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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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  • newHow to turn modern Linux into an old Mac
    Adam Lawson's Zac-OS-9 is a completist recreation of the classic Mac desktop experience for Debian Linux, "drawn pixel by pixel from scratch." Modeled on the last versions before the switch to Mac OS X (more than 25 years ago!) it's not just a skin:…
    - 3 hours ago 28 Oct 26, 5:41pm -
  • newGet lifetime of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini + more in a single workspace for $79
    TL;DR: Get ChatPlayground AI's Unlimited Lifetime Plan for just $79 (MSRP $619), with side-by-side comparisons across 20-plus AI models and more.Asking three chatbots the same question shouldn't require three tabs and a spreadsheet. ChatPlayground A…
    - 5 hours ago 28 Oct 26, 4:00pm -
  • newHow to make realistic fake blood for Halloween
    If you need a lot of fake blood for Halloween this year, this is the video for you. It's a tutorial that shows you how to make realistic fake blood.It starts with a base of corn syrup plus red food coloring. — Read the rest The post How to make r…
    - 8 hours ago 28 Oct 26, 1:04pm -
  • newGrand Theft Auto 6 will take up 210 gigabytes of your hard drive
    Ahead of Grand Theft Auto 6's preload early next month, I and many others have been wondering how much space to clear before it smacks into our collective hard drives with the force of a thousand suns. Triple-A games have been steadily ballooning in…
    - 9 hours ago 28 Oct 26, 12:27pm -
  • newThis excellent little AI recorder makes me resent the App Store
    The Comu Action Pro is a surprisingly capable little recorder; the hoops Apple makes these developers jump through are dopey.I was excited to try the Comu TN20 Pro, as I wanted an AI transcription device. Recording oral stories and getting a quick t…
    - 9 hours ago 28 Oct 26, 11:56am -
  • newChrome extension lets weeds overgrow your neglected browser tabs
    Overgrown is a Chrome browser extension that plants seeds in neglected browser tabs, which slowly become overwhelmed by spreading foliage. Creator Charlie Gerard was inspired by a creative exercise around the word and decided to do something special.…
    - 10 hours ago 28 Oct 26, 11:10am -
  • newFlorida cop moved into dead man's house, renovated it and impersonated him
    After Florida cop Brian Louis Sguros performed a welfare check at Dennis West's home and found his dead body, he did what any reasonable law enforcement officer would do under the circumstances: he moved in, assumed West's identity, and renovated the…
    - 10 hours ago 28 Oct 26, 10:43am -
  • newiPad Mini ad edited in Korea to remove gesture inadvertantly mocking your penis
    A long-awaited OLED upgrade to Apple's iPad Mini launched this week with an international marketing campaign. But a moment in one ad has drawn controversy in South Korea, as the pinch gesture in it means "you have a small penis" and carries popular c…
    - 11 hours ago 28 Oct 26, 10:16am -
  • newYour piano-playing ambitions could use this $60 learning app
    TL;DR: Get five years of flowkey Classic for $59.97 (reg. $899), including interactive piano lessons, real-time note feedback, and more than 1,000 classical and public-domain songs.A piano teacher can tell you when you've hit the wrong note, but sch…
    - 11 hours ago 28 Oct 26, 10:00am -
  • newItalian police use AI to identify stolen painting at antiquities fair
    A stolen painting was identified at Parma's annual antiquity fair by cops using AI software trained on photos of missing works. the police system flagged one of the snapshots with an alert signal: a painting of a young, fair-skinned woman wearing a…
    - 12 hours ago 28 Oct 26, 9:18am -

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