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Grow Your Own Potatoes Anywhere with a Sack and Some Soil [Gardening]
Potatoes are notoriously easy to grow, but you don't need a huge backyard plot to grow your own. All you really need are some seed potatoes, some potting soil, and a large burlap or sturdy plastic...
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Improve Your Memory by Combining Information with Bizarre Images [Memory]
We all want to improve our memory a little and while you won't find a shortage of complicated tricks to drastically improve your memory sometimes we forget about the easier methods. Illustrator Yumi...
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Stop Using Your Email Inbox Like a Filing Cabinet [Email]
It's easy to let old emails pile up over time and disappear into a large, unorganized mass in your inbox. You might think to yourself that someday, perhaps, you'll need old messages so you should store...
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ManualsLib Is a Free, No-Sign Up Required Library of Product Manuals [Webapps]
It's easy to lose track of manuals, especially when it's something you don't need to reference very often like a large appliance. ManualsLib is a free collection of a ton of different product manuals...
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Hide Your Ugly Wi-Fi Router in a Book Cover [DIY]
If you're sick of looking at your router's ugly design and blinking lights all day, you can camouflage it with the rest of your home by hiding it in a book cover. Of course, sometimes you need to see...
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Stop Sucking and Be Awesome Instead: A Three Step Process [Inspiration]
Nobody wants to suck, but the truth is, before you can be great at anything, you're going to suck. Coding Horror blogger and co-founder of Stack Overflow Jeff Atwood has three simple rules for going...
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Take a Sneak Preview at Your Weekend in This Week's Open Thread [Open Thread]
Pour one more cup of coffee, grab that last donut, and step inside. Lifehacker's weekly open thread starts now. Same drill as always, open-threaders: You can chat and ask questions with your fellow...
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How to Make Coffee with Minimal Equipment and Maintenance [Crowdhacker]
Drip machines and percolators take up too much space, French presses are a hassle to clean, and instant machines make coffee that tastes like crap. How to quickly make a cup of Joe that tastes great...
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Put a Duvet Cover on with Minimum Effort by Rolling It Like a Burrito [Video]
If you've ever tried to put a duvet cover onto a comforter (or duvet), you probably know a unique kind of bed-making frustration. This video shows what's probably the simplest, easiest way to get that...
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How Do I Figure Out What's Slowing Down My Jailbroken iPhone? [Ask Lifehacker]
Dear Lifehacker, I recently jailbroke my iPhone and installed a boatload of jailbreak apps, and at first everything was going great. After a few days, though, my phone slowed down and now it...
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Windows 8 Will Now Offer Desktop Apps In the Windows Store...Sort Of [In Brief]
We've seen what the Windows Store looks like, and it's a good way to get new metro apps for Windows 8 PCs and tablets. However, it doesn't offer desktop apps, and that irked us from the very start....
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Facebook Auto-Sharing Apps Get a Little Less Creepy, But You Should Still...
Most of you have probably seen Facebook's new "frictionless sharing" apps—like Socialcam or even the Washington Post's Social Reader—pop up in your news feed, automatically sharing videos your friends...
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These Are the Companies that Protect Your Data from the Government (And the...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation took a look at 18 different web companies to see which ones are serious about user privacy—and which ones are likely to hand your data over to the government at a...
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Learn the Simple Photography Mistakes You're Making in Under 15 Minutes [Video]
Photography is a lot of fun, but there are plenty of mistakes to be made—some of which can even cost you a bit of money. The folks over at DigitalRev, a photo-loving community and camera shop, have...
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CleanMyDrive Automatically Wipes Out Junk on Your Hard Drives and Makes Them...
OS X: Whether connected to a Mac or a Windows PC, your external drives can accumulate junk files created by the operating system. CleanMyDrive is an app that targets those files automatically and wipes...
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Work Less and Do More by Applying the Pareto Principle to Your Task List...
The Pareto Principle says that in most situations roughly 80% of effects come from only 20% of the causes. We can use the Pareto Principle to better manage our time and focus on the things on our task...
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This Week's Most Popular Posts: May 20 - June 1 [Highlights]
This week we kept cool on the cheap, found a better way to secure our iPhones, discovered our hidden asshole tendencies, and more. Here's a look back. Top 10 Ways to Beat the Heat The heat is back....
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Turn a Watermelon into a Keg [Food Hacks]
The perfect drink dispenser for your summer cocktail parties may actually be a watermelon. Serve punch, juice, or a real fruit cocktail in that giant melon. For your watermelon-to-keg transformation,...
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Daily App Deals: Get Ghostwriter Notes for iPad for Free in Today’s App Deals...
The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. The Best Ghostwriter Notes (iTunes) Previously $3.99, now Free....
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The Best Things to Buy in June [Best Time To Buy]
Feeling the summer heat yet? With wedding season and Father's Day coming up, June is a great month for deals. Here are the best things to buy this month. Every month, we look back at the best times to...
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