Use a Smart Speaker to Track Nights With Your Newborn
What I hated about being woken up by my newborn in the middle of the night—aside from, you know, being woken up by my newborn in the middle of the night—was learning what time it was. Hearing his cry for the third or fourth time since putting him down and then groggily opening my eyes to discover that it was only 11…
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Get Rewards for Your Dinner Reservation Through the 'Seated' App
When you live in a major city, making a reservation for dinner can mean the difference between getting a table shortly after you arrive at the restaurant and waiting hours for the privilege of ordering your food at high speed before the kitchen closes for the evening.
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Extend Your Stay With This 120,000 Point IHG Premier Rewards Welcome Offer
Update 4/30: Today’s the last day to get in on the 120,000 point welcome bonus! More details below.
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How to Support Someone You Love Through Infertility
About 10 percent of women have difficulty getting pregnant or staying pregnant, so chances are good that someone you love is facing or will face infertility. But if you haven’t experienced it yourself (or even if you did but your circumstances were different), it might be hard to know what to say or do to support them.
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How to Tell if a News Site Is Reliable
It’s happened before, and with another presidential election looming next year, it’s going to happen again and again. The spread of “fake news,” the incorrect labeling of real news as “fake,” and overall confusion as to how to tell the difference.
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You Don't Need Two Lids to Cut Cherry Tomatoes
Using two lids to slice cherry tomatoes in half is a classic hack. The lips of the lids stabilize the tomatoes, letting you run your knife through the little guys with ease. But I’m here to tell you that you don’t need two lids. You never did. You just need a cutting board and your hand.
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Build Your Own Retro Game Console With This One-Day Raspberry Pi Sale
There are a lot of reasons to own a Raspberry Pi, but anecdotally, I think somewhere north of 90% of people buy them to build retro game consoles. But no matter how you like to tinker, today’s your lucky day.
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How to Stop a Recording From Waking Alexa
Lifehacker recently published a video in which two subjects test the functions of an Amazon Echo. Soon after, our Senior Technology Editor, David Murphy alerted the video team that anyone watching the video at home through speakers would find their Echo repeatedly activated each time someone in the video spoke the wake…
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How to Buy a JetBlue Ticket for as Little as $44
In desperate need of a vacation? Until 11:59 pm ET tomorrow, JetBlue is having a pretty major sale as part of its “Fly As You May” promo, which means you can nab a one-way ticket for as low as $44—departing as soon as next week.
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What Was Your Best Hackintosh Experience?
One of Lifehacker’s most-loved posts, our guide to hackintoshes, is starting to show its age. It’s time to give this article a fresh coat of paint, but before renovation work begins, I wanted to hear about your experiences with every geek’s big dream: the ability to run macOS on a non-Apple device.
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Adopt a Dog, Not a Breed
I spend my weekends looking at photos of dogs.
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How to Find a LGBTQ-Affirming Therapist
Finding the right therapist—someone you trust, someone you like, someone you click with—is important for anyone to ensure their therapy is effective. But for those who identify as LGBTQ, finding a therapist who is LGBTQ or LGBTQ-affirming is critical for creating a safe, supportive space.
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Make Custom Greeting Cards, Stickers, and More With This Terrific Cricut Deal
If you’re unfamiliar, Cricuts make all those custom stickers, delicate doilies, and Instagram-ready greeting cards you see around your crafty friend’s house. You too can start being a craft wizard with Amazon’s sale on this popular Cricut Explore Air 2 machine.
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Find Out Your Real Hourly Wage With This Calculator
When I’m trying to decide whether to take on a new freelance project, I look for work that’s going to pay at least $100/hr.
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You're Probably Overcooking Your Garlic
Once upon a time, it became common practice to add onions and garlic to a hot pan at the same time. I think it had something to do with “letting flavors mingle,” but I’m not sure. Though they are both alliums, the two cook at dramatically different rates, and adding them together results in bitter, acrid bits of…
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How to Negotiate Like a Pro, With Personal Finance Expert Farnoosh Torabi
We’re back! This week we’re learning about the ins and outs of negotiation. We’ll find out how to get someone to “yes” when they’re all about “no”; when and how the robots are going to negotiate for us; and what to do to get the raise you deserve. Joining us is author, podcaster, and personal-finance expert Farnoosh…
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Tuesday's Best Deals: Instant Pot Mini, Watches, Battery Organizer, and More
Discounted Sonos One speakers, Insomnia Coffee, and a sale on graduation party supplies lead off Tuesday’s best deals.
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How Was Your Month of Running?
During this running-focused chapter of the Lifehacker Fitness Challenge, we tried out a bunch of maybe-new-to-you workouts: strides, tempo runs, hill repeats, speedwork on the track, and long runs. Did you try them all? Which was your favorite?
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Research Mortgage Lenders the Way You Research Restaurants
I don’t know about you, but before I choose a restaurant, I like to look at a lot of photos and reviews.
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Get Free Guacamole, Chips and Delivery From Chipotle Today
April 30th marks the first year that you’ve been able to get Chipotle burritos delivered directly to your door. To celebrate, Chipotle and Doordash are offering some pretty solid deals for the day. Specifically, they’ll bring you that burrito for free today through May 5th—and they’ll throw in free chips and guacamole…
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The Apartment-Friendly Instant Pot Mini Is Back On Sale For Under $50
If you don’t own a pressure cooker, today’s a great day to fix that. The apartment-friendly 3 qt. Instant Pot Mini wants a permanent home on your kitchen counter, and it’s down to $48 today, a $32 discount.
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What to Do If You Think You Might Have Measles
First, take a deep breath. Do not panic. Chances are, almost everybody who is reading this article does not have measles. But you may want to know what to do if that statistical outlier is you (or your child).
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Is It Faster to Ask a Digital Assistant or Just Do It Yourself?
The Amazon Echo and Google Home have all sorts of abilities. But is asking them something out loud actually faster than doing it yourself?
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The Fridge Organizers That Will Save You From Tossing Long-Lost and Expired Food
Your fridge has rotting food in it. I know it, you know it, the American people know it. But unless you’re one of those people who lives in ads for incredibly expensive refrigerators with French doors and touch-screen computers, you’re set up for failure. Things are destined to get shoved, jostled, and otherwise…
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Turn On Your Airline's Push Notifications
I live in constant fear of missing flights. I’ll arrive hours early, with a carry-on bag, neck pillow and boarding pass in hand, only to break into a cold sweat if I see a long security line.
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How to Spot a Fake Address Bar in Chrome on Android
False login pages are a common method of phishing login credentials from users. If a website look legit, it’s easy for your muscle memory to kick in and for you to start typing your username and password without checking that the URL is correct (or the website is legitimate). Complicating matters is a new issue,…
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Make Stop-Motion Animation Videos With Your Kids
My son has always been into scene-setting and storytelling. He’s the sort of kid who brings a couple of “guys” with him in the car, no matter how short a distance we’ll be traveling, so he can act out some scenario, complete with dialogue and sound effects.
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Why You Should Add Ground Pork to Lean Ground Beef
Besides stubbing my toe, nothing enrages me quite like accidentally buying a low-fat version of a product I love. I still haven’t forgiven myself for the Low-Fat Sour Cream Incident of 2016, and I don’t know that I ever will. A similar rage almost overtook me recently when I grabbed a package of extra lean ground beef…
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How to Screenshot Entire Web Pages Without a Chrome Extension
Chrome: Capturing screenshots is easy, whether you’re on Windows (hit the Print Screen button your keyboard) or Mac (Shift-Command-5). And while you can isolate down to just your active window using various keyboard commands or on-screen options, which makes it easier to snapshot whatever you’re doing, that’s still…
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What to Know About Malaria When You're Traveling
Malaria is endemic to many tropical parts of the world, and it can result in severe complications if you contract the disease while traveling. So if you’re planning a trip to a tropical area, here’s what you need to know.
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This $10 Anker Qi Pad Is the Cheapest We've Seen With iPhone Fast Charging
Most Qi wireless chargers can charge select Android devices at 10W speeds, and iPhones at 5W. But a select few are able to max out the iPhone, and eke out 7.5W on Apple’s handsets...for a price. But with today’s deal on Anker’s PowerWave charging pad, you’re not even paying a premium.
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How to Find Band-Aids That Match Your Skin Tone
Last week, Dominique Apollon, a vice president of research at Race Forward, tweeted photos of a bandage on his hand—images that went viral for shedding light on issues of inclusion for people of color.
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You Should Create a Family Motto
When we were foster parents to a nine-year-old boy a couple of years ago, my husband and I implemented a family motto. It was one that was suggested to a group of us during a foster parenting training session, a mantra that is often used when parenting kids with trauma: “No hurts, stick together, have fun.”
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Get Information on Facebook Advertisers With These Tools
We hear a lot about the problem of Facebook ads—whether it’s about user information being tracked for targeted ads, or fishy groups using ads to spread misinformation. Just look at the effects on our political landscape: we have voters and politicians who spout false information, often just because they saw it on…
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Make Salad Prep Easier With Kitchen Shears
Salads, in my opinion, should be a fork-only operation. Once the salad is prepared—preferably in a large mixing bowl—one should be able to stab and shovel the greens and various toppings into one’s mouth, without use of a knife. Actually, I barely use a knife during the salad-making process—scissors are my salad prep…
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Monday's Best Deals: iPad, YETI Cooler, Sonos Speaker, and More
A $250 32GB Apple iPad, a discounted Sonos Smart One speaker, a YETI cooler, and an Anker Accessory Gold Box lead off Monday’s best deals.
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Don't Put Yourself Into Debt for Your Kid's Extracurriculars
A new survey suggests that over half of Americans have gone into debt for their kids’ extracurriculars—and that might not be such a good idea.
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Why You Should Wait to Show Your Kids Videos of Themselves
When I was a kid, I performed in various community musicals. As a painfully shy child, I somehow felt comfortable on the stage. The costumes, the pre-show jitters, the post-show satisfaction—I loved it all. That is, until my dad would pop in a VHS tape of my performances the moment we had guests in our home.
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Here Is Turbotax's Actual Link to File for Free
If you’re looking for TurboTax’s free file option, you probably won’t find it by visiting TurboTax.Intuit.com.
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Dryer Sheets Can Clean, Polish, and Make Almost Anything Smell Fresh
The humble dryer sheet may seem like the uni-tasker of the laundry room, but in reality, it can improve your life in myriad ways.
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Woot Wants You To Get Outside With a Week's Worth of Great Deals
You might still think of Woot as the one day, one deal site, but they’re trying something different this week with a ton of excellent deals to help you enjoy your time outdoors.
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Can Your Employer Fire You After You Quit?
You give notice, but your employer declines your resignation and fires you on the spot. What happens to your unemployment benefits? Human Resource investigates.
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Does Exercising in Makeup Cause Acne?
I don’t wear makeup to work out, but I also don’t judge—partly because the heaviest makeup I’ve ever seen at the gym was on a regular who was super-jacked. Whatever she was doing, it was working for her! But I’ve often heard whispers about those people who work out in makeup. Isn’t it ruining their skin??
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What's Coming and Going From Netflix the Week of April 29, 2019
It’s May, and your cup runneth over—if not in all areas of your life, then at least the most important one: the area in which you recline on your sectional, eating Pop Corners while alternately watching TV and playing on your phone (some call this area the “living room”; I prefer “salon” or “parlour”). We’ve got Knock…
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Kids Can See Movies at AMC Theaters For $4 This Summer
If you’re looking for something to do with your kids this summer. AMC has a pretty solid deal going on.
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Try Reading a Children's Book to Understand Complicated or Uninteresting Topics
If you’re trying to learn something and are having trouble reading an adult-focused reference book on the topic, consider opting for the children’s version instead.
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How to Know When to Go Pee During 'Avengers Endgame'
‘Avengers Endgame’ opened this weekend, sending what looks to be a record number of people to their local theater to see what happens to their favorite superheroes.
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Sunday's Best Deals: Marvel Comics, Thermapen Mk4, TCL TV, and More
Discounted Pioneer Woman Instant Pots, an Intex above-ground pool Gold Box, and a Levi’s flash sale lead off Sunday’s best deals.
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