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Follow Lifehacker on Twitter for All Our Stories in Your Feed [Announcements]
Twitter users know there's no better way to keep up with events as they happen than to have them show up right in your Twitter feed as they happen. Keeping up with Lifehacker articles is no exception....
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The Orbital Control Desktop [Featured Desktop]
Many of the desktops we feature are minimal, practical, and elegant. This one's on the cluttered side, and it's not terribly practical when you have apps open all over it, but it's definitely fun to...
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Notif for Android Creates Custom, Interactive Notifications For Reminders,...
Android (4.1 Only): One of the best things about Jelly Bean is the way it updated the notifications panel. Notifications are interactive, and can include images, lists, and more detail that wasn't...
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How to Give Advice to a Friend Without Being a Know-It-All [Social Gps]
We all have friends that need a little advice (and you probably need some too), but one of the problems with those types of conversations is that it's really easy to come off as "holier than thou" when...
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Layer Wax Paper On Top of Hard-to-Reach Shelves to Make Dusting a Breeze...
Dusting is never fun, but it's even worse when you have to climb up on the counter to get to the top of tall shelves. This Old House suggests a simple solution is to layer the top of your shelves with...
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Does "What You Know" Beat "Who You Know"? [Communication]
We've all heard the saying, "it's not what you know, it's who you know." But given our hyper-connected world, could it be that who you know matters less than in the past? Entrepreneur Auren Hoffman...
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Check for Loose Equipment on ATMs to Quickly and Easily Find Card Skimmers...
ATM card skimmers come in a variety of forms. NPR talked with an ATM technician to figure out the most common ways to spot skimmers, and it turns out you really just need to jiggle the equipment a...
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How To Motivate Yourself Into an Exercise Routine You'll Actually Stick To...
If getting active and staying healthy were easy, everyone would do it...but we don't. We come home after a long day of sitting in a chair to de-stress by sitting in another chair, unable to summon the...
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Use a Cocktail Shaker to Make Strong Iced Coffee Faster [Coffee]
It often seems like you can either have good, strong, hot coffee fast, or decent iced coffee with an overnight soak or refrigerated concentrate. Work around the seemingly inflexible math of good, cold...
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Know How the Monty Hall Problem Impacts Your Split Decisions [Psychology]
If someone told you about a prize behind one of three doors, you'd have a roughly 33% chance of guessing it. Before you get the answer, you're shown the door you didn't pick was a loser. What are your...
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Mood-Lifting Advice from the 1820s [Advice]
Slightly cold bath water, business, amusing books, and "Short views of human life - not further than dinner or tea." Such is the advice Sydney Smith sent to Lady Georgiana Morpeth in 1820 about "low...
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Why Doesn't My New Hard Drive Show the Right Amount of Space? [Ask Lifehacker]
Dear Lifehacker, I just bought a new 1TB external drive, but my computer is only showing that it has 902GB on it! What's the deal? Am I getting scammed out of 100GB? Sincerely, Greedy for Gigabytes...
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Recover After Losing Everything When Traveling Abroad [Travel]
You're traveling abroad and you just got mugged. Your identification is gone, and so is all your money. What do you do? Mark Mayo, over at Q&A site Stack Exchange, has the answer. When you've just...
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Set Your Desktop to Beautiful Video Game Art [Wallpaper Wednesday]
We can't play our favorite games all the time. We have to work, after all. Nonetheless, you can still keep those gaming memories close with some amazing video game art as your wallpaper. Here are some...
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I'm Jeff Atwood, Cofounder of Stack Exchange, and This Is How I Work [How I...
Jeff Atwood cofounded and built Stack Overflow in 2008. The site, which features questions and answers on all things programming, grew into the Stack Exchange network—a free, open collection of 89...
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Make an Awesome Coffee Table Out of Magazine Holders and a Stool [Ikea Hacks]
The clever folks over at IKEA Hackers have done it again. They've created a beautiful coffee table out of four magazine holders and a standard rotating artist stool. This project looks remarkably...
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Anvil Manages Local Web Site Development from Your Menubar [Facebook]
OS X: When you're working on a few web sites, keeping track of them all gets a little tedious—especially when they can't all be kept in the same location. Anvil sticks all your projects in the menubar...
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Challenge: What University Department Vanished? [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...
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FreedomPop Provides Free Wireless Internet Access You Can Take (Almost)...
FreedomPop offers free internet access over Sprint's WiMax network. You're limited to 500MB per month, and you have to cough up a refundable deposite for a mobile hotspot or USB adapter, but it costs...
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Gunnar Glasses Reduce Computer Eyestrain, Are 75% Off for the Next Two Days...
It's hard being a computer geek, especially when you get headaches from staring at a screen all day. Gunnar glasses are a great way to keep eyestrain at bay, and you can grab them at a serious discount...
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