Today's NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Monday, May 6, 2024

If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day,bookmark this page. Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers. And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need! Green category - How you might describe a pesky younger sibling, or a rowdy puppy. Blue category - Measuring with your heart, not with tablespoons or cups....

May 6, 2024 · 2 min · 403 words · Samantha Huerta

Today's NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Sunday, May 5, 2024

If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day,bookmark this page. Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers. And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need! Green category - These go well with cream cheese or lox. Blue category - Types of work youd find on IMDb....

May 5, 2024 · 2 min · 421 words · Stephanie Taylor

How to Make TikTok's Viral Cookie Croissant Even Better

Whats even more fun is that its a great way to use past-prime store bought croissants. Heres my favorite way to make them (and then make them even better). This instance of pastry profanity is actually credited to have started at a French bakery,Maison Louvard. It only requires two ingredients and about 12 minutes in the oven. How to make a “Crookie at home I choose the path of least resistance....

May 4, 2024 · 2 min · 307 words · Teresa Patterson

The Best Services, or Mini-apps, to Add to Your Mac

Hover over the “Services” section and you’ll see a bunch of quick actions. There are all kinds of useful options here. you’re able to open a URL usingIINA, a great video player for Mac. You get the idea: you could automate whatever it is that is selected. From here you’ve got the option to check or uncheck items. you’ve got the option to also set custom keyboard shortcuts for these services....

May 4, 2024 · 2 min · 264 words · Cheryl Ellis

Today's NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Saturday, May 4, 2024

If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day,bookmark this page. Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers. And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need! Green category - One might avoid using these words during a presentation or an important speech. Blue category - Mechanical parts used to keep valuables safe....

May 4, 2024 · 3 min · 498 words · Ronnie Robinson

Go Ahead, Deep Fry Your Meatballs

A well-constructed meatball is an inherently perfect food. Tender, flavorful meat gently compacted into a burly spherebig or smallalways feels like a special reward. Instead, I caught news that this season, Yankee Stadium is serving up fried meatballs. The meatballs had a crackling crust yet retained plenty of moisture. It was, frankly, one of the juiciest meatballs Ive ever had. Here’s how to recreate it: 1. Raw meat is usually sticky enough anyway....

May 3, 2024 · 2 min · 406 words · Luis Schultz

How to Keep Your Garden Well-Mulched (and Why You Should)

But mulch breaks downit’s supposed to. A lot of people complain about their mulch blowing away, but fortunately this is a solvable problem. The right way to mulch The surface of your soil is vulnerable. It is exposed to the sun and can easily dry out. Its exposed to the wind, which can blow it away if you dont have plant roots anchoring it. A healthy layer of three to six inches of mulch can really make a difference....

May 3, 2024 · 2 min · 336 words · Lisa Williams

Today's NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Friday, May 3, 2024

If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day,bookmark this page. Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers. And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need! Green category - CUT or SLOUGH would fit in this category, too. Blue category - Ways to measure. Purple category - Everything must go!...

May 3, 2024 · 2 min · 391 words · George Castro

When You Really Need to Replace Your Running Shoes, According to Reddit

How do running shoes break down? When you put in the miles, your shoes undergo wear and tear. Another place youll see visible wear is on the upper. But these scrapes are usually a cosmetic issue, not a functional one. you’ve got the option to patch them up or just run in them despite the holes. What really matters is the cushioning on the inside. It gets compressed with every step, and the more it gets squished, the less it bounces back....

May 3, 2024 · 2 min · 364 words · Samantha Smith

How to Outsmart Your Hotel Room TV and Use Its HDMI Ports for Anything You Want

Hotels can be stingy about what guests are allowed to do with their TVs. These boxes are what prevent you from using the HDMI ports, but they can be easily circumvented. you could bypass all of that, though, by unplugging the cable controlling the restrictions. The cable may also be a standard coaxial cable, which you’ll need to unscrew. (Gently) pull out or unscrew the cable. Turn the TV off and on again, and you should be able to use the HDMI input....

May 2, 2024 · 2 min · 354 words · Erik Herrera

Make Apple Notes Better by Changing These Eight Settings

Apple Notes is a great appfor jotting your thoughts down. Even so, there are a number of easy ways to improve the app you might not know about. Instead of a title, you could choose to start your notes off with aHeading,Subheading, orBodytext. For normal sized words, Body is the right option. By default, when you check an item off in these lists, Notes will keep it in place. Make this adjustment by going toSettings > Notes > Note Backgroundsand selectingLight....

May 2, 2024 · 2 min · 237 words · Anthony Guerra

Make Quick and Easy Blueberry Muffins From Boxed Pancake Mix

With both sweet and savory applications, complete pancake mix can do no wrong. Lets add another one to the list of Boxed Mix Greatest Hits: quick and easy blueberry muffins. Its premixed dry ingredients (and sometimes even dry egg powder), so why not do it yourself? To that I say: Precisely! Plus, sometimes you’re just plum outta eggs. Oh, and the blueberries of course. How to make blueberry muffins from pancake mix 1....

May 2, 2024 · 2 min · 224 words · Kevin Todd II

Siegfried Marcus: The Forgotten Inventor of The Automobile

The second car of Siegfried Marcus at the Technisches Museum Vienna. At the age of 12, he began working as an apprentice mechanic. Five years later, he joined an engineering company that built telegraph lines. Later on, he became an assistant to Professor Carl Ludwig, a physiologist. Around 1860, Marcus embarked on constructing his first self-propelled vehicle. At that time, the Austrian regions, now part of Poland, had begun to produce oil....

May 2, 2024 · 2 min · 254 words · Richard Young