Top 10 Sanity-Saving Holiday Hacks

It may be the most wonderful time of the year, but it's also the most stressful—between traveling, buying gifts for everyone, and handling loads of decorations and clutter, you've got quite a bit of work to do this holiday season. Here's how to make sure it goes off without a hitch. 10. Limit Your Other Commitments The biggest deterrent to what you get done is time. As you're getting out of work for the holiday week, make sure you've...

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A Lab On Fire Liquid Night ~ new fragrance

A Lab On Fire Liquid Night ~ new fragrance A Lab On Fire has launched Liquid Night, a new fragrance developed by perfumer Carlos Benaïm: Rich raw materials transformed into a smooth and defined scent, Liquidnight created by perfumer Carlos Benaim explores the hidden depth of the night in New York City. The notes feature bergamot, lime, saffron, sage, lavender, hinoki wood, incense, vanilla and musk. A Lab On Fire Liquid Night is available...

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Grossmith Black Label ~ new fragrances

Niche line Grossmith has launched the Black Label collection, comprising four new modern fragrances: Floral Veil, Amelia, Golden Chypre and Saffron Rose. Floral Veil ~ ”An enchanting white floral with an underlying cool aspect. Vibrant citrus notes and green accords provide an attractive contrast to the rich floral heart of geranium, rose, ylang, tuberose and vanilla orchid. The composition rests on a warm smooth base of cashmeran,...

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Anna Sui Rock Me! ~ perfume review

Anna Sui Rock Me! ~ perfume review I should begin by admitting that I’m a longtime fan of Anna Sui’s clothing designs and her entire aesthetic. I’ve been known to haunt the Anna Sui boutique in New York, just to browse the latest outfits (and costume jewelry, and fragrances), and I always admire the shop’s décor. I also enjoy the music constantly playing in the background, which sounds like the mix tapes I used to compile for...

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Dolce & Gabbana The One Desire

In collaboration with Procter & Gamble Co. Global Prestige , Dolce & Gabbana are launching a new fragrance named The One Desire, a successor of the popular fragrance The One, launched in 2006. In addition to this debut scent, The One women's fragrance collection includes L'Eau The One , Rose The One and The One Lace Edition . The new fragrance follows the trend of black bottles and its most distinctive feature is its carefully nuanced...

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Top 10 Windows 8 tips and tricks

Customize your tiles Make the most of your Windows Start screen tiles by adjusting the sizes, where they are located, and what is listed. Move any tile by clicking and dragging the tile. While moving a tile, if you need a larger view of the Start screen move the tile towards the top or bottom of the screen to zoom out. Use your mouse wheel to scroll left-to-right through your tiles. Any Desktop...

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Top 10 Windows 7 tips

Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts Use the below Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts to make the most of your Windows 7 experience. Windows key and the arrow keys Pressing the Windows key and Left or Right arrow keys will dock the window your viewing to the left or right-hand side of the screen. Pressing the Windows key and the Up arrow will maximize a window and pressing the Windows key and...

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Top 10 Twitter tips and tricks

Top 10 Twitter tips and tricks Below is a listing of our top 10 favorite Twitter tips and tricks. These tips will help make your Twitter experience more enjoyable and can help increase your followers. Customize Change your profile picture. Use a picture of yourself to make it seem more personalized if this is your personal Twitter account. Utilize as much of the 160-character limit Twitter BIO space allows. Include keywords your...

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7 More Habits of Highly Successful Bloggers

In the last blogging success habits post, I shared 7 habits that you could incorporate into your daily life to improve your blogging efforts. Today… I have 7 more. Why? Simply because it takes a lot to be successful. A lot of hard work. A lot of persistence. So, it’s only natural that it would take more than 7 success habits to build a successful blog. Plus, maybe these habits resonate with you more than the last 7, so you can start applying...

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Bloggers

“Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and make them happen.” It’s true. Some people are dreamers, and others are action tackers. It’s true that we’re all different, but there are certain habits we can incorporate into our daily lives that can help us become better. …become better people, better readers, better writers and in this case, better bloggers. Below are seven (7) habits that highly successful bloggers...

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3 Cool Twitter Tricks That Are Useless Without Strategy

Maybe you’re here for the twitter tricks; or maybe you’re here to find out why these “tricks” won’t do you any good. Either way, I think you’ll agree that these tricks are both cool and useless without one thing. But I’ll share what that thing is later. Here’s the first cool twitter trick… It’s all about interaction. If you’re not interacting on Social Media, and you’re just blasting out a ton of links to random followers, you’re probably...

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Blogspot SEO Guide: How to Tweak your Search Preferences Settings

Earlier this week, Blogger announced what is probably the most awaited feature that made me move to WordPress late last year. WordPress has lots of SEO plugins and it was quite an edge over blogger as I mentioned on this post but this new feature addresses that to some extent. Blogger now has a SEO settings right in the dashboard and lots of blogspot users don’t even know how to go about this. With the whole thing done wrong, your blog can...

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New Facebook Comment Box for Blogger With Notifications Enabled

Facebook comment for your blog can serve as a good way to make your site more engaging and encourage readers to drop comments if they’re already logged in to Facebook. It also serves as a source of traffic since using Facebook comment shares the comment and post page on the visitor’s Facebook wall. One thing should be noted though: Facebook comment has no SEO value since it’s being displayed in an iframe which Google won’t index. Comments...

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10 Time and Space-Wasting Widgets You Should Delete From Your Blog Today

It’s easy to get so excited about your new blog that you want to use every bell and whistle that you can get your hands on. But if you’re serious about building a significant readership or turning your blog into a business, going overboard with widgets and plug-ins can actually hurt you. Here are 10 time and space wasting widgets your should delete from your sidebar today: Subscription Count/RSS Widget. This is a great idea if you...

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What’s the Best Backup Solution?

Your “techie” friends keep telling you to back up your data. Your IT guy (or gal) scolds you on the importance of backing up your data. Both of them state how easy it is to do this. We’ve even shown you how to do it.  Howe Cloud Services for Backing Up Carbonite Mozy ElephantDrive All of these options have free trials or free versions (along with various pricing plans) and all of them allow you to very simply back up your data to...

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The Most Useful Windows 8 Shortcuts

Windows 8 has been released and for some of us, it’s time to get used to a new user interface. This can be troublesome when learning something new, particularly because this version of Windows is trying to be the best of both worlds — namely one that meets the needs of both a touchscreen device and a computer. For those of us who still use the Windows OS on a desktop computer, here are some shortcut keys to help you ease the pain of looking...

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