Web/iOS/Android: Most mortgage calculators will tell you how much your monthly payment will be or even how much total interest you’ll pay each month compared to the principal. This calculator shows you that, but it includes more detailed information…
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Lees meerIt’s nice of your credit card company to give you the option to pay off your balance over time with small, minimum monthly payments. However, while this option does give you flexibility, it’s mostly designed to keep you in debt.Read more...
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Lees meerIf you’re getting ready to hit the polls today, you should be prepared. Know what’s on your ballot, bring something to read (or maybe an external battery pack), and get ready for long lines. Here’s a video guide to get you through it.Read more...
Lees meerYouTube has a strong history of embracing new video formats, like 3D or 360 degree videos, and now they’re adding the latest trend: HDR. Basically, high dynamic range videos more accurately depict highlights and shadows. That and more in today’s new…
Lees meerThere are a lot of advantages to knowing your neighbors: they can feed pets when you’re away, you can lend things to each other, and you have someone you can turn to in an emergency. But you need to get to know them first, and a compliment is a grea…
Lees meerThe entire plot of Game of Thrones Season 7 may have already leaked, and it’s not expected to return to HBO until next summer. Here’s a few simple things you can do to avoid spoilers until then.Read more...
Lees meerMental health is a complex thing—it can depend on how you’re feeling physically, how well you’re taking care of yourself, and what else is going on in your life. This chart tracks all of the above, and it can work in your bullet journal or as a spre…
Lees meerGetting your finances in order takes time, and it can be frustrating when you’re at the beginning stages. Let’s say you want to get out of debt, for example, but it’s taking forever and you’re ready to start investing. As Colin Ashby of Rebel With a…
Lees meerA lot of people will agree that it’s a terrible idea to loan money to friends or family—it can lead to some ugly issues. However, if a loved one is in a bind and you’re thinking of doing it anyway, here’s the case for charging them interest.Read mor…
Lees meerFreelancers, you probably know you have to pay estimated taxes every quarter (if not, here’s a primer). But what happens if your estimates are a little off? Forbes explains the specific requirements and rules for paying these taxes.Read more...
Lees meeriPhone/iPad: Google’s pushed out a long overdo update for its Gmail app on iPhone with a bunch of new features. It’s now all in on Google’s Material Design, and brings a few features Android users have had for a long time.Read more...
Lees meerHey, my beautiful babies, and welcome back to another topic-picking session for Will It Sous Vide?, the weekly column where I make whatever you want me to with my immersion circulator.Read more...
Lees meerPlaying tabletop RPGs like Dungeons and Dragons or Pathfinder thankfully doesn’t carry the same stigma it once did. That’s great because as this TEDx talk explains, the game can do a lot to help you in real life.Read more...
Lees meerHaven’t you heard? The Amazon Echo is actually really great (and only getting better over time), and you can save $40 on yours, today only.Read more...
Lees meerThe Electoral College is an integral, if not unusual, part of American democracy. Few other nations have one, and even when they do the system isn’t quite the same. How does the electoral college work and why do we even have one? Our latest video ex…
Lees meerGoDaddy built a new way to search for domain names that are just emoji. It’s the result of a recent internal hackathon and isn’t meant to be taken too seriously, but it works. Time to register [pizza] [robot] [rocketship] dot com. That and more in t…
Lees meerDebug menus are great little secrets that often hide useful extra settings. Apple’s hidden these menus in its default software for a while, and it’s often easy to unlock with a Terminal command.Read more...
Lees meerIf you’ve just moved into a dorm or you just have some sneaky roommate who likes to steal your sodas, you’ve probably gone and tries to put your name on everything. Over at Arrow Electronics, they decided to catch a thief with a photo snapping alarm…
Lees meerOne of the advantages to living with another human is the division of household labor, but there may be a benefit to one person doing the cooking and after-meal cleaning.Read more...
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