How to Balance Your Financial Responsibilities With Your Monetary Goals
How can you achieve your monetary goal when someone else is always fighting for your limited funds? This is what we are reviewing this week. […]
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Not Having Many Close Friends Is Okay.
Social media is great for making people feel alone in the world, but the truth is, not having a lot of friends is okay and […]
Continue reading »I’m Jason Kottke, Creator of Kottke.org, and I’m a Parent.
Jason Kottke knows how to find things that will make you stop, look, and think. When you visit his blog, kottke.org , you feel like […]
Continue reading »Why You Should Literally Follow Your Orders
Running is an exercise suitable for the lazy. Unlike group classes or club sports teams, which require commitment and advance planning in order to reserve […]
Continue reading »Essential Windows Apps for 2018
There are so many Windows apps out there that making a list of the best and must-have software for your desktop or laptop seems like […]
Continue reading »Get Your Free Root Beer Float Today From A&W
Every day seems like a new national holiday for some reason. That said, there is a pretty solid benefit to today’s national holiday: the free […]
Continue reading »How to Truly Appreciate Classical Music
Mozart wrote a party song called Kiss My Ass. The dirty lyrics (“kiss my ass, quick, quick”) were not known until 1991. This is what […]
Continue reading »Should You Feed Your Dog Grain-Free Food?
Some (not all!) Grain-free dog foods are subject to additional FDA controls after several dogs who ate these foods developed the rare canine heart disease. […]
Continue reading »NES Is Not Pronounced Like NES
Words are pronounced the way people pronounce them, and to insist otherwise is to fight a lost battle. This is why “giff” and “jiff” are […]
Continue reading »Iced Lemon Tea for Streamlined Arnold Palmer
Lemonade and iced tea are two refreshing drinks, and even more when combined. The bitterness of black tea balances out the sweetness of lemonade to […]
Continue reading »Don’t Invite Your Partner to a Friend’s Event
When you fall in love, it seems like you never want to spend a moment away from your loved one. How fun for everyone you […]
Continue reading »Cold Meat Is the Best Way Out for a Summer Party
There are few things better than a summer dinner party and few things worse than cooking for one. Sweating over a red-hot grill in the […]
Continue reading »The Best Mobile Payment Systems
Apple Pay is the highest rated peer-to-peer (P2P) payment system in terms of payment authentication for fraud prevention and data privacy, according to Consumer Reports’ […]
Continue reading »Resize Your Windows Apps to Any Size With Sizer
Windows: It’s been a long time since we talked about the Windows Sizer app recently rewritten to be more compatible with Windows 10 applications. It’s […]
Continue reading »Tell Us Your Top Travel Tips for Edinburgh
We were a couple of days late for the Fringe, but there is still time! This week on Hack Your City, we want to hear […]
Continue reading »What’s in Store for and Out of Netflix in the Week of August 6, 2018
May I recommend you watch The Dumbbells Club ? It depends on how desperate you are to stay home this week, because things don’t look […]
Continue reading »Breaking Bad News
At some point, we all have to give bad news to another person. Whether it’s breaking up with a significant other, firing a coworker, or […]
Continue reading »Be Mindful of the Time You Spend Online With HabitLab
You might want to spend less time on sites like Facebook and YouTube, but it can actually be a bit of a daunting task at […]
Continue reading »Get 400 Coach-Led Workouts for Free With ClassPass Go
We all know workout is important, but sometimes it’s easier said than done to get to the gym. This week, ClassPass unveiled a new app […]
Continue reading »Turn Off Restaurant Recommendations on Google Maps
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 […]
Continue reading »Deteriorate Potential Hackers With This Alexa Skill, Written by Former SNL Writers
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, […]
Continue reading »Find the Cheapest Weekend With This Tool
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 […]
Continue reading »How to Get a Free Big Mac This Weekend
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 […]
Continue reading »Disassembling Google Lens-Bing Visual Search
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 […]
Continue reading »How to Meditate in Bed Without a Phone
When you just want to turn off your brain and sleep, meditation apps are perfect. A guiding voice or the sounds of something peaceful, like […]
Continue reading »Amazon Reading App for Kids Is Now Free
Do you know those viral videos where it looks like you are following a text conversation? Their satisfaction is different, but it is difficult to […]
Continue reading »Use the Bechdel Test to Break Out of the Netflix Routine
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 […]
Continue reading »Google Straight From MacOS Spotlight With This Keyboard Shortcut
Sometimes you want something on Google (or Bing? At your discretion …), but opening another browser tab seems like too much of an effort. If […]
Continue reading »Add Extra Yolks to Scrambled Eggs
In my opinion, egg whites exist only as a delivery vehicle for egg yolks. While white proteins are a great source of protein, they are […]
Continue reading »Stop Watching so Much on Twitter (Unless It’s Pictures of Puppies)
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 […]
Continue reading »Terms of Service You Need to Know
The Trump administration has made it easier for people whose employers do not offer health insurance benefits to buy short-term plans that are cheaper than […]
Continue reading »How to Get Started With Machine Learning and Robotics
“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 […]
Continue reading »Change Your Margarita by Swapping Liquor and Citrus Fruits
Happy weekend and welcome back to Happy 3 Ingredient Hour , a weekly drinks column featuring very simple yet delicious libations. Today we’re going to […]
Continue reading »Keep Your Left Shoes Next to the Child Car Seat
Leaving a child in a hot car accidentally is a tragic mistake that anyone can make . Blame our faulty brains, among other things. (And […]
Continue reading »Share Your Location (and See How Much Battery Power Your Friends Have) on Google Maps
When you are traveling in a large group, you always seem to receive or send the message “Where are you guys ?!” text, especially at […]
Continue reading »Have the Children Record Their Own Video of Songs to Prevent Tears While They Study.
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 […]
Continue reading »How to Get the Best Gmail Features When You Have an Old Email Account
In Tech 911 this week – a column in which we offer sensible answers and explanations to your deepest and darkest technical misunderstandings – a […]
Continue reading »How to Plant a Beach Umbrella so It Doesn’t Fly Away
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 […]
Continue reading »When to Sign up for a College Health Insurance Plan
As students prepare to travel to campuses across the country, there is one financial decision they need to make that has nothing to do with […]
Continue reading »How to Get a 4K Movie From the ITunes Store If You’ve Redeemed Code Elsewhere
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 […]
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