Новости за 15.10.2018

It feels like Microsoft is ramping up its major system updates for Windows, with one now coming every six months or so. But the problem, apart from Redmond eating your files, is that Windows updates always leave a lot of temporary files and other space-stealing junk on your PC. This can accumulate over time and eat up…

A smiling infant boy is not a “ladykiller.” A toddler offering an adult a cookie is not a “flirt.” Literally nothing a baby does needs to be turned into a romantic moment, so let’s stop saying things that imply otherwise.

Here’s what Kristina Kuzmic knows: Perfection is boring. Parenthood is messy. We might as well embrace the chaos. In her funny and compassionate videos, the vlogging star—who has over 2 million Facebook fans—slams the notion that moms and dads should be loving every minute of raising kids. She gets real, addressing…

The minimalist habit tracker habitctl runs in the command line. (If you don’t know what the command line is, this is not the tool for you.) As such, it’s one of the simplest habit trackers you can use, while still being more sophisticated than a text file (which was developer Sebastian Morr’s previous habit-tracking…

CVS is famous for their ridiculously long receipts. If it bothers you to get the equivalent of a tree branch every time you buy gum, here’s how you can stop the madness.

It’s Open Enrollment season, and you’ll soon be tasked with selecting the health care plan for you and your family for 2019. We know you have questions: Should you go with the PPO? HMO? ACA? HSA? Or another three-letter acronym?

Wondering if all those USB chargers you’ve collected actually put out as much power as they claim? This $7 dongle sits between your charger and a phone or tablet, and displays easy-to-read voltage and amperage figures so you can see how much power is really flowing through. Just be sure to use promo code HI5QMGI9 at…

Brisk fall weather goes by many names. To some, it’s known as “cuffing season.” To others, it’s “pumpkin spice time.” To me it’s “panic-about-Thanksgiving o’clock,” but it’s also “roast season”—my favorite time of year.

Half of house fires happen between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., a time in which most of us would not be conscious enough to know something’s going on. This is terrifying, but there’s an easy thing you can do to help you survive: Close your bedroom door before you go to bed.

A toxic “red tide” has been affecting Florida beaches since last year, and is especially bad right now. Our friends at Earther are covering the subject in depth, but if you’re perplexed about what a red tide is and why everyone is talking about it, we have answers to your basic questions.

“Champagne” is more than something for your monocle to fall into when you’re outraged. Though it connotes luxury, there are many less expensive (but lower quality) options you might be fed when you try to get the fizzy stuff for cheap.

New car transaction prices are rising, interest rates are up, and practically every analyst that covers the auto industry is worried about buyers being “priced out” of being able to afford that new car. Here’s one easy solution to this problem: people need to stop “overbuying” their cars.

Packing cubes can make organizing clothes and toiletries for your next trip a little less hellish, and this highly-rated set of four from AmazonBasics is only $16 today, or about $4-$6 less than usual. I have a set of these, and absolutely love them.

I’ve read one book about Athens, a novel about “runners” who hop the trains into the city and scam tourists into overpaying for crumbling hotel rooms in a seedy part of town. Running is a thoughtful period piece about dignity and desperation. But it is not exactly a commercial for visiting Athens. How is Athens these…

We’re heading into the tail end of October, that swampy backwater where Netflix unloads the remainder of its least distinguished “originals” and hopes for the best. The big debut this week is part 2 of Making a Murderer, which I’m having a hard time getting excited about. Will Wanderlust, a new show in which Tori…

For some reason this year California political groups have decided it’s a good idea to text people to ask them to vote one way or the other. That means that every day my phone has at least two (but more likely ten) texts from people I don’t know asking for me to support a ballot measure or candidate, each providing…

When Epic Games initially released Fortnite for Android earlier this year it made it exclusively available on Samsung devices. If you’re rocking a Galaxy S9 or Note 9, then that was great news. If you had any other Android phone on the planet, it was kind of a bummer.