You shouldn’t give your dog your leftover chicken bones because they can break into splinters. You shouldn’t give them large raw bones because they can be full of germs (and if they weren’t at first, they will be once your dog has dragged them all over the yard.) Now, more bad news: the FDA says store-bought dog bone…
The further you get down your holiday shopping list, the harder it is to find good gifts. But these stocking stuffer ideas are all around $20 or less, and would be actually useful gifts for nearly anyone.
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We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
Gmail is one those things that I could never live without, but that’s also made my life a lot more annoying. I gave up on inbox zero years ago (I’d be happy with inbox 1,000 at this point) and I get dozens of useless, spammy emails every day, making it all the more difficult to find any important messages that are…
Many people like the Chase Sapphire Preferred and Chase Sapphire Reserve credit cards for earning travel rewards, myself included. You can use the points you accumulate to purchase plane tickets through a ton of different airlines, but some of them won’t show up on their site. In those situations, here’s what you do.
Amazon is making it even easier to control your Fire TV without straining yourself with the use of a physical remote. After adding the ability the control your television through an Echo speaker over the summer, the company announced an update on Thursday that adds even more voice-based controls across even more…
If there was ever an ever-present Christmas confection during my youth, it was the haystack. Neither candy nor cookie, this unassuming, almost too easy treat simply has no business being as addictive as it is.
Want to impress someone with your holiday gift but don’t have a ton of cash? Try buying something heavy.
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In what I assume is an attempt to attract some sort of demographic, Applebee’s is offering Long Island Iced Teas—which they have renamed “Dollar L.I.T.™”—for a single dollar, all December.
I eat fast food more than I like to admit. I drive a lot—to visit my wife’s family in Michigan, to eat cheese in Milwaukee for the weekend, or to see my family who now live in Chicago’s southwest ’burbs.
Google’s Pixel Buds are the company’s first attempt to make a pair of Bluetooth earbuds. They aren’t perfect, as a slew of reviews have noted, but they do pack a few cool tricks inside their tiny frame. The most tantalizing feature? They can use Google Translate to output your speech into one of 40 different…
Anybody can spew out some half-assed apology to save face, but a real apology takes serious introspection, sincerity, and focuses on helping the victim heal. It’s not easy to do, but this simple interactive tool can help if you’re struggling. “It’s good that you’re here,” the first screen reads when you load it up.…
Getting a link to a music video on YouTube from a friend, only to find yourself unable to view it, is a real bummer. You can get around YouTube’s location-based restrictions with a dead-simple extension that, frankly, everyone should install. It’s called F*ck YouTube (because of course it is).
The Echo Dot for $30 is still one of the best deals out there right now, but you can also bundle it with a lighting product today to save even more.
Matt Lauer, recently fired from NBC’s Today for sexually harassing women in terrible ways for years, had a door lock button under his desk. Who the hell installed that? we all wondered. But the answer may be: nobody. You can just buy one off Amazon.
When 30 Rock called Toronto “New York without all the stuff,” it was ... funny, honestly. But Toronto has stuff! You just have to scrape the ice off it. We asked Lifehacker readers for their best Toronto tips, and they gave dozens of great answers. Here are the highlights.
“This is like ... date night,” I said to my husband as we were sitting in the bleachers, watching our four-year-old at her weekly evening swim class. Maybe that realization should have made depressed—with so much going on, I couldn’t remember the last time we had a proper date night—but it didn’t. We were nestled hip…
VLC is one of the most popular media players around. It works on most platforms and can handle almost any type of file. It’s damn near perfect, but you could be getting even more out of VLC by using experimental nightly builds instead of the official version.
I call my Oma, who lives in Florida, to ask how her Thanksgiving was. We talk only for 15 minutes because she needs to get back to the lebkuchen she’s baking for a church Christmas fundraiser. She tells me her Thanksgiving was small but nice; she made Cornish hens for everyone instead of a huge turkey. She’s like…
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert, advice columnist and author of the New York Times bestselling book, My Boyfriend Barfed In My Handbag ... And Other Things You Can’t Ask Martha. Her flagship column, “Ask a Clean Person,” debuted in 2011. Here on Offspring, we’ve launched a new iteration of it, focusing on parenting…
Deeply discounted Philips OneBlade and OneBlade Pro, Michelin wiper blades, an external bluetooth transmitter, and more start off today’s best deals.
This one is for the hardcore novel writers who are doubting themselves, the ones who committed earlier this month to writing 50,000 words in 30 days, but then...uh, something happened.
Having a baby is an inherently painful proposition. The birth process is punctuated with a series of decisions made around minimizing risks and coping with the pain, which is unpredictable in both intensity and duration. An epidural can help with pain, but how does that change the risks that you and your baby face?
So many movies, so little time. Every week brings a new crop of them, opening in multiplexes and arthouse theaters across the nation, and arriving in increasingly high volumes on streaming platforms like Netflix. How’s a voracious moviegoer to keep up? That’s where The A.V. Club comes in. The first week of every…
If you belong to any online parents’ groups and you make a word cloud, there will be one word in 72-point font in the dead center: SLEEP. No one gets through the first months or years of parenthood without wondering how the f*$% to get the kid to go to sleep, stay asleep, or sleep just a bit later in the morning.
In our house, we’re still eating Thanksgiving leftovers when I start thinking about getting the Christmas tree. Last year we chose badly and ended up with a tree that died within two weeks, a mildly depressing turn of events; I’m too alert to metaphors to be joyful about opening an excessive amount of consumer goods…
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Your Black Friday and Cyber Monday purchases have probably already arrived for the most part, and it’s likely at least some of those are gifts. So instead of hiding them in the trunk of your car for the next month, you might as well start wrapping them. This Hallmark Gold Box includes the essentials, like paper, bows,…
With sexual harassment and abuse being covered so frequently in the media over these last few weeks, it seemed like a good time to talk about how to move forward and start to heal after abuse. Of course, this is a huge topic, so we’re getting started with how to manage the effects of sexual trauma on your own. Next…
The Philips OneBlade is the electric shaver of choice for pretty much every man on our staff (and tens of thousands of our readers as well), and both the original and the upgraded Pro model are on sale right now for their best price ever.
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We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
A glitch in American Airlines’ online scheduling system has left thousands of flights during December without pilots and with the potential of cancelation, according to a union representing the pilots. Reuters reports that possibly more than 15,000 flights are affected, all falling in major holiday travel times.
Welcome back to Mid-Week Meditations, Lifehacker’s weekly dip into the pool of stoic wisdom, and a guide to using its waters to reflect on and improve your life.
Chrome OS: Chromebook users looking for an alternative to Google’s set of editing tools can now turn to Microsoft Office, which is finally available on Chromebooks. The suite of office apps—Word, Powerpoint, Excel, and Outlook—has been available on macOS, iOS, and Android devices, but Chromebooks have been left out of…
In olden days, scarlet fever would rip through towns killing children. (In fiction, it killed one out of four Little Women and threatened at least one velveteen rabbit owner.) This disease has never gone away, but now it’s on the upswing in Asia and the United Kingdom.
On December 14th, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote to replace current rules enforcing net neutrality. Nothing short of an extinction-level event will prevent it. But before we’re resigned to fate, know that while the battle for net neutrality at the FCC may have been lost, the war isn’t even close…
Waze announced a huge new update on Wednesday, bringing three of its top-requested features to the app for Android and iOS. Starting now, you can control Waze with your voice, get motorcycle-specific directions, and factor carpool lanes into your commute.
Booking a vacation stay with friends can get pretty stressful, and pretty expensive if you’re the one putting down the deposit. With Airbnb’s new Split Payments service, however, you can you split the bill with your fellow travelers. Instead of footing the entire bill on your own and waiting for your buddies to Venmo…
Cheeseballs really live up to their name. Not only are they a literal ball of cheese, but there’s something kind of charmingly corny about them. Like a tacky Christmas sweater, they’re more class clown than class act—lovable, goofy, and charmingly unpretentious. They’re also infinitely adaptable, and insanely easy to…
You probably don’t want to make a habit of hiding stuff from a partner or spouse, but a little secrecy is in order when you’re trying to surprise them with a gift. When you share financial accounts, it’s easy to ruin the surprise. However, there are a few tricks to get around this problem.
macOS: Sometimes when I’ve been sitting at my desk for a few hours, I think about how sitting is killing us and how I should really take a break and go out for a walk or get in a workout. And then I get up, bring lunch to my desk, and keep working.
Amazon’s Fire TV streaming devices and Kodi’s semi-legal media player software have been a popular combination for years. With that in mind, you may be eyeing one of those new “Fire TV Edition” television sets from Element or Westinghouse, which run the company’s TV operating system right out of the box.
As you drive along the road to grandma’s house this holiday season, safety should be your number one priority. No one wants their holiday marred by something like a totaled car or hurt family members. These are the types of accidents that happen to drivers the most, as well as how you can easily avoid them.
It’s still very early to be thinking about taxes, but if you buy your software early, you stand to save big.
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An edible gift can make someone feel loved in the way only delicious, homemade food can. They also leave no clutter behind, providing a welcome break from the sea of compulsively purchased consumer goods that’s become synonymous with the holiday season. In case you can’t tell, I’m a big fan.
Mac users running the latest version of Apple’s operating system, High Sierra, are susceptible to a pretty huge flaw that could grant anyone with physical access to your Mac unfettered access to everything on your machine. The hack seems to be affecting only macOS High Sierra 10.13 and 10.13.1 versions. Luckily, a…
You finally snagged the toy that’s been on the top of your kid’s Christmas wishlist for months—now you just have to wrap it up, shove it under the tree and bask in parental pride. (“Fine work, me. Fine work.”) Well, wait. Is the toy difficult to assemble? Because nothing quite dampens the giddy thrill of watching your…
An Arduino starter kit, an anime sale, a better-than-Black-Friday price on Destiny 2, and a whole lot more kick off Wednesday’s best deals.