How to Use a Modern Mouse on an Ancient PC, or Vice Versa
Maybe you got bitten by a technical bug and became a Commodore Collector. Or you were cleaning the house of a loved one and found […]
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Putting Things Away While Preparing Food
Cooking food for yourself or your family is often a reward in itself; There is nothing better than putting all your skill, love and care […]
Continue reading »How to Test New Video Settings With Saving Data in Chrome 86
If there is a topic for the upcoming Chrome 86 update, it seems to be “efficiency.” We’ve seen changes in memory savings that should make […]
Continue reading »Your Child May Not Be Allergic to Penicillin
It is a fairly common scenario for an infant or young child to develop an ear infection or sore throat. Their pediatrician prescribes a penicillin […]
Continue reading »How to Introduce Yourself to Your Dog
Dogs are the best people, so it’s natural to want to smother them with affection the first time you greet them. Most of them are […]
Continue reading »Best Thing to Do With Leftover Cereal
I have not come across a single bowl of cereal that I did not immediately fall in love with. Whether with butter, cheese, shrimp or […]
Continue reading »Will These Plastic Mask Holders Help Relieve My Ear Pain?
You wear a face mask all the time and this can put additional strain on your ears. As we are so eager to find ways […]
Continue reading »See How Brown Bears Catch Jumping Salmon
As the pandemic continues to wreak havoc in all aspects of human life, it’s nice to be reminded that nature walks (or stomps, or crawls, […]
Continue reading »How Do I Get to My Fired Teenager?
Teens have a reputation for being a little cranky or withdrawn, especially with their parents. In adolescence, there should be a fair amount of rolling […]
Continue reading »Assess Your Ability to Cope With Economic Downturns With This New FICO Rating
As financial uncertainty persists amid the pandemic, banks have become morestrict about lending . According to thelatest report from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. […]
Continue reading »How to Install and Configure Dark Mode in Windows 10
I’ll never get out of you, dark mode. The more I can get every app I use to remind me of my teenage gothic years, […]
Continue reading »Go Ahead and Put the Frozen Meat in the Spaghetti Sauce
Frozen ground beef should be a daily commodity, but it’s only convenient if you’re the type of person who might remember to transfer it from […]
Continue reading »Secure the Mask That Is Too Loose With Two Knots
Any mask – even surgical or cloth – should fit snugly around the face. But since many masks have slits on the sides, here’s a […]
Continue reading »Do Not Open This Email With a “winking Face”
A highly successful email spam campaign involves infecting computers with ransomware and other malware such as cryptocurrency miners and botnet software that can send spam […]
Continue reading »Can You Catch COVID-19 Twice?
You are probably tired of hearing about the coronavirus, and it has only existed on Earth for seven months or so – as far as […]
Continue reading »Here’s What Pediatricians Recommend for School This Fall
If you keep discussing the pros and cons of schools physically opening this fall, you are not alone. Even the American Academy of Pediatrics cannot […]
Continue reading »Take a Photo of Your Pets in Case They Get Lost
In the age of camera phones, it sounds ridiculous to assume that you aren’t photographing your pets enough. Because, okay, that’s probably not true – […]
Continue reading »How to Enable the New Dark Mode Theme in Google Docs on Android
Google is finally adding dark mode to Google Docs, Sheets and Slides on Android. The new dark themes look the same as in other third-party […]
Continue reading »Lower Your Tax Bill With These Last Minute Actions
If you haven’t filed your tax return yet, we have good news: there is still time to lower your bill. When the IRS pushed the […]
Continue reading »Take a Break From Someone Else’s Window
In connection with the sharp rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in the US and other countries, which limit the range of persons who […]
Continue reading »How to Get Your Point of View on the Internet, With Linguist Gretchen McCulloch
Ever wonder why your friend ended this message with a dot? Or missed the subtle sarcasm in an unpunctuation email? This week we are clearing […]
Continue reading »Teach Kids How to Write Numbers With the Number Thumb Trick
For some children, learning how to write numbers can be a real challenge. There is so much to learn! In all kinds of bizarre shapes! […]
Continue reading »Leftover Chicken Wings Are Ideal in Cold Noodle Bowls
About twice a month, my boyfriend and I order too many chicken wings. (We order so many that they bring them to us in a […]
Continue reading »These Are the 10 Best Things in My Duffel Bag
All you need to lift the weight is just yourself and the weight. But there are many useful things that can help, and I have […]
Continue reading »How to Hire a Nanny During a Pandemic
It can be hard to figure out who to let in your family’s little physically distant bubble right now, but as businesses reopen and more […]
Continue reading »What to Do If Your Credit Card Limit Goes Down
The COVID-19 outbreak has had a devastating impact on the U.S. economy. While employers added a promising number of new jobs in the past month […]
Continue reading »How to Automatically Turn Off Slack Notifications After Hours
My hours after work are precious, and nothing is more annoying than hearing the familiar slack thump interrupting my afternoon nap. (I’m not sixty, I […]
Continue reading »Frozen Pound Pie Should Be Cut Into Waffles
Frozen cake is an underrated daily item and Sara Lee does a pretty good one. All Butter Pound Cake is a very dense example of […]
Continue reading »What’s New on Netflix This Week of Jul 12, 2020
The French gave us a lot of wonderful things. Wine, for example; no one makes fermented grape juice like the French. And, of course , […]
Continue reading »How to Quit the Habit of Replaying Fate
If you’re the one who reaches for your phone as soon as you wake up (other than turning off the alarm), you can flip through […]
Continue reading »How to Achieve Emotional Sobriety and Why It Matters
When we think of sobriety, it usually means giving up alcohol or recreational drugs, but this is much more difficult. Sobriety means “no intoxication,” as […]
Continue reading »How to See a Comet That Won’t Be Visible for Another 6,000 Years
Due to COVID-19, you may not be able to take your kids to the planetarium anytime soon. But if they are into astronomy, you’re in […]
Continue reading »How to Read the Route Map
Walking and hiking in sparsely populated parks is one of the few things we can still do without worrying too much about the spread of […]
Continue reading »This Map From Harvard Will Show You All the COVID Hotspots in the US.
Since COVID-19 first began spreading in December 2019, it has spread worldwide. When it came to the United States, there were a few cases in […]
Continue reading »How to Keep Live Plants During a Drought
If you live somewhere with all four seasons (or more realistically two: summer and winter), you can look forward to growing outdoor plants when the […]
Continue reading »How to Use Your GoPro HERO8 As a Webcam
After months of quarantine, we are all used to working and communicating remotely (right?). The ubiquity of camera touting devices and the abundance of video […]
Continue reading »How to Make Coffee Taste Stronger
So, you love bold coffee, but all you have at home is a bag of light roasted beans. What to do? Well, one solution is […]
Continue reading »Find Out If You Are Eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness With This Tool
As the election draws near, student loan forgiveness has become a popular topic. While some politicians have offered student loan forgiveness , the current public […]
Continue reading »Save 25% on AT&T Wireless Bills As a Teacher, Doctor, or Nurse
In the early days of the pandemic, many companies put on shows offering special perks and discounts to “core workers” who couldn’t squat indoors and […]
Continue reading »Just Make Your Martini on the Rocks
Most people – even people who know relatively little about cocktails – know what a martini should look like. Served (without ice) in a glass […]
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