A good carabiner or s-biner makes a great keychain — it can clip to your belt or your bag so you never lose it, and you can keep more than one ring of keys on it. Plus, it hangs up nicely on hooks or magnetic holders with no fuss. Even so, Instructables user elplatt lost a keyfob from one because the carabiner latch came open one day. Committed to never let that happen again, he grabbed some heat shrink tubing, a heat gun, and went to work.
As we mentioned yesterday, Twitter has added a new feature that sends you a weekly email with the most popular tweets and links from people you follow. If you’d rather not get more spam in your inbox, here’s how to nip this in the bud before it starts.
Mac: Selecting a large block of text with a Macbook’s trackpad often doesn’t work very well. SlideMode is a simple little app that adds a keyboard shortcut to make selecting large blocks of text as easy as a swipe.
Dear Lifehacker, Am I able to restart my computer and have it automatically reopen whatever programs and files I had open? For instance, when I uninstall a program, it often asks me to restart to complete installation. However, I usually have numerous programs running, files that I’m editing, tabs open in Firefox and so on. To restart I have to save and close everything, restart, then reload and open everything. Surely there’s an easier way? Thanks, Boot Polish
If you’ve ever rebooted an ageing Windows PC, you’ve probably experienced the annoyance when the CHKDSK utility kicks in and decides to carefully and slowly check your drive for possible errors. CHKDSK isn’t disappearing entirely in Windows 8, but it is getting somewhat smarter.
iOS (Jailbroken): It’s not easy to edit text on an iPad — you have to hunt and peck awkwardly on the screen to make a selection or place a cursor. SwipeSelection is a simple jailbreak tool that adds gestures on the keyboard that make navigating text easy.
Even those of us that love our jobs can have days where office life just seems like a terrible punishment from the beyond. If your job is crushing your soul piece by piece, here are some ways you can deal with the pain and suffering of office life.
Redditor violenciarivas shares a tip for making sure your filtered water jug is always full. I know what some of you are thinking: “Uh, why don’t you just remember to refill it?” You are the one per cent, let me tell you.
You probably use YouTube every single day, but it’s not something you think about tweaking the way you do, say, Gmail. Yet YouTube is filled with annoyances, like obnoxious autoplay, intrusive ads and mind-numbingly stupid comments (to name a few). Here’s how to make YouTube more bearable.
Chrome: Twitter is a great source for news, articles and keeping up with friends, but it’s also sometimes a magnet for people obsessed with some annoying celebrity that you have no desire to read about. Purge Twitter Trends is a Chrome extension that strips specific celebrity trending topics from your feed so you can read in peace without being forced to unfollow them.
