ZDNet highlights 10 grammar mistakes to avoid because, frankly (they’re just being honest because we’re all friends), they make you look stupid.
While we at Lifehacker have certainly NEVER made any grammatical slip-ups in the course of our daily posts (right?), ZDNet does highlight several very common mistakes that we’ve all made at one time or another. Personally, I’ve never been a big fan of people who get too up-in-arms over a misplaced they’re/their/there (I’m a benefit-of-the-doubt kind of guy), but I do agree that its it’s important to avoid …

Concerned about your privacy? One proactive step you can take is to remove your phone number from Google PhoneBook.
As you may know, typing a residential phone number into a Google Search bar (though not the Google Toolbar) performs a reverse lookup that lists your name, address and even a link to a Google Map of your address. Fortunately, Google gives you the option of removing all your residential listing information–all you have to do is fill out a short form and wait 48 hours. Granted, there are countless other …

Keystroke the Carriers
April 20th, 2007 ·
The carriers raise your monthly bills, add senseless fees, and sell you ringtones for ludicrous amounts of money. It’s time to save some money and keystroke the carriers (Verizon, Cingular, T-Mobile, and Sprint). Voicemail burns up precious minutes each month by making you listen to your message and the digital lady. You can basically skip everything she says simply by using a simple keystroke shortcut. You can save messages, skip messages, check your allocated anytime minutes, and get credits for dropped calls just by …

The dreaded phone call comes in: there has been some suspicious activity on your credit card and the bank would like to verify that you were the one spending thousands of dollars online. Shocked and appalled, it strikes you that your identity has been stolen and that you must act quickly to protect yourself from further damage. While the news can be overwhelming at first, and you most likely want to figure out how this even happened to you, there are a few steps you should immediately take to preserve …

These are all basic rules, but they all seem to get broken constantly. All of these should be obvious to anyone who’s conscious (maybe even the lightly sleeping), but they must not be. On to the rules!

Proofread your resume. This is the most basic rule I can imagine, and yet it has been violated so many times that it’s threatening to press charges. I’ve gotten applications for the Administratvie Assistant position from people living in Memhpis. Spellcheck, and fix your grammar. I’m not interested in your “too years of experience”. …

DIY site Instructables shows you how to create a homemade photo cube that makes a nice gift or decoration.
You’ll need six photos, a cutting board, a knife, a scoring tool and some glue or double-sided tape. The only tricky part is printing your photos so they fill only the center part of of the paper, not the entire width. The author provides a downloadable Photoshop mask for this, but you can probably accomplish the same thing in any image-editing program.
From there you just cut, score, arrange and glue. You …

Diane Kennedy is a CPA and Tax Strategist (and member of Robert Kiyosaki’s “Rich Dad” team) – I have studied her work and know it to be very sound advice that I use in my own real estate investing strategies…
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If you hate you some telemarketer phone calls, here's one more weapon in the fight against their persistent calls:
If you call a number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service you will hear 3 short tones, "doo…dah…dee", thanks to Ma-Bell…. Guess what the telemarketers' software does when it detects these 3 tones at the beginning of your outgoing message? It thinks it has reached a line that is disconnected or is no longer in service. So, it disconnects and does not log …

I thought I knew something about networking, but according to an animated cartoon by telco lobbyists, I've been laboring under numerous misconceptions. For example, I'd always believed it possible to increase both capacity and bandwidth without the kind of traffic discrimination that the telcos would like to introduce. Apparently, that's wrong.
The cartoon clearly illustrates that network neutrality makes it impossible for broadband providers to increase capacity and bandwidth. You've simply got to discriminate between cheap packets and expensive packets to accommodate a large …

The Apartment Therapy blog lets me in on a handy tip for cleaning the microwave.
[F]ill a microwave-safe bowl with about 1-2 cups of water. Add some lemon juice, or put in half a piece of fresh cut lemon (squeezing some juice out first) into the bowl.Microwave until the water is boiling. Then let it sit for a few minutes to let the steam penetrate the interior. Carefully remove the bowl and interior tray. Wipe down the interior with a damp cloth.
Any micro-cook can tell you …