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Your iPhone comes equipped with useful tools such as Siri, Passbook, Mail and Calendar. If you want to take your productivity to the next level though, this list of free apps is a great place to start. Most apps are also compatible with iPod touch and iPad. Practical Information & Phone Management 1.Converter Plus How many dollars do you take on your next trip to [...]

Born Ulrich Leonard Tolle in post-World War II Germany, Eckhart Tolle rose to prominence through his inspirational book The Power of Now, recommended by Oprah Winfrey in 2000. It has been a bestseller ever since. To commemorate, Life’d now presents these Top 10 Eckhart Tolle Quotes. Let’s get started! 10. For what you do to others, you do to yourself. Of the Eckhart Tolle quotes [...]

Should I rent or buy? This is an age-old question that countless have asked themselves. But as many quickly realize, the answer isn’t always clear cut. Advocates for buying commonly describe renting as “flushing money down the toilet.” And if you’re fed up with rent increases, fickle landlords and every other headache that comes with living in someone else’s property, buying may seem logical. However, [...]

The science of Twitter tells us that the clutter of your Twitter stream rises proportionally with the number of Twitter accounts you follow. The art of Twitter tells us that the vast majority of tweets published by the people you follow are probably meaningless to you. Finding the right balance between the art and science of Twitter can be challenging. By building Twitter lists, you [...]

Think you live in a totally free society? Ask the authors of these 7 Books that Were Banned in the U.S. To be fair, all of these books are now available, but considering many were written in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, we’re not far removed from when they were hard to come by. Not all were banned outright by the government. Some [...]

The 85th Annual Academy Awards ceremony is coming your way on Feb. 24. Since starting the tradition in 1929, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has only missed one year (1933), due to scheduling irregularities. In all, 84 Best Picture winners have been crowned thus far, but who are the best of the best? Life’d now gives you our take on the [...]

You might own your blog and believe that you can publish whatever you want online, but bloggers and online publishers have to follow laws, too. If you’re a United States resident, then you need to understand the laws that apply to you. Claiming ignorance is not an allowable defense in the U.S. court system. The onus is on you to understand and adhere to all [...]

It’s been more than three decades since the United States ice hockey team took the gold at the 1980 Winter Olympics, an achievement that was only possible thanks to the Feb. 22, 1980, upset of the Soviet national team. Since that time, Team USA’s win has been around the top of the upset charts. Here are five reasons why it will never be topped.   The Soviet [...]

iTunes App Store and Google Play both have thousands of productivity apps to offer you. The bad news is that most of them are not worth your time. The good news, however, is that we have taken the time to go through them so that you don’t have to. As part of our quest for the best mobile productivity apps, here’s a list of 15 apps [...]

Ever caught yourself watching a western and thinking, “Oh man, that would have been so cool”? First, no. Shootouts at high noon may be fun until you’re the guy standing at the other end of the barrel. Secondly, why long for those days when you can just hit these 9 Wild West Vacation Spots to See Before You Die? You won’t even need a bulletproof [...]