Fruit juice makes for a great cocktail mixer, but pulp and other impurities won’t make your drinks too appealing. A little dash of pectinase will make your juice look amazing without sacrificing any flavor.

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Mincing garlic isn’t difficult, but if all you have is a knife, this method from Cook’s Illustrated is easy and produces a fine, smooth paste with no overwhelming chunks of garlic in the mix.

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iOS/Web: Most apps that automatically generate things like images or web pages end up looking like crap. Adobe’s new free app Spark can do a bit better job than most.

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Today, the government announced a long-awaited change to the Nutrition Facts label. Despite pressure from some sugary food makers, “added sugars” is now its own line item, so you can see exactly how bad for you a Coke is. Expect to start seeing the new labels within two years.

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Web/Chrome/Android/iOS: We’ve shown you how to encrypt your email with PGP , but it can be daunting to get started with. Passlok is a webapp, mobile app, and Chrome app that makes the process easy, and there’s a Chrome extension that even integrates with Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, and others.

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