Diagnose Your Check Engine Lights With This $14 Scanner

Everyone who owns a car should also own an OBD-II scanner to diagnose check engine lights, and at $14, there’s no reason not to. There are Wi-Fi and Bluetooth models out there that sync with your phone for a little more money, but this is a great option if you don’t want to futz with apps.

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“Love Is a Skill That Needs to Be Learned”

When you start a new job, you’re not expected to know everything on your first day. You’re trained. You get a handbook. After a while, you catch on. With this in mind, The School of Life makes an interesting point: we should approach our romantic relationships similarly.

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All About Calluses, Your Skin’s Natural (and Sometimes Painful) Armor

Calluses, those areas of crusty thickened skin on your hands and feet, are part armor and part liability. Gymnasts obsess about shaving them down; runners worry about keeping them built up. With some smart management, it’s possible to have happy, tough skin that doesn’t give you problems.

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Measure Your Stress Level with This Flowchart

Are you a little stressed or a lot stressed? Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference. This flowchart walks you through the emotions and factors that could be causing you havoc-wrecking stress.

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Today’s Best Deals: Holiday Lasers, Fallout 4, Magnetic Knife Strip, and More

A Screenshot Tour of Vivaldi, the New Power-User Web Browser

Bored of Chrome? Sick of the fact you can’t customize Safari? Wish Firefox was just a little better? Vivaldi, a new web browser built on Chromium, wants to tap into your distaste for boring, modern, everyman browsers with a highly customizable, power-user browser. Let’s see how it stacks up.

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Use Your Steamer Basket to Store Onions and Garlic

If you have a bamboo steamer basket and not much storage space in your kitchen, make your steamer basket pull double duty by storing onions, garlic, and shallots in it. Here’s why it’s perfect for the job.

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Save to Google Is a Pocket-Like Chrome Extension For Saving Articles

Chrome: Not content with letting Pocket have the spotlight , Google has introduced a new extension called Save to Google that allows you to save articles to read later.

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Let This Video Teach You How to Flip Crepes and Pancakes With Ease

Like any red-blooded American, I enjoy a good, fluffy flapjack, but sometimes I crave a delicate, thinner type of griddled delicacy, like an English-style pancake or a crepe. Some people have a little trouble with the flipping, but the above video makes it easy; like so many things, it’s all in the wrist.

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Buy This Landscape Laser Projector For $20 Today, and Stash It Away Until The Holidays

You don’t need it for another 7 months or so, but $20 is by far the best price we’ve seen on a landscape laser light projector, if you want to get an early jump on your holiday decorating.

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