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When you want a raise, you do yourself a disservice if you don’t step into the shoes of your boss. While you may feel you deserve the money, or really need it, you don’t want your boss to question your worth if they won’t come up with a positive answer. Alison Green, writing for US [...]

I’ve set up workshops in many different places and for many different applications. The process of organizing your workshop [or workbench] is both personal and organic. Setups vary wildly depending on one’s specialty, while organization and workflow are often an organic process that can take months or years to fine-tune. Along the way I’ve come [...]

iPhone cases are a dime a dozen, but the best keep your phone safe, add features, or even make an already good-looking device look better. Last week, we asked you which cases you thought were the best. Then we took a look at the top five iPhone cases, based on your nominations. Now we’re back [...]

Sometimes payday can’t come early enough. Bills come too soon or an emergency occurs and you need money you don’t have. Advanced paycheck services allow you to get your money sooner, but they generally come at a high cost. ActiveHours provides you with your paycheck when you want it, and they won’t charge you a [...]

iPad: Painting your walls requires a commitment. You have to choose from thousands of colors, figure out how much you’ll actually need, spend hours doing the work, and hope it all turns out well. ColorSnap Studio takes some of the guesswork by digitally painting your walls and calculating what you’ll need to get the job [...]

Chrome/Firefox with Greasemonkey: If you like to watch YouTube videos without all the clutter of the side bars, userscript Resize YouTube Player can help by automatically stretching the video you’re watching to fill the entire browser window. Using this script will also automatically change the video’s resolution (where available) to a higher quality depending on [...]

Android: You may have jumped in on the fad when the highly aspirational Wii Balance Board promised to get you fit through select video game titles, but now it likely collects dust in sad corner of your house. With an app called FitScales, you can turn it into an internet-connected scale you might actually use. [...]

Good design doesn’t have an expiration date, as writer and consultant Andie Powers demonstrates with her workspace. Vintage objects and modern technology go well together despite their variant origins in our modern timeline. Wall decals also add another great element to Andie’s workspace. When you don’t want to (or can’t) paint your walls, or you [...]

Email often turns into a deep pit of unanswered queries and unfinished tasks, and that’s partly due to vague and un-actionable subject lines. As author Jason Womack points out, when your recipient doesn’t know precisely what you want, you run the risk of ending up at the bottom of the pile. Here’s what he suggests [...]