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This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
UniFlash for Android Flashes, Manages, and Installs ROMs From Your Desktop Android/Windows: UniFlash is a Windows utility that lets you download, flash, back up, restore, and install new ROMs on your...
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How to Sharpen Nail Clippers [Sharpening]
If your nail clippers don't clip as cleanly as they once did you can always toss them and buy another pair, but if you have a nice manicure set you may prefer to instead sharpen them and bring back to...
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Five Best Alarm Clocks [Hive Five]
The best alarm clock is the one that wakes you up, right? If that's the case, how to you choose the best alarm clocks from the worst ones? Whether you just use your smartphone to wake you, or you...
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Boil Hazelnuts in Water with Baking Soda to Easily Remove Skins [Video]
If you're making Nutella or other recipes that require toasted and peeled hazelnuts it can be a pain to remove the papery skins. To make the skins easier to remove boil the hazelnuts in water with...
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Build a Dedicated Pandora Wi-Fi Radio [Video]
If Pandora is your internet music service of choice consider building a standalone Wi-Fi radio designed to give you all the functionality of the webapp in a small tabletop device. You'll need a...
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DIY Temporary Tattoos [Crafts]
Temporary tattoos can be made using henna, eyeliner, or just writing on someone with a marker, but if you want to trace a design you cannot draw freehand here's a technique using tracing paper,...
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"What's the best way to become a Mac power user after only using PCs for...
What's the best way to become a Mac power user after only using PCs for several years? Anybody have any good suggestions for ROMs to try for my HTC One S? Is it wise to leave a hostile work...
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Stack Film Negatives (or Photoshop Layers) for Beautifully Surreal Photos...
If you still use 35mm cameras for art use you can get a really interesting effect by stacking negatives on top of each other when developing the film. Don't worry you can also recreate the effect in...
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Retro Apple Floppy Drive as HDD Enclosure [Repurpose]
If you have an old external floppy drive from Apple or other computer companies with a little work you can swap out the internals from an external HDD to produce modern storage with a retro look....
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Are You Using a Standing Desk? [Video]
Unless you're new around here, you know how we feel about standing desks and about just how bad too much sitting is for you. Our own Gina Trapani made the switch long ago and still loves it after a...
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ClassicMap Puts Google Maps Back on Your iPhone (with Several Features...
iOS: You may have heard, but people don't really like Apple's new Maps in iOS 6. They want the old Google Maps back. Well, sort of good news: you can get them as a native app thanks to ClassicMap—with...
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HTTPS Everywhere 3.0 Keeps Your Data Safe on 1,500 More Web Sites [Security]
Chrome/Firefox: HTTPS Everywhere, the browser extension that keeps your data from falling into the wrong hands, has updated to double the number of web sites it supports. If you aren't using it, you...
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How to Stop Time [Productivity]
One of the biggest barriers when it comes to productivity is the notion that we simply "don't have enough time." With all of the responsibilities and information coming our way, there's good reason...
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Most Popular Headphones: Grado Labs SR80i [Hive Five Followup]
Headphones are such a subjective topic that we knew that asking you to pin down your favorite headphones—or even five models you thought were the best—would be difficult. Even so, when we asked you...
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Get Better Color Out of Nighttime Photos [Photography Tips]
It's hard enough taking good low light photos, but it's even harder getting great color. Imre, a poster on question and answer site Stack Exchange, offers a few clear solutions to the problem: The...
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Will third-party apps ever be able to access my Google Music library?...
Great discussions are nothing new here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may...
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The Paper Mario Home Screen [Featured Android Home Screen]
Reader toasty_muffins created this fun, cartoony home screen with fun widgets and fonts in honor of the upcoming Paper Mario game. Toasty_muffins explains: Being excited about the new Paper Mario game,...
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Remains of the Day: ISPs Find New Ways to Monitor File Sharing [For What It's...
ISPs adopt new anti-piracy measures, third party iPhone 5 cables begin to surface, Google Play now lets you try subscriptions before you buy, and New York and San Francisco get free Wi-Fi for the...
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When Buying Two Computers Is Cheaper Than Buying One [Saving Money]
You can buy some pretty powerful laptops these days, and a lot of people are quick to take advantage of beasts like the MacBook Pro or big gaming laptops like the ASUS G55VW. However, what you might...
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Lookout Helps You Get Your Lost Phone Back, Protects You Against Mobile...
Android/iOS: Mobile security app Lookout has been around for a while, and is one of the few mobile security apps that actually do something to keep you safe. With this week's huge update, Lookout now...
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