time savers

Top 9 Everyday Life Hacks That Take 10 Seconds Or Less

Sometimes, you can do something the fast way, or you can do it the right way. Other times, those two things are one and the same. Here are nine everyday tasks that you can do in 10 seconds or less.


Compress Attached Files Automatically In Mozilla Thunderbird

While throwing a bunch of documents or other files into your favourite archiving tool before emailing them isn’t much of a burden, if it’s a regular activity, removing the step can potentially save you a lot of time. If you’re using Thunderbird, then Auto Compress File is the extension for you.


10 Common Technology Time Savers You Might Not Know

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve groaned after learning the simplest of technology-related time savers — say, auto-resizing columns in Windows. In this TED video, CBS’ David Pogue covers ten similar shortcuts to speed up your daily computer and gadget interactions.


TextScrub Removes Unwanted Formatting From Your Clipboard

OS X: When you copy text, sometimes — if not most times — you don’t want to copy the font choice, colour and other formatting options. You just want the text. TextScrub gives that to you, taking away annoying styles and even replacing commonly-occurring words or characters you don’t desire.


Top 10 Ways To Breeze Through Laundry Like A Boss

Laundry is possibly the world’s most boring chore (heck, you’re probably bored just reading this). But it’s something we have to do every week, and there are a loads of ways to do it faster, better, and boredom-free.


Top 9 Hacks For Automating Your Life

What if you were a wizard that could bend the entire world to your will? Chores would do themselves, bills would pay on time and your appliances would obey your every thought. Well, you can’t do that exactly, but with a bit of ingenuity, you can automate a lot of your life so you don’t have to trudge through the boring stuff. Here are 9 things you can automate right now.


5 Custom Searches You Should Enable In Your Browser Right Now

Custom search engines are one of the coolest features of any modern browser. With just a few keystrokes, you can search Wikipedia right from your address bar, do a custom Google search for Lifehacker articles, or even get driving directions to a specific location. Here are five searches you should enable right now.


Top 9 Sanity-Saving Christmas Hacks

It may be the most wonderful time of the year, but it’s also the most stressful — between travelling, buying gifts for everyone and handling loads of decorations and clutter, you’ve got quite a bit of work to do this Christmas season. Here’s how to make sure it goes off without a hitch.


Learn To Use Keyboard Shortcuts Like A Ninja

Keyboard shortcuts dramatically speed up everyday computing tasks, but the wide variety of software we use make it hard to remember all the different shortcuts. That means that even though we all know shortcuts are useful, few of us bother using them. Here’s how to learn to make full use of keyboard shortcuts (and a handy cheat sheet with the 20 most common you need to learn).


ShortcutFoo Trains You To Become A Keyboard Shortcut Ninja In No Time

Master the keyboard shortcuts in your most-used programs and you’ll reap significant time savings. ShortcutFoo is an online training program that teaches you the keyboard commands in many applications including Gmail, Photoshop, Microsoft Visual Studio, Vim, the command line and more.


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