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A versatile annual to grow, nasturtiums come in both bushy and climbing or trailing varieties, so are ideal for your flower bed ideas. One of the joys of gardening is being able to eat what you grow, and the vividly colored flowers of nasturtium not only deliver in the looks department, making a beautiful addition to beds or containers, but the petals, seeds and leaves are edible, too. ‘Nasturtium flowers are well known for their hot, peppery flavor in salads and work very well chopped up with capers and made into salsa verde of sorts,’ explains gardening expert and writer Alys Folwer in her book Eat What You Grow (opens in new tab)....

Now that the season of sitting outside has arrived, it is natural to refresh your front porch ideas and ensure your exteriors are a therapeutic space where you can rest the day away. However, nothing interrupts the tranquility like bugs, and nothing attracts bugs like light. Thankfully, there are natural remedies that are effective in your fight against bugs on your porch – and they’re entirely expert-approved. How to keep bugs away from porch light – 4 organic ways to keep the insect away How to keep bugs away from porch light – 4 organic ways to keep the insect away...

If you’ve invested in one of the best pizza ovens, understanding how to prepare for cooking is part of the learning process so you can produce tasty pizzas with the taste you expect and at the time you want from your appliance. The process will vary depending on how the pizza oven is fuelled, so our guide has the details for each type to allow you to cook and serve up free of stress....

With a few top tips, you can give your radiators a makeover and, in doing so, make the whole room feel fresher. Along with learning how to paint a room and how to paint a wall, it’s a DIY skill that will come in handy time and again. Below, we take you through the process, step-by-step. How to paint a radiator for a super-sleek finish How to paint a radiator for a super-sleek finish...

You can easily create a mini wildflower meadow in your own yard as an alternative to an area of lawn, in place of a border, or contained in a parterre, which will be filled with color from spring into summer. Wildflower meadows can work in any garden setting, whether contemporary or traditional, and yards large or small, so plan one in as part of your garden ideas and enjoy the color and wildlife it will add to your garden....

Make Sure Your Mac Isn’t Just Confused Make Sure Your Mac Isn’t Just Confused If your backup has trouble booting and you aren’t sure what’s wrong, the first step is to run Apple’s Disk Utility. We cover basic Mac hard disk troubleshooting here. If these programs don’t fix your symptoms, it’s time to go searching your hard drive for your critical stuff. Decide What You Need to Recover Decide What You Need to Recover...

Unlike Microsoft Word, the Track Changes feature doesn’t appear on the Ribbon in Excel. However, here’s how to include it on your Ribbon: How to Enable the Track Changes Feature in Microsoft Excel How to Enable the Track Changes Feature in Microsoft Excel The Microsoft Excel Ribbon is easily customizable. To include the Track Changes feature on your Ribbon, here are the steps to follow: Step 1: Launch Microsoft Excel. Step 2: Right-click on the Ribbon and from the list of options select Customize the Ribbon....

iFixit notes that Apple has decided to use more screws rather than the usual glue and solder fest with the AirPods Max. This lets both the battery and the Lightning port be more easily accessed. Which is great, because these are the two most common components that go whenever something feels wrong. That being said, the company still employs Torx screws rather than the more common flat of Philips ones....

From modular cabinet systems to multi-functional freestanding furniture and clever small storage ideas, as well as sinks, worktops and wall-mounted rail systems, Ikea has a huge array of practical ways to achieve an organized space and make housework a breeze. While the priority of a laundry room is to be functional – providing space for large appliances, cleaning items, and household chores such as ironing – there’s no reason it shouldn’t be stylish, too....

Bit Planet Games, probably best known for its Ultrawings flight sims, tweeted an image of the PS VR2 headset with a pair of Sense controllers. The tweet was quickly deleted, but that didn’t stop the image from cropping up again on Reddit. The PS VR2 looks pretty much the same as what the official images suggested they would look like. There’s also a long cable rolled up which, while its full length was not shown as part of the official images, is pretty much the usual kind of cable length for tethered VR setups....

The period series that served as a refuge during the peak of the pandemic has just returned for its second season – and its interior design features are equally as luxe as they were in the first season. Set in Broughton Hall in the English Yorkshire Dales, this 3000-acre sanctuary is one of the most talked-about properties of the moment – and one of the world’s best homes. In the series, it is the home of the fictional character ‘Mrs....

To be precise, the SSD 665p’s 3D QLC NAND built around 96-layer components, versus the 64-layer components used by its predecessor. Like its predecessor also, the SSD 665p is only available in the M.2 form factor, but does support NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4. The new storage medium come in two capacities, 1TB and 2TB. On paper, the 2TB variant has sequential read and write speeds of 2,000MB/s, while the 1TB model shares the same sequential read speed, but has a slightly slower sequential write speed of 1,925MB/s....

Lighting kitchen cabinets can be a practical solution so it is easy to locate items when preparing and cooking food, but they can also make a display of items such as stemware or china in glass-fronted cabinets, so they’re always worth considering as an element of your kitchen ideas. We’ve collected lighting ideas for kitchen cabinets to inspire along with advice from experts that will assist in realizing its practical and aesthetic benefits....