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Household Hacks
Our Best Methods to Clean Stained Pots and Pans
No matter how hard you scrub or soak, your pots and pans remain stained, brown, and grimy. And while well-used pans are a sign of your cooking prowess (or at least, how often you cook), sometimes you just want to see your own reflection in the bottom of a skillet.
Streaming
Why the New H.266/VCC Video Codec Is a Big Deal
The new H.266 video codec is a pretty big deal. You can’t play with it yet—tempted as you might be to go install Handbrake and bask in video encodes that are half the size of your already-optimized H.265 videos—but its very existence will speed up the eventual transition to 8K...
Android
How to Get Rid of Samsung's Ads on Your Galaxy Phone
I don’t have a Samsung smartphone, but if I did, I’d be pretty pissed about paying anywhere from $1,000-$2,000 for a device that comes packed full of native advertising. Your not-so-meager investment apparently isn’t enough for Samsung, which has taken to filling its default apps on its devices full of...
Games
10 Video Games That Can Replace Traditional Summer Activities
It’s going to be an endless summer, and not in a cool “surfer-movie-from-the-1960s” way. You and your kiddies are looking at two more months of very little social contact and a lot of indoor time. Luckily, playing video games all day is just as fun as normal summertime activities like...
money
Turn Your Loose Change Into Cash You Can Actually Use
Coins are pretty great when you’re a kid. They’re shiny, have that weirdly pleasing metallic smell and are tangibly, you know, money. But as we age, our fondness for change diminishes for a number of reasons, including the fact that it’s heavy to carry around. That said, right now a lot...
Rants
If You Eat Out Right Now, Don't Be a Jerk
Restaurants and bars are opening up across the country, and people sure are going to them! That is certainly a choice that I don’t feel comfortable making, but if you simply must go out right now and pay someone else to make and bring you your food, it’s very...
cars
The Car Brands With the Highest Maintenance Costs Over Time
The true cost of owning a car goes well beyond the sticker price, beyond fixed costs like annual registration fees and monthly car insurance, even beyond the exquisite pain of the occasional parking ticket. Though you might think of it as little more than regular oil changes and a...
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