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Notify Me Not Provides Direct Links to Stop Notifications
Notifications and emails from services like Facebook and LinkedIn aren't just annoying, they're a distraction that clogs up your inbox. To shut down those emails, you often have to hunt down an obscure...
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The Best Time of Year, Month, and Day to Search for a New Apartment
The apartment search process is a notorious time suck. Fortunately, there are ways to optimize your search that can save you time and money. The team at RentHop crunched some data to uncover best time...
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Tweak Siri's Volume Separately from the Rest of Your iPhone
Siri, Apple's personal assistant for the iPhone 4S and above, can be a little bit of a chatterbox. Redditor iQuitter notes, however, that Siri has separate volume from the rest of your phone—so if you...
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How to Change Your Spending Habits when Your Salary Goes Up (or Down)
Few people go through their whole life on the same salary. Things change—you get a new job, get married, divorced, or laid off—and when that happens you need to recalibrate your spending habits. Here's...
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Quickly Access Google Docs in One Click with The New Chrome Webapps
The next time you want to create a new Google document, spreadsheet, or presentation, you can skip having to go through Google Drive and instead launch one of those apps directly with one click on a...
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The Swanky Offices of Mojang, Creators of Minecraft
It's nice to see a communal workspace that's actually comfortable and stylish. The offices of video game company Mojang are nominated for the Sweden's Most Beautiful Office Award, and it's not hard to...
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Hack Your Coffee Table to Have a Lift-Up Top
Lift-top coffee tables offer a convenient work or dining surface in the living room. If you don't want to buy a whole new, expensive coffee table, transform the one you've already got (assuming you...
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How to Prepare Your Computer for Windows 8
Windows 8 will be here in just one day. If you're thinking of getting in on all the new features of the new "re-imagined," touch-friendly operating system, here's what you should do now to get ready....
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Dragon Mobile Assistant Manages Your Calendar, Sends Texts, Makes Calls, and...
Android (4.0+): There's definitely no shortage of Android personal assistants, but finding the perfect one has always been a challenge. Nuance's new Dragon Mobile Assistant is one of the closest we've...
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Conair Travel Smart Adapter Combo Is Everything You Need in an International...
The Conair Travel Smart Adapter Combo provides everything you need in an international power converter: it's lightweight, small, self-contained, capable of operating in most countries, and protects you...
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Unpolitic.me Replaces Political Facebook Posts with Links to Cat Pictures
Chrome: The election is only two weeks away, which means the political arguments are getting pretty heated—particularly on Facebook, where intelligent discussion is something one can only dream of....
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Are You Planning to Upgrade to Windows 8?
Though many of you have tried out the pre-release previews this past year, Windows 8 officially releases to the public tomorrow. If you haven't played with it yet and would like to, you can try out the...
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If You're Always Stressed at Your Job, You're Probably Trying to Be Perfect
Some jobs just suck and cause enormous amounts of stress all on their own, but if you have a history of feeling stressed at work—regardless of the job—Dr. Fredric Neuman points out that it's probably...
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Search Answer: What Could Go Wrong? Fighting Fires in the 19th Century Home
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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How I Automated the Boring Parts of Life
Twitpic CTO Steven Corona found himself doing something many of us are guilty of—waiting until the last minute. Instead of fighting procrastination with sheer willpower, Steve turned to automation for...
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WiFi Camera Takes Photos On Your iPhone Through Someone Else's Camera
iOS: WiFi Camera lets you take pictures on one iPhone using another iPhone's camera—perfect for using one phone as a remote shutter for group pictures. You can use your iPhone's headset to take...
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Can I make Windows 8 look like Windows 7?
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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Best Single Hard Drive Enclosure?
A great way to get some life out of a hard drive from a previous build, or your old drive once you've upgraded to an SSD or a new computer is to grab a drive enclosure, mount the drive into it, and...
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Skitch, Our Favorite Screenshot and Annotation Tool, Comes to Windows
Windows: Skitch is a simple screenshot tool that makes it easy to edit, annotate, share photos instantly. It's our favorite screenshot tool for the Mac, and now it's finally available on Windows....
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Remains of the Day: SwiftKey Announces Flow, a Swype-Like Keyboard for Android
SwiftKey Flow brings Swype-like text entry to Android, Flipboard adds audio for Android users, Google experiments with free mobile services, and Apple prepares to jump into the internet radio market....
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