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Beat the Bookstore This Semester

Awhile back I wrote a two-part piece on how to get the most money for your textbooks when selling them and get the best price for buying them, since finals are rolling around for everyone right now, I thought I’d put a little reminder up for everyone.

How I Beat the Bookstore: Part 1 (Buying)
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How I Get Things Done

Remember the Milk. Plain and simple. For a while, I was using a moleskine-based system, but that just got to be too cumbersome for the nature of my workload. As a student, the work that I am doing is, for the most part, repetitive and RTM’s ability to do recurring tasks is fantastic for that.
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Easy High-Speed Networking for Apartments

How are we going to get network access all the way over there?
For those living in apartments, getting network access to all parts of the apartment usually means wireless, and most of the time, that’s just peachy if you need a connection to watch youtube in the living room. Let’s say that you have an [...]

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Tracking Shared Expenses In Quicken

When you have roommates or a significant other that you often share expenses with, how do you track them? You can have an arrangement where one person pays the electricity bill and the other one pays gas, or perhaps you pay 50/50 on everything. If you are always playing the balancing game, trying to keep [...]

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Howto Fix Thunder Bolt CF CardReader

I started having problems with my card reader a couple of months ago, where it would no longer be recognized as an actual drive - instead it was being recognized by Windows as a VX7012 (some sort of “Advanced USB Video Capture” device). Here is what I did in Windows Vista (XP instructions are basically [...]

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