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Keep your travel organized with apps

Travel can become stressful quickly. Fortunately, there are plenty of free organizational apps to save the day—and they can save you money as well, writes Julie Kliegman for The Week. She recommends seven free apps that can make your traveling experience much easier.

Lie/Lay/Lying/Laying

Lie is an intransitive verb (one that does not take an object), meaning “to recline.” Its principal parts are lie, lay (past tense), lain (past participle) and lying (present participle) …

‘Lost and found’ is now just ‘found’

The power of electronic location tracking has now given us the Tile tag, a small device to affix to anything from your keys to your laptop to your umbrella to track the things that go wandering off. A companion app for your phone helps track down a wayward item within 100 feet and will even […]

The 3 A’s of conflict negotiation

Whenever groups of people work closely together, conflict is sure to arise. However, there are ways to negotiate peacefully and calmly to ensure both sides are heard, writes blogger Tim Schurrer, who suggests adhering to the 3 A’s of conflict negotiation.

Know your DPI

“Why is this picture printing out so blurry?” In this day and age, how a photo comes out on the page and on the Web is all about its DPI (dots per inch) measurement. The rule of thumb to use is that anything above 72 DPI should look fine on a computer monitor, but it […]