What to Tell Your Kid Instead of ‘Five More Minutes’

“Five more minutes!” is a thing parents say to their young children when it’s time for them to wrap up whatever they’re doing—swimming, having a lightsaber battle with their pals, making galactic slime. And then, when the time is up, here is what happens: The kids seem shocked, confused and might start sobbing. I have…

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Author: Michelle Woo on Offspring, shared by Michelle Woo to Lifehacker

Make an Easy Summer Dessert That Isn’t a Flag Cake

With so much focus on grilling, Independence Day desserts are often an afterthought, unless they take the form of the dreaded flag cake—the American flag bikini of the dessert world. But there are a lot of delicious, easy, non-flag-cake desserts you can make for today, or for the rest of the summer, since they are not…

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Author: Claire Lower on Skillet, shared by Claire Lower to Lifehacker

Use Your iPad as a Secondary Display in macOS Catalina

One of the neater features you’ll find in macOS Catalina—one that definitely got my attention, at least—is Apple’s new “Sidecar” mode. Like a tiny seat attached to a larger motorcycle, Sidecar allows you to link your iPad to your Mac and use it as a secondary display. And if you have an Apple Pencil, you can even…

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Author: David Murphy