We’ve highlighted a bunch of multi-display setups recently, but this single-panel workspace from reader Wayne shows off that one display—especially when it’s huge—can be just as good looking as several. He submitted his setup to our Workspace Show and Tell Pool, and here are some more photos.
When it comes to negotiating, preparation is key. To get what you’re after, you have to be ready to counter any and all possible rejections.
Today Google announced that the code behind Chrome for iOS will now be accessible as part of the Chromium project. The desktop browser has long been based on open-source code but the complexity of the iOS version kept it separate, until now. That and more in today’s news.
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Making your voice heard by your government reps is now more important than ever. 5 Calls shows you who to call about which issues, and even gives you a script to follow.
For well-seasoned chicken breasts, salting the top of the skin isn’t enough; you need to get some under the skin as well. Though wiggling your fingers in between the meat and the skin can get the job done, it can be a little awkward, and Cook’s Illustrated has devised an easier, neater approach.
You’ve got a coworker who, to put it diplomatically, has a hard time keeping their leadership tendencies in check. In other words, he treats you like he’s the boss. He provides tons of constructive feedback (even when you didn’t ask for it), divides up roles on team projects (giving himself the best one), and quashes…
When you finish off a 12-pack of your favorite canned soda, don’t toss the box out just yet. You can use it to organize your pantry.
Now that LED strips exist, it’s super easy to make your own lighting. Case in point, YouTuber Darbin Orvar shows off her light cube packed between a couple of slabs on concrete.
Roasted Brussels sprouts are one of winter’s many edible joys, but the prep work can be a bit tedious. In addition to de-stemming each sprout, any dirty or bruised outer leaves need to be peeled off. To save your fingers some stress and yourself some time, you’ll just need to grab two bowls.
This $12 stainless steel reusable water bottle is vacuum-sealed and double-walled to actually keep your cold drinks cold and your hot drinks hot. Grab one in black, silver, or blue.
Every year, backup service Backblaze takes a look at failure rates amongst the hard drives in its data centers. This year’s no different, and they’ve got all kinds of stats for all kinds of drive.
This week on The Upgrade we’re upgrading your HDTV, just in time for Super Bowl Sunday! It’s all about how to buy a great TV, for the big game, or anytime you’re in the market for one—plus a call out for your questions for the show!
Setting up a little notification system to alert you when the laundry is finished is a time-honored DIY electronics project. If you fancy using a Raspberry Pi Zero for one, GitHub user Shmoopty shares his project.
So you want to try a standing desk, but don’t want to commit to it for eight hours a day...what do you do? You get off your butt and buy this dual monitor riser for an all-time low price, that’s what.
Planting season will soon be here, and if you’re planning a garden, you should also consider how you’re going to control weeds. Our friends at the Old World Garden Farms suggest leaving behind the harsh herbicides this year and opting for these gentler treatments, from mulch to a weed torch that looks fun to use.
In a world of vanity sizes and mysterious designations like “medium,” you usually have to try clothes on before you have any clue if they fit. Bra sizing would seem to be different, since it involves numbers and math, but I’m here with bad news: There is no such thing as Your One True Bra Size.
It’s not just the camera that separates a professional-looking video from an amateur one. You need excellent and proper lighting, too, and it all begins with a strong grasp of three-point lighting. This video explains what you need to know in a bit over two minutes.
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It can seem like our lives are filled with busyness, noise, distractions, and often meaningless activities. What if we could filter out all that noise, and focus on the meaningful? What if we could find stillness instead of constant distraction?
Earlier this month, LinkedIn updated with a new design. If it’s been a couple of weeks since you’ve logged on, here’s what’s new.
Mindfulness and meditation are well-known ways to combat anxiety and stress, but they can be hard to fit into a busy schedule. If you need a quick way to curb a stream of anxiety-inducing thoughts, try this grounding exercise that you can fit in no matter where you are.
In what I’m calling “very good news,” the kind souls over at The Kitchn have devised a formula for turning almost any vegetable into a crispy, cheesy fritter. Given the fact that the easiest ways to get me to eat my veggies are to crisp them up and add cheese, I’m pretty delighted.
Once you’ve signed a pesky gym contract, you’re legally on the hook to keep paying that membership, even if you don’t use it. But all hope is not lost. There are some ways to wiggle out of a gym contract.
If you still haven’t outfitted your kitchen with a KitchenAid, you can get a brand new Professional 6 quart model for just $266, today only as part of Amazon’s Gold Box. We occasionally see KitchenAids cheaper, but those are usually refurbished and/or smaller and less powerful models.
Watching cable news over the weekend, I came across one of those “gold is the only real investment,” commercials. Since 2008, though, gold has not been a very good investment. But people fall for these commercials all the time.
If you knew how many hours you’d have to work to buy that new TV, or a new car, how would that affect your decision to buy it? This calculator can help you find out.
Fast food generally isn’t good for your diet, but some chains are going to be better than others. This chart compiles data from ten fast of the biggest fast food chains to show just how calorie heavy their menus are.
Losing a dog or a cat is like losing a member of the family, and that’s scary. You’ll worry, you’ll fear for their well being, and you’ll turn over every rock until you find them. If your cat or dog is missing, this guide will help you get your furry friend home safe and sound, as quickly as possible.
Ever wonder what that fix-anything contractor is carrying around with them? Over at Cool Tools, residential contractor Paul Abueva shares his bag.
Ice cream cake is delicious, but buying one is usually too much for you and a friend, and piling up the layers of cake and melting ice cream can get messy fast if you make your own. Use a muffin tin to give everyone their own individual cakes and cut down on the prep mess.
Paper, Dropbox’s project collaboration app, is finally out of beta. It is comparable to something like Google Docs with more of an emphasis on working together with your colleagues within the Dropbox environment. That and more in today’s news.
Most mechanics aren’t looking to cheat you out of money, but auto repairs are expensive. That goes double for the ones you don’t need. Asking your mechanic just one simple question can help you avoid any issues.
Getting rid of your unnecessary belongings is tough, but it’s even harder when there are memories attached to them. If you’re trying to pare down, but can’t quite say goodbye to some things you know you don’t need, a “limbo box” can help.
With pretty much everyone looking for love on the internet what was once a brave new world is now routine, and we want to hear about your experiences. What are your dos and don’ts when it comes to online dating? What do you look for and what are the red flags?
One common strategy for saving money on food that shows up in a lot of frugality books and on many frugality websites is the idea of a “meal prep day,” sometimes simply called “meal prep Sunday” because people often use a Sunday to do it.
If you’re planing a big party or game day extravaganza, you might ask yourself if it’s more economical to buy a beer keg instead of a few cases. Here’s a simple rule of thumb you can use to find out.
When you flip your iPhone over to the landscape view when you’re typing a message, it automatically change to the handwriting interface. Chances are, most of us don’t handwrite messages and would prefer the landscape keyboard here. Good news, though, How-To Geek points out that when you tap the keyboard button, iOS…
For years and years it seems like everyone has had different pieces of advice for how to make perfect hard boiled eggs. I’ve heard “just add a little salt to the water”. Seems like my Mother always told me once they were done cooking on the stove, just plunge them in cold water in the sink. Martha Stewart says to cover them in cool water by 1 inch. But here again it’s one of those situations where there are more variables than one would even think.
Hard boiled eggs assumes boiling – which means are you cooking them on the stove, or in the microwave? Also, what about the water? Before you boil do you start with cold or hot water? And do you add the eggs and the water at once – boiling them together, or do you only add the eggs once the water is already boiling? And how long do you cook them? 10, 15, or even 30 minutes? I’ve even seen arguments about whether or not to place them in cool water after boiling, or just leave them on the stove for another 15 minutes to cool after cooking. I even read one article about how you should let them stand in the hot water 15 minutes, and then plunge them in an ice bath for 15 minutes after that. All of this just to get a hard boiled egg that you can peel without the whole egg falling apart in your hands? I won’t even go into all the different ways we tried to microwave the perfect hard boiled egg.
There seems to be as many arguments and ways to hard boil an egg as there are discussions about which way the toilet paper should come off the roll (over or under). I JUST WANT A GOOD HARD BOILED EGG!
One day I happened to see an article about a dozen things on Amazon you didn’t know you could live without. Sorry – I don’t remember the page or website (or I would provide it). About halfway down was thing thing called an egg cooker. I thought – what the heck is that, and why would you need it? Upon further inspection I found it had a couple thousand almost 5-star reviews. When I read them people gushed about this little device making the best hard boiled eggs they had ever had. Most said they didn’t know that hard boiled eggs could even taste that good. I showed my wife, and she didn’t seem that impressed – but said for $15 why not just get one and see.
This is what we ordered (click here for the Amazon link or the picture below:
When our new Dash egg cooker arrived I couldn’t believe how small it was. It’s maybe 5 inches across, and 5 inches high. But you can cook a half dozen hard boiled eggs at once. After reading the instructions, I couldn’t believe how dead simple this thing was. It comes with a little measuring cup for water. One line is for hard boiled eggs, another for poached or omelet. Pour the water in the bottom of the cooker. On the bottom of the measuring cup there is a pointy needle. Use this to gently (and barely) puncture the bottom of each raw egg. Then place the 6 eggs on the cooker insert. Put the top on and push the on button and that’s it!
I think that the Dash company was smart because when I bought this contraption, no where in the title or description did it say it was a steamer. And yet, once I turned it on and watched it go to work, that’s exactly what it was! I never thought to steam eggs before. The lid of the cooker has a tiny hole about 1/8″. The hot plate of the cooker heats the water up to boiling, and the eggs get steamed for 6 or 7 minutes (until the water boils off). Once the water boils off and the temperature begins to rise dramatically in the cooker, a high pitched alarm goes off. It continues to go off until you physically turn the on/off button off.
What we do at this point is take the eggs out of the cooker (carefully – they are literally steaming hot) and put them in a bowl of cold water. We usually leave the cold water run on that bowl in the sink, and take the eggs out one by one to gently crack and peel them. One thing we instantly realized was that the eggs peel near perfectly – each and every time! Amazing.
This, however, did not prepare us for what the eggs would taste like.
FLUFFY HARD BOILED EGGS?
Whenever we explain to anyone what the egg cooker is I usually say two things. The first is – let me make you some eggs. The second is, once I do and you eat one – you will experience the fluffiest hard boiled eggs you have ever eaten in your life. I guess it would be more proper to say I’m going to make you a steamed egg, but that sounds weird. The eggs are light, airy, and just have this quality I can only describe as “fluffy”. Which leads me to believe that I had been eating over cooked hard boiled eggs my ENTIRE life! The Dash Egg cooker is the weirdest little kitchen gadget I never knew I needed (until I had it). You’d better get one for yourself today! Seriously, it’s only $15 – and apparently they now come in all kinds of colors.
Also – apparently they are so popular that now you can get a double decker egg cooker
Now that we have this nifty device, I see that they even make a double decker egg cooker (if you need to cook nearly a dozen at once).
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A lot of people are reflexively appalled by the idea of a bidet, which makes no sense, because they’re amazing. Today on Amazon, you can score a Greenco Bidet attachment that will work with just about any toilet for just $22. That’s nothing for a product you’ll use just about every day. This deal could sell out any…
The plank is a great exercise for your core, but holding it like a statue is only one of many ways to work those muscles. This video shows a plank-based exercise you probably haven’t seen before—and it’s great for your obliques.
When you’re shopping at your local grocery store and the all the food claims to be from sustainable, animal-friendly farms, how much can you trust it? What qualifies as “organic” and does it matter? Here to help are the folks behind HowGood, who research and recommend food based on the legitimacy of their claims.
iPhone: If you want to get any information about the Wi-Fi network you’re connected to on your iPhone, you’d usually have to jump into the Settings. Wi-Fi Widget puts that info on the widgets screen.
Payday loans are a notorious debt trap. They often prey on consumers who are vulnerable and desperate, then send them into a downward spiral of debt. Here are the issues customers complain about most, along with the five worst offenders.
While convenient for keeping drinks chilled, lugging a hardside cooler everywhere is less-than-ideal. How about picking up one of RTIC’s softsided coolers, in either 20 or 30L for their best prices ever? Save some money and save your back.
If you’re drowning in student debt, you might be tempted to refinance or consolidate your loan. This is basically taking on a new, completely different loan to pay for your original debt. When you take on a new loan to pay off your student loan, you may lose some benefits you could need later.
Tracking your habits is a great way to keep an eye on your progress for a variety of self-improvement goals, and you have an insane number of apps for doing so on the iPhone. However, when it comes to performance and ease of use, we like Productive, because it blends simplicity with the statistics you want to see.
If you received a 1099-C tax form in the mail, you might be wondering where it came from and why it exists. You typically get this form when you settle a debt. It means you owe taxes on the amount of debt that was forgiven or canceled. There are a few other reasons you may have received this form, though.
I’ve had my Samsung Galaxy Edge S6 for almost 2 years now. In the beginning when it was new, people would stop me all the time and say “wow, is that the edge?” because it looked so different from the other phones. Now it’s more commonplace, especially since there are both the Edge S6 and Edge S7. I bought it for the fancy “edge features”, like notifications, weather, and news feed. They are so useless and battery consuming I don’t use any of them…lol. Also – I don’t know anybody that owns a Galaxy Edge that does.
Now that I’ve had the phone almost two years I think I can seriously comment on how to increase and save battery life in both the edge S6 and S7 – ALL the time. When I bought the Galaxy S6 Edge I knew the battery life would be less than the standard S6 because the battery is smaller (because of the case bevels). So you take about a 20% hit right there. But when I got it new it was chewing up battery like wild fire. So much that I could go from 100 down to 20% in 60-90 minutes easily when it was in my hand. The thing that really got me was that it would lose as much as 20% battery per hour, even when I wasn’t using it at all! Just in my pocket or on the desk. It was so bad, I called Samsung within a week of buying it (and they only reset the phone, which was no help at all).
If your phone is chewing up battery left and right the first culprit anyone in support looks at is app usage. While it’s true that the more apps you have installed (especially social), the faster your battery will die – a new feature of Android makes this a little irrelevant. In the latest update my phone received there’s a notification I get every now and then that shows all the apps and says anything that hadn’t sent me a notification for 3 days will have notifications turned off. This is great for apps you don’t use all that often that want to “spam” you into opening them back up again (*Amazon* cough, cough). My point in this section is mainly – the apps you have installed don’t make a whole lot of difference, it’s how they’re setup. However, delete and remove all the ones you don’t need and don’t use. If you don’t really use Facebook, Pinterest, Snapchat, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Twitter, Instagram, and Vine – delete the ones you don’t use. That’s a good opener.
Anytime I advise anyone on battery usage for any Android phone – I send them to “notifications” under settings. Literally everything you have installed is setup to notify you – and it’s just not necessary. The first thing I turn notifications off is every single game I’ve installed. What game is so important that you need to be notified that you “need to come back”?
I certainly don’t mind notifications from “alarm clock”, but I don’t ever need them from “goat simulator”, lol. Personally what I do is turn off notifications for absolutely everything except phone, messages, and messenger. I don’t need to see notifications from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest – or anything else until I personally open those apps up. This change alone not only saves a significant amount of battery life – it saves you from getting sucked into the vortex of being controlled by your phone every second of the day. It puts you back in charge of opening your phone when you want to – on your terms.
Your Android phone is constantly trying to “sync” all the accounts you have. Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, other work or personal email, and your Samsung account. I personally do not need Facebook, Twitter, or Samsung to “sync” all the time – those things can wait until I open the app. The only thing I tolerate is Gmail, because I like to know when email comes in.
In regards to the Samsung account, Samsung makes great phones – but I have no need to have an “account” with them. My contacts are stored with Google, and I don’t use any Samsung apps or games that need any syncing.
Go to “Settings – > Accounts” and then click on the various accounts that apply to you, and set them to sync (or not).
You Galaxy Edge phone is shipped to you from the factory be default with settings to bug and pester you. These settings were likely advocated by the app manufacturers. The latest system updates for the Galaxy edge do provide longer battery life, but updating the settings mentioned above for notifications and syncing will save more battery life than anything else you can do. This is mainly because when you’re not using your phone it’s constantly checking in with various services to see if there’s anything to notify you about – and you can stop that dead in its tracks.
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I haven’t seen La La Land yet, but I want to. Trouble is, the word of mouth, glowing reviews, and endless awards have placed it on a pedestal so high I feel the actual experience won’t be able to reach it. The hype is strong with this one. But maybe there’s a way to go in with a clean slate. Maybe there’s a way to…