Smartlife

Whether you’re planning to go to the prom, attend a black-tie benefit, or walk down the red carpet, you’ll want to look your best. Traditionally, this has involved a series of frantic phone calls to formal wear rental places or dizzying tours of expensive designer boutiques, dressmakers, and shopping malls. Not anymore!

Now, you can relax in the comfort of your own home while you peruse through the hundreds of available formal wear fashions and accessories available for rent via the Internet. Not only will most online clothing rental sites…

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Making your way around some of the more popular technology blogs on the Internet, you’ll find there is no shortage of coverage when it comes to different apps available for the Apple iPhone. The BlackBerry crew gets their fair share of attention too, so where does that leave all the Nokia owners in the audience? The Symbian OS may not be as sexy or “out there” as some of its competitors, but that doesn’t mean that Nokia smartphones should be left out in the cold either.

As a proud owner…

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Advertisements are the worst drain on your intelligence since that Star Trek brain parasite thing. At least that could be cured by a solid dose of antibiotics or, failing that, being shot by a Klingon. But before they’ve even beamed up your corpse for space jettison, there’ll be another ad break — and you’ll lose five more minutes of your life (or death) to people trying to sell you things.

Obviously the simplest and most productive way to avoid commercials is just to stop watching TV. And while you’re at…

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“One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO LIST every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.”

This quote isn’t from some buzz-word business busybody, pushing their latest pack of painfully obvious essays wrapped up in “You Go Officeworker!” patter. Instead, it’s from seventeenth century French fabulist Jean de la Fontaine, a.k.a. “someone who succeeded at a career we don’t even have anymore.” (A fabulist is “a maker of fables,” by the way,…

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Whether you’re thinking about going back to school or you’ve got a child looking at colleges, a lot of the process can be outsourced. From saving for school to getting school supplies, you can make sure that you start every school year off right.

Of course, there are some parts of an educations you shouldn’t outsource, like writing those all-important term papers, but handling the little details like college applications can make it easier to focus on actually learning.

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The real secret to a smart life isn’t solving special relativity or the mysteries of creation: it’s eliminating those almost invisible hassles you never imagine but always experience, usually when you’re on the last minute of an important deadline. Jammed photocopiers, missing the train, the little widget-thing blinking LEDs instead of working — basically everything that doesn’t happen to James Bond. Those are what delay your day.

The most common problem of all is moving a large file. You’ve been up all night, all week, even all month preparing the…

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