Around the World in One Workspace: The Offices of CouchSurfing [Featured...
The offices of CouchSurfing, a site that helps you find people to host you at their home when traveling, has some pretty unique offices. In fact, each space has its own style while still contributing...
View Article"Impossible Is Not a Fact. It's an Opinion." [Quotables]
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an...
View ArticleDownload Any File or Web Page by Pasting Its URL Into Firefox's Download...
If you need to download a file, web page, or other URL to your hard drive quickly, you can actually do so in Firefox with a quick and simple keystroke. Perhaps you want to download a full web page, or...
View ArticleRemains of the Day: The Xbox Becomes a Serious Media Center [For What It's...
Microsoft introduces new media center features for the Xbox 360, Facebook Camera insists on location services, Siri possibly coming to the iPad, and researchers develop a BitTorrent client that keeps...
View ArticleUpside-Down iPhone Photos, Moving Music Libraries, and Unraveling String...
Readers offer their best tips for fixing upside-down iPhone photos, moving your music library to a new place, and storing balls of string in your desk. Don't like the gallery layout? Click here to view...
View ArticleThe Value of Your Attention [Focus]
Most of our attention is stretched across a bunch of ideas at once and it's increasingly difficult to stop and pay attention to the world around us. However, our attention span is limited and many of...
View ArticleBunch Your Monthly Tasks Together to Help You Remember Them [To-Dos]
Regardless of how organized you are with to-do lists and other reminders it's easy to forget your monthly tasks. To help remedy this, productivity blog Stepcase Lifehack suggests bunching all your...
View ArticleWatch It Is a Queue Manager for All Your Movie Services [Webapps]
If you're using a lot of different services Amazon, Netflix, Vudu, iTunes, or Hulu to get movies then you know that keeping track of what's available where and when can get difficult. Watch It is a...
View ArticleHow to Find Your Dominant Eye to Help Take Better Pictures [Photography]
Just like you're right or left handed you also have a dominent eye. In most cases this is the eye that prefers visual input and the one you should use when looking through a viewfinder and taking...
View ArticlePhone-ify Your Computer for Considerably Improved At-Home Calls and Texts...
You know what's absurd? When you're sitting at your computer, decide you want to text a friend, and abandon your full keyboard to send that text on your phone. Or how about when you're at your...
View ArticleClean Out the Inside of a Bag with a Lint Roller [Clever Uses]
Somehow a layer of cookie crumbs, crayon bits, and gum wrappers always ends up lining the bottom of my handbags and backpacks. Armed with a lint roller, however, cleaning up the inside of a bag should...
View ArticleMake a Long Range Wi-Fi Extender out of a Coffee Can [DIY]
A metal coffee can makes an attractive Wi-Fi antenna or signal booster with an impressively long range. You can make one yourself in an afternoon with just a few hardware parts. John Graham-Cumming...
View ArticleSave Big on Movie Tickets This Summer with This Fandango Deals List [Saving...
Going to the movies is fun! Paying lots for movie tickets is not. Luckily, Slickdeals member RandallMarshall has gathered up all the Fandango deals currently available, as well as a great trick for...
View ArticleHow Can I Avoid Getting Screwed When Selling on Craigslist? [Ask Lifehacker]
Dear Lifehacker, I've just started selling on Craigslist and it's a little overwhelming. I keep getting lowball offers, half of the emails I get seem like scams, and I'm just worried about meeting up...
View ArticleThe Best Disk Space Analyzer for Windows [Windows App Directory]
If your hard drive is starting to fill up, you may be wondering what exactly is taking up all that space. That's where a disk space analyzer comes in: it scans your disk and shows you, in graphical...
View ArticleSurvival Guide Puts the US Military Survival Manual in Your Pocket [Emergencies]
iOS/Android: Be prepared for the worst case scenario with this free app based on the US Military Survival Manual. Survival Guide's 19 chapters of tips and techniques teach basic fire principles, how to...
View ArticleMake Your Resume Stand Out by Focusing Your Job Title on the Job You're...
Most resumes end up at the bottom of a pile, and that happens because most resumes are boring and look the same. Ideally you want to avoid this, but being unique means taking some risks. As co-founder...
View ArticleAirtime Creates Video Chats with People who Share Your Interests, Is Like...
Airtime is a new video chat webapp that connects to your Facebook account, scans your interests, and pairs you up with random like-minded friends of your Facebook friends. Remember Chatroulette, that...
View ArticleBuild the Deluxe Kid Wash for Endless Summer Fun [DIY]
This inexpensive DIY sprinkler contraption will be the hit of the neighborhood and kids' summer parties. Easily made out of PVC pipes, the Deluxe Kid Wash lets kids run through cooling sprays of water....
View ArticleThe Sky Dichotomy Home Screen [Featured Home Screen]
Today's home screen is a collection of lock screen tweaks for jailbroken iPhone users, along with a few minor tweaks to the notification center. This screen is actually my own—we haven't had an iOS...
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