Today, practically everyone has a CD/DVD burner which they use to record their favorite media. Therefore, its getting increasingly harder to keep all of the CD’s organized in one place. Here are some tips that you can use to keep yourself organized with all those CD’s everywhere:

1. Purchase Slim Jewel Cases

They are cheap and can save you a lot of time by keeping all the cd’s in one spot.

You can even differentiate the cases by color. For example, keep all your music in the green jewel case, movies in the red, games in the blue, and so on.

2. Label Everything!

Make sure to label every Jewel Case and CD that you have. Did you ever find 10 cd’s lying around in your drawer without knowing what each one is?

Don’t waste your time by having to place each CD inside your computer to figure out what’s inside. Think Ahead! Label your cd’s and cases.

3. Store The Cases Efficiently

If you have any CD’s which you constantly use, keep them nearby your desk for easy access.

However, keep the ones that you don’t frequently use stored in a non-intrusive place - like a drawer. There is no need to have a CD containing backups of all your documents on your desk for years, waiting for you to reformat your computer. Keep those useful but rarely used CD’s stored somewhere where you will surely find them.

4. Use An Alternative:

A. External Hard Drives:

Today, hard drives come really cheap for their value. Instead of keeping all your backups - music, documents, movies - on hundreds of CD’s/DVD’s , just buy one external hard drive and load it with all your backups. It will make the next reformat painless and quick.

B. USB Thumb Drives

Instead of taking your CD’s around with you, why not just take flash drives? They are pretty cheap now and could carry some serious drive capacity - from 1GB-16GB.

5. Use CD Images Instead

If you have a lot of hard drive space on your computer, you can use mounting program like Daemon Tools or Alcohol 120% to mount your CD image onto a virtual drive. This acts exactly the same as if you burn the image onto a cd and place it into your physical drive - only without the clutter.

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2. Can dropping a penny from a skyscraper kill the pedestrian below?

This is the myth that everyone knows about and therefore, is warned not to do.
However, the mythbusters showed that this is not true. The mass of the penny is not sufficient to be deadly as it hits a pedestrian. Still, it’s not a good idea to throw a penny from a high building.

3. What is the best way to cure seasickness?

Although the video just shows the placebo effect, the mythbusters tested various ways of curing seasickness.
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Only a ginger pill cured seasickness, while the placebo effect worked on grant, but not Adam.

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However, after another test, the mythbusters showed that it is possible to escape a car when the water inside of it is up to your waist.

If this ever happens to you, stay calm and only try to open the door once the water is up to your waist, and not before - to conserve oxygen.

If you are quick enough, you can even open the door the instant the car hits the water, and before it starts flooding.

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Both Adam and Kari failed a road safety test while talking on a cell phone and while driving under the influence - but the cell phone had a wider margin.

Although this test is not very scientific, it is worthwhile and important to take note of, before it is too late.

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