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  • Remove a Cork Stuck Inside a Wine Bottle With a Ribbon
    You go to pop open a fresh bottle of wine—maybe you don’t have a proper wine-opening tool —and the cork, or part of it, plummets into the bottle. You’re left with two choices: finish the bottle, or use this handy trick.Read more...
    - 3 Jul 16, 6:00pm -
  • Flamyngo Simplifies Getting Travel Tips From Friends
    iPhone: If you’re heading out on vacation to somewhere your friends or family have already gone, it’s natural to ask for any suggestions they might have for places to go. This usually results in a mess of texts and emails from various people. Fla…
    - 3 Jul 16, 5:00pm -
  • Get Your Game of Thrones Fix With This Interactive, Spoiler-Proof Map
    Game of Thrones fans, you might not know what to do with yourself now that Season 6 is over. This interactive map will help you get your fix until the next season starts.Read more...
    - 3 Jul 16, 3:00pm -
  • When In Doubt, Mimic the Body Language of Others to Be More Persuasive
    Body language varies from one person to another. Trying to follow a set of specific actions to effectively communicate with everyone is bound to fail. If you’re talking with someone one-on-one, mimic their body language instead to be more persuasiv…
    - 3 Jul 16, 2:00pm -
  • This DIY Wood Beer Carrier Even Has a Bottle Opener on the Side
    Instructables user Herbsco built this reusable, good-looking beer carrier out of solid walnut, which probably explains why it looks so good, but even if you don’t have that available, he has everything you need to make your own—and attach a bottl…
    - 3 Jul 16, 1:00pm -
  • Ambient Noise Showdown: Noisli vs. White Noise vs. Rain Rain
    Ambient noise apps drown out distractions so you can focus on your work, or generate serene, peaceful environments that encourage you to fall asleep. But with dozens you can download, it’s hard to know which is the best. Noisli, White Noise, and Ra…
    - 3 Jul 16, 10:00am -
  • A Video and Graphic Guide to 12 of America's Most Beautiful Natural Parks
    There are dozens of beautiful National Parks in the United States, but if you could only see one, this video and graphic guide from Expedia helps you narrow your choices down to 12 great parks you can explore, all of which are known for specific land…
    - 3 Jul 16, 9:00am -
  • Sunday's Best Deals: Fire HD 6, GreenWorks Tools, Weather Radios
    Weather radios, GreenWorks tools, and Amazon’s Fire HD 6 lead off Sunday’s best deals.Read more...
    - 3 Jul 16, 8:30am -
  • This Week's Top Downloads
    Every week, we share a number of downloads for all platforms to help you get things done. Here were the top downloads from this week.Read more...
    - 2 Jul 16, 6:00pm -
  • Clean Rusty Grill Grates With Some Oil, Salt, and a Potato
    If you don’t grill very often that probably means you don’t clean your grill regularly either. If your grill grates are covered in burnt food and rust, you can get it ready for a cookout with a few household staples.Read more...
    - 2 Jul 16, 5:00pm -

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  • newMicrosoft Visio might be the fix for overcomplicated workflows, now $15
    TL;DR: Microsoft Visio 2021 Professional is on sale for $14.97 (reg. $249.99) and offers a lifetime license for building diagrams, flowcharts, and data-driven visuals on Windows.When your ideas start to feel tangled and hard to follow, a tool like…
    - 14 hours ago 26 Apr 26, 4:00pm -
  • newWork and play with this deal on a 2-in-1 touchscreen laptop
    TL;DR: Do more with less with this Lenovo 300e Chromebook for just $79.99 (Reg. $284.99).Looking for a lightweight personal computer that's suitable for both work and play? Look no further. The 2018 Lenovo 300e Touchscreen Chromebook is a versa…
    - 20 hours ago 26 Apr 26, 10:00am -
  • Lego replaced with pasta in $34k return scam
    Jerrelle Augustine used Lego to build a deliciously good scam, as police in California have it. He allegedly ordered boxes of the bricks, swapped them for pasta, then returned them for a refund. Augustine made $34,000 before being identified, accordi…
    - 1 day ago 26 Apr 26, 3:48am -
  • Pay $75 once and use any AI model (almost) forever
    TL;DR: With your Chatplayground AI Ultimate Plan lifetime subscription, you'll be able to skip the monthly individual fees when accessing the top AI models. Grab yours now for just $74.97 (reg. $619).I don't know what's worse—handling monthly ind…
    - 2 days ago 25 Apr 26, 4:00pm -
  • Human-crafted language lessons definitely hit different
    TL;DR: Learn to actually speak in another language (not just tap buttons) with Babbel's human-built lessons—lifetime access for $159 using StackSocial's code LEARN.There's a weird thing happening with language learning right now. Everything is g…
    - 2 days ago 25 Apr 26, 10:00am -
  • A free book explains Tempest by reading every line of the source code
    TEMPEST vs TEMPEST is a free book about two of the strangest-looking arcade games ever made. The first is Dave Theurer's Tempest from 1981, the Atari cabinet where you spun a metal knob to rotate around the rim of a glowing geometric tube, shooting s…
    - 2 days ago 24 Apr 26, 6:29pm -
  • An editor who read "Crash" called JG Ballard "beyond psychiatric help. Do not publish"
    When JG Ballard submitted Crash to Jonathan Cape in the early 1970s, a senior reader reportedly wrote on the manuscript: "This man is beyond psychiatric help. Do not publish." Cape published it anyway, and Ballard went on to write The Atrocity Exhibi…
    - 3 days ago 24 Apr 26, 5:00pm -
  • Action Comics No. 1 heads to auction after a 40-year hold
    In the early 1980s, a collector with limited funds was scanning auction catalogs and phoning in small bids, hoping something overlooked would slip through. One day the phone rang: his was the highest bid on Action Comics No. 1 — Superman's 1938 deb…
    - 3 days ago 24 Apr 26, 4:15pm -
  • Inside DriveSavers, where data loss becomes a grief crisis
    DriveSavers, a data recovery firm in Novato, California, has a lobby museum called the Museum of Bizarre Diskasters. On display: a laptop burned shut in a house fire ("like an oyster," an engineer said), a smartphone shredded by a snowblower, and a s…
    - 3 days ago 24 Apr 26, 4:05pm -
  • Dead Wi-Fi won't kill your workflow with this $30 Microsoft Office
    TL;DR: Pay $29.97 (MSRP $219.99) just once, get the full Microsoft Office Professional 2021 suite on your Windows PC—no subscription fees, no surprise charges—and you can keep working even without WiFi.There's something so refreshing about so…
    - 3 days ago 24 Apr 26, 4:00pm -

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