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About Justin Pot

Justin Pot is a technology journalist based in Portland, Oregon. He loves technology, people and nature – and tries to enjoy all three whenever possible. You can chat with Justin on Twitter, right now.

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Gamify Your Life Better With These HabitRPG Tips

This web app makes improving yourself actually addictive. Whether you're just starting out your quest or are a long-time adventurer, learn to use it better with these insider tips.

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Can't Put Off Email Every Morning? Try This Ritual Instead

Starting your day the email way is regularly put down – even though most of us do it. Is checking email after waking up really so bad?

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How Generosity Can Benefit You In 2015

If you really want to improve yourself, consider making a habit of giving away your time and money regularly. It's not intuitive, but it will probably pay off.

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How A Little Tech Knowlege Can Save You Thousands Every Year

A good chunk of your income goes to scheduled monthly expenses – and you're just barely keeping up. With a little tech savvy, you can get those expenses down and save thousands every year.

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Desk Lets Bloggers Focus On What Matters: Writing

Any tool designed to make blogging easier needs to really focus on the writing experience. You only need glance at Desk for Mac see that the developer understands this.

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Customize Almost Anything On Your Mac With EasySIMBL

From hiding the menubar when certain applications are open to embedding Instagram images within the official Twitter app, you can do things with EasySIMBL you probably didn't know were possible.

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Deliveries Tracks Incoming Packages, Adds Dates to Your Calendar

It's that time of the year: all the gifts you bought for family and friends are being delivered, and you need to make sure they all make it to you before the holidays.

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Keyboard Shortcuts You Aren't Using In Your Favourite Web Apps

Keyboard shortcuts aren't just for desktop apps: your favourite web apps use them too. From Gmail to Trello, from Facebook to Twitter, learning keyboard shortcuts is the easiest way to do everything faster.

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Clip Art Is Gone! Here's How To Find Free Images Instead

Microsoft killed clip art and replaced it with Bing Image Search, which in Office filters for Creative Commons images. It's one of many resources and you can still find clip art elsewhere.

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There's A Mario Sidescroller for Wii You Haven't Played Yet. Seriously.

Get your Wii out of the closet: some Mario fanatics put together the best fan-made Mario game in history.

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Add Superpowers To Spotlight With This Unofficial Plugin System

Bring Google, Wolfram Alpha, the weather and just about anything else to Spotlight.

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Build Your Own Wireless Dead Drop For File Sharing

A PirateBox is a wireless dead drop, letting anyone within range upload and download files. Here's how to build one with a Raspberry Pi (and Lego).

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How To Sync Any Files To Your Smartphone Or Tablet Without The Cloud

Learn how to directly sync any folders or files with your mobile device without having to deal with the annoyances of the Cloud.

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Turn Any Mac Dashboard Widget Into Its Own App

You probably haven't used Dashboard in years, but there is that one widget you wish you could just turn into an app. Guess what? You can!

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How To Add Absolutely Anything To Yosemite's Notification Center

Add anything to Yosemite's Notification Center – all it takes is the right command.

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Chat Outside The Browser With Current, A Facebook App For Mac

Sick of opening Facebook in your browser, just to use chat? Current for Facebook is a Mac app that brings your favourite social network to the OS X desktop.

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Learn Almost Anything Online; Find Out Where With SlideRule

Do you want to take an online course, but aren't sure where to start looking? Try this search engine for online classes, with over 18,000 courses indexed. What do you want to learn?

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These Add-Ons Let You Make Firefox Look However You Want

Make Firefox look however you like. Whether you want something to create space, a dash of colour, or to bring back the old Firefox look, there's a theme or extension out there for you.

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These Notification Centre Widgets Make Dashboard Irrelevant

The Dashboard is dying. Most users ignore it, and not many developers are building things for it. Replace all of your Mac's Dashboard widgets using the new Today view in Yosemite.

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Block Out Distractions With This Excellent Selection Of Background Sounds

Can't focus? Studies show that the right amount of background noise can increase creativity, and web app Noisli lets you mix and match several sound sources.

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