How To Pay With Your PayPal Balance On Sites That Don't Accept It

How To Pay With Your PayPal Balance On Sites That Don't Accept It: "I’m at a point in my Internet-obsessed life where PayPal is the preferred payment method that I choose to pay for just about anything. If you’re a self-employed person who works online and from home, I can imagine you being in a similar predicament."



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Four Places To Find Your Windows 8 Product Key

Four Places To Find Your Windows 8 Product Key: "Chris Hoffman
On 23rd April, 2014
Windows



Windows 8 and 8.1 PCs no longer have a Certificate of Authenticity (CoA) sticker with their product key printed on it. This helps prevent theft — people can’t just glance at a sticker on your laptop to get your Windows product key. On the other hand, you can’t simply look at a sticker on your Windows PC when you reinstall the operating system. You’ll have to find the 25-digit product key elsewhere."



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The Cubicle You Call Hell Was Designed to Set You Free | Design | WIRED

The Cubicle You Call Hell Was Designed to Set You Free | Design | WIRED: "In 1964, the iconic furniture design company Herman Miller unveiled an office plan unlike anything anyone had ever seen. Called Action Office, it was the brainchild of Robert Propst, who was among the first designers to argue that office work was mental work and that mental effort was tied to environmental enhancement of one’s physical capabilities. Rather than a furniture item or a collection of them, Action Office was a proposition for an altogether new kind of space."



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How to Perform a Clean Install of Windows 8.1 With a Windows 8 Key

How to Perform a Clean Install of Windows 8.1 With a Windows 8 Key: "Windows 8.1 is a free upgrade to all Windows 8 users, but you normally can’t install Windows 8.1 with a Windows 8 product key. Luckily, you can get around this limitation if you really want a fresh install of Windows 8.1.

Microsoft also only allows you to download Windows 8.1 installation media with a Windows 8.1 key, so we’ll show you another trick that allows you to download Windows 8.1 installation media with a valid Windows 8 key."



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Netflix Arrives On Cable Providers’ TiVo DVRs In The U.S. For The First Time | TechCrunch

Netflix Arrives On Cable Providers’ TiVo DVRs In The U.S. For The First Time | TechCrunch: "Keep your friends, close, but your enemies closer – that might be the mantra running through the heads of cable execs at Atlantic Broadband, Grande Communications and RCN, U.S. regional cable providers who are the first such companies in the U.S. to offer Netflix access bundled with TV service. Subscribers will still have to have their own Netflix accounts, Engadget reports, but now there’s a Netflix app built right into the TiVo DVRs offered by those cable providers mentioned above, with content that lives right alongside broadcast and cable channels."



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OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice: What’s the Difference and Which Should You Use?

OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice: What’s the Difference and Which Should You Use?: "OpenOffice.org was once the open-source office suite of choice, but it fractured into two separate projects — Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Never mind Oracle Open Office, which was actually a closed-source office suite and was discontinued."



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3 things you must know about Net Neutrality | Komando.com

3 things you must know about Net Neutrality | Komando.com: "The Federal Communications Commission made big waves this week when it released a draft of some new proposed rules. The rules would let broadband Internet service providers charge online companies more for better connections to customers."



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New Google Chrome extension lets you copy and delete text in images

New Google Chrome extension lets you copy and delete text in images: "It's generally just accepted that text embedded in images on the Web is inaccessible. Because images are rendered as a single layer, that's just the way it is ... or was, because a new extension for Google Chrome called Project Naptha now allows users to highlight and copy text from within images."



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10 Common Web Tasks You Can Do Without Signing Up

10 Common Web Tasks You Can Do Without Signing Up: "Security bugs like Heartbleed make it abundantly clear that your logins and passwords are not safe. But what if you could use the Web for common tasks like uploading photos and videos or chatting with friends, all without signing up for an account?"



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Refresh for iPhone is The Ace Up Your Sleeve at Business Meetings

Refresh for iPhone is The Ace Up Your Sleeve at Business Meetings: "Keeping track of business associates is demanding, particularly when there are so many of them. Nobody can be expected to remember everything, or keep track of everyone, but Refresh (free) is an app that can do it for you.
The app analyses your schedule, contacts relevant information from Facebook, LinkedIn and others, providing an at-a-glance profile that allows you to quickly catch up with associate’s latest happenings. You can even add your own notes, and the app will follow-up with you when your next meeting rolls around."



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