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Well, it’s been a week, and Nintendo hasn’t killed off the last Animal Crossing: New Horizons hack that allows you to duplicate certain items for free. In case it does, or if you’d like another method that allows you to duplicate every item you have—the Holy Grail of glitches—another has emerged. Here’s how to do it.Read more...

Another day means another night of streaming options.

I have found there is an ebb and flow to parenting during a pandemic. It has played out in my own home, as well as across my social media feeds, and it goes a little something like this: “Omg, the kids are on screens way too much! They need more educational activities, more learning opportunities, more structure ...…Read more...

The hardest part about managing your finances is getting started.Read more...

Got a split seam in your backpack? A shirt button you need to sew back on? Or, if you’re ambitious, a hole in your jeans you’d like to patch? Let’s talk about the basics of repairing clothes, so that you’ll know what’s in your power to fix and how you’d go about doing it.Read more...

Vitamin D is important. It helps your body absorb calcium, promotes bone growth and plays a role in your immune system. It’s commonly called the “sunshine vitamin,” as our bodies use the energy from sunlight to make vitamin D, which by definition is actually a prohormone. Given abrupt, pandemic-induced changes to our…Read more...

Food writing is a very personality-driven genre, and it has been for a while. It is not uncommon for recipe developers, writers and TV hosts to develop cult-like followings and stans, and who wrote the recipe can become a serious factor in choosing what you make for dinner.Read more...

Spring is here, and it’s time to bring your bike out of its winter hibernation. Before you go for your first ride, get it road- or trail-ready with some basic DIY maintenance.

While vacuuming or sweeping is usually enough to keep an uncarpeted floor looking clean, there are times when you have to go one step beyond that and get out a bucket to really wash them properly. Maybe it’s something you traditionally do as a part of spring cleaning, or before your parents come to visit—or maybe it’s…Read more...

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Still waiting for your coronavirus relief check? You may be able to speed up the process—but you have to act fast: If you want to receive your payment by direct deposit you only have until Wednesday, May 13 at noon (local time) to submit your information.

It seems that—at least in parts of Pennsylvania—restaurants were overrun on Sunday with customers wanting (expecting?) their usual special, celebratory meals for Mother’s Day. So many people flocked to places like Red Lobster and Olive Garden, at least according to TMZ and Twitter, that the result was extra-long lines…Read more...

If you want to start a fitness routine, running is one of the easiest—and cheapest—things you can do. But how do you start running, especially if you really, really suck at it? (I’m talking “running around the block leaves me doubled up in stitches, wondering if I’m about to die” levels of bad?)

Worried that your Android is running out of storage? Unsure of how much storage your Android is even using? Whether you need to clear up space, or want to know if you need to worry about cleaning up space, it’s easy to check your available storage on Android and start removing unnecessary apps and other space-hogging…Read more...

Herbaria make fascinating time capsules. In a museum or university near you, there’s probably a room with pages and pages of old, large sheets of paper, each with a dried whole plant delicately taped to it. These are the plant equivalents of dinosaur bones or taxidermied wildlife: once-living specimens preserved for…Read more...

If you have a computer with Thunderbolt ports, you may be at risk of a serious firmware flaw known as “Thunderspy.” The vulnerability, which was discovered by security researcher Björn Ruytenberg, affects all Thunderbolt ports and USB-C or DisplayPort ports that support Thunderbolt cables. It gives a hacker full…Read more...

If you’ve ever worked in a corporate setting, you’ve surely encountered the nightmare of a “Reply All” misfire. This is when someone accidentally (or purposefully) blasts an email to way more people than they should’ve, and even more people chime in via “reply all” asking to be removed from the conversation and/or…Read more...

Cold brew is a very lazy coffee brewing method, though that does not mean it is a process devoid of pedantry. While I’m sure there are many pieces of writing devoted to optimum grind size and extraction times and temps, I tend to focus on the logistics, such as straining—which, depending on your chosen filtration…Read more...

The Office went off the air in 2013, the same year Slack launched to the public. That means that, sadly, our heroes at Dunder-Mifflin weren’t able to experience the joy and the pain of the service. But what if they did?

There are many good reasons to keep the software on your phone or tablet up to date. Running the latest version of Android ensures you have access to all the newest features available for the operating system and that your device is as protected as possible from attacks by hackers.

Welcome to a new week! If you’re looking for something great to watch to kick your week off right, we’ve rounded up tonight’s best streaming options.

The popular digital PC games marketplace Green Man Gaming is having a huge 10th-anniversary sale that includes tons of great games at some of their lowest prices ever. The promotion runs until May 31, but there are other goodies you can get if you buy something within the next few days—including an additional free…Read more...

Sure, lots of people grow up with much younger siblings or cousins, or they babysat as teenagers, or they have friends who have babies, or they’re just around babies. For these people, changing a diaper can seem like a no-brainer. But then there are people like me and my husband who never did any of that and changed…Read more...

Checks: They’re so 20th century, yet still floating around in our lives. And sometimes, they’re absolutely necessary.Read more...

With all of technology at my fingertips, I still appreciate having a paper calendar on the wall in front of my desk. It’s handy to glance up and be able to see what the date will be next Monday or how many weeks until I have until a certain deadline. I used to shop bookstores for published calendars, but I’ve since…Read more...

When my mother taught me what to look for when shopping for new clothes, one of the first things she mentioned was checking the tag to make sure the garment wasn’t “dry-clean only.” This was typically followed by “no matter how much it’s marked down, it actually costs more when you add in dry cleaning costs.”

Companies ranging from cable providers to insurance providers are offering payment relief for people affected by the conronavirus pandemic. But learning about those programs—and how to take advantage of them—can be challenging, especially if you’re already feeling stressed about your finances. Every company seems to…Read more...

The tuna sandwich will never go out of style, because it was never stylish to begin with. It’s humble, even homely, yet intensely comforting and nostalgic. Tuna salad itself consists of three main components—canned tuna, mayonnaise and some sort of ingredient that’s meant to bring contrast—and the success of your…Read more...

I don’t generally think to clean my oven unless I need to pass a move-out inspection or bits of burnt food lurking within it start setting off my smoke alarm. But the longer you put it off, the grosser your oven gets, so go ahead and tackle it right now.

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What’s your LEGO situation these days? In my home, the LEGO have multiplied so much during the pandemic that I had to create additional display shelving in my basement because my son’s LEGO table, dresser, bookshelf and window sills were no longer sufficient for displaying all his favorites. (I’m also planning to put…Read more...

Following news that Uber is going to require passengers and riders to wear masks, Lyft has also changed its ride policy to require passengers and riders alike to wear face coverings. Lyft has taken its policy a step further, however, with a few additional requirements.

Keeping an indoor plant alive means providing it with what it needs on a long-term basis. Keeping an indoor plant alive means no forgetting about its existence for months at a time. Keeping an indoor plant alive is a sign that you’ve managed to cross the threshold into competent adulthood.Read more...

Windows: Updating your computer, and the apps on it, is one of the most basic bits of maintenance everyone should know how to do. And while your operating system should make this easy for you by running most updates on your behalf, there’s no reason to let it have all the fun. Control your own destiny: Install your…Read more...

The Unbreakabale Kimmy Schmidt returns to Netflix today in a new interactive special, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend.

If you’re at home with a little one that’s just starting to learn to read, Google has a new free resource you can use to help them along.

Stephen Colbert, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey and more are expected to make appearances tonight in the “Feeding America Comedy Special,” a benefit for Feeding America airing.

A discount on the new DOOM Eternal Artbook, the Fast & Furious collection for $50, Target’s sale on patio furniture, a bunch of romance novels, and more headline Sunday’s best deals.

Stay-at-home orders have meant that most in-person high school and college graduation ceremonies were canceled this year.

Movie theaters across most of the country are still closed for business; however, Alamo Drafthouse is opening its virtual doors in a way, allowing you to rent and buy a pretty decent list of arthouse films on its site.

Most of us probably don’t have plans to fly anytime soon. If you do have plans to do so, and those plans involve Delta, then you might need to make a few adjustments.

A sale on the John Wick trilogy, $30 Adidas shoes, JACHS NY hoodies, noise-cancelling earbuds, and more are some of Saturday’s best deals.

In March, Facebook started rolling out its new redesigned desktop site as something you could choose to opt-into once it was available to you. Friday the company announced that the rollout is complete and that the new site is available for everyone globally.

In the days before COVID-19, New York City was the most-visited city in the United States. But as the epicenter of the outbreak, it is no longer overrun (or even mildly occupied) by tourists. At this point, not even locals are able to spend time in their city, but right now, making a virtual visit to the Big Apple is…Read more...

If you’re spending most of your time at home these days, you might be able to save a lot of money on your monthly phone bill by swapping to a usage-based plan.

While many Americans continue to wait for their coronavirus relief checks or unemployment benefits, there’s a plan in the works to provide another relief payment—and this one would be monthly.Read more...

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It’s the biggest pandemic era question facing many parents of young children: When will it be safe for kids to go back to daycare? For the economy to reopen—for people to be able to go back to work at all—the child care issue has to be addressed, and in a way that won’t further the spread of COVID-19.Read more...

I have two food-focused quarantine projects, and neither of them involves baking. The first is grinding meat with my meat grinder (mostly for sausage-making purposes). The second is making quick vodka infusions with my blender. Horseradish is a sinus-clearing favorite.Read more...

There are two reasons to install the latest version of Windows 10's PowerToys. First, and most important, PowerToys will soon start self-updating. You won’t have to visit the GitHub every time a new feature drops; you’ll just get it whenever the app updates itself. Progress!Read more...