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How to extend your smartphone’s battery life

December 26, 2011 | Author: | Posted in Smartphones

No matter what type of smartphone you have, the device can serve as your MP3 player, digital camera, gaming system, and even your TV while you’re out and about — as long as you have battery power. If it seems like smarter phones are getting less life out of their batteries… you’re absolutely right. Smartphones can help you get …

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Myth busting: Is high-octane gas worth the premium?

December 26, 2011 | Author: | Posted in Gas Saving Ideas

When thinking about ourselves as egalitarian agents ofenvironmental and climate change, it is too easy to think that your automotive needs take precedence over everyone else’s. While you may think you have a special case to drive around in your huge SUV to make the 45-minute commute to work, everyone else on the road feels the same way. …

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Businesses You Can Start for Under $5K

December 18, 2011 | Author: | Posted in Business Ideas

How to Start a Business on the Cheap The biggest thing holding most people back from starting their own business is money. But the truth is, you don’t have to have a lot of money to start a business. “If I get one more stinking, whining email about how impossible it is to start a …

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Orange Juice’s ‘Secret Ingredient’ Worries Some Health-Minded Moms

December 18, 2011 | Author: | Posted in Food Safety Issues

Natalya Murakhver, a New York food writer and mother of an 18-month year old daughter, loved her premium brand orange juice — the “100 percent pure” and “not from concentrate” kind that comes in the colorful carton and tastes consistently delicious. That is, until she said she learned from her first-time moms group that there’s …