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Unstuff Gifts Picks Experiences, Not Stuff, for Holiday Presents

Web: To beat the pressure of gift-buying, we recommend you give experiences instead of objects. So how do you find these experience-based gifts, and which one is right for whom? Unstuff Gifts makes it easy by aggregating, sorting and recommending the best "non-stuff" gifts for the holidays. The site has suggestions like Spotify subscriptions, guitar lessons, National Parks pass, cooking classes and lots more, spread across categories like athletes, critics, daredevils, explorers, foodies, geeks, hipsters, kids, ladies, mansome, rockstars, snobs and students. You can sort by category, but the cool part is when you hook it up to your Facebook. Unstuff Gifts can read through your friends' profiles and figure out which category they fit in. Search for a friend and the portal will recommend the gifts that fit them based on their category. It worked well for a few friends, but not for all—it depends on how active your friends are on FB.

How to Jailbreak iOS 6.1.2

Jailbreaking is a process that changes little by little with each iOS upgrade. We have an always up-to-date guide for that latest jailbreaks, but if you're still running iOS 6.1.2 or earlier this guide will help you get through the process. Not sure if you should jailbreak? We love jailbreaking our iDevices, but it's not for everybody. If you're not sure, you should read both our reasons not to jailbreak and why jailbreaking is awesome. How to Jailbreak Just follow these steps to jailbreak your iDevice, or watch the video above for a demonstration. Download Evasi0n for your operating system (Windows, OS X, or Linux). Open up the Evasi0n app that you downloaded. Connect your computer to your device. If you have passcode lock enabled, go into the Settings app on your device and temporarily disable it in the General —> Passcode Lock section. (You can re-enable it after the jailbreak is complete.) Back on your computer, click the Jailbreak button in the Evasi0n app window. It'll take awhile to upload some necessary jailbreak data, and your phone should restart during this process. Wait for Evasi0n to finish this step. As part of the process, Evasi0n installs a temporary jailbreak app on your device. When ready, it'll prompt you to open it. Simply unlock your device, then tap on the jailbreak app icon. It'll cause the screen to flash briefly but appear to do nothing. If you look at your computer, however, you'll find the jailbreak process continues. It'll finish in a minute or so and you can close Evasi0n on your computer. Your device will need to reboot a couple of times, but when you see your lock screen the process is done. Just navigate to Cydia and enjoy your new jailbreak!

Make People Feel Good About Themselves with Two Questions

To give someone a boost, ask them about a specific aspect of their life where they are doing well, and follow it up with a generic question about their overall happiness. It sounds simplistic, but it works wonders, according to Nobel laureate psychologist Daniel Kahneman. In a study, Kahneman asked students two questions: How many dates did you have last month? How happy are you these days? Those who were happy about their answer to the first question also reported a happy answer to the second, the study found. The first question needn't be that one specifically, of course. You can ask any question that you think the answer will be something that puts the person in a positive mood. If the order of the questions is reversed, it doesn't work. Kahneman theorizes that this is because "happiness" is not an easy or quick assessment, and so the state of mind from the previous question is carried over into answering the second. The emotion aroused by the dating question was still on everyone's mind when the query about general happiness came up… "Happiness these days" is not a natural or an easy assessment. A good answer requires a fair amount of thinking. However, the students who had just been asked about their dating did not need to think hard because they already had in their mind an answer to a related question: how happy they were with their love life. The same pattern is found if a question about the students' relations with their parents or about their finances immediately precedes the question about general happiness. In both cases, satisfaction in the particular domain dominates happiness reports. Any emotionally significant question that alters a person's mood will have the same effect. Eric Barker, who recounts this study, also notes in The Week that the two-question technique could be successfully employed to make people like you. If someone is feeling good about themselves because of what you asked them, they will transfer those feelings towards you.

Send Twitter DMs on Apps That Won’t Let You with This Trick

Some Twitter clients, like Twitpic, only let you read and compose tweets on your timeline, not offering access to Direct Mentions (DMs). But if you still want to send someone a DM on these services, just use the old SMS Code. Security consultant Egor Homakov wrote about a neat workaround he found to post DMs to friends on Twitpic: But you know what's really cool? ANY app can send a DM on behalf of your account, by sending to API "d NAME TEXT". I just tested with Twitpic, as you can see it doesn't require any DM permissions. Homakov also reasons that this is a bug, since an app is supposed to have read and write permissions for DMs, so Twitter might just plug this—but it was working fine when we last checked.

Zoom While Taking Photos to Remember the Event Perfectly

Taking photos of an event impairs your memory, finds a new study by Fairfield University. But instead of dropping your camera entirely, you can eliminate this "photo-taking-impairment effect" by zooming in to a specific part of the object. The study took a group of students around a museum, with some told to snap photographs and others forbidden to. The next day, tests showed that those who took photos had worse recollection of the event than those who didn't. However, the study found that when those who photographed zoomed in on particular parts, their memory was not affected. When participants zoomed in to photograph a specific part of the object, their subsequent recognition and detail memory was not impaired, and, in fact, memory for features that were not zoomed in on was just as strong as memory for features that were zoomed in on. This finding highlights key differences between people's memory and the camera's "memory" and suggests that the additional attentional and cognitive processes engaged by this focused activity can eliminate the photo-taking-impairment effect. So if you are going to take photos at an event, do yourself a favor and zoom in on something so that you don't forget the experience of being there.

Hack Your Wireless Mouse into a DIY Power Glove

Here's a neat little weekend project. With an unused wireless mouse (or you can pick one up for $7 on Amazon) and a pair of gloves, you can build yourself a cool 'power glove' that acts as your computer's mouse. Here's all the equipment you'll need:

-Wireless mouse

-Screwdriver

-Conductive paint

-Wiring

-Scissors

-Glove

-Velcro Stickers

-Gaffer tape

-Battery

The procedure is best seen through Household Hacker's full video, but here's a brief of what you'll need to do: Pop the circuit board out of the mouse, carefully detach the left and right mouse buttons as well as the main sensor, connect them back to the circuit board with conductive paint and wires, and put them all onto the glove. Use Gaffer Tape to safely wrap the circuit board after you're done and stick it on your glove with velcro. Similarly, stick a battery to the glove with velcro and connect it to the circuit board. There's no soldering involved and it uses simple materials, so you shouldn't be scared to try this one out. The end result seems to be a mouse that is responsive enough for gaming and precision image editing, Household Hacker says.