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- How Much Stretching It Takes to Make You More Flexible, According to Science | Lifehacker
Four minutes a muscle. More than most people probably do.
- What All the Stuff Printed on an Egg Carton Actually Means
My strategy when buying eggs avoids all of this parsing and definition stuff. I go to the egg section, I find the most expensive carton of eggs they sell, and buy that. 🤷🏼♂️
- Stop Using WhatsApp If You Care About Your Privacy
My opinion? Your absolutely bonkers to believe that WhatsApp is going to continue to fight for user privacy after Facebook bought it. Simple as that.
- Change These Settings on Your New TV for a Better-Looking Picture
Great advice for your TV. I particularly dislike the smoothing, motion effects in new TV's. It would be even better if TV manufacturers had one setting for "Display Only" to turn…
- Getting Things Done, Ten Years In
I've practiced GTD for about 10 years now as well and definitely parts of it have become routine. I have also decided to focus on this as a lifelong skill and something I will…
- 10 Lessons I Learned from a Year of Productivity Experiments
Over the last 12 months I have conducted countless productivity experiments on myself, interviewed some of the most productive people in the world, and read a ton of books and…
- Become a Stronger Leader by Asking Yourself These Three Questions
What am I not saying that needs to be said? What am I saying that’s not being heard? What’s being said that I’m not hearing?
- How to Choose the Best Chart for Your Data
Good article, worth it just for the hilarious header image. When you're putting together a chart, you're trying to show one of four things with the data you have: a relationship…
- The Coffee Lover's Guide to Tea
- What to Do When "Doing What You Love" Isn't an Option
- Become a Command Line Ninja With These Time-Saving Shortcuts [Video]
- WhereDoYouGo Heatmaps Foursquare Check-ins
- Vimeo Video School Offers Free Tutorials to Help Improve Your Video Skills [How To]
If you're looking to get started with your new video camera or just refine your skills, Vimeo's just launched their Video School with some excellent tutorials from Vimeo users and…
- Textual Is a Lightweight and Scriptable Mac OS X IRC Client [Downloads]
Mac OS X: Textual is a streamlined open-source IRC client for Mac OS X with an emphasis on a clean interface and easy scripting.More »
- Ge.tt Is a Brilliant, Real-Time File-Sharing Pipe, No Add-ons Required
Handy tool.
- Sidestep Automatically Reroutes Your Mac's Traffic When Unsecured
- Vanilla Whitelists Your Cookies in Google Chrome
- Drink Water Before a Meal to Reduce Hunger (Seriously) [Diet Hacks]
Sure, it sounds like the flimsiest of fad diet ideas, but a few studies have shown that taking your time with some water before eating any meal can stave off overeating—especially…
- Focus Is a Free Ebook on Minimalism and Killing Distractions [Free]
Looks like a good read.
- How Do You Relate to Your Desk? [Video]
Filmmaker Aaron Trinder visits the desks of a handful of creative workers to get a look at their workspaces and discuss how they relate to that space. The result is this excellent…
- Set Up a Simple, Web Streaming Home Surveillance System [Video]
We've featured numerous home surveillance apps, as well as some details on how to make a pretty hardcore surveillance system. If you're looking for something simpler, though,…
- Facebook Services for Mac Share Photos and Links from Your Desktop [Automator]
We're big fans of Automator here at Lifehacker, and the folks over at Mac OS X Automation have created a few services that let you share photos and links straight from your…
- Your Value Is in Deciding What's Important, Not Answering Email
Asked how he achieve work/life balance, Google's Director of Research Peter Norvig offered up a pretty easy answer. He knows that his job is in making good decisions on what's…
- Put Your Cognitive Surplus to Good Use
Internet expert and author Clay Shirky's new book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age, discusses how the internet enables us to use slivers of time…
- Fake Brings Automator-Like Workflows to Your Web Browser
Mac only: If you're a fan of OS X's Automator application, then you'll love new web browser Fake. It has its own workflow creator in the sidebar, allowing you to automate…
- Desktop Earth Sets a Rotating Picture of the Earth as Your Windows Wallpaper [Downloads]
We've already shown you how to set a rotating Earth image as your Linux wallpaper, and many of you came up with good Windows solutions. But if you're not the scripting type,…
- WolframTones Generates Unique MIDI Ringtones for Your Cellphone [Ringtones]
If your phone's ringtones just aren't doing it for you anymore, or if everyone at work is sick of that one MP3 snippet, WolframTones can generate original, 8-bit-sounding…
- All URL Shorteners are Not Equal; Pick a Speedy and Reliable One [URL Hacking]
URL shorteners are great for minimizing URLs in a Twitter message or keeping links clean in an email, but as convenient as they are they do introduce an extra point of failure.…
- Google Replaces SearchWiki with Stars for Customized Search [Search]
Google's messed around with personalizing search results for years, and changed its tactics often. Their latest idea kills SearchWiki in favor of adding a "star" to a result you…
- ITiVo Downloads Shows to Your Mac for On-the-Go Viewing
Mac OS X: If you like to watch shows from your TiVo with a handheld devicelike an iPhone or PSPwhen you're on the go, free, open-source application iTiVo converts them to a…
- HandBrake Updates to 0.9.4 with Over 1,000 Changes, 64-Bit Support
Windows/Mac/Linux: If you ever have to rip DVDs to your desktop or convert video, you know how awesome open-source encoder HandBrake is. Well, it's just been updated with over…
- Declutter and Purge Your Kitchen to the Necessities, the Checklist
Design weblog Hello Kitchen's kitchen-decluttering checklist provides a quick, easy guide to tackling the large chore of cleaning and decluttering your kitchenhelping you purge…
- ITunesLP.net Teaches You to Create, Lets You Download iTunes LPs
Web site iTunesLP.net details how to create albums in Apple's new iTunes LP format. The site also offers free downloads of iTunes LP albums that aren't already available in…
- The Minimalist OS X Desktop [Featured Desktop]
Reader нawk's desktop is a blend of a simple wallpaper and nicely placed system stats—yielding a clean, minimalist look that gives you the information you want without a lot of…
- Mint Makes Money Saving Into a Game (And We've Got Invites)
There are definite rewards for saving money, but personal finance manager Mint.com is turning thriftiness into an actual game-style goal. The feature's in closed beta, but we've…
- Office 2010 Screenshots Preview What's to Come [Beta Beat]
Microsoft just pushed out Office 2007 Service Pack 2 this morning, but that doesn't meant they're not already hard at work on Office 2010, the next version of the popular Office…
- Show a Folder's Full Path in Finder's Title Bar [Mac Tip]
By default Mac OS X's Finder displays only the current folder name in its title bar, but if you'd like a little more detail, The Unofficial Apple Weblog details how to enable path…
- Google Reader Simplifies Look, Adds Features [Google Reader]
The Official Google Reader Blog announces a handful of changes to Google Reader today, most notably in the form of a visual refresh designed to bring a more streamlined look and…
- Volumizer Puts Your Mac Drives on the Dock [Featured Mac Download]
Mac only: When you want to keep your Desktop clear but still get easy access to disks and network drives, you want Volumizer. This simple utility adds your Mac's hard drive and…
- Remove Your Mac's Hard Drive from the Desktop [Mac Tip]
Mac users who like to keep their workspace free of shortcuts and folders will love this "oh, duh!" tip for removing your hard drive from the Desktop. In Finder's Preferences pane,…
- Digital Photography: Get Better Fireworks Photos This Fourth of July
When you snap pictures at the fireworks display on Friday, you'll either wind up with immensely rewarding photos or frustration that makes you wish you'd left your camera at home…
- Test-driving VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1
Mac OS X only: VMware's brand new beta 1 of Fusion 2.0, virtualization software for Mac OS X, promises to make you feel like you're running Windows or Linux natively from your Mac…
- Test Regular Expressions Online with RegExr [Search Techniques]
Regular expressions are archaic-looking, extremely specific, and amazingly helpful for finding the right data, files or whatever else you need. RegEx, a free online regular…
- Filter Your RSS Subscriptions with Google Reader Filter [Featured Greasemonkey User Script]
Firefox with Greasemonkey: Google Reader Filter is a free Greasemonkey user script that takes a list of user-defined keywords and automatically highlights any items in Google…
- Turn Your Favorite RSS Feeds into a Newspaper with FeedJournal [Newsreader]
Web application FeedJournal turns your RSS feed(s) of choice into a newspaper-formatted PDF. You can either enjoy the newspaper-ness of the electronic PDF on your computer, or you…
- Featured Mac Download: Match Your Desktop and Login Image with Desktop 2 Login
- View the Contents of a Zip File in Quick Look with Zip Quick Look
Mac OS X only: View the contents of zipped files in Leopard's Quick Look without unzipping the archive with freeware plug-in Zip Quick Look. Just download the plug-in, drag it to…
- Organize your PDF library with iTunes
Using iTunes' Smart Playlists and its PDF support, you can build a document library where PDF's are automatically sorted into keyword-based lists.
- Stop web sites from resizing Firefox windows - Lifehacker
Tired of sites that forcibly resize your Firefox window? A blogger at TechPwn shows you a simple way to stop that from happening.