Five Bad Habits You Should Avoid When Driving Automatic Vehicles

Driving an automatic is more straightforward than driving a manual, but there are still ways to mess up parts of your vehicle. Here are five things you shouldn’t do if you drive a car with an automatic transmission.

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Keep a Bowl of Cold Water Nearby When Working With Hot Glue

If you’ve ever worked with hot glue, you know how much it smarts when it gets on your skin. You can’t even pull it off until it cools. Here’s a tick to help with both of those problems.

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Habit Graduation: How to Increase Your “Average Speed”

I have a friend named Nathan Barry who recently finished writing three books in just 9 months. How did he do it? By following a simple strategy. He wrote 1,000 words per day. (That’s about two to three pages.) And he did it every day for 253 straight days. It wasn’t a sprint; it was his average speed that was key.

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Google Docs Introduces Automatic Outline Tool for Quick Document Browsing

Google launched a new outline tool for Google Docs today that makes navigating your documents much easier on the web or Android device.

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Completely Remove Interface Animations in iOS with an Accessibility Glitch

The animations in iOS 9 make for a nice, smooth experience, but that doesn’t mean everyone’s a fan of them. Over on 9to5Mac, they point to a glitch found by a Redditor that’ll let you disable animations completely, which makes apps feel like they’re starting up super fast.

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Class Up Your Kitchen and Bathroom With These Discounted Simplehuman Wares

Simplehuman dominated the nominations in our recent kitchen trash cans Kinja Co-Op, and Amazon’s running rare discounts on several different models today, plus a handful of soap dispensers and kitchen accessories to match.

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Ulysses, the Powerful Text Editor for iPad and Mac, Is Now on iPhone

Ulysses is one of the best writing tools available for Apple devices and today it’s finishing off its trilogy with the release of the iPhone version of the app.

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Topical Anesthetic Cream Can Ease the Pain of Shots

Needles are no fun, especially for kids. While we’ve mentioned before that cartoons and video games can distract both kids and adults from the pain of a shot, there are actually a ton of other techniques that can help—including applying a numbing cream.

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Compare Your Tax Deductions to the Average American’s with These Charts

The IRS might turn a suspicious eye on you if your claimed deductions are higher than what’s normal for your income level. Compare your deductions against the average to gauge your audit risk or see if you’re missing any deductions.

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Destinations on Google Is a One-Stop Travel Planning Tool for Your Mobile Phone

Google wants to make it easier for you to plan a trip with its new Destinations on Google tool. You’ll find flight and hotel prices for flexible dates, itineraries and attractions, and more in one spot just by adding one word to your mobile search.

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