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Get IRS 2012 tax refund status dates

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Here is a link to the IRS Where’s My Refund site. 🙂 Once you fill out the required info and submit the form, you should receive a status report for your 2012 tax refund that looks something like this: Here’s hoping you receive a nice large refund this year 🙂 Top Search Terms:irs.2012taxrefund (3)irs 2012 taxes (3)irs refund status (2)expected refund dated wheres my refund (1)get status on 2012 tax refund status (1)irs 2012 refund status (1)www.irs.gov where\'s my refund

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$100 off coupon for Windows 8 laptops and tablets at Staples!

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Link to the Staples Coupon in PDF format 🙂 Sometimes it is a bit sketchy getting stores to accept these types of coupons, thankfully my favorite Staples actually had these coupons printed out and available at the service counter! PS this coupon also applies to Windows RT tablets 🙂 Top Search Terms:http://reg.e.staples.com/c/s/tagfrm (3)staples 100 off coupon laptop (3)$100 off windows 8 (3)100$ off staples (2)staples 100 off coupon laptop 2013 (2)staples $100 off windows laptop 2013 (2)staples 100 off windows

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Acer Aspire One AO756 memory upgrade and SSD swap

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The Acer Aspire One AO756 is a nice little laptop that is available for a quite reasonable price (usually around $270 USD). As an added perk, with a few easy upgrades it can be even better! The AO756 allows for easy access to the RAM (memory) and unlike many of its brethren, it actually has two memory slots allowing for up to 16GB of memory to be installed! The hard drive is also easily accessible in case you want to

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Changing the php file upload limit in Funtu Linux

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To increase the PHP upload limit on a Funtoo based server, I needed to adjust these two settings in php.ini: php_value upload_max_filesize 15M php_value post_max_size 15M More related resources: upload – Changing upload_max_filesize on PHP – Stack Overflowhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/1122418/changing-upload-max-filesize-on-php<?php ini_set(‘upload_max_filesize’, ’10M’); echo ini_get(‘upload_max_filesize’), “, ” , ini_get(‘post_max_size’) I end up with: Changing the php file upload limit in Ubuntu Linux | miscellaneous.debrishttp://www.miscdebris.net/blog/2008/04/14/changing-the-php-file-upload-limit-in-ubuntu-linux/sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini search for “upload_max_filesize” with Ctrl-W and change “2M” to “20M”. Save the file with Ctrl-O and exit…

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Recommended extended battery for Galaxy Note 2 (6,200mAh)

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The Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is a powerhouse of a phone and unlike some of its competitors (cough Apple iPhone, cough HTC One) it has a removable battery. That means users are free to install 3rd party batteries, including EXTENDED batteries! Over the past weeks I have been testing the Hyperion 6,200mAh extended battery on a U.S. Cellular SGN2. Performance/longevity have been excellent, I can leave bluetooth, GPS, wifi and cellular on all day with heavy usage (including music/movie playback and

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Using a USB flash drive with a Samsung Galaxy Note 2

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I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to use my old USB flash drives with my new Galaxy Note 2. All that was required was a compatible micro USB OTG cable: After connecting, the drive was automatically mounted and I used the Samsung ‘My Files’ app to access the drive. Pretty easy and not bad for about $1.70! 🙂 BONUS: USB hubs are also reported to work, so it should be possible to connected multiple devices (like a thumbdrive and a

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