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How a Smartphone Can Help You Cope With Epilepsy

Epilepsy looks different depending on the person, but here are some strategies for managing symptoms and staying safe.

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How Apps and VR Therapy Can Help OCD Patients

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During the Covid-19 pandemic, it's become not only acceptable but recommended that we wash our hands frequently, as per Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines. That is, any time we're in a public place and before or after touching our face. That includes after pumping gas, opening the mailbox, touching door handles—it's endless, and it won’t end when everyone’s vaccinated and we start to recover from the pandemic.
For people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), this isn't something to laugh about—there's a vast difference between handwashing to stop the spread of a virus and handwashing that's obsessive. The Mayo Clinic defines OCD as "a pattern of unwanted thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead you to do repetitive behaviors (compulsions). It comes down to the level of impairment and the degree to which these obsessions and compulsions interfere with daily activities and cause distress.

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How to Get Started With Vinyl Records

Before you go shopping for turntables, cartridges, and headphones, here are a few things to remember as you start your journey into records.

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Remote Weddings (and Memorials) Are Here to Stay. Be Prepared

Forbes magazine predicts that by 2025, an estimated 70 percent of the workforce will be toiling at home at least part-time. Also here to stay—in varying levels—are online learning, virtual social lives, and Zoom-based family celebrations.
You'd think after 15 months of being completely digital, it would get easier and not more complicated. Yet while I’m lucky to keep my dual jobs as an author and teacher, I’ve often been caught by surprise by the programs and platforms that have emerged during the pandemic.
One recent Saturday morning, I woke up early, showered, blow-dried my hair, applied makeup, put on a dress, and met my husband—wearing his nicest Armani jacket—at the laptop on my desk in New York. I called my mom in Florida, who’d been the only one at her beauty shop at 8 am. We were excited to see everyone at a Michigan family friend's online bar mitzvah. While a tad technophobic, this was not our first remote religious rodeo. I’d Zoomed in for a Christian memorial service for a former teacher. And my husband had been to another web-based Jewish rite of passage for a coworker's son at a different congregation. There he saluted the host and joked with his cohort before the camera cut away to the boy reading from the Torah.

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6 Easy Ways to Make Your Own Memes

Your idea is destined to go viral. These sites and apps can help.

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How to Use Google Duplex, Call Screen, and Hold for Me

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Over the past few years, Google (perhaps sharing younger generations’ hatred of making phone calls) has been on a tear trying to fix all the worst parts of talking on the phone. In 2018, Duplex blew Google I/O attendees away by promising to make reservations for the user with a human-sounding call system. Today, the company has added a litany of handy phone-related features for some Android phones, but a few are so buried you might have missed them. Here are all the ways Google has transformed phone calls—and our take on whether you’d want to use them.

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So You're Vaccinated! How Can You Let People Know?

Homegrown Covid-19 vaccine signals help create a positive environment so you and your neighbors can feel safer removing face masks.

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When to Reply on Social Media—and When to Not

Sometimes the best thing to do on Twitter or Facebook is to just shut up … isn’t it?

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How to Buy Movies Online and Watch Them Anywhere

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As streaming has taken over the world of movies and TV, most people rely on a subscription service (or two, or more) to supply them with endless binge-worthy content. But what happens when a movie you want to watch isn't on Netflix, or you don't want to subscribe to Disney+ just for that one nostalgia trip? That's where à la carte services like Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google, and others come into play, letting you buy or rent an individual movie for a few bucks. But unlike subscription services, they often have a lot of the same movies—so where's the best place to buy?

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These Tools Can Help You Find Your Lost Devices

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You might have noticed Apple AirTags in headlines lately—as new Apple products tend to be—but these little tracking discs are just the latest in a long line of options for keeping tabs on where your phones, tablets, and laptops are.
The location tracking features built into our devices come with valid privacy concerns, and the more advanced they get, the more problematic they can be (see this piece on how Apple AirTags can be a gift to stalkers and harassers) but they also mean our precious gear can report back on their location around the clock—making it much more difficult to lose something.

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