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| Filed Under: | Lifestyle / Productivity | |
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| Archived Since: | March 6, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
How Can I Make My PowerPoint Presentations Amazing?
Dear Lifehacker,
I have been tasked to make a slideshow for an event at work. I don’t want to make a generic PowerPoint with just boring text or pictures. What are some ways I can enhance the slideshow so it looks impressive and knocks the socks off my audience? Read more...
Wrap Citrus Fruit in Cheesecloth for Seed-Free Juicing
When you juice a lemon or lime by hand (without any special unitasker tool or juicer), all too often the seeds end up with the juice. To prevent the seeds from coming along for the ride, all you need is some cheesecloth. Read more.....
Gawker Kanye West Throws Another Tantrum, Loosens Grasp on Reality | Jezebel Smoke Weed and Be Skinn
Gawker Kanye West Throws Another Tantrum, Loosens Grasp on Reality | Jezebel Smoke Weed and Be Skinny: The Stoner Diet Plan | Deadspin Workout Video Features Dude Pooping In The Background | Gizmodo How Lasers May Have Revealed a Legendary Lost City of Gold Read more...
This Cheat Sheet Teaches You How to Match Shirt and Tie Patterns
Learning to match your shirts and ties together so they work well may be an art, but it's one you can learn. This infographic from men's designer footwear company Beckett Simonon shows you how to mix the riskiest kinds of shirts and ties: ones with patterns. Read more...
How Exercise Affects Your Body (and How to Pick the Right Workout)
We all know that exercise is good for you, but when you understand why, it makes getting off the couch and into the gym a lot easier. Here’s an explanation of what happens when you work out, and how it can help you deal with the pains and the gains you'll run into down the line. Read more...
Google Play Books Gets User Ebook Uploads and Drive Support
Google has added the feature to upload your own ebooks to Google Play Books. This means you can upload your own files and read them on any of your devices with the Google Play Books ereader app installed. Read more...
Recent Menu Puts All Your Recent Files and Apps in your Menubar
Mac: Recent Menu is an app that sits in your menubar and offers up all the recently accessed files, folders, and apps so you can get to them quickly. Read more...
Dictionary of Numbers Puts Large Numbers Into Easy-to-Understand Terms
Chrome: When you're reading articles that have a lot of big numbers in them it's hard to actually wrap you mind around what they mean. A number like "342,234 acres" doesn't really mean much to most us, but Dictionary of Numbers is a Chrome extension that turns those numbers into terms we can understand. Read more...
How To Get Rid of Ants
You can put an end to most ant problems with inexpensive products from the home center or hardware store (and save the expense of hiring an exterminator). Whether you've found the pests inside your home or outdoors, the folks from Family Handyman tell you everything you need to know to get rid of them for good. Read more...
TripIt Alerts You When a Better Seat on Your Flight is Available
Travel planning service TripIt is one of our favorite ways to organize your tickets, hotels, and travel plans all in one place for a stress-free travel experience. Now the service makes the trip there more comfortable, and can notify you when a better seat is available on one of your flights. Read more...
The Quiet City Desktop
We've featured Dan Carr's desktops before. They're always beautiful and functional, and this one is no different. The photo of a quiet, cloudy winter morning in Paris makes for a great backdrop for his widgets, all arranged so they don't detract from the image, but don't distract when it's time to work. Read more...
TouchPal Wave Types Sentences the Way Other Keyboards Type Words
Android: TouchPal Wave is the latest beta for the TouchPal Keyboard (which we've mentioned before). Wave combines gesture typing and predictive text to let you type out entire sentences in the time you would spend typing words with other keyboards, all with fewer errors. Read more...
How to Export Your To-Dos from Astrid and Take Them to a New App
When Yahoo acquired Astrid earlier this month, we all knew the inevitable was coming: The service would be shuttered and we'd have to go somewhere else. Thankfully, Astrid's developers have made it easy to get your data out, and a number...Show More Summary
Sleeping Laptops, Organized Gadgets, and a Better Number Pad
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...
Gmail Adds New "Quick Action" Buttons That Help You React to Messages
Gmail launched a new feature today called "Quick Actions," which recognize certain types of messages and help you take action on items immediately. Read more...
"Open" and "Closed" Headphones Explained, and Which You Should Buy
When you're buying a new pair of headphones, you have a lot of considerations to make—one of the more important (and more confusing) being the decision between open and closed. Video weblog Techquickie explains the main differences in this two minute video. Read more...
Google Music All Access: Should It Be Your New Streaming Service?
Today Google unveiled Google Play Music All Access, a subscription music and internet radio service that opens the door to millions of tracks, all intermingled with the music you already own. Sounds great, and the price is competitive, but should you ditch your current streaming service for it? Let's take a look. Read more...
How important is starting investment early?
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...
Disable Window Animations to Speed Up an Old Mac
OS X loves to devote resources to the user interface to fill your world with drop shadows and animations everywhere you go. That's fine on a powerful, newer Mac, but if you want to speed up an old one you need just one terminal command. Read more...
Why Serial Job Hopping Hurts Your Career (and How To Fix It)
These days, job hopping is practically a way of life. Gone is the idea of spending four decades at one company, ultimately retiring with a gold watch and a pension plan. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median number of years workers stay at a given job is only 4.6, which allows them to rack up as many as 10 gigs in a lifetime. Show More Summary