August 3rd, 2012Top Story This Week's Most Popular Posts: July 28th to August 3rd This week we discovered ten easy-to-miss new features in Mountain Lion, showed you how to stream the BBC's vastly superior Olympics coverage, met Microsoft's impressive new Gmail competitor, and more. Here's a look back. Top 10 Secret Features of OS X Mountain Lion OS X Mountain Lion was released this week and we've told you everything you need to know about Apple's new operating system-except one thing: the secret features. More » How an American Can Stream the BBC's Official Olympics Coverage and Overcome #NBCFail If you're outside of the United Kingdom then getting a good live feed of the Olympics isn't easy. NBC is streaming some video, but it's ugly, slow, and requires a cable subscription. More » Outlook Is a Completely New, Feature-Filled Webmail Service from Microsoft Microsoft has launched a completely new email service called Outlook, which brings a simplified, Metro-inspired interface and lots of useful features to your inbox. More » How I Lost 100 Pounds I've struggled with my weight for nearly my entire life. I went from being chubby in elementary school to overweight in high school to obese in university. More » I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why. If you misuse a comma or mix up "your and you're," don't expect to get hired by iFixit's Kyle Wiens. He's not the only stickler-a growing number of employers are adopting a zero tolerance approach to grammar. More » Grab Over 80 Free Ebooks from Microsoft and Learn Something Tech-y Microsoft's MSDN blog has released a boatload of free ebooks on a range of technologies and programs, including a power users guide for Windows 7, programming Windows 8 apps and Windows Phone 7, SQL Server tutorials, and much more. More » "Why Are You Pulling Me Over?" and Other Things You Shouldn't Say to a Police Officer Interactions with a police officer can be tricky. You want to do whatever you can to get out of trouble-especially if you didn't do anything wrong-but that's not always a simple process. More » See the Actual Signal Strength on Your iPhone or Android iPhone: Ever feel tricked by your phone's signal bars into thinking you have a better reception that you actually do? This simple hack will transform those bars to show the actual signal in decibels (dBm). More » Why iTunes Shuffle Isn't Random (and How to Fix It) If you're still using iTunes, you've probably noticed that the Shuffle feature doesn't always seem the most random. In fact, at times Shuffle may have seemed completely set in stone (which, of course, would make no sense). More » Get a Job: The Craigslist Experiment Like so many other job-hunters, writer Eric K. Auld used Craigslist as a resource. Curious to know what he was up against and to gain a better understanding of the employment landscape, Eric posted a false job listing. More » Unleash the Power of Android with These Automated Apps If you've ever thought "I wish my Android phone would do [X] whenever [Y] happened"—for example, text your significant other whenever you leave work. Well you can, and it's easier than ever to set up. More »

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