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The days following Easter give me two things I love: April showers and plenty of hard-boiled eggs. TheUSDA recommendshard-cooked eggs get eaten within seven days. The clock is ticking, and you might have trouble keeping it interesting after three days of egg sandwiches. Switch things up with this spin on a Thai fried egg salad thats simple and full of flavor. The best part about shallow-frying an egg like this is the marriage of textures....

Pre-made pizza dough is one of the best things in the grocery store. But you should really stretch yourdough(hehe), and make four personal pizzas from one ball. Buy a ball of pre-made pizza dough. This will likely be from the grocery store, but sometimes pizzerias will sell you dough. I buy a frozen 20-ounce ball and pop it in the fridge on Sunday. By the time lunch rolls around on Monday the dough, has thawed....

This post is part ofFind Your Fit Tech, Lifehacker’s fitness wearables buying guide. So lets consider the question: Should you get aWhoop bandor a traditional smartwatch? Whoop is a wristband-shaped wearable that does not have a screen, but it can still track your activities. For some, Whoops lack of a screen is a plus; for others, its a dealbreaker. How you feel about that? If you want something that just tracks your activity without bothering you about it, Whoop makes sense....

This post is part ofFind Your Fit Tech, Lifehacker’s fitness wearables buying guide. To be clear, you dontneeda watch just to hike and camp and kayak. What to look for in an outdoors watch Does it come with maps? Some GPS watches come with fully-featured maps, preloaded onto the watch. Others have GPS functionality, minus the maps. How good is the GPS? GPS isnt the only game in town anymore....

This post is part ofFind Your Fit Tech, Lifehacker’s fitness wearables buying guide. Sometimes you want a wearable that is a smartwatch first, and activity tracker second. They can also take notifications and calls, unlock other devices, play music, and pay for things. (Spoiler: It doesnt even have to be one on this page.) On the other hand, maybe you want a fitness tracker thatisnta fancy smartwatch. These tend to be a lot cheaper than full-featured smartwatches....

This post is part ofFind Your Fit Tech, Lifehacker’s fitness wearables buying guide. Ive been wearing an Oura ring for more than three years. Ive written before aboutmy early experiences with the Oura ring. I get whyits a straightforward way of connecting the ideas of working hard and recovering well. If youve never really thought about recovery or training stress before, this might make sense. But its actually kind of backwards from how you should be thinking about these factors....

This post is part ofFind Your Fit Tech, Lifehacker’s fitness wearables buying guide. When you strap on a fitness wearable, you suddenly have a wealth of data about your own body. Your goals are probably things like: sleeping better, running faster, losing weight, and staying active. There are some pretty big leaps between those two categories. I find it helpful to separate a wearables features into things itmeasuresversus things itestimates....

Along the way, Ill explain the meanings of the trickier…emojis? 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 - Rhyme time. Blue category - Single-word movie titles....

This post is part ofFind Your Fit Tech, Lifehacker’s fitness wearables buying guide. Sure, you could calculate a rough estimate based on your body size, sex, and age. You could choosewhether or not to believe the calorie readouton the treadmills and bikes at the gym. It was also wrong. Even as fitness wearables have gotten more advanced, it’s still wrong. Most trackers use accelerometers to figure out when your body is moving, and by how much....

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 - Maybe sparkling, or bottled. Blue category - Sharing a characteristic shape. Purple category - Ferocious, or cuddly, your pick....

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 - Saves for the winter. Blue category - Situations you dont want to be in. Purple category - Like brown paper packages tied up with strings....

A rainy day makes food delivery more tempting than usual. Im talking about soggy food, folks, and its not pretty. Luckily, theres help. That would be perfectly reasonable, but no. Any item that was once deep fried has oil imbued into the outer layer. Theres no need to do anything to these special items. Spread the food out in the air fryer basket. Set the machine to 375F on the air fry setting and let it rip for three to five minutes....

You probably work your biceps and triceps on arm day, but are you remembering your forearms, too? Heres a guide to the best ways to work them. You may not realize it, but the muscles that control your fingers are almost all in your forearm! There are long tendons that connect those muscles to our fingers. Not very convenient for being able to pick things up. Our forearms contain lots of muscles for different purposes....