Sit-ups and crunches might be routine exercises recommended over the years to strengthen your core, but maybe it’s time to ditch these moves for the sake of the rest of your body.
Stop Doing Sit-Ups or Crunches and Do Planks Instead
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Your Favorite Affordable Blender Is the Ninja Professional
The Ninja Professional BL660 crushed, blended, and puréed the competition
to take home the title of your favorite affordable blender.
Compare Benefits Line by Line Before Accepting a New Job Offer
Your entire job compensation consists of not only your salary, but benefits and bonuses as well. Make sure you’re comparing apples to apples when comparing job offers or thinking of leaving your company by closely evaluating the benefits.
The Coolest Things You Can Do With Android’s Hidden System UI Tuner
Google introduced a sweet hidden menu in Android Marshmallow called the System UI Tuner. It packs a ton of neat little tweaks like hiding status bar icons or showing your battery percentage. Here’s how to turn it on, and what you can do with it.
What the Charter-Time Warner Merger Will Mean For Consumers
Charter Communications is all set to buy out Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, forming the second-largest cable company in the U.S., known as New Charter. The merger comes with a few conditions designed to protect consumers.
Today’s Best Deals: Discounted Shoes, Affordable Bags, Popular Dash Cam, and More
10 Rules of Professional Etiquette for the Digital Workplace
It’s easy to forget manners when you’re all alone. From showing up late to meetings and forgetting simple things like “please” and “thank you,” otherwise polite and well-behaved humans can come off as complete jerks in the absence of face-to-face contact. Isolation is the culprit, but you don’t have to fall prey.
Paribus, the App that Automatically Refunds Price Drops, Comes to iPhone and Android
iOS/Android: Paribus is an online tool that tracks your purchases to find price drops, automatically refunding you the difference. It’s free, it works well, and it’s now available as an app on iPhone and Android. And the company recently updated the iOS app with a few interesting features.
Turn Leftover Herbs Into DIY Incense
If you grow your own herbs, like sage and rosemary, you probably get more than you can use by cooking. Don’t let them—and all those great aromatics—go to waste, turn them into DIY incense (aka smudge sticks.)
Expand Your Knife Collection With These Sweet Blades
You really only need three or four knives in your kitchen
: an 8" or 10" chef’s knife, a 3" or 4" paring knife, a serrated bread knife, and maybe a 7" or 8" Santoku. Those will take care of most of your cutting needs, but once you master those, you might want to supplement your collection with a few choice additions.
Sig Nordal 