The Low, White Workspace [Featured Workspace]
Who says you have to sit in a desk chair or stand to be comfortable at your desk? Today's featured workspace showcases a giant white table that sits low to the ground. Ben sits at the table on a yoga...
View ArticleManage Your Microsoft-Related Personal Info on The New Personal Data...
Microsoft's new Personal Data Dashboard is a one-stop shop for managing your personal information stored on various Microsoft services. You can see and clear your Bing searches and ad preferences, and...
View ArticleGrandview Offers Multiple Methods of Distraction-Free Writing [Mac Downloads]
OS X: There are numerous distractions on your computer and none of them make it easy to write. Like many distraction-free writing apps, Grandview takes over the entire screen to block them all out. The...
View ArticleAnswer: What Am I Doing? [Search Research]
Daniel Russell knows how to find the answers to questions you can't get to with a simple Google query. In his weekly Search Research column, Russell issues a search challenge, then follows up later in...
View ArticleOff to College? Avoid These Financial Pitfalls [Money]
It's back to school time (yes, already!) and if you're off to college, you're a prime target for credit card companies and loan sharks. Benjamin Feldman of personal finance app ReadyForZero offers...
View ArticleMake Your Own Cotton Candy Machine for Less Than $50 [Video]
Cotton candy machines can be expensive, but this DIY version from the folks at Make will set you back about $50, is completely reusable, and uses parts you can easily get from the hardware store. if...
View ArticleBuild anything cool with Raspberry Pi yet? [Discussions Of The Day]
Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you...
View ArticleBest Desktop Music Player? [Hive Five Call For Contenders]
Most of us use some application to manage our collections, keep track of our playlists, and play the tunes we want to hear when we want to hear them, and there are several apps out there that do a...
View ArticleRemains of the Day: Motorola Won't Be Unlocking Bootloaders for Older Phones...
Motorola's bootloader unlocking tool won't be coming to older devices, Apple releases 10.8.1 update for Mountain Lion, Chrome for iOS updates with new sharing feature, and Pandora for Android updates...
View ArticleCheap Media Centers, Smarter Notifications, and a Less-Annoying YouTube [The...
This week on the podcast we're talking about building an amazing but cheap media center, upgrading your phone's notification system, and making YouTube less annoying. We're also answering your...
View ArticleScience Explains How to Hack Your Diet and Lose Weight [Video]
If you're looking to shed a few pounds the healthy way, this video from ASAP Science is full of scientifically proven suggestions that don't require crazy diets or special meals: just common sense and...
View ArticleThe New Pandora for Android Looks Great, Makes It Easy to Bookmark and Save...
Android: Streaming music service Pandora updated its Android app this week, giving it a much-needed UI makeover, an updated song history that now lets you go back and bookmark and review tracks as...
View ArticleHolly Is a Web-Based To-Do Manager for People Who Love the Command Line...
If you're at home at the command prompt, love your text editor, and you eat key commands for breakfast, Holly is the to-do manager for you. Holly sports impressive features, and all of them are...
View ArticleFoldingText Is a Plain Text Editor for Mac with Hidden Features [Mac Downloads]
Mac: You won't find a shortage of great plain text editors for Macs, but FoldingText brings a few new things to the table. These include Markdown-style auto formatting, an interesting text hiding...
View ArticleStuck? Explore Solutions You Know Are Wrong Anyway [Creativity]
Innovative ideas don't usually come overnight in the heat of a eureka moment. It usually takes hard work, but sometimes it's easy to get stuck on something and have no place to go with it. When that...
View ArticleI Am CC Releases Your Instagram Photos Under a Creative Commons License...
By default, you own every picture you take on Instagram, but once photos are on the service, they're kind of stuck there. If you want to licence your photos so anyone on the web can use them, I Am CC...
View ArticleThe Best Times to Shop Online If You Want The Most Savings [Saving Money]
Grabbing the best prices is all about where and when you shop. Retailer reporting service SumAll has identified the best (and worst) days and months to find online deals and packed it all in this handy...
View ArticlePreview Fonts with One Click in the OS X Font Window [Mac Tips]
Most OS X apps have a small "Fonts" window that pops up if you want to change your font's options, but by default, it doesn't show you what each font actually looks like. Here's how to show a preview...
View ArticleHow to Be Assertive (Without Losing Yourself) [Success]
Conventional wisdom says that assertive people get ahead. They tell people what they think, request the resources they need, ask for raises, and don't take no for an answer. So what are non-assertive...
View ArticleIt's More Entertaining Than Your Favorite TV Show in This Week's Open Thread...
Need a short-term pick-me-up to finish out your week? Good news! We're bottling that in this week's open thread. Same drill as always, open-threaders: You can chat and ask questions with your fellow...
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