Hacks/Tips/Hints/Tricks–c’mon, who doesn’t relish in a good fun fact? We’ve scoured the .coms, .nets, and one or two .edus to bring you a slew of fun, simple, and helpful #NERDALERTS to save you some cash, tidy up your workspace, MacGyver your way out of a sticky situation, and make your afternoon a touch more productive.

1. Use LEGO mini-figs to hold cords and cables. Stick a LEGO brick on the desk, attach a mini-fig on top and run the cords through its hands.
2. To quickly pause a video on YouTube, press “K.” Once more to resume play.
3. The Bohemian Rhapsody is the perfect song to test headphones and speakers because of the range of highs and lows.
4. Quickly redial the last incoming or outgoing call by hitting the call button on iPhones.
5. Sign up for Spotify Premium on the website ($9.99/month), instead of the app ($12.99/month).
6. Found a locked iPhone? Ask Siri “Who do you belong to?” The owner’s name and contact information (should) appear.
7. Use a spring from a pen to keep chargers from bending, breaking and fraying.
8. Roommates phone alarm going off for an absurd amount of time? Calling them will disable it.
9. Forgotify compiles the millions of songs that have never been played on Spotify.
10. Saving an Excel file as a .XLSB will shrink the size up to 75%.
11. When booking flights, or hotels, online first clear your cookies for lower prices.
12. Charge iPhones faster by putting it on Airplane Mode.
13. Conquer your inbox. Control when you send and receive emails with Boomerang for Gmail.
14. Hit the Spacebar to scroll down a web page, Shift + Spacebar to scroll back up.
15. If PowerPoint presentations are saved as .PPS they’ll go into slideshow mode when opened.
16. No Internet, no sweat. On Google Chrome’s error page, press spacebar to enter T-Rex game.
17. Printer out of black ink? Change the font color to #010101 for 99% grey.
18. Google “[food] vs. [food]” to compare nutritional values.
19. Listen to video game music to study/work more efficiently.
20. Twenty-three letters of the QWERTY alphabet are keyboard shortcuts for Photoshop.
21. Eliminate distractions and beat procrastination with Google Chrome’s Momentum.
22. If you send someone a link to a file in your Dropbox and they create an account after receiving it then you get an extra 500MB of space. It’s as easy as referring a friend to Freedom Consulting Group!
23. “Stewardesses” is one of the longest words you can type with your left hand on a QWERTY keyboard.

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