Fine-Tune Your Social Media Accounts When You're Searching for a Job

If youre on the hunt for a new job, the first thing you think to do might be to spruce up your LinkedIn page. While thats always a good idea,a new study from the job search website Simply Hiredsuggests that theres somewhere else you should tidy up first: Instagram. The sites survey found that while 29% of hiring managers looked people up on LinkedIn, 38% of them checked out an applicants social media accounts....

April 22, 2018 · 2 min · 406 words · Amanda Clark

How to Tell Legit Chrome Extensions From Malware

Unfortunately, as a recentAdGuard reportreminded us, you cant trust big tech to keep your devices safe. Do not download the extension unless you know exactly what youre getting. Ive also thrown in the names of legitimate extensions. Can you tell which is which? When in doubt, consider the authenticity of what youve search for. Also, just because an extension uses open-source terminology doesnt mean that its legitimate. GPLv3 Code from Adblock is used and stated in the source code....

April 20, 2018 · 2 min · 322 words · David Blankenship

What You Need to Know About Prebiotics and Probiotics

Even at our cleanest, we are covered in germs and we are full of germs. These microorganisms are essential to our health. It can spend hours there, as our body re-absorbs its water. And during that time, our food becomes food for the creatures that live there. We have trillions of little microscopic friends in our colon. As they digest our waste, they do tons of important things for us....

April 20, 2018 · 2 min · 339 words · Krista Boone

What You Should Know About CBD Oil

Cannabidiol, the non-psychoactive component of cannabis, is developing a reputation as a trendy cure-all. An FDA committeerecommended this week to approve Epidiolexas a new drug. What is CBD? Cannabis contains over 100 chemical components called cannabinoids. The best known of those are THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) and CBD (cannabidiol). Meanwhile, our bodies contain receptors for cannabinoids. We have these receptors because we also haveendocannabinoids, cannabinoids that our body naturally produces. THC can affect the CB1 receptors, and its responsible for weeds high....

April 20, 2018 · 2 min · 303 words · Alan Castillo

A Beginner's Guide to Makeup for Men

Who says men cant use makeup and other beauty products marketed toward women? Trust me, the only thing people will notice is how good you look. Exfoliating Scrubs Nothing looks worse than a bunch of crusty, flaky skin on your face. No, dont pick at it. And dont drench your skin in lotion hoping it will make it go away. That skin is dead and needs to be removed! Exfoliating scrubs will do the trick so your moisturizers will actually do something....

April 19, 2018 · 2 min · 351 words · Donald Cole

How to Help Your Teen Get More Sleep

When it comes to teens getting enough sleep, numerous forces are working against them. Early school start times are wreaking havoc on their circadian rhythms. An overload of after-school activities is turning bedtime into gotta-start-on-homework time. And so they slog through their days, cranky and short-fused and barely able to respond to basic questions. As parents, you wonder if theres anything you’re able to do to help. it’s possible for you to and you must....

April 19, 2018 · 3 min · 458 words · Brian Pierce

How to Select the Right Turntable for You

Vinyls back, baby! I see you, non-novices) then allow us to help. Heres how to find the perfect record player for you. Educate yourself on the basics What is a turntable? What are the parts? What do those parts do? Heres a helpful graphic from ThingLink. Some turntable literacy can go a long wayespecially in determining what kind of machine you want to invest in. Are you a DJ who will depend on this gear?...

April 19, 2018 · 2 min · 297 words · Jessica Garcia

How to Track Your Workouts With AppleWatch

All of which is very easy to keep tabs on if you own an Apple Watch. you’re free to track your workouts with other devices, of course. you could discover your heart rate, calories, distance, and elapsed time during and after each exercise. double-check youre already running iOS 11 or higher on your iPhone. On your phone, fire up the Watch app. Tap on General and then Software Update. If the Watch app says you have watchOS 4....

April 19, 2018 · 3 min · 612 words · Sara Murphy

The Best Dublin Travel Tips From Our Readers

Weve collected the highlights below. After that, its taxi time. No helpful livery, but you cant miss the big Taxi signs on the doors. Youll still be close enough to walk into town, but away from the noise. If its summer, check outstaying in Trinity. The college rents out the dorms when the students are gone, and you wont get more central! Dan also explains some slang: All right means Hi, and Whats the craic?...

April 19, 2018 · 2 min · 385 words · William Turner

The Theater That Shakespeare Stole

The vandals in question were the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, the theatrical troupe to which William Shakespeare belonged. For the past several years, the Chamberlain’s Men had been playing at Shoreditchs Theatre. Shakespeares Globe theater in London. Not only Allen refused to renew the lease, he threatened to take possession of the theater as well. The dispute dragged on for two years, during which time the company performed at the nearby Curtain playhouse....

April 19, 2018 · 1 min · 180 words · Glenda Mccall

What to Do When Your Kid Can't Poop

Its one my wife and I first confronted with our 7-year-old daughter two years ago. It turns out part of her extended trips to our shared second-floor bathroom was to change into clean undies. She was embarrassed to tell us what was going on. Its pokey, she told us and refused to go to the bathroom. Unfortunately, it was not the last time this would happen. Constipation is seldom thought about in the context of children, primarily because its overlooked as a problem....

April 19, 2018 · 2 min · 260 words · Veronica Larson

How to Spot a Fake Video

(As our sister site Gizmodo reports, the technology has been especially popular formaking fake celebrity porn.) Deepfakes will soon make it hard to tell when a video of a famous figure is real. Here are three things to ask yourself: Is their mouth moving too little? Fake Obama has trouble with his P sounds, especially on complete dipshit. Does their voice sound off? In BuzzFeeds video, Peele provides the audio with a convincing, but slightly imperfect, vocal impression....

April 18, 2018 · 2 min · 311 words · Shirley Phelps

I'm Kevin Gibbs, Creator of Google Suggest, and This Is How I Work

Kevin Gibbs created something you might use every day. Before founding workplace software companyQuipand selling it to Salesforce, Gibbs created Google Suggest. His answers are insightful and self-effacingwere really proud to bring you this installment of How I Work. I got my first job in technology when I was in middle school, around 1992. I wasnt writing code, but I was working with a flatbed scanner, scanning documents for a lawyer....

April 18, 2018 · 3 min · 522 words · Bob Lamb