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The Best Spot to Hide Valuables May Be Your Kid's Room (and Other Tips from...
If you want tips on how keep your valuables safe, who better to ask than burglars themselves. Reader's Digest rounded up advice from convicted burglars as well as criminology experts. One secret you...
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Mix Your Own Alternative to Regular Olive Oil [Video]
Regular olive oil is great for cooking because of its relatively high smoke point and mild flavor. You don't need to buy it, though, to get that great combination. America's Test Kitchen demonstrates...
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Why's Everybody So Pissed About Twitter, and Should I Care? [Ask Lifehacker]
Dear Lifehacker, I keep hearing people complain about Twitter's new rules and guidelines. Honestly, I don't understand what's going on, and I have no idea if I should even care about it. Why's everyone...
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Drag & Drop Search Is an Insanely Fast Way to Search the Web in Chrome...
Chrome has a great feature that lets you select text and right-click it to search that term on Google. Drag & Drop Search is an extension that does something similar: You select text, then drag it...
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Use $2 Bills to Trick Yourself into Saving More [Personal Finance]
Here's an actually fun way to build up that rainy day fund: Start collecting $2 bills. They're rare, they're cool, and you'll be more likely to hold onto them. This clever idea comes from the Budgets...
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List of Things For Sale Provides an Easy Place to Sell Stuff to Your Friends...
If you don't want to deal with eBay fees or Craigslist creepers, free service List of Things for Sale helps you set up your own personal online store and sell things to your friends. The site makes...
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Keep Towels in Their Place with a Hair Clip [Clever Uses]
Small towels have a terrible tendency to slip off the rod and pool on the bathroom or kitchen floor. An easy and inexpensive solution to this annoyance is the simple hair clip. Clamp the clip on the...
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Use the FORD Technique to Make Small Talk Easier [Communication]
Starting a conversation with a complete stranger can be a little intimidating, and sometimes you don't know what to say. Use the FORD technique the next time you meet someone to avoid those awkward...
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OS X 10.8.1 Update May Improve Battery Life in Mountain Lion [In Brief]
If you've been having battery trouble since upgrading to Mountain Lion, there's good news: yesterday's 10.8.1 update may improve it some. Ars Technica tested it out on a MacBook Air and a retina...
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This Week’s Most Popular Posts: August 18th to 24th [Highlights]
This week we showed you what to do now that popular BitTorrent tracker Demonoid is down, introduced you to some command line tools that put their GUI counterparts to shame, built the media center of...
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How to Clean Stainless Steel (Without Breaking the Bank) [Crowdhacker]
So, stainless steel: 90% steel, 10% chromium. Turns out it's not so stainless. Under certain conditions, gunk and smudges stick, but they don't have to stick forever. Before you spend tons of money...
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DIY Solar Panel Backpack Charges Your Gadgets as You Walk [DIY]
DIYer Theodore Protasiewicz shows us how to mod a backpack with a few solar panels to charge your devices with the midday sun. All you need for this project is three solar panels, some soldering...
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Are you worried about the recent changes to Twitter? [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...
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Battery Time Remaining Brings More Battery Info to Mountain Lion's Menu Bar...
OS X: With Mountain Lion, Apple took away the ability to see your remaining battery time in the menu bar. Free app Battery Time Remaining brings it back, along with a few other goodies to keep your...
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Remains of the Day: Microsoft Sees Every Windows 8 App You Download [For What...
Microsoft's SmartScreen technology sees every app you download, several NBC shows are coming to Amazon Prime Instant Video, Xbox Live is getting a special presidential election hub, and Evernote...
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Make Your Own Cooking Gadgets and Upgrade Your Kitchen This Weekend...
Cooking can be easier and more fun when you have the right tools, but those tools are often pretty expensive. Instead of forking over the cash, you can make many kitchen gadgets yourself. Drinks...
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Open a Soda or Beer Bottle with a Stapler [Clever Uses]
If you have the occasional beer (or Mexican Coca-Cola) at work and don't have a bottle opener handy you can you your trusty stapler. Instructables user ivan_stephens notes that the steel carrier on a...
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Top 10 DIY Projects That Cost Less Than $3 [Video]
Why pay tons of money for something when you can make it yourself for pennies on the dollar? Here are some of our favorite life hacking DIY projects that'll run you less than the cost of a latte. 10....
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Repurpose Bread Clips as Traveling Clothespins [Video]
If you're backpacking through wilderness trails or between cities in Europe you'll probably find yourself doing a lot of laundry by hand. Instead of bringing actual clothespins you can use plastic...
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Make Canning Jar Lids and Accessories with a 3D Printer [3dPrinting]
For many people it would be difficult to find two things that have less in common than mason jars and 3D printers, but many makers and homesteaders with one foot in the past and one in the future find...
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