We’ve all been there. You agree to a group dinner when you’re on a tight budget, ordering the soup and a side salad while your friends split appetizers, order entrées and try fancy new cocktails. You watch helplessly as the bill comes, and your friend’s boyfriend you were never really a fan of to begin […]
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Android: There are plenty of people who don’t need bells and whistles when an easy-to-understand, well-designed app will do. And that’s my impression of Google’s new Podcasts app—teased for some time and finally made available for download as of yesterday.Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
Patrick Moberg has wasted hours of your life, or of the life of someone next to you in a waiting room. His studio Dots created the beautiful and addictive mobile game Dots (the thinking person’s Candy Crush), and its sequels Two Dots and Dots & Co, all of which are on millions of phones. We […]
Electronic communication can still create a paper trail, as former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort learned recently when his bail was revoked for alleged witness tampering while he was on house arrest awaiting two trials.Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
Losing your wallet is like losing a part of you. Everything is in there—your driver’s license, your credit cards, your membership IDs, and your photos of loved ones. This clever trick can help you avoid losing your wallet forever the next time you venture out into the outdoors.Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
This week we have a woman who gets along with men well in a platonic way, but recently introduced a flirty gal pal to the mix. Can she get them to stop flirting with each other? Or does she need to get over it?Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
You can read all the books about what to expect when you’re growing a human inside you, but the fact sheets and stats don’t always tell you the real story. In the video above, Angela Garbes, author of Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy, shares a few things […]
Whole Foods has never been know for its price deals—people go for the dazzling array of cold-pressed juices and asparagus water, I imagine—but, since the Bezos takeover, prices on certain items have dropped pretty drastically, and they’ve stayed down.Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
I went through most of my life thinking I was allergic to penicillin. I’d had hives with a dose of the stuff as a child, and an also-allergic family member taught me to look for an allergy section on every medical form I filled out, and make sure to write “penicillin” on the line.Read more… […]
The term “constitutional crisis” has been on a lot of people’s minds over the last two years, but what does it mean? And what could it lead to? Here’s what you need to know.Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
If you routinely forget to set calendar reminders to cancel free trials before they auto-renew, consider using a prepaid card instead of your credit card, as this Redditor recommends.Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
The hardest task on most to-do lists is the invisible one: getting motivated to do anything at all. And the more important your tasks are, the more you can scare yourself out of even starting. One trick to fight this, according to the producers of the YouTube channel How to ADHD, is a simple meditation-like […]
We thought the problems of the “V steam” were widely understood, but recently Chrissy Teigen posted on Instagram that she’s trying a vaginal steam despite not being sure whether it will work or whether, perhaps, her vagina might dissolve. Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
A new, unpleasant report making the rounds today is a great reminder that your Mac’s Quick Look feature—useful as it might be for previewing files by mashing your space bar—stores information about the contents of encrypted USB drives you’ve connected to your system.Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
Apple unveiled some killer new features in its WWDC 2018 keynote presentation earlier this month. In iOS 12 (which you can beta-test right now), users will be able to train Siri, stop sites from tracking them, and limit how much time they spend in apps. The worst part? These new features won’t officially launch until…Read […]
We’ve all stared down a sad, empty fridge at too-late-for-a-grocery-run-o’clock on a weeknight, willing some higher power to magically replenish the shelves while our eyes are closed. Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
When I was a kid, my dad taught me how certain chess pieces move by having me analyze the shapes of the pieces themselves. The rook, a castle made of horizontal and vertical lines, moves horizontally and vertically. The bishop, which has slanted lines, moves diagonally. I was never much good at the game, but […]
I’m very good at wanting to buy things. I want to buy a new sound system, for example. This would mean ripping five speakers out of my walls, patching up the holes, and buying a $700 soundbar. My wife points out that the current system works well, and asked me why I want to replace […]
I’ve always been a fan of pre-travel planning, to the point that I build a packing grid before every trip. The packing grid includes outfit components for every day of travel (based on predicted weather and activity), as well as a list of essentials that I don’t want to leave behind: Advil, Band-Aids, my Fitbit…Read […]
