Remove These 25 Android Apps That Steal Facebook Logins

Remove These 25 Android Apps That Steal Facebook Logins

Google has removed 25 malicious apps from the Google Play Store after the French cybersecurity firm Evina discovered they contained Facebook-hacking malware. That means it’s time once again to check your Android device to make sure you didn’t foolishly (or accidentally) install a crappy app.

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10 Spoons and Spatulas That I Love

10 Spoons and Spatulas That I Love

I love a high-tech kitchen toy as much as the next sous-vide-er, but I am far more dependent on my favorite spoons and spatulas than I am any countertop appliance. Beyond functionality, I like the look and feel of spoons and spatulas. (Spoons are my favorite souvenir to pick up while traveling; I love them so much.)…

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How to Get Around Google's New Photo Sync Limits on Android

How to Get Around Google's New Photo Sync Limits on Android

For months we’ve all been stuck at home taking pictures of our cats, dinners and other noteworthy objects, and we’ve apparently been using a lot of bandwidth when backing them all up to Google Photos. As a result, Google announced today that it is limiting what Google Photos will automatically back up on your Android…

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Learn How to Teach Your Kids Life Skills With This Free Webinar

Learn How to Teach Your Kids Life Skills With This Free Webinar

Most parents are probably burnt out right now on reviewing math facts and vocabulary words. I, personally, have been mostly focused on making sure my nine-year-old continues to read consistently and gets outdoors enough; beyond that, fine, play Minecraft. But one way we could be taking advantage of this summer is by…

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What You Need to Know About Global Entry Enrollment Right Now

What You Need to Know About Global Entry Enrollment Right Now

As both domestic and international travel begin to fully reopen, travelers will see more travel operations follow suit. The first to begin phasing back in were passport services. Now, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency has announced that Global Entry enrollment will return on July 6th.

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Here's What Pediatricians Recommend for School This Fall

Here's What Pediatricians Recommend for School This Fall

Parents everywhere are holding their breath this summer, waiting to see what school in the fall might look like. Sending kids into school everyday seems so risky for everyone involved; and yet, the thought of more weeks or months of remote learning is also emotionally daunting. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)…

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Browse Faster With Chrome's Hidden Android Tab Strip

Browse Faster With Chrome's Hidden Android Tab Strip

I’m a tab junkie, but what keeps my Android version of Chrome neat and clean is the fact that switching between different websites I’ve opened up is an annoying, ugly affair. Instead of a lovely-looking tab, you must click on  an ugly box that then dumps out all of your open pages like a staggered stack of cards in…

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Shape Your Breakfast Sausage to Fit Your Bread

Shape Your Breakfast Sausage to Fit Your Bread

If you’re making a McMuffin-type breakfast sandwich, a circular sausage patty makes sense. But say you want your breakfast sandwich on toast—what then? A sausage circle leaves the corners un-sausaged, and I don’t think anyone here wants to start their day with un-sausaged corners. (Plus, some of those pre-shaped…

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How To Deal With A Ridiculously Loud PlayStation 4

How To Deal With A Ridiculously Loud PlayStation 4

The Last of Us Part 2 might be the loudest PlayStation 4 game ever made. I’m not talking about the sound design, impressive as it is. I’m talking about what the game does to basically any PlayStation 4. Boot up Naughty Dog’s latest masterpiece, and you can barely hear the sound of clickers clicking over the endless…

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Get All Your Free Tax Filing Options Right Here

Get All Your Free Tax Filing Options Right Here

With the delayed tax filing deadline coming at us fast—it’s July 15, don’t forget!—we’d like to take this opportunity to remind you that TurboTax, the digital tax prep software that pitches itself as a free-and-easy way to do your taxes, is in fact not so free or easy. Actually, it sucks—enough that it inspired…

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How to Safely Hang Dumbbells From a Barbell

How to Safely Hang Dumbbells From a Barbell

If you have a barbell but not quite enough plates, you’ve probably spent this quarantine hanging things off it in extremely sketchy ways. On social media I’ve seen people put weights in tote bags, hang water bottles off their barbell, and more. A lot of these DIY solutions are injuries waiting to happen, but recently…

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Take a Virtual Trip to Central Park to Learn About #BirdingWhileBlack

Take a Virtual Trip to Central Park to Learn About #BirdingWhileBlack

Though many people were first introduced to Christian Cooper via his now-viral video of a woman calling the police on him while he was birdwatching in Central Park, he has been a fixture of the birding community for years. Not only did that racist confrontation on May 25, 2020 make news, but it has also prompted more…

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How to Get Your Kids to Read More This Summer

How to Get Your Kids to Read More This Summer

Getting our kids to read consistently can be a challenge. But given how the end of the school year just went down, you may be especially worried that you need to help them step up their reading game, at least so they don’t slip backward in the months leading up to whatever fall will bring. We’ve written quite a bit…

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The Best Remedies for Common Headaches

The Best Remedies for Common Headaches

Whether it’s the pulsating pain of a migraine or the behind-the-eyes pressure of sinus congestion, nobody likes a headache. And if you suffer from them, you may need to cycle through a dozen different treatments to find one that works. The thing is, headaches—and their causes—are all different. With that in mind,…

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Your ISP's Quarantine-Inspired 'Unlimited Data' Plan Ends Tomorrow

Your ISP's Quarantine-Inspired 'Unlimited Data' Plan Ends Tomorrow

Remember when COVID-19 really started making waves, we were all sent home to quarantine, and all these internet service providers suddenly came out of the woodwork to graciously offer everyone unlimited data? I was as floored as you; who would have ever thought that they had so much room in their magical internet…

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What's the Best Webcam for Zoom Meetings?

What's the Best Webcam for Zoom Meetings?

The year was 2016. After having recently moved out of my parents’ house and deciding to be a freelance writer full-time, I decided it was in my best financial interest to upgrade my streaming setup, I guess so I could build up my Twitch channel and foster a community around it?? Ha ha ha, such foolish dreams I often…

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How to Cool Your Home More Naturally

How to Cool Your Home More Naturally

In some ways, the pandemic has forced us to be less wasteful and more environmentally friendly. We’re driving less, we’re using less public transportation, we’re supporting more local business. But now that we’re in the heat of the summer, home all day in the most stifling of temps and still trying to look presentable…

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Play Your Free Twitch Prime Games With Amazon's New Games Launcher

Play Your Free Twitch Prime Games With Amazon's New Games Launcher

One of the best Amazon Prime perks is its rotating selection of free games on offer each month through the Twitch.tv “Twitch Prime” service. Even better, Amazon now has a new Amazon Games launcher that makes it far easier to claim, download and play these games on a PC—but installing the app in the first place is a…

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6 Great Energy-Burning Backyard Games for Little Kids

6 Great Energy-Burning Backyard Games for Little Kids

Well, here we are. We’re knocking on July’s door and COVID-19 is still running rampant through many of our communities. Maybe you’ve added some socially distanced playdates into the mix by now, or maybe you’re starting to figure out how to safely venture out to a playground or a friend’s pool. If you haven’t run out…

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Recover Deleted Files With Microsoft's New Free Windows App

Recover Deleted Files With Microsoft's New Free Windows App

If you accidentally delete a file, all hope isn’t lost. However, assuming you can’t just drag it back out of the Windows Recycle Bin—especially true if you, like me, tend to default to the more permanent Shift + Delete instead of just “delete”—you’re going to have to roll up your sleeves and try a slightly more…

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How to Enable Facebook's New Dark Mode on iPhone

How to Enable Facebook's New Dark Mode on iPhone

Facebook’s iOS app is finally getting an official dark mode. Just like the dark modes in Facebook’s other apps—Messenger, Instagram and Whatsapp—turning on dark mode swaps the iOS app’s default white and blue interface with a black and grey theme. And it looks great, and should please those of you who haven’t already…

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What to Use if You Run Out of Hand Soap

What to Use if You Run Out of Hand Soap

So you’re running dangerously low on hand soap in the middle of a global pandemic, and refills are hard to come by thanks to supply chain issues and ongoing panic buying. Or maybe you can’t venture out to the store to buy more until well after you’ve run out. You still need to wash your hands frequently—what to do?

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What Is It Like to Start a New Job During the Pandemic?

What Is It Like to Start a New Job During the Pandemic?

My first day at Lifehacker was March 23, 2020—four months ago or four years ago. I received my employment offer on March 5, exactly one week before my wife and I pulled our kids out of New York City schools, rode the subway for the last time, and basically stopped going outside.

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Kids Can Still Earn Free Pizza Hut by Reading

Kids Can Still Earn Free Pizza Hut by Reading

If you were a kid in the 1980s or ‘90s, you may remember reading predominantly in order to earn free Pizza Hut personal pan pizzas. Launched in 1984, Pizza Hut’s BOOK IT! program is built on the premise that the promise of cheesy, deep-dish goodness would be an effective enough motivator to get kids to read more…

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Your 'Medical Mask Exemption Card' Is a Lie

Your 'Medical Mask Exemption Card' Is a Lie

Masks can be uncomfortable to wear, it’s true. And as most of us in the U.S. are not used to wearing them, so they’re also an uncomfortable reminder of how the pandemic has changed our lives. But if you’re looking for an excuse not to wear one, please leave the ADA and your fake medical condition out of this.…

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How to Laugh at Depression, With Humorist John Moe

How to Laugh at Depression, With Humorist John Moe

This week, we’re finding the humor in our woes with help from John Moe, host of The Hilarious World of Depression podcast. John helps us understand what is funny—and sometimes even good—about depression, how we can recognize depression within ourselves and others and what to do about it when we find ourselves…

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How to Enable the 14 Best Hidden Features of iOS 14

How to Enable the 14 Best Hidden Features of iOS 14

WWDC 2020 is over and done. And while I greatly enjoyed Apple’s virtual setup for the week-long series of events, I had even more fun digging deep into the latest beta for iOS 14 to find all the interesting features Apple didn’t talk about in its big keynote. And now, I’m sharing these digital treasures with you.

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When You're Talking on a Zoom Call, Look at Your Webcam

When You're Talking on a Zoom Call, Look at Your Webcam

Eye contact isn’t easy for everyone. And now that we’ve been in isolation for months, it can be hard to remember how, exactly, to interact and function in the presence of other human beings. For now, the closest most of us get is on work video meetings, when you get a glimpse into your colleague’s quarantine life (and…

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What's New on Netflix the Week of June 28, 2020

What's New on Netflix the Week of June 28, 2020

It took 26 years for someone to remake the 1984 horror classic A Nightmare on Elm Street, but in the Content Wars of 2020, no one can afford to let a property lie fallow for that long. Hence, this year delivers not one but two reboots of the 2002 Japanese thriller Ju-On: The Grudge, which you may remember as the other…

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Use this Free AAA Map to Get Updated Travel Restrictions in Each State

Use this Free AAA Map to Get Updated Travel Restrictions in Each State

Before the days of GPS and smartphones, the American Automobile Association (AAA)’s TripTik was the way to plan and navigate your road trip. In fact, it’s been a travel staple for more than a century. There are updated, digital versions of TripTiks available through their app, but those resources are only for their…

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How to Watch Disney+ Movies in Chronological Order

How to Watch Disney+ Movies in Chronological Order

Ever since Disney+, the company’s streaming service, launched in November 2019, it has quickly become a *family favorite (*including families of one). Although there were a few glitches in its first few weeks, those appear to be fixed, and users have since been able to focus on features like recommendation lists. But…

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Virtually Attend a Q&A With a Co-Creator of 1980s Series 'Cosmos'

Virtually Attend a Q&A With a Co-Creator of 1980s Series 'Cosmos'

Are you a fan of science TV shows and documentaries? Though they’ve been around in some version since 1903, one 13-part series on PBS that aired in 1980 really captured the country’s attention. It was called “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” and was created and written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan and Steven Soter, with Sagan…

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