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Search with Google Like a Pro: Part 3
Now that you know how to search the internet with Google like a pro, let’s take a look at evaluating your search results, and the sources that you’ve found. Evaluating the Source So you’ve found the information that you’ve been...
Read more »Search with Google Like a Pro: Part 2
In the first article of this series, we learned the basics of searching with Google. Now, it is time to move on to some more advanced searching techniques, for when a basic search just won’t cut it. Topics to be...
Read more »Search with Google Like a Pro: Part 1
With much of the world’s information moving from print form into the online realm, knowing how to find the information you need, whilst sorting through the crap, is becoming an increasinly important skill. It’s a skill you’ll likely utilize as...
Read more »5 things you need to know before you move out
As mentioned earlier, I recently moved out on my own. No more parents, no more RA’s, just me and my roommate. Now I have been on my own for about a two months and have noticed a change in mindset,...
Read more »How to speed up your boot time in 10 seconds flat
After complaining to a friend that my start up time was getting a little too lengthy, he told me a quick little fix to clear up what Windows goes through when it starts up. To quick your start time follow...
Read more »How to hack a Coke Machine
I’m pretty sure your dorm has one of those vending machine areas on the first floor. I’d also bet that in the middle of the night it is unattended for hour at a time. A few YouTube videos show to...
Read more »How to graduate college in one year
Lately the phonomena of the “Super Senior” is becoming more common.  But putting all five-year students to shame, David Banh managed to finish the four year mathematics program at the University of Virginia in one year. How did he do...
Read more »You Tube University: the world’s largest textbook
Cheesy post ahead The Internet has opened up a whole new way of learning, we no longer have to delve in to the depths of the library to research a off the wall fact. With the advent of user submitted...
Read more »Laptop + Tape = Awesomeness
If your one to take your notes on your laptop in order to avoid a clutter of paper, you may be frustrated when you receive handout after handout from your professor. There is a very low tech way to solve...
Read more »How do you keep your life together? What’s your “system”?
This year I have made a pledge to be uber organized (although I do every year). This includes taking diligent notes and maintaining a calender. I decided to take a new approach keeping my life together on a laptop instead...
Read more »Lifehacker: how to buy cheap books
Lifehacker readers pitch in on how to get cheap books. Some theories have been covered here but it basically breaks down to this: ebay.com half.com amazon.com (used) Book Burro [tags]textbooks[/tags]
Read more »Back to school, old (but still usefull) CV2 posts
As you can tell by the lack of posting in the last two days, Temple has begun the fall semester. I imagine most of you have started school already as well. Below are some posts that can help: Book Burro...
Read more »How to be an Internet secret agent: clean up your digital dirt!
One of the new things I am reading everywhere is the sudden realization that the pictures you post online will one day come back to haunt you. Colleges such as the University of Virgina even have a slide show warning...
Read more »Simple tip: how to pick fresh bread
There is no worse feeling: you rummage through your kitchen in the quest to make a delicious sandwich. And then you realize that your bread has those tiny green marks throughout. Looks like mold has gotten the best of your...
Read more »When in college, tell your mom to shut up
Have you ever known “that kid”? The one who can’t make a major choice with our first consulting dear old Mom and Dad. Or perhaps whenever they must speak to an adult, the parent will speak for the child. According...
Read more »How to get (nearly) free stuff, from eBay.
Inspired by Get Rich Slowly: If you’re going away to college, no doubt you are looking for odds and ends like toasters and microwaves. Things that may not be insanely expensive, but can add up. So what are the best...
Read more »Facebook trick – tiled friends
Keith of desideratum has a nice posting about a “hidden” facebook feature – tiled friends. How do you do it? To quote Keith: Go to your Facebook home (i.e. http://*.facebook.com/home.php). Click on the My Friends link in the left nav...
Read more »How to get a Heads Up Display (HUD) in your car for 5 cents
While doing a bit of traveling recently, I printed out some directions curteousy of Yahoo! Maps and placed them on the passanger seat. I found that looking over while driving probably wasn’t the safest option. I then decided what my...
Read more »5 (+1) Windows short cuts I wish I had known
I have been recently doing a lot of works on Macs at my job and was amazed at some of the cool things OS X can do (the whole F9 thing blows my mind – I wish I was kidding)....
Read more »Every timesaving cell phone voicemail command
Below is the follow up to a former post. The table is how to skip right to beep when you get a long winded message, and how to instantly delete a message in your cell phone’s voicemail box. Brand Skip...
Read more »How the number 7 saves you 30 seconds a day – a cell phone hack
Have you ever called a friend, gotten their voice mail, and discovered that they were too lazy to record their own message. So you get a semi robotic female voice saying “The number you have dialed x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x is not available...
Read more »You’ve graduated! Now the hard part…
A thread at Ask Metifilter discusses the pros and cons of different types of student loan payments: “Am I making the right choice each month? I don’t see much of a difference between choices … is there anything else I...
Read more »What you think: Confessions from an eBay store worker – Part 3
Part One: Beginer’s Guide Part Two: What doesn’t sell / what to buy Part Three: Your tips Part Four: Later this week With the previous two supplements in this eBay series I’ve gotten a bunch of comments from you guys...
Read more »On a wait list? It doesn’t look good.
The College Journal (the college section of the Wall Street Journal) reports that colleges are admitting fewer students from their wait lists. “A number of selective schools say they are taking very few — if any — students from the...
Read more »How to play Super Mario on your Xbox
Ever long for the days of a Super Nintendo or even an Atari 2600? With many thanks to my brother Colin, College V2 has a tutorial on how to “hack†your Xbox to emulate any older system as well as store whole games as “back up.†You can also use your Xbox as a media center. So as you buy your next generation systems don’t let your old Xbox sit there and collect dust, put it to work as a personal video arcade. Read on for the FULL tutorial.
Read more »You have no excuse for sitting on your bum – How to get a summer job
The Wall Street Journal ran an article detailing that summer job prospects are on the rise. “Landing a summer job, long a rite of passage for teens and college students, became more difficult in recent years, as young people had...
Read more »What doesn’t sell / what to buy: Confessions from an eBay store worker – Part 2
Part One: Beginer’s Guide Part Two: What doesn’t sell / what to buy Part Three: Your tips Part Four: Later this week Okay, we already know how to sell things on eBay, but that is only half the battle. People...
Read more »A beginner’s guide to eBay: Confessions from an eBay store worker – Part 1
Part One: Beginer’s Guide Part Two: What doesn’t sell / what to buy Part Three: Your tips It was fall semester, I had exactly $0 to my name, and I was all out of meals for the week. I needed...
Read more »Free alternatives for expensive programs – Never buy software again.
It's no secret, the average college student cannot afford common PC programs: Windows - Home Edition: $100 Norton Anti-Virus: $70 Microsoft Office: $329.99 Macromedia Dreamweaver: $376.99 Here are some alternatives if you happen to be buying a brand spanking new computer but dont want to pony up the greenbacks. Or if you have been eyeing up some new software, you may want to consider these alternatives: Click on....
Read more »An adsense test
We college kids are a broke bunch, and I’m no exception. Thus that little box to the right containing Google’s adsense. I plan on keeping you guys updated on the results, and if they are favorable, I’ll try to offer...
Read more »Why you should learn HTML, and how to do it – for free
As you can see by the layout of this site, I’m no HTML guru. However I do know my way around HTML code, and aside from validating my geekness knowing HTML can prove to be a positive influence on your...
Read more »5 things to do when the work piles up…
If your like me, right now the semester is drawing to a close and the work is piling up. As my posting calender will tell, I havent had too much time to do anything but work. But lately I have...
Read more »Does your school block facebook? Here’s how to beat it.
Commenter Jana on the Facebook Hack post asked if she could get around her school blocking facebook. If your school blocks a certain site, use Google’s translate feature to get around it. Go to there and “Translate” the site from...
Read more »Integrate Firefox with your homework
A neat little trick to help streamline your bookmarks, your research, and your documents is to make one of your firefox bookmarks a path to one of your documents. Just right click on the bookmark bar and click “New Boomark”....
Read more »Pimp my iPod – how your iPod could be so much better
Now that spring break is over we should get back to business, and that business is 7 ways to use you iPod other than music. I know some sites have similar lists but include useless tips like “stand on it...
Read more »Don’t let your professor screw you
There are classes in every University that study old literature. Subsequently you have to buy a bunch of text books that are anthologies filled with old poets or snippets of old novels. Some courses even make you buy old books...
Read more »How Facebook will get you fired
Tip of the day: You should probably “detag” every picture anyone takes of you and posts on Facebook. Anyone in your school, including professors, has access to any incriminating photos. And imagine if your future boss got a hold of...
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