This weekend, Americans from this site will join others from around the country, and you will be celebrating the largest annual fireworks display in the history of our nation. This playlist from Spotify user Jason Lawson, will help put you in a patriotic mood almost as effectively as Bill Pullman.
When you’re giving a presentation, a little mystery goes a long way. If you want to grasp your audience’s attention, start off your presentation with some visuals that get them thinking.
No matter how good your dough, sauce, and ingredients are, it’s hard to beat the unique flavor of a wood-fired pizza oven. If you don’t have your own wood-fired oven, you can get a similar flavor by pre-toasting the flour for your pizza peel.
Working in a big corporate office can be a blessing and a curse. On one hand, you have tons of resources at your disposal—technical help, creative teams, mentors, a well-stocked supply room, and anything else you need just a purchase order away. But on the other hand, the bureaucracy of a corporate setting can easily put a damper on new ideas and slow down the work you need to get done.
Let’s say you have multiple Twitter accounts, or several Google accounts, or even a few different bank accounts. It sucks to have to switch between those accounts in your browser. Firefox is testing out a new feature called Containers in its beta channel that hopes to fix this.
Wearable cameras are still in their infancy and it’s a little weird to just wear one when you’re doing daily errands, but if you want to build your own for those more exciting moments of your life, Adafruit shows you how.
Everybody loves a good queso dip, but when left out on a snack table, it can cool and congeal, which is frankly just unappetizing. The solution? Use a slow cooker, and keep your queso hot and dippable throughout your entire shindig.
You won’t get time off for Root Beer Float Day, but it’s still a day worth celebrating. Money has put together a list of marketing holidays, along with all the freebies you can score on those days.
From now until 3PM PT (6PM ET), eBay is taking $15 off any $75 order (with a few exclusions) when you check out with Paypal and use code CRUISEN2SUMMER at checkout. That includes gift cards (other than eBay gift cards), so there’s really no reason not to take advantage.
You probably know you shouldn’t feed chocolate to your dog—but maybe your dog got into your candy stash anyway, and came out fine. Meanwhile, your vet is more concerned that you admit to feeding him raisins. Confused? Let’s take a look at what the dangers really are.
Google announced this morning that the next version of Android, codenamed Android N, will officially be Android Nougat, and not Nutella, as most people suspected.
When your week is over, why do you so often feel like you’ve put in the hours and still didn’t accomplish everything you set out to achieve? In this 99U talk, Ryan Carson, founder and CEO of Treehouse, charges us to hyper-focus, so we can spend less time working and still finish our biggest projects. “I spend 20 minutes first thing each Monday making a list of what I want to achieve each week,” explains Carson, who typically works 32 hours a week so he can devote more time to his family. “Then I take out the things that aren’t happening.” Carson’s approach allows him to devote his time to what he really needs to accomplish over the next four days. “My initial reaction was that there was too much work to do,” he said of shrinking his workweek. “But there is no rule that you have to work 40 hours a week to be successful.”
Carson is the CEO and Co-Founder of Treehouse, an online technology school, with over 50,000 students worldwide, that teaches you how to code, make apps and build websites. Treehouse has over 100 employees and has raised $13 million. He earned a computer science degree from Colorado State University, but recognized a disconnect with traditional universities which were very expensive yet unable to keep their curriculum up to date with current in-demand job skills. Given skyrocketing college costs and escalating student loans, Carson launched Treehouse to provide affordable technology education to take students from zero to job ready in just 12 months. He is married to his wife Gillian and has two boys, and they live in Portland, Oregon.
Nest’s newest thermostat, refurbished Amazon Echoes, and smart surge protectors lead off Thursday’s best deals.
This month, we challenged you to haggle. Haggling doesn’t come easy for a lot of us, but you may be surprised at how much you can save if you speak up. If you accepted our challenge, tell us how you did.
We all know what it’s like to toss trash into the can and have the bag slip down, forcing us to reach into the garbage to fix it. Make that gross reach a thing of the past with a few binder clips to keep the bag anchored in place.
Lemonade mixed with iced tea—known as an “Arnold Palmer”— is perhaps the ultimate in summertime refreshment, but there’s a new lemony caffeinated concoction in town, and you make it with cold brewed coffee.
Android: Google Maps is finally adding a desperately needed feature. Starting today, you can add multiple destinations to a navigation trip when you get directions on Android.
Haven’t you heard? The Amazon Echo is actually really great (and only getting better over time), and you can save $40 on yours if you buy it refurbished from Woot, an Amazon subsidiary.
We’ve talked at length about how to legally and safely fly your drone in the United States. Globally, however, the rules can vary quite a bit. This guide helps you find out what the rules are in your country.
Learning or practicing new skills is so important, it’s hard to ignore how vital it is to a successful career. To keep your educational momentum going throughout your life, give yourself five hours a week to learn something new or practice a skill.
Growing up, I figured investing was something super rich people did because they had money to burn. It intimidated me, but I figured I’d never have to worry about it. Turns out, investing is for the rest of us, too, and it’s actually important if you want to grow your net worth—even if you’re not a billionaire.
Ciysco submitted this customized desktop to our Desktop Showcase, and we love it. Good wallpaper, faded app launcher in the corner, and a visualizer. It looks sharp—here’s how you can make it your own.
Tomatoes aren’t the most hardy after picking, and when they start to fade and wrinkle up, you have to use them fast. If you have a tomato on the verge of turning, here’s an easy way to transform them into a versatile topping you can add to almost any dish.
Not all who wander are lost, they say. They’re just using Google Maps on Android, which can now accept multiple destinations when your journey is more complex than point-A to point-B.
If you’re looking for the best party scenes in the states, these destinations offer the most when it comes to vibrant night life and good times.
