How Will Your 1040 Tax Form Change This Year
Your federal income taxes will look slightly different this year thanks to the Tax Cuts and Employment Act of 2017. Credits and deductions have changed, […]
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Tell Us Your Travel Tips for Copenhagen
Hack Your City travels to Copenhagen, home of Hans Christian Andersen, Tivoli Gardens and Danish political drama Borgen . What pleasures are buried deep in […]
Continue reading »What’s in Store for and Out of Netflix in the Week of January 28, 2019
The Edge of Seventeen is a solid, entertaining, entertaining teenage film modeled after John Hughes, and you should definitely check it out if you haven’t […]
Continue reading »Train Your Brain to Focus With This IPhone Game
We live in a world where we are all constantly performing several tasks at the same time, so focusing on one thing can be a […]
Continue reading »Find Out When a Celebrity Is Accused of Harassment With This Chrome Extension
Admittedly, I don’t follow celebrity gossip. This means that I usually don’t know who the actor is dating or that he has just had a […]
Continue reading »How to Stream Rentals: Live! Tonight
One of the most popular musicals of all time, Rent , will debut in your living room tonight for just one night. FOX is streaming […]
Continue reading »How to Use OpenTable Points to Get Hotel Discounts
Around the corner from our apartment there is an amazing ramen-making place, where my boyfriend and I come, probably once a week. For a while, […]
Continue reading »Be Sure to Upload Your Photos From Flickr This Weekend
If you have over 1000 photos uploaded to Flickr, you should upload them now, otherwise you risk losing them forever. Back in April last year, […]
Continue reading »Improve Your Bad Mood by Going Outside for 5 Minutes
Curing a bad mood is as simple as going outside. Researchers at the University of Regina recently discovered that five minutes in nature is enough […]
Continue reading »Difference Between Middle Class and Poverty
The middle class has financial problems, but if you’ve never been truly poor, there are some things you might not understand about how this affects […]
Continue reading »Use Jam to Make Any Morning Good for a Drink
Jam is a regular feature on most breakfast tables, but it is usually found on toast rather than cocktails. Aside from improving the quality of […]
Continue reading »How to Help Your Daughter Cope With Her Period at School
I still remember the day when my first period began. I was 12 and walking home from school on a cold January afternoon. Although I […]
Continue reading »15 Best ‘New Tab’ Extensions for Google Chrome Fans
You wake up. You are hesitant to take out your laptop or sit in front of a work desk with delicious coffee nearby. After the […]
Continue reading »Buy This $ 1.7 Million Home for $ 19 and a Letter
Looking for a new home? It comes with a hefty discount. This week, a homeowner from Alberta, Canada, announced that she would sell her home […]
Continue reading »If You Are Lazy, Come to Work Early.
Recently, the editors of Lifehacker and our subsidiary sites needed to meet in the office at exactly 10 am. The people who announced this thanked […]
Continue reading »How to Download Free Downloaders From Your Netflix Account
There is nothing worse than opening your Netflix account and finding a blacked-out screen that reads: Too many people are using the account. All of […]
Continue reading »How to Make Taco Salt
If I’m craving real Mexican food, I don’t go to Taco Bell. I go to Taco Bell when my raccoon brain calls for it, which […]
Continue reading »How to Organize a Rope Workout
If you’ve been jumping with us all month , you’ve probably mastered a basic jump and maybe even a few quirky moves. So how can […]
Continue reading »Rediscover Your Favorite Songs With the Lifehacker Cover Playlist
Before, all great singers had the same songbook: a canon of folk tunes, jazz standards, and borrowed Broadway numbers. Louis, Ella, Duke and Nina, and […]
Continue reading »How to Sleep When You Have Small Children
Earlier this week, I offered some tips on how to wake up kids who are, uh, not matinees . As expected, I have heard from […]
Continue reading »You Don’t Have to Make the Most of Every Part of the Day
Many of us are fascinated by the routine – whether it’s making fun of , well, an ambitious celebrity schedule , or curating ours to […]
Continue reading »Please Read the OpenSignal Mobile Broadband Report Before Changing Mobile Carriers
Choosing the “best” carrier has never been easy as you never know what service you will receive until you settle on a new carrier (and […]
Continue reading »Don’t Check Your Phone Before Breakfast
What we do in the morning can lift our spirits for the rest of the day, which is why many of our wake-up tips boil […]
Continue reading »How to Spend Three Months in Italy for Free
Tired of 9 to 5 classes? Lucky you. Airbnb is sending four travelers on a three-month trip to Italy, where a select few will spend […]
Continue reading »Teach Your Children Sexual Competence
Do we want to talk to children about sex? No. Are our children going to have sex, whether we talk to them about it or […]
Continue reading »How to Bake an Egg in a Toaster
There is something elegant and tender about a baked egg sprinkled with a pinch of cheese and sprinkled with fresh herbs. Crimped eggs – the […]
Continue reading »How to Tidy up Your Office Desk
People with office work spend most of their waking hours sitting at a desk likely chosen for its utilitarian qualities. While you’re there, why not […]
Continue reading »Get Help Waking up With These Unusual Alarm Clock Apps
There’s nothing wrong with your smartphone’s alarm. If they wake you up in the morning, then they have completed their main task, and you should […]
Continue reading »Select the Day of the Week to Shop All Online
How is your month going without spending, friends? In truth, I’ve had several issues in the past few days, including buying Etsy fueled by wine. […]
Continue reading »3 Worst Types of Hacks
We love testing hacks and letting them know if they are good or bad. But some hacks are worthless. And yet, these bizarre and silly […]
Continue reading »What Are You Entitled to If Your Flight Is Delayed
Last weekend, about 250 passengers on a United flight to Hong Kong from Newark, New Jersey experienced every traveler’s worst nightmare: After an unplanned stop […]
Continue reading »Eat Lasagne for Breakfast
More people need to eat pasta for breakfast. The combination of carbohydrates, fat, and (sometimes) protein is the most comforting human in the world, and […]
Continue reading »Find Untrustworthy News Sources Using the Microsoft Edge Mobile Browser
Microsoft is expanding its war on fake news into the mobile market. The latest update to its Edge browser app includes a news tagging feature […]
Continue reading »How to Wake up With Surprise
Wouldn’t it be great to wake up and not be afraid of the day? Not wanting you to be still asleep, but looking forward to […]
Continue reading »Make a Morning Checklist for Your Older Child, Then Get Out of the Way
One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten for getting my then-preschooler out the door in the morning was to put together a […]
Continue reading »Which Digital Assistant Has the Best Morning Routines?
Waking up by an alarm clock, even by your smartphone, at this moment seems almost an ancient custom. If you’ve gotten into the craze for […]
Continue reading »What to Do With All the Tax Documents You Receive Now
By now, you have received emails and letters with “important tax information attached” and investment reports for the end of the year, and most likely […]
Continue reading »Top Travel Tips in Albuquerque From Our Readers
Ahh albuquerque! This week in the Hack Your City section, we asked you for tips on visiting or living in a desert city with a […]
Continue reading »What Does the House of Representatives Oversight Committee Do?
New York Congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts spokesman Ayanna Pressly made headlines last night after winning coveted seats on the House oversight committee. “I’ll come […]
Continue reading »How to Get Out of a Bad Date
You are in the middle of a date and suddenly realize that you have made a terrible mistake. This person is not only not the […]
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