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Time Is Money Tells Your How Many Hours of Work It Takes to Buy Stuff

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When shopping, especially on the internet, it’s easy to lose track of how expensive something really is. It’s easy to see a $50 price drop on something that makes you think that a $450 toy is somehow “cheap.” The Time Is Money Chrome extension aims to fix that particular problem by showing you how many hours of work something will cost you.

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Yup, you put in either your hourly rate, or your weekly pay and how many hours you work, and the extension automatically shows you that that sweet Asus G751 with the GTX 980M and the 512 GB SSD would cost you 413 hours and 40 minutes at minimum wage, or 119 hours and 50 minutes if you pull in the median U.S. household income of $52,000. Suddenly it seems wiser to go for the one with a 970M and no SSD that will take you half as much time to earn.

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If you need help keeping perspective in general, or with the holiday season coming up, try Time Is Money.

Browser extension enables SkyDrive attachments within Gmail

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Browser extension enables SkyDrive attachments within Gmail

Gmail users who envy Outlook's SkyDrive integration will find that the proverbial grass is now a little greener on their side, thanks to fresh features in Attachments.me's Chrome and Firefox browser extensions. With the plugin installed, files residing in Microsoft's cloud service can be attached to emails from within Gmail. Also included in the update is support for user-created rules that can direct attachments to SkyDrive as they flood into inboxes. Can't wait for Gmail to gain similar support with Google Drive, or just prefer Redmond's storage solution? Hit the source link below to infuse Mountain View's web mail with some of Microsoft's storage locker mojo.

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Browser extension enables SkyDrive attachments within Gmail originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 Sep 2012 03:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google’s Language Immersion Chrome extension translates random text to teach foreign lingo

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Google's Language Immersion Chrome extension translates random text, teaches you how to speak foreign lingoBerlitz may be the best way to learn a foreign language, but most of us have neither the time nor the ability to fully immerse ourselves in the vocabulary of another country. Hot on the heels of Gmail's automatic translation feature hitting the big time, Google's Translate team has crafted a Chrome extension to make language learning a bit more accessible. The extension does the trick by translating random portions of text to any of its 64 supported languages, so that your native tongue is interspersed with the lingo you're learning. Users have a sliding scale to set their knowledge level from novice to fluent, and can roll over translated words to hear how they should be pronounced. Interested? Peep a video demo after the break to see it in action, or take the plunge and install it at the source below.

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Google's Language Immersion Chrome extension translates random text to teach foreign lingo originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 May 2012 19:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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