If you’ve installed Windows 11—the most recent version of Microsoft’s operating system for PCs—you may now be wondering how to run Android apps on your computer; because although Microsoft promised to let you run those apps via the Amazon Appstore for Android, the feature hasn’t actually been rolled out yet. Until… Read more…

You’ve no doubt been carving pumpkins since you were a kid, but there is a level of jack-o’-lantern art far beyond the triangles that plebes slash out of gourds. If you want to enter the rarified air of fine-art pumpkin-carving (or even just get better at picking the right pumpkin), we have some tips from […]

When I was six, my mom moved from Mississippi to Los Angeles with me and my sisters, and I discovered a whole new world of children’s entertainment. In addition to the Empire of the Mouse, there were water parks, museums, and orchestral performances, all geared towards the children. I, for my part, really wanted to […]

“No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers. Just a lightning fast browser that doesn’t sell you out.” That’s the quote you see from Mozilla when you go to download Firefox for the first time. The company advertises itself as the superior choice for protecting yourself while browsing the internet, but a … Read […]

The price of lumber has put many home and craft projects on hold in recent months—but big box home improvement stores aren’t your only option when you’re looking to buy the wood you need. Reclaimed and recycled lumber can be rescued from scrap bins, roadsides, and garages more easily than you might think; and r… […]

FAFSA—the Free Application for Federal Student Aid—opened on Oct. 1 for the 2022-2023 academic year. Yet every year, many high school grads leave money on the table by not filling out forms like the FAFSA. Maybe you think you don’t qualify for aid, or that it’s simply a waste of time. According to CNBC, this […]

Are you an uber-organized minimalist whose kitchen looks like Marie Kondo and Pinterest’s love child? We applaud you. If your kitchen resembles more of a disturbing way station for stuffed animals, mail, hairbrushes, stickers, and disembodied Legos, we…have a friend whose kitchen is exactly like that. While we don’t… Read more…

Because I am a morbid ghoul, Halloween is my favorite holiday, so I put together a couple of Halloween playlists to share both the joy and the horror. The first is filled with compulsory Halloween spooky-hits designed to get all the boys and ghouls on the dance floor, like Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and Stevie… Read […]

Demons can be a little hard to define, and sometimes in horror the term is used as a catch-all for anything that isn’t a ghost, werewolf, witch, vampire, or other readily definable monster. Satan is sometimes in the mix, but only sometimes. Read more…

Most of us learn not to lie to our parents from a very early age, but if your folks suffer from dementia, lying might actually be the most caring thing you can do. More than 90 percent of surveyed geriatric care managers recommend caregivers use benevolent half-truths as part of an overall strategy of caring […]

If you have an iPhone, and your friends mostly have iPhones, you probably use Apple’s Messages app to communicate with them. That’s the nature of things. And aside from the platform’s convenience and ubiquity, one of the iMessage platform’s selling points is that its end-to-end encryption should theoretically ensure… Read more…

When it comes to time off, it turns out that too much might actually be as stressful as too little—at least according to this new study that suggests there’s a “sweet spot” of how much free time you should have in a day. The research suggests that people start to feel unproductive and even stressed out […]