Mac: Last year, XKCD’s Randall Monroe released Simple Writer, a web app that restricted your writing to the top 1,000 most commons words in the English language. If web apps aren’t your thing, Cleartext is a free Mac app that does the same thing.
You need just two things to make a marinade versatile enough for any meat, fish, or other food: a bottle of Italian salad dressing and a bottle of barbecue sauce.
You’ve got two choices when it comes to checking on the progress of your dinner in the oven. You could poke at it with a kitchen thermometer until you think it’s done, or you could sit on the couch and wait for your phone to tell you when it’s ready.
Can you memorize 20 random words in a couple of minutes? Yes, you can, after watching World Memory Championship winner Alex Mullen take you through a sample memory palace.
PowerPoint lets you put presentations together in a snap, but your slide shows can be dull and boring if you only know the basics. It’s time to learn how to customize templates, add animations and slide transitions, make slide notes, and more.
Wish there were more music streaming services to choose from? SoundCloud now offers a premium streaming option, SoundCloud Go.
APC power strips, New Balance running shoes, and a Bluetooth key finder kick off today’s best deals.
If the condom broke, if you missed a pill, if you were assaulted and you’re worried that a baby might result, you may still have time to prevent that pregnancy. You have to act fast (within days), and you have three options: an over-the-counter pill, a prescription pill, or a copper IUD. Any of these, taken in time, have a good chance of preventing pregnancy.
Today only, Amazon’s running not one, but two sleep-related Gold Box deals.
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