Make Traveling With Your Partner Less Stressful by Setting Expectations

by Patrick Allan | Jul 10, 2016 | Mind Success

A vacation with your significant other is supposed to bring you closer together, but a pleasant trip can quickly turn sour if you both want different things. One simple conversation before you book your trip will save you a lot of trouble. As Anna Goldfarb at The...

Add Slack-Style Emoji Substitutions to Your Mac

by Thorin Klosowski | Jul 10, 2016 | Mind Success

GIF Searching for and using Emoji on a Mac is a bit frustrating, so over on GitHub, user warpling shares their set of substitutions that makes it easier to place emoji anywhere you need them. Ever since Mountain Lion, Mac’s have had a built-in text expansion. Warpling...

Five Airports Are Set to Get Automated TSA Security Screening Lanes

by Kristin Wong | Jul 10, 2016 | Mind Success

After anticipating extra long airport security lines this year, the Transportation Security Administration has taken steps to fix the problem. Their latest solution involves adding new screening technology to Chicago (O’Hare), Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles, and...

Make Your Bad Habits a Pain In Order to Build Better Ones

by Eric Ravenscraft | Jul 10, 2016 | Mind Success

When one person helps someone else indulge a bad habit, we call them an enabler. But what about when you make your own bad habits easier? If you want to stop enabling yourself, start making your own bad habits a pain in the ass. As advice site Barking Up the Wrong...

A Visual Guide to Famous TV Show Landmarks and Filming Locations

by Alan Henry | Jul 10, 2016 | Mind Success

[embedded content] If you’ve ever thought it might be cool to visit some of the places your favorite TV shows are filmed, or even just “located,” this video and guide can show you. From House of Cards and Breaking Bad to Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead, this...

Which Generation Do You Actually Belong To?

by Steven Aitchison | Jul 10, 2016 | Mind Games

There is a saying: May you live interesting times. It is wrongly considered a Chinese curse. It is not, but that’s not the point here. Every era was interesting for the people that lived in it. However, at one moment or another everybody is feeling disconnected from...

Make Easy Pancake Art With a Condiment Squeeze Bottle

by Patrick Allan | Jul 9, 2016 | Mind Success

[embedded content] Kids love pancakes, but they love pancakes in fun shapes even more. You don’t need any fancy skills to make them either. Just a cheap condiment squeeze bottle. As this video from the Insider YouTube channel demonstrates, it doesn’t take much to make...

Build a Raspberry Pi-Powered Weather Forecast Display

by Thorin Klosowski | Jul 9, 2016 | Mind Success

You have hundreds of ways to view the weather, but if you’re looking for an elegant desktop solution, DIYer caturnuson shares their lovely looking Pi-powered forecast display. This weather display uses LED matrices housed inside a custom wood enclosure to display the...

Use Plex's Optimize Feature to Make Streaming Playback Smoother

by Eric Ravenscraft | Jul 9, 2016 | Mind Success

Plex is easily one of our favorite ways to stream your media between devices. Sometimes, however, streaming can take a long time depending on what format your media is in. Use Plex’s optimize feature to solve this problem ahead of time and get smooth playback...

The Best Bagged Popcorn You Can Buy at the Grocery Store

by Claire Lower on Skillet | Jul 9, 2016 | Mind Success

Popping corn on the stove top is by no means difficult, but sometimes you just want to grab a bag of fluffy kernels and go. There seems to be an endless variety of bags to choose from, so Cook’s Illustrated took it upon themselves to find the crunchiest, tastiest, bag...