Ripen Fruit Faster by Burying it in Rice

Burying your fruit in uncooked rice is a quick and easy way to shave a few days off the ripening time. Just take something annoyingly slow to ripen, like a Mango, and drop it into a bin of rice (the same rice already sitting in the kitchen is fine). Don't worry about ruining the rice, it'll be fine unless you forget the fruit's in the bin.

A container of rice makes it easy for the fruit's ethylene gas to stick around longer, and promote ripening. This works in much the same way that brown paper bags or or newspaper wrappings do. Using a method like this can reduce ripening time by entire days, but it's also a good way to overdo it. Just be sure to check on the fruit once or twice a day!

Downloads : LiLi Creates Versatile,Anywhere Bootable Linux Thumb Drives

Windows: Whether you're looking to try out Linux or create a Windows troubleshooting tool, LiLi will create a powerful Linux thumb drive, letting you pick your distribution, save data between reboots, or even launch your mobile OS right from Windows.

While there are other tools out there that create live Linux USBs, LiLi is a bit more versatile. Not only can you create a live USB stick of any distro you want, but you can also store data and save your settings between reboots, making it a real mobile OS on which you can install programs, make changes, and even update software on. It also hides all your data, so snoopers looking at your USB drive won't see anything you've saved onto it.

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App of The Week : Fanhattan for iPad

Let's get this straight, Fanhattan is not another movie and TV streaming service. At its core, Fanhattan is a movie and TV searching service that scours through Netflix, iTunes, Hulu Plus and the iPad's ABC app (with hopes of adding more services) and shows you where you can find the movie to watch. Once you click on the service, it'll launch that particular iPad app and that app will let you stream, buy, or rent the movie. Think of it as a guide for your iPad movie watching self.

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Site of The Week : Get Drunk Not Fat

Getdrunknotfat has a mission to keep you slim and trim while you drink yourself silly. The website painstakingly compiled the calories and calorie-to-alcohol ratio of many popular alcoholic beverages. All this wonderful data is organized in a searchable chart.

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Google Announces ‘Instant Pages,’ ‘Instant’ Image Search And ‘Instant’ Availability

Google’s launch of Google Instant last year was somewhat limited in its scope. At today’s Inside Search event Google Fellow Amit Singhal revealed some recent developments in Instant Search, which currently saves users between 2-5 seconds in each search. Google Instant will now be available in 32 languages and over 69 domains on desktop and mobile. Today it will be launching in all of Latin America, which means in 16 new domains.

The Instant Search feature is also now available on Google’s “Image Search,” working by changing the images as you enter search queries.

Singhal also announced “Instant Pages,” or what Singhal calls “the next big leap in Google Instant.” Instant Pages prerenders search results, allowing you to click on a search result and have it load instantly, as opposed to having to wait for four seconds.

Next iPad to have Retina Display

More evidence has emerged to suggest that a future version of the iPad will sport a "Retina" display with a resolution of 2048x1536, or double the horizontal and vertical pixels of the current iPad. 

Back in January, a number of images were discovered within iPad apps showing icons twice the size needed for the 1024x768 screen on the iPad. This suggested a similar pixel-doubling strategy to that used in the iPhone 4's Retina Display. That particular feature wasn't included in the iPad 2, but perhaps will be in the iPad 3.