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Three Principles of Personal Finance: All You Need to Know for Financial Success
via Personal Finance Blog – Financial Advice, Tips and Tools for Better Money Management - Mint.edu by Aaron Patzer on October 02, 2007
More than 10,000 books have been written about personal finance. You could spend a lifetime reading them. Some of them are great1; others are 99% motivation, 1% actual, actionable information2.The truth is personal finance is simple. Every one of these books can be reduced into three basic principles:Spend less than you earnMake the money you have work for youBe prepared for the...
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How Mint’s SmartSave™ Savings Engine Works
via Personal Finance Blog – Financial Advice, Tips and Tools for Better Money Management - Mint.edu by Mint.com on October 10, 2007
At Mint, one of our sayings is: “Know your money. Grow your money.”In order to “know your money,” Mint links seamlessly to thousands of banks, credit unions, and credit card companies in the US. Combined with a patent-pending spending report, this lets you see exactly where your money goes, across all your accounts, with one login.But knowing where you stand is only the beginning. The...
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How To Improve Your Physique Without Lifting Weights
via Just A Guy Thing by Christian on January 08, 2008
There are so many different types of workout available for men these days that it’s often hard to determine which is best for you. This is made more difficult by so-called experts that claim their way is best and anything else simply won’t work. The fact is that there isn’t a one-type-fits-all workout per se. Different goals, body types, and motivation are all factors to be taken into...
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New and Promising BitTorrent Sites
via TorrentFreak by Ernesto on February 13, 2008
BitTorrent’s popularity is still growing, and new sites are launched every day. Unfortunately it is impossible to feature all the new sites here, so we decided to post a selection of BitTorrent sites that look promising, or offer something new.PizzaTorrentPizzaTorrent is a meta-search engine, inspired by the enormous success of another site we introduced last month, YouTorrent. The site has a...
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Hillary Mortgages the Future
via Reason Magazine - by schapman@tribune.com (Steve Chapman) on February 17, 2008
You will count speed as a virtue if you're going through a home remodeling, clicking on an Internet link or drafting a cornerback. But presented with looming calamity, most of us would much prefer one that moves slowly. Which is why there is no comfort in hearing that if Hillary Clinton is elected president, she will be "ready on Day One." In her campaign, she presents herself as an...
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Learn the Basics of Installing From Source in Linux [Linux]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on February 26, 2008
Few things can be as frustrating to non-expert Linux users as seeing the phrase "... or compile from source packages" on the download page of that killer app to try out (and we know that's often the case for you patient non-Ubuntu users out there). If you're looking for a nuts-and-bolts guide to installing software from those strange-looking Whatever.tar.gz files, Tuxfiles.org has a...
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Turn PDFs into Printable Booklets with BookletCreator [PDFs]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on February 27, 2008
Want to read a printed copy of a PDF that's portable and staple-free? BookletCreator is a free PDF conversion webapp that creates documents that can be printed and folded into an easy-to-read booklet. Assuming your PDF is oriented to "portrait" layout and is less than eight pages, you can get what appear to be pretty decent-looking booklets from your document. Got more than eight pages? Tell...
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The Warrior’s Guide to True Manliness
via The Art of Manliness by Brett on March 03, 2008
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Evan and Spencer Burton. They author the blog Living Indubiously.It was not long ago that men were born to be warriors and had no other obligations than to uphold the warrior code and to pass it on to their offspring. It was only during the past 500 years that man forgot this way of life and replaced it with a complacency seemingly suited for a new world...
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