Never Start a Story With the Weather and Other Rules for Better Storytelling
A good storyteller can improve your presentations at work, improve your social skills, and make you more attractive in general. But not all of this […]
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How to Wean Parents From Spoiled Money Habits?
Our parents are our first and, by all means, the most influential teachers. They instill our values in us, introduce their ideas and policies, and […]
Continue reading »How to Make Fried Chuck Ribs
Hello my friends and welcome back toWill It Sous Vide? , the column where I usually do whatever you want with my immersion circulator. This […]
Continue reading »How to Separate Work and Personal Life on Devices
Starting a new job can be fun and exciting. If you’re lucky, you can keep whatever you do within the office. But let’s be realistic: […]
Continue reading »How to Make Puns Without Making Enemies
Puns have long been the ugly stepchildren of comedy, ridiculed for generations as the dull weapon favored by overly diligent fathers and uncles. But what […]
Continue reading »How to Keep Your Nose From Taking Selfies
It’s official: taking a selfie will definitely make you look a lot bigger than it actually is – up to 30%. That’s according to a […]
Continue reading »Make Sure Your Money Advisor Is in Trust
If you care about your money, you must remember the word “fiduciary”. It is very important to hire someone to help with the finances. And […]
Continue reading »In April We Make Boards
Dear readers, sorry. When I asked the Lifehacker staff what was missing from our monthly fitness challenge , they replied that we all need to […]
Continue reading »When Do You Add Your Colleagues on Facebook?
Deciding who and when to make friends with on Facebook can be stressful. Making this decision in the workplace is fraught at all levels. When […]
Continue reading »Improve Eye Contact by Recognizing a Person’s Eye Color
The book Non-Verbal Advantage states that in the early days of human existence, children who were able to maintain eye contact and therefore grab people’s […]
Continue reading »Don’t Update MacOS 10.13.4 If Using Duet Display
With all the excitement caused by yesterday ‘s iOS 11.3 release , you may not have noticed that Apple has also released macOS 10.13.4 globally. […]
Continue reading »Stop Saying That One Day You Will “start Meditating” and Actually Do It.
When we last collected our staff’s weekly updates , our editors were busy with email batching, meal preparation, spring cleaning, and scheduling additional downtime. This […]
Continue reading »Happy Hour of Three Ingredients: Easter Bell
Happy Easter weekend friends, and welcome back to Happy 3 Ingredient Hour , a weekly drinks column featuring super simple yet delicious libations. We’re making […]
Continue reading »How to Stop Heavy Bleeding in an Emergency
When someone is injured, such as a firearm, it is often not the injury itself that kills, but the loss of blood. To mark Bleeding […]
Continue reading »Store Your Chips in the Freezer to Prevent Them From Drying Out.
Long-term storage of chips is not a priority for most of us, who usually breathe in an entire packet for a day or two. If, […]
Continue reading »Explore Pixel Art With These 566 Tutorials
Creating pixel art is like writing children’s books: shocking nuances and much more difficult than it sounds. But pixel art site Lospec has amassed a […]
Continue reading »What to Do If Your Spouse Is Poor With Money
Thank you all for sending your questions about family and finances this week. Conversations with spouses about their money habits, impulse containment and budgeting were […]
Continue reading »Why Do Parents Need a “date in the Morning”
When you have babies and young children, people give you so many tips – breastfeeding, bottle feeding, sleeping together, using an infant straitjacket, getting an […]
Continue reading »How to Buy Tickets for a Sold Out Concert
Imagine for a second that you are trying to win the hottest ticket in town and concert tickets sold out. Or maybe it’s a group […]
Continue reading »Chrome / Firefox Extension of the Week: Grammar
Even if you are the next Stephen King or George R.R. Martin – and if you are the last, please try to write faster – […]
Continue reading »If You See Green Storm Clouds, Prepare for the Worst.
See those green billowing thunderclouds over there? This is bad. Not because you will be carried away to some annoying musical world – no, because […]
Continue reading »Auto Mute on All Websites With This Chrome Extension
Muting entire websites in Chrome might be the best update Google has ever made to the browser, but it could still be better. Sure, disabling […]
Continue reading »How to Use the Coolest New Features in IOS 11.3
If you expected Apple to wait a week until its new iPad starts shipping for the official launch of iOS 11.3, you’ve lost. iOS 11.3, […]
Continue reading »For Work-Life Balance, Work on Sundays
When you walk home on a Friday night, are you worried about work all weekend? Do you end up doing the job so you don’t […]
Continue reading »It May Help You Get Into Harvard
It’s now college letter season, so if you have a kid in high school, you know that students across the country are eagerly waiting to […]
Continue reading »How to Satisfy Your Tetris Cravings on MacOS
Apple journalist John Gruber recently lamented that there are simply no Tetris games available for macOS. And he didn’t mean there are no good games. […]
Continue reading »Here Are Your Top Parenting Tips
We ran a contest on the Offspring Facebook group (yes, we have a Facebook group – have you joined us yet?), Asking participants to share […]
Continue reading »Make a to-Do List
If you’re anything like me, your to-do list is filled with urgent tasks like “getting a prescription” next to less time-sensitive tasks like “doing consistently”. […]
Continue reading »Why Do I Need Hairdresser Contact Information
If you always go to the same place to get your hair done because someone knows how you look good, ask them for their phone […]
Continue reading »So Your Kid Was Rejected From Their Dream College
Letters roll in and celebrations are blowing up the Internet . For high school students awaiting a response from the colleges they applied to, this […]
Continue reading »Three Tasty Ways to Eat Whole Lemon
There have been four nore’esters in my area of the country in the past six weeks, which means the local produce in March was less […]
Continue reading »Our Readers’ Best Tips on Silicon Valley
If you’re bored in Silicon Valley, then you’re doing it wrong, judging by the comments on this week’s Hack Your City. We asked for your […]
Continue reading »Sign the Lease If You Return to Your Parents
Life happens. In one minute you are nearing release, ready to conquer the world. The next time you lose your job or cannot find one […]
Continue reading »Add Promotions to Your Calendar so You Don’t Forget About Them
As I was chatting with some helpful, albeit semi-robotic, Amazon customer support person, I thought to myself: I really need to better track the promotions […]
Continue reading »Taking a Long Walk Is As Good for the Mind As It Is for the Body.
Welcome back to Mid-Week Meditations , Lifehacker’s weekly dip in the pool of stoic wisdom and a guide to using its waters to meditate and […]
Continue reading »Why I Always Keep These Three “Healthy Foods” in the Kitchen
I am not what you would call a “health food eater.” Although my mother supplied the home with this biblical sprouted bread, teen Claire simply […]
Continue reading »There Is a New Subreddit for People Trying to Make Ends Meet
One of the problems with covering personal finance is that the tips and tricks recommended by most experts only make sense for a specific group […]
Continue reading »Bread Pudding Is an Instant Breakfast Pot You Want to Make
The Instant Pot craze shows no signs of slowing down, and if you own one of the multicooker, you probably need it all. As we […]
Continue reading »IOS / Android App of the Week: Microsoft Edge
If you’re using Microsoft Edge in any capacity, congratulations! You are incredibly rare, so much so that services like Statcounter don’t even have your browser […]
Continue reading »“Listen Later” Is Like Instapaper for Podcast Episodes
Most podcast apps are built around finding and subscribing to shows, not episodes. But Listen Notes, Lifehacker’s favorite podcast search engine , now lets you […]
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