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Manufacturers are moving toward AMOLED style screens (bright! Im going to break down all the pros and cons. Whats the difference between MIP and AMOLED displays? (Your phones screen is probably AMOLED.) AMOLED displays are full color, and they use power any time theyre on. Theyre bright and highly visible in the dark, but can potentially get washed out in extremely bright sunlight. MIP displays(memory-in-pixel), also called memory LCD, do not light up on their own....

Welcome to Cookbook of the Week. I am obsessed with the winter holiday season. One more of my great seasonal passions is holiday entertaining with festive cocktails. Most of that, I can relate to. (Im a Brooklyn mother of two cat-children.) This cocktail book doesnt waste any time getting to the good stuff, either. It is a stack of shots mimicking the shape of a menorah. They are all on fire....

The holidays are a time for big emotions. The season truly has it all. Is it even a Christmas movie if youre not bawling into your eggnog? The most successful of them take big swings and hit us right where we live. Its a Wonderful Life(1946) Obviously. It all somehow mostly holds together. In dramatizing the event, the filmmakers understand that the truce was both glorious and absurd. A small, inexperienced intelligence squad is sent to occupy an abandoned chateau to gather information on German movements....

Just like last holiday season,everybody wants a Stanley mugthis year. Owala FreeSip First up is my favorite tumbler of all time:the Owala FreeSip. I have a green and pink one, but regularly see dazzling color combinations in my travels. In addition to coming in all kinds of cool color combos, it’s just a superior travel cup. It has a push-to-open lid that makes it very difficult to accidentally open or spill....

Being a houseplant mom or dad is not easythose babies are a lot of work. Smart technology has made managing them a lot easier for me, though. It can even supply water vertically, so I was able to run tubing to my hanging plants. Using the app, you tell the system how often to water and for how long. They’ve all been a bust, butFlora Podactually worksI have a few of them....

I hear about the same interview podcasts over and over again. You know the ones I meanthe ones at the top of the charts right now. Im here to remind you that just because you hear about them the most doesnt mean theyre thebest. Respectfully, these ones are. Or maybe just a deck of cards. (Oh Im spoiling the first one!) (Where did you get to feel independent as a kid?...

You’ve probably seen or heard about Sony’s headphone WH-1000X series. And if you order the black or silver color, you might get them delivered before Christmas. Unlike phones, headphones don’t need security or software updates to stay relevant as time goes by. Excellent audio stays excellent no matter how many years go by. They also have that fancy AirPod feature that resumes playing or powers off when taking them on or off....

I don’t use the kind of water filter that’s heavy-duty and attached to the tap. I care about the purity and taste of my water, but not enough to do all that. Instead, I use a water-filter pitcher. The Culligan ZeroWater filtration pitcher Why is it called ZeroWater, you ask? The coolest thing about the pitcher is it comes with a little meter to check whether that’s working. It lasts a while, too....

Back when Twitter existed, I loved a Mac utility called TweetBot. Bluesky is growing very quickly now, but there aren’t any really great Bluesky clients for the desktop. Clients that good are, right now, only offered for Mastodon. There’sIvory, an extremely good Mastodon client made by Tapbots, the company that built the previously mentioned TweetBot. My colleague Pranay Parab called Monathe best Mastodon clientand, good as Ivory is, I agree....

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 - They appear on a draft list. Blue category - When the market is changing, you might consider these options....

For an easy way to come back to our Strands hints every day,bookmark this page. Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Strands answers. And farther down the page, Ill reveal the spangram and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need! Hint for the spangram in todays Strands puzzle A word for things that revolve. It comes after the word fidget to describe a once-trendy toy....

If youre looking for theWordleanswer for December 18, 2024 read on. Well share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solution. How to play Wordle Wordle liveshere on the New York Times website. A new puzzle goes live every day at midnight, your local time. Start by guessing a five-letter word. For more, check outour guide to playing Wordle here, andmy strategy guide here for more advanced tips. (We also have more information at the bottom of this post, after the hints and answers....

But how can you tell the screenshot is genuine, and not artificially created to mislead you? First of all, it’s important to bear in mind that fake screenshots can be made very easily. There areeven free toolsthat will create fake social media posts for you. If there’s no sign of it, that’s another reason to be suspicious. Think too about what the screenshot is doing. Does it depict something controversial, illicit, or likely to stir up emotions?...