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Achieve Your Resolutions: Mint

Achieve Your Resolutions: Mint

Over the next few days, as people draft their New Year’s Resolutions and 2012 predictions, I’ll be providing tools to help you Achieve Your Resolution – valuable webapps and web sites that I’ve found in the past year that help achieve popular New Year’s Resolutions. Last week, I looked at my bank account. It was ...

Four Tax Tips for First-Time Filers

Four Tax Tips for First-Time Filers

It’s officially tax season, and for many of us students with part-time jobs or paid internships, it will also be the first time filing a federal tax return. The process of filing taxes can seem extremely intimidating and confusing to newbies, so H&R Block provided this list of tips for students and other first-time filers. ...

Get another 5GB of Free Dropbox Space

Get another 5GB of Free Dropbox Space

Right now, Dropbox is offering up to 5GB of free space to all users who test the new feature of automatic photo and video uploading. To take advantage of this great offer, all you have to do is download the latest beta version of the Dropbox desktop client for your operating system, and then use ...

How to Buy from Costco Without a Membership

How to Buy from Costco Without a Membership

Like most college students, two adjectives that describe me very well are cheap and lazy. And that’s exactly why I love buying in bulk at warehouse stores like Costco – not only do you save money buy buying wholesale, but you can also be super lazy by just buying food and supplies to last the ...

Achieve Your Resolutions: RunKeeper

Achieve Your Resolutions: RunKeeper

Over the next few days, as people draft their New Year’s Resolutions and 2012 predictions, I’ll be providing tools to help you Achieve Your Resolution – valuable webapps and web sites that I’ve found in the past year that help achieve popular New Year’s Resolutions. I’ll never forget my middle school PE coach. “Congratulations, son,” ...

4 Ways Students Can Make the Most of Linkedin

4 Ways Students Can Make the Most of Linkedin

Linkedin might seem like a service geared to those who already have professional experience, but it’s definitely proved it’s usefulness to college students as well. Students can use Linkedin to network with potential future employers and establish a professional online presence, an increasingly important consideration for job recruitment in the 2.0 age. If you’re not ...

Classroom Confidential: When Lectures Go Bad

Classroom Confidential: When Lectures Go Bad

We’ve all been there. The lecture on myosis continues to drag. Your Social Security-eligible professor drones on, reading the slides off his PowerPoint and you stare endlessly at Facebook waiting for your double-block to end. Some lectures are straight up unbearable. My friend Jeff Young at The Chronicle of Higher Education understands this, and he’s ...

Read Textbooks From Your Computer or iPad with Kno

Read Textbooks From Your Computer or iPad with Kno

Kno is a multi-platform digital textbook reading application full of features to improve the textbook reading and studying experience. It is available as a free iPad version, on the Web, and as a Facebook app. Currently, only around 150,000 titles are offered in the Kno Bookstore, yet it looks like Kno is already getting the ...