How to talk to children about Jackie and Shadow’s chick dying and other losses in life
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How to Use Apple’s Image Playground to Generate AI Art
The same pop-up menu lets you change the style of your image too. Right now your options are Animation and Illustration, and you can swap between them as needed. Based on code seen in beta versions of iOS, more art styles could be on the way, but they haven’t arrived at the time of writing. […]
How to Customize the Samsung Galaxy S25’s Best New Features
If you’ve invested in a new Samsung Galaxy S25 phone, then you get access to the latest software features from Samsung, courtesy of One UI 7. This is Samsung’s take on Android 15, which will slowly be making its way to older Galaxy handsets over the coming months, though there’s no exact time frame. One […]
How to Get Windows Games Working on a Mac
There are all kinds of reasons to prefer Macs over Windows-based PCs. Gaming isn’t one of them. That isn’t to say that you can’t game on a Mac—modern Apple Silicon computers are fairly powerful. The problem is that many popular games don’t offer downloads that will run natively on a Mac. Search the Mac App […]
How to Create a Recovery USB Drive to Fix Your Computer
The process of creating the USB recovery drive can take some time—about two hours based on my testing, though the speed of your system and USB drive will play a part in that—and you’ll see a message on screen when the job is done. When your recovery USB drive is called upon, you need to […]
Does Chocolate Go Bad? How to Store It, Freeze it, and Ship It
If you’re keeping your bonbons much more than a week before eating, this is when we start talking about fridges and freezers. Nothing That Isn’t Cold Can Stay “I rarely advise my customers to refrigerate or freeze their bonbons, but it’s not because it can’t be done. It’s more that it requires a few steps […]
How to Paint Beautiful Skies and Clouds by MeraAnimations – Make better art
Hello everyone! This is my first tutorial so I hope you enjoy it and let me know if you have any questions. STUDIES \ First we start with our studies. Clouds are like any other form, they have planes where the light hits differently. That includes the light hitting it differently depending on where it […]
How to Send Cash | WIRED
So you need to send some money. Maybe you want to slip a couple of $20 bills in a birthday card. Maybe it’s a larger payment for some not-at-all-sketchy, off-the-books services rendered. Either way, it can be a pain to send paper money without having to worry that it might mysteriously slip out of your […]
How to Use Apple’s Genmoji to Create New Kinds of Emojis
For decades, choosing an emoji has been constrained to what’s available on your smartphone’s keyboard. Every year brings new emoji—I like the “face with bags under eyes,” though that one is still rolling out. But there are times when the preinstalled options just aren’t specific enough. Thankfully, Apple has a solution, and it’s called Genmoji. […]
Office Etiquette: How To Be Less Awkward In An Elevator
(Subjective) back-to-work tips for navigating a space where the personal and professional collide. In short, the secret can be reduced to some plain and simple advice. Don’t give off bad vibes. Don’t bad-mouth other people. But as we trot ourselves back to our 9-5 personas, it’s the time of year when social cues and office […]