How to Decipher Financial Aid Letters
Congratulations, hail! If you received a letter of financial assistance from a prospective undergraduate or graduate program, it means you have completed the FAFSA correctly […]
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How to Install Minesweeper on Your Mac
If you’ve been a die-hard Apple fan since you first touched your keyboard, chances are you’ve never experienced the thrill of Minesweeper – one of […]
Continue reading »I’m Kevin Gibbs, Creator of Google Suggest, and This Is How I Work
Kevin Gibbs has created something you can use every day. Gibbs created Google Suggest before founding workplace software company Quip and selling it to Salesforce. […]
Continue reading »You Have an Extra Day to File Your Tax Return After the IRS Website Crashes
Congratulations procrastinators, you have an extra day to file your tax return this year thanks to a timely glitch on the IRS Direct Pay page. […]
Continue reading »What If You’re a Ghost
This week we have a guy who met a beautiful girl on a dating app, had a great conversation with her, and then met up […]
Continue reading »Automate Quarterly Tax Payments With This App
For many aspiring freelancers (and some seasoned vets), quarterly taxes are a nightmare. Either you don’t know you have to pay them and you’re caught […]
Continue reading »Amazon Mobile App Made International Shopping Much Easier
Amazon updated its mobile apps on Tuesday to make shopping easier when in another country. The new version of the app lets you browse Amazon […]
Continue reading »This Android App Will Lock Your Phone for 30 Minutes If You Use It Too Often
Android: Smartphones and apps are designed to be addictive , and many people (myself included) find it hard to resist Twitter notifications or new Instagram […]
Continue reading »Uncover Evil Design Tricks in Subreddit Asshole Design
You open what looks like a banknote, but it’s just spam. You click on the donation process too quickly and they convert your one-time donation […]
Continue reading »Check Your Phone Less With Customizable Text Vibration
I get three kinds of texts: Texts from my wife that I want to read right away Lifehacker Podcast Producer Levi Sharp Lyrics That Come […]
Continue reading »Why You Shouldn’t Stir Coffee
Disclaimer: This is not so much ” tiny hacker ” – the tag we at Lifehacker use for simple tricks – but “tiny treat”. This […]
Continue reading »How to Use Venmo to Split Your Food Delivery Bill on Grubhub
Venmo makes it easy to split an account with friends, and Grubhub makes it easy to order dinner from your phone. Combining these two services […]
Continue reading »How Your Investment Intersection Can Inspire You to Continue Saving
One of the difficulties of saving for retirement with investment vehicles like 401 (k) is that it takes so long to get to the point […]
Continue reading »What You Need to Know About the TaskRabbit Hack
Now that TaskRabbit is disabled due to a hack, you won’t be able to use this service to call someone to help you with your […]
Continue reading »Give Your Friends a Gift of Thank You Letters
It is better to give than receive. So why are we still expecting to receive something after donating? San Francisco writer Laura Turner wowed everyone […]
Continue reading »How to Make Sure the Safety of a Budget or a Foreign Airline
Low cost airlines are a decent option for cheap travel, but they are also known for being inconvenient, they give you a penny for every […]
Continue reading »How to Read More While Traveling
Each has their own little tricks to read more books (or at least pretend you are reading books ), and more generally, we work our […]
Continue reading »What Makes a Good Pizza?
Hello and welcome back toWhat’s Cooking? , an open thread where you can share your brilliant thoughts, tips, recipes and opinions on all food related […]
Continue reading »Here’s Some Kids Music That Doesn’t Suck
If you are a parent and suddenly find yourself in the world of children’s music, I’m sorry. Most things are terribly bad. Nobody wants to […]
Continue reading »Before Visiting a City, Read Its Subreddit.
Every major American city has an active Reddit forum , as do many cities around the world. And if you are planning to visit any […]
Continue reading »How to Update Your Computer With a New Disk
Discs fail. And no matter how many backups you have, losing a drive while you’re working on something important – my namesake’s law – can […]
Continue reading »What Sarin, Chlorine and Other Chemical Weapons Actually Do in the News
Last week, the United States and its allies France and the United Kingdom fired 105 missiles, most of them Tomahawks, at Syrian targets in an […]
Continue reading »List Measurable Accomplishments, Not Just Responsibilities on Your Resume
Simply listing your past job responsibilities on your resume is just as helpful for the hiring manager as recognizing that you are well versed in […]
Continue reading »Wait 17 Seconds Before Interfering With Your Child’s Struggles
All day, every day, your children face real challenges. And you can bet that they will inform you of this struggle. Maybe they can’t solve […]
Continue reading »RealtimeBoard Is a Simple Virtual Whiteboard
No virtual whiteboard is suitable for everyone, and it seems like all virtual whiteboard services are shutting down after a few years. While we’ve recommended […]
Continue reading »Use Google to Communicate With Books
If you’ve ever wanted to dig deeper into a printed page or browse your library of literature looking for answers to many of your questions, […]
Continue reading »Smart Speakers Are a Great Tool for the Visually Impaired
Touchscreens have become the primary way many of us interact with the digital world, but they are not a great option for the visually impaired. […]
Continue reading »Exercise While Playing by Connecting the Console to a Rowing Machine
Kids obsessed with video games may be missing out on fresh air and exercise (aside from their powerful fingers clicking buttons), a fact that naturally […]
Continue reading »Discard Eggs Potentially Contaminated With Salmonella Immediately
Remember a lot of eggs! In fact, more than 200 million eggs are due to a Salmonella outbreak that has been linked to a farm […]
Continue reading »How to Maintain Your Relationship With Divorce Lawyer James J. Sexton
James J. Sexton is a divorce attorney who has worked his entire career with couples whose marriages are breaking up. Over the years, he has […]
Continue reading »How to Instantly Open Any Safari Link in a New Tab on IOS
iOS: When you click a link in the Apple Safari app, you can achieve one of two things: a new page temporarily hijacks your iPhone […]
Continue reading »How to Find a Parody of Your Kid’s Missing Stuffed Animal
“Please help me find a replacement for my lost ‘best friend’,” a man known as piper2010cameron wrote in an online post. “I’ve looked everywhere.” Lost […]
Continue reading »Backing up and Cloning Your Hard Drive With Macrium Reflect
Our Windows app of the week is not something you might need to use very often – hopefully – but it’s a great tool if […]
Continue reading »Should You Pay on Your Mortgage or Invest Extra Money?
Every Monday, we address one of your pressing personal finance questions by seeking advice from several financial experts. If you have a general question or […]
Continue reading »Stop Posting Information From Your Personal History to Facebook
If the last few weeks of Facebook scandals have shown anything, it is that the social network already knows too much about us. But if […]
Continue reading »Tell Us Your Travel Tips for Dublin
The new Hack Your City is a-bubblin’And so all of you, we will be anxious to share all our tips and incomprehensible jokes for a […]
Continue reading »How to Drink Tea Like a King, According to a Royal Butler
The royal wedding is just around the corner. While a lot of champagne is likely to be poured on this day, tea drinking is also […]
Continue reading »You Can Make a Killer Deal on TV Right Now
If you are looking to buy a new TV, one of the best times of the year to buy one is right now. Spring is […]
Continue reading »Find Out Where Your Photos Are Being Illegally Used on the Internet
Several years ago, I was flipping through the home page of a large magazine and saw a photo I took in the middle of its […]
Continue reading »Avoid Unexpected Convoluted YouTube Browsing Sessions With a Tube
YouTube deliberately helps you fall down the rabbit hole when watching videos. Surely you came to watchone cute puppy videos , but 5 hours later […]
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