Blog Profile / Lifehacker
| URL : | http://lifehacker.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Lifestyle / Productivity | |
| Posts on Regator: | 33252 | |
| Posts / Week: | 122.3 | |
| Archived Since: | March 6, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Chrome 27 is out of beta and available for download now.
Chrome 27 is out of beta and available for download now. The biggest benefit: It'll load pages 5% faster. Learn more here. [via The Next Web] Read more...
Online Calculators Boost Your Chance of Retiring with Enough Money
Saving enough for a comfortable retirement is one of the most important—and challenging—financial tasks we all have to do. A recent study suggests that you can dramatically improve your odds of success if you just use an online calculator to find out how much you need to be saving. Read more...
EasilyDo Tells You What to Do Before You Need to Know (or You're Late)
Android: EasilyDo, the proactive personal assistant, launched for iOS a few months ago. Now the app is available for Android, and features the same proactive reminders and tools, from reminding you to make dinner reservations to suggesting you get flowers on the way home for your anniversary. Read more...
How to Install Linux on a Chromebook and Unlock Its Full Potential
There are some Chromebooks with awesome hardware out there, like the beautiful Chromebook Pixel, but they don't quite hit their full potential with Chrome OS. Here's how to install Ubuntu and get more out of your Chromebook. Read more...
Find Free Wi-Fi Passwords for Local Spots on Foursquare
Free Wi-Fi is everywhere, but sometimes it isn't always the easiest to find. If you're at an establishment and don't know the Wi-Fi password, you might be able to find it in the comments on Foursquare. Read more...
Checkmark, Our Favorite Location-Based Reminder App, Is Free Right Now
iOS: Apple's Reminders is an okay app, but its location-based reminders aren't exactly quick to create. Checkmark is much better, making it a snap to create reminders at any spot, and it's free today (down from $4.99). Read more...
Pandora Premieres Streams New Albums Weeks Before They Launch
Pandora, one of our favorite streaming music services, unveiled Pandora Premieres today, a new channel that streams music from popular and up-and-coming artists well before their albums launch in online music stores. If you love hearing new music first, the new station may become one of your favorites. Read more...
Flickr for Android Gets an Overhaul to Match Its Web Redesign
Android: Yesterday, Flickr completely overhauled their site and unveiled new free and paid plans. After that, they pushed a huge update to their Android app, one that brings the tiled gallery view and a few extra features for mobile users. Read more...
Novelty and the Brain: Why New Things Make Us Feel So Good
We all like shiny new things, whether it's a new gadget, new city, or new job. In fact, our brains are made to be attracted to novelty—and it turns out that it could actually improve our memory and learning capacity. The team at social sharing app Buffer explains how. Read more...
Producteev Goes Free, Unveils New Features for Group To-Dos
Android/iOS/OS X/Web: To-do service Producteev, one of your favorite group to-do management tools, unveiled a major overhaul to its webapp today that's aimed at making your personal to-dos easier to follow, and group projects easier to manage. Read more...
Clipping Magic Removes Image Backgrounds in Seconds
Cropping an object out of an photo in an image editor can be a tricky task, but Clipping Magic is a new webapp that does it for you in seconds. All you have to do is paint the foreground object one color, the background object another, and the app does the work for you. Read more...
Fit Radio Motivates You to Exercise with High-Energy Playlists
Android/iOS/Web: A little music to keep you motivated while you work out is always a good thing, and FitRadio has that in spades. The app packs dozens of playlists from multiple genres, all engineered by professional DJs to help you keep your energy up and push through your exercise routine. Read more...
The Air Travel Rights You Aren't Aware Of (and How to Get Them)
If you've ever sat in a plane on the tarmac only to have the flight cancelled, been bumped just before boarding, or landed at your destination only to be told your luggage will arrive sometime in the next 12 hours, you know how air travel can suck. Show More Summary
More Headphone Mods, Tablet Stands, and the Google Now Menu
Readers offer their best tips for putting your laptop to sleep, keeping your gadgets in one place, and making your keyboard's number pad better. Read more...
Flickr Offers 1TB of Free Space for Your Photos, $50 Yearly for No Ads
Yahoo, in an attempt to make its photo-hosting service Flickr relevant again, decided to offer 1TB of free space to all users. The downside? Everyone who doesn't pay $50 per year gets ads. Read more...
Stop Quicktime and Preview from Auto-Restoring What You Left Open
OS X: Auto-restore works great when you want to pick back up where you left off working, but how many times do you leave open a photo or video you actually want to see again when you re-open Preview or Quicktime? A couple of terminal commands can disable this annoying—and potentially embarrassing—feature of OSX. Read more...
The Windowside Workspace
You'll rarely end up with a poor workspace if you include an organized desk, a good chair, only the tools you need for work, and an abundance of natural light. Designers Ryan Meis and Sarah Labieniec created an excellent space on those simple principles. Read more...
Would you sacrifice salary for happiness?
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 may have missed. Check out these discussions and add your own thoughts to make them even more wonderful! Read more...
Minbox Offers Super-Fast File Sharing and Cloud Storage
Mac/iOS: Minbox is a new file sharing service that's fast, free, and lets you upload files of any size and any type so you can send them to friends. Best of all, it does it all without forcing you to wait for the upload to finish before you can share the file and get back to work. Read more...
Ars Technica reports that AT&T doesn't want all its users making video calls over cellular data just
Ars Technica reports that AT&T doesn't want all its users making video calls over cellular data just yet. The recently-announced revamp to Google+ Hangouts won't connect on an AT&T Android smartphone unless you're connected to Wi-Fi....Show More Summary