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Savvy Spending: Five Favorites For Seasonal Fall Decor & Home Inspiration
We love making our homes look, smell and feel in tune with the seasons. The problem? If we raided the Pottery Barn catalog every time a new collection was released, we wouldn’t be able to pay our mortgages. We also seem to generate a bigger collection of “Pinterest fails than we do DIY wins, so the “make-it-yourself” route isn’t always the best bet. As a result, we’ve turned online for inspiration — and found a slew of relatively affordable but high-end-look catalogs with great websites to bookmark for our new design and decor crushes.
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Tech news roundup for September 5
This week’s tech news: get a quick overview of all the good stuff announced at IFA in Berlin and the latest credible Apple rumors for their big shindig on Tuesday. Also, Dyson is coming out with their own robotic vacuum to take on Roomba, Tesla decided on a location for their battery factory, and David Hasselhoff and KITT have a tiff in a pretty amusing commercial for Samsung’s smart home system. If that wasn’t enough, mellow out with a Dalek relaxation tape and have some fun reading more about “the potato salad guy” and the biggest dinosaur ever discovered.
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Cheap Tunes Tuesday: Jack Johnson
This week’s segment tunes into some cool ocean breezes, a laid-back vibe, and an overall feeling of simpler, easier times. Some might call it folk rock, indie pop or a generic soft rock – but I prefer to think of it as island music, or maybe shorten that even to just surf – because it reminds me of the place where our featured artist is from, and that’s Hawaii.
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Weekly tech news roundup for August 29
What’s hot in tech this week: Amazon’s buying Twitch, Apple sends out invites (and may be introducing something unexpected next year), and LG is set to introduce a new (round) smartwatch. Check out one man’s 3D printed, concrete, castle he built in his yard and find out the answer to how Death Valley’s “sailing stones” are getting around. Want more? Read the latest internet research about whether social media makes us share our opinions or shut up about them, and find out why your voice sounds so different in your head than in a recording.
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One back-to-school tech guide to rule them all
On the internet over the last few weeks there have been many back-to-school technology guides and lists. Rather than checking all of them out yourself, we did it for you—”we” being Luke, my team’s college-age intern, and I—have created a Master List of the back-to-school tech everyone agrees you need…plus a few items that Luke, a real-life student, thinks are worthy of consideration.
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