The EURO 2024 quarter finals have kicked off, and it’s a promising lineup of matches. Spain faces the Germans, Portugal meets the French, the Netherlands takes on Turkey, and England’s lucky run might end against Switzerland. You can watch all of the EURO 2024 matches here in the United States if you have the right […]

A good half-sour dill is the answer to many of life’s questions, not to mention to dishes that need a little something extra. Usually sandwiches. Pickles come in a handful of shapes—whole, spears, chips, and flats—so you can find the one that is the best fit for your meal. And while there’s no wrong way […]

July is one of my favorite gardening months, because it feels like a pause. All your vegetables are planted and should be on their way to fruiting. The flowers you got in the ground the last two months should have started to bloom, and the weather isn’t murderously hot yet. There is lots of harvesting […]

It’s all too easy for your Mac desktop to get cluttered up with open apps and scattered windows—and there’s a built-in solution for giving you more room to work in, besides investing in an extra monitor. The feature is called “multiple spaces” (or virtual desktops, in old computer speak), the equivalent of multiple desktops on […]

Some people have two (or even three?) monitors hooked up to their Windows PC to give them extra room for all the computing they need to do. But even if you’re using a single display, there’s a way to expand the space you’ve got to work with: Virtual desktops. Virtual desktops—or multiple desktops, as they’re […]

Casual movie watchers might assume pretty much everything is available on streaming these days, or at the very least, easy to find on DVD or Blu-ray. Sadly, that’s not the case…not even close. A great many films, from obscure cult releases, to nostalgic favorites, and even big-budget blockbusters, are enormously inconvenient to watch in 2024. […]

July is a great time to reset the seeding station at your house. All the summer starts are in the garden at this point, so you have room to put time and energy into succession plantings, fall starts and perennials. Even better, you don’t have to grow the starts inside—you can use your seed trays […]

Up until now, on the Mac, you couldn’t right-click without using the mouse. That’s all changed with macOS Sequoia, which has added a new keyboard shortcut that opens up context menus (those are the menus that pop up when you right-click anywhere). The keyboard shortcut to right-click on your Mac In macOS Sequoia, you can press […]