About Us

Part technology guide, part productivity tool, Lifehacker helps you organise your workday and maximise your playtime. We provide tips for technology and for life which you can use to make yourself more productive, with an emphasis on free software and tools you can put to use online.

Lifehacker Australia runs all the best tips and posts from the US, eliminating the ones that are irrelevant for Aussies and adding our own daily helping of tips and tricks with an Australian focus. If you want to access the US site, you can go to us.lifehacker.com.

Our tips are sorted into seven main categories – Communicate, Design, Fix, Money, Organise, Travel and Work – and tagged so they’re easy to browse and locate.

Regular Posts

We also run a series of regular columns covering specific topics in more depth:

Road Worrier
Posted Mondays
Technology advice and real-world tips for travellers.

Hive Five
Posted Mondays
Reader votes to identify the best products in a given category.

Loaded
Posted Tuesdays
Money management and finance tips.

Evolve
Posted Wednesdays
Trends and technologies IT workers need to know about to stay employed and improve their careers.

Loaded
Posted Tuesdays
Money management and finance tips.

Lifehacker 101
Posted Wednesdays
Explanations for beginners about how technology works and how to accomplish specific tasks.

Planhacker
Posted Thursday
Comprehensively outline of the best current deals in Australia for mobile phones, broadband and other communications products.

Streaming
Posted Fridays
How technology keeps us entertained and new developments in entertainment.

Lifehacker Top 10
Posted on weekends
A top 10 of useful in-depth tips for using technology better and running your life more effectively.

Ask Lifehacker
Posted throughout the week
Readers ask questions and get answers both from Lifehacker staff and from the wider Lifehacker community.

Featured Workspace
Posted throughout the week
Shows off well-designed and functional workspaces to inspire our readers.<

Featured Desktop
Posted throughout the week
Highlights great desktop customisations.

The Lifehacker Team

Angus Kidman | Editor

Angus has been writing professionally about technology since 1994 and breaking it for even longer. He is based in Sydney but spending a frankly unhealthy portion of his life on the road, tracking down the latest stories. In 2011, he won the IT Journo Award For Best Consumer Technology Journalist and Consensus IT Writers Award for Best Technical Writer for his work on Lifehacker; about time too.

You can find his posts here.

Elly Hart | Night Editor

Elly wields the subediting whip over the rest of the team and gets up at the crack of dawn to make sure readers get their morning news fix. A self-described Android fangirl and information junkie, Elly was a Best Investigative Writer finalist 2011 in the Consensus IT Writers Awards.

You can peruse her words here.

Logan Booker | Weekend Editor

Logan’s past lives include editorships of Atomic and Kotaku Australia, two-and-a-half years as a game designer at Tantalus and, most recently, a writing role at top mobile developer Firemint. A Highly Commended, Best Gaming Journalist (IT Journo Awards), Logan also moonlights as an indie games developer.

You can read his posts here.

Danny Allen | Publisher

Danny is a former editor of Gizmodo Australia, and before that, contributing editor for Gizmodo US. He has over 12 years of editorial and digital experience, and a ruinous obsession with all things shiny. Before founding PC World Magazine’s GeekTech blog (while Senior Associate Editor in San Francisco), he co-authored The Ultimate Guide to Mac OS X and won Best Technical Journalist (Consensus IT Writers Awards) in 2005.

Read his posts here.

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