mardi 31 mars 2020

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You Can Get 3 Months of Skillshare Premium For Free Right Now

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If you’re hoping to use your physical-distancing time to pick up a new skill, Skillshare is offering a free three-month Premium account on its service to help you make it happen.

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Manage Your Coronavirus Cleaning Urges With This Organizational App

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As cities across the U.S. began to issue “safer at home” orders, I felt like the only person I knew who didn’t have an ambitious project or three to tackle during the coronavirus.

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You Aren’t Going to Figure Out the ‘Ideal’ Time to Grocery Shop Right Now

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If you spend any amount of time on Twitter, you’ve probably seen tweets imploring everyone to hold off on grocery shopping until April 3rd or later. The reasoning is simple: Government benefits are deposited on the first of the month, and with grocery stores experiencing extremely high volume due to the coronavirus…

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How We're Coping With the Pandemic

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Everyone at Lifehacker—along with the rest of the world—is now hunkered down at home, trying to make sense of this new (temporary) normal. So this week each of us recorded audio from our lives to provide a glimpse of what we’re up to. From learning how to work from home with the kids around to cobbling together a…

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How to Turn on Stack Overflow's New Dark Mode Setting

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Stack Overflow, the famous “I’ll go there and figure out how to code something if I have no idea how to write it myself” message board beloved by developers worldwide, has finally unleashed its most-requested feature: dark mode.

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Remix Your Board Games With This Free Kit

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If you’re getting a little bored with your board games (sorry, I had to), the team behind the Board Game Remix Kit—which, as the name implies, provides instructions for new games stitched together from the pieces of others you may already own—just made all of their remix resources free to download.

Here’s one of their…

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Educate Your Kids and Torture Yourself With a Baby Shark Hand-washing Video

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I’ll start by saying: I’m sorry. If you’re a parent of a little kid and you’re stuck at home right now, the last thing you need is for Baby Shark to start playing in your head on repeat. And I know that just seeing that image was enough to press the mental play button. But, if you’re struggling to get your little kids…

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Chefs never let good food go to waste—instead, they get creative

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It’s summer 2010, the end of the month, and food costs are high. One of the sous chefs at Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Macaroni Company tells me I need to get rid of an excess of giardiniera from the kitchen. Giardiniera, you probably know, are the spicy pickled vegetables commonly found on Italian beef sandwiches, and…

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Save $200 on an Unlocked Samsung Galaxy S20 or S20+ Today

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Samsung’s Galaxy S20 and S20+ smartphones are on sale at various retailers today for $200 less than normal, though some have deals reaching as much as $280 off.

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Before You Apply for a Job During the Pandemic, Check This List

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Searching for a new job is already a process that’s packed with stress and uncertainty. The coronavirus pandemic only makes things more complicated. Millions of people are out of work and companies around the world have announced hiring freezes for the foreseeable future.

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Where to Find Free Financial Advice During the Pandemic

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Managing your finances is hard enough when times are good. Now that many of us are dealing with uncertainty, unemployment, and anxiety about ... well, everything, it’s become even more difficult to decide what to do with our money—if we even have enough brain space to deal with our finances after we deal with all of…

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This Isn't Going to End Soon

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I don’t want to be grimmer than necessary, but let’s get realistic about one thing. If a place said they’re closing for two weeks, or if an April event has been postponed to May, here’s my advice: Don’t count on it.

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Now Is Not the Time to Cut Your Own Hair

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Last weekend, under the influence of boredom, anxiety, and marijuana, I ordered a beginner’s embroidery kit from Amazon and awaited its arrival with bated breath. Crafting anything fiddly with my hands is not my forté. I knit, but mostly so that I don’t look at my phone while I watch TV, and all I’ve ever produced…

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What Are the Best Board Games to Play Over Zoom?

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The screens, they are unavoidable right now. Our kids were probably already getting plenty of screen time before the pandemic swept the world, but now, they’re not just using screens for entertainment. They’re using them to connect with their teachers, to complete their schoolwork and to talk to family and friends.

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Why You Should Keep a Pandemic Journal

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Within the last month, life has changed in ways both large and small. What used to be a few news stories here and there about a new virus infecting people halfway across the world is now a global pandemic. Something as simple as visiting a friend, going to the playground with our kids, or even shopping for groceries…

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You Should Waffle Leftover Mac and Cheese

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Waffling carbs is almost always a great idea. After all, the original waffle—you know, the flour-based thing made with batter—is one of the greatest carbs ever invented, so it’s no surprise that other wheat-based foods would take well to this cooking method.

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How to Try Out Edge Chromium's Latest Features Months Before They Arrive

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Microsoft announced a number of fun new features for its Edge Chromium browser today, and they’re mostly rolling out over the next few months. I’m impatient, so I took a look at what’s coming—vertical tabbed browsing, smart copying-and-pasting, password-checking, and organized “Collections”—and found all the…

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lundi 30 mars 2020

What Have You Heard About the Coronavirus This Week?

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The science on COVID-19 is moving faster than it has for any previous outbreak: The scientific community went from discovering the virus to starting a vaccine trial in just three months. But despite that speed, we still don’t know everything we’d like to know about it. And no matter how diligently scientists study a…

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Share Your Desktop With Up to 10 People With This Free App

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Working from home necessitates reliable communication tools, and while it’s likely many of us are participating in more Zoom calls lately, paying for a premium or enterprise-level video conferencing app can be difficult for smaller companies or freelancers. There are several decent video-chatting apps available, but…

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What Is a Ventilator, Anyway?

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As we all know, ventilators are in short supply in hospitals around the world—and patients who go into respiratory failure as a result of the coronavirus may not be able to get the help that they need to breathe.

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How to Cope With a Mayo Shortage

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This morning, I heard terrible news. Apparently there is something of a mayo shortage going on right now, with not a jar to be found on the shelves of many stores across the country. Luckily, there are many ways to make your own mayonnaise, and I have taken the liberty of rounding them up for you.

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How to Access Reproductive Healthcare During a Pandemic

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Staying safe during a pandemic raises a lot of questions about if and when a doctor’s visit is necessary—and if it is, what additional measures patients need to take to safeguard themselves. Office visits are now complicated by both the risk of exposure to COVID-19 and the imperative that we balancing the needs of an…

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What to Do if You Can't Pay Rent This Month

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Though seemingly endless, March 2020 is almost over. The first of the month has rolled around again, and so much has changed since the last time you paid rent. We’re practicing physical distancing, the government passed a big bill to stimulate the economy, and the coronavirus has forced unemployment filing rates to a…

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Why You Still Need to Drive Your Car a Little if You're Quarantined

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With so many people working from home and physically distancing themselves—until May, as ordered by the Fed, and probably longer than that—your poor car has probably been sitting outside on the street or stuck in your garage. And that’s especially true if you’ve been trying to get all your groceries and other…

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YouTube TV Subscribers Get a Free Month of EPIX With No Strings Attached

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YouTube TV is giving subscribers free access to the EPIX channel through April 25, throwing a lifeline to users running out of stuff to watch on their self-quarantine backlog.

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Now Is the Time to Build a Ridiculous Contraption

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Have you ever wanted to build a ridiculous contraption with your kids? The sort of homemade machine that takes a simple, everyday task—like, I don’t know, passing the salt—and makes it unnecessarily complicated, albeit effective. Maybe it never occurred to you to spend an entire weekend figuring out a new way to drop…

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How to Support Instacart Workers While They're on Strike

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Today, delivery workers for the shopping app Instacart are striking for better protections and pay in the wake of the significant surge in demand for their services thanks to the coronavirus outbreak. Here’s what you need to know about the strike and how to support the workers.

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Here's the New Coronavirus Student Loan Plan

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When President Trump signed the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill into law last week, items like recovery rebate checks and expanded unemployment benefits got most of the initial attention. But tucked into the bill around page 825, you’ll find a new set of rules for waiving student loan payments.

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Where to Find Free Mental Health Resources During the Pandemic

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If you feel like you’re struggling with your mental health, you’re not alone. Many of us are dealing with profound uncertainty and unanticipated stress, whether we’re worried about our health, our finances, our families, or how we’re going to make it through the next month of physical distancing and self-isolation.

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Melt Anchovies Into Butter and Put That Butter in Everything

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Since canned food is having a big moment, I’d say now is the time to reconsider the humble canned anchovy. They have a reputation for being overwhelmingly fishy and salty—and those rumors aren’t exactly untrue—but they also possess a deep minerality and ton of umami. When melted into butter (or olive oil), you can…

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Host a Virtual Lunch for Your Kids and Their Friends

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If you ask a kid, any kid, what their favorite part of the school day is, you’re likely to get one of two answers: Recess or lunch. Which means, while many kids probably aren’t pining for a good old fashioned math or social studies lesson right now, they do miss running around together outside and chatting in the…

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How to Cope With Isolation, According to an Astronaut

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Feeling stressed and lonely? Of course you are. Now imagine living in a confined space, no bigger than your average apartment, two hundred and fifty miles above the Earth, for six months to a year.

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This Quirky Zoom Setting Can Make Your Private Snarks Public

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Everyone is Zoom-ing nowadays—unless you prefer one of the solid alternatives to the can’t-get-enough-of-those-virtual-backgrounds meeting solution. And while you’ve probably heard a bit about how a Zoom meeting host can tell if the Zoom window isn’t focused on your computer when they’re screen sharing, there’s one…

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What's New on Netflix the Week of March 30, 2020

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It’s the end of the month, which means it’s your last chance to catch a lot of programming on Netflix before it’s replaced with new shows on Wednesday.

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dimanche 29 mars 2020

You Can Get Final Cut Pro X and Logic Pro X Free For 90-Days Right Now

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If you’re using your social distancing time at home to hone your music or video editing skills, you can score a free month of a number of popular software programs to help you make it happen.

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Everything You Can Watch on Quibi When It Launches Next Week

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Quibi, a new entertainment platform designed specifically for your phone, is set to officially launch on April 6th. When it does, it will launch with a decent-sized lineup of programming.

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