I love fussing with wifi, but when I’m building the backbone of my network in a new location—a house, apartment, or wherever—I tend to go wired as much as I can. Wireless bridges and tri-band mesh/extender setups are great and convenient, but I alwa…
Lees meerSummer’s nearly here, and you know what that means: It’s time to bust out the box fans and wonder how on earth they got dirtier since you last saw them. Hair, dirt, lint, and all kinds of other gross airborne stuff build up on fans over time—and if …
Lees meerIf the past year has you reevaluating how you parent, you’re hardly alone. What seemed to work in pre-pandemic times doesn’t necessarily translate to a time in which you are suddenly home with your children and partner every minute of every day for …
Lees meerRoasting vegetables give them a deeper, sweeter, more complex flavor, which is why I wish they made their way into more salads. After all, there’s no rule that says your salad veggies must me crisp and raw. Instead of a desiccated, shredded carrot, …
Lees meerSome perennial veggies provide natural fertilizer for themselves and nearby plant life. The same goes for herbs. Old and used tea bags provide nitrogen, tannic acid, and other components that help make a healthy growing environment. Read more...
Lees meerTwitter’s verification process may soon change. The social media company announced plans to update its verification process last year, and recent evidence indicates the new process could go into effect as soon as next week.Read more...
Lees meerWhen our parenting editor Meghan Walbert wrote a few weeks ago that she was determined to learn to like running, several of the comments on that piece (and its sequel) argued against the very idea of trying to like something you hate. I would like t…
Lees meerWith Memorial Day weekend coming up, Dairy Queen is giving away a “Sweetest Season Pass” that will allow 20 randomly selected ice cream fans to order free Blizzards all summer long. The chain announced the promotion last Thursday; here’s how you can…
Lees meerHaving plants means having to consider lighting, watering, fertilizing, and yes, even bugs. Plants can attract certain bugs, ones like spider mites, gnats, and whiteflies that can all infest your plants and your home if not taken care of. Here are a…
Lees meerI confess, even I got a little excited when I heard that Apple was upping the quality of many of its Apple Music tracks to lossless audio. While that’s not a you-can-listen-now change, as the 75+ million lossless tracks are debuting in June, it’s st…
Lees meerThe thought of alien life has long seemed like a fantasy, immortalized in pop culture and cast aside in the mainstream as a wacky conspiracy, but a certain Republican Senator from Florida wants you to know that the truth, uh, may be out there.Read m…
Lees meerOver the last few days, we’ve seen lots of reports across Reddit and social media that Apple Music on CarPlay has been crashing unexpectedly. While we don’t know the specific cause, and there’s no confirmed fix yet, there are a few workarounds you c…
Lees meerOn any given day, there are more than 400,000 kids in the U.S. foster care system. Some of those kids are in the system for days or weeks, while others spend months or years bouncing from home to home to home—and every single one of them has experie…
Lees meerHanging plants can make your place feel like a beautiful oasis, but when those plants’ colors begin to fade and their leaves dry out, it’s hard to save them, especially if you have no idea what is going on. Some hanging plants outgrow their pots, wh…
Lees meerWe all have the same problems with our trash can: The bag falls in, you can’t pull the bag out, it smells terrible, etc.Read more...
Lees meerNetflix has been killing it will original animated features lately, from the Oscar-nominated Over the Moon to the zany apocalyptic surprises of The Mitchells vs. the Machines. In June, they’re trying again with the premiere of Wish Dragon, a new Chi…
Lees meerIt’s time for the Android 12 Beta 1—your first chance to try out all the fun new changes to Google’s operating system while facing less of a risk of encountering a nasty bug, taking a performance hit, or running into other beta-bred problems on your…
Lees meerAnyone can set out a bowl of olives as part of a charcuterie board or snack plate, but serving a dish of warm olives is a pro move. You can gently heat them in a luxurious pool of warm olive oil—or you can blast them with the hot, whipping winds of …
Lees meerWe put a lot of labels on our kids somewhat reflexively, and they’re not all good. We see an undesirable behavior and we point it out in the same way these behaviors were often pointed out to us when we were kids: Don’t be so stubborn, we say. He’s …
Lees meerI tuned in to Google I/O this year with privacy on the brain. Chalk it up to the recent drama of Facebook-exec-turned-Apple-employee-turned-unemployed-employee Antonio Garcia Martinez, who famously said in 2018:Read more...
Lees meerImagine you wake up to a smoldering piece of machinery in your yard, still smoking and sizzling after screaming towards Earth from space. This is an extremely unlikely scenario, but it remains true that space junk happens. Of all the scientific inst…
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