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If you are a designer, you know how important it is to always spend extra time going over your designs and the tools you use to create them. This is even more true when it is an important client who is asking you to redesign their logo which they've had for a long time. Their original logo might hav ...

How To Create Your Own Bug Zapping Lightsaber

Are you a Jedi in the making? Maybe you have been secretly longing for a time when someone will produce a real lighsaber that you can wield while you are alone in your home, making your every dream come true about one day being able to join the rebels. We have touched this subject before, and the co ...

How To Squeeze More Lemon Out Of Your Lemon [Video]

It's funny how we always stick to doing things the way we were taught as kids. It just seems simpler that way, right? It could be everything really, from the way we button our shirts to how we brush our teeth. But as always, there are things we can do to optimize our ways of doing things if we are j ...

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How To Find & Optimize Your Niche Following On Twitter [Infographic]

Brands on Twitter are constantly trying to optimize their approach to make sure they reach as many people as possible. They do it with the help of fun topics that can easily go viral. More often than not, their campaigns fail and they are back to square one, and they start planning for their next on ...

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How To Get Inbound Leads From Your Website [Infographic]

Lately I've been seeing more and more articles and infographics about inbound marketing. I first heard of this concept back in 2007 when I attended week long conference in Toronto about it. It was there that my lifelong passion for working online was cemented. In case you don't know what inbound mar ...

How To Turn A Banana (Or Anything Else) Into A Working Touchpad

This is definitely the most innovative and exciting piece of technology that I've seen today. It's also the most successful product I've ever seen on kickstarter. They were trying to raise $25,000, and as of right now, they've raised $513,418. It's things like this little invention kit, which is sim ...

How To Raise Money For Your Startup [Infographic]

Like many people, I've been following Mashable's 16-episode documentary called Behind The Launch. It is a series designed to take readers behind the scenes to see what it's like to launch a startup. You get to feel the ups and downs, and see what it's really all about without any sugar coating. It's ...

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How To Grill Amazing Marshmallows Like A True Pirate

Let's once again venture into the creative landscape of grilling. Wait, what? Alright, maybe grilling ain't that creative after all. Usually, you're just standing there, pouring on some marinade, and making sure the meat is kept juicy at all times. Yup, that's pretty much what it is for most people. ...

How To Be More Creative [Infographic]

If you have ever found yourself in a moment of stagnation which resulted in you not even getting close to being creative, you know how frustrating it can be. Minutes feel like hours, and all you can think about is how you could be more creative. There is a stupid line of thinking out there that beli ...

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How To: Properly Tattoo A Banana

A banana is an extraordinary fruit. In addition to eating them, people use bananas to make banana wine, fiber and even clothes (see a banana peel dress here). Banana leaves are waterproof and the large ones are sometimes even used as umbrellas. About a year ago, I wrote about the Healing Power Of Ba ...

Biology Of A Hangover & How To Prevent It [Infographic]

You might remember a few days back when I wrote about how alcohol affects your body, and why you get drunk consuming it. The article was called The Science Of Getting Drunk. So I thought what better to do than follow that up with something that we all might have experienced once or twice in our live ...

How To: Play Hooky From Work Without Getting Caught

Have you ever called into work and said you were sick when you really weren't just so you could take the day off? C'mon, it's okay, you can admit it, you're among friends here. Everyone has done it, right? Well, actually only about 30% of Americans have. That's interesting because almost everyone I ...

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How To: Recognize A Potential IRL Friend On Twitter

Debra Devita

There is much controversy, even today, about whether it's possible to have real friends who come solely from Internet platforms. Indeed, there are still some naysayers who do or don't use social media who don't believe any real friends can come from it. I have to wholeheartedly disagree. Finding fri ...

How To Keep Your Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Safe From Looters