How to Track Sales and Price Drops on Amazon

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Read This Article → How to Mute (Most) Spam Accounts and Trolls on Twitter I love Twitter, but there's no denying it has long had a spam and troll problem. Tweet about a popular product or service, and you'll often get weird replies from random accounts. Poke your head out and take a political stance, and anonymous trolls will try to cut you down. Read This Article → How to Track Sales and Price Drops on Amazon Amazon adjusts prices on its products all the time. If you have time to wait for a good deal, you can track prices on stuff you want (and even get alerts) using a web site called CamelCamelCamel, and its browser extension The Camelizer. Read This Article → How to Set Up and Get Started with Your Synology NAS Synology offers a very user friendly Network Attached Storage (NAS) device experience, but that doesn’t mean unboxing it and starting it up is exactly a one-click affair. Let’s get things up and running so we can move onto all the fun projects a compact NAS with server-like functionality can facilitate. Read This Article → How Try Chrome OS in VirtualBox Before Buying a Chromebook Google’s Chromebooks run Chrome OS, a lightweight operating system based on Linux that provides you with a full Chrome browser and a basic desktop environment. Before buying a Chromebook, you may want to play with Chrome OS in a virtual machine in a window on your desktop. Read This Article → How to Disable Window Transparency in macOS There are a lot of transparency effects in macOS these days. You can see it twice in the Finder window above: the colors from the desktop wallpaper show through the left sidebar, and the pictures I’m scrolling past bleed through the top of the window. You can even see this while scrolling. Read This Article → How to Change the Alarm Volume On Your Google Home If you want to adjust the volume on your Google Home, you can just swipe along the touch-sensitive top of the device to turn the volume up or down. However, alarms use a different volume level. To adjust that, you’ll need to open up the Google Home app on your phone. Read This Article → How to Get Android Apps to See External Storage on Chromebooks Android apps are a great way to expand the sometimes limited capabilities of Chromebooks, but they can be a problem if you store most of your data on an external medium—like an SD card, for example. Read This Article → How to Add a Backdrop to Your Snapchat Snap Snapchat seems to be doubling down on its mixed-reality features to stay ahead of Instagram. They've added a new feature where you can add a weird backdrop to your Snaps. Here's how to use it. Read This Article → How to Reverse Look Up a Phone Number You get a call from a phone number you don’t recognize. There’s a good chance it’s just a scammer, but it could also be a legitimate business or a person you know. Rather than answering the phone or calling the number back, there are a few quick ways you can identify just who it was who tried to call you. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Work Smarter Not Harder: 18 Productivity Tips that Boost your Work Day Performance (valued at $.99) Learn 18 actionable ways to get more done, the smart way. Would you like to know how to get more done when you work? Are you letting distractions rule your day? Are you finding it impossible to focus on important projects? Work Smarter Not Harder is your personal guide for helping you on your journey to increased productivity and better work habits.Click here to download