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How To Lose 10 Pounds in One Year By Doing Practically Nothing

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 4, 2009

The New York Post recently had an article entitled WHEN IT COMES TO WEIGHT LOSS, CUT 100 – CALORIES, THAT IS!

The article points out one simple fact: if you eat 100 fewer calories a day for an entire year and change absolutely nothing else about your exercise or diet plan, then you will be taking in 36,500 fewer calories over the course of those 365 days.

100 fewer calories a day. That should be easy.

One less fat-free Jell-O Pudding Cup.

One less slice of bread.

One less bottle of original VitaminWater (the full caloric version).

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How to Easily Change your Maiden Name

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 1, 2009

You’re getting married this month, but haven’t given a thought to what you’re going to about your name.

Do you have the paperwork? Do you even know what to do?

Some friends from Canada have setup a service where they will handle most of the heavy lifting for you: I’M A MRS. For a small fee, they will provide you with a package containing all government forms, including forms for passport, SSN, voter registration, driver’s license, and more. For a few dollars more, you’ll also be able to access information that would cover many of your financial contacts: retail credit cards, utilities, insurance, etc.

While this service currently only services Canada, they are expecting to expand into the US soon (if they haven’t done so already by the time you read this).

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How to Repair Your Guitar Hero Instruments

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 30, 2009

Has your inner-Rock Band Guitar Hero been sidelined by breakdowns in inferior plastic equipment?

Are your drum fills losing the star power you once had? Is your guitar’s whammy bar a little less…. whammy?

Josh Straub has the answers for you with his ULTIMATE GUITAR HERO INSTRUMENT PHOTO REPAIR GUIDE.

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10 Things You Don’t Know About… Finding the Best Inexpensive Wine at a Restaurant

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 17, 2009

So you’re sitting at the fancy restaurant, and the waiter hands you the wine menu. If you’re like most people, you flip to the back page where the cheap stuff is, scan the page for the least expensive per-glass line, and order whatever it may be.

Yes, restaurants make a ton of money selling customers a bottle of wine at an incredibly high markup. The same bottle that can run $100 or more in the restaurant may only cost you $20 at the local wine shop…assuming the local wine shop even carries that label or vintage.

So how do you know which wine is a good value when you’re looking at the menu?

The Wall Street Journal has written a handy guide to help you SAVE MONEY WHEN BUYING WINE AT A RESTAURANT.

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How to Find an Internship or Job, Off-the-Beaten-Path

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 13, 2009

One common conversation topic I find myself having with my unemployed friends is that – after they’ve been unemployed for an extended period of time – they are willing to try anything, even if it means switching career paths. And frankly, some are using their job hunt time to switch to a career that they’ve always wanted to try.

But if you are out of the college market, what are some ways to discover new, interesting internships that aren’t necessarily in your own field of experience? Sure, you could check the want-ads in the newspaper, but why not check out an intern-specific website like ONE DAY ONE INTERNSHIP?

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How to Mow The Lawn

Here are some different looks at how to properly mow your lawn and trim the hedges. Don’t want to be smuggling a basket of that plastic Easter grass, do you?

For the women:

Commercial #1:

Commercial #2:

Bushes, the Norman Cook remix:

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Your Password Sucks

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 3, 2009

Jimmy Ruska was able to obtain some hacked database files from MySpace, phpBB, and Singles.org.

These files contained basic user and password information, resulting in 116,782 passwords being available for analysis. These files were from early 2009.

Here is a quick look at some of the information that Jimmy found about what THE MOST COMMON PASSWORDS ARE:

Continue reading “Your Password Sucks”

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How to Improve Your Scrabble Play

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 28, 2009
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All you need to do is learn some new 2- and 3-letter words.

In what appears to be a bad case of timing from their reporters, The Wall Street Journal finally reported this week of a dramatic change in the world of Scrabble that took place in October 2005:

THE ADDITION OF NEW WORDS TO THE SCRABBLE DICTIONARY.

Words such as “ZA”, “QI”, and “ZZZ” were added recently, according to the WSJ. Apparently, “recently” means “in the past 4-5 years” to them.

Regardless, here at Web Watch we believe in making sure that you are not sucked into the same vortex of bad Scrabble-playing that the WSJ would lead you down if you had to wait a few years to discover that there had been a Scrabble dictionary update. So here are the list of handy two- and three- letter words that you should have at the ready the next time you need to impress your Scrabble-playing friends…along with the unexpected WSJ followup:

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