How to Train Children to Do Housework: a Guide for Ages
When I read statistics from a University of Maryland study that children ages six to twelve spent only 24 minutes a day on housework, 25 […]
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It’s Time to Try Making Your Own Walnut Ink
When we rounded up our staff’s weekly updates last Friday , our editors explored mindfulness meditation, added additional exercises in our day, and tweaked our […]
Continue reading »Brain Training Can Really Work If It’s the Right Method
Many people will tell you that these brain training games won’t make you smarter , and for the most part, that’s true . But recent […]
Continue reading »You Deserve a Hot and Cheesy Dumpling Casserole
Hello and welcome to Will It Casserole? , a column in which I take your delightful concepts and re-imagine them as delightful layered creations. I’m […]
Continue reading »Are Halloween Contacts Safe?
Contacts with cat pupils or neon flowers can be fun, but are you sure you want to shove a piece of plastic from a costume […]
Continue reading »How to Remap Compression on Pixel 2 to Do Whatever You Want
One of the most interesting features of the Pixel 2 is Active Edge , which lets you launch Google Assistant by simply squeezing your smartphone. […]
Continue reading »Live Q&A With Lifehacker Staff Writer Patrick Lucas Austin [Completed]
Hello fellow countrymen! This is me, Patrick Lucas Austin, Lifehacker staff writer and technical expert. I’ll be here online from 3pm to 4pm ET (that’s […]
Continue reading »How to Simulate Piano Playing: Lesson 5
Welcome to the latest installment of our series of videos on how to learn to play the piano without getting bored. Previously, composer and pianist […]
Continue reading »How to Prevent Sites From Receiving Cryptocurrency From You
Your browser can do someone else’s dirty work behind your back, mining cryptocurrency for attackers, using your desktop computer or laptops to create a digital […]
Continue reading »How to Calculate How Much It Will Cost to Move to a New City
Let’s say you’ve charted a new city and you’re ready to pack your bags, get out of hiding and start a new life in another […]
Continue reading »Happy Hour With 3 Ingredients: Truly the Great Grog
Happy weekend everyone, and welcome back to Happy 3 Ingredient Hour , a weekly drinks column featuring very simple yet delicious libations. This week has […]
Continue reading »What You Need to Know About Your Child’s School Care Programs
More and more schools are adding mindfulness to student days, often as a short break for meditation. They seem to help some children relieve stress, […]
Continue reading »Why It Seems Like Everyone Knows the Same Urban Legends
Do you know this creepy urban legend you’ve heard about it in your city? Yes, probably someone is now telling the same story in another […]
Continue reading »Popular Bag Goes Popular This Week (and so Does Mine)
If you like popular posts Lifehacker on bags , you will see a little more variety in the future. You will still see great backpacks, […]
Continue reading »How to Play YouTube in the Background on Your Phone
I rely on one song to be my pre-interview psychological music: atheme from the 2011 video game Skyrim . The only place I’ve found a […]
Continue reading »Boomerang Is Finally Coming to IOS [Updated]
Boomerang, an email add-on that lets you control when to send email, is now a free, fully functional email app for iOS. We have for […]
Continue reading »The Classic Horror Movies You Can Watch on Major Streaming Services Right Now
Streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video offer many great horror movies for your enjoyment, but sometimes you just want the classics. These […]
Continue reading »How to Find a New Home for Your Dog
No one becomes a pet owner expecting to have to give up their companion animal, but sometimes unexpected life changes make a decision inevitable. As […]
Continue reading »What I Learned From the Binge by Writing Nine Bad Novels
This year I will be writing my tenth scary novel. I do this every November; it is part of the NaNoWriMo tradition. I have never […]
Continue reading »You Must Crawl Around the House Before Your Child Does.
New parents are often told that they should protect their homes from the baby, but when they start to think about it, they do it […]
Continue reading »Make Breakfast for Two Weeks in One Skillet
I love fast food breakfast. Few things bring me so much joy as an egg mcMuffin or an awful breakfast burrito, although I know they […]
Continue reading »How to Understand That You Are in a Cult
From the point of view of an outside observer, what a cult is and what is not may seem obvious. Not a cult: your new […]
Continue reading »FaceTime – Cooking Pot so You Can Leave the Kitchen
The pot being watched is said to never boil, but it’s unclear if this additive applies to video calls. I can call the movement “brilliantly […]
Continue reading »What to Do When Children Swear
Children talk a lot. Parents usually respond with a nod, giggle, or maybe glazed eyes when it’s already 18 minutes after going to bed and […]
Continue reading »How to Simulate Piano Playing: Lesson 4
Earlier in How To Simulate Piano Playing, composer and musician Jason Oberholzer taught you all the building blocks: what to do with your left hand […]
Continue reading »Google Made Pixel XL 2 Even Harder to Repair Than Last Year’s Model
Smartphone makers like Apple and Samsung don’t want you to repair their devices yourself (that’s what the protection plan is for ), and Google appears […]
Continue reading »Why Is There Always New Research on Chocolate?
Do you have a vague idea of chocolate, perhaps dark chocolate, as good for you? It’s good for your heart health or something. On some […]
Continue reading »How to Get Started With the Linux Operating System
What operating system are you using? For some, this question may be asked in Latin or Sanskrit. For others, this is an invitation to a […]
Continue reading »Your Idea Will Never Be Ready
A large source of my creative postponement stems from the belief that my idea is “just not ready yet,” as if it were a fruit […]
Continue reading »Best Weather Apps for Desktop
While weather forecasting is a notoriously imprecise science, with voice assistants, pop-up notifications and buzzing smartwatches, keeping an eye on the weather of the day […]
Continue reading »How to Make High School Look More Like Kindergarten
One of the greatest innovations in education was the concept of playful preschool education or kindergarten, developed by Friedrich Froebel in the 19th century. For […]
Continue reading »How to Get a Free Hotel Night
Staying at the hotel is pleasant, especially if you leave space in your luggage for the mini shampoos and towels that come with the kit. […]
Continue reading »How to Remove Sticky Halloween Candy Residue From Pretty Much Everything
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert, advice columnist, and New York Times bestselling author of My Boyfriend Is Boiling In My Purse … And Other […]
Continue reading »Best Los Angeles Hacks From Our Readers
This week we asked for your advice on how to visit or live in Los Angeles, West Albany. You delivered. (Thanks to the commenters who […]
Continue reading »Traveling All the Time Will Not Suit You.
Welcome back to Mid-Week Meditations , Lifehacker’s weekly dive into the pool of stoic wisdom and how you can use its waters to meditate and […]
Continue reading »Explore Space With Google Maps
Yesterday Google added more than 500,000 images from the spacecraft to Google Maps , many of which were captured by Cassini launched into space 20 […]
Continue reading »The Bobby App Keeps Track of Your Subscriptions for You
iOS: If you’re like me, you’ve been bitten by a junk subscription draining money from your checking account long after you forgot to cancel your […]
Continue reading »Where to Hide During an Earthquake
Earthquakes are one of the most violent manifestations of Mother Nature’s power, but there is more you can do to protect yourself and your family. […]
Continue reading »Parchment Is the Best Packaging for Sandwiches, but Hardly
There are many ways to make a sandwich and many ways to wrap it up. But what is the best sandwich swaddle to keep your […]
Continue reading »I’m Jonah Becker, VP of Design at Fitbit, and I’m Working on It.
In his two and a half years at Fitbit, Jonah Becker helped the company surpass (pun intended!) Industry giant Apple. As VP of Design, he […]
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