Palihog Ko'g Tudlo: Top Techie Hacks

Some Helpful Tips for Gadget-savvy Iskolars

Ever experienced destroyed charger cables and messing up your dulcet aura as you try to fix them? Worry no more, fellow Isko && Iska’s! Here are a few geeky gadget hacks to help you out!

1. Do-it-yourself cord/cable protectors

Okay. This comes a bit obvious to everyone. But, there are people, such as moi, who do not seem to care for our tools as much as our finished outputs.

Saving the cords and cables, though, is much better than buying new ones. And it does look sort of pretty.

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2. Hide people on Twitter without blocking them.

You’re faced with a situation. Some bigoted friend of yours tries to be mega-sexist on social media, and you don’t ever want to hear another word from them. Ever.

You hang the mouse cursor over their highlighted account names on Twitter. Then that almost palpable little angel on your right shoulder tries to keep you from hitting “Unfollow.” “You’re being immature,” it says.

Cue in Twitter’s convenient Mute button and you’ll never have to worry about relaying personal enmity against “persons concerned” in the heat of social media ever again.

P.S. Best used when person concerned is a boxer-turned-senatorial-candidate.

3. Quickly re-open a closed tab.

I always find it so annoying when I’m binge-surfing during the wee hours and I always accidentally keep hitting on the close button on the Chrome tabs.

Hit Ctrl+Shift+T on Windows or Command+Shift+T on Mac and bask in the awareness of your own foolishness.                                                                                                                                                                                  

Also, erasing part of your browser’s search history won’t affect this little tidbit’s usefulness.

Warning: Make sure your parents aren’t reading this article!

4. Watch blocked Netflix movies

Netflix’s streaming service once prevented users in the Philippines from accessing content. Users, thus, used a free browser-extension called Hola to access these blocked catalogues.

Hola’s potential is rad. 

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5. Google can help you study.

This could have saved my neck a few years back in one of my Chemistry classes in high school, when my teacher unwittingly copied an entire exam out of an online repository. I only discovered it weeks later.

Get eluded no more. Just google “site:edu [subject] exam”. Works just fine for students who want to put a little more work into the brain gym.

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So the next time a prof of yours tries to copy stuff from the net for an exam, smile demurely as le prof hands you le A++.     

Hope you learned a few tips. ‘Till next time!

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This article for Palihog Ko'g Tudlo is written by Jace Roldan.

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