Windows: Fences, one of our favorite apps for organizing your desktop
, just got better with version 3. Now you can minimize fences to just their title bars so you can hide your desktop clutter while keeping everything easy to find.
If you have any lamps or appliances you wish you could control from afar, Belkin’s popular WeMo Switch is down to $30 on Amazon today. Just plug one in between a wall outlet and the device of your choice, and you’ll be able to turn it on or off from your smartphone or Amazon Echo, create automatic schedules, and even tie it to IFTTT recipes.
If money is tight and you can’t afford your student loan payment, there are relief options available. It can be confusing to navigate them all, but this interactive tool gives you an idea of the options you likely qualify for, then helps you get started with them.
Food for when you’re exercising is a whole product category these days. There are sticky sweet energy gels (every marathoner’s frenemy), plus a variety of bars and chews that are pretty much all expensive and taste terrible. The book Feed Zone Portables has an alternative: homemade, portable food that has the nutrition you need, while tasting great.
Your kitchen knife is quite literally the sharpest tool in your culinary shed, so you should know how to care for and use it. From proper maintenance
, cleaning, and using fancy French cutting techniques, this HowStuffWorks video will help sharpen your knife handling skills.
OS X: Alfred, one of our favorite app launchers
, just updated with a ton of useful new features. As it’s name suggests, Alfred is like a butler for your Mac, and he just got a new tuxedo.
Discounted swimwear, a portable grilling table, and Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements 14 lead off Thursday’s best deals.
Hello, all you creepy lovebones, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column covered by the Sakovia Accords.
If there’s one thing I love about the possibility of wearables, it’s swapping in new watch faces. While many companies either prevent users from making custom watch faces or require some decent coding skills, Android Wear has a few workarounds—and they’re awesome. If you want to make your very own, custom watch face that nobody else has, read on. Even iOS users can do it!
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