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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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  • newThe haunted Toys R Us is now an unhaunted REI
    Toys R Us is back, at least in the sense of private equity rediscovering the skin of something it gutted long ago and deciding to wear it again. But this isn't the first time that the famous toy shop was haunted. — Read the rest The post The haunt…
    - 16 hours ago 24 Oct 26, 10:26am -
  • newYour notes, your whiteboard, and your to-do list walk into one app
    TL;DR: Hive AI is a workspace that combines documents, whiteboards, and databases with AI assistance, and a lifetime subscription is $79 (MSRP $619).Productivity apps tend to pick one lane. A notes app is great for writing but terrible for visual br…
    - 17 hours ago 24 Oct 26, 10:00am -
  • Youbooks turns your notes and podcast transcripts into a nonfiction book for $49
    TL;DR: Youbooks uses ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Llama to draft nonfiction books up to 300,000 words, and it's $49 (reg. $540).Plenty of experts have a nonfiction book's worth of knowledge and no free time to write it. Youbooks is an AI book genera…
    - 1 day ago 23 Oct 26, 4:00pm -
  • Teach yourself to make Claude do the boring stuff for $20
    TL;DR: Learn prompting, agentic coding, and app automation in Claude with the Claude AI Professional E-Degree, now $19.99 (reg. $159).Asking an AI chatbot one question at a time works fine, but it leaves coding agents, app integrations, and automati…
    - 1 day ago 23 Oct 26, 4:00pm -
  • Kurokawa Onsen has 25 hot springs, but I'd go back just for this cat
    When I was in Japan earlier this month, we visited the village of Kurokawa Onsen, which has over 25 Japanese hot-spring bathhouses you can walk to. It was an incredible experience.You can read all about the spas at Kurokawa Onsen with a Google searc…
    - 1 day ago 23 Oct 26, 3:15pm -
  • Local Wikipedia shows you articles about everything within a half-hour walk
    Local Wikipedia shows you Wikipedia articles about things that are a half-hour or less walk from the address you enter in the search field. I entered Golden, Colorado, where I lived in my early years, and read an article about the Rocky Mountain Qu…
    - 2 days ago 23 Oct 26, 1:54pm -
  • Glasgow museum pulls its mummies, citing lack of consent from the dead
    People hoping to see mummies at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland, were instead treated to a small sign that said, "We have removed human remains from this display as a mark of respect."The museum had removed the remains of…
    - 2 days ago 23 Oct 26, 1:28pm -
  • The Bird Reich: The new Atlanta Falcons logo is uncomfortably familiar
    I promise I would never take time out of my day to write about something as mundane as a football team changing its logo unless it was whipping up a frenzy. Most NFL logos feature cool animals in profile, but the Falcons have taken theirs a step furt…
    - 2 days ago 23 Oct 26, 8:08am -
  • Priceless Eisenhower globe broken after Hegseth orders it moved to his office
    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wanted Dwight Eisenhower's 30-inch globe—a priceless World War II artifact—moved into his office. The recolation was botched, reports the Washingon Post, which received photos of the now-ruined antique. Hegseth's a…
    - 2 days ago 22 Oct 26, 6:16pm -
  • Don't let typing slow down your AI prompting — switch to voice dictation for $25 for life
    TL;DR: With VoiceType, you can speak 9 times faster than you type. Get a lifetime subscription for $24.99 (MSRP $154).When efficiency is the goal, you want to speed up the most laborious part of AI prompting: typing. With VoiceType AI, you can dicta…
    - 2 days ago 22 Oct 26, 4:00pm -

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