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Deciding who and when to make friends with on Facebook can be stressful. Making this decision in the workplace is fraught at all levels. When […]
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With all the excitement caused by yesterday ‘s iOS 11.3 release , you may not have noticed that Apple has also released macOS 10.13.4 globally. […]
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When someone is injured, such as a firearm, it is often not the injury itself that kills, but the loss of blood. To mark Bleeding […]
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Creating pixel art is like writing children’s books: shocking nuances and much more difficult than it sounds. But pixel art site Lospec has amassed a […]
Continue reading »What to Do If Your Spouse Is Poor With Money
Thank you all for sending your questions about family and finances this week. Conversations with spouses about their money habits, impulse containment and budgeting were […]
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When you have babies and young children, people give you so many tips – breastfeeding, bottle feeding, sleeping together, using an infant straitjacket, getting an […]
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Imagine for a second that you are trying to win the hottest ticket in town and concert tickets sold out. Or maybe it’s a group […]
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Even if you are the next Stephen King or George R.R. Martin – and if you are the last, please try to write faster – […]
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Muting entire websites in Chrome might be the best update Google has ever made to the browser, but it could still be better. Sure, disabling […]
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If you expected Apple to wait a week until its new iPad starts shipping for the official launch of iOS 11.3, you’ve lost. iOS 11.3, […]
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When you walk home on a Friday night, are you worried about work all weekend? Do you end up doing the job so you don’t […]
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Apple journalist John Gruber recently lamented that there are simply no Tetris games available for macOS. And he didn’t mean there are no good games. […]
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We ran a contest on the Offspring Facebook group (yes, we have a Facebook group – have you joined us yet?), Asking participants to share […]
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If you’re anything like me, your to-do list is filled with urgent tasks like “getting a prescription” next to less time-sensitive tasks like “doing consistently”. […]
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If you always go to the same place to get your hair done because someone knows how you look good, ask them for their phone […]
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Letters roll in and celebrations are blowing up the Internet . For high school students awaiting a response from the colleges they applied to, this […]
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There have been four nore’esters in my area of the country in the past six weeks, which means the local produce in March was less […]
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If you’re bored in Silicon Valley, then you’re doing it wrong, judging by the comments on this week’s Hack Your City. We asked for your […]
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Life happens. In one minute you are nearing release, ready to conquer the world. The next time you lose your job or cannot find one […]
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As I was chatting with some helpful, albeit semi-robotic, Amazon customer support person, I thought to myself: I really need to better track the promotions […]
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I am not what you would call a “health food eater.” Although my mother supplied the home with this biblical sprouted bread, teen Claire simply […]
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One of the problems with covering personal finance is that the tips and tricks recommended by most experts only make sense for a specific group […]
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The Instant Pot craze shows no signs of slowing down, and if you own one of the multicooker, you probably need it all. As we […]
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If you’re using Microsoft Edge in any capacity, congratulations! You are incredibly rare, so much so that services like Statcounter don’t even have your browser […]
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Most podcast apps are built around finding and subscribing to shows, not episodes. But Listen Notes, Lifehacker’s favorite podcast search engine , now lets you […]
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Facebook spies on us all the time, and by extension on companies like Instagram and WhatsApp . Now, one app is changing position, allowing all […]
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