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How to Get Windows Games Working on a Mac

How to Get Windows Games Working on a Mac

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There are all kinds of reasons to prefer Macs over Windows-based PCs. Gaming isn’t one of them. That isn’t to say that you can’t game on a Mac—modern Apple Silicon computers are fairly powerful. The problem is that many popular games don’t offer downloads that will run natively on a Mac. Search the Mac App Store or Steam and you’ll find a bunch of games for Mac—just not necessarily the specific ones you want. And there’s another problem: Apple tends to break reverse compatibility faster than Microsoft does. For example, it’s currently impossible to run 32-bit applications on modern versions of macOS. If you have a Steam library full of games that ran just fine on the Mac you had in 2015, you’ll find that a lot of them won’t run at all on the Mac you bought last year. It’s frustrating. Before you give up and buy a gaming laptop, though, know that you’ve got options for getting PC games to run on the Mac. It’s possible to get many Windows games—even recent releases—working …

Ashley Park Reveals Why She Misses Taco Bell While Filming ‘Emily in Paris’ and Her High-Low Fashion Tips

Ashley Park Reveals Why She Misses Taco Bell While Filming ‘Emily in Paris’ and Her High-Low Fashion Tips

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When Ashley Park heads to Paris, France to film Netflix’s Emily in Paris, the crepes, croissants have nothing on her favorite comfort food. Instead, the actress, 33, misses Taco Bell the most during her time abroad in The City of Love.  “I have high hopes for a Taco Bell in Paris soon,” she tells ET after hosting the second annual Live Más LIVE summit at the Brooklyn Paramount in Brooklyn, New York on March 4, where over 30 bold menu innovations were revealed for 2025. Ashley Park/Instagram “We’ve been lucky to enjoy some incredible meals together as a cast in Paris, and whenever I’m hosting, I always wish I could place a huge Taco Bell order to feed my guests. After a few weeks of delicious French cheeses and charcuterie, I have a sudden craving for the taste of Taco Bell, especially after I wrap late nights after a long day on set,” she continues.  Her go-to order: “Chalupa Supreme all the way, or honestly, any of the chalupas have always been a staple for …

Skincare Expert Vanessa Lee Shares How to Wake Up With a Defined Jawline and More A-List Approved Tips

Skincare Expert Vanessa Lee Shares How to Wake Up With a Defined Jawline and More A-List Approved Tips

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Get that glow! Vanessa Lee is known for helping celebs like Kourtney and Kim Kardashian, Jessica Alba, Gabrielle Union, Kate Hudson, and more achieve clear, sculpted skin, and now The Things We Do founder is sharing her top tips with ET. For starters, the medical aesthetic provider believes finding a personalized regimen that works for you is key. “When you know your skin well, you end up saving yourself a lot of time and money. It is so easy to see someone with great skin and want to follow their routine, only to get sucked up in a cycle that doesn’t serve you,” she explains.  Some questions to consider: “Do you take after mom or dad more with your skin? Are you oily mainly in the t-zone or all over? Do you break out in small, superficial breakouts or larger cystic ones or both? How long does it take you to recover from a red or brown spot?” Vanessa Lee/Instagram From there, the skincare guru can focus on your specific concerns and goals. “The most …

Five tips to find what really brings you joy outside of work

Five tips to find what really brings you joy outside of work

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Not long ago I attended a concert. It was a band that I had been waiting a while to see and so I was excited to be there in the crowd. Part way through, they played my favourite song and I noticed that I felt something different. It felt like a pinnacle moment where the emotion of joy felt expansive and unstoppable. In that moment, I felt more alive with all my senses of my surroundings heightened and yet so much more connected to the core of who I know myself to be. I first set out to write about finding joy, as if joy was out there in the world waiting for us to find it. However, the story of the concert shows us that this is not the case. Not everyone likes the band that I saw and not everyone in the concert had the same experience as me. This tells us that joy is more personal, an inside job, rather than something to find outside ourselves. Ready to make a change? The …

Does Chocolate Go Bad? How to Store It, Freeze it, and Ship It

Does Chocolate Go Bad? How to Store It, Freeze it, and Ship It

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If you’re keeping your bonbons much more than a week before eating, this is when we start talking about fridges and freezers. Nothing That Isn’t Cold Can Stay “I rarely advise my customers to refrigerate or freeze their bonbons, but it’s not because it can’t be done. It’s more that it requires a few steps to make sure the bonbons are still as beautiful as they were when I shipped them,” Coppel notes. If you know you’re keeping your bonbons for longer than a week, Coppel says, a fridge or wine cooler is your best bet for keeping chocolate flavors fresh and potent. Most sources recommend wrapping bonbons tightly in plastic—or in an airtight container—before storing in a refrigerator, to avoid your chocolates picking up funny flavors from whatever else is in the fridge. “If you have a wine cooler, you’re in luck. That’s the best appliance you can use to store bonbons. Place your bonbons there at 16°C or 60°F (if you want to be even more precise, the cooler should have a relative …

Mahatma Gandhi’s List of the Seven Social Sins; or Tips on How to Avoid Living the Bad Life

Mahatma Gandhi’s List of the Seven Social Sins; or Tips on How to Avoid Living the Bad Life

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Image via Wiki­me­dia Com­mons In 590 AD, Pope Gre­go­ry I unveiled a list of the Sev­en Dead­ly Sins – lust, glut­tony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride – as a way to keep the flock from stray­ing into the thorny fields of ungod­li­ness. These days, though, for all but the most devout, Pope Gregory’s list seems less like a means to moral behav­ior than a descrip­tion of cable TV pro­gram­ming. So instead, let’s look to one of the saints of the 20th cen­tu­ry–Mahat­ma Gand­hi. On Octo­ber 22, 1925, Gand­hi pub­lished a list he called the Sev­en Social Sins in his week­ly news­pa­per Young India. Pol­i­tics with­out prin­ci­ples. Wealth with­out work. Plea­sure with­out con­science. Knowl­edge with­out char­ac­ter. Com­merce with­out moral­i­ty. Sci­ence with­out human­i­ty. Wor­ship with­out sac­ri­fice. The list sprang from a cor­re­spon­dence that Gand­hi had with some­one only iden­ti­fied as a “fair friend.” He pub­lished the list with­out com­men­tary save for the fol­low­ing line: “Nat­u­ral­ly, the friend does not want the read­ers to know these things mere­ly through the intel­lect but to know them through the …

How to Use Stolen Device Protection on Apple’s iPhone

How to Use Stolen Device Protection on Apple’s iPhone

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If a thief ever steals an iPhone out of your bag or even snatches it from your grasp, panic sets in immediately. You also may have a lot more to worry about beyond just the cost of replacing the phone. What if they saw me enter the passcode and now have easy access to all of my messages, photos, and sensitive information? While it definitely sucks to have your smartphone nabbed, turning on Apple’s Stolen Device protection can immediately cut thieves’ access to your smartphone data. This feature is not automatically enabled and needs to be activated before the crime occurs. First released as part of iOS 17.3, Stolen Device Protection essentially adds an extra layer of security to your smartphone whenever the device is somewhere you don’t regularly visit. Here’s a quick guide to what the software feature does and what steps are necessary to turn it on. For a deeper dive into Apple’s anti-theft software, check out WIRED security reporter Matt Burgess’s article about the feature from last year. If you have an …

How to Send Cash | WIRED

How to Send Cash | WIRED

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So you need to send some money. Maybe you want to slip a couple of $20 bills in a birthday card. Maybe it’s a larger payment for some not-at-all-sketchy, off-the-books services rendered. Either way, it can be a pain to send paper money without having to worry that it might mysteriously slip out of your envelope into someone else’s pocket. “Sending cash physically via mail or something is probably one of the least efficient options for moving money around,” says Kevin L. Matthews, a financial advisor who has offered money advice for WIRED before. “It’s not necessarily something that I would recommend.” The problem, he says, is that if something goes wrong and the cash goes missing, there’s really nothing you can do about it. There are better ways to transfer finances, but if you absolutely have to get your coins from one piggy bank to another, here are the best ways to do so without getting ripped off. Don’t Get Scammed To be clear upfront, you should not just stick a wad of cash …

Eye Care Tips for Voracious Readers: Read Without Strain

Eye Care Tips for Voracious Readers: Read Without Strain

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In a recent survey of American reading habits, the Washington Post found that the top 1% of the most avid readers go through upwards of 50 books in a year. Of course, this poll did not consider the differences between hard reading, casual perusal, scanning, and curious reading for pure entertainment. Regardless of one’s reading motivations, following eye care tips for readers is crucial since consuming lots of written content can be very tasking on the eyes. Such a visually intensive hobby requires good habits and care to continue enjoying it thoroughly. Thankfully, you can follow simple eye care tips to maintain your eye health and read as much as you want. 1. Wear the right glasses According to the American Optometric Association, the development of myopia (or nearsightedness, one of the most common eye conditions) can be determined by how an individual uses their eyes. Specifically, those who spend lots of time reading are part of a select group more likely to develop this issue. The goal is to slow or stop progression entirely …

Expert tips for exercising as a family in 2025 – from workouts to games

Expert tips for exercising as a family in 2025 – from workouts to games

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Sign up to our free Living Well email for advice on living a happier, healthier and longer life Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter If you’ve made promises to yourself to hit the gym this year to work on your physical fitness, good on you. New exercise regimes, healthy eating and wellbeing-focused activities like mindfulness and meditation all make for a great way to start the new year. But are you the only one in your family making healthy resolutions? And if so, why aren’t your partner and kids making them too? The latest statistics from Sport England show that less than half of UK children are fulfilling the Chief Medical Officer’s criteria for 60 minutes of physical exercise per day to stay healthy. That figure drops to 34 per cent for SEND (special educational needs and disabilities) children. With kids between the ages of eight to 18 spending an average of seven hours in …