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12 Ways Women Have Replaced Men With Technology

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  • By Sean Percival on May 10, 2009

    There’s no denying the obvious: men have served a useful purpose in the evolutionary development of the human race. However, developments in science and technology are rapidly advancing, allowing women to slowly, but surely, replace the men in their lives. Are men destined to go the way of gills and the vestigial tail? Maybe not, but here are 12 ways in which men are becoming increasingly obsolete to the needs of women.

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    Take Launchy beyond application launching - Exclusive Lifehacker Download - Lifehacker

    By Adam Pash, 12:00 PM on Tue Jul 31 2007, 159,448 views (Edit, to draft, Slurp)

     

     

     

    Most people know Launchy as a simple and lightning-fast application launcher for Windows, but it's actually capable of much more than that. Using Launchy, you can append text to files, schedule appointments, add to your to-do list, set reminders, and more—it just takes a little setting up. Today I'll detail how I use Launchy for more than just app launching.

    The real brains behind most of what I describe below involves using Windows batch files in conjunction with cURL (an open source command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax) and Twitter.* So if you don't already have it, go download cURL (find the Windows section), then extract the curl.exe file to C:\WINDOWS.

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