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It’s almost St.Patrick’s Day again, and along with the green beer and shamrocks you’ll also find a bunch of different Irish dishes you can try. Here are a few I make every year

Want to know how to properly maintain a cordless stick vacuum to keep it working hard for as long as possible? Check out this easy guide.

Have you noticed that the internet is full of these ‘One Weird Tip’ articles nowadays about how to look 20 years younger or get...

Having a fall baby or just had your baby and you're wondering how to prep for the chilly weather? I've been there, and I've got a few cold weather tips to prepare you and your baby for fall.

Good Chinese food or Chinese takeout can be hard to come by. So what to do when you get a craving for Chinese food but you don’t know where to order from? You can jump online and hit up Yelp or other review sites, looking for a recommendation. Or, you can do what I finally started to do – make it yourself. Creating Chinese food at home isn’t hard at all, and if you have the right tools it’s a fast, easy way to get your Chinese food fix. Here are a few of my favourite make-at-home Chinese food recipes:

Like many Canadians, I’ve spent the past few weekends spring cleaning. Something about being largely stuck indoors through a particularly long and harsh winter (including nearly a week without wired Internet access when an ice storm took out cable service in my neighbourhood) makes the first warm day of April seem like it’s past time to get things done. We open the windows, break out the rakes and start cleaning, indoors and out. Cars are washed, windows wiped and carpets shampooed. Since I have the cleaning bug anyway, this is the perfect time to clean my PC –also, both “inside” and out. The result will be a computer that’s faster, cleaner, more energy efficient, less cluttered and a pleasure to use.

For us Canadians living in the East, the idea of summer seems doubtful. I say this only because it snowed in mid-April (ahem). However, I have faith that summer will arrive eventually and for that reason, let’s get the patio pimping to perfection. If you start planning now, once the heat shows up, you’ll be lounging outside with your favourite cocktail while your friends are scrambling for patio furniture.

Wondering how to jazz up your house without a complete makeover? LED strip lights are an easy way to brighten the home and have fun with colour too.

  Everyone deserves a treat day, and since we’re at the end of January and we’ve all been so good this month, I’m temporarily packing up the fruits and veggies and turning on the oven to make doughnuts. With recipes this easy, you're going to want to make them too.

Now that you’ve bought a new laptop, it’s time to make it your own with these tips to make a Windows laptop more fun and more productive.