Thursday, 30 April 2015
The Blurred Cards Home Screen
Cards are a great interface element that brings related information together, but they don’t all have to be the same boring white, right? This design sorts your home screen’s important info into soft, eye-pleasing cards.
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This Chart Shows the Best Routes for Using Your Frequent Flyer Miles
Frequent flyer miles are an amazing way to save money on trips for business and pleasure. This chart looks at the 25 most popular airline routes in the U.S. and crunches the numbers to see which flights are actually worth spending your miles on.
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Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Pathology Lab Technician
When a doctor sends a biopsy sample to “the lab,” they’re referring to a pathology lab, where technicians and pathologists prepare and analyze the tissue for cancer or other diseases. Absolute accuracy here is a ponderous burden, but it’s all in a day’s work.
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Preview Links in Safari, Mail, and Messages with Three-Finger Tap
For a while now, the three-finger tap in OS X has been an easy way to look up the definition of a word. But in OS X 10.3.3 you can also use it to preview links in Apple’s apps.
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Mezzo Is a iPhone Music App with a Concentration on Playlists
iPhone: One of the cooler features in iTunes is how it queues music when you’re making playlists on the fly. The iPhone music app sadly doesn’t follow suit, but Mezzo is an app that brings that style of playlist creation to iOS.
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How Safe Are Artificial Sweeteners, Really?
Dear Lifehacker,
Everyone’s been saying artificial sweeteners like aspartame are bad for you, and now Diet Pepsi is removing it. Should I worry about how much diet soda I’ve been drinking? What health hazard have I been exposing myself to all these years? And should I worry about the new sweetener that’s replacing it?
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Negotiate Grocery Prices for Stuff Close to the “Sell By” Date
Grocery stores know it’s difficult to sell stuff that’s reaching it’s “Best By” or “Sell By” date. If you let a manager know something’s close to that date, that person is likely to give you a discount.
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