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Otixo Is a Convenient File Manager for Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, and All Your Other Cloud Services

From Lifehacker:

If you’re using more than one cloud storage service (hard not to, with all the free space being thrown around), managing your files between them can be tricky. Otixo gives you a centralized view of all your online files for easy copying and pasting between accounts from the web interface or through a mapped drive on your desktop.

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Repair Frayed Shoe Laces with Glue and Toothpaste

From Lifehacker:

If your rough on your shoes then you’ve likely destroyed your share of laces by cracking the plastic around the tip and causing it to fray. Once this happens it’s a pain to rethread the lace. Instructables user lllshreelll shares a simple way to repair the frayed laces with nothing but glue, thread, and toothpaste.

Start by dabbing the frayed shoe lace tip in the glue, and then wrap a small piece of thread tightly around it. Let the thread dry for ten minutes, and then coat it in toothpaste. The toothpaste seals everything together and according to lllshreelll it’s a pretty durable fix. If you’re looking for something a little more classy, the old heat shrink tubing fix is always another option.

Quick, Cheap, and Easy fix for frayed laces | Instructables

Instantly Send Any Gmail Attachment to Google Drive

From Lifehacker:

Now that Google Drive has built file storage into your Google account, it’s only natural that you’d like it to play nicely with your other Google apps. With a few tricks, it can—at least with your Gmail account. Tech blogger Amit Agarwal details how to set up a system in which applying a GoogleDrive label to any email in your Gmail inbox will automatically save its attachment to Google Drive—syncing those files directly to your desktop.

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Mix Baking Soda and Water For a Cheap, Effective DIY Vegetable Scrub

From Lifehacker:

When you get those fresh veggies home from the farmer’s market or the grocery store, naturally you’ll want to give them a good scrub down before cooking them. Sure, you can use plain water, but if you’re trying to get the grit out of the nooks and crannies of leeks or you’re dealing with an unwashed head of lettuce, don’t spend money on a commercial vegetable wash—especially when most of them are pretty much baking soda and water anyway. Make your own.

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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Even more Top Search Queries data

From Google Webmaster Central Blog:

We recently updated the Top Search Queries data to take into account the average top position, we enabled programmatic download and we made sure you could still get all the queries that drive traffic to your site. Well, now it’s time to give you more search queries data!

First, and most important, you can now see up to 90 days of historical data. If you click on the date picker in the top right of Search queries, you can go back three months instead of the previous 35 days.