How to Calm Down With Kids This Summer
We often mourn the loss of the summer of the 80s and 90s. We miss the way kids leave home in the morning on their […]
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Now You Can Get a Loan Only to Pay Rent
A Wall Street Journal report said rents are too high: lending companies are now selling loans specifically to those tenants who need help making ends […]
Continue reading »How to Choose Quality Pizza Cheese
Other than barbecues, few foods can boast a scream as fervent as pizza. I am from the southern states of the United States and do […]
Continue reading »How to Speed up or Slow Down Any HTML5 Video
Chrome: I never really understood why people like to watch accelerated videos until I got a funny 911 tech support question about it. Then I […]
Continue reading »Your Teen Can Get Free Audiobooks This Summer
Children’s brains often get a little rusty in the summer – the Brookings report concludes that the average student loses a month of academic year […]
Continue reading »Create a Separate Packing List When Traveling Overseas
I have at least six different packing lists saved as notes on my iPhone: one for long weekends, others for emergencies, and one specifically for […]
Continue reading »What’s the Best Park in Your City?
When my friends from the countryside come to New York, I try to take them to the park. They live ten minutes from real forest […]
Continue reading »Use This Site to Quickly Condense a Long Online Article Into a Few Sentences
When an article is just a few hundred words like this, you probably have a few minutes to read it. When you open an article […]
Continue reading »Get Convenient Driving Directions for RVs With CoPilot GPS
When you are traveling in a regular car or SUV, any navigation app will do. If you rent a road with a van; however, sometimes […]
Continue reading »How to Stream This Week’s Stanley Cup Final
The Boston Bruins will face the St. Louis Blues in the Stanley Cup Final this week. The Blues have made it to the finals for […]
Continue reading »Easily Share Parents’ Medical Updates With the Group With This App
My mother passed away a few years ago, having lived for about 20 years with multiple sclerosis. During those two decades, my siblings and extended […]
Continue reading »Try Sonic Instead of G&T or Highball This Summer
If you browse mixers at an upmarket grocery or liquor store these days, you’re sure to find an assortment of tonic waters. My personal favorite […]
Continue reading »View Definitions and Pronunciations of Words While Reading Websites With This Extension
Even the most avid readers among us sometimes come across words whose meanings we do not quite understand. My typical move in this case is […]
Continue reading »Start Your Long Weekend With a Martini Maraschino
Holidays, especially during the summer, are often associated with barbecues and beer. I’m always ready to eat some kebab, but beer makes me sneeze and […]
Continue reading »What Pride Month Products Really Help LGBTQ Causes?
This June, President Trump marks the start of Pride Month by trying to make a profit by selling a new line of LGBT Trump T-shirts […]
Continue reading »Best Bonus Credit Cards of 2019
If you’ve been wringing your hands over whether it’s worth trying to get a Chase Sapphire Reserve card for perks your friends won’t stop talking […]
Continue reading »How to Decorate Your Bookshelf With More Than Just Books
Bookshelves for books, of course. This cannot be denied. I prefer to use the bookshelf in the office with the simplest design: all books are […]
Continue reading »How to Have the Best Memorial Day Weekend
Carpe Memoriam Diem! This is the first weekend of the summer. (June 20 – astronomical nonsense for nerds.) Time to start dressing in all white […]
Continue reading »How to Get a Leg Workout Just by Lifting Steps
Friends, we’re back to challenge you with some more ladder exercises . Last week we worked on the upper body, doing push-ups from the stairs […]
Continue reading »Frozen Yogurt Is Breakfast Food
Eating a frozen dessert for breakfast seems like the ultimate morning riot. Not only is this the “wrong” time of day, but starting the day […]
Continue reading »Where to Shop This Memorial Day Weekend
Don’t just buy another tech item this Memorial Day weekend. Buy yourself a replica of Aladdin’s Magic Carpet for $ 29.99. Since most of the […]
Continue reading »How Muslims Became an Important Part of American History
G / O Media teams up with Smartypants Pictures for the premiere of the second season of The Secret Lives of Muslims, a series about […]
Continue reading »Should You Buy the Charmin Giant Toilet Paper Roll?
Someone, somewhere, needs a roll of forever toilet paper from Charmin . It has a bit of a “lucky charm, but only marshmallows,” especially if […]
Continue reading »How to Deal With Anxiety on Game Day
Whether you are playing sports, preparing to perform, or going to sing in front of an audience, it is almost impossible to control pre-game shivers. […]
Continue reading »Take Your Time With the “list of Unexpected Opportunities”
Perhaps you walked, walked, walked away, and you feel like you haven’t had a break for several weeks. Or months? Who knows? And then, out […]
Continue reading »Does Switching Off the Smartphone Affect Its Health?
When I was choosing the letter for this week’s Tech 911 issue, I was reminded how happy I am to have solar panels in my […]
Continue reading »Get the Awesome ‘Bloons TD 6’ Free for IOS and Android
Great game in the genre of Tower Defense, Bloons TD 6 – usually for $ 5 on a mobile device – is now available for […]
Continue reading »How to Protect Yourself From Overdraft Fees
Senators Corey Booker and Sherrod Brown are re-introducing the 2018 bill to end overdraft fees at banks, Vox reported this week. The law to stop […]
Continue reading »Fund Your Favorite Open Source Projects With the New Github Sponsorship Program
We’re big fans of open source software and the ideal of freedom, security and transparency that often drives such projects. But software development and maintenance […]
Continue reading »When to Fly to Avoid Flight Delays
My flight from Chicago at 8:00 pm was delayed a total of four times over the weekend; my plane arrived late, soon followed by our […]
Continue reading »Here’s How to Fill Your Freezer Bag With Liquid
Placing food in a freezer bag is a great way to ensure that it freezes evenly and minimizes damage. On the other hand, stack liquid […]
Continue reading »Download “The Sims 4” Now for Free
The Sims 4 , the latest game in the popular Sims franchise , is completely free to download now. The Sims publisher EA is giving […]
Continue reading »How to Get Rid of Corporations Funding Abortion Bans
Earlier this week, Judd Legum’s Popular Information newsletter reported that six corporations have contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent years to lawmakers behind […]
Continue reading »Make a Vinaigrette in a Nearly Empty Honey Bottle
Getting the last piece of honey out of the bottle can be tricky, especially if the bottle is bear-shaped (so many slots). Luckily, the amount […]
Continue reading »“Steal Tacos” During the NBA Finals
If you’re an NBA (or MLB) fan, you’re probably familiar with Taco Bell’s penchant for handing out tacos during high stakes games. If you’re not […]
Continue reading »Light Nudges Aren’t Enough to Save the Earth
We all love to contribute to solving big problems, especially when we are doing something easy and enjoyable. But nudges can backfire, leading us to […]
Continue reading »Use Google As an Instant Tomato Timer
The Pomodoro for Productivity Technique sounds cool, but you can fall into the same trap I did: you read about setting timers to get work […]
Continue reading »How Hackers Can Steal Your Data at Airports
Have you ever wondered if it is a bad idea to go online via a busy public Wi-Fi network at an airport? For the most […]
Continue reading »Imperfect Pasta – the Secret to the Perfect Pasta Salad
Like other foods in the mayonnaise-coated carbohydrate side dish category , pasta salad is incredibly polarizing. When it’s good, I can’t stop eating it; when […]
Continue reading »What Your Child Can Learn From Playing With a Toy House
At the beginning of each episode of the new Luna and Me preschool show , the child puts his dolls to sleep in their toy […]
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