The Complete Guide to Saving Money on Textbooks
With student loan debt at an all-time high, the high costs of text books hurt even more. This year, save yourself a ton of money by buying your textbooks the right way.
How to Get Amazon Prime Video on Your Android TV
Few set top boxes support every service you want, but when you’ve got one that runs Android there’s usually a workaround. One of the most frustrating omissions from Android TV’s app catalog is Amazon Prime Video, but you can change that with just a few simple steps and no rooting required.
Sherbit Visualizes and Interprets All the Data Your Online Services Collect
iOS: You use a lot of online services that track a lot of data, but how much do you really know about it all? Sherbit puts all that data into one place so you can quickly understand how it all relates through attractive visualizations.
Turn Enemies into Friends with One Little Acknowledgment
Hope as you may, you’re just not going to love every person you meet. In fact, you may outright hate a few—but you don’t have to. A study coming out of the University of Groningen indicates that a little shift in the way you approach disliked people could alleviate a lot of those negative feelings.
Build an Augmented Reality Sandbox with Real-Time Topography
Perhaps you never thought of a sandbox as a piece of technology or a learning tool, but with a little work it can be both. Developer Oliver Kreylos and some other folks over at UC Davis utilized the Microsoft Kinect to turn a sandbox into an auto-updating topographical map. And you can build one, too.
Every Diet and Exercise Calendar You Could Need to Plan Your Routine
It’s not hard to develop a basic diet and exercise plan the you can stick to over the years, but fine-tuning your progress offers a different set of challenges—often in the form of math. BodyBuilding.com put together a series of calculators to do the hard work for you so you can figure out exactly what you need to do…
Swap Your To-Do List for a "Break List" to Get More Done
To-do lists keep track of tasks we have to do, but they hardly ever provide actual motivation. A small tweak to your productivity method can solve that problem pretty quickly. All you need to do is start maintaining a “break list” instead, and you’ll find yourself more eager to get things done.
An iPhone User's Guide to Falling In Love With Android Wear
When you buy an Apple product you buy into the ecosystem more than with any other company, but that doesn’t mean you’re stuck with only what they offer. If you’re a lover of wearables you’d be remiss to overlook Android Wear, even if you’ve chosen iOS as your primary mobile platform.
How to Install and Make Custom Android Wear Watch Faces
If there’s one thing I love about the possibility of wearables, it’s swapping in new watch faces. While many companies either prevent users from making custom watch faces or require some decent coding skills, Android Wear has a few workarounds—and they’re awesome. If you want to make your very own, custom watch face…
How to Use Medical Marijuana Safely and Responsibly
Medical marijuana is a safe alternative treatment option (by comparison), but it’s still a powerful drug that can cause problems for you if you don’t know what you’re doing. With a little knowledge and practice, however, you can use it to get relief from several conditions and manage the negative side effects.
How to Choose and Buy the Right Kind of Medical Marijuana for You
Using medical marijuana is most difficult when it comes to dosing properly. You have multiple ways to administer the drug and even then you have to figure out how to do it accurately. Let’s take a look at the different types you can purchase and what can help provide the most relief for you.