Shockingly, there are actually a lot of similarities between blogging/social media/make money online and World of Warcraft.

1.  People you’ve never met in person are some of your best friends

WOW players of often teased for calling someone they regularly play with and talk to their friend.  How you really be friends with someone you’ve never met face to face?

Similarly, most bloggers will never meet most of the people they interact with on a daily basis in person.  As bloggers, over time we share much of our personal experiences and personality with our readers.  We regularly have discussions via comments, Twitter, Facebook, or other messaging services.

This sharing causes us to bond with our reader or the authors of the blogs we read.  Darren Rowse was once jumped on by a woman who had never left a comment on his blog, but had been reading for years. (It’s really not a creepy as it sounds)

2.  Learning About It Is Addictive

When players first start into WOW, it is uncharted territory.  Each quest, location, and skill is excited.  The more you play, the more your eyes open up to the possibilities and the more you want to learn and get better.  Once a player gets past the initial learning curve, they can get totally caught up in reading about the game and even forget to play at time.

Learning about blogging is highly addictive too.  At first it is a little scary setting up hosting, picking a theme, finding plugins, and starting to write content.  Once you’ve settled into your first blog and start writing content, you really start to see how huge the possibilities are.  It’s easy to start reading tips from all the experts on how to get better and forget to spend time writing for yourself.

3. Stats are addictive, but useless without purpose

World of Warcraft players are notorious for obsessing over stats and achievements.  Who has the most Attack Power or Spell Damage or who can do the most Damage Per Second?  When it comes down to it, unless you can utilize those powers for a single purpose (often with other teammates), they don’t do you any good.

What blogger hasn’t checked her stats 5 times in an hour or checked his Twitter to see how many new retweets he has received?  It’s great to see big traffic numbers, but without a game plan on how to monetize them, they don’t help you reach your end goal.

4. You can spend countless hours tweeking your plugins and addons

One of the best features Blizzard included in World of Warcraft is the ability to greatly customize your HUD (your viewable screen).  Programmers have come up with hundreds of thousands of addons and plugins to change the appearance for both functional and cosmetic reasons.  Many players will spend dozens of hours optimizing their display to fit their desires.

The same is also true of blogs.  As bloggers, we have thousands of both free and premium themes to choose from, each with an endless supply of new plugins.  Some plugins are for cosmetics, others functional, but all personal preference.  It is easy to spend hundreds of hours customizing and optimizing your blog appearance for bests results.  It’s also easy to accidentally put too much on the screen at once.  Information overload INC!

5. It doesn’t make sense to people who are not involved

There is almost always something to be done playing WOW whether it is raiding dungeons with 25 other players or fighting in the arena against other players around the world.  It’s almost impossible for someone who doesn’t play WOW to understand the draw to play all the time.

With reading other blogs, commenting, sharing on social media, building a following, and tweeting to your heart’s content all “needing” to be done, loved ones will also question why and how bloggers spend so much time working on their blog (especially if you aren’t making any money doing it yet).

6. There is money to be made, but only for the top fraction of a percent

Most people don’t realize there are sponsored tournaments for World of Warcraft where the winners split as much as $75,000 for first place.  While it might not be a legitimate living in the Americas and Europe, Korea has several sponsored teams that are paid a salary to play.

Unless you are active in the Make Money Online community or you’ve seen a special on 60 Minutes, it is very possible that you didn’t even know you could make money blogging.  Many people who hear about it try to make money blogging, but most people never make a penny, few people break even, and only the smallest percent can make a living online.

7. It is fun being good and famous

Something weird happens when you start doing well in WOW.  Everyone wants to be your friend, help you out, ask for help, or really just talk to you for a nanosecond.  On your server you can become efamous as the player with the best gear, best ratings, or being in the best guild.  It’s amazingly fun and satisfying knowing that almost everyone wishes they were you (in game at least).

I can’t think of many things more fun than making money blogging/marking online.  Professional sports is probably the only line of work that could rival the fun potential (although sales and bartending each have their own aspects).  Like when a player first gets that amazing piece of gear, a blogger is in ecstasy the first time his or her post goes viral or getting that first affiliate check.

8. Despite the enormous size of the community, everyone at the top knows each other

In World of Warcraft, it is almost impossible to be at the top before people start noticing you.  Other players might check out your gear or spec to try to figure out how you are successful and mimic it.  Other top players will start introducing themselves to you and either talk (usually) friendly trash or offer to team up with you.  In WOW if you make the SK-100, the listing of the top 100 rated arena (pvp) players in the world, you’re practically stalked by other players.

Bloggers also ban together.  Chris Brogan, Copyblogger, and Problogger can often be found collaborating at conferences (hanging out in their underwear), guest posting, cross referencing each other, and sharing data.  Guys like Shoemoney and John Chow also regularly chat and share tips and trick they’ve picked up along the way.  Even in niches that aren’t as big as MMO, the top bloggers on the scene are known by more than just their followers.

At the end of the day, both can be a giant waste of time, but if they offer entertainment and happiness, that’s really what matters.  While more socially acceptable, blogging is more like World of Warcarft than you might think.  Honestly, I started writing this article back in March as a guest post for Daily Blog Tips, and ended up getting sidetrack.  I’ve finally realized that I probably won’t ever finish it for DBT, so here it is, unedited and in all it’s ugly glory!  Please share! <3

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It has been a couple of weeks since I published my article about vNES giving all of us who remember the days a nostalgic kick in the junk.  For those of you who missed it, NES had 5 of 10 of the most difficult games of all time.

After a certain point, some games quit being fun because they are just too hard, but strangely, we’re just dying to see how to beat the hardest part and to see what comes after.

Let’s Play Videogame Archive To The Rescue

Today, I ran across not one, but two articles on Digg recommending this site as a top 50 and top 100 side worth bookmarking.

The idea of Let’s Play is people play through various games and upload them.  When I first heard this concept, I thought why would anyone want to watch this?  Why is it on not just one, but two HUGE 4000+diggs lists?!

So I went to the site.  I’m still on the site.  There are of games played from start to finish on this site including some of the most challenging games of all time like Ghouls n’ Ghosts, Ninja Gaiden (Trilogy) and Battletoads (proof that it can be beaten without cheating).

While the videos are awesome for people trying to complete games they’ve never been able to beat, it is the commentary that makes this site worth coming to.  Most of the video commentary is hilarious.  Everything from making fun of the game design to cussing endlessly about the difficulty of certain parts of the game.

Another thing that makes these videos entertaining is the “challenges” they do.  For example, in Mega Man, the challenge was to give play by play sports commentary the whole way through.  It is kind of distracting to have to think and talk that way while playing live.  They also put weird limitations like only being able to shoot 1 shot at a time or only being allowed to face left and jump to beat certain bosses.  It’s hilarious to watch and demonstrates mastery beyond practicality.

I highly recommend watching the Final Level of Ghouls n’ Ghosts.  That poor guy damn near loses his mind.  (Note: Lots of profanity, beware).  There are tons of other amazing games to watch and enjoy.

If you come across a video that you think I should check out, post it in the comments!  Until next time, enjoy.

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During my time working with photoshop, I’ve had a few major battles trying to get photoshop to do what I wanted it to.  None of my problems were ever as bad as this Animator having to defend himself from a hostile takeover from the Animation.

The first time I watched this video I cracked up.  You seriously have to watch it 2 or 3 times to catch all the clever uses for each tool in photoshop.  There is so much going on all at once.

Occationally, my desktop also gets a little cluttered with icons.  I have a tendency to download stuff to my desktop and sort it out later (anyone else do that?), so from time to time I have to clean my desktop up.  I’m just glad my icons never get into an epic icon war like on this poor guy’s desktop.  All I have to say is Diablo II kicks ass!

I’m planning on doing  lot more with the design and layout of my blog over the next week or two.  If you see a logo that you like or don’t like pop up, be sure to let me know.  Also, if you don’t have a logo for your site yet, I might start help create entry level logos if anyone is interested.  It obviously wouldn’t be professional, but it will look 100 times better than default text headers.

Does anyone have working links to any of the old Stick Figure Death Theater videos?  All my bookmarks for them are broken.  Let me know what you think of these videos.  I thought they rocked…

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With the invention of Flash and Shockwave, we are now able to play highly dynamic mazes that will make your brain (and your mouse hand) go crazy.  So with out further rambling, I present to you 5 of the most challenging and fun maze games online!

The World’s Hardest Game

While I believe that the world’s hardest games are actually found on the NES, this game certainly has made me rethink that.  The object is simple.  Using your keyboard, navigate your red square to collect all the yellow circles while avoiding the obstacles, then travel to the green zone to finish.  If only it was as easy at it sounds!  The levels are almost never as easy at they look at first.

They do provide check points and other handy planning tools, but when it’s all said and done, you’ll be annoyed as hell getting to the last 3 mm before the green zone and dying.  The World’s Hardest Game is only for the brave of heart!

Maze Frenzy

Maze Frenzy is another fun and challenging maze game.  The object is to navigate your little red dot through the maze using your mouse pointer as quickly as possible.  The first one is extremely difficult, and the second one will make you pull your hair out.  When you consider that these mazes are timed, it ads extra pressure!  If you think you have a super steady mouse hand and a great sense of timing, check out Maze Frenzy and post your best times.

Click Maze 2

Click Maze 2 has a lot to do with planning, visualization, and timing.  You can place your mouse anywhere on the map, and when you click, your red marker travels in a straight line to your pointer.

Each click counts like a stroke in golf; in fact, the game has a “par” number of clicks and rewards players who are able to complete the levels below par.

A lot of the challenge comes with getting your timing down perfect.  If you could see this image in motion, you could see that the long blue “tunnels” are moving rapidly, and you have to pass through at just the right time to not lose a life.

If you think you can get through more levels than me, try Click Maze 2 and let me know what level you get to (and how many points you get).

Eskiv

I have no idea what Eskiv stands for, but I do know how insanely addictive the game is!  While it isn’t your normal maze game, it does require you to have amazing path planning and object awareness.  When the game starts, you have a gray circle that you control using your keyboard.  You navigate through slightly small but faster moving circles while trying to collect as many squares as possible.  Each square you collect generates more small circles to dodge.  It can make your eyes start to cross very fast.  It’s not complex, but it’s a blast o play.  My best score in 15 minutes of playing today was 90, but I’ve gone well over 100. What’s your best score at Eskiv?

Tilt Maze

Tilt Maze is probably the easiest of these maze games to get started.  The object is to navigate your ball or balls to the finishing point as quickly as possible by tilting the maze.  Your mouse pointer is used as the method to control which way and how much the maze tilts.

As you Progress further into the game, you start to have more balls to work with and more obstacles as well (like holes in the maze).  By the time you get to level 13 you are dealing with 4 balls and/or multiple holes in on each maze.  Give it a try and see if you can become a Tilt master!

The Challenge

If you have time, give all the games a try.  Post your best scores here (links to screen shots are worth extra points) and see if you can beat other readers’ best scores!  Good luck!

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I have a simple confession that many people can identify with.  I am an music junkie…  I can’t help it; I would listen to music 24/7 if my work and family let me.

Last month, I was really high on the Spotify Music Player, but Spotify noticed I was listening from a US ip and put a 14 day limit on my listening.  I could hunt down a proxy server in the UK to listen through if I really wanted to.

Instead, I remember my all time favorite music player of all time (yes, intentionally said all time twice to make the point that I love it that much): Screamer Radio.  From the name you’d think they played awful music or sound clips from tacky movies, but you would be wrong.

Screamer Radio is a free internet radio player that allows you to listen to any streaming audio you’d like.  You can either either enter the URL of the stream, or you can select from their ever growing list of preset online radio stations.

The radio stations can be sorted by genre, network, language, and region.  It can be fun to listen to music in different languages.  I’m convinced if I listen to enough foreign radio while I sleep, I’ll learn another language.  Anyone else want to try?  They also offer a web directory with 4000+ free online radio stations.  This is a great place to hear both underground music and hot 100 music alike.

As you can see from the picture above, Screamer Radio is extremely lightweight.  It uses way less resources than any other audio program I have tried which is awesome if you do any gaming, video editing, graphic rendering, and any of those other resource hogging activities.  Oh yeah, it’s great if you have a slow computer (netbook, anyone?) as well.

Finally, my favorite feature is the ability to record the music you are listening to by pressing the “Rec” button.  In the preference settings menu, you can specify which directory the files will be saved to and how the files will be named.  Each time a new track starts, Screamer Radio will automatically create a new file!  This feature is amazing for someone like me who loves Digitally Imported techno since there aren’t a ton of options in the states for this type of music.  I have been able to add huge amounts of music to my already ridiculous collection doing this. [Note: I am not sure of the legal ramifications of ripping streamed radio, so please don't do anything illegal, okay?!]

I look forward to hearing if anyone else falls in love with Screamer Free Internet Radio like I did!  Please Tweet, Digg, Facebook, or comment if you enjoyed this.

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I am a child of the 80′s.  When it comes to video games, I have seen the progression starting with NES and moving forward to now.  While graphics may have become more realistic and mind blowing, and controls may have become more sophisticated and user interactive, nothing compares to the fun I had playing NES (and maybe a handful of Genesis/SNES) games.  There are three major things I remember about NES games:

1)  Anyone who had a Nintendo Entertainment System (the original) can remember frustratingly blowing on game cartridges hoping they could insert them into the system in just the right way for the game to play.  It is impossible to appreciate how easy discs are unless you fought with old school cartridge systems before.

2)  You will remember the insane frustration of not enough save points and games that were impossibly hard.  Seriously, I know there are a lot of hard games that have come out over time, but I can’t think of any that gave me more trouble than Ninja Gaiden (the whole series is hard).  I honestly don’t know anyone who played Ninja Gaiden enough times to beat it without cheat codes. 5 out of 10 of the hardest games of all time are found on the NES: Contra, Link 2, Ghost and Ghouls, CastleVania, Battletoads, and Ninja Gaiden.  There is no question that the NES was the most challenging gaming system of all time; maybe that is why it was the most memorable and fun…

3) Finally, you will remember the excitement of the classics.  Games like Mario, Zelda, Metriod, Contra (you lie if you say you don’t remember the 30 life code), Castlevania, and dozens of others. I remember playing all those games for hours on end trying to beat them.  They seem so simple now, but when they came out they were the coolest games ever.  I think we’re all spoiled with so many games available now that it is hard to get excited about new games.

I decided to bring you on this trip down memory lane for one major reason: vNES.  This will not increase your productivity in life, but it will let you play 90% of the NES games that you’ve been dying to play for free!  If you find yourself having a hard time beating them, you might consider downloading emulator with the ability to save the game at any point.

vNES [via MakeUseOf]

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Leah Waddill: Where are you from? Where is most of your work done?

Jeff Cohn: I was born and raised in Delran NJ, which is a small suburb of Philadelphia. I moved to Philly after college and have lived in or around the city for the past ten years.

Most of my work is shot in my home studio located in North East Philadelphia. My living room is converted into a studio space, which provides the best of both worlds; convenient location and I have my TV and DVD’s handy while MUA’s do makeup.

Leah Waddill:  Do you travel often for your photography?

Jeff Cohn:  My first real gig was tour photographer for the band KMFDM, We did the whole US in 40 days, 36 cities. Since then my travel has been fairly limited. I was co-coordinator/founder of Catwalk Tragedy (Alternative Beauty Pageant) which took me to Orlando and NYC for shows. Other than that I have been very much a homebody, I love Philadelphia but if someone wants to pay me to go visit other places I will gladly jump on a plane.

Leah Waddill: Wow! So, how long ago was your first publicized work? What was it?

Jeff Cohn:  My first real publicized work was a few shots that appeared in Passional Magazine, which was a small magazine published in Philly for Passional Boutique. I had two shots of Jessica Saint in Delicious Corsets, one editorial/one full page. I believe that was around 2004 though I’m not 100% sure. I still work with both Jessica (one of my main makeup artists) and Delicious Corsets all the time.

Leah Waddill:  What was your first professional camera?  How did you obtain it? (Purchase, garage sale, gift, sold your soul, etc.)

I’ve had a few. KMFDM bought me a high-end point and shoot for the tour, which I loved and got some great results with. My first DSRL was an Olympus D300. Strange story how I got that one. My friends and I went to a computer store one night and while we were standing outside chitchatting over a cigarette a very drunk and boisterous kid came up to us bragging about how much money he had and trying to impress the girls. He offered to buy them both Ipods, I wanted to call him on it so I said “buy me a camera”. After some quick negotiations he said He’d buy me a camera if I did his web site (I did more design back then). I said ok, we went inside and I walked out of there with the camera.  He wound up never trying to collect on the web site but we did become friends and for the next year Eric was part of my life and my circle (He was much better sober). Unfortunately he took his own life later that year; I went to his funeral and thanked him for helping to start my career and helping me achieve my dreams.

Leah Waddill:  It’s amazing how much one person may help another without knowing the extent of it. So what is your current camera?  If you have more than one, what is your preferred camera?

Jeff Cohn:  I shot with that camera for at least a year and a half, eventually needing to upgrade I purchased a Canon Rebel XT, which is still my main camera. Once I have made some real money I’ll probably get a 7D or 5D MII, I’m pretty loyal to Canon now.

Leah Waddill: What camera would you recommend to a new photographer?  Is there a special way of getting it at a good price (other than theft?)?

Jeff Cohn:  I love the Rebel series. Even the older ones produce great results and are excellent to both learn on and grow with. They’re affordable and versatile. If I was in the market I’d be looking on Craigslist first then comparing that to used models at New York Camera Video.

Leah Waddill:  I love CL!  Ok, so here is a dream world, you have a million dollars to shoot with one model of your choice, who is it? What genre?

Jeff Cohn:  I’d probably find a TF* Shoot [LW: TF* means time for CD/print] on Modelmayhem and pocket the Million. Then I’d buy the camera’s listed above and a bunch of lights to go in my new mansion.  I’d definitely make sure the model was fed though. Oh and we’d do the shoot at Pripyat in the Ukraine.

Leah Waddill: Great job avoiding the question! So then… What genres do you normally shoot?  Do you want to expand to other genres?

Jeff Cohn:  My focuses have been varied as of late. My favorite genre’s to shoot are high fashion, commercial fashion, editorial, advertorial, catalog, beauty, fashion-nude, alternative, product and artistic nude. I’ve also been shooting food a lot lately and absolutely love that [LW: Yea... I've heard that us fashion models get a bit squirmy and can be difficult on set! Better to avoid us altogether!] . I love all genres involving people or advertising. I’m not much for landscape or weddings, though I’ve done both.

Right now I’m working on building up my Life style, head-shots, food and product photography. I’d love to shoot full time for a fashion magazine, agency, design house or even an advertising agency.

Leah Waddill: Alright, we hear about them all the time, flakes! (For those of you that don’t know what a flake is, a flake is someone who unprofessionally cancels or completely skips a shoot last minute)

… What was the best flake excuse you’ve ever gotten? (no names please!)

Jeff Cohn: An old high school friend of mine was a professional football player, turned actor, turned host for History Channel show.  We had recently caught up and planned to do a promotional shoot for his show. I got an email from him a couple days before saying “The History channel is sending me to Cambodia”. So far no model or client has come even remotely close to topping that.

Leah Waddill: Sounds like a cheap excuse to me…What was your most interesting shoot so far?

Jeff Cohn:  Every shoot offers something new and different. I’d have to say my shoot a year ago with Chanonrf comes close to the most interesting just because we hit a roll and really knocked every look out of the park. I’m still pulling images from that shoot all this time later and I’ve still got whole sets that are completely unreleased. Several shots from it have been published, used in my own advertising and one was even turned into a mirror etching that hangs in my living room (Mindspand Art)

So, do you have a mentor? Is there anyone whose work you really admire?

Jeff Cohn:  I’ve had and have many. Starting out I learned a lot from Sandy R. Then I had S.Jenx and Jason Messer take me under their wing. I’ve always gone to Jerry Bennett for advice, same with Steve Prue and Philip Warner (Lithium Picnic). My peers and circle of friends are mostly photographers, models, designers or makeup artists so we all kinda inspire, advise and compete with each other all the time.

Philadelphia is chock full of amazing talent; Corwin Prescott, Kencredible, Jonathan Sorber, Serena Star, Wandering Bohemian, Hyde, James Jackson, Bennett, Joshua Black, Jenx and the Fall Studios, Krazy Spoons, MojoKiss, Redrum Collective, Drewcifer… and I’m sure a ton I’ve forgotten, inspiration is rampant here.

Leah Waddill: Ahhh! I know a few of those hooligans! :)  Great crowd!

Help to pass the torch on… What is your best advice for new photographers?  Any advice to anyone else in the industry?

Jeff Cohn: Well, I’m hardly done with the torch, I feel like I just lit it… but, Marketing, Networking and keeping up with Fashion are just as important as learning how to use your camera and lights. I try to learn a new trick with my camera every shoot but I also try to hit up Barnes N Noble and buy every fashion magazine I can get my hands on every month. Use sites like Modelmayhem for all their worth, the lists feature is a fountain of inspiration, Forums are great for getting both professional and ludicrous advice. Go to local events, Shoot outside your genre. Talk to models, they usually have worked with more photographers than you have and can provide a lot of insight to things they’ve witnessed other pro’s do. Don’t hold back.

Leah Waddill:  Do you have a website that showcases your work?

Jeff Cohn:  I have two websites, Fashionandadvertising.com and JeffCohnPhoto.com and the blog Deep Focus http://jeffcohn.blogspot.com.

Leah Waddill: Most importantly, if you could only have one for the rest of your life…. Which would you have, Cake or pie?

Jeff Cohn:  Cream Cheese Brownies

Leah Waddill:  Thanks for the interview.  If anyone has additional questions for Jeff or ideas for new questions in the future please leave a comment!

Contact:
Jeff Cohn
Commercial and Fashion Photography
267-879-8148
Info@x-pose.net

Sites:

http://www.JeffCohnPhoto.com
http://www.fashionandadvertising.com
http://jeffcohn.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/jeffcohnphoto
http://xposedotnet.deviantart.com/
http://twitter.com/JeffCohnPhoto
http://www.zivity.com/users/xposedotnet
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffcohnphoto/
http://www.myspace.com/jeffcohn

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The concept of the show is extremely simple; take two warrior classes at some point in history, compare their weapons and fighting style, and run a simulation to see who wins.  Some of the 10 match-ups include: Apache vs. Gladiator, Spartan vs. Ninja, Yakuza vs. Mafia, and William Wallace vs. Shaka Zulu.

They take 4 or 5 of the main weapons/tools each warrior uses and runs scientific tests on each weapon to determine how deadly the weapon really is.  They hook up sensors to measure the magnitude of force blunt weapons hit with.  They have targets to measure the accuracy and damage projectile weapons shoot with.  For swords and axes they make humanesque (another new word) gelatin molds for weapon demonstrators to mutilate.  Doctors examine the damage to the various test dummies to determine the deadliness of each wound.  Some of the weapons tested include: dozens of swords, flame throwers, Ak47s, the spartan shield, and several spears.

I have to give it to Spike TV.  Every Tuesday at 10 PM they will have my time as long as they are showing The Deadliest Warrior.  Check out all 10 episodes of season one for free and let me know what you think.  Who is your favorite deadly warrior?

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In no particular order:

The Soulja Boy performed by a class of what looks like 5 year olds. This is just wrong… so so wrong…

Kollaboration 2001 – The first kid isn’t bad, but I’m convinced the second kid is missing several bones in his body. That or they are made of elastic. I have no idea how anyone can strobe like that either; i thought the video was skipping the first time I watched it.

Here it is! YouTube’s number one most viewed video. I’ve heard this video is Judson’s only claim to fame and hasn’t done much funny since. With 124 million views, I’d be happy and enjoy my 6 minutes of fame.

I’m pretty sure this video is from Reno 911! “I’ve never actually seen anyone do that before.” I couldn’t stop laughing.

This last one is actually a music video/commercial that you might recognize. For whatever reason “… it’s some kind of ritual” at 2:10 is amusing. Unfortunately, this video has embedding disabled, so here is the link to Days Go By.

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Their information isn’t limited to just computers.  You can find cool DIY articles on how to make detergent and sports drinks at home or even how to build an A/C.  If you’re trying to get things done, or you’re just bored, be sure to check out Lifehacker.  It rocks!

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