Pogue's Basics: Life
Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers to Tell You) for Simplifying Your Day
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3.2 • 11 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
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!
Customer Reviews
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I didn't read this book, but I'm leaving this 5 star review to offset the only other review, a 1 star review. Type Os don't brother me won bit.
Wow. Seriously?
“If you click your key fob twice instead of getting in your car and searching for the unlock buttons, it unlocks all the doors?” Who the hell doesn’t know that??
“Setting the metal thingy under a gas pump nozzle locks it into place so you don’t have to squeeze or even touch it?” Really? I had no idea.
Someone actually made money on this book. To be fair, I didn’t get past the sample but after the first few pages, can you blame me? I got one though...If you put a liquid into a refrigerator, it will stay cold as long as you keep it in there. Brilliant
This book is useless.
Worthless.