How to do an oil change on your car in three easy steps save

Find the correct sized socket for your ratchet, or ring spanner size, by checking it on the plug on the button of the sump. Place the oil pan under your car directly underneath the sump plug. Undo the sump plug and. …
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Do You Use Gmail’s Web Clips? [Reader Poll]

While it doesn’t handle full-featured RSS-reading like other email applications, Gmail does offer “web clips”—a one-line headline ticker on top of your inbox that displays content like news headlines from sources you choose. The Official Gmail Blog runs down how to customize your web clips (or turn them off). I’ve had mixed feelings about […]

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What the Heck Does Paris Hilton Have To Do With the Election?

Maybe it’s just because I don’t pay enough attention to election campaigns, but this is about the stupidest argument I’ve ever seen.
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20 Strategies to Defeat the Urge to Do Useless Tasks

If your task list is just a list of everything you need to do, you haven’t distinguished between the high-impact tasks and the busy-work. Mark down your top three priorities for the day. Everything else should be secondary. …
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Dallas Mavs To-Do List: Shop Josh Howard

Dallas Mavs’ Josh Howard was already involved in a trade with the Kings for Ron Artest prior to the traffic incident and the Mavs turned it down. Have Howard’s latest antics secured his spot on the trading block? …
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iPhone 2.0 Software Update Out [Iphone 2.0]

Apple releases the first update to the iPhone 2.0 software for the iPhone and iPod touch, which promises bug fixes (hopefully these bugs). Hit Update in iTunes to get it.
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EveryBlock Provides Localized News [Webapps]

Webapp EveryBlock delivers localized news from five major U.S. cities—New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, and Charlotte . EveryBlock aggregates data from a variety of sources, including previously mentioned Yelp, Craigslist, numerous blog posts and news outlets, and government databases. In New York, for example, one can look up information about graffiti clean-up requests (broken […]

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Things to do on Tuesday, Aug. 5

Highlights of area happenings:
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WikiTaxi Takes Wikipedia Offline [Featured Windows Download]

Windows only: Snag a full-fledged version of Wikipedia for offline research with freeware application WikiTaxi. WikiTaxi requires a few components: the standalone application, an importer, and a database to import (the simple English database is 25MB, but the full-fledged English encyclopedia is a whopping 3.5GB). Use the import tool to suck in the file […]

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Best state to do business

Washington jumped to the third best state in the nation to do business, up from number five, according to rankings by Forbes. Note to Governor Chris Gregoire’s press team: this is the kind of information that you might want to tell …
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