Pogue's basics: life : essential tips and shortcuts (that no one bothers to tell you) for simplifying your day / David Pogue.
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TextPublisher: New York : Flatiron Books, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: 228 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781250080431 (trade pbk.)
- 1250080436 (trade pbk.)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
New York Times Bestseller
Do you know the pinhole-finger trick for seeing without glasses?
Did you realize that booking a hotel room with your phone is cheaper than doing it on your PC?
Do you know how to get the last dregs of ketchup out of the bottle--in one second?
In David Pogue's New York Times bestselling book Pogue's Basics: Tech, the author shared his essential tips and tricks for making all your gadgets seem easier, faster, and less of a hassle to use. In this new book, he widens his focus--to life itself. In these pages, you'll find more than 150 tricks, shortcuts, and cheats for everyday life: house and home, cars, clothing, travel, food, health, and more. This timeless reference book will shed light on priceless bits of advice and life hacks that already exist in the world around you--you just never knew!
Tips include: Insider cheats for cheap air fare, how to read signs in other languages, the three-cent trick for staying awake behind the wheel, how to know which side of the highway your exit will be on, how to quench a spicy mouth on fire, and much much more!
Includes index.
The car -- Travel -- Food -- Clothes -- Out and about -- House and home -- Animals -- How to clean everything -- Electronics -- Your body -- Social hacks -- Life hack lies.
"In these pages, you'll find more than 150 tricks, shortcuts, and cheats for everyday life: house and home, cars, clothing, travel, food, health, and more. This ... reference book [offers] bits of advice and life hacks that already exist in the world around you--you just never knew"--Back cover.