure a yard or 36 inches or 91.44cm. Used by ancient cloth merchants. The length from the point of your bent elbow to your middle fingertip. Previously used to measure a cubit or 18 inches or 46 cm. Used by Noah in building the ark and the Egyptians to build the pyramids. The length of rope held between two hands with the arms outstretched. Previously used to measure a fathom of 72 inches or 183cm. Used by sailors. The length of a single step from the heel on one foot to the heal of the other. Modern terminology has adopted the ancient Roman term of a pace, measuring around 30 inches or 760 mm. However, ancient Roman measurement for a pace was actually a double-pace or passus and was nominally the measure of a full stride from the position of the heel when it is raised from the ground to the point the same heel is set down again at the end of the step, being about 58.1 inches or 1.48 metres. Upvote 14+ Comments Share (2) Thank Report Updated 31 Mar, 2013 Mohamed Riyaz, Engage yourself! Votes by Man Parvesh Singh Randhawa, Hamza Saleem Ahmed, Ishaan Dube, Shobhan Suri, and 461 more.
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... (more) Upvote 6 Comments Share (14) Thank Report 31 Oct Prosenjit Bhattacharya, Yuppie | Will answer all A2As | Upvotes are appreciated Votes by Krishna Siddarth, Surya Ahuja, Shalabh Gupta, Neeraj Jagwani, and 250 more. How to learn Pythagorean triplets? 1. If the number is odd, square it and then divide by 2. The resulting number will be in the form of x.50. The other two numbers in the Pythagorean triplet will be x and x+1. Eg. Number 3. Square of 3 = 9. 9/2 = 4.50. The other numbers are 4 and 5 Lets take another example. Number 37. Square of 37 = 1369. 1369/2 = 684.50. The other numbers forming the Pythagorean triplet are 684 and 685. 2. If the number is even, halve it and then square it. The resulting number will be in the form of y(say). The other two numbers in the Pythagorean triplet will be y-1 and y+1. Eg. Number 4. Half of 4=2. Square of 2=4. The others numbers: 4-1 and 4+1, i.e 3 and 5 Another example. Number 18. Half of 18=9. Square of 9=81. The other two numbers forming the Pythagorean triplet are 80 and 82 In this way, you can now k now infinite Pythagorean triplets!!
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Chetan Bhatsange, IIT, Drawing, Photography, Careless, procrastinator? o.O
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Upvote 9+ Comments Share (7) Thank Report 4 Sep Ankit Srivastav, Woke up in the morning once. Its Horrible. Even sun is in the wrong place. Votes by Puneeth Kumar, Rishabh Baldi, Aishwarya Sahu, Atul Kalantri, and 786 more.
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Indian youth mostly use English as their preferred language of communication and hence often get confused when asked for direction in Hindi. Here's a quick trick to learn. Join the tip of your index finger and thumb to form a small 'o', and keep all other fingers straight. When you use your LEFT hand, it forms a small 'b', which would mean . Left Hand >> [baaye]
And, when you use your RIGHT hand, it forms a small 'd', which would mean . Right Hand >> ( ) [dhaaye]
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Hope this trick comes handy to you all. Upvote 39+ Comments Share (4) Thank Report Updated 25 Jul Aashish Barnwal, Programmer. Learner. Blogger. Tech enthusiast. An optimist. Quoran # 5252224 Votes by Gwen Sawchuk, Krishna Bindu, Sneh Lata, Surya Ahuja, and 92 more. Learn to Control your anger before it Controls you! Anger when, gets out of control and turns destructive, it can lead to problemsproblems at work, in your personal relationships, and in the overall quality of your life. 1. Take a break as soon as you recognize that you're angry. Stop what you're doing, get away from whatever is irritating you, and just take a breather. Getting away from whatever is upsetting you will make it infinitely easier to calm down. Try it out in these situations
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If you're experiencing road rage, pull over on a side road and turn off the car. If you're angry at work, go to to a room or step outside for a moment. If you drive to work, consider sitting in your car so that you're in a space you own. If you're upset at home, go to a single-occupancy space (such as the bathroom) or for a walk. If you're experiencing anger in an unfamiliar place, don't just wander off by yourself. Tell whoever you're with that you need a short mental vacation, and ask that he or she stand a few extra paces away from you. Close your eyes
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and try to imagine yourself somewhere peaceful. 2. Breathe deeply. If your heart hammers with rage, slow it down by controlling your breathing. Count to three as you inhale, hold the breath in your lungs for three more seconds, and count to three again as you exhale. Focus only on the numbers as you do this, and refuse to think about whatever is angering you. Repeat as many times as necessary.
3. Go to a "happy place". If you're still having a difficult time calming down, imagine yourself in a scene you find incredibly relaxing. It could be your childhood backyard, a quiet forest, a solitary island - whatever locale makes you feel at home and peaceful. Focus on imagining every detail of this place: the light, the noises, the temperature, the weather, the smells. Keep dwelling on your happy place until you feel completely immersed in it, and hang out there for a few minutes or until you feel calm.
4. And still if it doesn't work, remember the best time you have spend,remember every happy situation possible if you can. It can be with your mother, friends, or your partner.Try to bring a smile on your face by remembering such incidents. 5. Practice positive self-talk. When you're ready, "discuss" the situation with yourself in positive and relieving terms. For example, if you experience road rage, you could try: "That guy almost sideswiped me, but maybe he was experiencing an emergency and I'll probably never have to see him again. I feel lucky that I'm alive and my car is unscratched. I'm fortunate that I can still drive. I can continue to be calm and focused when I get back on the road."
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If you find a form of positive self-talk that really works for you, make it a mantra. Repeat it to yourself as many times as you need to in order to return to the right frame of mind. 6. Ask for the support of someone you trust. If you're still upset, sharing your concerns with a close friend or confidant might help.
Clearly express what you want from the other person. If you just want a sounding board, state at the beginning that you don't want help or advice, just sympathy. If you're looking for a solution, let the other person know. Set a time limit. Give yourself a set amount of time to vent about what's upsetting you, and stick to it - when time is up, your rant is over. This will help you move on instead of dwelling on the situation endlessly. 7. Try to see some humor in what angered you. After you've calmed down and established that you're ready to get over the incident, try to see the lighter side. Casting the incident in a humorous light can help you maintain positivity and avoid getting angry over the same thing next time.
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Reference: How to Control Anger Upvote 2 Comments Share (8) Thank Report Updated 27 Aug Pranav Reddy, Engineer Votes by Garrick Saito, Shaun Moshasha, Suren Makkar, Siddhartha Gupta, and 1094 more. I never knew the right way to eat chicken wings before this.
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Upvote 21+ Comments Share (7) Thank Report 21 Mar, 2013 Jeff Harris, PM on Google Glass Votes by Carlos J. Amezquita, Sidharth Nayak, Deepak Goel, Mayank Singh Shishodia, and 1888 more. Fuel gauge dashboards in many cars show an arrow indicating whether the fuel door is on the left or right side of the vehicle.
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Upvote 27+ Comments Share (5) Thank Report Updated 4 Jun, 2013 Philip Liou, stud/ent Votes by Katarna Bhmov, Murali Duggineni, Jan Christian Meyer, Imran Visram, and 361 more. If you ever feel there's something in your eye, like dust, just do this: Look down, open your eyes wide, and keep blinking. Additionally, if the particle is in the extremities, move your eyeball in the opposite direction of where you feel the pain. So if you feel pain at the top, do the above steps but roll your eyeball to the bottom and keep blinking. Learned it from my teacher in first grade and works every time. Even when I'm wearing contacts. Upvote 8+ Comments Share (4) Thank Report 7 Apr, 2013 Vinay Minnu Suggest Bio Votes by Anoop Sacrezi, Sai Malleswar, Joe Wezorek, Devorah Firestone, and 69 more. Hope this will help you .
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Not only learn but can prepare it in 10 minutes .You can make it whenever you require. Upvote 2+ Comments Share Thank Report 2 Oct Vaibhav Agarwal Suggest Bio Votes by Loick Mller, Deborah Crawford, Sophe Sophendo, Aniket Samant, and 225 more. We Google daily. But there is a special art to it which I found out on stumbleupon.
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Upvote 2 Comments Share (7) Thank Report 10 Jul, 2013 Murali Duggineni, Eureka Votes by Faisal Khan, Talapatra Ashok Kumar, Goutham Richlair, Piyu Roy, and 72 more. If you have an aquarium, save the water each time you change it and water your house plants with it. Its full of nutrients and makes a great fertilizer. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 1 Apr, 2013 Gabriel Maestas, Mechanical Engineering student, avid reader, tutor
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1. Either/or Google normally searches for pages that contain all the words you type in the search box, but if you want pages that have one term or another (or both), use the OR operator -- or use the "|" symbol (pipe symbol) to save you a keystroke. dumb | little | man 2. Quotes If you want to search for an exact phrase, use quotes. "dumb little man" will only find that exact phrase. dumb "little man" will find pages that contain the word dumb and the exact phrase "little man". 3. Not If you don't want a term or phrase, use the "-" symbol. -dumb little man will return pages that contain "little" and "man" but that don't contain "dumb". 4. Similar terms Use the "~" symbol to return similar terms. ~dumb little man -dumb will get you pages that contain "funny little man" and "stupid little man" but not "dumb little man". 5. Wildcard The "*" symbol is a wildcard. This is useful if you're trying to find the lyrics to a song, but can't remember the exact lyrics. can't * me love lyrics will return the Beatles song you're looking for. It's also useful for finding stuff only in certain domains, such as educational information: cats *.edu 6. Advanced search If you can't remember any of these operators, you can always use Google's Advanced Search .
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7. Definitions Use the "define:" operator to get a quick definition. define:dumb will give you a whole host of definitions from different sources, with links. 8. Calculator One of the handiest uses of Google, type in a quick calculation in the search box and get an answer. It's faster than calling up your computer's calculator in most cases. Use the +, -, *, / symbols and parentheses to do a simple equation. (3 4/5 + 2 1/8)-(1 1/12)*2 9. Numrange This little-known feature searches for a range of numbers. For example, best books 2002..2007 will return lists of best books for each of the years from 2002 to 2007 (note the two periods between the two numbers). 10. Site-specific Use the "site:" operator to search only within a certain website. site:dumblittleman.com leo will search for the term "leo" only within this blog. 11. Backlinks The "link:" operator will find pages that link to a specific URL. You can use this not only for a main URL but even to a specific page. Not all links to an URL are listed, however. link:dumblittleman.com 12. Vertical search Instead of searching for a term across all pages on the web, search within a specialized field. Google has a number of specific searches, allowing you to search within blogs, news, books, and much more: Blog Search Book Search Scholar Catalogs Code Search Directory Finance Images Local/Maps News Patent Search Product Search Video 13. Local Search Search for anything in your city. Examples movies 94705 , Italian food 02138 14. Weather To see the weather for many U.S. and worldwide cities, type weather followed by the city and state, U.S. zip code, or city and country. weather San Francisco, CA 15. Unit converter Use Google for a quick conversion, from yards to meters for example, or different currency: 12 meters in yards 16. Types of numbers Google algorithms can recognize patterns in numbers you enter, so you can search for: Telephone area codes Vehicle ID number (US only) Federal Communications Commission (FCC) equipment numbers (US only) UPC codes Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) airplane registration number (US only) Patent numbers (US only). Example Patent 5123123 Even stock quotes (using the stock symbol) or a weather forecast regarding the next five days Package Tracking (UPS, Fedex, or USPS). Example: 1Z9999W99999999999 17. File types If you just want to search for .PDF files, or Word documents, or Excel
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spreadsheets, for example, use the "filetype:" operator. cats filetype:pdf 18. Location of term By default, Google searches for your term throughout a web page. But if you just want it to search certain locations, you can use operators such as "inurl:", "intitle:", "intext:", and "inanchor:". Those search for a term only within the URL, the title, the body text, and the anchor text (the text used to describe a link). inurl:funny 19. Related search To search for web pages that have similar content to a given site, type related: followed by the website address into the Google search box. related:www.cnn.com 20. answer to life the universe and everything Search for that phrase, in lower case, and Google will give you the answer!
Sources Dumb Little Man: 20 Tips for More Efficient Google Searches Google: Search Features Upvote 3 Comments Share (9) Thank Report 8 Aug Abbas Halai, o sole mio Votes by Garrick Saito, Cassidy Williams, Wayne Strider, Paula O'Reilly-Green, and 821 more. To easily convert from kilos to pounds, double it and then add ten percent. Example, 1) 73kg x 2 = 146 146 + 14.6 = 160.6 lbs
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2) 45kg x 2 = 90 90 + 9 = 99 lbs EDIT: As per request, a quick method to go from pounds to kilos is to halve and then minus ten percent, but this isn't as accurate as the method to convert from kilos to pounds and with larger numbers, you may be off by quite a few digits, but it should suffice for every day mental mathematics. Upvote 12+ Comments Share (6) Thank Report Updated 9 Jul, 2013 Trey Brisbane Suggest Bio Votes by Viola Yee, Ayush Yadav, Adila Papaya, Chaitanya Bishnoi, and 143 more. If you ever need to write up a document/documents filled with mathematical symbols (or any other special character that is difficult to insert into a document), here's a solution: 1. Insert all your required symbols just on an arbitrary line in the document, for easy access. 2. Open up the configuration for your word processor, and find the autocorrection/auto-replacement settings. 3. Add auto-correction rules for each of your symbols, assigning them a kind of 'command word' that can be easily typed. An example is "/pi" (no quotes), that would auto-correct to the actual Greek character. Now, after just a few minutes of setup, you can save yourself potentially hours of having to stop typing and use the mouse to navigate menus, just to find a particular special character! :) Upvote 8+ Comments Share (1) Thank Report 18 Dec
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Dave Inch, Captain, B-767 Votes by Margaret Weiss, Diana Creu, Naveen Kallepalli, Aarush Nandal, and 339 more. When using a hotel safe, put a single shoe of the pair you plan to use upon departure in the safe. That way you won't forget to remove your valuables before you leave. Upvote 5+ Comments Share Thank Report 26 Dec Rahul Ramakrishna, life hacker Votes by Abhishek Kulkarni, Sophe Sophendo, Jeyanthan Inbasekaran, Abhishek Dhar, and 160 more. How to transform your hoodie into a computer sleeve
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Upvote 1 Comment Share (3) Thank Report 9 Jul, 2013 Vinayak Pathak, well educated. Votes by Rasikh Jawaid, Fajar Marta, Lit Wakefield, Sofia Zee, and 273 more. The following keyboard shortcuts (perhaps these are common knowledge by now; but I really liked these when I first discovered them): 1. In Firefox/Chrome/Safari (don't know about IE), you can take the cursor to the URL bar by typing Ctrl+L. 2. In the same browsers, you can take the cursor to the google search bar by typing Ctrl+k. 3. CTRL+tab to change to next tab. Ctrl+Shift+Tab for the previous tab. Actually all the effects of "tab" key can be reversed by "shift+tab" 4. In most text editors (including the web based ones, such as Gmail compose), you can delete one entire word by pressing Ctrl+Backspace or Ctrl+Delete. 5. In most text editors, while moving the cursor using the arrow keys, you can skip entire words with Ctrl+Rightarrow and Ctrl+Leftarrow. And the following for Windows computers (thanks to Fajar Marta for suggesting these):
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5. Windows + D to minimize all windows. 6. Windows + E to open windows explorer. 7. Windows + L to lock the computer Upvote 15+ Comments Share (2) Thank Report Updated 5 Aug Satya Praneeth Repaka Suggest Bio Votes by Diane Thomas, Aarush Nandal, Madhumitha Rajakumar, Navin Uttam, and 92 more. Some keyboard shortcuts that might be useful: Win+P - for projector settings Win+D - Minimize everything and go to desktop Win+E - Open explorer (My computer) Win+L - Lock screen Win+(Spacebar and hold it) - you can get a glimpse of your desktop..can be useful while you want to attach a file which is on desktop but you forgot the name of it. Win+(1,2,3,4, etc..) - To open the pinned shortcuts on the taskbar. Win+X - you will get the toggle options for your laptop (ex: brightness, volume, wifi etc.) Ctrl+Shift+N - Create New folder F2 on a folder to rename it. Windows+ Left arrow key - To align the current window to the left Windows+ Right arrow key - To align the current window to the right This one is for people whose Windows button is spoilt: hit ctrl+esc Google chrome: Ctrl+W closes a tab Ctrl+Shift+N - New incognito window Ctrl+N - New window Ctrl+L or F6 - to change the URL Ctrl + T - New tab Ctrl + Shift + T - Re-opens last closed tab Ctrl+Shift+W - Closes all tabs of your chrome and closes chrome Upvote 2 Comments Share (1) Thank Report Updated 23 Sep Swami Nathan, BITS-Pilani, Goa, Sophomore,Mechanical Engineering ,Physics, Design,Robotics, Car Guy... Votes by Man Parvesh Singh Randhawa, Fajar Marta, Sophe Sophendo, Kallul Hazarika, and 916 more. Source: Hack Your Brain: Polyphasic Sleep Is your sleeping pattern irregular ( or rather unconventional)? Want to sleep less? Here is one of the greatest sleep hack... Scientists really dont know much about our sleeping patterns, which is a shame because we spend about a third of our lives sleeping. There is no defined biological reason why we sleep so much. In fact, you could go so far as to say its a major disadvantage in our evolutionary process. Imagine how much more you could accomplish in your life by sleeping less.
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You may know that sleep is divided into five stages. Polyphasic sleep concentrates on the fifth and most important stage of sleep, rapid eye movement (REM.) This is the most beneficial stage of sleep; it is when the brain is most active and is when dreaming occurs. REM is the only stage of sleep that is actually required to survive and function normally. The interesting part of all this is that you only spend 1 to 2 hours in this stage of sleep every night. The other 6 or so hours spent asleep every night are seemingly wasted. Polyphasic sleep cycles basically cut out the other useless phases, giving you an additional 4 to 6 hours of time awake.
The trick involves tricking your brain into immediately entering the REM stage of sleep, skipping the other four. Everyone has experienced this at some point in their life. If youve gone a long period of time without sleep, and take a nap, you will find that you immediately start dreaming. This happens because your body is trying to catch up on lost REM sleep. The premise of polyphasic sleep then, is to train your body to enter REM sleep at multiple set times during the day with short 20 minute naps. If you are a fan of lucid dreaming , you will enjoy this even more because you will pretty much automatically become lucid while you sleep, without trying, multiple times per day.
There are six different ways to accomplish this, which I will outline below. Monophasic Sleep This is the most common way that almost everyone sleeps. However, it is completely unnecessary and only popular because you have been raised to sleep this way and are now conditioned to it. It involves sleeping 8 hours, with 2 hours of total REM sleep.
Polyphasic Sleep Cycles This is where the fun starts. There are five commonly accepted polyphasic sleeping cycles, and none is better than the other. What you need to do is pick what works best with your schedule. The Uberman, for
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example, would not work for a 9-5 worker. The siesta might be more effective in that case. The five different cycles are listed in order of difficulty, with the Siesta being the easiest, and the Uberman being the hardest. The Siesta This sleep cycle is actually pretty common around the world in warmer countries such as Latin America, where the temperature is so hot during the middle of the day that people retire to take a short nap after lunch. It involves 6 hours of core sleep and one short 20-30 minute nap. You will find in these countries that most shops close during the early afternoon, as everyone is busy taking their siestas!
The Everyman (2 nap, 3 nap, 4 nap) The Everyman is basically like a climbing ladder that details how much many naps are required depending on how much core sleep you want to cut. Each nap shaves off an astounding hour and 40 minutes from your core sleeping time.
The Uberman The Uberman is only for the most hardcore polyphasic sleepers. It involves six evenly spread out naps every four hours and completely eliminates any core sleep you may have needed before. It is the most difficult cycle to get used to, but once accomplished, you sleep for two hours a night, freeing up the other twenty-two to do whatever you want.
So, ultimately your sleeping schedule can be one of the below:
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Important Things You Must Know Do NOT oversleep or skip naps. If you oversleep you WILL throw off the entire sche... (more) Upvote 24+ Comments Share (21) Thank Report Updated 29 Jul Asif Junaid, IIITian Votes by Dinesh Ravi, Pratikshit Sharma, Pankaj Talwar, Mayo Molnar, and 28 more. Useful keyboard shortcuts Close window/tab Windows: Ctrl+W Mac: Cmd+W Reopen closed tab Windows: Ctrl+ Shift+T Mac: Cmd+ Shift+T Cycle through browser tabs Windows: Ctrl+PageUp/PageDown Mac: Cmd+Opt+/ (Firefox and Chrome); Cmd+Shift+/ (Safari) Minimise/maximise window Windows: Alt+Space+N (minimise)/Alt+Space+X (maximise) Mac: Cmd+M/Cmd+L Minimise/maximise all Windows: Win+M Mac: Cmd+Alt+M Cycle through all open applications Windows: Win+Tab Mac: Cmd+Tab Rename file Windows: F2 Mac: Enter Find Windows: Ctrl+F Mac: Cmd+F Find and replace Windows: Ctrl+H Mac: Cmd+Shift+F Go to beginning or end Windows: Home/End Mac: Cmd+/ Move one word backward/forward Windows: Ctrl+/ Mac: Alt+B/F Go to address bar Windows: Alt+D Mac: Cmd+L Rotate screen orientation
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Windows: Ctrl+Alt+any arrow key Suggestions Pending Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 28 Aug Mohammad Zeeshan, Architecturist Constructionist Urbanist Votes by Bennett Beaudet, Rohit Sharma, Deepesh Matholia, Ben Mordecai, and 102 more. Peg system The Peg System is a mnemonic method for learning and remembering lists in an amazingly faster way. The idea is to associate the numbers with a 'Peg word' for which there are two common methods.
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You can add-in as many number-rhymes you want Like 11- Leaven 12- Shelve Shape peg
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Memorize the Rhyming peg or the Shape peg ( It will hardly take 5 minute and it's a one time task) You can also develop your own rhymes and shapes. Better Stick to one method for start. This is how it works You associate each item in the list with a previously learned "peg word" that represents the numerical position of the item. Here is an example for memorizing the zodiac in order with the 'Rhyme pegs'. Try to visualize the associations as you read along 1. Aries (Ram) 2. Taurus (Bull) 3. Gemini (Twins) 4. Cancer (Crab) 5. Leo (Lion) 6. Virgo (Virgin) 7. Libra (Scales) 8. Scorpio (Scorpion) 9. Sagittarius (Archer) 10. Capricorn (Goat) 12. Pisces (Fish) Bun Shoe Tree Door Hive Sticks Heaven Gate Line Hen Shelve A ram with a bun caught in its horns A bull in high heels Tweedledum and Tweedledee up a tree Closing a door against crab army. Bees attacking a lion :) A girl twirling batons Clouds in the shape of a set of scales A giant scorpion opening the Gate A Line created by shooting arrows Hen riding goats Pouring water over bread dough A shelf of fish heads
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Try to recall the zodiac in orders Once successfully done, Try to associate your peg system with any other list to feel the power of your visual memory. You can try this example. 1. Banana 2. laptop 3. Porsche 4. Tennis 5. Google 6. Lizard 7. Clock 8. Mustache 9. Rolls Royce 10. Typewriter
http://www.mindmagician.org/memp... Mnemonic peg system Upvote 1+ Comments Share (2) Thank Report 3 Jun, 2013 Faheem Merchant, Spatial Database Engineer | Humanitarian Logistician | Disaster Manager. Votes by Joan Hoffman, Simon Quick, Sudeep Kandel, Phanindra Reddy, and 219 more. Next time you are on the phone and trying to give your name, address or some other text to the person on the line who can't seem to understand what you are saying or comprehend it, use the phonetic alphabet to spell it out. Very easy to memorize. A is Alpha B is Bravo C is Charlie D is Delta E is Echo F is Foxtrot G is Golf H is Hotel I is India
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J is Juliet K is Kilo L is Lima M is Mike N is November O is Oscar P is Papa Q is Quebec R is Romeo S is Sierra T is Tango U is Uniform V is Victor W is Whiskey X is Xray Y is Yankee Z is Zulu BONUS: You may be wondering why you should use these over some other combination of words? The final choice of code words for the letters of the alphabet and for the digits was made after hundreds of thousands of comprehension tests involving 31 nationalities. The qualifying feature was the likelihood of a code word being understood in the context of others. For example, football has a higher chance of being understood than foxtrot in isolation, but foxtrot is superior in extended communication. Echo November Juliet Oscar Yankee. Upvote 12+ Comments Share (4) Thank Report 31 May, 2013 Frederic Haddad, Web Strategist at Coddict Inc. Internet Marketing/Analysis aficionado. Votes by Sandhya Ramesh, Ameya Rane, Margaret Weiss, Gowtham Jaganathan, and 454 more. See what Google knows about you or your computer. Go to http://google.com/ads/preferences on your browser and it will open the advertisement profile that Google created for your browser on your computer, which is linked to you if you use that computer and browser.
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On the "Google Ads Across the Web" panel, you can see which gender Google
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guesses you are, which age he thinks you are, which languages he thinks you speak, and more importantly, what you are interested in! So click the "Edit" button near your interest and see what Google knows about your interests :) You'll be surprised at how much more Google knows about you and your interests, and now you know how the ads you see online are chosen to match your interests. Now go to your friends' computers and open that link with them and have fun! Upvote 16+ Comments Share (8) Thank Report 31 Dec Anita Sanz, psychologist Votes by Charanya Kannan, Bill Lee, Wishlist Jones, Sarthak Pranit, and 222 more. How to never have road rage again: No matter what the person on the road is doing that is inspiring anger in you, come up with a story to explain their behavior that you would find plausible and forgivable. Extra points for creativity. Example: The person in front of you is driving 20 miles slower than necessary. Imagine they are trying to get a wedding cake to the reception in perfect condition. They know they are creating a slowdown, but there is nothing they can do about it. They are so sorry they are creating a hazard unintentionally, but this cake is really, really important for this special day. Example: A guy cuts you off speeding crazily on the road. Imagine their wife is pregnant in the back seat and they are trying to get to the nearest hospital before she gives birth. He normally doesn't behave this way and he doesn't mean any harm. The end result of coming up with creative stories like this is that you stop going into fight-or-flight physiologically, thinking you are being threatened by people who don't care about your life or safety. Once you can identify with others as imperfect human beings who do not mean you harm, you can relax, stay calm, and FIDO: Forget It and Drive On. Upvote 18+ Comments Share (2) Thank Report 21 May, 2013 Saikat Kumar Dey, searching for a short bio Votes by Akashdeep Saluja, Amit Sarda, Leigh Taylor, Rohan Wadhwa, and 207 more.
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Let's add 1 hr and 35 minutes and 3 hr 55 minutes together. What you do is this: make the 1 hr 35 minutes into one number, which will give us 135 and do the same for the other number, 3 hours 55 minutes, giving us 355 Now you want to add these two numbers together: 135 355 ____ 490 So we now have a sub total of 490. What you need to do to this and all sub totals is add the time constant of 40. No matter what the hours and minutes are, just add the 40 time constant to the sub total. 490 + 40 = 530 so we can now see our answer is 5 hrs and 30 minutes! Source: Memorymentor Upvote 4+ Comments Share (3) Thank Report 10 Jul, 2013 Manishankar Rajasekaran Suggest Bio Votes by Deepanshu Chug, Margaret Weiss, Soumendra Kumar, James H. Kelly, and 83 more. This Math Trick is Helped me a lot during competitive exams:-)
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To Square a number which ends with 5 use this below technique !! Let's take 75 as example!! For all these numbers the last two digits will always be 25. (5 ^2 = 25) Now comes the trick, just multiply the number before 5 with the next immediate number. In our case 7* 8 = 56 And The answer is 5625 !! Works like a Charm!! It will be quite useful when you use it to find squares of number (which ends with 5 ) up to three digits. P.S. It is not a limitation till 3 digits, It works but it will certainly be difficult to multiply 3 plus digit numbers !! Upvote 7+ Comments Share Thank Report 1 Jan Tom McGarry, NYer and engineer Votes by Jason Reyes, Abbas Halai, Shreedhar Hardikar, Agnivesh Patel, and 128 more. To avoid the sidewalk shuffle, do not look the approaching person in the eye. When two people approach each other from opposite directions on a sidewalk, there is often an awkward dance to avoid walking into each other. Each person moves in a direction which puts them on a direct collision course. Each person feels stupid and awkward that they keep moving into the other person's path. Eventually they avoid each other, but after much sheepish head nodding. To avoid this awkward confrontation do not look into the eye of the person approaching you. Keep on your path and they will know to avoid you because they are looking at you and they see your path. Upvote 8+ Comments Share (1) Thank Report 17 Apr, 2013 Besfort Ahmeti Suggest Bio Votes by Rob Norman, Venkatesh Kaulgud, Steve Black, Santiago Garza, and 78 more. . The elevator trick. In an elevator, if you want to go to a certain floor without stops, follow these steps: 1. Hold the "close door" button until the elevator door closes; keep holding. 2. When the door closes, press and hold the button of the floor you want to go to. 3. Hold both the "floor" and "close door" buttons until the elevator moves. 4. Let go and enjoy an uninterrupted journey to your floor. Bon voyage Upvote 3+ Comments Share Thank Report 28 Dec Abhishek Majumder, Genius (Maybe), Billionaire-Playboy (Definitely NOT), Philanthropist (Always). Votes by Hemanth Krishnan, Diego Cavalcanti, Suresh Babu T, Kiran Kuruvila, and 63 more. Attend the self-paced training on Power Searching with Google and learn cool ways to structure your search queries and get back exact and relevant answers. Here's the link: Inside Search Apart from the videos, there are slides with the same content, and you can easily skip through sections which you already know. The Activities after each section will make the concepts stick to your head and definitely make you more productive in your everyday surfing. I followed the course, joined the hangouts and after completing, got a certificate like the one below :
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I've shared the knowledge with many of my co-workers and they found it to be impressive and extremely useful! :-) Upvote 1+ Comments Share Thank Report 16 Sep Jay Bazzinotti, No one is perfect... but I am as close as you can get without a prescription ;-) I am a frustrated writer and storyteller. I love the quo... Votes by Salem Al-Mansoori, SriAnvesh Jakka, Danita Crouse, Bhavesh Aggarwal, and 58 more. If you have a leg cramp, simply reach down and pull all your toes up as far as they will go and it will pull the cramp out of your leg instantly. I have used this several times while swimming or if I get a painful cramp in my leg while I sleep. It's instantaneous and resolves the pain. You can reduce the pain if you get a cramp while running by standing up on your toes as far as possible, that way you don't have to remove your sneakers. Upvote 2+ Comments Share Thank Report 30 Jul David Liew, Long time student of self improvement Votes by Ameya Rane, Sai Sandeep, Sudip Ghosh, Diana Creu, and 89 more. Click on your middle mouse button/ mouse wheel to open a link in a new tab. A lot of people usually right click on the link, and then select "Open link in a new tab". Pressing your mouse wheel is much faster, and the time you save will be immense when you extrapolate it over the countless pages you browse. [Thanks to Abhyudaya Srinet for his added tip: In case you don't have a middle button press ctrl and click] Upvote 8+ Comments Share Thank Report 9 Dec Saket Karajagi Suggest Bio Votes by Utkarsh Srivastava, Andy Tough, Faqih Aqili, Flora Vieira Balieiro, and 221 more. I'm hoping the 3-minute video below will help people save countless hours on worrying about how they look.
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Upvote 10+ Comments Share (6) Thank Report 17 Apr, 2013 Swaroop Kuse Suggest Bio Votes by Teno Fournet, Anbu Subramanian, Carole Zavala, Miklos Horvath, and 69 more. How to read Chinese, TED Talk. Shao gives a 5 minutes talk on recognizing the simplest of the Chinese characters.
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Upvote 2+ Comments Share (2) Thank Report 9 Dec Ashwin Gopinath, Confused and ... Votes by Jol Ginis, Jayghosh Khemka, Ankur Dixit, Jitin Nair, and 71 more. A friend shared this with me "If you are ever caught in an avalanche and find yourself surrounded by snow on all sides, before you start digging away like crazy in a random direction, first, make some space in the snow and spit. Now, dig furiously in the opposite direction in which the spit falls" Upvote 6+ Comments Share Thank Report 25 Jul Abhiroop Medhekar, Consultant / Wantrepreneur Votes by Alejandro Bellogin, Devorah Firestone, Manik Jindal, Akshay Garg, and 132 more. Carrying suits while travelling has always been cumbersome. Packing it in your cabin sized suitcase invariably leaves wrinkle marks (wonder why they call it a "suitcase"). This often forces people to carry it separately in those flimsy bags along with the hanger. I used to avoid carrying suits altogether, until I came across this video. Learn John Chow's clever technique to "roll the suit" into a cabin sized suitcase! Trivia: I've heard that this technique is also used by Indian exporters while shipping custom made suits.
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Upvote 1 Comment Share Thank Report 19 Aug Sandhya Ramesh, never content. Votes by Arvind Kumar, Udit Roy, Ankush Saxena, Shayon Sengupta, and 274 more. Simple Vedic Math For millennia, purportedly, ancient Hindus used simple and quick methods of performing a wide variety of complex calculations in mathematics. Vedic Math, however, was brought to attention(and many claim, invented by) by a Hindu scholar and mathematician, Bharati Krishna Tirthaji . Vedic Math is widely and mistakenly regarded as a system unto itself, whereas, it simply is a set of sixteen formulae that are strategies for various levels of mathematical computations(including imaginary numbers, calculus, and progressive series). Controversies or not, there is no denying that the method is mighty useful and extremely undervalued. For those who aren't aware already, I'm going to show five simple things that you could do with Vedic Math that will be useful to you every time you do a little bit of math, for your whole life.
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1. Subtraction from powers of ten When subtracting a number from a power of ten(10, 100, 1000 etc.), Subtract all the digits of the number from nine except for the last. Subtract the last from ten. For eg., you want to perform 1000 - 564. You subtract 5 and 6 from 9, and 4 from 10.
You avoid the whole borrow-from step completely, saving you a ton of time. Of course, it's just regular math that you do anyway, but approach differently. 2. Squaring numbers close to powers of ten For example, the square of the number 8. First find its nearest power of ten. (10) Find its difference from the base (here, 10-8= 2). Subtract the same difference to the number. (8 - 2 = 6) <-- first digit Square the difference( square 2 = 4) <-- second digit As you can see, the answer is 64. The same can be done for numbers above a base of ten.
We can apply this formula to multiples of ten, like 10, 20, 30, 40, 100, 150, 250 etc. But for the purposes of this answer, we will not focus on them because we're running out of the allotted ten minutes. 3. Squaring multiples of five
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The formula used here translates to by one more than the previous one. The same formula is used for calculating vulgar fractions with denominators ending with 9, and linear equations. Let us square 25 in this example: The last two digits are always 5 ^ 2 = 25. Apply by one more than the previous one. Here, the previous digit is 2. One more than that is 3. The "by" in this formula is used for multiplication. Therefore, you multiply 2 with 2+1=3. So, 2x3=6. Append the result of the formula before the original number. Therefore, you get 625. For a three digit number, you would consider the first two digits as the "previous number". Therefore, 135 ^ 2 = 13 x 14 || 25 = 18225 Which brings us to, 4. Multiplication of numbers close to powers of ten How many times have you encountered huge numbers starting with a '9' that you wished you could just multiply in seconds? Fortunately, you will know now. Let us consider the example of 96 x 92. Write the numbers one below the other Calculate their deficiency from the nearest power of ten(100, in this case) and write the difference beside each number. (100-96=4, 100-92=8) Subtract crosswise, i.e, subtract from one number the difference from power of ten of another. (92 - 4) The answer would be the same for both numbers. Write that down as the left part of the product. Multiply the differences. This is the right part of the product. Append the numbers. Here's an image demonstrating the same example:
You could apply this formula for any lenght of numbers. Only bear in mind that the number of digits of each product is close to the base of ten(one digit if 10, 2 digits if 100, and so on). You will be surprised at how fast you can calculate products of large numbers. 9998 x 9999? No problem! (9998-1) || (1x2) = 9997||0002 The system is a little complicated for numbers near other bases of ten, like 20 or 60. ... (more) Upvote 13+ Comments Share (13) Thank Report 5 May, 2013 Pek Pongpaet, Creator of Pictacular.co, Time Magazine Best 50 Websites of 2013, Product/UX Advisor to SV Startups Votes by Namia Sarmad, Alex Liu, Albert Vazquez, James Ee, and 186 more. This takes less than 10 minutes and will change your life. If you want something, learn to ask for it. The worst that can happen is a no, in which case you'll be no better off than when you started. This can apply to asking for a raise, asking someone out on a date, asking for advice and asking for help. I think people can be too embarrassed about asking or fear the imagined consequences of rejection or a no that they do not ask enough.
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But don't take it from me, take it from this guy Steve Jobs - you might have heard of him.
! Upvote 8+ Comments Share (1) Thank Report Updated 13 Apr, 2013 Mack McConnell, Music, Tech, Bubbles, Lazers, etc... Votes by Carole Zavala, Miklos Horvath, Margaret Weiss, Tom Byron, and 116 more. This is apparently how Japanese students learn to multiply big numbers in school. Rather than doing a bunch of small multiplications, inserting placeholders and adding columns together (like we're taught in the US), this method is more visual and only requires addition.
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Upvote 5 Comments Share (2) Thank Report 29 Dec Adam Goldman, Self pinger Votes by Anil Chouhan, Karl Mller, Jayanti Bhanushali, Ashish Varma, and 113 more. Establish and maintain rapport. One of the keys of life. 1. Mirror body language 2. Match tone of voice and rate of speech 3. Echo back the other person's words 4. Listen first to the other person's model of the world, and build THEIR model in YOUR mind BEFORE speaking back. Practice 1 minute a day with 1-5 diff. people. In one month your social skills will SKYROCKET. Upvote 5+ Comments Share (2) Thank Report 15 Dec Deepak Bhavi, Thirsty for knowledge Votes by Riyad Alhaya, Srihari Radhakrishnan, Himanshu Yadav, Akshay
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Rajpurohit, and 327 more. While analyzing a problem, most people write the ideas that pop up in their head serially as a list on paper/whiteboard. By writing the ideas as a list, you have unknowingly assigned a serial structure to the problem and eliminated possibilities that might arise from the interaction of individual ideas. Instead, write the ideas randomly in different spaces of the page/whiteboard. When done, take a 50,000 feet view and look for synergies between ideas. This technique aids big picture thinking and leads to better problem solutions. Upvote 4+ Comments Share Thank Report Updated 22 May, 2013 Shilpa Sharma, Student, Introvert, Boring. Votes by Ramanish Singh, Mark Savchuk, Alok Pandey, Jack Ake, and 58 more. 1. Two bowls, one Microwave.
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Votes by Justin Jones, Marisa Kota, Gowtham Jaganathan, Cassidy Williams, and 202 more. Well, not sure if this would be useful for the rest of your life but it has been super useful for me in the past months. It's this one sweet little add-in for Chrome called "Hola-the Unblocker"
Install it then you can switch accessing the Internet from the US to UK to Canada, etc. You can start to access many different things. For Netflix, your collection would change. There's are a lot of movies that only Canadians have that the Americans can't see on Netflix. For all you Breaking Bad (TV series)'s fans, the final season episodes will be streamed on Netflix UK right after the episode aired in the U.S. Cheers! :) Upvote 9+ Comments Share (1) Thank Report 19 Aug Sugandha Banga, Life is okay. I just want to die smiling. Votes by Samir Trivedi, Alexander Joo, Bobby Lupi, James Tse, and 250 more. Okay, I am no Yoga expert, not even a daily practitioner. A better way to say that would be: I am as much an expert at Yoga as Russel Peters is at making non-racist jokes. (Need I say more?) But since you are primarily looking for an easy & quick to learn "something useful", I am sure this deserves to be an answer here. 10 minutes? Much less, it will most probably take you much lesser time to learn and can turn out to be extremely beneficial if practiced regularly and correctly. I wonder if you have heard about Pranayama an ancient yogic practice primarily concerned with breath control. Now, there are different pranayams with different benefits to offer, but the one I want to recommend here is: Anulom Vilom / Alternate Nostril Breathing. Why only this? Because it is definitely the easiest to learn and practice, simplest to
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understand, and yet one of the most beneficial ones. And I say this from personal experience. I will just introduce the basics (since that is all I know). The web has a pretty good amount of information available in case someone is interested in knowing more. What does it look like?
What is the procedure? 1. Sit up straight and close your eyes. 2. Form this mudra (gesture) with your right hand: Keep the middle finger and the index finger straight and place them in the middle of your forehead (that's where the ajya chak ra is). Close your right nostril with the thumb. 3. With the right nostril blocked, exhale through the left nostril. 4. Inhale back through the left nostril itself. 5. Now, close the left nostril with the ring finger and the little finger and exhale through the right nostril. 6. Inhale back through the right nostril. 7. Loop. Benefits? Each one adds one. A Google search on "benefits of anulom-vilom" will lead you to hundreds of pages and articles. Everywhere you will find a new point, primarily because pranayams affect each one differently and have been seen to cure (or pace the treatment of) diseases ranging from common-cold to cancer (since it essentially enhances the oxygen intakewhich is a BIG benefit in itself). This I speak from what I have seen and heard people say about themselves on television. Here are some references that should be convincing. To know more, Google is waiting for you. :) Anulom Vilom and Ekapadasana can prove to be an effective alternative modality for treating children with ADHD Effect of anulom vilom and bhasrika on vital capacity and maximal ventilatory volume on Academicjournals.org EEG signal analysis during anulom-vilom Alternate nostril breathing (ANB) pryma, also known as Nadisuddhi pryma, is one of the beneficial pryma for cardiopulmonary functions. Regular practice of ANB (Nadisuddhi) increases parasympathetic activity and lowers systolic blood pressure as well as respiratory rate.[30] In fact there are a number of studies indicating that pranayama causes changes in the cardiorespiratory system including a lowering of blood pressure and of heart rate. [31] [32] [33] (Wiki) All blood vessels and veins are cleansed by the practise of Anulom-Vilom
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Pranayam. The energy in the body starts flowing upwards. It cures diseases of the muscular system and is beneficial in arthritis, flatulence and varicose veins, acidity and sinusitis. Your thinking becomes positive and you learn to overcome tension, anger, worry and forgetfulness, anxiety, uneasiness, high blood pressure, migraine and lack of sleep. With regular practise of Anulom-Vilom Pranayam, your concentration, patience, resoluteness, decision-making ability and creativity will soon increase. (Renowned Yoga Guru, Surakshit Goswami) The exercise of the Anuloma Viloma produces optimum function to both sides of the brain: that is optimum creativity and optimum logical verbal activity. This will make both sides of the brain, the left side which is responsible for logical thinking and the right side which is responsible for creative thinking to function properly. This will lead to a balance between a person's creative and logical thinking. The Yogis consider this to be the best technique to calm the mind and the Nervous System . (abc-of-yoga.com) Here is a video:
Doesn't this qualify on all your benchmarks? And yes, it's a great way to start the day! (Best practiced early in the morning).
Note: I have not added the precautions part since I am not completely aware about that area. Although a person of normal health should have no issues to worry about, it is still wise to cross-check. I could have put in a little research and probably added that too here, but I think the answer is already quite long. Upvote 4+ Comments Share (12) Thank Report Updated 8 Jul, 2013 Sai Sandeep, The Qurious one.. Votes by Ashish Agrawal, Adhithyan Srinivasan, Douglas Girard, Yuval Feinstein, and 52 more. There are some really great answers here. I would like to give my 2 cents which is just an addition to Raj Rai's answer (How to speed read). If you are reading PDF documents, you can use the built in Auto Scroll function which comes with the reader (Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader). That way you don't have to scroll manually all the time. The shortcut key for auto scroll is Ctrl + Shift + H. You can control the speed of the scroll using Up or Down arrow keys. Best part is its pretty easy to learn and adjust to speed reading techniques. Hope this trick helps :) Upvote 5+ Comments Share (1) Thank Report Sun Sachin Sharma Suggest Bio Votes by Raman Chawla, Malathi Thangarajan, Amit Singh, Prathamesh Pawar, and 57 more. When presenting in PowerPoint on a projector, if you press the "b" key on your keyboard, the projector stops showing your display and only shows a black screen.
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Press "b" again and you're back to normal. This can be a lifesaver! Upvote 2 Comments Share Thank Report 25 Jul Miklos Horvath, Theoretical Physics student Votes by Advait Kamat, Ashwini Bijwe, Akanksha Jain, Pek Pongpaet, and 56 more. How to stop hiccuping? Forget all that drink a glass of water or stand on your head. Just hold your breath for as long as you can. The hiccuping will continue, but it gradually slows down. Repeat it until it completely stops. For me it usually takes 1-3 times of breath holding and it works like magic. ;) Upvote 4 Comments Share Thank Report 28 Dec Avijit Paul, spent years in military school Votes by Margaret Weiss, John Harris, Miklos Horvath, Steven Lehrburger, and 99 more. Estimate time with Your Hand
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How can you estimate time remaining in case you forgot to take your watch and your mobile phone is out of battery? Extend your arm fully and count the number of finger widths between the sun and the horizon. Each finger is about 15 minutes, which means each hand width should be about an hour. Remember that this is just an estimate, so if you want to be conservative, make sure to give yourself a bit more time than you measure if you want to get home before dark.
(according to Estimate the Time of Sunset with Your Hand ) How about estimating the current time? According to Telling Time Using Only Your Hand you need to know the time of sunrise first but I found it works well even when I don't know the time of the sunrise since I am estimating and not finding the exact time. Look to the sun on horizon. If there are trees on the horizon, then use the tops of the trees as the horizon.Now hold your arm all the way out, palm side facing you
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like your shading your eyes from the sun. "Pinky" on the start of the horizon. From the bottom of your "Pinky" to the top of your "Pointer" finger,.. that's one hour! So for example, Starting at the horizon, lets say that it's three hand withs, stacked on top of each other, to the bottom of the sun...This means it's been light for 3 hours. If sunrise was at 6:00am, that would mean that it's now 9:15 or about 9:30. (Since I've never owned a Cell phone and never wear a watch, this has always been close enough for me.) The bottom two fingers equals 30 minuets. Practise it and depending on whether you are in a jungle or in the city this trick can work as a life saver or an impressive trick. Upvote 3+ Comments Share (4) Thank Report 1 Jan Nilesh Taneja, Medical Learner Votes by Marisol Gomez, Harshit Kukreja, Mohammad Zeeshan, Vikas Yadav, and 53 more. If you have a habit of keeping awake late at night and then sleep for most of the early hours of the morning, then read further.
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So fellow owls when you get up near noon you might usually feel dizzy, hunger, tiredness, a headache maybe or in some cases irritability. The reason for this is hypoglycaemia i.e. decreased blood glucose levels. When brain doesn't get enough glucose these symptoms appear. Now at such a time what helps the most is to have a high glycemic index diet. In simpler words anything that is sweet. For best results have a cold sweet morning drink/shake. Mango juice/shake, roohafza, sweet lime water will do. My favourite is roohafza. Idea is to quickly restore your blood glucose levels and get rid of that unfresh morning head rush.
Caution : don't overdo your drink. Max 1-2 glass/morning advisable or else you can also have a restroom rush ! :P Upvote 5+ Comments Share (2) Thank Report 26 Jun, 2013 Annie Dai Suggest Bio Votes by Swami Nathan, Aaron Klemm, Tom Byron, Priya Prabhakar, and 158 more. Fine, I will share my secret with everyone. My favorite hack is the rubber band trick. For example, to open a tight jar, wrap a rubber band around the lid to help your hands obtain a tight grip. Then twist. It works much better than cloths. And you can pretty much apply this trick to anything that involves twisting. For example, sometimes I have difficulty rotating that little switch on a lamp because the switch is so small to get a tight grip on, so all I do is wrap a rubber band around it and keep it on there.
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Other uses include opening water bottles, turning a hot metal door-knob (since rubber has good insulation), loosening/tightening a screw here and there, twisting open a wine bottle cap (never tried, but might work), and opening a can of worms (if the can twists open). Pretty much works on anything that involves twisting, because it just gives you a much better grip. Upvote 5+ Comments Share Thank Report 23 Jul Shannon Sofield, Carzz.co Votes by Faisal Khan, Jan Leadbetter, Pritesh Kalantri, Dori Dayan, and 141 more. How to Tie Your Shoe Laces Similar to the shirt folding technique discussed by Tzuwei Chen. This is a shoe lace tying method which allows a single knot that won't come undone. No one should put double knots in dress shoes. Plus, this has the benefit of having the laces lay down flat. I attempted to find a video of it, but no luck. It is really simple to do though. Tie your shoelaces just as you normally would. When you have made the first loop with your one side and are about to wrap the other lace around it, do it in the opposite direction. Instead of encircling the loop from closest to your body, over, and under, do the opposite. Start under and come up from the outside over the top toward the inside. If your first loop is in your left hand, it will be counter clockwise motion. Pull it through normally once done. Updated with video:
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more. Start remembering people's names. There is no other trick I've learned that will help you make friends or build social networks as quickly. People feel flattered when you remember them, and will want to know your name in response, which will help them remember you better, too. One study I read came to the finding that people prefer hearing their own name to hearing almost anything else. Hearing your own name spoken by another is a reassuring affirmation of your existence and importance. Names are important! So, how? Many of us are terrible at remembering names. Here are some tricks: Repeat someone's name when you first hear it. "What's your name? Michael? Oh, nice to meet you, Michael." When meeting someone, find a way to make their name have personal significance to you. "Oh, Michael! That's my cousin's name. Do you prefer Michael or Mike?" If it's a name you're unfamiliar with, ask questions about it. "Oh, Mikhal! That's a name I'm not familiar with. Mikhal. How do you spell it? What culture does it come from? Mikhal - what an interesting name!" While doing this, you'll have plenty of opportunities to say the name over and over, cementing it in your memory. It will also make a person feel good, and you can learn a lot about someone through the name conversation. Whenever you address a person, address them by name. It will help you to remember their name, and will keep you in the habit of remembering other people's names. It will also make people happier, and they will respond to you better. Try it! You can be forgiven for forgetting someone's name after the first time you meet them, so ask promptly if you realize you've forgotten it. Ask any time you've forgotten someone's name, and if it's embarrassing, it will make you seem human, down-to-earth and honest. People will want to help you remember who they are - it is ego-affirming. This simple skill may make you more friends, land you business opportunities, get you dates and open all kinds of doors for you. Remember people's names! Upvote 6+ Comments Share (3) Thank Report 1 Aug Farhat Chaudhry Suggest Bio Votes by Danita Crouse, Gwen Sawchuk, Faisal Khan, Samudra Neelam Bhuyan, and 56 more. You can cool a can of a drink in 8 minutes if you wrap a wet paper towel around it and put it in a freezer. Upvote 1 Comment Share Thank Report 18 Aug Anonymous Votes by Jonathan Kim, Michael Trang, Shilpika Shukla, Namia Sarmad, and 190 more. Easy ways to do rough conversions between some imperial units to the metric system Hopefully this won't be useful for the rest of your life because the few countries that do not use the metric system will come to some sense before the end of your life. But in all likelihood, it will be useful for the rest of your life. Note: These are not meant to be exact conversions, but to give you an approximation that is easy to do mentally and that will be good for most situations that do not require exact precision. Temperature: From Fahrenheit to Celsius (step 1) Subtract 32 from the Fahrenheit temperature (step 2) Divide the result by 2 Example: 50F -> (step 1) 50-32 = 18 -> (step 2) 18/2 = 9 So 50F convert to roughly 9C If you want to be more precise, multiply the result of step 1 by 5/9 instead of dividing it by 2. But dividing by two should be a good enough approximation for most purposes.
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Temperature: From Celsius to Fahrenheit Just do the opposite of the F to C conversion explained above. (step 1) Multiply the Celsius temperature by 2 (step 2) Add 32 to the result Example: 9C -> (step 1) 9*2 = 18 -> (step 2) 18+32 = 50 So 9C convert to roughly 50F Weight: From pounds (lbs) to kilograms (kg) (step 1) Subtract 10% from the lbs measure (step 2) Divide the result by 2 Example: 60 lbs -> (step 1) 60 - (10% of 60, which is 6) = 54 -> (step 2) 54/2 = 27 So 60 lbs convert to approximately 27 kg You can also just divide the lbs measure by 2.2, but I find that it is much easier to do the 2 steps above if you are doing it mentally. Weight: From kilograms (kg) to pounds (lbs) Just do the opposite of the lbs to kg conversion explained above. (step 1) Multiply the kg measure by 2 (step 2) Add 10% to the result Or you can just multiply by 2.2 Example: 20 kg -> (step 1) 20*2 = 40 -> (step 2) 40+(10% fo 40, which is 4) = 44, or simply 2.2*20 = 44 So 20 kg convert to approximately 44 lbs Length: From feet to meters (step 1) Multiply the feet measure by 3 (step 2) Divide the result by 10 Example: 10 feet -> (step 1) 10*3 = 30 -> (step 2) 30/10 = 3 So 10 feet convert to approximately 3 meters Or if you find it easy to do decimal multiplications mentally, just multiply the feet measure by 0.3 (or 0.28 if you want to be more exact).
Length: From meters to feet (step 1) Multiply the meters measure by 10 (step 2) Divide the result by 3 Example: 3 meters -> (step 1) 3*10 = 30 -> (step 2) 30/3 = 10 So 3 meters convert to approximately 10 feet Or if you find it easy to do decimal multiplications mentally, just multiply the meters measure by 3.3 (or 3.28 if you want to be more exact). Area: From squared feet to squared meters (step 1) Subtract 10% from the squared feet measure (step 2) Divide the result by 10 Example: 500 squared feet -> (step 1) 500 - (10% of 500, which is 50) = 450 -> (step 2) 450/10 = 45 So 500 squared feet convert to approximately 45 squared meters Or if you find it easy to do decimal multiplications mentally, just multiply the squared feet measure by 0.09 (0.093 if you want to be more exact)
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(step 2) Add 10% to the result Example: 50 squared meters -> (step 1) 50*10 = 500 -> (step 2) 500 + (10% of 500, which is 50) = 550 So 50 squared meters convert to approximately 550 squared meters Or if you find it easy to do decimal multiplications mentally, just multiply the squared feet measure by 10.8 Upvote 7+ Comments Share (4) Thank Report Updated 8 May, 2013 Rajesh Chaturvedi Suggest Bio Votes by Garrick Saito, Devbrat Rathore, Tasha Poslaniec, Deepank Joshi, and 28 more. Learn to breathe peacefully. This is how you can do it: Day 1 - Just breathe in and breathe out ... let thoughts come to your mind wherever they come from. Day 2 - Pay attention to your thoughts, but ensure not to become judgmental about any of them. Day 3 - Try not to have random thoughts Day 4 - Try not to have thoughts Day 5 - Utter Peace I should not have used "Day x" rather "Task x" fits well, as each of the above mentioned things can take numerous days for you to become proficient at if you give only 10 minutes daily, however if you can spend little more than 30 minutes, you can really learn to meditate within a week. Upvote 1+ Comments Share (1) Thank Report 28 Aug Anil Chouhan, Lifelong experimenter Votes by Anjali Singh, R Praveen Kumar, Ryan Mathews, Arjun Kodur, and 35 more. Vipassana meditation. While the course is typically a 10 day silent retreat, the technique can be learned in 10 minutes. Though there are three steps, even learning and using just the first step is of lifelong value. First: Anapana In this you sit in a comfortable posture and 'Observe your breath going in and out of your nostrils'. While doing this let thoughts come and go without stressing. Just observe. Second: Vipassana In sitting posture, take your awareness to the top of your head and 'feel the sensations' - coolness, scratchiness, warmth or anything and keep moving inch by inch down to your face, then right shoulder to arm to fingers. Then from left shoulder to fingers. Then throat to abdomen, then right thigh to toes and left thighs to toes. Repeat these steps backwards to top of your head. Third: Metta / Maitri bhavana (Goodwill feeling) Close your eyes and send goodwill to all. Start with friends and family and expand to all humanity. I learnt this 2 years ago in a 10 day camp and apply it whenever I have 10 minutes or feel stressed. Works like magic! For more info visit: www.dhamma.org Here's the full description of Vipassana technique and why it is not just a life long skill but also has transformational impact. The Technique Vipassana, which means to see things as they really are, is one of India's most ancient techniques of meditation. Vipassana is a way of self-transformation through self-observation. It focuses on the
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deep interconnection between mind and body, which can be experienced directly by disciplined attention to the physical sensations that form the life of the body, and that continuously interconnect and condition the life of the mind. It is this observation-based, self-exploratory journey to the common root of mind and body that dissolves mental impurity, resulting in a balanced mind full of love and compassion. The scientific laws that operate one's thoughts, feelings, judgements and sensations become clear. Through direct experience, the nature of how one grows or regresses, how one produces suffering or frees oneself from suffering is understood. Life becomes characterized by increased awareness, non-delusion, self-control and peace. Upvote 1 Comment Share (1) Thank Report Updated 14 Jun, 2013 Mubashir Usmani, Founder, Social Seety Votes by Swathi Venkatachala, Abin Jacob, Ameya Rane, Manik Jindal, and 49 more. Here's something interesting that I picked up. Most people have a problem of a gag reflex. (They feel pukish when they enter a finger in their own mouth or something gets stuck up the throat). A little trick here. 1. Hold your left hand thumb inside the fist and close it tight, 2. Put your right finger deep inside your mouth. No more gag reflex :) Upvote 6+ Comments Share (1) Thank Report 21 May, 2013 Diane Meriwether, Kinder than necessary Votes by Sasha Katsnelson, Ross Cohen, Victor Liew Jia Hao, Andrew Wilkinson, and 243 more. Brush your hand gently over a honeydew melon. Don't buy it unless it is covered with tiny hairs - the fuzzier, the sweeter. Taught to me by a melon farmer Upvote 4+ Comments Share (2) Thank Report 31 Mar, 2013 Wayne Strider, Author, coach, consultant Votes by Pritha Sarkar, Piyu Roy, Dave Larsen, LiBing Gavin, and 56 more. Breathe. When you find yourself in a difficult situation, i.e., afraid, embarrassed, angry, take a couple of deep breaths. This will relax you and your brain will work better. Upvote 3+ Comments Share Thank Report 2 Apr, 2013 Sutrisno Suryajaya Dwi Putra, Computer Science Student and Typography Entusiast Votes by Priya Pri, Viola Yee, Domhnall O'Huigin, Jeremy Miles, and 116 more.
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Karthik Ganesh, Just curious. Votes by Swami Nathan, Garrick Saito, Sanjay Sabnani, Ankur Dixit, and 46 more. Google chrome can be used as a media player to play audio-video files including formats (.mkv, .flv and .mp4). Upvote 5+ Comments Share (2) Thank Report 26 Jul Jon Mixon, I look for tips and hacks in my everyday life Votes by Faisal Khan, Bheshaj Joshi, Ben Mordecai, Zoe Serafina, and 157 more. Some thoughts: 1. Leaving a radio or television on in your motel/hotel is a low-cost antiburglar device - When you are staying in most motels/hotels,simply leaving a television or radio on to a talk show or talk radio program will convince all but the most desperate or professional of room burglars that you are still there. Unfortunately, in low-end motels , this often fails as people are in the hallways and lobbies often and can see you leave. 2. Rolling up a tabloid newspaper or a magazine makes it an effective weapon - Roll up the magazine or paper as tight as you are able and then use it by jabbing or thrusting it,especially at the neck or the head. Do not try to use it as a club (it's too fragile) 3. Leaving an unmarked key in your wallet or your purse, will prevent you from being locked out of your home - The key must be unmarked as if you lose the wallet or the purse, someone could use it to enter your home. Most of the time, people who might steal those things from you will have no idea what they key is for and will simply discard it after they have removed what they consider to be valuable from your stolen item. 4. If you don't know the size of a nut or bolt, press an piece of paper over it firmly and take it to a hardware store. They can measure the outline and provide you with a fastener of that correct size. 5. There's no need to leave your name on your personal voicemail - Anyone who calls you will leave you a message. If they are a bill collector or someone who you don't want to deal with, then not returning their call will make most of them believe that they have the wrong number. If they know you , then there's no reason for you to tell them who it is who they are calling. Simply request that they leave a detailed message and that you'll return their call. 6. Always keep three or four ziploc bags in your vehicle or in your backpack/briefcase/purse . - They have many uses (including keeping papers from getting damp) and they can fold up into a small bundle. 7. When/if you purchase a home or rent an apartment, make several copies of the floor pla n - That way, when/if you need to show someone (a contractor or an insurance adjuster) where something is you simply take out the diagram and indicate on there. 8. When you purchase something expensive, take a picture of it and any identification plate on it (if it has one) with your cell phone - If you lose it or it is stolen, then you'll have a picture of it that you can send to your insurance adjuster or the police.Back up the pictures somewhere and keep it safe. Take a picture of your phone's interior (where the SIM card goes) with a separate camera, in case the phone itself goes missing. 9. Always keep a change of clothing in your vehicle - Obviously, it doesn't have to be a suit. But you (or someone else) will always have something to wear in case of an accident. This includes socks and shoes. 10. Buy a package of small note-taking pencils ( the pencils with no erasers) and spread them around your home, in car and in any briefcase/purse/backpack that you may carry. They are very inexpensive,lightweight,they never run out of ink(!) and you'll always have something with which to write. Upvote 6+ Comments Share (2) Thank Report Updated 12 Aug James H. Kelly, writer, director, animator, designer, programmer... Votes by Richard Balla, Sergio Gonzlez, Kirk Patterson, Slavomir Glinsky, and 221 more. You can learn to meditate in 10 minutes: Find a comfortable chair. Feet on the floor back straight (don't slouch into the chair). Close your eyes 3 quarters of the way and pick a point to look at, but unfocus your
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eyes so that you're not staring at it. Now, as you breathe naturally say to yourself "re" on the inhale and "lax" on the exhale. If you find yourself distracted, don't worry about it, just move back to saying "re-lax" as you breathe. If you find yourself breathing more slowly, that's good, but don't force it. Do this for 10 minutes and be open to the process and curious about what might happen. Try 10 minutes a day for a week and see what happens. Upvote 6+ Comments Share (3) Thank Report 23 Mar, 2013 Amruta Borkar Suggest Bio Votes by Swetha P T Srinivasan, Nitin Kumar Gautam, Deepesh Matholia, Sandhya Ramesh, and 34 more. Any kind of Yoga sp.:
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Upvote 1 Comment Share Thank Report 10 May, 2013 Ashwinn Krishnaswamy, lifelong learner of LPTs and quick productivity hacks Votes by Garrick Saito, SriAnvesh Jakka, Soumendra Kumar, Bhuvi Jain, and 47 more. During my freshman year of college I became obsessed with productivity hacking, which included learning shortcuts for studying. Here's something I learned (that takes about 20 minutes) which has proven invaluable many times. Imagine if you could recite Pi to 30 (or even more) decimal places after just looking at the numbers for ~10 minutes. Or if you could remember dates and telephone numbers for nearly anything after just a minute or two. You don't need a photographic memory to do this, just an easy way to remember numbers. Unfortunately our brains aren't wired to remember digits, but they are decent at remembering strings of letters, and even better at remembering stories. What we then have to do is turn digits into letters, and then into stories, which isn't as hard it seems. Take 10-20 minutes to map the relationship between each number and letter below. The way to remember the relationship is in parentheses. 0 = Z (the letter z begins "0" so that's easy to remember) 1 = t (the letter t only has 1 downstroke) 2 = n (the letter n has 2 downstrokes or points of contact with the "ground") 3 = m (if you turn the letter m sideways it looks like 3. also 3 downstrokes) 4 = r (the word "four" ends in r)
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5 = L (the roman numeral for 50 is L...so use your imagination and drop the 0) 6 = j (if you flip the number 6 around, it sort of looks like the letter j) 7 = k (imagination required, but if you look closely, the letter k is"made up" of three sevens - they're just put together in different directions) 8 = f or v (I need a picture to highlight this one, but think of a "v" forming in the 8 much like an hour glass) 9 = p or b (if you draw the letter 9 without the curl, you can flip around to be the letters "p" or "b," so that's easy) Once you have this, practice it for a couple of days until you're at the point where you can think of any of these digits and immediately know the letter. If you use a bit of imagination and remember the reasoning for the relationship, this shouldn't take too long. Now you're ready to start putting this into practice. Say you want to remember a string of 10 digits: 1184917329. This translates to "ttfrptkmnb." Now I know that isn't any more memorable than those 10 digits, but notice how these letters are all consonants - this allows us to insert vowels and break this string up as we please (we'll know when mapping these letters back to the numbers to remove the vowels, since they don't have any value). So let's break it down to: "tt fr pt km nb" Now let's add vowels to make them words: "that fur put kim nab" Now make it a sentence/story: "That fur put kim in the nab" - this is a bit nonsensical, but if you use your imagination and create some fantastical story (maybe some fur kim kardashian was wearing put her in "the nab" whatever that means), you'll actually have an easier time remembering it. The brain loves outrageous things for some reason. So now you have "that fur put kim in the nab," and if you choose to remember the ridiculousness of that story or image, you'll have these 10 digits remembered forever. It might seem like a lot of work to do this mapping, translation, adding the vowels and making a story, but believe me after learning the relationship and a few days of practice you'll be able to do this in your head extremely quickly. Upvote 4+ Comments Share (2) Thank Report 12 Sep Prameet Kamat, Work. Play. Think. Votes by Vikas Thakkar, Avishek Shaw, Tanushree Goyal, Urmi Bhayani, and 62 more. Ten minutes . Here's something that will take you one and will help you the remainder of your lives. Smile. Not just at jokes or polite greetings. LEARN to smile actively. It's why we love babies and kids. They smile. At strangers. At people they don't know like them. So smile. At the surly boss. The incompetent colleague. The driver. The pizza delivery guy. Smile the first thing you do when you wake up. My wife does this every morning and I swear it's a rocket booster to my day :) Upvote 3 Comments Share Thank Report Updated 11 Aug Joe Wezorek, phoning it in since 1972 Votes by Lou Davis, Diana Tan, Alex Vanu, Danita Crouse, and 43 more. How to fold the traditional origami model, the paper cup. Yes, it can be used to drink from when folded from the right kind of paper, but this isn't what makes the paper cup that useful. Paper cups are useful because if you k now how to fold one of these you basically never have to worry about running out of coffee filters for the rest of your life. Specifically, an origami cup folded out of a standard paper towel can be used as a
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#2-sized cone filter for a drip coffee maker and is not noticeably worse than an actual paper coffee filter; in fact, there is as far as I can tell no reason to not just always use a paper towel paper cup for this kind of coffee filter. Instructions below: (except the flaps at the end should really be tucked into the obvious pockets, and I would recommend wrapping the "arms" around the body of the cup symmetrically in steps 2 and 3, rather than both on the same side)
Upvote 1+ Comments Share (1) Thank Report 21 Aug Matt Wade, Reading, Writing, Rhythmatic. Votes by Garrick Saito, Suraj Pawar, Mohan S Nayaka, Mayo Molnar, and 26 more. 2 things spring to mind: 1. Get rid of hicups Grab a full glass of water. Take a deep breath and then, all without breathing, take 6 small sips of water in very quick succession followed by a seventh gulp that's as large as you can manage. This is an Italian method and the truth is you're supposed to utter the name of some particular Saint after the 7th gulp. But I forget his name, so I never do. It works anyway. Face-widening alternative: down a teaspoon of lemon juice. (Get someone to snap a picture when you do!) 2. Make spaghetti nests They look great on the plate. Here's my quick guide:
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Upvote 1+ Comments Share Thank Report Updated 11 Apr, 2013 Eloise Ham Anderson, used to be a magazine publisher, now I'm doing the startup thing again Votes by Karthik Selvaraj, Vaibhav Deshmukh, Sachin Jadhav, Sai Ganesh Reddy, and 27 more. When you are choking because something went down the wrong way, resist the urge to gasp and instead hold your breath and drink more liquid. It pretty much fixes the problem immediately and you avoid the awful red face, tears, bulging eyes coughing fit. And: if you are too lazy to wash your dishes, put them in the fridge until you're ready. Bugs won't get them and they won't smell! I figured this out in college.... Upvote 1 Comment Share Thank Report 11 Sep Ankit Sharma, a ridiculous man, who believes that World War - IV will be fought between Human Race and Blue Whales Votes by Akshay Garg, Vaibhav Deshmukh, Harsh Jain, Sai Teja Reddy, and 21 more. Do you want to stop falling asleep without brushing your teeth? Use a Sticky note on your switch board as a reminder!
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Upvote 1+ Comments Share Thank Report 17 Sep Sauvik Mondal Suggest Bio Votes by John Savidge, Abhinav Kumar, Rohit Sharma, Piyush VJani, and 16 more. you can have two rods in your wardrobe instead of one.The rod on the top can be used to hang clothes such as folded jeans,trousers,sarees,etc and another rod few centimeters below it depending on the length of your wardrobe compartment, ,by which u can hang shirts,t-shirts or blazers ...make sure that the top rod is more towards inside the wardrobe and the other rod is not directly below it , in this way the width of a usual wardrobe compartment can be used more efficiently. Upvote 1 Comment Share (2) Thank Report 17 May, 2013
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Mustafa Eid, Programmer Votes by Jann Griffith Hoke, James H. Kelly, Uddhaw Gadagkar, Willie Aniebiet, and 41 more. The smoother the skin of an orange is the more sugary and tasty it usually is. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 13 Sep Ryan Ryskamp, Seeker, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, and Felon Votes by Luke Middendorf, Carlos J. Amezquita, Kam Tse, Arpit Sharma, and 44 more. READ FASTER! Increase the words per minute you read by 100 wpm. When you read, prop the book up at a 45 degree angle on some other stacked books (or prop your tablet up). Use your finger to underline the words you are reading. Your finger acts as a focal point for your eye, allowing you to smoothly transition across the page instead of jumping from word to word to word (saving time). Also because your now are streaming, your mind begins to catch up with your eyes. Our minds have the ability to process so much more information than traditional reading supplies. Think about the last time you were given any insight into how to read quicker or more effectively? The technical lessons stop in middle school if not elementary school and you just practice it that way forever, while subjects like math introduce more and more complex topics. Upvote 5+ Comments Share (1) Thank Report 30 Mar, 2013 Peter Johansen, Software Developer, Mormon, Office 42 Champion 29 Votes by Mike Lambert, Anita Sanz, Puneeth Kumar, Nipun Garg, and 24 more. To remember simple lists, read through the list once or twice and then memorize how many items are on the list. When you have to recreate the list if you remember it's length you know for certain when you're done. I use this trick a lot with grocery lists. I walk into the store knowing I have to buy 7 items and before checkout I count the items in my cart. If I only have 6 I walk around a little more thinking about what I missed. Edit: Since my other example in the comments seems to be getting a better reception I'll move it up here: I also used this technique to memorize lists for tests in college. For example, there are 8 primitive types in Java. I still remember that, but if I tried to list them all without remembering that there are 8 I would probably miss one. Upvote 6+ Comments Share Thank Report 28 Dec Aman Arora Suggest Bio Votes by Karthik Selvaraj, Anoop Sacrezi, Bruno Santos, Dave Larsen, and 33 more. Learn how to solve a Rubik's cube using simple algorithms Watch the video, jot down the algorithm, and go for it! Spend 10 minutes on it for 2-3 days, and you'd be able to solve it in under 2 minutes.
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From an answer given by Travis Wakeman. Upvote 1 Comment Share (2) Thank Report 30 Dec Rami Zheman, Gettin' 'er done. Votes by Gabriel Maestas, Garrick Saito, Uddhaw Gadagkar, Phm Nguyn Anh Khoa, and 46 more. Quickly approximate how long it takes to double something given a fixed rate of return: Divide 72 by the the rate of return. Useful when doing calculations without access to a calculator or spreadsheet. 72 is easily divided by many numbers. For example: How long will it take to double my money at 8% interest? 72/8 = 9 years How long will it take to double my money at 4% interest? 72/4 = 18 years For parents in the US, you can also use it calculate how much money you will have for college after a given number of years and a given interest rate: If I invest $10k now at 4% for 18 years, I'll have $20k. If I invest $10k now at 8% for 18 years, I'll have $20k in 9 years, and $40k in 18 years. Can use this for any formula where you need to double something, like money, customers, etc. Learned this trick from a business school professor of mine. Upvote 2+ Comments Share (1) Thank Report 20 Aug William Halmeck Suggest Bio Votes by Jon Mixon, Yash Gandhi, Ravi Jadhav, Talapatra Ashok Kumar, and 81 more. When trapped in a burning building people often die of asphyxiation because the fire consumes all the oxygen. A toilet snorkel can save your life!
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Any hose will do, and generally any plumbing fixture like a sink or tub, so long as they are vented. Afterthought: A hand-held shower hose would make a good toilet snorkel. Upvote 7+ Comments Share (1) Thank Report Updated 13 Jun, 2013 Jack Willy Suggest Bio Votes by Anoop Sacrezi, Dave Larsen, Ryan Haas, Aishwarya Sahu, and 53 more. If you have like a tube of rubber cement or super glue, once you open it, whatever you have left will harden up and you won't be able to use it next time because of the exposure to the air. To avoid this, just store the tube upside down. The liquid will fall to the bottom and make lid airtight. Upvote 1 Comment Share Thank Report 4 Apr, 2013 Michelle Roby, Life Passion Coach Votes by Francis Chung, Corrine Chin, Himanshu Yadav, Wen Luca Lu, and 139 more. The most useful thing you can learn in 10 minutes is how to reframe any negative situation so that it doesnt get you down. But so that you actually feel good about it. Our happiness in life depends on how we feel moment to moment. How we feel depends on how we perceive what happens to us. Now here's how to feel good about whatevers happening in your life, good or bad: Ask yourself "How is this serving me?" Then make a list of no less than 50 ways that what's happening is serving you. For example, our car broken down earlier this year leaving us without a car in a new city. This serves me because it means I do more walking so do more exercise. Easily. It means I get to experience the city in a more authentic way and meet real people, by taking public transportation rather than driving. It means the next car we buy will be newer and better, because we're not making the same mistake twice! And so on... Try it. It will change your life Upvote 5 Comments Share (4) Thank Report 8 May, 2013 Jignesh Darji Suggest Bio Votes by Tejas Shah, Vinaya Tinguria, Murugeshbabu Mahadevan, Kanishk Khanna, and 27 more. Browser Shortcuts: Most of us browse the internet everyday. It is very productive to learn shortcuts for
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some of most used functions. 1. Go to the next Tab using Ctrl+Tab 2. Go to the previous Tab using Ctrl+Shift+Tab 3. Open a particular Tab using Ctrl+<Tab No.>. For Firefox, it's Alt+<Tab No.> (Credit:Natasha Bhat for the query) eg. Open the 2nd open Tab Using Ctrl+2 4. Open the last closed tab using Ctrl+Shift+T 5. Open a new tab using Ctrl+T 6. Open Incognito window using Ctrl+Shift+N in Chrome (Ctrl+Shift+P for Private Browsing in Firefox ) 7. Open Downloads using Ctrl+J 8. Open History using Ctrl+H 9. Close current Tab using Ctrl+W Best part about these shortcuts are that they work for every browser(For Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer(works on v10) ). There are many more shortcuts but I'm keeping this answer limited with the most used.
P.S. These shortcuts works for Mac too Replace Ctrl by Command. Thanks to Praveen Shivapur for sharing. Upvote 4+ Comments Share Thank Report Updated 5 Aug Robert Johnson Suggest Bio Votes by Amoghavarsha Suresh, Carole Zavala, Josef Pospil, Jack Webb, and 24 more. To understand that the yearning for certainty to alleviate angst is a siren song of temptation that leads us all to act like we know more than we do Upvote 2+ Comments Share (2) Thank Report 26 Dec Mark van Cuijk, Software Engineer Votes by Palle Mathiesen, Laurens Bistervels, Kam Tse, Bhavya Bhandari, and 38 more. Automate your finances. Actually, you only set it up once and *never* have to practice it anymore. Basically, what you do is make sure a fixed amount of your paycheck is sent to savings automatically. You don't have to think about it anymore and keep living your life as you've been doing. The interesting bit is that when you psychologically see how people spend money you'll notice that someone with less to spend automatically spends less. So when you make sure the money is send to your savings account automatically, you don't even see it and don't miss is when you're shopping. And without thinking about it, you end up with a nice stash of money at the end of the year. Upvote 3+ Comments Share Thank Report 27 Mar, 2013 Matt Saunders, Code Monkey Votes by Kristen Burns, Rike Behrendt, Tobias Alvarsson, Pritesh Kalantri, and 72 more. Learn to tie a couple basic knots, like a Sheet bend (for tying two ropes together), a Bowline (to tie a loop in a rope), and Two half-hitches (to tie a rope to a post). I learned these and a few others in about 10 minutes decades ago and have used them countless times since.
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Upvote 3+ Comments Share Thank Report Updated 9 Apr, 2013 Ankur Bakshi, Technically Spiritual & Spiritually Technical Votes by Nikhil Patil, Sai Malleswar, Mayo Molnar, Abhishek Kumar, and 11 more. These computer keyboard shortcuts you can learn in 10 mins and can save 10s of minutes in daily work: 1. Cmd + G/Cmd + Shift + G followed by Cmd + F: You might be using Cmd + F to search but by using Cmd + G lets you search the next word, if there are many and using it with Shift lets you search the previous word in the same page
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3. Space Bar: Well, thats the longest key on the keyboard and useful too. Using Space + Cmd leads you to search in Spotlight, no matter which page are you on. Using Space in a page takes a page down and using Space + Shift takes a page up.
4. Cmd + Alt + Esc: Takes you to the Force Quit Applications window where you can force quit application as and when you are stuck with apps
5. Cmd + Tab: Switch between the application which are open and in the background And there are many more, but it solely depends on what kind of work you are doing and which application you are using the most. You can always read or discover keyboard shortcuts of your favorite app. Please let me know if any one is finding trouble replicating these shortcuts in Windows :) Find more at: So-You-Googled And, here is what I found in TED. Really interesting and has helped me saved a lot of 10 mins :) David Pogue: 10 top time-saving tech tips | Video on TED.com Upvote 3 Comments Share (2) Thank Report 13 Oct Anonymous Votes by Upendra Wanmali, Sara Hoskins, Priyanka Dublish, Akanksha Jain, and 101 more. 25 ways to tie a scarf... (say thank you, ladies!)
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Dave Cahill, Software Developer Votes by Vivek Shah, Nikhil Patil, Himani Garg, Sai Ram, and 46 more. Read as much of this page as you can comfortably fit into 10 minutes, picking from random sections: List of common misconceptions It's not that much of the knowledge on it will be of direct benefit; it will hopefully serve as a useful reminder that a lot of things you just take for granted or assume to be true, aren't. That's education right there. Upvote 1 Comment Share Thank Report 4 Dec Emanuel Datt, Homo Sapien Votes by Richard Balla, Chloe Rowshani, Deepesh Matholia, Anita Sanz, and 81 more. Learn quickly if someone is knowledgeable on a particular subject or topic: Ask the person in question to explain the concept in concise "layman's terms" If the person cannot provide an answer in less than 3-4 sentences it's extremely likely that they lack a deep understanding of the subject or topic tested You can easily test your own knowledge using the same concept Always remember there's no such thing as a stupid question My experience is that it's best to cut your losses very early when dealing with someone who fails this test Upvote 7+ Comments Share Thank Report Updated 10 Apr, 2013 Matthew Caston, CSO 365 Retail Markets, LLC Votes by Alex Leach, Michael Leibfried, Karthik Kalyan, Anita Sanz, and 116 more. Eliminate Car Blind Spots - Contrary to popular convention, adjusting your mirrors to show the rear edge of your car while sitting straight up in the driver's seat creates your blind spot. While the following might take a little getting used to, it vastly reduces and/or eliminates blind spots: Left Mirror (Driver's side) - tilt your head to the left so it is almost touches the driver's side window. Now, adjust your mirror outward until you can only just see the rear right edge of your car. Right Mirror - position your head almost directly in front (centered) on the rear view mirror. Do the same for your passenger side mirror, angling it out until you can just see the right rear edge. You may have to fine tune slightly, but you should notice that cars approaching (or departing, if you're overtaking and changing lanes, for example) from either side will now visibly hand-off from wing mirror to rear view with virtually no blind spot. Upvote 9+ Comments Share (1) Thank Report 26 Mar, 2013 Edward Liu, tried them all. Votes by Jerry Luo, Abhishek Kumar, Ambrin Ikram, Danita Crouse, and 32 more.
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After years of fighting ants, I've found that the most useful (as well as pet and kid friendly) way of controlling them is with masking tape . If you have a section of floor/wall/table that is plastered with ants, it's surprising how quickly masking tape will pick up most of those buggers without making anything wet or smell funny. As the crowd of ants thins out, identify their points of entry, and then use the masking tape to block them (you can crumple small strips of tape to seal cracks and then tape over it). It takes a bit of persistence, but after you've blocked all the entry points, you will be ant-free, no matter how messy the kitchen/bathroom gets. Later, when you have more time, you can take care of the holes/cracks with a more permanent solution such as caulk. Upvote 1 Comment Share Thank Report Updated 30 Jul Ben Mordecai, Automation Controls Engineer Votes by Margaret Weiss, Ananya Garg, Mayo Molnar, Shri Sree, and 73 more. A few suggestions: 1. Crack an egg with one hand. Not only do you get your other hand free, but you also look cool while doing it.
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3. Butcher a whole chicken. The meat is cheaper by the pound and you have more variety and flexibility. It also make it a bit easier to afford a quality bird when you're buying the whole thing.
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4. Everyone should know how to jump start a car with a dead battery. Most people know the general idea but forget a few specifics and end up with some flying sparks.
5. Learn to change a tire while you're at it. It's very straight forward, but it's worth thinking about before you need it.
6. Learn to take a bath. An Epsom salt bath! It reduces your stress, soothes and heals joint pain, and promotes the direct absorption of magnesium and sulfates through the skin, which can be hard nutrients to find in regular food. It's also only about $2 for 5 lbs.
7. Learn to make perfect iced coffee. It's very simple. Just make regular coffee, black and put it in the refrigerator the day before you drink it. If you like it sweetened, make simple syrup the night before by mixing equal parts boiling
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water and sugar and refrigerating. Add ice after fully cold, and optionally add cream and simple syrup if you prefer. Upvote 4 Comments Share (2) Thank Report 22 Jul Amit Sarda, mba, consulting, photography, tv series, movies, cricket 21 Votes by Rashika Mishra, Sophe Sophendo, Gaurav Singh, Sahebjot Singh, and 16 more. 1. When sharing data over the network, enclose the path of the folder in double quotes when you are including them in emails. Like this, you won't have to <select, copy, win+r,paste,enter> to reach the folder. The double quotes create a hyperlink and you can directly jump to the location with just one click! Again, this is particularly true for path names containing spaces. 2. Browsing through multiple tabs in Google Chrome is a cakewalk when you use Ctrl+PageUp/PageDown, Ctrl+(1/2/3/4...) (Ctrl+9 for last tab). 3. When using multiple shapes in Microsoft Office programs like Powerpoint/Excel/Word use the Selection Pane from the Format Toolbar to quickly access the shapes instead of struggling to select them by clicking each of those individually. 4. Use the quick-access toolbar in Microsoft Office programs to quickly access commonly used functions. Use shortcuts (Alt+1/2/3....) on the selected data to achieve the function in just a couple of key strokes. 5. Experience the magic of space-bar while browsing through your emails in Outlook. It not only scrolls down through your email, but also jumps to the next email in the queue when you have reached the end of the first email. The same works for 'Shift+Spacebar' for scrolling up. Upvote 2+ Comments Share Thank Report Updated 15 Jul Fajar Marta Suggest Bio Votes by Chloe Rowshani, Emiola O. Banwo, Saket Karajagi, James Nielsen, and 65 more. We talk everyday but have you ever found someone who teach you how to have a small talk? Heading Out on Your Own: Day 22 How to Make Small Talk No more awkward situation ever Better relationship with friends and neighboor I hope :D Upvote 3 Comments Share (1) Thank Report 6 May, 2013 Lisa Sansom, Positive Interventionist, Coach, Consultant Votes by Anuradha Sharma, Paula O'Reilly-Green, Vinisha Rajagopalan, Ian Lee, and 40 more. When you are frustrated in a conversation with someone, ask them a question to help you understand their perspective (instead of keeping on hammering them with your perspective...) Upvote 3+ Comments Share Thank Report 26 Mar, 2013 Krunal M Harne, Analyst in the office, singer in bathroom, philosopher near bus window. Votes by Shikhar Mann, Tim Hopkins, Chaithra L Prasad, Muyiwa Saka, and 36 more. Easy way to multiply two 3 digit numbers is explained in the following video. If you practice this quite a few times, you can do any 3 digit multiplication within seconds. That's the power of vedic maths!
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P.S - If you want to multiply a 3 digit number by a 2 digit number, you can use the same trick. For e.g. 289 x 54 = ? Write 54 as '054' and repeat the same steps. :) Upvote Comment Share (3) Thank Report 25 Mar, 2013 Aarush Nandal, 21 year old Living the life I have Imagined Votes by Carole Zavala, Divya Goel, Arjun Kodur, Pulkit Popli, and 2 more. Think someone's giving you the wrong phone number? Read it back to them incorrectly, If they correct you, it's the real number ....works for me every time Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 16 Sep Anonymous Votes by Adhithyan Srinivasan, Manik Jindal, Vikas Jangra, Nalini Shenoy, and 22 more. I just got this one only it may not be that useful but helpful for ur life if you are sitting too much time before your system. Some tips which help you relieve you from body ailments and stress
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Upvote 5+ Comments Share (4) Thank Report Updated 14 Aug Constance Ray Suggest Bio Votes by Anita Sanz, Karthik Selvaraj, Sudnya Diamos, Josef Pospil, and 49 more. It seems like people have been scared into never using "me" in a sentence and therefore use "I" incorrectly. Learn how to always know when to use "I" or "me". This will take you probably about 3 minutes to read and understand. And you will sound more intelligent from now on. Read this: Using I and Me Correctly Upvote 3+ Comments Share Thank Report 13 Sep Ang Zhang, a stu from China with poor english... Votes by Paul Stockley, Kaushal Tak, Anmol Agrawal, Tom Byron, and 27 more. Folding a shirt in one easy motion!
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Upvote 6+ Comments Share (2) Thank Report 13 Jul Samar Singla, Playing Candies with Friends when not on Quora Votes by Chirag Sharma, Hitanshu Bhalla, Manpreet Singh, Eunis Lge, and 47 more. Let me write the fact that defines my life- you fail any number of times, no one remembers, you succeed once and you are a star. That's the best thing about life I feel. So just keep failing till you succeed. Suggestions Pending Upvote 4 Comments Share Thank Report 25 Mar, 2013 Paul V. Azzopardi, Publisher of ETF-Online-Investing.com, and author of two books. Votes by Anushka Ved, Shuba Swaminathan, Priya Chincholikar, Praveen Shivapur, and 47 more. If you toss a fair coin and it comes up Heads, and you toss again and it comes up Heads again, and you toss the coin ten more times, and it is always Heads, then the chances that the next toss will produce Tails, is still 50%. Many people assume that there's a higher probability of getting tails after a series of Heads, but that's called the Gambler's Fallacy. Quite a useful thing to keep in mind. Upvote 2+ Comments Share Thank Report 28 Dec Anonymous Votes by Mudit Srivastava, Manik Jindal, Srihari Radhakrishnan, Gwen Sawchuk, and 51 more. Spend 10 minutes reading the top 20 answers in Tips and Hacks for Everyday Life: What is something useful I can learn right now in 10 minutes that would be useful for the rest of my life?. There are some pretty neat stuff there :) Upvote 2 Comments Share Thank Report 8 Jun, 2013 Tom Byron, I have lived in 8 of the 50 states. Votes by Steve Carnagua, Agnivesh Patel, Jesse Lashley, Shivangi Saxena, and 14 more. Tired of losing your car keys at home? Tired of panicking when you can't find something? The reason this happens is because you do things like this without thinking. It is automatic. So you need to work with this concept in one easy step. The next time you can't find your keys, and then you realize you left them ___. Make a mental note of ___. When you finish with your keys that day, put them where your brain told you to look the first place you checked. Your brain knew this subconsciously for a reason. Go with that. After a few times of putting your keys ___ you will always know where they are. This assumes you left them someplace in your home. Won't work if you locked them in your car, or left them someplace other than at home. I always put my car keys in a metal tray near the TV. Always! Automatic. Upvote 2+ Comments Share Thank Report 21 Mar, 2013 Jayexe Low
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Votes by Silambarasan Madanakumar, Viola Yee, Dave Larsen, Geordie Keitt, and 20 more. If you're having problems remembering your bank account number, the standard tuning of a guitar of any other string of words or numbers that totally makes no sense, set it as your email password for the next 3 months! You'll remember it by the end of that duration. If its not secure enough, add '!' like !EADGBE! or eadgbe123 or you can key in your bank account number while pressing shift. Like for e.g. 876-38728-0 will be *&^_#*&@*_). Or a mix of both. Upvote 3 Comments Share Thank Report 3 Jun, 2013 Jon Mattingly, Founder, SurfScore Votes by Kiran Lokesh, Aditya Jain, Amol Patil, Dave Larsen, and 47 more. If you own a Mac, you can do simple math problems in Spotlight. Simply press (CMD + SPACE) or click the search window and type in your problem.
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Upvote 3 Comments Share Thank Report 29 Jul Will Peach, Avid reader and writer. Fervent contrarian. Votes by Dan Strayer, Vivek Shah, Himani Garg, Michael Lee, and 33 more. Learn where your nearest charity book shop is. Then drop in there, pick out a random book, purchase it and start reading. Do this all within 10 minutes. Repeat throughout your life and you'll see a whole new world of being. Upvote 2+ Comments Share (2) Thank Report 31 Dec Gaurab Chakrabarti, MD/PhD student Votes by Faheem Merchant, Jason McFarlane, Viola Yee, Sandhya Ramesh, and 37 more. Slightly useful tip to figure out the orientation of a fitted sheet when putting it on a mattress: Most fitted sheets have a tag that should go on the bottom left corner of your mattress. Alternatively, one can figure out which corner the tag corresponds to and label it with a permanent marker with "BL" (bottom left) or "TR" (top right). Upvote 3 Comments Share Thank Report Updated 29 Jun, 2013 Diane Thomas, StudentAdvisor Editorial Staff http://www.StudentAdvisor .com - the leading all things learning resource for students of all ages Votes by Jorge Dantas, Amoghavarsha Suresh, Brittany Lynn, Anmol Dureha, and 23 more. Here is one of the most useful "tricks" I have ever learned: To keep shoelaces from untying accidentally, but still be able to get them off with one pull - go around twice when tying them. In other words, when you are holding the loop you form with one hand, wrap the other lace twice around instead of once when you tie them. It creates a double knot that doesn't come out until you pull on the laces like usual. This trick has been handy for tying both my kids laces and my own. Let me know if you get it right! Upvote 2+ Comments Share Thank Report 13 Sep
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Tim Chambers, I work in high-tech. I enjoy technology, science, theology, philosophy, civility in politics, listening to podcasts, and much more. I joi... Votes by Mohammad Zeeshan, Dhruv Hari Baldawa, Sandeep Chitti, Zabi Mohsini, and 49 more. Don't limit yourself by using your individual fingers to count to 10. Instead, use combinations of fingers to count up to 1,023 in binary. That's not practical to master in 10 minutes, though. In only 10 minutes you should be comfortable counting to 31 on your right hand. Start with the pinky on your right hand. That's one. Your right ring finger is two. The combination of your pinky and that ring finger makes three. Your right middle finger is four. Index finger is eight. Thumb is sixteen. Practice counting up to 31 on your right hand using combinations of fingers. Keep combinations straight by pressing the active fingers in the count against the table or your thigh. At the end of 10 minutes you'll be hooked. It's quite liberating to have a system of keeping count of more than 10 things with only your fingers! Here's the list. Counting to 31 On Right Hand 1 = 00001 (pinky) 2 = 00010 (ring) 3 = 00011 (ring, pinky) 4 = 00100 (middle) 5 = 00101 (middle, pinky) 6 = 00110 (middle, ring) 7 = 00111 (middle, ring, pinky) 8 = 01000 (index) 9 = 01001 (index, pinky) 10 = 01010 (index, ring) 11 = 01011 (index, ring, pinky) 12 = 01100 (index, middle) 13 = 01101 (index, middle, pinky) 14 = 01110 (index, middle, ring) 15 = 01111 (index, middle, ring, pinky) 16 = 10000 (thumb) 17 = 10001 (thumb, pinky) 18 = 10010 (thumb, ring) 19 = 10011 (thumb, ring, pinky) 20 = 10100 (thumb, middle) 21 = 10101 (thumb, middle, pinky) 22 = 10110 (thumb, middle, ring) 23 = 10111 (thumb, middle, ring, pinky) 24 = 11000 (thumb, index) 25 = 11001 (thumb, index, pinky) 26 = 11010 (thumb, index, ring) 27 = 11011 (thumb, index, ring, pinky) 28 = 11100 (thumb, index, middle) 29 = 11101 (thumb, index, middle, pinky) 30 = 11110 (thumb, index, middle, ring) 31 = 11111 (thumb, index, middle, ring, pinky) You might still have time left to practice with your left thumb (thirty-two) so you can count with six fingers up to 63! As a personal challenge, I tried to count to 1,023 in 10 minutes. I only made it to 660 = 1010010100. More practice needed. Also useful as a substitute for counting sheep to fall asleep. Edit: corrected my binary representation of 15. Thank you, ric Flush. Upvote 3+ Comments Share (1) Thank Report Updated 3 Sep Vaibhav Kulshrestha, Went to Hogwarts once... Votes by Piyush VJani, Ananth Krishna, Barbara Holladay-Vernon, Lorenzo Ercolanelli, and 19 more. Deactivate your Facebook account. Upvote 3+ Comments Share Thank Report 2 Nov Karl Mller, Blissfully Undefined. Votes by Terry Drinkwater, Dave Larsen, Ajay Gopinath, Sahebjot Singh, and 49
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Upvote 5+ Comments Share Thank Report 19 Aug David Hobson Suggest Bio Votes by Krishna Bindu, Murugeshbabu Mahadevan, Simantini Chakraborty, Kate Luo, and 28 more. Learn to breath from your diaphragm - properly, consistently, regularly. Breathing from your chest, you inhale 15 times as much air, and absorb less oxygen! Way more work for less benefit. Diaphragmatic breathing increase energy, decreases stress, releases toxins, decreases pain, helps immune system, helps the GI tract, and has a plethora of other benefits. The lowest 13% of your lungs absorb the most oxygen 60ml/min, as apposed to the top 7% 4ml/min. Posture, and technique play a part, read the second link below (a few minutues, a few seconds if you know how to speed read ;-) PS. It's easiest laying down, then standing straight, but if sitting it's easiest when slouching! Now you have an excuse! Quick overview: Put hand on chest and stomach, see which rises and falls. Relax the stomach, and breath so that only the stomach rises and falls. Breath deep and slow. (5 seconds in, hold 3, 5 seconds out - different people have different numbers, but about that.) Exhaling fully lets out all the CO2. It takes time - it's a muscle to be strengthened, and takes a while before it's habitual. * Diaphragm Function | Diaphragmatic Breathing Benefits * How to Breathe Correctly - Details and how to. Upvote 1 Comment Share (2) Thank Report 21 Aug Kristen Burns Suggest Bio Votes by Viola Yee, Faisal Khan, Rike Behrendt, Pritesh Kalantri, and 39 more. If you have long hair, how to put it up with a pencil (or any thin, straight object). It comes in handy if you don't have anything around and need to keep your hair back. There are numerous ways to do it, all of which can be found on YouTube. This is the method I use. - stats
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Upvote 2 Comments Share (2) Thank Report 20 Mar, 2013 Roy Blumenthal, Writer, artist, visual facilitator, process facilitator Votes by Pierre Nguyen, Chris Ked, Gwen Sawchuk, Uddhaw Gadagkar, and 48 more. Learn how to tie a reef knot, and when to use it, and when NOT to use it. It's THE most important knot you can learn, and you'll use it every time you tie your shoelaces. Should take you two minutes. Here's a link to an animated tutorial: Square Knot (Reef Knot) . Next, learn to do a sheet bend. It allows you to securely join a thick rope to a thin rope. Three minutes. Here's a link: Sheet Bend (Becket Bend) . Finally, learn a clove hitch. Three minutes. Link: Clove Hitch Using Half Hitches . Knots live with you all your life. They're subtle, beautiful, and elegant. They hold the world together. And above all, they're useful. Upvote 3+ Comments Share (2) Thank Report 28 Jul Imran Visram, studies Religion and Business Votes by Tom Byron, Joan Hoffman, Jan Christian Meyer, Ravi Jadhav, and 21 more. You are aimlessly scrolling down your dashboard on Tumblr (or on another random awesome internet web page) and you happen to cross a beautiful image: of a lion, a car, a watch, of nature, etc. The photography was done so perfectly but the person who uploaded the image did not give credit to the photographer, so you can't Google them up and see their other work. Not to worry! This method will help you find the source of an image (and works most of the time). I will use a random image from my 'likes' on Tumblr as an example. _______ So here's the image I see. It is just so pretty, and I want to know who took the photo. It has over 28,000 notes on Tumblr, so I am assuming this photographer is some renowned photographer or something.
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Step Two Go to Google and search the URL. Then click 'Search by Image'.
Step Three Now this is the hardest step: you must perform some soul-searching! Go on and click the top Google Search results and look for the image. If you still have trouble finding the credit for the image (as I did for this particular image), you can click the "All Sizes" option to narrow results of your specific image:
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Step Four Now it will take you to a webpage. I was lucky and found the photographer's photostream on Flickr:
It's kind of upsetting that the original image which he himself posted only has 66 views but when uploaded to Tumblr by someone else it can get nearly 30,000 notes. It wouldn't of hurt if the image on Tumblr was simply linked to the photographer's Flickr profile. Urghh. _______
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There you have it! Now you know who the photographer of the beautiful image is. This also works for finding a particular brand name you have seen in an image (i.e. to find the brand name of a picture of tie or watch), or to find the names of models or famous people (i.e. see below). Who is this cutie-patootie who appeared on my dashboard?
*does a quick 'Search by Image'*
... (more) Upvote 4+ Comments Share Thank Report 23 Jul Sam Higgins, UX Architect, Online Marketer, Recent Austin -> Chicago transplant Votes by Faisal Khan, Avram Cheaney, Peter Barney, Dekel Wainer, and 212 more. My favorite quick and dirty hack involves shaving razors and has saved me quite a bit of money over the years. Keep a small container filled with rubbing alcohol in your bathroom. When you are done shaving, perform a final rinse of your razor in the alcohol. This will extend the razor's shelf life for months. This works because it is actually the corrosion caused by water, and not simple use, that causes the most dulling to a razor blade. Upvote 10+ Comments Share (3) Thank Report 26 Mar, 2013 Kim Nicol, Applied Mindfulness Votes by Jay Gudhka, Dave Larsen, Mohan S Nayaka, Rohan Wadhwa, and 30 more. How to slow down. You'll enjoy life more fully, you'll experience deeper and more connected relationships, you'll be more rested, etc and etc. It's meditation, it's mindfulness, it's a ninja skill that will enrich and propel your life.
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Good luck. Upvote 2 Comments Share Thank Report 8 Sep N Hari Prasad, Programmer and Swimmer Votes by Tynan Ipaye, Arpit Sharma, TraVal Shanklin, Deepesh Matholia, and 16 more. How to Tie a Tie
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Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 24 Mar, 2013 Puneeth Kumar, Bike Rider, Loves Ultra Cycling, quality analyst, aspiring entrepreneur Votes by Amber Bahuguna, Wesley Chapman, Malathi Thangarajan, Niharika Verma, and 25 more. Use your knuckle joints to figure out how many days a month has: The finger joints indicates 31 days in each month like in J (January), M (March), M (May) And the "U" formation between the finger joints indicates <=30 days in each month like for F (February), A (April) and so on..
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How to Tell If Eggs Are Raw or Hard Boiled?

1. Place your thumb on one end and your middle finger on the other. 2. Spin the egg using a 'clicking' movement (push thumb forward whilst drawing the middle finger back). If the egg spins fast, then the egg has been hard boiled.
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If, however, it spins very slowly (or is difficult to spin at all), it's raw. Upvote 3+ Comments Share Thank Report 18 Aug Ridwa Mousa, Trainee Psychologist && Traveller Votes by Sai Srivatsan, Pranav Triguna, Rory Young, Eesha Muneeb, and 1 more. Learn how to hold your breath in and expand your lungs. It may save your life one day. Here's a link explaining how to; http://www.ehow.com/how_2062129_... Upvote 1+ Comments Share Thank Report Updated 8 May, 2013 Swathi Vinodh Suggest Bio Votes by Abhishek Singhi, Anirudh Sriram, SriAnvesh Jakka, Shweta Gaudani, and 4 more.
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Use nail polish to relieve an insect bite.
Blocking oxygen from getting into the bite will stop the itching. Source: thaimedicalnews.com
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end of cycle 1 Pomodoro cycle = 4 pomodoros This is how Pomodoro technique works. You can judge your day on the basis of number of pomodoros you completed. Generally, 12 pomodoros means a good day. If you work on computer a lot then use this Pomodoro tool to track your pomodoros - Tomighty 2. Do not drink water before and after one hour of your meal. This will signifiantly improve your health. The juices which are secreted to assist food digestion gets diluted when we drink water immediately before or after we take our meal. Hence, our body has to spend more energy for the digestive process which is obviously not good. A task which could be done with x amount of energy now needs to spend (x + y) amount of energy. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report Updated 3 Aug Soumendra Kumar, Known to be unknown Votes by Manik Jindal, Aaron McDaniel, Dave Larsen, Yash Gandhi, and 13 more. This one is for the one's, who has slow internet connection. In Youtube while loading a video
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Rajath Ramakrishna, Programmer Votes by Vishal Anand, Dave Larsen, Danita Crouse, Ravi Jadhav, and 31 more. Inbox Zero When it comes to email, most people suffer from the "cluttered inbox" syndrome. I have spoken to many people who complain about how they have thousands of emails and they're too lazy to clean them all up. I always have less than 50 mails in my inbox. What I follow is simple. When I get an email and I open it, I do one of the 3 things: 1. Reply to the email, or 2. Label it as something important like "todo" or "bills" (and/or send them to a folder), or 3. Just delete it. But I don't close the email and let it rot in my inbox for days/weeks/months. This helps you in 2 ways: Your inbox is forever clean and you also avoid procrastinating. So when you open an email you receive, do something with it. Don't just close it and keep it in your inbox. There are several other ways to maintain a clean inbox, but this is what I follow. Credit: Merlin Mann and David Allen Upvote 8+ Comments Share Thank Report Updated 15 Apr, 2013 Chand Nair, Medical Director, Writer, PsychoPharmacology Teacher 17 Votes by Pruthvi Buddhadev, SriAnvesh Jakka, Sai Teja Reddy, Manik Jindal, and 12 more. Before you take an Oral or Viva examination, don't bother reading all the notes and summaries, just speed read the Glossary and Definitions in the back of the text, jump to the diagrams and speed-read/eyeball all the important illustrations and diagrams and you will be all set, faster, better! Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 28 Aug Steve Lynch, TARDIS Repair and Refurbish Technician Votes by Priyansh Tiwari, Jason McFarlane, Deepesh Matholia, Abbas Halai, and 20 more. Learn how to care for and use your cooking knives.
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Knife Skills and Cutting Techniques Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 7 May, 2013 Vincent Payette, I have 11 toes Votes by Sandhya Ramesh, Ismail Sunni, Shuba Swaminathan, Jason McFarlane, and 12 more. Here's how to cook corn in the Microwave:
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Learn a simpler way to multiply

For some reason, this works for me. It's annoying to multiply big numbers in your head. But let me try to show you a way that made multiplying easier for me. Here's a simple example: 23 * 7= 161 The way everyone I know is taught to multiply is by multiplying the seven by the three, which is 21. Keep the one and carry the two over the two in 23 and add this two to seven by two. Very annoying. Like I said, this method works for me for some reason. Instead of doing that whole process, I would work backwards. Instead of 7*3=21, carry the 2, keep the 1, (7*14)+2, I would break the multiplication in two parts. (7*20) + (7*3). Like I said, very simple for me, I don't know if it makes a difference to anyone else. All I did was break down the larger number into its digits 20 (tens digit), 3 (ones digit). I multiplied the two numbers by the common number being multiplied, the 7, and got 140 + 21 = 161. You could do the same with larger number, even though it takes time to practice. Ex: 123 * 45= (100 * 45) + (45 * 2) + (45 * 3)= 4500 + 900 + 135= 5535 123*123= 12300+2460+369= 15129 I think there will always be less steps than doing it the way "everyone else was taught". See how there are three digits in the last example I showed you (#123)? Since the biggest number has three digits, there are only three steps in doing the problem. How would it look like doing the way "everyone else was taught"? I don't want to waste my time and my answer's space to show you how annoying it is. I'll let you do that on your own.
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What the hell, I'll do it. 123*123 [(3*3)+(3*2)+(3*1)] +[((2*3)+(2*2)+(2*1))*10] +[((1*3)+(1*2)+(1*1))*100)] =15129 tada! Talk about the answer being more complicated than the problem. I'm proud I wasted 2 minutes of my life. I hope you find this useful so that the two minutes I wasted wasn't wasted. I don't usually like sharing my secrets but here you go. I think it's time I shared this one. Let me know what you think. Note: As you will come to find out, the challenging part of this method is remembering the numbers that you come up with after multiplying the digits. Practice makes perfect. Edit: Apparently I am not the only one who multiplies this way. As Ruben told me in the comments, Germany teaches its students to multiply this way. Well, if the Germans do it, we should, too. With one of the best education systems, I think we should all learn from this. Ha. And here I thought I was the only one who multiplied this way. Also, thank you Manish Dang and Srihari Radhakrishnan for commenting on some of the mistakes I made. I feel the answer is more complete now. Here's a simple visual aid to represent what I am saying, to a younger audience: Ex: 121 * 45 As you can see, place the digits on the left hand side. Next, place the other number being multiplied (45) in the center Cross multiply each of the digits, and add your results.
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"Everyday I'm shuffllin". Here's a video on how to shuffle. It's roughly 10 minutes long. At least learn how to T step. Everyone should know how to do it. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here's another thing I think everyone should know about
Learn self defense techniques in soft martial arts

(Yes it does take a while to master a technique, but it should take less than 10 minutes to learn a technique) Soft martial arts is a a group of philosophies about how to protect yourself without seriously injuring your opponent. Karate, Tae kwon do and Kung-Fu I believe are more direct. Aikido, something I wish I could learn, uses your opponent's energy against themselves. Here's a video. (This is the type of martial arts most law enforcement learn). I think this is one of the better videos I've seen on Aikido.
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Learn how to use the tools in a pocket knife

I love pocket knives. They're so useful. I used them in the wild, all alone, and even in my dorm room. Very useful tool. Here's another Youtube video (you've got to love Youtube).
Learn the basics of beat boxing

Again I am going to use a Youtube video for this. I believe that if you know how to beat box, you appreciate music more, as you see when learning any instrument. Your vocal features are no exception.
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Find different, news sources
Using one news source could get boring over time. You might also be missing the full spectrum of certain stories. I suggest finding new sources that fit your needs. For example, I'm interested in international news, so I use Bloomberg, World News, and Google news to get a quick scan of the world. Like I said before, in today's world, I highly recommend multiple news sources because it is important to stay informed so that no one gets taken advantage of. Who knew that Tajikistan banned Youtube because of this uploaded video of the Tajik President singing karaoke. I find this video entertaining.
It takes time for this video to warm up so be patient (around 2:30). You've been warned. Listen at your own risk...
There's an app called Stitcher that I use. I find it interesting to use for getting my news. It's a bunch of podcast s in one app. You could customize your news, and listen to it via an internet connection. I find it helpful if you don't have time to read. I listen to the Wall Street Journal, World News, etc... Upvote 6+ Comments Share Thank Report Updated 26 Jul Sahil Vaidya, Super Casual Vote by Pulkit Popli. Some thoughts (quite random): 1. Store all EMERGENCY numbers on your mobile phone. Okay, this is not something you really "learn, but I can put it this way- Learn to store life-saving information (phone numbers, contacts etc.) on any device that you carry/use regularly (like your mobile phone, tablet) and make it a habit. Could turn out to be really important in a hell lot of situations.
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What do you do when there is a fire in your house? Search for the fire department's number? Someone just got into a lethal accident. What do you do? Go about searching for the nearest hospital's number? NO! All these things should already be there with you! So make it a habit to have them at your disposal, for you might need them any moment. 2. Learn to make Maggi, Tea, Soup and other such things. Should take less than 10 minutes and could be really useful in case you need to fill your stomach and have very little money! 3. Folding T-Shirts quickly:
(This question has a lot of answers so I'm not sure if I have repeated something. Do let me know if I have) Upvote 2 Comments Share Thank Report 29 Jul Diego Noriega Mendoza, I live. Votes by Garrick Saito, James H. Kelly, Niharika Verma, Umi Hussaini, and 22 more. If you want almost instant cold beer, get a large cooler (or steel pot), put your beer cans in there, drop some ice, and then add about 1 and a half cups of table salt. Cold beer in 2 minutes! You've been trying to play that difficult song, but your capo's gone missing? No problem! Get 2 wide flat rubber bands, and a pencil. Place the pencil over the desired fret, and adjust with the rubber bands. 1 dollar capo, right there. Upvote 1+ Comments Share Thank Report 23 Mar, 2013 Ryan Choi, software engineer, student, dad. Votes by Penny Murray, Ridwa Mousa, Jason McFarlane, Jason Hurley, and 47 more. Memorize your credit card number and the security code. Saves you time when shopping online, on the phone, whenever -- and the trip to get your wallet, too. Upvote 6+ Comments Share Thank Report Updated 9 May, 2013 Clara Vieira Suggest Bio Votes by Bob LeJeune, Talapatra Ashok Kumar, Malvika Maloo, Abhinav Menon, and 23 more. "Want your birthday to last 34 hours? Spend it flying from Istanbul to San Francisco!" by Tina Seelig :) Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 27 Jul Miguel Bandeira, Passionate learner Votes by Eugene Lazutkin, Sasha Katsnelson, Joan Hoffman, Gerry Eng, and 50 more. How to Whistle With Your Fingers How to Whistle With Your Fingers [VIDEO]
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Upvote 2+ Comments Share (1) Thank Report Updated 2 Aug Yang Zhihong, War is peace;Slavery is freedom;Ignorance is strength. 17 Votes by Yash Vohra, Zhang Xiao Ran, Gisle Birkeland, Jayant Kaushik, and 12 more. I would like to share some really useful and beneficial tricks or tips for you!! The notes are in Chinese. But I guess it is easy to understand without the notes. Thanks.
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Upvote 1 Comment Share Thank Report 14 Oct Iain Davidson, Not always right, never wrong. Votes by Nikhil Patil, Hamza Saleem Ahmed, Kiran Kuruvila, Mayo Molnar, and 10 more. Everyone should learn that no matter how convinced they are of something, it might be wrong. This is a good quality to have when thinking about things like politics, religion and science. Upvote 3+ Comments Share Thank Report 13 Oct Geordie Keitt, somewhat relaxed Votes by Paula O'Reilly-Green, Felix Oginni, Yuval Feinstein, Pamela Dennett Grennes, and 55 more. Learning to match pitch will make you able to hear music better, communicate with people better, have fun with karaoke and sing-alongs, and maybe help others enjoy your singing more. To match pitch, listen to a song, and sing along. Listen to the way your voice sounds over the voice you hear from the radio. You want to get the highness or lowness of your voice to match theirs exactly. You might think that getting it pretty close is good enough, but you really want to get it exact, as much as you can. The secret is to make your voice "disappear" behind theirs. You can think of it as tracing over a picture. If you trace outside the lines you can see two lines, yours and the original. If you keep your pencil right on the line, your tracing disappears on top of the original. Musically you want to do the same thing with your voice. If you can hear your voice coloring outside the lines, try to tighten it up so it is exactly the same note as the singer. If you are a little off pitch, you will hear the difference between the notes as a "beating" sound in the air. The closer you are to the correct pitch the slower the beats will become. Suddenly you can sing along with other people, you can perform recognizable versions of songs at karaoke parties, you can tell soundhound what song to find. People enjoy listening to singers with good pitch, regardless of the great quality of their voice. This trick of listening for the exact notes also comes in very handy when doing comedy impressions, imitating people in order to annoy them, or playing phone pranks. More seriously, it lets people know that you are listening closely to them and increases your ability to empathize with them if you speak to them in their pitch range, to the best of your ability. Upvote 6+ Comments Share (2) Thank Report 29 Mar, 2013 Ayush Pathak, Kathmandu New York Boston Detroit Votes by Joo Victor Barbar, Alex Ackerman, Dino Mihalopoulos, Surya Ahuja, and 48 more. If you put a finger in your ear and scratch, it sounds like Pacman. Upvote 9+ Comments Share Thank Report 4 Apr, 2013
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Eeshan Gupta Suggest Bio Votes by Mike Lambert, Fajar Marta, Abhinav Priyadarshi, Bushra Jahan, and 30 more. To rename a folder: In Windows: just click on that folder/file and press F2. On a Mac: just click on that folder/file and press return. Doesn't take 10 minutes and definitely no practice :P Upvote 3+ Comments Share Thank Report 12 Dec Sandip Pingle, Developer , Linux lover , Mathematics lover, Chess Player 10 Votes by Tom Bonan, Sudnya Diamos, Fardeen Rahaman, Ishaan Dube, and 5 more. Just type vimtutor in your linux terminal (provided VIM is installed), and follow the help (takes up ~10 min). And you get working knowledge VIM (essential while dealing with server). Upvote Comment Share (1) Thank Report 31 Oct Akash Kothawale, Prefers using brain over body. Votes by Anoop Sacrezi, Neetish Tewari, Shashank Sharma, Dhruv Hari Baldawa, and 3 more. This one might only help Indians or perhaps those who know Hindi. I was taught that the article "an" should be used before words that start with a vowel. However my friend Jitesh helped me realize that this rule isn't really full proof. Example: A unicorn, An honourable person. So the hack he suggested was (in order to be correct always), use "an" only when the next word starts with one of these sounds Upvote 2+ Comments Share (1) Thank Report 7 Aug Rahul Singh Suggest Bio Votes by Kiran Kuruvila, Glenn Watson, Kenneth Harper, Prashanth Thina, and 7 more. Whenever you use drinking mugs for drinking anything in public bars,restaurants,fruit juice shops,drink the liquid from exactly opposite side(180 degrees) from the handle provided for holding that mug,why I am telling u this cuz these non disposable mugs are used again and again and sometime with improper washing,so if that the case would be,ur chances of getting the germs of other people's saliva who used that mug before you seems to be less cuz most of the people put their lips somwhr adjacent to the holding provided. Upvote 1 Comment Share Thank Report 25 Oct Ho-Sheng Hsiao, Adventurer Votes by Krishna Bindu, Gaurav Fotedar, Ram Vishwanathan, Emma Saboureau, and 15 more. Access Concentration. This is the key to mastering every other skill. It is the end-product of the 10,000 hours we hear about, but you can learn and practice this skill as its own skill. See: Ho-Sheng Hsiao's answer to Meditation: What's a nice little cheat-sheet on mindfulness meditation? Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 21 Mar, 2013 Anonymous Votes by Robin Thuran Malhotra, Rajesh Sukumaran, Athyuttam Reddy, Abhishek Sharma, and 10 more. Cure Hiccups.
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Have some Pepsi (or any soda, I don't work for pepsi). Works everytime. Upvote 5+ Comments Share (1) Thank Report 20 May, 2013 Brandon Bachman Suggest Bio Votes by Margaret Weiss, Jason McFarlane, Ali Al Lawati, Vinodhini Ravi, and 9 more. Learning to use an operating system other than Microsoft Windows. Don't get me wrong, I use Windows super-hard, but learning your way around FreeBSD- or Linuxpowered systems (Moreso the latter these days) can ironically help you out of tough scrapes with Windows when the "Official" recovery tools are not available. Additionally, using systems that come preinstalled or have available software that works with libparted (Gparted, Kparted or similar) gives you free disk partitioning tools, and when you set a local filesystem up in a Linux-powered system, you can more easily use Linux-powered specialty tools like Clonezilla to image parts of a drive should you want to do that. Upvote 1+ Comments Share Thank Report 1 Jan Daniel Johnson Jr, Parent of a daughter who is hard of hearing. We are the definition of communication breakdowns. :) Votes by Alex Forero, TraVal Shanklin, Woody Ghsoubi, Paula O'Reilly-Green, and 11 more. Every digit in the multiples of 9 add up to 9. Also look at the pattern of digits in the multiples: 1x9 = 09 0+9=9 2x9 = 18 1+8=9 3x9 = 27 2+7=9 4x9 = 36 3+6=9 5x9 = 45 4+5=9 6x9 = 54 5+4=9 7x9 = 63 6+3=9 8x9 = 72 7+2=9 9x9 = 81 8+1=9 10x9=90 9+0=9 11x9=99 9+9=18 1+8=9 Upvote 5+ Comments Share Thank Report 26 Mar, 2013 David Cannon, FindProz.com Co-founder Votes by Joel Chan, Manish Kaduskar, Tricia Hosein, Stephen McInerney, and 15 more. Learn to cook these two things and your relationship with food will turn a huge corner. They're both extremely simple, cheap, and can form the foundation of a classy meal. 1. Herb Roasted Whole Chicken - buy them at Costco for $1.19/lb. They make a perfect quick meal to impress guests, and you can do all kinds of things with the leftovers. The crispy skin is worth fighting over. 2. No Knead Bread - not all bread recipes are difficult. This one is about five minutes of work from start to finish, and you'll have an amazing loaf of bread every day that you'd spend $6 for at Whole Foods. The bread recipe mentions a dutch oven. Get an Enamel Cast Iron 5 Quart the heat and even-cooking will elevate everything you make. You don't need to shell out $300 for a Le Crueset; you can buy a perfectly good knockoff for $50. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 4 Aug Ravi Shankar, Campaign Manager, Google Votes by Swathi Venkatachala, Jatin Batra, Prashanth S. Kharche, and Raj Clo. Water Stuck in Ear ?? You find this happen quite often when you are swimming or taking a shower which is very irritating... One simple solution is to tilt your head to the side with water in it and jump on your bear foot heals. Water will come out immediately..
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Works for sure... Upvote 1 Comment Share Thank Report 27 May, 2013 Jann Griffith Hoke, The palindrome of Bolton is Notlob. Votes by Danita Crouse, Nick du Plessis, Margaret Weiss, Jairo Soares, and 10 more. When greasing a pan for baking, fold a small square of paper towel and use it to dip out a small amount of shortening to smear in the baking dish or pan. Keeps your hands clean, and keeps your fingers out of the shortening can. Also makes greasing cupcake or muffin tins easier. Upvote 2+ Comments Share Thank Report 15 May, 2013 Mayank Gupta Suggest Bio Votes by Slavomir Glinsky, Kiran Rahul, Deepesh Matholia, Sai Teja Reddy, and 7 more. Most of the residential high-rises (especially in India) dont have the 13th floor numbered, instead they number it as the 14th floor! Marginally useful to track down false addresses quoting 13th floor (or to give one :P)
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Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 19 Nov Rehina Maria Suggest Bio Votes by Steve Gattuso, Sahebjot Singh, Niharika Verma, Saurav Sharma, and 24 more. How to determine a cooked pasta. *take a piece of pasta on a cooking pot. *toss it on a concrete wall. *If the pasta sticks on the wall, then its done..^_^ Upvote 8+ Comments Share (1) Thank Report Updated 15 Jul Larry Mann, Born right the first time Votes by Gwen Sawchuk, Mark Mahoney, Andrew Boysen, Jan Christian Meyer, and 23 more. Make eye contact Upvote 4 Comments Share Thank Report 30 Aug Abrar F. Al-Adwani Suggest Bio Votes by Bheshaj Joshi, Alex Elderfield, Ankur Dixit, Rahma Sofien, and 9 more. have a daily to do list and make sure you follow it.. don't forget to add a me time in between tasks Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 13 Sep Kurt Lysek, I have the best day of my life everyday. Votes by Anil Chouhan, Kavinay Kishor, Jason McFarlane, Chiraz Ben A, and 28 more. Learned how to take a power nap (Edited to provide my advise of how to take a Power Nap) First you need to prepare a few things. A quiet place with a comfortable cot, chair or bed, some coffee or other caffeinated drink like black tea. A notebook and pencil or pen. A timer on your phone are an alarm clock. Set your timer for no than the time it takes you to fall asleep plus 10 minutes. To start out I recommend no more than 15 minutes total. If it takes you longer to fall asleep you will need to keep trying. Too much sleep will be more detrimental than helpful. Take out your notebook and write a short affirmation such as "I am ready to take a power nap and I am drowsy and relaxed. I will only sleep until I hear the alarm sound. I will immediately open my eyes and feel refreshed at the sound of the alarm and be ready to energetically live the rest of my day to the fullest." Put down the notebook and drink the coffee. It will take 10 or 15 minutes for the caffeine to start to work which should help you to wake up. Place the alarm a few feet from where you are so you will need to get up to turn it off, sit or lie down and close your eyes. Think about the affirmation, a person you love that helps you feel relaxed, a story or book you like or take calm three second breaths, hold for three seconds, release for three seconds and repeat thinking only of your breathing.
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When the alarm goes off let yourself wake up a bit, get up and turn it off. Congratulations! you have just finished your power nap! Upvote 1+ Comments Share Thank Report Updated 7 Dec Originally answered on Tips and Hacks for Everyday Life: What is a life skill everyone should know that can be learned in less than 10 minutes? Subhabrata Choudhury, gathering exp to evolve :) Vote by Anonymous. How to sew buttons. Helps: 1. How to Sew a Button 2. How to Sew on a Button Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 23 Apr, 2013 Bharat Jakati, Reincarnation of Attila the Hun. Votes by Joseph Wierzbicki, Ankita Das, Selina Patra, and Janani Kandhadai. Chicken wings are only for non-vegetarians. What about the vegetarians and the vegans? What food hack can you learn in 10 minutes that will be useful for the rest of your life? Well, I'm assuming all of us have eaten and continue to eat bananas. We usually do that by breaking the banana at the place it's connected to the branch, then twisting and turning the tough stem and somehow breaking in. This is quite frustrating and usually ends up damaging the core. Now imagine a little monkey in the forest. He needs to eat bananas but can't break off the whole bunch off the tree or even a single banana off the stem. Does he go hungry? No sir. As it turns out, most of us have been doing it the wrong way for some reason. To eat a banana, hold it at the other end - the black one. Now, just press it firmly. It will split into two parts. Well, hold those two parts and pull. The peel will split beautifully along its length and you'll get a whole, undamaged, banana to eat.
So this just takes 2 minutes. What about the remaining 8? Well, you spend those lamenting the lie your life was until today. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------How to tie a Windsor knot:
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That and a tie is all you need. 10 minutes is more than enough to get a decent knot. After that, well, practice makes perfect. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 11 Apr, 2013 Nitish Pandey, internet and life Votes by Bheshaj Joshi, Julian Wimbush, Bhavesh Aggarwal, Kelly Good, and 3 more. If you are investing in a stock with a PEG ratio of less than 0.8 and more than 0.4 then you are in safe territory. PEG is computed by dividing PE ratio by annual expected growth "G" . Of course expected growth G has to be computed based on growth seen in recent past, say in last 3 to 5 quarters. PE ratio itself is calculated by dividing the stock price in the market by the earnings per share E. If it is a dividend paying stock for last 2 years, even better. I am not saying this is the best way to invest or the only way to invest (in fact by this method one would never invest in Amazon stock). Just that it is a great way to invest and one that you can learn in 10 minutes and will be useful for the rest of your life. Upvote Comment Share (1) Thank Report 8 Nov Sariel Bier Suggest Bio Votes by Varun Pai, Viola Yee, Gaurav Fotedar, Rodrigo Estrada Gil, and 15 more. How to peel garlic quickly: take a knife, lay the flat side on top of the clove and give it a bang with your fist. The skin will crack and come off easily. Upvote 3+ Comments Share Thank Report 21 Mar, 2013 Fernando Aires Imbiriba Mller Suggest Bio Votes by Vernon Wharff, Garrick Saito, James Nielsen, Bhavya Bhandari, and 33 more.
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Upvote 5+ Comments Share (2) Thank Report 23 Jul Pritesh Desai, Entrepreneur. Loves designing websites Votes by Surya Ahuja, Kunal Girotra, Arpit Agarwal, Deepesh Matholia, and 8 more. Every Bad Girl Deserves An Egg My Guitar instructor taught me how to memorize the string names. EADGBE Upvote 1 Comment Share (1) Thank Report 24 Apr, 2013 Marie Sandal, has 16 years worth of opinion, is an ex-swimmer and is Hard of Hearing, and wants to study Philosophy, American Sign Language, Religion, ... Votes by Jason McFarlane, Ritesh Sharma, Bheshaj Joshi, Maureen Nalepa, and 13 more. If you're like me and get hiccups multiple times a week, this is for you! To get rid of hiccups, get a beverage and drink continuously for 10 swallows. This literally always works (for me) and is the only thing I've found to fight hiccups. Upvote 7+ Comments Share (2) Thank Report Updated 29 Jul Prateek Malik, Co-founder at Ask.Geeks. Computer science engineering student. Geek by Heart. Mobile App Developer Vote by Subham Sahu. Cutting onions while chewing a gum can prevent tears. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 28 Nov Ujjwal Aryan, Just a man from earth Vote by Ramakrishna Vedantam. I will tell you a trait, which might not take 10 minutes but much less than it, but will be useful for the rest of your life. The answer is not long. It is just worth learning. Love Someone and do so , so deeply that the whole definition of life resides in that person. It is the most meaningful thing in life. Skills can fade, they can go out of fashion or need. But this trait, will give a jewel to your life which will shine like the brightest star in the universe, and will destroy any dark pages which might be a part of the book of your life. This might seem to be a philosophical answer , but philosophy is just that part of reality which we tend to ignore. Remember that we cannot see or touch heat, but it is always there.
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Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 28 May, 2013 Akash Boaz, Startup Enthusiast & Geek Votes by Ankul Bagati and Navin Uttam. Avoid keeping your mobile in Switched Off mode or Avoid hanging up. Instead be "unreachable" Do want to stay "unreachable" on your mobile instead of hanging up and giving a "busy tone"? Well, this hack ensures that you become unreachable on your mobile phone network, so if you do not want to get disturbed and also do not want to give away the busy tone to the caller just follow these simple steps on your mobile phone. 1. Navigate to settings. Look for mobile carrier/networks 2. Most phone will have the automatic selection enabled there. You need to choose manual operator selection there 3. Now choose the carrier other than your actual carrier. 4. Your registration will be rejected and you will get a no service displayed where your carrier name was displayed earlier Now try calling your number. You wont get a switched off, you will get an unreachable message Upvote 1 Comment Share Thank Report 21 Jun, 2013 Anonymous Votes by Sahil Garg, Anl Gzelankara, and Veenit Shah. If you want someone to stop following you on Twitter. Step 1. Block them
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while changing tires if your spanner slips on the bolt, wet the spanner's head, pour some sand/mud/gravel/dirt you find on the road-side and try again. It should do the trick.. Saved me a definite 5 hours on a trip when the tire gave out in the kullu valley.. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 10 Jul, 2013 Segun Famisa, I love everything! Votes by Surbhi Kulkarni, Bob LeJeune, Anirudh Roshan, Jason McFarlane, and 11 more. I always thought "there has to be a way of eating burger without making a mess" ==> How to Eat a Burger Suggestions Pending Upvote 2+ Comments Share (2) Thank Report 19 May, 2013 Nick du Plessis, I'll curate when I'm dead Votes by Cristian Dascalu, Joo Victor Barbar, Samir Trivedi, Jason McFarlane, and 13 more. Memorize the bass and treble clef: The spaces on the bass clef, bottom to top: A, C, E, G Mnemonic: All Cows Eat Grass The spaces on the treble clef: bottom to top: F, A, C, E Mnemonic: FACE Upvote 2+ Comments Share (1) Thank Report 31 Mar, 2013 Meet Vora, Neophile || Blogger. 1 Integrate all your online services and manage all of them with a single command. http://geekspecs.wordpress.com/2... Combine all your email addresses at a single place and send and reply using whichever you prefer to use. http://geekspecs.wordpress.com/2... Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 4 Aug Santosh Kumar Nayak, Reckless Engineer Vote by Somaditya Basak. Turn on Flight Mode on phone to avoid ads while playing games. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 4 Aug Vaagdevi Ravishankar, Loves fiction & good music | Grammar Nazi | "Skyscraper" according to a 10-year old nephew :D Votes by Ehud Winograd, Mohan S Nayaka, Adhithya Rajagopalan, Citruz Murugan, and 2 more. Something my dad once told me when I was a kid: If the lid of a bottle is too tight for you to open just rub some vibhuthi on your fingers and then open it. The friction helps. This tip might be useful for Indians, especially, because vibhuthi (sort of dried ash) is something that is found in most Indian households. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 27 Mar, 2013 Jash Dholani, Wanderer. Votes by Ashish Varma, Surya Ahuja, Gwen Sawchuk, John Li, and 5 more. Understand the importance of pain. You have 10 mins, take to streets, and run like hell. Or punch walls. Or slap yourself. Inflict pain on yourself, numb out. Silence the chatters. Kill the fucking voices inside your mind. Pulverize every last bit of emotions. Hold your existence by it's throat. Squeeze . Squeeze till your eyes bulge in horror. Till fear grips you. Till desperation comes over. Till you feel your world being destroyed in the dancing rain of destruction. Till you stare at the
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Run. Punch. Slap. Skills don't matter. Being alive matters. Time's running out. And you are dying, slowing, without ever being alive. 9 minutes. Upvote Comment Share (1) Thank Report Updated 24 Aug Pranav Devanpalli, Random Reconnaissance # 3542314 1 A very easy workaround for removing beach sand easily from your feats or body is too apply Johnson's Powder all over your body. Simply at the end of the day when you are done playing and enjoying with your pals just rub some powder on your powder and things are done simply perfect.
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If you need to open something like a bottle or a screw and are not sure which direction it should be rotated, then use your Right hand rule as follows
Fold your fingers as shown in picture, if you rotate it anti-clockwise then screw will go in direction of your thumb and if you rotate if clockwise it will go in other direction. Right-hand rule Upvote 5+ Comments Share Thank Report 24 Mar, 2013 Mel Evans, OT, medical geek, lover of a great gory wound Votes by Rodrigo Tello, Jesvin Jose, James Demetrios, Matt Saunders, and 21 more. Basic Adult CPR. C-A-B Call 911- get an automatic defibrillator if possible Push hard & fast. Sing the BeeGees "Stayin' Alive" After 5 minutes give 2 breaths if you can Yes, it is worth it to get certified, but even knowing the basics can be lifesaving. Upvote 9+ Comments Share Thank Report 21 Mar, 2013 Devashish Datt Mamgain, mobitexter.net 1 If you do not have a ruler and want to draw a straight line on a paper sheet, follow these simple steps Step # 1 Take a white sheet of paper and decide where you want to draw the line. Step # 2 Fold the paper wherever you want to draw the line. Step # 3 Open the paper partially so that it makes an acute angle at the fold. Step # 4 Hold the paper with your left hand (if you are right-handed) and pencil in your right. Step # 5 Now move the tip of the pencil along the crease of the fold as shown in the picture. Step # 6 You have drawn a straight line successfully without the help of a ruler. Unfold the paper, and it's ready to be used. Source: Draw a Straight Line on Paper Without a Ruler Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 6 Aug Iresh Dilan Suggest Bio Votes by Kiran Kuruvila and Hemant Kumar Goyal. If you are ready to spend a day and love to learn technical related things. What are some useful computer related technical skills I can learn within a day? Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 2 Nov
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Choose a base pattern that'll be common across most of your passwords and then prefix or suffix something that identifies the website or service you're using. Example (showing suffixes): My Google account password: tmSchu13Lz*ggL My Facebook account password: tmSchu13Lz*fcB My Yahoo account password: tmSchu13Lz*yaH My LinkedIn account password: tmSchu13Lz*lnK and so on. Agreed this is not any super-secure stuff, which is why you shouldn't be using this for your bank account for example but for other trivial accounts, this can be an easy way to remember passwords without needing to write them down or store them somewhere. You can choose the base pattern to be anything that you can quickly remember. A very simple example could be to put in abbreviations of some of the things that are going on in your mind these days. The example shown uses this to a certain extent. Essentially, my tmSchu13Lz came from tm - Taj Mahal (name of some lovely place you recently visited), Schu - Michael Schumacher (name of your favourite F1 racer), 13 - 2013 (simply, this year), Lz - Led Zeppelin (band whose songs you've recently started liking) and so on. Put in as many and whatever elements you want to, in your base pattern.
Building on top of that, you can now add an identifier pattern that will identify the website or service you're using. Simple examples could be: goo,goog,ggl,gle etc. for your Google account, fbk ,fcbk ,fbook etc. for your Facebook account, and so on. Now to add to the password strength and in fact, some websites make it necessary, to add at least one symbol character. So what you can do is simply add one such character (like a & or a % or a * like the example did) between the base pattern and the identifier pattern. Essentially, your password is one of the following: <SymbolCharacter><BasePattern><IdentifierPattern> <BasePattern><IdentifierPattern><SymbolCharacter> <IdentifierPattern><SymbolCharacter><BasePattern> and so on from the 6 possibilities. Choose any. I prefer the symbol character coming in between the other two because it serves as a separator. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 11 Aug Ashok Koduru, Sopho no more Votes by Louis Handfield and Narasimha Chari. If you are one of the persons who uses 'copy' and 'paste' very often. This technique is for you(Mouse is required). Instead of pressing Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, just highlight the text with the mouse, later take the cursor anywhere over highlighted text and press scrolling button or middle button. Later go to the place where you want to paste it, place the cursor over there and simply press the scrolling button again..Your text is copied. I don't think this thing takes 10 minutes to learn, probably more than half a minute to get to used to it.(This works only for 'text' not for pictures) Upvote Comment Share (1) Thank Report 25 Jul Anonymous Vote by Khalid Khan.
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Learn to be calm in intense situations and hectic times. Sometimes it just happens that our brain is working far too fast with completely different thoughts urgently seeking for attention. Eg what do I have to do next and then x then y then z, in a i have to do this, b needs this etc. In such situations one needs to take control of the mind and slow it down. Refresh it and revitalize it. To lower down the thinking process and calm down in such situations, what I have learned is to deep breath in silence for 5 minutes. While deep breathing and yoga have already been mentioned, I want to add a small twist which rather helps to keep focus as the mind still wanders off to the distractions. I find myself focusing on my breath and yet the thoughts pushing in. At those times, trying to focus your attention at the center of your forehead really helps. Noticing the breathing along with trying to concentrate at the point finally controls the thought process. It was a trick given in high school by a teacher who was good at making us do yoga each day. Works pretty well for me. Next time in a mind rush try to empty your mind with this process. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 12 Jun, 2013 Margaret Weiss, no need to reinvent the wheel Votes by Mark Savchuk, Aziz Yusupov, Cyndi Perlman Fink, Marie Sandal, and 17 more. How to buy a mango Pick up the mango Smell it If it smells like a sweet mango flesh, that ripe and aromatic sense, it means it's good to buy If it doesn't smell like anything or has a tart notes, it's not ripe - don't buy it; even if it will be laying at your home, it is bound to go bad before the proper ripeness is achieved. Via Christa Rademacher. Upvote 1 Comment Share Thank Report 3 Aug Ankur Aggarwal Suggest Bio Votes by Qasim Zeeshan and Mohak Patel. U can keep your eyes close for 10 min daily in the morning and after work.. U will really feel relaxed.. Forget about the whole world at that moment.. Think of your best moment of your lyf. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 18 Apr, 2013 Avishek Shaw, chill!! Votes by Marian Marian, Deepesh Matholia, Arnav Guha, and Binod Kumar. Learn to shave with a double-edged razor. Trust me it is much better than the disposables available in the market and gives a much smoother shave. Plus it is economical too!! Enjoy! Upvote 2 Comments Share Thank Report 10 Apr, 2013 Michael Hennessy, Stay at home dad Votes by Veronica Hayes, Eric Gu, Rohitanshu Kumar, Angad Minhas, and 7 more. If your batteries are running low, (literally not figuratively) you can give them a quick recharge simply by tapping and rubbing the positive ends together. it won't fully recharge them, or even half way, but it will make you flash light brighter for several minutes. Just enough time to use it to find new fully charged batteries. Don't do it too hard or you might damage the batteries. As my high school chemistry teacher explained it to me, it frees up the ions. Upvote 1+ Comments Share Thank Report 3 Apr, 2013 Abhay Jain, Exploring Self Vote by Abhishek Indoria.
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I think this is the least applied known fact. For being effective in conveying a message through, always use a picture. For obvious reasons, ppl tend to skip texts when having lots to read. Also, Message' visibility: Shoots up immensely even if the picture is not related to your message. Visual Reminder: Message recall is also higher Example below : (picture courtsey: Arjun Prasad)
Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 27 May, 2013 Originally answered on Tips and Hacks for Everyday Life: What is a life skill everyone should know that can be learned in less than 10 minutes? Mandeep Shetty Suggest Bio Votes by Christos Damaskos and Anonymous. Flossing when watching TV or some video. Rocking back and forth on the toilet when pooping. Answered in thirty-five minutes. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 23 Apr, 2013 Abhinav Kumar, And then there were none, Many of them. Vote by Amber Bahuguna. This one's cool. Whenever you are sending texts to many of your contacts of the same group, try personalizing the text. eg. If you changed your number and want to let all your school friends know, Instead of writing Hi friends, This is my new number or hi Bros, Wish you all a Merry Christmas, Try Hi mate, This is my new number or Hi Bro, Wish you a Merry Christmas. Make the text feel like you're only talking to that one recipient of your text when you've actually forwarded that text to many of your friends. If there's both the genders you need to send the text to, You may have to text two times, one for each gender or simply use a gender neutral text which doesn't sound that you've sent the text to many. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 31 May, 2013 Monish Appusamy, percuriosus Votes by Akshat Dhawan, Sivaram Krishnamoorthi, Micah Wood, Sukalp Tipre, and 3 more. VEDIC MATHEMATICS: Easy multiplication Sorry, I cannot add all the videos, since most of the videos are in our native language.
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Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 23 Mar, 2013 Rebeiro Jeyapaul, Digital Marketing Votes by Bianca N. Diesel, Claudius Poth, Dave Larsen, Prateek Chandra Jha, and 8 more. Tips: Learn to listen carefully and appreciate everyone around and their work. That's a 30 seconds learning, you can use the remaining 9 minutes and 30 seconds on learning something else. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 22 Mar, 2013 Deniz Ate, Philosophical Pugilist Votes by Sai Malleswar, Kam Tse, and Ye Xuan. How to memorize a book: 1) Use the contents page as a map for the key ideas in the text. If the contents page is useless then write your own version. 2) Look for key words in the contents page that refer to visual, auditory and kinaesthetic representations and use them as symbols. 3) Form a thrilling adventure story out of these symbols by interacting with them in dramatic ways and in sequence. Repeat this symbolic story until it sticks. 4) Test to see if the immediate association of these symbols are the key words that you selected from the contents page. You may also use this technique to memorize paragraphs. Via Dilip Kumar. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 17 Oct Nicholas Tomlin, Objectivist Collectivist Vote by Neil O'Connor. If you're having trouble opening a pistachio nut, use the half-shell of the pistachio you just ate to pry it open.
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Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 29 Dec Brian Takita, Abstractionist & Heavy Lifter Votes by Ravi Jadhav, Carole Zavala, Kavya Shree M S, Jeff Tenenbaum, and 4 more. How fractals relate to nature, concepts, and ultimately your decisions (and possible decisions) over time. Decision-Making with Fractal Futures Ok, this video is longer than 10 minutes, but awesome nonetheless...
Upvote 1 Comment Share (1) Thank Report Updated 7 Sep Richard Gibbons Suggest Bio Votes by Diana Creu, Faris Sheikh, Abbas Halai, Mahendra Malviya, and 4 more. How to tell the length of a month with your knuckles. Make a fist, count off the months starting with the knuckle of your index finger then the next month in the trough between knuckles. If a month lands on the knuckle it is 31 days and if in a trough it is less than 31 days, 30 or 28 you'll know which. July lands on the knuckle of your little finger and August starts the other hand or reverse and begin with the same knuckle going back. Upvote 5+ Comments Share Thank Report 17 Oct Gagan Maheshwari, Swadeshi Vote by Muhammad El Qadi. Saving an image as a PDF instantly: Assumingly that you have a "Print to PDF" option installed, open the image in Chrome or Firefox or even IE. Do a Ctrl+P, and print to a PDF instantly. Very simple but very handy at times!
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Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 25 Jul Bhavdeep Sethi, Inquisitive Vote by Karthik Karunanithy. 7 minute workout: Most of us don't have time (the will rather) for regular workout. Here is a 7 minute workout that requires only a wall and a chair. Hopefully, giving only 7 minutes in a day will be an incentive to try this out. Here is a site which will help you do the exercises in order: A Seven Minute Workout Timer Videos for checking what is the correct form of doing these exercises: These 12 Videos Show the Proper Form for a 7-Minute Full Workout Upvote Comment Share Thank Report Updated 13 Jun, 2013 Dave Jost, A rock star who can't sing (or play guitar) Votes by David Sylvester and Astha Agrawal. Casting out Nines When I was in 5th grade, I discovered a book in my classroom library that explained a calculation checking approach called "casting out nines". Turns out - I was supposed to find this book (because the teacher used this technique to check out work) but I had the book long enough to learn it (and I still use it this to this day). It starts with a simple concept the digit sum. 34 has the digit sum of 7 (3+4) 97432 has the digit sum of 25, 25 has a digital sum of 7 I will show how it works for addition (but it works for subtraction, multiplication and division as well). Let's add: 14456 34567 ______ 49023 is this correct? 14456 = 20 = 2 34567 = 25 = 7 ______ 49023 =18 = 9 =0 and 7+2=9=0 so Yes it is correct. It is sad how I will be invited to a presentation - where someone spent day (and or weeks) performing some type of calculations - and the presenters hand out some type of hard copy print out of excel. I check the math very quickly - and many times it is wrong (Excel isn't wrong they have an error somewhere in the calculations). Writing this up, reminded me that I read an (Asimov?) short story about a future where society forgot how to perform mathematics - but by studying the way missiles were aimed - a bright person figured it out. But that person fate was doomed. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 3 Aug Leon Bayer, Los Angeles Bankruptcy Attorney, Bayer Wishman & Leotta 3 Votes by Mayo Molnar and Abhishek Gupta. What a fascinating question. I'll give you my perspective, as a Los Angeles
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bankruptcy lawyer for the past 34 years. It's this: Limit your total spending to spend less than your income. The extra money should go to savings. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 29 Oct Mayank Sahu, Arts Student, Designer, Geek and a humble person 1 Find out the Day of the Week for any Date! Web site Grey Matters has an extensive and detailed tutorial for determining the day of the week for any date thrown at you, no matter how far into the past or future, complete with plenty of mnemonics. The basic principles of this method look like this: 1) Day and Months Number Conversion: To work out the days of the week mentally, we need to convert them into numbers. We'll also need to convert the months into numbers, to adjust for their effects. These are taught in an easy-toremember manner. 2) Addition of 3 Numbers: Without using a calculator, can you tell me what 6 + 6 + 31 is? That's about as difficult as the basic formula gets. If you're comfortable doing that, you won't have a problem working through the formula. 3) Subtracting Multiples of 7: Let's say you're asked about the 27th of a month. Regardless of the month or year, we can state with certainty that the 27th of a month will fall on [the same day of the week as] the 6th (since it's 3 weeks, or 21 days, earlier). Since adding 6 is simpler than adding 27, and will give the same result, why not use 6? If you learn to subtract multiples of 7, this makes the arithmetic so easy that you won't have to worry about addition problems any tougher than 6 + 6 + 6! 4) Year Number Conversion: After becoming comfortable with all of the above when given dates in the years 2000 to 2003, you'll learn how to remember and adjust the leap years in the 21st century to key dates. After learning those, you'll learn a simple way to adjust for any year from 2000 to 2099, and even adjust for other centuries! Day of the Week For Any Date (Revised) Upvote Comment Share (1) Thank Report 14 Jun, 2013 Nipun Garg, Student 1 OK, so it goes: How to staple pages without a stapler, temporarily.
Now, supposingly, if you're out of staple pins or don't have a stapler lying around, here's how you can manage temporarily.
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Gently place the two sheets above each other, precisely where you want them to attach. Now make a fold, and perform a tear as shown in the photographs below.
Now, as in the above photograph, keep the torn-off portion folded and now the staple is ready.
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Do keep in mind though that the staple wouldn't be as firm as a metal one, and is only good enough as a place holder. Upvote 1+ Comments Share Thank Report 23 Jul Jesse Oh, a student of the purpose of life... Votes by Jorge Arturo Retamoza, Anmol Majhail, Danita Crouse, Tom Byron, and 21 more. Learning how to totally still one's mind, for several minutes at a time, is the most useful and enlightening experience one can ever have in their life... Upvote 7+ Comments Share (1) Thank Report 20 Apr, 2013 Ivan Muljevski, Internet Marketing manager at Ninet Company Vote by Narasimha Chari. Use Google advanced search queries to find better results. Sometimes google wil return result that you are not much interested in. Examle phrase :learn useful things Copy bolded phrases in google search. 1. All words in title: allintitle:learn useful things (example: allintitle:learn useful things - Google Search ) 2. Search specific category: inurl:/category/useful-things 3.Find related websites : related:quora.com 4. Search website directly from google: useful things site:quora.com 5. Exclude website from search : Useful things -quora.com 6. Show only phrase:"learn useful things" Copy bold words in Google to see results. Enjoy ! P.S. Learn all about here: Search Operators !
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Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 29 Jul Jasdeep Garcha, Present Votes by Tay Yi Yan, Gabriel Maestas, and Praveen Janakarajan. How to eat chocolate. The trick is to taste it, not to eat it. Follow these general steps the next time you have chocolate -Break off a small piece Don't eat it immediately Look at it's complexion and mold Smell it (much like one would do with a wine) Hold it in your mouth and wait for it to melt Move it around to air out the flavor and ENJOY! That's it. Chocolate can be enjoyed in many ways, but following a process like the above will turn a 15-30 second flavor profile into a 15-30 minute flavor profile, significantly increasing the lifetime of a bar (and also your appreciation of the dynamic range of chocolate flavors -- which is made up of over 600 flavor compounds ). The flavor of a particular chocolate truly depends on a wide range of variables. Therefore a chocolate bar made in mass (e.g. Hershey's) vs. one made in small quantities (e.g. Theo or Dandelion) will show very different qualities all around. Upvote Comment Share (1) Thank Report 31 Jul Eirik sheim Suggest Bio Votes by Anirudh Roshan and Vipul Bansal. To check how full a non see-through bottle/package of milk/juice/water etc is. Instead of opening it or weighing it, give it a few tip-taps with you fingers and listen to the sound it makes. Containers make a differently pitched sound depending on how full they are. This is especially useful for comparing containers to each other. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 29 Mar, 2013 Vandit Maheshwari, Taking one step at a time! 1 Read all the answers, watch all the videos to this question! Bookmark the URL(This Question) and share it to get more non quorans and mothers to read and add to this question!
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Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 11 May, 2013 Kushal Kumar Suggest Bio Vote by Nitish Gupta. While Chopping Onions, chew something(can be choclate, bread , etc) and your eyes won't get flooded with tears. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 27 Jul Rami Taibah, UX designer, UC Berkeley I School Alum, Nerdish, Open Source Advocate, Juventini Votes by Niharika Verma, Joo Victor Barbar, Andrew Gilchrist, Shruti Bhardwaj, and 1 more. Want a cold drink but don't want to wait? Wrap the bottle or can in wet napkins and throw it in the freezer for 15 minutes. Upvote 2+ Comments Share Thank Report 24 Mar, 2013 Satya Prakash, into Web Development 1 Try giving importance to every people - How they communicate and how they behave with you (I mean verbal and non verbal communication). By doing this, you do not necessarily follow their advice but understand them fully possible through communication. It pays in deciding, building relationship and filtering.
I always wished to read book about entrepreneurs. business success etc but fear if I can complete those. Books written correctly can be small on these as well like this on Amazon Story: Built for Success It took little more than 10 mins. Now, I wish to buy these books time to time.
Learn Biographies. It helps to know great personalities. It does not takes much time to read a well written short book. It gives tremendous pleasure to know someone great correctly. Word of mouth is not good enough to know great personalities. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report Updated 30 Aug Ashok Achar 1
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live in the moment.. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 2 Aug Kapil Rajak, Votes by Frederik Tange, Colin Jensen, Adhithya Rajagopalan, Guy Taylor, and 4 more. Learn how to use google effectively! Upvote 1 Comment Share Thank Report Updated 12 Apr, 2013 Peter Hartlen, Biz development guy... multiple products, businesses and ideas in various stages of growth Votes by Rahma Sofien, Sankalp Kulshreshtha, Manish Shankar Gupta, Dave Larsen, and 17 more. How to listen to 30 minutes of an audiobook at 3X speed. It takes less than 10 minutes to get used to and you will never go back. Upvote 2 Comments Share Thank Report 1 Sep Sai Krishna Suggest Bio Votes by Mrinal Vibhav Arun and Ap Sri. I am surprised no one mentioned meditation. The miseries in our lives are caused by deep rooted cravings and aversions in our mind which can be easily erased by meditation. Ten minutes,... a lot of time.....
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Infact there are writings I read which reinstate that ten minutes of meditation equals the relaxation obtained after 6 hours of sleep Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 19 Jun, 2013 Dave Hartung Suggest Bio Votes by Pei Mun Lim, Sunny Joon, Garrick Saito, Sushovan Mandal, and 21 more. How to deal with a nosebleed. Someone told me this in high school, and though I rarely get bloody noses anymore, it's been great. When you get a nosebleed, instead of plugging up your nose, grab a tissue (or several) and blow your nose until most of the existing blood is gone. You'll be surprised at how quickly the nosebleed stops. Upvote 6 Comments Share Thank Report 1 Aug Siddharth Basu, follower of leadership 1 learn to be patient... patience is the only way one can have many useful outcomes with. trust me,it works. and u ll probably not even need 10mins for that...just a couple of seconds can help u learn great things about patience. well the first is: it makes u sane enough. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 11 May, 2013 Flora Vieira Balieiro Suggest Bio Votes by Joo Victor Barbar, Cassidy Williams, Slavomir Glinsky, Raj Rai, and 9 more. how to peel an egg with one blow:
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Anonymous 1 This is the technique to remove oil stain off your clothes (which can not be removed by conventional wash) by yourself, when you do not have the time to go to a dry cleaner. You just have to have a talcum powder. Put the powder on the oil stain, make sure the powder is enough and then leave the cloth for a night or two nights if the stain is really strong. After that do a conventional wash in hot water. And then see the magic. There are many other ways of removing oil stains at home. See here: How to Remove Grease or Oil Stains from Clothing Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 30 Jun, 2013 SundarJI Sv Suggest Bio 1 Well Leanr to be honest. That would pay you high for ever. Might be hard to believe and frustrates you at many a times. But it works. Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 25 Jul Mundanda Prajab Somiah 1 Speed reading Upvote Comment Share Thank Report 27 Jul Anonymous 1 I see many people, while opening their E-mail uses full email ID in user name but this is not required. For example: If you are opening your gmail ID you need not to write full email ID as uesrname@gmail.com and then password. Instead you can only enter username without "@gmail" as "username" and then your password. PS: Many smart works can save lot of your time. So be SMART in what you do.
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Tips and Hacks for Everyday Life : Hacks and Tips

Learning New Things

Without hurting your finger:

Follow this instructions (click on image to enlarge)

Watch the demo:

The Socratic method.

Sources and further reading: Socratic method

Other body parts you can use as units of measurement include:

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So, ultimately your sleeping schedule can be one of the below:

11. Aquarius (Water-carrier) Leaven

Here is a nice simple way to add hours and minutes together:

10. How to eat a chicken wing.

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and this small one

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How to Tell If Eggs Are Raw or Hard Boiled?

Amplify the volume of your iPhone or iPod by placing it in a bowl

Use nail polish to relieve an insect bite.

Use a blow-dryer on a mirror to clear the steam after a hot shower.

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