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Being in Wisconsin, mosquitos a merciless, they will suck all your blood. I bought a Flowtron mosquito repellent lamp off Amazon BK-15D 1/2 acre coverage, unfortunately we used it twice and it stopped working. Bought new bulbs and soon realized that it was the starter. I looked all over the internet and realized that the company was the only one who sold those types of starters anymore. They also weren’t returning my calls to get a new starter bulb or light bulb to see what the problem was.

Doing a bit of research I realized that I could upgrade the starter to use newer fluorescent starters, it would save money and hassle in the future, and hopefully last much longer.

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Unlike most people, I still have a local library of music on my computer, and I don’t like streaming music over 3G/LTE because it uses precious data! Therefore I wanted to find a way to create playlists on my computer and put them on my phone. Unfortunately It wasn’t as straight forward as I hoped, manually copying and pasting music between devices was cumbersome and not idea. Until I found doubleTwist!

So here is my workflow :

1. Install doubleTwist Sync on your Windows computer!
2. Create a smart playlist in iTunes that aggregates all songs with 5 stars
3. Inside doubleTwist ONLY sync this playlist to your phone.

Now whenever you want to add new songs to your Android device, go to itunes, 5 star any new songs you want to add, sync with doubleTwist!

Google is great, but with a few tips it can be awesome!! These are the tips I found most helpful to memorize.

Noob Ninja

• Ignore Spelling (google will correct you)
• Only unique, descriptive keywords
• Use quotes for exact match
  • “Pirates are awesome!” 
• Case insensitive
  • Cats == cats
• Ignore Special Characters
  • Wont be in the search: @#%^*()=[]\
• Omit common words
  • a, the i
  • Put them in quotes if they are important: “a”, “the”, “i”

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This is a list of my most used shortcuts and tweaks for the different operating systems, they can save you a lot of time and make your workflow much faster through the day.

SHORTCUTS

Show/Hide Program Windows

• macOS ==> F3 (Expose Key)
• Linux Gnome ==> command Key
• Windows 10 ==> command + Tab

Lock Screen

• macOS ==> option + cmd + power == > lock Screen
• Linux ==> command + L
• Windows 7/10 ==> command + L

Show Desktop

• macOS ==> cmd + F3 (Expose)
• Linux Gnome ==> command + D
• Windows 10 ==> command + D

Copy or Move Dragged Icon

• macOS==> Click and drag an icon, hold option/alt before releasing
• Linux ==> Click and drag an icon, hold ctrl before releasing

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