Flipping through The Manual: Perfect paddles, derby drinks, scenic summer spots

By Digital Trends Staff Published August 17, 2015

Burned out on apps, keys and screens? Improve your analog life this weekend! Digital Trends’ brother site The Manual exists to give men straight-up advice, from unspoken suit rules you need to know, to the latest in fashion, food, drink, travel, grooming and culture. Here are a few of our favorite stories to appear on The Manual lately.

Trekking: Sanborn paddles are as functional as they are handsome

Trekking: Sanborn paddles are as functional as they are handsome — Image used with permission by copyright holder

Cousins Zak Fellman and Todd Randall have been hand crafting their wooden canoe paddles for more than six years. They’re gorgeous, hand-painted and built to last, rendering them as suitable for your cabin wall as the open water before you.

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Keep it clean with our favorite shoes for spring

Keep it clean with our favorite shoes for spring — Image used with permission by copyright holder

These fresh shoes are outfitted with smooth suede, white uppers, and lightweight comfort to keep you on your feet long into those summer nights.

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Summer hot spots: Where to head to on vacation this year

Summer hot spots: Where to head to on vacation this year — Image used with permission by copyright holder

Wondering where to go this summer? You’ll build lasting memories at these five under-the-radar spots.

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Let it ride with these tasty Kentucky Derby drinks

Let it ride with these tasty Kentucky Derby drinks — Image used with permission by copyright holder

There will be plenty of Mint Juleps to go around on Kentucky Derby Day, but this year why not try some alternatives? Thanks to our friends at American Whiskey, we’ve got some brand new Kentucky Derby drinks for you.

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The earth-loving man’s guide to reducing waste

The earth-loving man’s guide to reducing waste — Image used with permission by copyright holder

Betty and John Shelley were able to fit a year’s worth of garbage into a single trash bin. If you want to learn how to reduce waste, heed their words.

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Earth-friendly tips on how to wash jeans (or not)

Earth-friendly tips on how to wash jeans (or not) — Image used with permission by copyright holder

This Earth Day, Levi’s wants to teach you how to wash jeans. Their advice is simple: Don’t wash your jeans.

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Hackers were caught hiding password-stealing tricks in people’s physical mail

QR Code scam alert.

Just when you thought you heard it all about hackers stealing passwords, something like this comes up. Hackers have been observed using snail mail, sent from a seemingly reputable source and then pushing recipients to download an app, to try and steal sensitive information.

As reported by The Register, victims received a letter from the "Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology in Switzerland," and inside was a physical piece of paper, pressuring them to use the QR code to download an app called "Severe Weather Warning App" for Android. However, once they scan the QR code, it takes them to a third-party site instead of the official Google Play Store. Switzerland's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has already warned about the almost identical-looking app that contains the malware Coper, also known as Octo2.

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Nvidia may keep producing one RTX 40 GPU, and it’s not the one we want

The Alienware m16 R2 on a white desk.

The last few weeks brought us a slew of rumors about Nvidia potentially sunsetting most of the RTX 40-series graphics cards. However, a new update reveals that one GPU might remain in production long after other GPUs are no longer being produced. Unfortunately, it's a GPU that would struggle to rank among Nvidia's best graphics cards. I'm talking about the RTX 4050 -- a card that only appears in laptops.

The scoop comes from a leaker on Weibo and was first spotted by Wccftech. The leaker states that the RTX 4050 is "the only 40-series laptop GPU that Nvidia will continue to supply" after the highly anticipated launch of the RTX 50-series. Unsurprisingly, the tipster also reveals that the fact that both the RTX 4050 and the RTX 5050 will be readily available at the same time will also impact the pricing of the next-gen card.

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The Windows 11 24H2 update is causing even more problems

The Windows 11 24H2 update had already been giving users a real headache with problems such as bugs for visual layouts and flaws for certain wallpaper apps. And now, as Microsoft confirms in a support document, some people without administrative privileges can't change the time zone in the Date & Time view, among myriad other issues related to the important Windows 11 update.

A Feedback Hub post also reports a time issue after exiting Sleep Mode, specifically after about one out of every five overnight sleep cycles. There is also a report that the time is not syncing correctly following daylight saving time. Put differently, the update doesn't break the time zone, but only affects the toggle or makes it very difficult to modify it.