Car Dealerships Rip You Off With The "Four-Square," Here's How To Beat It

Former used car salesman Alan Slone grows a conscience and reveals one of the major strategies dealership use to screw you when buying a new car. At the heart of it all is the "4-square." This is supposed to help you and the dealership come to an agreement, but as you'll see, it's really more akin to three-card monte dealer's deck of cards.



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Firefox's Most Underutilized Feature

One feature that has flown under the radar of many users, but that can be a useful tool is the keyword. They are simple enough to set up and can perform a number of useful functions.

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Google Suggests You Swim Across The Atlantic Ocean

Google, either encouraging physical fitness or zero population growth, offers the above helpful suggestion when mapping the route from Chicago to London.



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The Lazy Guide to Installing Knoppix on a USB Key

Knoppix, the famous live Linux CD that practically started the live CD trend, needs no introduction to most people. Of course, it can be even more portable when it runs entirely off of an inexpensive USB key. So let's install it to a 1 GB USB key, and create a persistent home directory in which to store files. Only let's do it the lazy way.



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The Geek Way of Telling Your Wife You're Leaving (Pic)

Why didn't I think of this for my first wife? Yet another reason for a picture section for digg.



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Best BASH Shell Frequently Asked Questions on the net.

These answers are contributed by the regular members of the channel (originally heiner, and then others including greycat and r00t), and by users like you. If you find something inaccurate or simply misspelled, please feel free to correct it!



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Top 10 best Linux DVD ripping and encoding software

I tried several dvd ripping apps so I'd like to share my experience with the rest of the world. DVD ripping utilities aren't at Windows level but are getting closer and closer



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Deleted YouTube videos still available on the web

Even casual YouTube users have no doubt come across video clips that the company has taken down for one reason or another, but a new service gives viewers at least a chance to see the offending content. Delutube, as its name implies, can serve up some video clips even after YouTube has purged them.



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Turn google into your own free napster

type this {-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wma|mp3) "DIGG"}in the search bar and replace DIGG with your favorite band, and you will only find open indexes that contain downloadable music files. This really works.



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Remote Desktop for Linux

This article lists free remote desktop applications that are available on Linux that can be used to connect from Windows to Linux or Linux to Linux desktop environment. Similar to Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) on Windows.



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Trick Out Your Faucet for 20 Bucks With This Awesome Led Faucet Light

For just $19.99, you get a LED faucet light that streams blue water normally, but turns red as soon as it hits 89 degrees. Gimmicky, sure, but at that price how could you say no?



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Windows Vista One Click Activator-BIOS Emulation Crack (Paradox and CLoNY)

Finally, a crack that activates Vista! There's been many cracks for Vista which were in the form of TimeStoppers. But this one does the trick. Activates vista without any hassle. Credit to Paradox and CLONY!



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Reverse an SSH Connection

A easy to follow guide to get your machine behind a firewall remotely through SSH without configuring the router/firewall.



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Ubuntu as a wireless router

I just did a write up on the ubuntu forums about how to setup Ubuntu/Debian as a wireless router. Please comment.



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Ubuntu as a wireless router

I just did a write up on the ubuntu forums about how to setup Ubuntu/Debian as a wireless router. Please comment.



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Why the Nice Guy Fears Approaching Women

A website to help you stop being the nice guy that finishes last



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Building a Personal Finance Library: 25 of the Best Books About Money

Building a Personal Finance Library: 25 of the Best Books About Money

Building a Personal Finance Library: 25 of the Best Books About Money

How to print just about anything to PDF for free

doPDF is one of a number of programs that installs a virtual printer on your machine. Now when you go to print a web page, word document, photo or pretty much anything else, you can save it as a PDF file. You can set the resolution to anything from 72 dpi to 2400 dpi, and the "printed" files are text searchable. doPDF is free and it just works.



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Microsoft Soda

A new brand of refreshment [picture]



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Ultimate Ubuntu performance tweaking guide

The title says it all!!! Very useful and comprehensive tutorial!!!



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Remoting into a Windows Machine using Ubuntu Linux

If you're like and have to use a Windows box at work, but prefer running a Linux machine at home, or even want to know how to easily remote into a Windows box from Linux, here's a nice guide that shows you how to do it.



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Vista cracked totally by Paradox - Microsoft's in trouble now

Turns out a person called Paradox has worked out a way to crack Vista so that you may even get all of the automatic updates just the same as any legitimate Vista user could, the main story explains fully...

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Ubuntu Linux Bible

It's the fastest-growing, coolest Linux distribution out there, and now you can join the excitement with this information-packed guide. Want to edit graphics? Create a spreadsheet? Manage groups? Set up an NFS server? You'll learn it all and more with the expert guidance, tips, and techniques in this first-ever soup-to-nuts book on Ubuntu...



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HUGE Windows Vista Tweaking Guide!

"The guide is designed for novice and advanced users alike, containing 250 pages of objective descriptions, recommendations and tweaks for every aspect of Windows Vista. It is all laid out in plain English, and while it may take you a few days to work through, I promise you that at the end of it you will not only have a better system..."



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