Morning – Features

Thinking Green: Don’t Butt Out

An important message about how your health and the planet's are connected.

Danny Lipford is bringing us an important message this morning. Sure, he always does, in relaying tips and tidbits about how making better choices in the products and habits in your life can improve the health of our planet. But this time, he’s explaining how in this particular example the health of the planet affects your health, directly. Check it…

Ask Danny: Bathroom Vanity

Give your vanity something to be vain about.

The holidays are upon us. Happy Rosh Hashanah, everyone! But just as the leaves suddenly change from green to gold, so too does your lazy summer turn to a busy fall schedule filled with family members visiting for the holidays from out of town. Help your bathroom vanity look its best with a look at what kinds of materials work…

Melinda’s Garden: Native Plants

Tomatoes and petunias are so over.

If you’re growing tomatoes and petunias in your garden, better enjoy them while you can. Overnight frosts are coming soon, and after about two more weeks, they’ll be here to stay. And we don’t think you’re up for covering up your tomatoes every single night through the month of October. Why not consider installing something extra-hardy in their place instead?…

Tech Tip Today: Google Job Search

Veterans abound in our region. This can hook them up with jobs they want.

If you’ve followed any of our reporting on our military veterans in the region then you know much of the country – from VA wait times to homelessness rates – is in crisis mode when it comes to taking care of them. Nut now – a new Google feature is helping to make life a little more livable for our…

App of the Week: Send Anywhere

Pack your trunk-sized data into a carryon-size message.

If you rely most of the day on communicating — for work or play — through your smartphone, you probably already know it won’t let you send the big files through text or email. Here’s a way to send even video via text in today’s App of the Week, with Francie Black. Categories: Morning – Features

Thinking Green: Composite Wood

Greater than the sum of its parts.

When it comes to saving the environment, we’re all greater than the sum of our parts. After all, just one person recycling maybe won’t amount to much. But when you get all of us throwing all our recyclables into the bin, you get some great recycled products made out of it, and a healthier planet too. Composite wood is a…

Ask Danny: Bath Fan Sizing

You need proper ventilation in the bathroom. Need we explain why?

As the weather creeps in ever-colder as summer gives way to fall, your windows and doors will be shut tight. And that means proper ventilation in the house is going to be at a premium in the weeks and months to come. Don’t let the air in your bathroom stagnate — keep the air clear and moisture-free with the right-size…

Melinda’s Garden: Noxious Weeds

Get them before they get you first.

Weeds are proliferating even as we speak. Between the off and on rain, the warm weather and the intermittent sunshine, we’re raising a bumper crop of unwanted garden guests as summer turns to fall. But as you pull on your garden gloves and don your hat to do battle with the green invaders, are you sure which ones you should…

Tech Tip Today: Voice Assistant

A good assistant should go with you wherever you go.

Personal voice assistants can be great — especially when you set yours to have that charming British accent — but when you have to bid goodbye to the help as your turn to your computer screen, you can feel a little bereft. That’s where Francie Black comes in. Let her show you how to get a personal voice assistant on…

App of the Week: Darkroom

Fixing the tiny imperfections in your photos, all on your tiny screen.

Camera phones have come a long way in terms of quality since they were first introduced. Even professional photographers will tell you that. But there’s no phone camera out there that’s going to be able to prevent all the tiny imperfections of lighting and framing that are going to occur under normal shooting conditions. There is, however, a way you…