Article • March 6, 2012

Learn Anything From the Best Experts for Free

Show off your expertise or learn new stuff online on MentorMob

Netted subscribers have a seemingly universal problem.

You’re too damn smart.

Here with an outlet for you pent up genus is MentorMob. The crowd-sourced show-and-tell site combines sources like YouTube, news articles, and Google Docs to create lesson plans (the site calls them “playlists”) on, well, anything and everything.

Pull together your favorite resources to teach others how to root their Androids and delete all those preinstalled apps. While you’re there, learn a few card tricks to impress your significant other (trust us, it’s sexy).

Playlists are tagged and divided into categories so browsing for inspiration or new information is dead simple.

So teach on, you crazy awesome diamonds.

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Article • June 15, 2010

Search & Destroy

Control What Google Tells People About You

Like it or not, we live in the Google Era. This means that your prospective employer is just as likely to Google your name as is your upcoming blind date.

Thankfully, you can limit what others learn about you with Vizibility, a free service that allows you to create a customized “Search Me” button highlighting your best web assets.

Start by entering your name, current and previous employers, and any keywords you want associated with your search. This flexibility allows you to make it as professional or casual as you’d like.

After creating a sample search based on your information, you can decide which search results you’d like to remove and which keywords you’d like to block. You can be concise and block certain keywords or go broad and banish entire sites from your results (which is handy for blocking embarrassing photos).

The service is also useful for people with common names who are un-Googleable. You’re given control to block out any other John or Jane Doe on the Internet with a few simple clicks.

Once you create an account you’re given a dedicated profile page with your tailored search and a “search me” button that you can add to your LinkedIn profile, Facebook page or online resume.

For a monthly fee of $2.95, you can add other search engines and get notifications when your results change. For a yearly fee of $29.95, you can receive notifications whenever you are searched.

It’s either this or become an anti-technology hermit living in a cabin in Montana.

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Article • June 14, 2010

Save Money Towards Your Goals with a Free Online Piggy Bank

SmartyPig is a pain-free way to save money for big purchases

Buying expensive things is fun.  Saving the cash to do so, less so.

Thanks to SmartyPig, putting money aside for your discretionary purchases just got easier.

Sign up for a free account and outline your savings goal, be it a 3-D television, a new watch or a kitchen renovation.

If you’re not quite sure how much your dream purchase will cost you can use their interactive calculator to figure out your total planned expenses.

Once the site knows how much money you’ll need to sock away, it gives you a tailor-made list of ways to save. It uses the information in your profile—namely your average expenses on food, housing and other expenditures—to help you cut the fat.

Have some generous benefactors willing to help you along the way? Tell them to log onto Smarty Pig and enter your email address. When they plug in the amount of money they’re willing to contribute, Smarty Pig will alter your profile and your savings schedule accordingly.

It’s either this or rob a bank, which we can’t in good faith endorse.

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Article • June 11, 2010

Discover and Purchase the Highest Quality Daily Essentials

Shop the best men's essentials with Manpacks

According to the stereotype, men are inadequate when it comes to fulfilling their own domestic needs.  Case in point: the average dude’s dresser drawers.

Enter Manpacks, a subscription service that sends you a fresh resupply of socks, underwear and t-shirts every three months.

To start, you set up an account and then select the pack you want—they range from the $11 starter kit to the $33 “Machopack,” which consists of 3 pairs of each item.

Then you add the details: your preferred brands, styles and sizing (they offer a decent range and you can alter your plan at any time).

Your first shipment will arrive shortly after you order.  Future manpacks are automatically sent at 3-month intervals—just when your stock needs to be replenished.

They currently ship to the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Australia, and Brazil.

Father’s Day, anyone?

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