Don’t Fall Into the IPO Frenzy
Many well-known companies, including Levi Strauss, Uber and Lyft, are planning to go public this year. But if you want to add some unicorns to […]
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If Your Doctor Recommends Medical Equipment, Shop First
It is unfair and annoying that patients are forced to buy medical equipment at the best price. Silver lining is what you really can . […]
Continue reading »Should You Use Grammarly More?
I used to love Grammarly , a useful browser plugin that analyzes what you enter and identifies your bad spelling and grammar choices – so […]
Continue reading »How to Help Your Child Develop in Board Games, According to a Game Designer
There are different opinions about how competitive you should be when playing board games with children. At one end of the spectrum are parents who […]
Continue reading »Best Real Crime Podcasts
Ever since Serial emerged in 2014 and awakened the world to the wonders of podcasting, real crime fans have been looking for a way to […]
Continue reading »How Tokyo Hacks Streets and Subways
New York City is actually a great city to walk – quite safe, pedestrian-friendly, and riddled with public parks and waterfront promenades. But when Lifehacker […]
Continue reading »Easily Compare Products on Google by Searching by Number and “Cons”.
I have several sites where I can find information about the products I want to buy, such as Wirecutter, Strategist, and Amazon comments (although you […]
Continue reading »Make Retro McDonald’s French Fries With Beef Fat
In 1990, two important things happened: I had a dinosaur birthday party and McDonald’s changed the recipe for fried potatoes. Someone might argue that a […]
Continue reading »Should You Cut Bagels Like a Loaf of Bread?
In our latest episode of Hack or Wack, we take a look at this viral tweet from the St. Louis native: In his tweet, Krautmann […]
Continue reading »How to Know If Your Google Flight Is Profitable
I have commitment issues – at least when it comes to airline reservations. I sit there, staring at my screen, my mouse hovering over a […]
Continue reading »The Dishwasher Holds Much More Than Dishes and Soap
Ah, the humble dishwasher. This appliance saves you time and water , and prevents back pain (dishwashing can be terribly uncomfortable, even with one of […]
Continue reading »Check With Your Airline for the Check-in Deadline Before Departure.
It’s been at least ten years since I checked my bag in flight. I never travel that long, and so much, and what, am I […]
Continue reading »Gmail’s “Response Templates” Feature Is Finally Working
The Gmail Templates feature has just undergone a badly needed overhaul. Badly named “boilerplate replies”, this is not a feature where Gmail offers a two-word […]
Continue reading »Don’t Change Your Twitter Date of Birth to 2007
There is a new joke on Twitter that says if you change your birthday to 2007, the year Twitter launched, you can unlock a new […]
Continue reading »Stop Trying to Track the Market
Welcome back to Statement, Lifehacker’s personal finance newsletter. Have a question? Send an email to [email protected] or reply to this email. If there is one […]
Continue reading »Check If Your Asus PC Is Affected by Shadow Hammer Malware Attack
If you have an Asus computer, you will want to check if your device was among the devices affected by the recent attack by the […]
Continue reading »How to Dispose of Your Airpods
Amid a slew of announcements for a new credit card , a subscription service, and something related to Oprah , Apple has finally released the […]
Continue reading »Free Ezines From Your Library Are a Great Alternative to Apple News +
I know. I also can’t remember the last time I went to the public library – as much as I loved that smell of “stacks […]
Continue reading »Match Your Child’s IRA Contributions to Stimulate Savings
We’ve previously written about why you should encourage your child to start a Roth IRA – they can start accumulating savings from an early age, […]
Continue reading »Replace a Bad Habit With a Good One
At Lifehacker, we talk a lot about how to form good habits and how to get rid of bad ones. But this advice is about […]
Continue reading »Find and Support Women-Owned Businesses With Yelp
Yelp makes it easy to find and support women-owned businesses. To mark Women’s Story Month this month, the site launched the Women Owned Business attribute, […]
Continue reading »Change the Typical Colonial Outfit for All of Your Child’s School Projects
When my son was in second grade, his teacher loved to create projects in which children had to dress up as historical characters. New to […]
Continue reading »How Nigella Lawson Fights Lousy Tomatoes
We are right in the middle of what I call “tomato season” and honestly, I got tested. They all look so good, but even cherry […]
Continue reading »Everything You Need to Know About Starting Accutane
You’ve tried it all – the expensive cleansers, benzoyl peroxide spot treatment approved by Proactiv commercials – and look in the mirror wondering why none […]
Continue reading »Always Carry Your Stomach Medicine With You When You Travel
We still don’t know how we got sick in Tokyo. But when the four Lifehacker employees went there together this month, the three of us […]
Continue reading »Should I Let Kids Eat Boogers?
The Soccer Mom blog post informs parents that kids can probably pick their noses. And then eat their boogers. The post says that eating boogers […]
Continue reading »Get a Keyboard Decoy for Your Cat
Cats love to sit on things. Not the things you buy so they can sit, no, the things you need to use. The magazines you […]
Continue reading »How to Get Started Climbing When You Don’t Have Upper Body Strength
Like any seemingly hardcore workout space, indoor climbing walls can be an intimidating place for beginners, but they don’t have to. In fact, a common […]
Continue reading »How to Think Like Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram makes people smart. His creations, including Mathematica , the Wolfram Alpha, and the Wolfram Language , help humans think computationally, and he doesn’t […]
Continue reading »Add Sugar to Coffee Before Milk or Cream
How to drink coffee is a highly personal matter, and I always hesitate to tell people that they are “doing it wrong,” especially because coffee […]
Continue reading »Get Your Venmo Balance Back
Double check that your Venmo balance is not in the red – otherwise your account may end up in collections. That’s according to a report […]
Continue reading »Download IOS 12.2 Today and Try These New Features
Right on cue – on Apple’s announcement day and all – the service-oriented tech giant released the latest version of its iOS operating system. If […]
Continue reading »The Most Important Announcements From the Apple Show Time Event
In its latest keynote address, Apple announced four new services that will help it delve deeper into the world of news, entertainment and … banking? […]
Continue reading »Lifehacker Hires Personal Finance Writer
Do you have a black belt in salary negotiations? Do you have more airline miles than everyone you know combined? Is your opinion about your […]
Continue reading »Why Kids Stop Reading for Fun by Age 9 (and What to Do About It)
Scholastic’s national reading poll shows what they call a “nine drop.” According to the report, the percentage of children identified as frequent readers, i.e. those […]
Continue reading »How to Start Figuring Out If You Want to Have Kids
The ability to actively decide whether or not to have children is a huge privilege. It can also be one of the toughest decisions you […]
Continue reading »How to Track Every Disabled Google Service and App
It’s corny to remind people of Google’s notorious reputation for abandoning its apps and services, but it’s true. Like any company, Google is constantly trying […]
Continue reading »Share Your Event With the New Google Maps Feature
The days of using Facebook to advertise your events may end soon as Google begins rolling out a new feature that allows users to add […]
Continue reading »How to Help Prevent Sexual Assault on Flights
Journalist Joanna Chiu recently witnessed what many went through: a creepy guy who made creepy comments to a girl who got stuck next to him […]
Continue reading »Apple Card Is a Medium Reward Card
We’ve got more details on the upcoming Apple credit card with Goldman Sachs after today’s Apple event, and if you were hoping for a game-changing […]
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