Before buying a new product, people rarely rely on the opinions of their friends and family alone, but often do a fair amount of research by searching for and reading reviews online or in print. With an overwhelming amount and variety of reviews on the Internet, in tech magazines, and on TV, it may be hard to know where to begin if you want to start penning reviews of your own....

Hurricanes rotate in a counter-clockwise direction around an “eye.” Hurricanes have winds at least 74 miles per hour. When they come onto land, the heavy rain, strong winds, and heavy waves can damage buildings, trees and cars. The heavy waves are called a storm surge. Storm surges are very dangerous and a major reason why people MUST stay away from the ocean during a hurricane warning or hurricane. Hurricanes are classified into five categories, based on their wind speeds and potential to cause damage....

The other day a TechWelkin reader asked me, “I am receiving repeated SMS text messages on my mobile phone. The message asks me to reset my Facebook password. But I never asked Facebook to change or reset my password. Do you think it is a fraud?” Well, yes, indeed it could be a fraud and an attempt to hack your Facebook account. You may also have got SMS or text messages giving you Facebook password reset code....

Review a number of varieties of Victorian black jewelry, with tips on how to recognize them, compiled with the help of Lisa Stockhammer, president of The Three Graces and Pamela Y. Wiggins, an antique expert and author of “Warman’s Costume Jewelry.” Berlin Iron Berlin iron consists of wires of sand-cast iron, often lacquered in black, which gives them an inky, matte finish. Characterized by large but finely-wrought designs that have a lacy or cobweb-like look, “it’s also magnetic and cool to the touch,” Stockhammer says....

To improve your play and add a more strategic element, you might also want to learn Scrabble’s legal words with no vowels and words with a Q but no U. There are multiple Scrabble word lists to study and some simple ways to improve your Scrabble play. AA–DO AA(S), 2 points AB(S), 4 points AD(S), 3 points AE, 2 points AG(S), 3 points AH(S), 5 points AI(S), 2 points AL(S), 2 points AM, 4 points AN, 2 points AR(S), 2 points AS(S), 2 points AT, 2 points AW, 5 points AX, 9 points AY(S), 5 points BA(S), 4 points BE(S), 4 points BI(S), 4 points BO(S), 4 points BY(S), 7 points DE, 3 points DO(S), 3 points...

To display this icon in the status bar, you must have at least one Bluetooth device connected with your iPhone. Your iPhone or iPad can display the battery status of only those devices that are supported by the iOS. But nowadays, wireless devices are becoming more and more popular. So, you may have a Bluetooth headset, an Apple Watch, iPad and you might also be connected with your Macbook via Bluetooth!...

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The Arctic tundra is a cold, vast, treeless area of low, swampy plains in the far north around the Arctic Ocean. It includes the northern lands of Europe (Lapland and Scandinavia), Asia (Siberia), and North America (Alaska and Canada), as well as most of Greenland. Another type of tundra is the alpine tundra, which is a biome that exists at the tops of high mountains. Special features: This is the earth’s coldest biome....

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Here’s what you’ll need: Faux succulentsWood boxesFoam brushCraft paintHot glueWire cutters Separate Your Succulents Trust us, you’re going to be really grateful that you’re not trying to do this with living plants. But when you do pick up your selection of succulents you’re most likely going to have to separate them. You’ll also want to pay attention to the quality of the faux succulents you’re purchasing. Good ones will have a nice color variation and no extra pieces of plastic along the edges....

If you are on the hunt for milk glass, keep an eye out for similar-looking platonite glass. It is very easy to confuse the two. Platonite was patented by the Hazel Atlas Glass Company in 1936 but was used for making glassware and dinnerware sets as early as the 1920s. To help you tell them apart, milk glass is more translucent than platonite, and platonite is usually marked “HA” on the bottom....

While seers predict a catastrophic Apocalypse and curmudgeonly Luddites revel in the shutdown of a wired society, a few visionaries see the approaching millennium as a cause for change. Here’s a look at some of the more inventive projects that hope to mark the next 1,000 years. In France, Paul Chemetov had an idea: plant a (somewhat even) line of 1,000 trees marking the north-south Paris meridian, each tree representing one year of the millennium....

Obviously, model trains of different scales will have different minimum vertical clearances. These clearances have traditional measurements assigned to them by the modeling society, but real-life history also plays a role in variations to the standard prototype/model ratios. Real-Life Influences In addition to the traditional vertical clearances assigned according to the scale of the model, the real-life prototype of the model also has a big impact. Trains have been growing in size since their inception....

Specimens of the strongest examples of these Minnesota Extra Tree Quarters have sold in the $100 to $200 range, with a PCGS slabbed Denver MS-67 example bringing nearly $800 on eBay recently! However, doubled die specimens that cannot be seen with an unaided eye sell for a dollar or two and are not graded by 1/3 party grading service. You can see that there is a wide spread in price when it comes to buying one error coins....

Rules for Buying Monopoly Railroads If a railroad is unowned, a player landing on it may buy it for the listed price. If you land on it and don’t want to buy it, it goes to auction at a price starting at the listed price or above. The high bidder then purchases the railroad. The rent for railroads depends on how many railroads the player owns. If you own one, the rent on it is $25....

So, I thought of telling you about the world’s most popular ringtone! A ringtone is the sound played by mobile phones when an incoming call is waiting to be answered. Before the mobile era, the telephones used to “ring” and the same etymology gave birth to the word ringtone. Nowadays, we get to hear hear nice polyphonic ringtones all around us. Smartphones can even play vocal songs as ringtone when someone calls you....