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Select Text for Quick Blockquotes in Gmail Replies
If you're an avid Gmail user you know that when you're replying to a long email it's easy for the context to get lost. Blogger John Graham-Cumming points out that, like many other email programs, Gmail...
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Airport Guide Gives You Terminal Maps, Amenity Info, and More for Popular...
iOS: If you're gearing up to do some holiday travel, then chances are you'll also be doing some eating (or drinking) at the airport. If you want to prep yourself a little ahead of time, Airport Guide...
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How to Clean Up Your Online Presence and Make a Great First Impression
Odds are someone is searching the web for you right now, or at least has looked you up fairly recently. Do you know what they learned? Better yet, do you control the pages and profiles they visited?...
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Save Time Cleaning Up After Cooking with a Single Mise en Place Bowl
Having all of your ingredients prepped and arranged ahead of time (known as mise en place) is a real cooking timesaver. But who wants to clean up a bunch of bowls or clutter up the cutting board?...
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Everplans Walks You Through All the Steps Needed to Deal with Death (Yours or...
Everplans is a site that can help you get through all the steps needed to deal with that universal topic—death—at any stage, whether you are comforting someone who's grieving, have to make funeral...
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Build a Sturdy Solar Oven for Efficient Cooking Outdoors and in Emergencies
A solar oven can be a lifesaver during a blackout or other emergency—or it can be a low-maintenance alternative to other outdoor cooking methods. While you can make a solar oven using just a cardboard...
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Do I Really Need to Worry About My Shared File Permissions?
Dear Lifehacker, I've followed your guide to building a home server with FreeNAS, but I'm not sure what to do with the permissions on my files. Can I just set them all to 777, or is that insecure? This...
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Morse Pulls Contact Information from Your Gmail Messages and Syncs Them to...
Often times you'll find contact information in the body or signature of an email, but you neglect to add it to your contacts and are forced to search your email for a phone number or address. Morse...
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Put Some Inspirational Messages on Your Desktop with These Quotable Wallpapers
We post a lot of intelligent and inspirational quotes, and sometimes we turn those quotes into great wallpapers so you can keep them on your desktop. Here are some of our favorites so far. Creativity...
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I'm Chris Anderson, and This Is How I Work
After more than a decade as editor-in-chief at Wired magazine, Chris Anderson is making some big changes. Earlier this month, Chris announced that he's stepping down to focus on his robotics...
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Google Drive Adds Spreadsheet Editing to Its Mobile App
Android and iOS: When Google Drive released its first mobile apps, they barely did anything at all. Document editing came soon after, but now you can edit spreadsheets as well. Just like on the web,...
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Fix a Stuck Drawer with Lip Balm
Sometimes drawers get stuck on their stuck on their tracks, making it difficult to pull them open. How-to illustrator Yumi Sakugawa points out that you can get them moving more smoothly if you...
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Search Challenge: Will the Plex be underwater?
In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, everyone who lives near the coast keeps thinking about water levels-when something like Sandy comes racing up your shoreline, will you be swamped?Or, more...
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Asknative Gets Locals to Answer Your Travel Questions
Need a good restaurant suggestion in Venice, a good club in Boston, or just some general tips anywhere else? Asknative provides a global iPhone-based community that can answer your questions before and...
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Do You Use VoIP on Your Phone?
We've shared tons of ways to make free calls on your smartphone using Voice Over IP (VoIP), but it requires a lot more work than just making normal calls. We're wondering: how many of you are actually...
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DIY Wi-Fi Antenna Cheaply Extends Your Wireless Network
We've shared tons of ways to boost your home Wi-Fi, but if you need something a bit more powerful, this DIY antenna can stretch your wireless network much further. DIYer Danilo wanted to share his...
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Death is scary.
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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Remains of the Day: You Can Finally Merge Your Skype and Microsoft Accounts...
Skype's iOS app finally gets Microsoft account integration, you can now preorder books from the Google Play store, Vimeo launches a redesigned iOS app, and Microsoft finally divulges details on the...
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Childproof iPhones, Hidden Facebook Photos, and Laundry Detergent
Readers offer their best tips for letting your child play with your iPhone, hiding Facebook photos, and cleaning detergent off your Laundry stuff. Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in...
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Build a Portable Coffee Kit to Save Money and Enjoy Better Brew While Traveling
If you love your coffee as much as I do, traveling sucks when you know the only coffee you'll have access to is burned or been-on-the-warmer-for-12-hours convenience store drip. The folks at Mistobox...
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