How to See the Perseid Meteor Showers This Season
We’re getting closer to the best time of the year for meteor showers, so grab a blanket, some beer, and this handy guide to actually […]
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I’m Scott From Scott’s Pizzerias and This Is How I Work
You can make a living pizza if you are good enough – and if you work hard and meet everyone who works at the pizza […]
Continue reading »Let’s Make a Dessert Casserole
Hello and welcome back to Will It Casserole? , a column in which I take your delicious concepts and reimagine them as delicious casserole creations. […]
Continue reading »Open a Credit Card Account Immediately After Graduation
Building a loan is one of the hardest but most essential financial tasks when you enter the work world, and a credit card – when […]
Continue reading »I’m Guy Raz, Host of NPR, and I’m a Parent.
Guy Raz is the creator and host of three NPR podcasts – two for adults ( How I Built This and TED Radio Hour ) […]
Continue reading »Synchronize Lights With Games and Music With This App
Windows, Mac: There are tons of apps you can use to put on a little light show at home (or at the geek’s den) if […]
Continue reading »Choose Something to Look Forward To
We talked about freezing spending , allowing ourselves to buy good things from time to time, and outlining our monetary goals to help us shape […]
Continue reading »How to Prevent Your Smart TV From Tracking You
If you own a Smart TV, chances are good that it comes with Samba TV, technology that allows marketers to track what you watch so […]
Continue reading »Tell Us Your Travel Tips in Johannesburg
The Johannesburg, South Africa wiki page says that by looking at Hillbrow and Brixton, the city’s two towers, you can figure out which part of […]
Continue reading »What’s in Store for and Out of Netflix in the Week of July 9, 2018
If you’re obsessed with MSNBC’s Lockup, State Prisons: Collection 1 (coming July 15th) needs to be finished this week to make way for Extended Stay: […]
Continue reading »Discover a New City Through the Eyes of the Locals With This Service
One of my favorite parts of traveling is meeting new people and exploring new cultures wherever I am. When you don’t know where to meet […]
Continue reading »How to Get a Refund From MoviePass for a Friday Night Outage
MoviePass users who tried to watch a movie on Friday night might be surprised that their app didn’t work. Due to an outage on Friday […]
Continue reading »How to Send Android Messages From a Web Browser
This month, Google finally gave Android users the ability to send text messages from their computers, a feature that iPhone / iMessage users have had […]
Continue reading »Keep Track of Amazon Prices on Your Mac With This Menu Bar App
If you are interested in buying something on Amazon but the price is too high for you right now, PriceAlert can track those items and […]
Continue reading »Contribute Your Books, Games and More to Your Own Searchable “library” With Libib
Despite my constant claims that I am going to move to a fully digital library, I still buy a ton of books. I began to […]
Continue reading »Send a Message to Your Toddler Via Alexa Using Mommy-Gram
You probably don’t want to give your toddler a cell phone, but text your child at home between appointments, or get the all-important “Where’s Cheerios […]
Continue reading »How to Play “Westworld: Labyrinth Without Amazon Echo”
Now, when I finished the second season of the “World of the Wild West”, freezing the motor functions in a delightful but somewhat bewildering series […]
Continue reading »What’s the Safest Way to Get a Tan?
I try so hard to use sunscreen these days that my skin now, in July, is still the same light beige color as it was […]
Continue reading »How to Fix Chrome Checkboxes and Buttons on MacOS Mojave
This is a rather specific problem, but annoying. If you’re playing around with Apple’s latest public beta of macOS Mojave – at the time of […]
Continue reading »Hydrate While You Soak up This Coconut Water Shake
Happy weekend and welcome back to Happy 3 Ingredient Hour , a weekly drinks column featuring very simple yet delicious libations. This week, we’re adding […]
Continue reading »It’s Time to Follow the Old Dusty Trail
The ride here at Lifehacker was pretty enjoyable, but it’s time for me to get out of town and drive towards the sunset. Some of […]
Continue reading »Tie an Ice Pack to Your Body This Summer
When we last collected our staff’s weekly updates , our editors were pulling e-books from the library, banishing dirty toilet brushes from our bathrooms, exploring […]
Continue reading »Motivate Your Teen With This Job Interview Trick
When parents tell their teens to do something, they want to, well, not do it. You know this if you have a teenager or have […]
Continue reading »Look for Overheard Music Samples With the WhoSampled App
WhoSampled , a service that identifies music samples, recently updated its iOS / Android app to include Shazam -style music recognition. Now when you hear […]
Continue reading »How to Apply for the Most Difficult Tourist Visa
As useful as a US passport is for visiting most of the world , it doesn’t give you easy access everywhere. Some countries have strict […]
Continue reading »How to Make the Best Garlic Bread
Garlic bread is a simple concept; this is garlic bread. But only in these two ingredients there is a lot of room for variation. I […]
Continue reading »How to Keep What You Read
Think about the book you read last year. How much of this do you remember? Could you list ten things that you learned from this? […]
Continue reading »How to Behave As an Older Employee in a Modern Company
In companies, especially those that specialize in technology, there is a lot of talk about diversity and inclusion, but one of the marginalized groups that […]
Continue reading »Try These Simple Squats During the July Competition
Squats can be as heavy or light as you want. If you do 100 exercises a day, you may need to relax a little to […]
Continue reading »Rediscover Your Favorite Children’s Books on This Website
Again, what is this book called? You know one thing. When we were kids. Was this a children’s chapter about a family moving into an […]
Continue reading »These Cold Spicy Noodles Will Soothe Your Sweaty Soul
Summer for me is synonymous with spicy peanut noodles, which I have been making every summer since I was allowed to make my own pasta. […]
Continue reading »Why a Postpartum Party Is More Important Than a Baby Shower
I understand why people take baby showers. If you’re pregnant, you glow (it might be excessive sweat from all these surging hormones, but your guests […]
Continue reading »Small Things You Can Do to Get Student Loans Under Control
Paying off student loans is a tedious task and for many it may seem like an endless financial black hole. While Congress does not seem […]
Continue reading »Why Is My Laptop Killing My Wifi?
Hey! In this week’s Tech 911 – the column in which I try to find answers to your common and unclear technical questions – we […]
Continue reading »Make Your Shots More Cinematic With These Video Editing Tricks
So you’ve shot some stills for your indie movie, but they don’t quite look like what you see on the big screen. These simple video […]
Continue reading »How to Use GIF As a Profile Picture on Tinder
If your regular Tinder profile photo doesn’t attract enough people to swipe to the right, you can now replace it with a GIF. The dating […]
Continue reading »How to Survive in Extreme Heat in Nature
There are many serious dangers in nature, but perhaps the worst of them is the hot, quiet killer. High temperatures kill more people in the […]
Continue reading »How to Keep Your Dog From Overheating
Only mad dogs and Englishmen are said to go out in the midday sun, but even crazy (or sad, or joyful) dogs should probably stay […]
Continue reading »Store Books for Your Child in Every Room of Your Home
You know, when you are faced with expert advice and this is something that you are already doing out of convenience or out of laziness, […]
Continue reading »Why You Should Check Your Internet Speed Regularly
The Ultimate Lifehacker Guide to Wi-Fi ): title The Ultimate Lifehacker Guide to Wi-Fi Wireless networking is tricky, but not necessary. Let us help you. […]
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