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Cling wrap is a kitchen MVP, always there when you need to wrap up leftovers or keep ingredients fresher for longer in the fridge. It can help you prevent spills, keep surfaces clean, and generally save you some extra work.Read more...

Buying a house is a complex and emotional process, and we don’t always make perfect decisions once we’ve determined a particular property is our dream house. But even if you’re careful to think of your home as an asset and an investment, it’s difficult to swing a down payment and harder to figure out how much house …Read more...

Valentine’s Day dinner is often over-thought and overwrought: The food needs to be luxurious but not too rich, and the drinks flowing but not so stiff that you fall asleep. (The easiest way to circumvent this issue is to just bone before dinner, but not everyone can fit that into their schedule.) But I can solve the…Read more...

If you’re hosting a Super Bowl LVII party this Sunday, make sure you’re not serving any of these charcuterie sausages that were recalled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). According to the updated USDA recall, approximately 69,255 pounds of ready-to-eat sausage products have been recalled for the potential…Read more...

There’s a new Harry Potter game out there, and the internet is aflame over it—and not in a “no one can stop playing Elden Ring” way. While certainly popular, and likely to sell millions of copies before you can say “accio credit card,” if you’re not entirely comfortable giving your money to support a game that will …Read more...

Baked brie functions as a sort of cheese balloon; instead of air, the inside is full of gooey, melted cheese (and promise). It’s when that first guess slices into the side of the brie—popping the balloon—that things start to fall apart. Suddenly, it’s a mad dash to catch the liquid cheese before it cascades off the…Read more...

Google Maps is a lot more than a GPS app these days. Sure, it’ll help you navigate your commute, but you can also use it to learn about and virtually explore any city in the world. Google is building on that idea with its latest feature, Immersive View, allowing you to digitally explore a city like never before. Read more...

Most of us can stand to eat healthier (myself included, as I tally up how many meals I’ve had this week involving Nutella), but we often go about it the wrong way. If you find yourself hungry and tired or just constantly falling off the wagon, you might want to check whether you’re making these common mistakes.Read more...

Colgate-Palmolive is voluntarily recalling 4.9 million bottles of Fabuloso Multi-Purpose Cleaner that may contain bacteria. The company says it is issuing the recall on some multipurpose cleaners, “because a preservative was not added at the intended levels during manufacturing. With inadequate preservative, there is…Read more...

As good as IMDB is for listing who worked on a show, it isn’t helpful for crediting what each character was wearing. Unless the shirt, dress, or shoes you saw have particularly identifiable characteristics, you’re unlikely to find where to actually buy it. One site is here to help fix that problem. Read more...

Quick Look is one of your Mac’s best features. With it, you can highlight any file and press the space bar to view image previews, see text inside certain files, and check other information such as the file size. Many of us use this feature every day to preview files without needing to open them first—and you can…Read more...

We talk a lot about how cleaning can be therapeutic and fun for some, but totally overwhelming for others. There are a number of methods you can use to manage your time tidying, but one in particular has gotten a lot of attention lately, in part because it leaves room for some imperfection and allows you to go at your…Read more...

When you start swiping through a long web page, message thread, or document on your iPhone, you see a scrollbar in the right edge. It’s a thin, greyed-out pill that disappears almost instantly as you stop swiping, making it feel like Apple doesn’t even really want it there. But you should want it there. In fact, if…Read more...

Buffets are great if you come hungry and have a plan of attack. You need to be sure you’re going to eat more than what you paid to get in; otherwise you might as well order a single dish and call it a day. Frontier’s Go Wild! All-You-Can-Fly is a traveler’s buffet, but it’s not for everyone. If you think you have the…Read more...

I’ve never been to a Super Bowl party where Cubano sandwiches have been served, and I’m convinced this needs to change. Of all the meaty, melty, juicy, pressed sandwiches out there, this one is the boss. Roasted pork, ham, Swiss cheese, mustard and pickles; everything about this screams “touchdown!” Whether you’re…Read more...

Harry Potter and the magical world in which he lives haven’t been served particularly well by video games since the first novel came out in 1997, but this week, with the release of open-world RPG Hogwarts Legacy, all that was set to change. After months of strong pre-order sales, the AAA title was released today, Feb.…Read more...

Pommes Anna is one of those dishes that brings out the futzer inside of us. She’s a simple girl, made with nothing more than thinly sliced potatoes, butter, and salt, and people are always trying to dress her up with herbs, garlic, and seasonings. She doesn’t need all that. Delicate, melting, butter-drenched and…Read more...

The way I was brought up, jumper cables are basically a part of your car. I might not always have remembered to keep every single item of the ideal emergency car kit in my trunk, but a pair of jumper cables were always there, because why the hell not? They’re cheap enough and easy enough to keep around. But that only…Read more...

You’re minding your own business, getting some work done on your Mac, when all of a sudden, you receive a notification from System Settings: Your iCloud is being hacked! Click here to remove the virus. Hold up, though: Any program telling you to “click here” to “remove the virus” is lying to you, and shouldn’t be…Read more...

The tail end of 2022 and beginning of 2023 have brought with them a slew of negative crypto news, from industry layoffs to fraud charges against one of the industry’s former gurus. Once you’ve digested the bad news (and brushed up on the basics of all things cryptocurrency), you might find yourself feeling resolved…Read more...

You have better things to do than wait for your laundry to dry (like folding your laundry and remaking the bed and getting on with your day). You are not fated to sit around and wait until the dryer completes a full cycle; you can speed it up. First things first: check and clear your lint trap and clean your vents.…Read more...

Amazon’s newest Kindle E-readers are on sale right now, and most of them are the cheapest they’ve been since their release dates last year. If you’ve been holding off on upgrading your e-reader or want to try one for the first time, now is a good time to take the plunge.Read more...

I haven’t done one of those genetic history tests, but I know the results would reveal my ancestors to be very pale and mostly Irish (or some combination of Irish and Welsh). But honestly, I feel about as Irish as a plate of Irish nachos, which do not come from Ireland and have never been to Ireland—but you can imagine…Read more...

While the dream of having one perfect web browser to use on your Mac sounds nice, for most of us, it isn’t reality. Different browsers have different strengths and weaknesses, especially when it comes to work, so we need to jump between apps like Safari and Chrome all day. The problem is, we’re only allowed one…Read more...