Where to Get Free Online Classes While You’re Stuck at Home
If you’ve always wanted to go back to school, why not make good use of your involuntary downtime at home with a free online class? […]
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How to Celebrate a Child’s Birthday During a Pandemic
You know what’s worse than canceling school now, canceling sports, or canceling most of the rest of life? You need to cancel a birthday party […]
Continue reading »How to Enable the New Dark Mode in WhatsApp [updated]
[Updated 3/27/20 10:30 AM] Good news: you no longer need to install the beta version of WhatsApp on your Android phone to take advantage of […]
Continue reading »Make Your Pandemic Shopping at the Restaurant Supply Store
Restaurants and bars aren’t the only food-focused businesses suffering severe consequences from the coronavirus outage – all the suppliers they’ve relied on for ingredients and […]
Continue reading »Dying HPE SSDs Are a Great Reminder to Update Your
In 40,000 hours, your HPE SSD is dead. This is not a Mission Impossible D-List fiction plot; this is reality. Fortunately, you probably weren’t hurt […]
Continue reading »What to Watch Tonight, March 26, 2020
Ready to spend another night at home? Yesterday we shared some of the live shows to watch, fitness and cooking classes, and how you can […]
Continue reading »What Does “pause on Checkout” Actually Mean?
States and cities across the country have decided to suspend evictions and shutdowns of utilities during the coronavirus pandemic. But if you face eviction, the […]
Continue reading »Launch a Virtual Race for a Solo Competition
Physical distancing put an end to most of our usual activities. For runners, this includes canceling any upcoming races. Fortunately, there are alternatives that can […]
Continue reading »How to Customize Cursor Appearance in IPadOS 13.4
Apple added external mouse support for iPad when it released iPadOS last year , but with the iPadOS 13.4 update, users can now customize the […]
Continue reading »Make Your Own Hassle-Free “spirit” With a Flat Tonic
When I first heard that I would be spending all this time at home, I imagined evening cocktail hours in the bathroom, a lot of […]
Continue reading »Help! Windows Does Not Load Correctly After a Recent OS Update
In today’s Tech 911 – Lifehacker’s support column dedicated to your work from home questions all week – we turn to an old favorite: Microsoft […]
Continue reading »Can You Still FIRE During a Recession?
For a while, I was interested in the financial independence movement, often called FIRE (Financial independence, early retirement). Probably since 2004, when I found an […]
Continue reading »How Unemployment Benefits Are Changing With Senate Coronavirus Aid Bill
If you’re out of work due to the coronavirus, the Senate relief bill passed last night (and is expected to pass soon in the House […]
Continue reading »It’s Okay If You Don’t Want to Work From Home Right Now.
From school closings to factory closings to mass layoffs and fears of getting sick, every hour gives us something new to worry about. In the […]
Continue reading »Start Your Day With Family Scrum
Trying to live day – day after day – with the whole family in one place and stay positive – will be … challenging. Probably […]
Continue reading »How to Avoid the New Astaroth Malware Hitting Windows
The infamous Windows malware Astaroth (aptly named after the demonic baron of hell discovered in occult cosmology) has returned to it after months of inactivity. […]
Continue reading »No Time to Drive Out of Town
If your city has a lot of COVID-19 cases, and this is almost any city at the moment, you may be tempted to visit rural […]
Continue reading »Defrost Frozen Meat With a Little Vinegar
My freezer is ineffective trash and any steak, chop, or chicken thighs I freeze get covered in frost. The meat is technically edible, but not […]
Continue reading »Is It a Panic Attack or a Coronavirus?
Over the past few days, I have had periods of shortness of breath, fatigue and general soreness. Anyway, I would dismiss it as part of […]
Continue reading »Remove These Malicious Android Apps Designed for Kids
Once again, a suite of Android apps made it to the Google Play Store and infected over a million devices with malware. I don’t want […]
Continue reading »What Parents Need to Know About Teens and Social Media Fame
Rhiannon Ragland has never had much interest in building her own social media presence. But as a mom to a teenager, she adheres to best […]
Continue reading »Shake up Your Kids’ Learning Routine With Activity Bingo
Now that many of us are ( damn it looking) a week and a half of physical distancing – that is, trapped in a house […]
Continue reading »What You Need to Know About Your Federal Government Audit [updated]
After much debate, the Senate passed legislation that would send aid checks to most Americans. The checks are part of a $ 2 trillion aid […]
Continue reading »Help Your Neighbors During the Coronavirus Pandemic With These New Nextdoor Features
Many of us are stuck inside, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be good neighbors and help each other. Nextdoor recently launched a new Help […]
Continue reading »What to Watch Tonight, March 25, 2020
Now that we all spend a lot of time at home, we’ve started collecting some of the best things to do while you’re there. Yesterday […]
Continue reading »The Safest Way to Dilute Household Chemicals
Making a DIY sanitizer is as easy as mixing bleach (or alcohol) with a little water, but for safety reasons, the order in which you […]
Continue reading »Why Is My Work Laptop’s Wi-Fi Slower Than My Other Devices?
911 Tech Support Day 3 is here to answer your questions and I go through reader comments like it’s my job. What it is. This […]
Continue reading »Apple Card’s New Privacy Policy May Offer a Second Chance to Rejected Applicants
Apple Card has a new privacy policy that affects current customers as well as people who have not yet applied for a credit card. The […]
Continue reading »Here Is a New COVID-19 Data Site That Needs to Be Kept up-to-Date
If you can’t look away from your climbing suitcases, take a look here. A visualization site called 91-DIVOC provides epidemic curve plots by comparing countries […]
Continue reading »Meet the New Travel Writer Lifehacker
Hello Lifehacker! I am the new staff writer for Lifehacker and I will be covering travel. I can’t wait to give you tips that I […]
Continue reading »What’s Coming on HBO Now in April 2020
If you’re preparing your calendar from the comfort of your home with things to see in April, HBO Now is adding many new films to […]
Continue reading »Cut Back on Food Waste With a Weekly Baked Potato Bar
I have the unique ability to cause anxiety about any problem, and right now the problem is food, especially the food that is currently in […]
Continue reading »Explain Physical Distancing to Your Young Child With This Video.
Explaining the coronavirus to our older children can be quite simple – we can answer their questions according to age, acknowledge their concerns, talk about […]
Continue reading »Do This Dumbbell Workout From Home
Did you enjoy our last home workout, but want to use those dumbbells that you hooked on before the pandemic? Here are five more movements […]
Continue reading »Collection of Federal Student Loans Will Stop for 60 Days
The Department of Education announced that it will end the process of collecting federal student loans in the event of default, including measures to cut […]
Continue reading »Home Workouts: Boxing Coach Tips
Now that gyms are closed and we all need to maintain a physical distance of six feet from others, we need to adjust our workouts. […]
Continue reading »Safari Has Become the Best Browser to Block Third-Party Tracking
Yesterday’s release of Safari 13.1 introduces stricter third-party cookie blocking features that prevent websites from identifying Safari users and tracking their online activity. This means […]
Continue reading »How to Make Will During Isolation From Coronavirus?
If, due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, you are wondering if it’s time to draw up your will, you are not alone. (This is […]
Continue reading »What We Know About a Potential COVID-19 Vaccine
Based on the latest news, one would think a COVID-19 vaccine would be available soon. Unfortunately, this is not so. Experts agree that we are […]
Continue reading »How Your Family Can Volunteer During a Pandemic
Right now, you and your family are on your own little Gilligan Island. It was supposed to be a three-hour tour, but thanks to COVID-19, […]
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