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A person walking barefoot across a fallen tree trunk in a forest.

How to start hiking barefoot, if you’re into that kind of thing

By Alisha McDarris

A bearded man with glasses looking at a desktop computer screen with a search function displayed.

The best search engines for finding results and securing your privacy

By Stacey L. Nash

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The best cable management for desks

An iPhone and a Mac computer keyboard illuminated under a pink light.

It’s a great day to secure your Apple and iCloud accounts

Two Celestron telescopes on a white background

Save up to $101 on a Celestron x PopSci telescope with this post-eclipse sale at Amazon

By Stan Horaczek

A tablet with Google Chrome and no internet connection.

6 ways you can use Google Chrome offline

The best furnace filters will help keep your home warm and cut down on dander.

The best furnace filters

By Timothy Dale

A person holding an iPhone with a bunch of apps on the home screen. A cup of coffee is behind their hand on a white table.

One quick way to automatically save space on your phone

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The best Singer sewing machines

By Carol Benton

A Secchi Disk and a measuring tape on a gray wooden floating pier next to a moored boat.

You can help measure the ocean’s health with this homemade gadget

By Alisha McDarris

The best sewing machines

The best sewing machines

By Carol Benton, Stacey L. Nash

A lineup of the best sewing machines for beginners on a white background

The best sewing machines for beginners

By Carol Benton

A young Black person with short dyed-blonde hair wearing a yellow jacket and eclipse glasses while looking up at an eclipse in front of some residential buildings.

How to watch Saturday’s ‘ring of fire’ eclipse from wherever you are

By John Kennedy

A WiFi router on a table against a gray wall, behind a plant.

How to give more WiFi to the devices that need it the most

Person cooking whole pumpkin and roasting pumpkin seeds to get pumpkin health benefits

Why you should be eating more pumpkin this fall

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

An Apple TV 4K box with a remote next to it, both on a black reflective surface.

Your Apple TV 4K is secretly good for video games

a photo of a laptop with a Gmail inbox open

9 Gmail features to get you out of your inbox and back to work

By Whitson Gordon

A drawer inside a cabinet, after someone has installed the drawer slides to hold it in place.

The fastest way to install drawer slides

By Jean Levasseur

Animated hand gestures on FaceTime

Hand gesture reactions are one of macOS Sonoma’s coolest new features

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Smart lights synced to a monitor screen

2 ways to sync your Philips Hue smart lights to movies, games, and music

Google Chrome on incognito mode

How to go incognito on these 6 popular apps

Purple, blue, and white meteors fall at night during October stargazing

A ‘ring of fire’ eclipse and Hunter’s Moon will bring lunar drama to October’s skies

By Laura Baisas

A person wearing a red jacket and a red knit beanie, looking at a paper map while holding their phone, possibly as they prepare to share their location with someone else via a location-sharing app.

5 location-sharing apps that aren’t run by Apple or Google

The best dehumidifiers for basements will help keep the air in your home cool and dry.

The best dehumidifiers for basements

By John Alexander

Person talking to a therapist, probably talking about overcoming their fears of therapy.

5 common concerns about therapy and how to overcome them

By Alexandra Frost

Samsung Galaxy S10 with a locked scren

All the cool ways you can customize your Samsung Galaxy lock screen

Loud concerts are wrecking your ears

Loud concerts are wrecking your ears

By Cory Portnuff / The Conversation

A person looking at an internet speed test on their phone.

How to check your Internet speed on your phone, a browser, and Google

By Tony Carrick

Person holding an iPad Pro, probably figuring out how to use Split View.

How to split your screen on an iPad and conquer multitasking

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

A lineup of the best language software on a blue and white background

The best language learning software

By Nicholas Ware

A US postal worker delivering packages to a tan residential building, with a USPS truck parked on the street in the foreground.

How to order free COVID tests from the US government, starting today

By John Kennedy

A man wearing a black shirt and a white baseball cap looking down while many dead leaves fall and fly around him, probably as he's trying to get the leaves off his lawn.

The best way to get rid of leaves this fall

By Jillian Mock

A woman sitting in her living room looking at her smartphone while sitting on her yoga mat.

The best workout apps for all kinds of exercise

By Stacey L. Nash

A person holding an iPhone outside, looking at their TikTok watch history

Your TikTok watch history has moved—here’s how to find it

By John Kennedy

Laptop being shredded

The Opt Out: Reduce your privacy risk by deleting a bunch of files

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Four Google Pixel phones fanned out from left to right: red, blue, silver, and black.

How to set up the wallpapers and widgets that will make your Pixel more fun

DIY rope plant hangers

The easiest, most basic DIY plant hanger you can make

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

A smartphone screen displaying the Google Maps app icon.

How to share your location on Google Maps

By Tony Carrick

Google Pixel showing a cinematic wallpaper

Emoji wallpapers and cinematic backdrops can make your Pixel phone as fun as you are

A person in the forest holding an iPhone with a map on its screen, potentially a situation where you'd want to share your location with someone else.

How to share your location on an iPhone, including by satellite

By John Kennedy

Someone filling a glass of water probably wondering if there are PFAS in it.

2 ways of knowing if there are PFAS in your drinking water

Person putting on a fresh knitted sweater

How to get your stale-smelling clothes ready for sweater weather

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Hands unboxing a second-hand iPhone.

Pro tips for buying used tech without getting scammed

A person holding an iPhone over a scanner so they can use Google Pay to make a purchase.

How to use Google Pay to shop and transfer money

By Debbie Wolfe

A woman sitting in front of a Mac desktop computer with her hand on her face, viewed through a window from outside.

Patch a potential privacy risk by deleting your ancient LiveJournal

Person sitting at desk, looking at laptop, probably transferring their bookmarks from Chrome to Edge.

How to finally ditch Chrome and move all your data and bookmarks to another browser

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Person with curly black hair and brown skin rinsing shampoo off after washing hair

Are you washing your hair too much or not enough?

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

A person looking at Apple Music on an IPhone next to a coffee drink.

How to cancel Apple Music if it’s no longer your jam

By Tony Carrick

Photo of an iPhone with a WiFi setting on top of a Mac laptop keyboard.

How to find a WiFi password, whether you’re connected to the network or not

By Tony Carrick

It’s Fat Bear season again! This is the best feed to keep up with these hairy giants

It’s Fat Bear season again! This is the best feed to keep up with these hairy giants

By Charlotte Hu

A person'a hand holding an iPhone with a Spotify audiobook playing on the screen, with a houseplant behind the phone.

How to listen to Spotify’s huge library of audiobooks

A woman holding an unlocked iPhone with a number of apps on the screen, including the Find My app.

How to turn off your location on an iPhone to stay under the radar

By Debbie Wolfe

A lineup of the best phone tripods

The best iPhone tripods

By Jeanette Moses

Best ring lights

The best ring lights, according to experts

By Adam Douglas

A man in glasses and a gray fleece jacket sitting at a table in a coffee shop, using a laptop and a phone.

How to reset your phone without losing everything

Two people using Apple Maps while hiking

How to use Apple Maps offline and finally ditch Google

A Macbook sits semi open in the dark

Stop macOS Sonoma from hiding your windows when you click the desktop

Canva interface showing a newly designed invitation

7 tips to unleash your creativity on Canva

Stressed person probably wondering if they're suffering from burnout

Are you burned out? Here’s how your body might be telling you.

By Neha Sangwan

An AirTag, probably tracking lost keys.

How to track your AirTags—and protect yourself when they’re not yours

The Best Random Orbital Sanders

The best random orbital sanders

Kid with blonde hair wearing a blue COVID mask holding books and a backpack on the first day of school

How to avoid getting COVID again

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

Android phone on marble table.

How to transfer your WhatsApp stickers to Signal and Telegram

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

A person holding an iPad with Apple TV+ on the screen.

How to cancel Apple TV+ because you probably have too many streaming services

By Debbie Wolfe