If you’ve ever thought about pulling out your blender to make a smoothie, sauce, or dip, and then held off because you didn’t want to clean 3,000 different parts, this deal is for you. The 4.5 star-rated Cuisinart Smart Stick Hand Blender is down to $29 today on Amazon, the best price they’ve listed all year.
Amazon’s Fire TV Stick is a perfectly capable
little streaming device, and if you own any TVs without access to smart apps, you can pick one up for $35, today only. Granted, $5 isn’t a huge discount, but it is the first deal we’ve seen in several months.
Android: Google has improved Android’s handling of volume controls
, but it’s still a hassle to change volumes every time you change apps. App Volume Control lets you change volumes based on which app you’re in.
Last week, Opera added a VPN to the dev version of its browser
, which was certainly good news. The bad news is that unlike the more robust VPNs it tries to replace, it leaks data that should be encrypted all over the place, namely your private IP address. Here’s how to fix it.
Bitcoin is an interesting, if complicated
way to store and spend money. If you have a stash laying around, Valve will now take it off your hands in exchange for sweet deals on games.
As much as I love plants, I’ve never had many for two reasons: I’m terrible at keeping them alive
and I have pets. A lot of plants are either toxic to my cats or they just require too much maintenance. Recently, though, I vowed to finally bring some greenery into my space without poisoning my pets. Here are some solid options I found.
Flickr user d.chasenelson’s desktop is simple, only has a few widgets, and a simple gradient wallpaper that’s not at all distracting. It’s ideal for a second screen when you’re working in the first, or just as a quick monitor view you can minimize other things to check out. Here’s how to set it up.
Sauteed mushrooms are delicious in all sorts of dishes, whether you’re eating them right out of the pan or adding them as an ingredient, but unless you want your mushrooms to become a wet, spongy mess when you cook them, make sure they’re as dry as possible before tossing them in your pan.
I love having fun on the internet, but sometimes I have too much fun and my ISP gets mad. In fact on Comcast there’s a 300GB data limit per month! But they’re finally giving in to complaints about that very arbitrary cap and increasing it to a big honking terabyte.
Sig Nordal 