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.
//Caption: (“Hola, Hola.”)
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.
//Caption: (“for(net=0;;net++) study(eat(sleep(study)));”)
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.
Photo sources: msn.com
