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They say the medium is the message, and with PowerPoint that medium is needed to reach the people who’ve died of boredom. The same simple mistakes have turned a handy tool for arranging information into weaponized monotony. PowerPoint now enjoys the same reputation as a pit of scorpions, which is a pity, because it’s (mis)used all over the world. At least the scorpions would wake people up instead of putting them to sleep.

When you make a powerpoint, you’re trying to make a case, not enemies. So, we’ve gathered some…

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eBay is one of the all-time online success stories. It arrived in 1995, the same year as a Newsweek feature on why Internet businesses would never make money, and it proved them extraordinarily wrong. It survived the dot-com disaster and now trades in over thirty countries with twenty-two billion dollars in assets.

Unfortunately, growth causes its own problems. The service simply can’t respond quickly to every complaint while its immense popularity makes it a prime target for scammers and counterfeit auctions. Other complaints leveled at eBay are less innocent less…

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The new iPhone 4S is finally out, and if you didn’t know that, thank you for choosing us as the first website you read or thing you did after coming out from under the rock. We’re flattered. With every tech site posting the exact same iPhone 4S pictures and posting the exact same iPhone 4S specifications — under the egocentric delusion that they’re the only website their readers check (or that it matters who has it) — we’ve decided to look at what the iPhone 4S features really mean.

The…

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Deep breath. We all experience our fair share of stress at work. You may have even gotten to the point where you want to tear your hair out, wrap it around your elbow, rip your arm out, and throw it at Nina from corporate accounts payable for telling the 5600th person that it’ll be “just a moment.”

We’ve all been there, but that doesn’t mean you should keep letting all that stress get to you. Sometimes, we need to learn how to relax, particularly in shorter spurts within the office…

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Apps on the iPhone and iPod touch are remarkably plentiful. And believe it or not, they’re not all Angry Birds and fart apps. They can be used for getting you into shape too. Just because fall and winter are just around the corner doesn’t mean you’re allowed to hide your spare tire under a baggy sweater.

The range of iPhone fitness apps is very impressive, doing everything from intense cardio and heavy weightlifting to lower impact yoga and calorie tracking. The first step is motivating yourself to get off the…

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Some say that the desktop computer is a dying breed as more people turn to their notebook PCs and smartphones to get their work done. That’s partly true, and while I don’t agree that the desktop computer is going the way of the dinosaur, there are quite a few web apps that can effectively replace the full blown software you have running on your table-bound desktop PC.

You may have heard the term “cloud computing,” but what exactly does that mean? It means that you access everything that you need…

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