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• Which Media Center Is Right for You: Boxee, XBMC, and Windows Media Center Compared Want all your downloads, streaming video, and other techie media stuff on your TV? Wondering which media center works best for you? Here's a look at the biggies in chart and Venn diagram form, followed by some lengthy breakdowns of each.
• Five Best Public BitTorrent Trackers A great BitTorrent client is all well and good, but you need a great tracker to get the actual torrent files and stoke the bandwidth burning fire in your client of choice. Here's a rundown of five of the most popular opti***.
• Skip the Raise, Ask Your Boss for These Perks Instead If your company is already tightening its belt, it might not do much good asking for a raise during your next performance review. Instead, c***ider asking for other perks that might be almost as good as cash in your pocket.
• Fact and Fiction: The Truth About Browser Cookies Browser cookies are one of those technical bits of web browsing that almost everyone has some awareness of. They're also probably one of the most misunderstood aspects of browsing.
• Become a Gmail Master Redux Gmail is easily the most popular email application among power users, and with good reason: It's an excellent app. But if you haven't gotten to know its best shortcuts, tricks, Labs features, and add-***, it's time you made Gmail sing.
• Remove a Stripped Screw with a Rubber Band The head of the screw you stripped while you were hanging that shelf may not have seemed like a big deal at the time—until you needed to unscrew it, that is. Next time you're having trouble, try a rubber band.
• Top 10 Tips and Tools for Freelancers Freelancing isn't something you should just jump into, but it makes sense for a good number of workers. If you're looking into, or getting started with, working on your own, here are 10 resources we think every freelancer can learn from.
• Current Crop of E-Readers Compared: iPad vs. the Rest Developer and blogger Darren Beckett rounds up a crop of five e-readers and gives them a short price and feature comparison with the newly released iPad—and rolled the results into an eye-friendly infographic.
• From the Tips Box: Cable Organization, Salad Dressing, and Odor Killing Readers offer their best tips for storing cables, bringing salad dressing with lunch, and masking odors with simple household objects.
• Take a Second Shot at Understanding Math Mathematics tends to bisect people into either fascination or annoyance. If you're in the latter camp, or actually like math but can't quite get a hold of it, a Cornell professor is blogging a kind of re-introduction to math for *****s.