You’ve undoubtedly used your email address to sign up for a chance to win something online or to purchase something on sale. Often, these offers are too enticing to pass up, and you reason that you’ll live with the consequences of handing out your information for the chance at making out big.

Sooner or later, this all adds up to more and more junk mail in your inbox, most sent from places you’ve never even heard of. The more your email address is out there, the more you’re bombarded with dozens of emails each day, flooding your otherwise pristine and organized inbox.

While most emails will… more

There’s nothing more jarring than the sound of your morning alarm. Even hearing it on others’ phones, hours after your own abrupt wakeup, can cause you to flinch in fear. Though we depend on that shrill sound to get up each morning, it’s actually better to wake up naturally—so don’t even think about hitting that snooze button.

Alarm Clocks Are Nothing but Disruptive

Waking up before your alarm clock sounds can be a blessing and a curse. Thankfully, it means there’s a little more time—sometimes even hours—before it’s time to rise. Yet it can also induce a restless dread, leaving us sweating… more

Shopping: you either love it or hate it. With a tight budget, shopping can become a huge headache for even the biggest shopaholic. We’ve all been there, and we’ve all given in to our impulses and bought something we probably shouldn’t have. Yet strolling through the mall doesn’t have to require a strong will to keep your credit card from entering a downward spiral. You just need to keep your hands to yourself.

The More You Touch, the More You Spend

If you want to reign in your spending, you might want to stick to shopping with your eyes only. Those who look, but don’t touch while wandering… more

When Google Play Music launched a few years ago, I ditched iTunes and began using the service as my one and only source for listening to my personal music library. While All Access is great, I still prefer the radio feature on Spotify, so I still use that to discover new music.

In an effort to get all of my music in one place, I had to download and import all of my “liked” Spotify tracks into Google Music, but now with Pyportify from developer Joshua Braegger, the process is completely automated.

Pyportify is a ported version of developer Sebastian Mauer’s tool Portify that can run on any… more

Lasagna, that layered, creamy baked pasta dish, is a lovely comfort food that’s great for a crowd. But if you’ve ever made it, then you know you’re usually left with some leftover lasagna noodles. (Although that’s always better than the frustration of running out of the noodles while you’re still making a traditional lasagna.) Still, what do you do when you’re still left with a bowlful of the wide ribbons?

Guess what? There’s no rule that you can only use lasagna noodles to make a layered pasta dish. Those frilly wide noodles are good in soups, salads, and almost any other pasta recipe you… more

If you’re the de facto tech support person in your family or circle of friends, you know how frustrating it can be to have to hold someone’s hand and walk them through every troubleshooting step. Luckily, several options now exist for you to remotely access a Mac or Windows PC, which effectively skips the middle man and lets you get straight to fixing the issue yourself.

Unfortunately, such a solution has not existed for troubleshooting problems on smartphones and tablets. Until now, that is.

TeamViewer, the wildly-popular remote desktop client, now has an Android and iOS app that will let… more

Peeling garlic is one kitchen task that every cook, from the newbie to the experienced, are always trying to make easier. Methods vary, from shaking heads of garlic inside a container to using the microwave to help peels slide right off.

I love all these techniques, which work pretty well when peeling garlic cloves in bulk, but sometimes I only need to prep one or two cloves, and that’s when I rely on this technique, the ol’ twist-and-snap. See for yourself:
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It’s extremely satisfying to hear the crackle of crisp garlic peels and then slide them off the cloves.

For those who don’t… more

Stop buying hummus from the grocery store. If you have a food processor and ten minutes to spare, you can easily whip up your own super-delicious, super-cheap hummus that will taste a million times better than whatever you can buy from the supermarket.

For a lazy (but still delicious) hummus recipe, you can simply combine a can of garbanzo beans, a clove of crushed garlic, olive oil, and a few simple seasonings in a food processor or blender until desired consistency is reached.

For a more traditional hummus recipe, you will also need to add fresh lemon juice and tahini. Take the time to… more

With the countless daytime talk shows starring and featuring doctors, nurses, and other medical specialists, discovering new ways to live a healthy life is just a remote click away. Although their shows might draw you in with incredible facts and mind-blowing secrets to weight loss success, it’s important to take each televised recommendation with a bit of suspicion—most of these familiar faces aren’t exactly telling the truth.

Expect Deception

Doctors with popular television shows, like Dr. Mehmet Oz’s self-titled production and the cast of The Doctors, seem to offer their viewers valuable… more

One of the most rewarding things about jailbreaking is theming. Unlike Android, iOS doesn’t allow you to make small changes to certain aspects like the icons or the lock screen, so jailbreaking facilitates the ability to make some of these desired changes happen.

Previously, we showed you how to apply a unique rising bar theme to your iPhone’s lock screen, and today we’re going to show you how to apply another great theme that displays the time in a sleek, minimal fashion.
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Again, make sure you have a jailbroken device before moving any further.

Step 1: Install GroovyLock

In order… more