You Can Run Android 4.0 In It's Entirety Right on Your PC

You Can Run Android 4.0 In It's Entirety Right on Your PC:

Running certain Android apps on your desktop is nothing new with Bluestacks, but now you can get the whole dang OS running on your PC as a native application thanks to a little program called WindowsAndroid. More »

Honey Automatically Searches For And Applies Coupon Codes When You Shop Online

Honey Automatically Searches For And Applies Coupon Codes When You Shop Online:

Chrome: Many of you probably search for coupons on sites like RetailMeNot when you shop online, but free extension Honey takes it to the next level: With one click, it will search for coupon codes for you, and automatically apply any that work to your checkout cart. More »

Hola Unblocker Gives You Access to iPlayer, Netflix, Pandora, Hulu, and More Regardless of Region

Hola Unblocker Gives You Access to iPlayer, Netflix, Pandora, Hulu, and More Regardless of Region:

Chrome/Firefox: Hola Unblocker is a browser extension that removes region locks and allows you to watch BBC iPlayer, Netflix, Hula, Pandora, and more regardless of where you live. It doesn't require any set up and works right out of the box. More »

A Lego Cuckoo Clock

A Lego Cuckoo Clock:
Nick Tatar (tater-tots) built an ornate cuckoo clock with moving features, which you can see the mechanism in this photo. No doubt this would make a great conversation piece if hung in someone’s home.

Useful words with no English equivalent

Useful words with no English equivalent:
Surprisingly, they're not all long, Germanic compound words (generally a font of useful no-equivalent words):

8. Tartle (Scots)

The nearly onomatopoeic word for that panicky hesitation just before you have to introduce someone whose name you can't quite remember.
9. Koi No Yokan (Japanese)

The sense upon first meeting a person that the two of you are going to fall in love.
10. Mamihlapinatapai (Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego)

This word captures that special look shared between two people, when both are wishing that the other would do something that they both want, but neither want to do.

Tartle is something I often experience, because I'm really, embarrassingly terrible with names.
14 wonderful words with no English equivalent

How to Make a Bangle Mold

How to Make a Bangle Mold: You can make a silicone mold of your favorite bangle bracelet, and then make duplicates of it in resin! Check out the step-by-step video tutorial.
Read the full article on MAKE

Connectify Dispatch Merges Your Available Internet Connections into One Fat, Super-Fast Pipe

Connectify Dispatch Merges Your Available Internet Connections into One Fat, Super-Fast Pipe:

Windows: Most people only have one internet connection at home, but what if you could merge your connection with the free Wi-Fi from the coffee shop down the street with your phone's 4G connection to create a super-pipe with tons of additional bandwidth? That's what Connectify Dispatch does, perfectly. More »

Getting Started With Income and Expense Tracking

Getting Started With Income and Expense Tracking:
Photo by Graphique
Laura Messerschmitt works for Etsy’s bookkeeping partner, Outright, a free online bookkeeping tool that imports your data in one place so that you can see how your Etsy business is doing. The following information applies only to US sellers, and Outright is providing this post for informational use only. For specific advice, talk to an expert in your area.
As a business owner — and if you have an Etsy store, you’re a business owner whether you’ve yet identified yourself as one or not — it’s so important to keep account of your business income and expenses.
Why? Good question. There are a number of reasons why you absolutely must keep good books. First of all, if you don’t account for how much money is coming in and where it’s going, you won’t be in business for long. Secondly, but perhaps more importantly, the government will slap you with penalties and fines if you don’t keep track of your income and expenses, and file taxes based on the amounts. But don’t worry — a bit of preparation now will ensure that you’re complying with state and national laws.

Income Tracking

Income tracking is fairly basic: You track any income that comes into your business from sales. In rare cases, you might have additional income, such as royalties or income from selling assets, but for the most part, this number will be a total of all sales you made during the year.
Note: This total will include your shipping income — for example, the money you collect from buyers in order to ship their orders. If you’re scratching your head because that income doesn’t stay in your pocket, you’re right. The cost that you incur for shipping an item to a customer is also a tax deduction, so keep reading!

Expense Tracking

Expense tracking is where your small business accounting life can become trickier. You want to track all the money you spent building up and maintaining your business, because expenses reduce your business profits and, thus, lower the taxes you owe. But, it can be difficult to have the time to record all of your expenses and fit them into IRS-approved categories you find on your year-end tax form, the Schedule C.
That’s where an application like Outright can help. Outright links directly with your Etsy, PayPal, bank accounts, and other business-related financial accounts, pulls in your income and expenses directly, and auto-categorizes most expenses. This really takes the hassle out of bookkeeping, especially when tax time is looming and your business expenses consist of a box of receipts and an online banking login. (Honestly, who remembers six months later why you paid $30 to “CCS Corp”?)
Also keep in mind that the IRS isn’t just going to take your word that you spent $1,500 on office supplies. You need to collect and maintain receipts for any business expenses you may have.
Pro Expense Tracking Tip: Take a picture of your home office and share it with your accountant. She’ll be able to answer any questions you have about expenses and categories, and she may even find deductions you didn’t know you could take.

Common Expenses

So what can you deduct from your taxes? A brief rundown of common expenses includes:
·      Postage and shipping expenses

·      Cost of goods sold

·      Home office deduction

·      Mileage and vehicle expenses

·      Advertising and marketing

·      Etsy, PayPal, and other bank fees

·      Accounting and tax-related fees
Don’t forget small expenses — they all count toward reducing your taxes! In particular, many Etsy sellers forget to deduct shipping expenses and mileage.
For more information about each of these deductions, check out this post detailing common tax deductions for Etsy sellers.

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McDonald's Shows You How to Make an Egg McMuffin at Home

McDonald's Shows You How to Make an Egg McMuffin at Home:

The Egg McMuffin is an iconic breakfast sandwich packing a fried egg, bacon, toasted bread, and cheese in one to-go package. McDonald's Executive Chef Dan Coudreaut demonstrates how to cook it yourself at home. More »

Deconstruction: Muuto Nerd Chair

Deconstruction: Muuto Nerd Chair:

The all-wood Nerd chair, designed by David Geckeler, was the winner of the 2012 Muuto Talent Award, and is thus being produced by Muuto, the Copenhagen-based company known for cool, new Nordic designs. German-born Geckeler, who studied industrial design in Berlin and Copenhagen, focuses on furniture, interior, tableware, and lighting. His cites his driving principles, which are apparent in the Nerd, as “simplicity, detail-orientation, and a pinch of courageous design language.” He treats us to his process in this month’s Deconstruction.

Sketching of the Nerd concept

Here’s a cardboard mockup in a 1:1 scale.

Layers of veneer

Carefully working on the bending process.

The vacuumed mould and veneer part

These are the cutout templates for the chair.

We outline the shapes on the veneer.

Working on turning the wooden legs.

Here we see the sanding and finishing of the chair legs.

CNC milled wedges

The chair, deconstructed: components, shells, and legs.

The first union of seat and backrest.

The glued chairs

The first finished prototype

Checking the curved surface.

The finished product, in natural oak

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