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15 Steps To A More Promising Morning

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We’ve found an excellent step-by-step recipe for better mornings and thought we should definitely share it with you

Debating - an intellectual exercise - part I

As the Economist Debate series (1) -currently on education - is quickly approaching its end, we find that we can no longer postpone writing our article on debating.

Typing, dictation or handwriting?

Speedtest - how fast are you? : I clocked 2 short of 60 WPM, which is not bad on a laptop keyboard :)

Canadian economy: the tide is slolwly turning

As most consumers can no longer ignore economic news, we are taking a long, hard and detailed look at the data spewed by the financial press.

Fraud 101: Spam, spim, chain mail and other time-wasters

We recently learned that Canada's Competition Bureau (7) took the unusual step of warning the public about several hoaxes perpetrated on the Internet and not only (9). This is a good opportunity for this article, since after getting for the nth time a chain email from a friend, I had already decided it's about time I write this little ditty, in the hope that if I am to receive more junk / chain mail from friends, they will at least be more interesting / innovative.

Improve your website with social bookmarking and better code presentation

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If you’re a webmaster or blogger, there are a few little things you can do to improve your reader’s experience and make your website more functional. You can, for instance, add small widgets to help your visitors pass on your page or a display your code more professionally.

Benchmarking a Windows 10 Home Laptop

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I recently had the opportunity to benchmark two very similar Acer computers, differing mostly in the kind of Intel processor they shared. I found that only Novabench is worth using.

Improving on Blogger’s Commenting System I

BcS is the target of numerous demands and criticism. As no major overhaul is in the books, numerous hacks have mushroomed to respond to its users’ desires. We’ll be looking at: A. Embedding the comment form, B. Numbering comments, C. Show Author Photo in Comments, D. Highlight owner’s comments, E. Recent comments, F. Top commentators, G. Add Reactions

Use Smileys or Emoticons in Blogger Blogspot or any other site

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The Internet is made of computers and porn. But wherever humans with emotions get involved, emoticons and smileys abound. Which is why we’ll be looking at adding emoticons where no smiley has gone before.