The Government's Retirement Toolkit Tells You How to Prepare to Retire

Retirement Toolkit| Department of Labor viaForbes

July 30, 2014 · 1 min · 6 words · Diana Green

This Flowchart Helps Clean Your Closet with Quick Decisions

Closets can quickly get cluttered with clothes and then it’s time to clean. But what do you keep and what do you throw out? The chart below follows a lot of the principles inour post on getting rid of clothes clutter. Question after question with a simple yes or no answer will guide you to one of the three outcomes. It also has a breakaway point for returns. Unf*** Your Closet| Owltastic Adventures viaLifehack

July 30, 2014 · 1 min · 74 words · Kathy Dunn

AppDowner Downgrades Android Apps to Older Versions

Of course, you’ll need a copy of an old APK to rollback to. You might want to consider creating a backup of individual apps before you install an update. AppDowner(Free) | XDA Developers Forum viaXDA Developers Blog

July 29, 2014 · 1 min · 37 words · Rachel Warren

Asana for iPhone and iPad Updates with a New Interface and More Speed

Overall, the big news is that the mobile experience with Asana is much improved. It wasn’t bad before, but the new versions are a big improvement. Asana also promises the new versions represent a speed improvement as well, and since they’re running natively. Android users, an overhaul to your version of the app is scheduled next, so stay tuned. Asana(Free) | iTunes App Store viaThe Asana BlogandThe Next Web

July 29, 2014 · 1 min · 69 words · James Anderson

Avoid “Moral Licensing” To Keep Your Goals on Track

Reaching a goal usually takes a change of behavior. But this mindset can ruin your goals in the long-term. Business Insider’s Drake Baer describes the concept of telling yourself you “deserve” something. For example, maybe you save ten percent of each paycheck for your retirement. So you skip a payment and spend the money instead. But then, you get right back into your old, regular habit of not saving. It’s called moral licensing, and author Gretchen Rubin discusses it in detail on her blog....

July 29, 2014 · 1 min · 170 words · Marissa Allen

Climatology Shows Average Weather Conditions in Any Place, Any Month

Android: Travelling in the near future? it’s possible for you to either browse the world map to pinpoint a place or search for it. Climatology(Free) | Google Play Store viaAndroid Police

July 29, 2014 · 1 min · 31 words · Sheila Waters

Everything That Does and Doesn't Work with the New Raspberry Pi

A new model of theRaspberry Pi was released this month that comes packedwith more ports and uses less power. While the price has remained the same, a few things have changed that make external hardware work differently. Ladyada has a breakdown of everything that matters. The big difference with the Raspberry Pi is the SD card slot is now Micro SD. With that in mind Adafruit went through most of their accessories to see what works and what doesn’t....

July 29, 2014 · 1 min · 112 words · Christina Long

Five Things I Learned From Hanging Out with a Nine Year Old

Kids are great at providing perspective. First, some context: I don’t have kids. I’m not a parent and don’t have child rearing experience. Having a young person around is an endless series of perspective shifts. It’s hard to not learn a few lessons with a kid in the mix. For the purposes of this article, we’ll call the nine-year-old in question Giggles. A nickname she’s more than earned. Kids don’t have that luxury....

July 29, 2014 · 3 min · 633 words · Bobby Robinson

How "Fatal Attraction" Negatively Affects Your Relationships

Speaking with The Wall Street Journal, Dr. Diane Felmlee calls this phenomenon “fatal attraction.” So a trait’s dark side isn’t clear until later. A trait that was never a problem before is suddenly interpreted as bad. In Rose-Colored Glasses, we are attracted to a positive quality yet secretly suspect it has a darker side. We choose to ignore the dark side until we can’t anymore. Lastly, there is Familiarity Breeds Contempt....

July 29, 2014 · 1 min · 114 words · Tyler Peterson

Is Automating My Finances a Good Idea?

Dear Two Cents,Money experts are really into automating their finances. But is this always a smart? The “set it and forget it” method is often suggested for beginners like me. This sounds great, and it would give me time to focus on other things. But is it the best way to get a return on my money? We’ll explain why, but first, let’s talk about what exactly automating means. You tell your money what to do and where to go, and it passively works for you....

July 29, 2014 · 3 min · 483 words · James Lin

Learn Linux with This Free edX Course from the Linux Foundation

It’s taught by Dr. Jerry Cooperstein, who oversees all the training content at the Linux Foundation. Sign up to audit the course, try for a certificate, or get a verified edX certificate below. See you in class!

July 29, 2014 · 1 min · 37 words · Roger Hall

No Wake On Charge Keeps Your Samsung Screen Off When Plugged In

No Wake On Charge serves a simple function but it’s one that many people will welcome. It’s an Xposed module that needs theXposed Frameworkwhich we havetalked about before. That’s all there is to it. No Wake On Charge(Free) |Xposed Repository viaWonderHowTo

July 29, 2014 · 1 min · 41 words · Jill Rodriguez

OneNote for Mac and iOS Gets Better Organization, Office Compatibility

Apple users can get in on the update goodies too. PDF Printouts - Add a PDF printout to any notebook page, then add your own notes. Creating Notebooks - Now you’re free to create notebooks and save them to OneDrive for Business. It’s easy to select exactly where you want to store your new notebook.

July 29, 2014 · 1 min · 55 words · Nicole Allen