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The best of the best new mice and keyboards, headsets and console controllers were on display at CES 2012.

Here?s a rundown to help you know what to buy when you shop.

Razer Naga Hex

($80, Available in February) -?Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) games like Defense of the Ancients and League of Legends are big these days, which means we?re going to start seeing peripherals designed for the hardcore fans ? and the Razer Naga Hex is the first one we?ve seen so far.

Its design harkens back to the original Razer Naga, an MMORPG mouse that featured a full 12-button keypad where the thumb rests. Instead of a full keypad, the Hex has six larger thumb buttons in a hexagonal shape, which is an ideal layout for MOBA players and is much easier to use than the original Naga. The Hex?s easy-to-use button layout and slick design makes you want to give it a try.

Mad Catz Street Fighter X Tekken FightStick VS

($200, Shipping in July) -?Mad Catz announced its first high-end console arcade stick at CES 2008, so it?s only fitting that it come back three years later with?a new premium stick?for the fighting gamer who already has everything.

The Street Fighter X Tekken FightStick VS is built with a rock-solid metal chassis and arcade-perfect Sanwa Denshi buttons and stick, comes in two designs, and an extra $20 connection kit lets you screw two units together in a side-by-side configuration that mimics the current Vewlix arcade standard dimensions. It also features a modular front panel that owners can unscrew and slide custom images in to personalize their stick further. It could make a nice living room centerpiece.

SteelSeries Flux Headsets

(Price to be announced, shipping, Q2 2012) -?Gaming headsets are all well and good, but even the most dedicated gamers probably won?t want to lug their dedicated PC headset around when they travel.

Enter the SteelSeries Flux, a small, readily foldable headset with a detachable mic that works with PCs as well as iOS and Android?perfect for gaming, listening to music, or watching movies on the go. Perhaps the coolest feature is the second audio port, which lets you daisy-chain another headset so two people can listen to the same tunes or watch a movie together on a laptop or tablet. You can also swap out the faceplates and mesh pads out for differently-colored models to make it look the way you want it to.

Hyperkin Supaboy Game Console

($100, available now) -?If you?re one of the lucky few who was smart enough to keep your old Super Nintendo carts, the Supaboy is for you.

It?s basically a portable SNES designed to accept full-sized Super Nintendo carts, except it also has two SNES controller ports and a TV-out port, so you can go from on-the-go Mario Kart to your home HDTV without even stopping to pause. It?s not small ? the whole unit is probably close to an old Sega Game Gear in size and weight ? but for old-school gamers who refuse to play their childhood favorites on an emulator, the
Supaboy is undoubtedly the way to go.

Roccat Isku Gaming Keyboard and Kone[+] Mouse

($90 and $80, Shipping in February) -?German gaming peripheral manufacturer Roccat is relatively new to gamers in the U.S., but their?Isku gaming?keyboard just might get them in the door this year.

In addition to the standard range of high-end keyboard features like remappable media keys and robust macro recording, the Isku also lets you activate shared features with the Ko ? ? ?ne[+] mouse, like the EasyAim feature that temporarily switches you to a lower DPI so you can easily control your zoomed-in shots. My favorite feature, however, is the three buttons below the space bar that let your thumb do more than mash on the space bar to jump.

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TV One network focuses on missing blacks

FILE - In this May 10, 2010 file photo, Actress S. Epatha Merkerson poses for a portrait in New York. A television show that debuts next week focuses on missing person cases involving black Americans. The series "Find Our Missing" debuts Jan. 18 on TV One. The narrator is actress S. Epatha Merkerson, who is turning to real-life crime stories after 16 years of playing a police lieutenant on NBC's "Law & Order." (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen, File)

FILE - In this May 10, 2010 file photo, Actress S. Epatha Merkerson poses for a portrait in New York. A television show that debuts next week focuses on missing person cases involving black Americans. The series "Find Our Missing" debuts Jan. 18 on TV One. The narrator is actress S. Epatha Merkerson, who is turning to real-life crime stories after 16 years of playing a police lieutenant on NBC's "Law & Order." (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen, File)

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) ? After 16 years playing a police lieutenant on "Law & Order," actress S. Epatha Merkerson is turning to some real-life crime stories.

Merkerson is the narrator for "Find Our Missing," a series that debuts Jan. 18 on the TV One network. It tells stories about black Americans who are missing, hoping to turn up clues that can solve some of the cases.

The series was born out of a pervasive feeling among many blacks that their missing-person cases don't get as much attention as missing-person cases involving whites, particularly attractive young white women.

"The local and regional press does a good job," Wonya Lucas, president and CEO of the cable network aimed at black viewers, said Saturday. "The national press doesn't really cover these stories to the extent that they should, and that's a void that TV One will now fill."

Each hour focuses on two separate cases. Besides Merkerson's narration, producers fill time by re-enacting some scenes with professional actors.

Two people missing since 2009 are featured in the first episode: Pamela Butler, an employee of the Environmental Protection Agency who disappeared from her Washington, D.C., home; and Hasanni Campbell, a 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy from Oakland, Calif.

"We are painfully aware that these are not just stories," said Donna Wilson, executive producer of the series. "These are people's lives."

Blacks account for 12 percent of the population yet are involved in about a third of the country's missing-persons cases, said Toni Judkins, programming chief at TV One. The network is available in some 56 million homes, or about half the ones that have TV.

Producers are working with the Black and Missing Foundation in helping to bring the cases to light.

The show will encourage tips to law enforcement, hoping to break down some of the attitude that makes people feel like snitches, foundation president Derrica Wilson said. She and the series producer are not related.

Merkerson said she became involved because she realized many of these cases needed the attention.

"It's important for me to give back to the community that has given so much to me," she said.

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For big buys, wait 30 days

Spend the month before a large purchase deciding if you need the item,? doing research, and deciding on a price limit

Yesterday, we talked about the ten second rule, which you can use to protect yourself against impulse buys that are well within the limits of your pocket money. We?re talking about things like a pack of gum, an inexpensive board game, or something like that.

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As I know all too well, though, many of the purchases we make are much larger than that one. I?ll give you an example: our blender.

We use our blender for a lot of things: making smoothies, beating eggs, making pesto, and so on. A while back, one of our beautiful children did something incomprehensible to the blender (as children sometimes do), rendering it very difficult to use. You could still use it, but you had to hold something over the top of it while also holding the entire machine firmly in place.

Our initial instinct was to just rush right out and replace the blender with a similar model. It did a decent job, though it would often leave big chunks in the blender and had other little design issues that we didn?t like. It would also take forever to blend certain things.

Instead, we made the decision to buy a better blender.

Now, we could have easily still ran to the store and bought a better blender, but the decision to buy a better one meant that the cost of the blender likely jumped up into the ?more than pocket money? category. We weren?t going to just buy a $20 blender.

Instead, we gave it a month. During that month, we researched a lot of blenders. We did some evaluations of what features we actually needed and which ones were superfluous. We settled on a few models and did a ton of price comparisons.

In the end, we wound up with a top-notch blender for far less than we ever expected to pay for it (meaning we did not pay anything close to Amazon?s price for that blender).

That month did a lot of things for us.

We had time to figure out if this was something we really wanted to do. Did we really need a nicer blender? Could we just use a simple replacement for the one we already had? Did we need one at all? These questions are often enough to talk you out of an unnecessary purchase. Try doing this with, say, an iPod Touch, and you?ll find yourself not spending $200 or so on a portable music player.

Obviously, this question didn?t fill all of our thoughts for the month, but it was something that we thought about.

We had time to actually identify the specific item we were looking for. We identified all of the specific features we wanted as well as features we deemed unnecessary. We were able to research a lot of models using tools like Consumer Reports and, eventually, we were able to whittle our choices down to a handful.

We had time to carefully shop for the right item. Instead of just charging ahead once we had an item in mind, we spent some time shopping around for that item ? and waiting for the right price. We set up some notifications for prices on the items we were interested in and looked at a lot of different options.

Eventually, the blender we picked up popped up with a large discount, so we pounced.

Give yourself thirty days to go through this process. Most of the time, you?ll talk yourself right out of the purchase, which is a good thing. Even when you don?t, your research and price investigation will often lead you toward getting the best item at a very nice price, rather than just getting whatever item happens to be at your local department store.

You should also set a price threshold for the thirty day rule. What do you consider to be the line between an impulse purchase out of your pocket money and a more significant purchase? For me, it?s usually between $20 and $40, depending on how much of my alloted ?pocket money? for the month that I?ve spent. It?s going to be different for each person depending on their income level, behavior level, and other factors.

This post is part of a yearlong series called ?365 Ways to Live Cheap (Revisited),? in which I?m revisiting the entries from my book ?365 Ways to Live Cheap,? which is available at Amazon and at bookstores everywhere.?

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Blast in home of Gaza militant leader kills one (Reuters)

GAZA (Reuters) ? A Palestinian man who had been preparing an attack on Israeli targets was killed on Saturday in an explosion at the home of a militant leader in the Gaza Strip, his group said.

The explosion took place at the Rafah home of Zuhair Al-Qaissi, chief commander of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), an armed Palestinian faction that often operates independently of Gaza's Hamas rulers.

The PRC confirmed the man killed was a member of the group and that he was preparing an attack on Israelis when the blast occurred. Al-Qaissi himself was not hurt in the explosion.

Al-Qaissi's predecessor, Kamal al-Nairab was killed in an Israeli air strike in August.

(Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi; Writing by Maayan Lubell)

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Plan Your Free Online Education at Lifehacker U: Spring Semester 2012 [Video]

Your education doesn't have to stop once you get out of school?being free of the classroom just means you have more control over what you learn and when you learn it. We've put together a curriculum of some of the best free online classes available on the web this spring for the first term of Lifehacker U, our regularly-updating guide to improving your life with free, online college-level classes. Let's get started.

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Orientation: What Is Lifehacker U?

Whether you're in school and getting ready to head back for the spring semester, or you're out of school and just want to keep learning and growing, there are an incredible amount of free, university-level courses that become available on the web every school year, and anyone with a little time and a passion for self-growth can audit, read, and "enroll" in these courses for their own personal benefit. Schools like Yale University, MIT, Stanford, the University of California at Berkeley, and many more are all offering free online classes that you can audit and participate in from the comfort of your office chair, couch, or computing chair-of-choice.

Some of these classes are available year-round, but many of them are only available during the a specific term or semester, and because we're all about helping you improve your life at Lifehacker, we put together a list of courses available this spring that will inspire you, challenge you, open the door to something new, and give you the tools to improve your life. Grab your pen and paper and make sure your battery is charged?class is in session!

Computer Science and Technology

• UC Berkeley - Computer Science 10 - Professor Dan Garcia - An introduction to computer science and computing in our society, including topics like algorithms and how businesses around the globe use them to predict almost everything, video games and how they're developed, social media and communications, social implications of computing, and what the future of computing holds. Designed for lightly-technical audiences.
• Stanford University - Computer Science 101 - Professor Nick Parlante - Designed primarily for an audience with no prior experience but an interest in computer science and programming, Stanford's CS 101 course will introduce you to programming and writing your own code, as well as offer a primer on basic computer technology, including hardware, software, the internet, and their intersections.
• The Open University - An Introduction to Data and Information - A primer on how computers handle information, how they communicate the data that we provide or that they obtain from the external world into the commands required to operate machinery, perform calculations, and more. Designed for non-technical or lightly-technical audiences.
• MIT - Introduction to Computer Science and Programming - Professor Eric Grimson, Professor John Guttag - Targeted to users with some background in technology or basic programming, looking for additional training in programming and the basics of application development. Also includes a crash course in statistics and data analysis, and a primer on computer science and applied mathematics as opposed to strict programming.
• Stanford University - Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Robotics - Professor Oussama Khatib - An introduction to the modeling, design, and control of robotic systems for those interested in AI programming and development. Requires an understanding of the applied mathematics (specifically linear algebra and an understanding of matrices) required for building robotic systems for the nitty gritty, but still an excellent primer to how computer scientists and developers build semi-autonomous robotic systems and control mechanisms.
• Stanford University - Computer Security - Professors Dan Boneh, John Mitchell and Dawn Song - Computer security means more than just keeping your antivirus or anti-malware software up to date. This course will walk you through computer security as a discipline, the tools required for secure and lock down individual computers and computer networks, write secure code and secure applications, identify and defend against threats, and secure mobile platforms.

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Finance and Economics

• CNN - Money 101 - While not a course from an accredited university, CNN's Money 101 series of online courses are an excellent primer for anyone looking to get their hands dirty with their personal finances, start with making a budget and setting your financial priorities, and move to more advanced topics like investing, planning for retirement, managing complicated topics like taxes, insurance, and more.
• The Open University - Debt and Borrowing in a Broader Context - Personal debt like auto-loans, home mortgages, and credit card debt all have serious implications on individuals, communities, and larger economies. This course helps you understand how debt plays a role in the big picture, and how you may be helping?and hurting?yourself and the economy of your region or country by taking on too much or too little debt.
• Extension/Rutgers University - Investing For Your Future - Most of us know we should be investing for our eventual retirement or for our future financial goals. This course walks you through the process of finding places you can trim your budget to find money to save, how to get started with mutual funds, stocks, and retirement investments like 401(k)s and IRAs, how to handle tax-deferred investments and why you shouldn't touch them, and the overall building blocks for succesful financial management.
• UC Berkeley - Economics 1 - Professor Ken Train - An introduction to the core topics required for an understanding of economics, including supply and demand, the differences between macroeconomics and microeconomics, the sessions on the basics of competition and monopoly, and a deep dive into government-style economics and the mechanisms behind how governments raise, spend, and borrow money.
• Yale University - Financial Markets - Professor Robert Shiller - If you're confused why your local economy responds so much to events that take place far away from home, or don't understand why a dropping index overnight in Asia leads to lower market openings in the United States, this is the course for you. The course offers a walkthrough of how financial markets around the world work, work together, and manage collective risk.

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Science and Medicine

• MIT - Einstein, Oppenheimer, and Feynman - Physics in the 20th Century - Prof. David Kaiser - Take it from someone with a degree in the discipline, physics is a science that pulls back the veil and helps you understand the basic forces and workings behind the mechanisms of our natural world. This course focuses on the strides made in physics and our understanding of the physical world during the 20th century throuh the work of some of the century's most famous names in the field. Additionally, the social, political, and cultural impacts of their work and surrounding work are discussed.
• MIT - Hands on Astronomy: Observing Stars and Planets - Professor James Elliot - If you've ever wanted to look up to the sky in your backyard and understand exactly what it is you see, how far away the different objects and constellations are, and tell the difference between stars, planets, and other celestial bodies, this is the course for you. Requires no science background, and has several hands-on labs you can conduct with a telescope, pair of binoculars, or your bare eyes in your backyard at night.
• Yale University - Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics - Professor Charles Bailyn - You've heard about black holes, dark energy, dark matter, earth-like planets elsewhere in the galaxy, and water on Mars and on other planets in our solar system. This course will help you make sense of all of those theories and controversies in a way that allows you to speak intelligently on the matter, learn some of the latest research and observations that support or refute those theories, and how far astronomers have yet to go. The course focuses on what we know as well as what we don't know, and new horizons of astronomical research. No science or math background is required.
• Tufts University - Nutrition and Medicine - Recommended for individuals with some medical understanding or knowledge, this course focuses on developing the ability to make healthy dietary and nutrition based recommendations for individuals based on their medical histories, risk factors, lifestyles, and needs. The course will start with some fundamentals of nutrition, diet, and exercise, and progress into related illnesses and medical conditions, as well as controversies and research in the field, with an emphasis on critical thinking.
• The Open University - Gene Testing - Genetic testing is on the rise, and this course walks you through how genetic testing is performed, why doctors request genetic testing in many cases, and what genetic testing can and cannot tell you about your health, well-being, and risk for disease. The course also breaks down different genetic testing cases, including pre-natal testing, child testing, and adult testing, explaining the goals of each.
• Tufts University - Human Growth and Development - An introduction to the human growth process and human development from a medical perspective. No prior medical knowledge is required, as the course walks you through how human beings are born, grow, learn, and age. Additional emphasis is placed on understanding how disease and illness play a role in human development, and how external conditions can effect normal development processes.
• The Open University - Studying Darwin - A crash course to Darwin's observations and travels that led him to writing his book On the Origin of Species, as well as a guide to the fundamentals of evolution, natural selection, and how Darwin's work influenced and inspired additional research.

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Mathematics

• The Open University - Exploring Data: Graphs and Numerical Summaries - This course, designed for people who have seen representations of data in the past but who have never been required to strictly interpret it, will help develop your ability to determine good representations of numerical information from erroneous ones, and help you build the skills required to dig through piles of information and present it to others in a way that makes sense and conveys your desired message.
• MIT - Street Fighting Mathematics - Professor Sanjoy Mahajan - Some mathematical knowledge is required for this course, but you won't be in too much trouble if you haven't brushed up. The goal of the course is to help you learn to do complex mathematics in your head, make educated guesses based on the information you have available, and is taught in a conversational style that only occasionally moves into the strictly variable and calculation based.
• Stanford University - Cryptography - Professor Dan Boneh - Part information science and part mathematics, cryptography is the discipline of turning normal information into coded information for secure transmissions or the use of another computing system or platform. The class walks you through securing communications, understanding the nature of cryptography and how codes are made and broken, and then moves into technical topics like authentication protocols and key encryption.

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Social Sciences, Classics, and Humanities

• The Rise of Modern Science - Prof. David Jones and Prof. David Kaiser - While the course title sounds scientific, the focus of the class is really on what we consider "science" in modern culture, and the role of scientists and philosphers in recent history that have helped define the discipline as we understand it. The course discusses the rise of science and the evolution of the term through the ages of magic, alchemy, philosophy, folk knowledge, and observation through to experimentation and deduction.
• Yale University - Death - Professor Shelly Kagan - If there's one thing that's sure for all of us, it's that we'll all die someday. But what exactly does that mean for us and the people around us? How do we come to terms with our own mortality, and adjust to the mortality of those around us? This course will introduce you to the concept of mortality and transform it from a fact to something you're aware of, as well as introduce and examine attitudes about death and dying, including suicide, the moral implications of death and dying, and what it means to be "immortal."
• Yale University - The Psychology, Biology, and Politics of Food - Professor Kelly D. Brownell - This course introduces us to the concepts of individual tastes, dietary preferences, and the impact culture has on our diets and the types of foods we enjoy and seek out. By the end of the course, you'll understand why palates differ so greatly even in places with similar diets, and also dive into topics involving nutrition and the politics around food, like sustainable agriculture, local agriculture and farmer's markets, genetically modified foods, and much more.
• The Open University - Getting Started with Classical Latin - Latin is the foundation of many languages in the western world, and is the language in which much of the knowledge of the western world is archived and translated from. While the language itself is dead, understanding how it has influenced other languages and some basic understanding of the language and how to intertpret it will serve you well.
• Yale University - Introduction to Ancient Greek History - Professor Donald Kagan - This course is a walkthrough of the growth and development of ancient Greece as a political, intellectual, and technological center of the western world. Students in this course will be exposed to classic Greek literature, art, philosophy, history, and language. Documents and resources are presented in both their original form and their translations, so you can get familiar with ancient Greek as well.

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Law

• Kutztown University of Pennsylvania - Understanding Intellectual Property - There's a lot of controversy in the news and on the internet today about what exactly "intellectual property" is, what it means to hold a copyright, what exactly a copyright is, and how you register one and what it means to have intellectual property rights over a non-tangible object. The course also discusses international IP issues and copyright protection issues, and the impact of piracy on policymaking and legal issues.
• MIT - Law and Society - Prof. Susan S. Silbey - We all know that the law is a set of rules that lay out proper behavior and order in our society, but where do they come from? Where did the concept of "the law" originate, and how does it differ from place to place? This course seeks to explain the history of the law, the applicability of the law and how laws are formed, written, and enforced, and offer the student a basic understanding of the legal system and its social implications.
• The Open University - Privacy Rights and the Law - Specifically geared at UK citizens and European citizens, this course form the Open University examines UK privacy laws and the rules laid out by the European Commission on Human Rights. How the different bodies interpret privacy rights is also examined, along with a basic examination of how the rest of the world sees the right to privacy?or whether their citizens have a right to privacy at all.
• MIT - The Supreme Court, Civil Liberties, and Civil Rights - Prof. Malick Ghachem - Everyone talks about civil liberties and their personal rights, but few people take the time to investigate them, read up on what rights they do and don't have, and where their personal rights stop and the rights of others begin. This course will help you understand your civil rights and liberties as issued by the constitution and other legal bodies and documents, as well as the powers that those legal bodies (including the Supreme Court) have to put a finer point on those rights and interpret them.

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Cross-Disciplinary Courses and Seminars

• Yale University - Technology Entrepreneurship - Professor Chuck Eesley - Have you ever considered taking your brilliant idea and building a startup? Have you ever written a business plan, only to let it sit on the shelf waiting for the right time to start a business or get your idea off the ground? This class will explain the pitfalls and the perils of starting your own technology company, how you can start your idea inside of a larger firm, and what it takes to build a successful startup company.
• The Open University - Reading - Even though we've discussed some great ways to boost your reading comprehension, this course offers practical exercises and walkthroughs to help you read critically and have more fun with the written word. There's a special focus on critical thinking and building your own ideas based on what you've read, as well.
• Tufts University - Promoting Positive Development Among Youth - Professor Richard M. Lerner - If you're considering giving back in your community, either by volunteering at a church or school, becoming a Big Brother or Big Sister, or otherwise getting involved in a young person's life, this course can help you navigate the sometimes treacherous waters of modern culture and encourage young people to become leaders in their communities.
• UC Berkeley - Search, Google, and Life - Guest Lecturers Sergey Brin, Bradley Horowitz, Jason Schultz, and more - This free course from the University of California at Berkeley gives you an opportunity to sit in on some of the greatest minds in modern technology as they discuss how their products, services, and companies play a major role in shaping the way we obtain information, process it, and view the world. They also discuss how they came to be involved in those technologies, and how search and search engines work and have changed the internet as we know it.

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Extra Credit: How To Find Your Own Online Classes

The cirriculum at Lifehacker U is rich and deep, but it may not reflect all of your areas of interests or expertise. If you're looking for more or more varied course material, here are some resources to help you find great, university-level online classes that you can take from the comfort of your desk, at any time of day.

• Academic Earth curates an amazing list of video seminars and classes from some of the world's smartest minds, innovators, and leaders on a variety of topics including science, mathematics, politics, public policy, art, history, and more.
• TED talks are well known for being thought provoking, interesting, intelligent, and in many cases, inspiring and informative. We've featured TED talks at Lifehacker before, and if you're looking for seminars on the web worth watching, TED is worth perusing.
• Education-Portal.com has a list of universities offering free and for-credit online classes to students and the public at large.
• Open Culture's list of free online courses is broken down by subject matter and includes classes available on YouTube, iTunes U, and direct from the University or School's website.
• The Open Courseware Consortium is a collection of colleges and universities that have all agreed to use a similar platform to offer seminars and full classes?complete with notes, memos, examinations, and other documentation free on the web. They also maintain a great list of member schools around the world, so you can visit universities anywhere in the world and take the online classes they make available.
• The Khan Academy offers free YouTube-based video classes in math, science, technology, the humanities, and test preparation and study skills. If you're looking to augment your education or just take a couple video classes in your spare time, it's a great place to start and has a lot of interesting topics to offer.
• The Lifehacker Night School is our own set of tutorials and classes that help you out with deep and intricate subjects like becoming a better photographer, building your own computer, or getting to know your network, among others.

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The beautiful thing about taking classes online is that you can pick and choose the classes you want to attend, skip lectures and come back to them later, and do examinations and exercises on your own time. You can load up with as many classes as you choose, or take a light course load and come back to some of the classes you meant to take at another time that's more convenient for you.

With Lifehacker U, you're free to take as many or as few classes as you like, and we'll update this course guide every term with a fresh list of courses on new and interesting topics, some of which are only available during that academic term.

If you have online course resources or your university offers classes that are available for free online that you know would be a great fit for Lifehacker U, don't keep them to yourself! Send them in to us at tips+lifehackeru@lifehacker.com so we can include them in the next semester!

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