Free up Space on Your Google Account so You Can Back up Your Phone
Google One’s cloud storage is undergoing big changes , including a brand new iOS app, free phone data backups, and a new data management tool […]
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Decorate With These (Non-Racist) 19th Century Theater Posters
One of the skills I envy the most in others is decorating a room with art. We have lived in our current apartment for three […]
Continue reading »I Am Performance Expert Charles Duhigg and This Is How I Work
What most of us think of as advice is actually not advice at all. Useless advice, at least. This is perhaps the most important takeaway […]
Continue reading »How Fed Meetings This Week Could Affect Your Wallet
Yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced that it would keep its benchmark interest rate close to zero. “We don’t even think about thinking about raising rates,” […]
Continue reading »How to Throw a Party on Spotify
Of course, you and your friends can do your quarantine by looking at everyone’s queues on all existing streaming services. And that’s all well and […]
Continue reading »How to Secretly Open IMessages Without Triggering Read Receipts
We’ll be the first to say that worrying about someone finding out if you’ve read their text message is a little funny. Reading a message […]
Continue reading »9 Old School Family Movies to Hang Out With Your Kids
One of the joys of parenting is sharing your favorite children’s films with your children. There is no better time to watch your favorite old […]
Continue reading »How to Turn Off WhatsApp Notifications on Android
WhatsApp is testing a new mute feature for Android that lets you quickly mute conversations by tapping Mute directly in the system notification, instead of […]
Continue reading »9 Salts That Make Me Very Happy
I really love salt. As a child, I often envied cows and their summer salt shakers; As an adult, I have been known to eat […]
Continue reading »Toxic Hand Sanitizer List Includes up to 94 Products [updated]
Hand sanitizers that are effective against coronavirus are those that contain at least 60% ethanol or 70% isopropanol. But there are several brands that use […]
Continue reading »Get Yourself a Fake Male Mate
Most of the women reading this, probably at some point in their professional careers (and probably in their daily lives) have been labeled “difficult,” “bossy,” […]
Continue reading »How to Shop at Costco Without a Membership
It’s undeniable that Costco has some pretty lucrative deals on some things – and with the pandemic and nationwide surge in new cases of COVID-19, […]
Continue reading »How to Do a Portfolio Check in the Middle of the Year
It has been a tough year for investors. Almost four months ago, experts announced the end of the bull market after a series of falls. […]
Continue reading »This Free MacOS 8 Emulator Lets You Play the Oregon Trail
macOS 8, not to be confused with OS X 10.8, which you’re probably much more familiar with, is a 1990s-era operating system that found its […]
Continue reading »Store Emergency Cocktails in the Freezer
Every Friday morning I make a cocktail (for work), and every Friday morning I resist the urge to drink the whole cocktail right now. I […]
Continue reading »How to Watch Movies With Friends on “Movies Anywhere”
Movies Anywhere recently introduced a new Watch Together feature that allows multiple people to meet to watch movies in sync over the Internet. The new […]
Continue reading »How to Watch a Live NASA Rover Launch
Considering how well things are going on Earth lately, sending a robotic vehicle into space to survey Mars is an even more intriguing idea than […]
Continue reading »Don’t Plant These Mysterious Seeds
No one knows why people across the country are getting unsolicited seed packages from China, but the USDA is trying to figure it out. In […]
Continue reading »Gamify Your Savings With a Prize Pool Bank Account
A new savings account with a prize pool called Yotta Savings has sparked interest among users of Redditors and the Doctor of Credit blog. According […]
Continue reading »How to Volunteer for Coronavirus Vaccine Research
The first phase 3 trials of the coronavirus vaccine began this week, with 30,000 volunteers planned by the time it ends, and more Phase 3 […]
Continue reading »How to Recognize the Latest Netflix Phishing Scam
Everyone loves Netflix, especially when you don’t have to pay for it. That’s why you’re sharing someone else’s account, right? Well, scammers love free Netflix […]
Continue reading »Will Your State Have a Tax-Free Return-to-School Weekend in 2020?
Even in normal times, school supplies were often long and oddly specific (five orange pocket folders?). But this year they are long and strangely specific, […]
Continue reading »Protect Yourself From Recent Drizley Alcohol Delivery Hack
If you are using Drizli, your data is probably being sold online. An online alcohol delivery service recently notified its customers that a hacker had […]
Continue reading »Earn As a Beekeeper
Like butterflies and fireflies , bee populations have been hit hard by habitat loss. Honeybees are important pollinators for a wide variety of plants, and […]
Continue reading »Will This TikTok Cereal Box Hack Solve All Your Breakfast Problems?
A viral hack has been circulating on TikTok for a long time . In countless #CerealBoxChallenge videos (does TikTok use hashtags? I’m old …) people […]
Continue reading »Wafer Tofu – Absolute Rules
Waffle makers are very good at making food hot and crispy, which is why I love my tofu (and my SPAM , prosciutto chips and […]
Continue reading »How to Tell If You Are Dating a Narcissist
When Lisa * met Adam * in graduate school, she thought she had hit the dating jackpot. “He was very rich, very charismatic and very […]
Continue reading »Create a Federal Student Loan Repayment Plan
This week, Senate Republicans introduced the HEALTH Act , the party’s latest incentive- softening bill. While the $ 1 trillion plan includes unemployment insurance, direct […]
Continue reading »It’s Time to Get Our Kids Back on a Regular Sleep Schedule.
Between the ruin of normalcy in the spring and this long, boring summer that we all wade through, one thing that parents may have stopped […]
Continue reading »Build Better Twitter Lists With ‘Proxy’
Today I stumbled upon a service called Vicarfully that allows you to create new Twitter lists based on who other Twitter users follow. It’s an […]
Continue reading »Chill the Cereal Bowl in the Refrigerator Overnight.
To be honest, I have a hard time trusting people who claim they don’t like breakfast cereals. This is one of those foods that was […]
Continue reading »Get Sauce Covered Hands on Some Free Chicken Wings Today
It’s National Chicken Wing Day – a time to celebrate the American tradition of taking previously discarded chicken pieces, deep-frying them, coating them with butter […]
Continue reading »See How Tech’s Most Influential CEOs Take Part in Tomorrow’s Antitrust Hearing
On Wednesday, July 29, four of the technology industry’s most influential CEOs will appear before the House Judiciary Committee to determine whether their companies are […]
Continue reading »Observe the Minimum on Your Checking Account
While many Americans rely on the next stimulus package , if you no longer live paycheck to paycheck, it’s time to withdraw that money from […]
Continue reading »Should You Get 100GB of Free Dropbox Storage on Your Chromebook?
One of the best parts of buying a Chromebook is looking at all the offers that Google provides on top of your purchase. (You know […]
Continue reading »If We Cannot Safely Open up Sports, What Are the Hopes of Opening Schools?
When I read many pages of our district’s plans to return to school, I had only two questions: How do I know if someone has […]
Continue reading »We’re Still in the First Wave
Despite being told for months that the new coronavirus is unlike anything we’ve dealt with in our time, we still have the temptation to think […]
Continue reading »Dishes That Should Not Be Cooked During the Heat
I don’t like heating the house inside, while it is very hot outside. During heat waves, even eating hot food can feel like punishment. This […]
Continue reading »You Can Finally Stream Spotify From Your Computer to Google Home Speakers
Spotify is available on just about every popular device we can think of. Every app does pretty much the same whether you’re listening on a […]
Continue reading »Your Kids Can Help With Coin Shortages Across the Country
The coronavirus has brought us many tragedies and inconveniences this year, large and small, and among the latter – one that most of us probably […]
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