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Keep a Soap-Filled Dish Wand in the Shower for Easy Cleaning [Household]
Whether you like to clean as-you-go, or you just want an easier way to scrub down your shower walls when it's time to clean the bathroom, consider keeping a dish wand—you know, the kind where you fill...
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1Tap Quick Bar Tricks Out Your Android Phone’s Notification Drop-Down...
Android: The notifications drop-down is a great way to get quick access to incoming messages and alerts, and if you want even more control over your notifications pane, 1Tap Quick Bar is an Android...
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Findings Collects Kindle Highlights for Easy Sharing and Discussion [Webapps]
One of the best features on Amazon's Kindle (and its apps) is the ability to highlight blocks of text for reference later. The problem is that they're not that easy to pull up on the device itself and...
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Pitch Any Idea in 15 Seconds [Video]
Ever needed to quickly convince a friend to go to your favorite restaurant instead of theirs? Or maybe you're trying to sell an idea to someone? A well crafted pitch can convince people in a short...
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Octopus Keyboard Adds BlackBerry-Style Predictive Text Typing to the iPhone...
iOS (Jailbreak): If you're looking for a faster way to type on your iPhone, Octopus Keyboard is a new tweak that brings BlackBerry 10 style word-suggestion to the default keyboard. With Octopus...
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Personal Outsourcing: How to Get More than 24 Hours Out of Each Day...
Outsourcing is a term borrowed from the corporate world, that refers to taking a function of a business and having it provisioned by an external company, often overseas. Applied to our personal lives,...
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Apply a Screen Protector Perfectly Every Time with the Hinge Method [Video]
Screen protectors aren't as necessary as they used to be, but if you still like to use them on your phone, YouTuber minh8080 has a foolproof method for applying them. Essentially, you arrange the...
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How to Buy Gift Cards for Less [Saving Money]
Assuming you have something to spend them on, gift cards are as good as money. One handy difference between money and gift cards, though: No one's going to trade you $50 in cash for less than $50. With...
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You've Got a Phone Call in This Week's Open Thread [Open Thread]
It's that time of week: Time to pretend you've got to make an important phone call and jump into this week's open thread. Same drill as always, open-threaders: You can chat and ask questions with your...
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Test If Your Coffee Beans Are Fresh with a Ziplock Bag [Video]
For the freshest, boldest cup of coffee, you want to use the freshest beans. If you're not sure if your coffee beans are stale or not, America's Test Kitchen offers this easy test: Put some beans in a...
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Google Buys Email Client Sparrow [Email]
Big news: Google just purchased Sparrow, makers of our favorite email app for the Mac and one of our favorites for the iPhone. The Sparrow team posted the news at their site this morning. Whether...
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Repost Your Resume Every Few Days for a Better Chance of Getting Called [Job...
When you're looking for a job, you don't want your resume to end up at the bottom of the pile. Increase your chances of getting your resume looked at by recruiters by reuploading your resume on online...
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Is the Internet Really Making Me Stupid, Crazy, and Constantly Distracted?...
Dear Lifehacker, It seems like once every couple of years I hear about how the internet (or Google, or Farmville, or whatever else) is messing up my head in one way or another. Is it really possible...
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Charge Your USB Gadgets Through the TV in Your Hotel Room When Traveling...
When you're packing for a trip it's easy to forget a few things, even if you've got a great, geeky travel checklist. If you forget your charger, the television in your hotel room can fill in as a...
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RightInbox Adds Reminders to Gmail and Notifies You When Email You Sent Is...
Firefox/Chrome: RightInbox is an awesome tool for boosting Gmail's capabilities. The extension when it first launched was designed to schedule email for sending later, but RightInbox since then has...
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AirDroid Controls Your Android Phone or Tablet from Any Modern Web Browser...
Android: Touchscreen keyboards, or even miniature ones, are not necessarily the ideal surface for getting things done. A physical keyboard and computer are just simply faster for many tasks, but there...
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Share Multiple Files from Your Dropbox Folder Without Zipping Them [Dropbox]
Dropbox is a great way to share files with your friends, but if you need to share multiple files, you have to zip them up into an archive first. If you already have them in a folder, though, here's one...
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Bring OS X Lion's Mission Control Window Preview Feature to Windows [Windows...
Windows: If you have a lot of windows open, it can be helpful to see an overview of them all at once. Mission Control / Expose Clone W7 brings OS X Lion's Mission Control feature to Windows. There are...
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This Week’s Most Popular Posts: July 14th to 20th [Highlights]
This week we made our favorite hardware better/faster/stronger, took advantage of Amazon's lesser known services, hunted down missing, silenced phones, and more. Here's a look back. Top 10 Hardware...
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Afraid of Contamination? How to Test the Water in Your House [Crowdhacker]
Water. It comprises more than two-thirds of the weight of the human body and nearly 95 percent of your brain. You need it to live, and hopefully, you're consuming between 2-3 liters of water a day. But...
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