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Credits to Lisa Katayama on her book named Urawaza: Secret Everyday Tips and Tricks from Japan.

The Japanese are amazingly innovative and creative in the earlier days. Japan is after all, only a 377,873 km² country, with a size slightly smaller than California. Everything should not be wasted. Over the years, Japanese develop their infamous culture of saving money and space. Such are the ones we should learn from. Here are a few of such example from Lisa Katayama.

1. How to make a baby stop crying
Dilemma: Sure, the baby's cute. But why won't he stop crying?

Solution
: The secret to stop a crying baby lies in making the sound you produce during the mouthfeel stage of wine tasting.

Why this works
: When babies are still in the womb, the noises they can hear are limited to those in the 6000-8000mHz range. The sound you make when you slosh the liquid behind your lips during wine tasting takes place at about 7000mHz, reminding the baby of a time when the world around was peaceful and the whirs and stirs inside Mommy's tummy soothed him back to a sleepy state.

2. How to get rid of surface splinters
Dilemma: You have dozens of little splinters in your hands and arms from helping your little brother with his secret wooden fort. Isn't there a way to get rid of them without having to pluck each and every one out with tweezers?

Solution
: Dip your finger in a tub of liquid glue and smear it all over the problem area. Once it dries, peel it off, just the way you used to when you were a bored little kid in arts-and-crafts class. The splinters will come right out along with the peeling glue!

Why this works
: Surface splinters are hard to get out not because they're deeply embedded but because they're tiny and hard to grasp even with the daintiest of fingers. The sticky glue serves a function similar to a lint roller when the glue is applied evenly across the splintery surface of your skin. Plus, it's super fun to peel glue off your hands.

3. How to clean up spilled egg yolk

Dilemma: The egg was supposed to crack in the pan—not on the floor. Now there's gook all over the linoleum.

Solution
: Sprinkle some table salt on the spilled egg and wait ten minutes for it to soak in, then sweep the egg yolk right off the floor with a broom.

Why this works
: The salt dissolves the lipoproteins in the egg yolk, which changes its texture from gooey to nongooey, making it easier to clean. (Bonus: Brian Lam of Gizmodo shows us how.)

4. How to make the grass green again
Dilemma: You got a new puppy, and now your once beautifully green lawn has bare brown patches all over it from dog pee.

Solution
: Pour some beer on the problem areas, making sure the foam's covering all the naked spots. The grass will be greener in no time.

Why this works
: Beer has fermented sugars in it, which can act as natural fertilizer. The dying grass will feed on these sugars, detrimental fungi will die, and your lawn will start looking normal again.

5. How to swim backward
Dilemma: Your breaststroke is weak, your dives all end up as belly flops, and you can't even do half a somersault without getting water up your nose. You need some kind of skill that will set you apart from the rest of the pool party this summer—but what?

Solution
: Learn how to swim backward! When you flex your feet instead of pointing them while holding onto a kick board, your body will chug through the water in reverse gear.

Why this works
: The direction you advance in the water depends on which way you're kicking. When you kick away from your body—which is essentially what you appear to be doing when you flex your feet—you reverse the body's inclination to go forward. It takes a little bit of practice, but once you perfect it, the whole party will be wide-eyed with wonder at your newfound skill. Images by Joel Holland for Chronicle Books.


For more, please visit http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/urawaza/index.html



Bill Gates is leaving (finally) Microsoft and it's a big day Engadget named June 27 the Bill Day!

So what's so great about the day?

It's so great Engadget is giving away free Microsoft related products!

Just post a comment and you stand the chance to win Toshiba Gigabeat T400, Microsoft Zune, Office Ultimate 2007 and Microsoft Vista Ultimate!

My advice: please don't post a comment as you will reduce my chance to win. Thanks

and you can't take them home if you weren't in USA...

Set a world record? You think that's impossible for you? No!

For once in a life time chance you can set a Guinness World Record!

Just go download the best browser: Mozilla Firefox 3 on June 17, 2008 and your name will be crafted in the record! They are going to get most download on a single day!

err..not your name will be recorded, but your IP address :)

Download Day - English



Today is Father's day. Not everyone is happy though. Some fathers may not as happy as other fathers.

So be wise, don't be a sad father on a supposedly happy day...just use Durex


With the availability of iPhone 3G on July 11th, what are you going to do with your outdated 1st generation iPhone?

People are selling iPhone on ebay and thousands of iPhone out there waiting for sale...you just couldn't sell it!

So why not try this method!


Will it blend? Yes it blended...

Now you can go queue at Apple Store for your next iPhone...



Everyone loves Google!

Because Google knows you better than anyone else in the world! really believe me! Google knows whether you are surfing porn sites. And just in case you have memory loss and don't know who you are, you can ask Google to give you all the data they collected and you might rediscovered yourself. terms & Conditions: you use Google Search, Youtube, Picasa, Gmail, reading my blogspot, Orkut, Google Reader or the useless Google Web Accelerator...etc etc...

So into our topic, how to make yourself viewable to the world?

It's through Google Map!
After they introduce street view function, many photographs of the places are inserted to the Google Map...

So next time when you see a Google Van like thisPlease don't hesitate to pose for photos...and you will appear in Google Map!

Just don't be like the lady below: hiding in the boot while the Google Van passed by...

Even wonder why some PC always encountered blue screen of death (BSOD) and you never get it?

If you think BSOD is fun but you never get it and you really desperate to get here's the solution:
[download BSOD screen saver!]
you can enjoy BSOD everyday without any worries!
what's more: you can get the reboot simulation with start up splash screen...endlessly until you have enough of blue screen reboot blue screen reboot....

What's interesting: the screen saver comes from Microsoft Technet...

A laptop = a PC that can put on your lap. But that's not really convenient while you sitting at bed watching the Office and eating biscuits and drinking vanilla latte...


Now here come the solution!

A Notebook Desk with Built-in 2.1 Speakers & Cooling Fans!!!

By [FeDom]

So imagine this after you buy it...
...By the way, where to put the mug??

Recently the world has been crazy about small laptop, aka netbook.

These little netbooks have screen like 8.9" to 10" and relatively cheaper than normal laptops.

Some of the popular models include:

HP Mini-Note, Acer Aspire One, Asus Eee and
MSI Wind...


















So why
not just bring one of them home, or two if you can't decide which is better...it's just $500 each...

You only need to buy an extra LCD screen, not too expensive...

First, let's define iPhone:

It's just a normal phone from Apple but because it is iPhone it is very popular.

It is recommended that you use it everyday because an apple a day keep doctor away.

If you don't have it, I'll show you how to use it without really having it. Following my guide and you will be able to surf the web like you are using iPhone.

Requirements:
1. You
2. A computer with internet, screen, and keyboard
3. Firefox browser

An iPhone is not a requirement.

First, I prefer Firefox than Internet Explorer or Safari because: the explorer can get lost while walking in the safari...

1. Go [here] to download user agent switcher add-on for firefox.
2. Install it.
3. Restart Firefox.
4. Go Tools > User Agent Switcher > Options > User Agents > Add
5. Fill in the blanks














Description: 'iPhone' or whatever, doesn't matter
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3
other: leave it blank
6. Then OK and select the iPhone user agent and you will see Facebook like this.











Plus, you have the chance to read all the famous magazines like Popular Mechanics, Car and Driver, PC Magazine, and of course...Playboy and Penthouse....F.O.C.
Just go to http://imgs.zinio.com/iphone/











Plus many other iPhone only websites...
And please switch back to the default user agent after having fun with those, or else your Google account may ask whether you want to create a mobile account...


Being the thinnest laptop, the Apple MacBook Air has one new found usage: to slice your birthday cake.

Tested by Rahul Sood, CTO of HP's global gaming business.

[link] read his blog.

I have a HP and I won't use it to slice cake:
1. because I have knife
2. because HP can never slice a cake :) too bulk

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