While being surrounded by clutter in your home can feel chaotic and overwhelming, much of it can probably simply be discarded. How much of your kid’s old artwork really needs to be kept forever? There’s nothing of value in that stack of junk mail. A…
Lees meerIn a sea of pumpkin-flavored foods, there simply aren’t enough pumpkin-shaped foods (actual pumpkins don’t count). In order to maximize our food’s festivity, let’s start making pumpkin-flavored dishes that also look like the cute calabasa. A handful…
Lees meerYou have a big test or project looming, but can’t seem to force yourself to prepare for it at all. You’ll even do other things—like clean your room or call your family—that you normally hate, just to put off studying. You might think you’re just avo…
Lees meerI’ll admit it: I’ve gone through a partner’s phone to catch them being unfaithful. But while I scoured their texts for proof of infidelity, I didn’t think to also head on over to their banking apps for a different kind of cheating: financial infide…
Lees meerNorth Carolina and Virginia are scheduled to play in an Atlantic Coast Conference game on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023 at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The game is scheduled for kickoff at 6:30 p.m. ET.Read more...
Lees meerThe beauty of the internet is that every once in a while, someone asks a totally innocuous question and people chip in with answers that can potentially change the reader’s life. This time, someone on Reddit asked about apps that are so good that i…
Lees meerYou can get a lifetime subscription to the popular language learning app Babbel on sale for $149.97 right now (reg. $599) through October 23. Babbel offers personalized language courses across 14 languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian…
Lees meerI don’t get a thrill from dressing up in Halloween costumes anymore, but I look forward to all of the silly “scary” food that crop up. Peeled grapes become monster eyeballs, ground Oreos transform into graveyard dirt, spaghetti somehow turns into a …
Lees meerFor whatever reason, I hate-follow a bunch of keto-focused influencer accounts on Instagram. They’ll lure me in with a bunch of meat, then hit me with a bell-pepper-as-bread “sandwich,” a monstrosity I have been familiar with since the Weight Watchi…
Lees meerBest Buy is the first of the major retailers to announce their plans for Black Friday this year. Earlier this week, they published a press release on their website detailing their plans, including the dates you can expect to see deals, what member p…
Lees meerFirst, there were phone calls. Then we switched to texting, and stopped talking to each other for a while. Still, there was something missing: Phone calls take too long, while texting isn’t convenient for lengthy thoughts. And thus, the voice messag…
Lees meerUsing computers in the classroom has changed a bit since playing Oregon Trail on an Apple IIe. Now they are integrated into the educational experience, with students opening Chromebooks as early as kindergarten to take tests and do their math homewo…
Lees meerParking, like everything else about owning a car, is expensive. If you live in a dense urban area like New York City, for example, you can buy a condo for several million dollars—and still have to pay as much as $300,000 or even $1 million for a par…
Lees meerWhen you open the photos app on your iPhone, you can access your library, your albums, and a really great search feature that enables you to filter pictures by text or even description. You also see “Memories”—collections the app generates automatic…
Lees meerRunning out of food has never been a problem at any Thanksgiving dinner I’ve ever attended. I’ve never seen it happen. But if this is your first year hosting, or you’ve simply never planned a meal for more than four people, it’s nice to have a base…
Lees meerAt least once a year, I go on a Pop-Tart kick, and I’m currently working at Rockette levels. You can use them to make holiday pie crusts, an ice cream sandwich, or a perverted Pop-Tart trifle to celebrate someone you love. They also make an incredi…
Lees meerWhen it comes to keyboard shortcuts on the Mac, the focus is often on Command, Control, Option, and Shift. However there’s another useful key with excellent keyboard shortcuts mapped to it—Fn, aka, the Function key. This is the button with the glob…
Lees meerIt’s difficult to keep track of how much Netflix costs these days, since the company keeps raising its damn prices. The chaos kicked off when the company killed free password sharing in the U.S. back in May, which confused and frustrated Netflix cus…
Lees meerYou can get Microsoft Office Pro 2021 for Windows on sale for $29.97 right now (reg. $239) through October 23. Microsoft Office for Windows includes eight apps—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Teams, Outlook, Access, and Publisher—and unlike Micros…
Lees meerMost people are wrong about Bigfoot this week—both the believers in Sasquatch and the people who are sure there’s no such thing. The coin is still in the air, and has yet to come up heads or tails. Read more...
Lees meerWhen wading through all endless emails, Slack messages, and other notifications, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. When that happens, it’s best to have a strategy going in. There are a few different ways to approach it, but you have to find the one that…
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