Everyone knows having your personal information hacked is a nightmare to be avoided. But with the myriad of advice out there, which advice is the best to follow? Thankfully, after attending a security panel with Google's Director of Security for Google Apps, Eran Feigenbaum, and Head of Chrome Security, Parisa Tabriz, I came away with a better understanding of practicing safe and secure habits online...

This week marked my first-ever trip to the Brimfield Antique Show, the largest outdoor antique market in the world. With 20-plus fields and thousands of vendors, even a skilled bargain hunter like myself could use help from a veteran to navigate the six-day market. Here are eight tips for scoring deals and shopping outdoor shows like a pro.

We've all been in that position — you're on vacation and find a lovely rug, tea table, vase, etc for a price you can't beat. You would love to bring it home with you- but how? Oversized, heavy and otherwise cumbersome pieces present a unique set of challenges but can be well worth the hassle. Here are a few tips.

There's not a long list of industrious uses for that hard-to-reach, cropped cabinet above the refrigerator in the kitchen. Maybe somewhere to hide all those long neglected kitchen appliances you bought but stopped using. But there's at least one great solution: this one. Can you guess what's hiding in this unsuspecting kitchen storage?

Maybe it's the librarian in me, worried about damaging a book, even a used paperback, but the idea of reading in a warm tub sounds a lot more relaxing than it actually is. Which is why I love this simple and clever tip devised by an 8-year-old.

What can you learn in 6 seconds? How to make coffee? Maybe how to lay down tile? Some industrious types have worked within the 6 seconds video limitations of the Vine app to create extremely concise, yet informative short format how-to videos...

Since I moved to Brooklyn, ants have been invading my kitchen for several weeks each spring. Usually I buy commercial (and toxic) ant bait traps from my local hardware store, but this year I opted for an easy solution using two ingredients I had in my kitchen pantry. Here's how to make your own non-toxic ant killer. 

I love bedrooms that are well-styled, but I also love the clean simplicity of a bed that looks like it's seriously meant for sleeping in, with cloud-like crisp white bedding and a few downy pillows. 

This weekend I spent an ungodly amount of time researching data plans and navigating a sea of small print wireless carrier providers bury on their websites, all in the hopes of finding the best balance between cost and allotted data/voice services without a contract. As anyone who pays through the nose already knows, it's the data plans that get you...