Author: resourcefulman

In recent months, Google Maps has been pretty aggressive about telling me where there are restaurants that he thinks I should try, or new places […]

As a child, my mom always turned on NPR when we left the house. Her idea was that if a potential burglar spotted the place, […]

A lot of the trips I take, especially the trips I take to visit my family all over the country, take place at relatively random […]

McDonald’s celebrates Big Mac’s 50th anniversary this week. To celebrate the occasion, yesterday he started giving away McCoins in his stores – a kind of […]

It looks like Google has been holding on to the ‘point your camera to learn more’ technology market for a while now, first through its […]

The almighty recommendation algorithm works in mysterious ways, and not always for the best. If your Netflix homepage has turned into an echo chamber, a […]

Sometimes you want something on Google (or Bing? At your discretion …), but opening another browser tab seems like too much of an effort. If […]

When we last collected the weekly updates from Lifehacker staff, our editors were buying a bunch of new headphones, improving our online security, figuring out […]

“It’s easy to get intimidated,” says Hamayal Choudhry , a robotics engineer who co-authored smartARM, a robotic arm prosthesis that uses a camera to analyze […]

When you are traveling in a large group, you always seem to receive or send the message “Where are you guys ?!” text, especially at […]

My children have been to wonderful kindergartens, summer camps and other places where they live for hours and then return home, admiring how much they […]

There is still one month left until summer, and if you’ve been listening to your more sun-sensitive friends at the beach, or having to go […]

The next time you buy a movie and it will be accompanied by one of the “redeem this code to get a digital version on […]

Over the past few weeks, many MoviePass users have thought about clicking the unsubscribe button. However, to some of them, this process did not seem […]

We know we shouldn’t let email rule our lives , but we do it anyway. We use email as a to-do list, as a keeper […]

The beauty of cats is that they are temperamental: they can bite and purr when you reach for them. There may come a time when […]

The standard or ” stable ” version of Google Chrome offers a lot of tweaks and quality of life improvements, but if you want the […]

The benefits of mindfulness and how to achieve it have been touted for a long time, but over the past few years, the number of […]

If you’ve just realized it’s August and you still haven’t been anywhere, don’t despair. Fall isn’t just cute jackets, it’s travel suggestions. Summer is mostly […]