Screenshot: Pranay Parab The Apple Watch is an excellent health tool. It tracks your steps, keeps count of your expended calories, and helps you check in on your heart rate. While many of its excellent features work out of the box, one option is often turned off by default, and it’s the one option that […]
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Spoilers ahead for And Just Like That…, the Sex and the City reboot on HBO Max, although this news has been hard to ignore whether or not you even watch the show. Consider yourself warned, because unlike Carrie Bradshaw, I’m diving right into action. Here’s what goes down: Carrie’s husband, John, aka “Big,” has a […]
Photo: lunopark (Shutterstock) Of course you need a passport to cross international borders, but they’re more than a required travel document: They keep track of your globetrotting, and there’s nuance to both the design of your passport booklet and the access it provides. Here are 12 interesting facts you may not know about your passport. […]
Photo: hansen.matthew.d (Shutterstock) I know I’m not the only one who learned to count “one Mississippi, two Mississippi” as a kid. The idea, of course, is that when you insert those words between your numbers, the pace of your counting will roughly match the seconds on a clock. But Mississippi can’t be universal around the […]
Photo: Africa Studio (Shutterstock) Socks may come into this world as a pair, but they almost always leave this world alone. Luckily, you don’t necessarily need to toss out socks that are missing their perfect match, or stretched-out, or threadbare, or hole-y. From cleaning your home to craft supplies for your kids, there are plenty […]
Photo: Levon Avagyan (Shutterstock) If you’ve got one, it’s probably your most expensive piece of jewelry: That gleaming stone that says “I do” (or “I did”), that shimmering token of commitment you rarely take off, that bijou that cost some major coin—your engagement ring. Considering the average couple spent close to $4,000 on engagement rings […]
Photo: Zamrznuti tonovi (Shutterstock) While machine tattooing is considered the norm in the tattoo industry, another tattooing technique—the “stick-and-poke” method—is becoming increasingly popular. There are some similarities and differences between the two types of tattooing methods to consider before getting inked, and knowing the finer points of both approaches should help you decide which method […]
Photo: pio3 (Shutterstock) When you first buy an expensive new Apple product, AppleCare+ might seem like an unnecessary added cost. After all, you’re going to treat this shiny piece of tech with the utmost care; you’re not going to let anything happen to it! Inevitably, you realize your folly, either because you shattered your iPhone’s […]
Photo: Claire Lower Snacking is an art, and some people are more artistically inclined than others. Children usually have a natural aptitude for snacking, which forces people with kids to develop snack-building skills out of necessity, so if we were to trace the history of the snackle box back to its inventor, I’m sure we […]
Photo: amipi (Shutterstock) Generally speaking, technology is improving all the time. And yet, strings of holiday lights—whether they’re for an indoor tree, or the outside of a house—never seem to get better. Sure, there are different varieties, but the same problems seem to pop up year after year. While it may be tempting to simply […]