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Flash floods can happen with little or no warning, so be prepared. It doesn’t take long for rain to turn from a light rain to […]
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How to Play Skyrim: a Very Special Edition With (or Without) Amazon Echo
Oh Bethesda, you trolls, you. I say this fondly as the trailer the company showed off during Sunday’s E3 press conference was a tribute to […]
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Online advertising is so aggressive that we can’t blame you for thinking Facebook is listening to your conversations . It probably isn’t, but it helps […]
Continue reading »Which Is Better: Buying a Car at a High Interest Rate or Renting It?
Is it worth settling for a high interest rate on a car loan or are there better financing options? Here’s what we’re watching this week. […]
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Pharmacists can prescribe contraception in eight states and Washington, D.C., which means you can walk into a pharmacy without a prescription and walk away, often […]
Continue reading »How to Turn Off Annoying Facebook Fundraising Notifications
I understand that we all want to contribute to something bigger than ourselves, and it’s great to see more people “donate birthdays” to charity. This […]
Continue reading »Sprinkle Sugar on Low-Quality Tomatoes to Improve Their Flavor
With the exception of cherry tomatoes , which are good almost all year round, I try not to buy tomatoes until at least July, as […]
Continue reading »Find Out What’s Taking up Space on Your Windows PC With Wiztree
Windows: Most computer geeks know about WinDirStat , an incredibly useful utility that shows you which folders and files are taking up so much space […]
Continue reading »I’m Marlo Mac, Creator of the How to Become a Girl Podcast, and I’m a Parent.
Marlo Mac is producing the podcast ” How to Become a Girl” about the life of her transgender daughter “M.” Through stories of everything from […]
Continue reading »Tell Us About Your Travel Tips for Reykjavik
Do we all have that friend who never stops talking about Reykjavik? “Oh, I miss Reykjavik. Reykjavik has changed my life. Maybe I’ll move to […]
Continue reading »How to Set up Swipes in the Gmail App for Android
Google released several versions of Gmail for Android this week, as well as a new feature that lets you customize what happens when you swipe […]
Continue reading »Get Alexa on Your Apple Watch With This App
If you want to use the voice assistant on your Apple Watch, you’re pretty much limited to Siri’s soft tones. This week, a new app […]
Continue reading »How to Install Safari Beta and Finally Get the Icons
Apple made Safari Technology Preview Release 58 available this week for people using macOS High Sierra and developers using the macOS Mojave beta. If you […]
Continue reading »Increase Your Memory by Doing Something “exciting”
I can remember the tricky details about my friends and our conversations since third grade, but if you send me for pizza on the street […]
Continue reading »Finding a Job by Travel Time With LinkedIn
When you’re looking for a new job, you can usually narrow down your search by city and salary, but in a standard job search, you […]
Continue reading »How to Share a Friend’s Story on Instagram in Your Own Way
When you are tagged in someone’s Instagram Story, you always get an Instagram notification informing you of this. This week, the app added another way […]
Continue reading »Signal and Whatsapp Are As Private As the People You Talk To
In the show I’m currently on, there is a scene where the less than pleasant archdeacon of Notre Dame, Claude Frollo, tells his adopted son […]
Continue reading »Always Do a Test Run of This Quirky New Writing App
So you have a new writing app that you really want to try, huh? Well, before you sit down to this big writing project, consider […]
Continue reading »How to Make Money on Exclusive Sneakers
The new YEEZY 500 Super Moon Yellow will go on sale June 9 at 10:00 am ET on adidas.com and in stores. Chances are you […]
Continue reading »Celebrate Negroni Week With This Amaro-Heavy Tribute
Happy weekend and welcome back to Happy 3 Ingredient Hour , a weekly drinks column featuring very simple yet delicious libations. This is Negroni Week, […]
Continue reading »How to Live, According to Anthony Bourdin
Anthony Bourdain, who passed away today at the age of 61, has given us bold wisdom on how to make the best burger , how […]
Continue reading »Instead of Buying Bitcoins, Play This Bitcoin Trading Game
I have lost over $ 300,000 worth of bitcoins. Now I have to tell you that this is all fake and I only lost it […]
Continue reading »How to Find Out What Messages Apple Stores in ICloud
Hey! In this week’s Tech 911 , a column where we try to address your most pressing and dizzying technical questions (which you should definitely […]
Continue reading »How Your Credit Card’s Annual Interest Rate Can Double
The annual interest rate on credit cards is ridiculously high, averaging 16.75%, according to the latest figures from CreditCards.com . (This is an all-time high, […]
Continue reading »This Is the Easiest and Freshest Way to Make Bloody Mary This Summer.
Bloody Mary is a drink for all seasons, but there is something unpleasant about sipping thick soup-like mixtures when the temperature outside starts to rise. […]
Continue reading »What to Do If Your Credit Limit Is Lowered
Lenders can lower your credit limit at almost any time and for any reason as long as permitted by your user agreement. This happens to […]
Continue reading »Calculate How Many Calories You Burn When Traveling With a Backpack
Hiking with a backpack is much more difficult than hiking without it. It sounds more difficult, but you burn more calories, which is important to […]
Continue reading »How to Achieve Work-Life Balance As a Parent
You missed your kid’s soccer game again because you worked on this big client report, the one you are still falling behind. Oh, and didn’t […]
Continue reading »How to Get Google Rainbow Sheets to Celebrate Pride
We love it when a company steals an Easter egg into some sort of mundane program, especially when the nose knock trick does something wild […]
Continue reading »To Travel Cheap, Follow the Exchange Rates
“Saving travel is about flexibility,” says Andrew Harper, an anonymous editor-in-chief for the luxury travel site. He told Lifehacker about several surefire ways to keep […]
Continue reading »Top Travel Tips in Yellowstone From Our Readers
This week we took the city out of the Hack Your City section to collect reader tips for Yellowstone National Park. You can read all […]
Continue reading »How to Travel With Young Children and Survive
When you ride in a car with young children for a long time, you quickly learn three things: 1. There will be a mess 2. […]
Continue reading »How Good Are Your Used Towels?
Germs like you and me enjoy the warm and slightly damp embrace of a bath towel. (Hey, if it’s not wet when you first put […]
Continue reading »Does the Sound Make You Nauseous?
American diplomats in China fall ill with symptoms such as headaches, nausea and hearing loss after hearing “strange noises” in their apartments . This is […]
Continue reading »Shio Koji Helps Your Food to Be the Best
The term “universal seasoning” has always struck me as a bit exaggerated. If we’re not talking about salt, there are a few spices that really […]
Continue reading »Why You Should Pay Your Student Loan During Grace Period
When you graduate from college (or transition to part-time status), you are given a six-month grace period before you have to start paying off your […]
Continue reading »How to Make the Perfect Burpee
I have done at least 10 burpees every morning since we started the burpee exercise . (Actually, one day out of 10, and the rest […]
Continue reading »How to Timing Your Caffeine Intake and Improve Alertness
Have you ever drank coffee to stay up late, but then when it came time for your exam, your mind was clouded with fatigue? Researchers […]
Continue reading »Why Is It Really Useful to Know Your Astrological Sign
I don’t believe in astrology, but I know my sign. (I am a Sagittarius in the traditional system, Ophiuchus for ardent astronomers .) It may […]
Continue reading »How to Make a Gin and Tonic That Doesn’t Suck
In a simple libation like gin and tonic, the spirit should really shine. Too often, a sugary, cheesy tonic hides its partner’s botanical qualities, making […]
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