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12 Essential Apps for Tweaking Your Mac

Apps are big news these days, made bigger by the smartphone craze (iPhone apps, anyone?) And while Mac users still make up less than 10% of the computer-using population, they are among the most voracious consumers in the tech marketplace. Put the two together – apps and Macs – and you get link bait like [...]

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100 Blogs that Will Inspire You to Be a Better Person

What makes this comprehensive and nicely organized list-oriented link bait post particularly special is its source: a massage therapy jobs site. What do the two have in common – the subject and the source? Self-improvement, of course. But this isn’t a lesson on writing link bait about self-improvement. It’s about expanding your horizons on what you [...]

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Ultimate list to download free e-Books

The appeal of free stuff never goes out of style. Especially in rough economic times. Free movies, free music, free samples – as a culture (and particularly as a cyber-culture) we can’t get enough of all things free. The trick to making successful link bait out of a list of sources for acquiring a certain type [...]

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15 Ways to Hack Your Brain

Self-improvement is a cornerstone of so many internet trends. From weight-loss to productivity to happiness, many of the most successful and enduring online ventures involve helping people to better themselves. We’re all desperate to be healthier, happier, richer, sexier, smarter, more effective and skillful and successful in our endeavors…and so on. Along those lines, here’s a [...]

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Creative Photo Manipulations by LSD s.r.l

Inspiration. It’s what this website – the Link Bait Hall of Fame, that is – is founded upon. Whether it’s web designers or interior designers, creative types of every flavor are always trolling the web for inspiration. This piece provides imagistic inspiration, specifically on photographic manipulation. If you can come up with similarly eye-catching inspiration for [...]

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You know! It’s a thingummy… Whatjermercallit… The everyday items with the forgotten names

This is fun: a rundown of some common items that virtually nobody know the names of. For example – “the little plastic or metal tube at the end of your shoelace” is an Aglet. Bet you didn’t know that? Neither did I. Fun little diversions from all that serious-minded web browsing we do all day is [...]

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Stop Plagiarism in 3 Easy Steps

Here’s an article that every website owner can benefit from; how to prevent plagiarism. Content is still the king of internet marketing, requiring all websites, no matter their bent, to produce original, readable, compelling content if they’re to be successful, with the emphasis on the word “original”. Unique. Without original, unique content a website hasn’t a [...]

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40 devastatingly simple ways the web can save you big money

Saving money is a popular subject these days. About as popular as making money used to be. Here a tech site presents 40 ways the internet can save people money – from cutting credit card rates (at MoneyExtra) to getting cheaper utility rates (at Uswitch) to purchasing groceries online (at Tesco). It shouldn’t be too difficult [...]

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The new superfruits

WebMD in partnership with Prevention Magazine has done it again, publishing (or repurposing, really) another piece that captures the zeitgeist, in this case: our unquenchable yearning for “magic bullet” solutions. Add the word “super” in front of anything and you instantly catch the public’s attention. What is a super-car or a super-building or a super-cinema? Elevating [...]

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20 websites that changed the world

Every day a new revolution is happening in the world. Not in the political landscape, necessarily, but in some niche or industry in some corner of the world, revolutionary changes are taking place. Here TechRadar presents a retrospective of websites that revolutionized our way of life. Sites like GeoCities, Blogger, and Slashdot. What kind of a [...]

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