Nick Douglas

Staff Writer, Lifehacker | Nick has written for Gawker, Valleywag, the Daily Dot, and Urlesque. He currently runs the scripted comedy podcast “Roommate From Hell.”
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  • Reddit’s Favourite Mindblowing Facts Of All Time, Fact-Checked

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    Redditors love to ask each other for their favourite fun, mindblowing, counterintuitive, or disturbing facts. Every few months a new “fun fact” thread ends up on the front page of Reddit, and thousands of people pitch in with their favourites. I looked at years’ worth of threads, collected the very best facts, and verified them.

  • What’s Your Favourite Photoshop Trick?

    Nick Douglas

    God I love content-aware fill. At Lifehacker I frequently want to illustrate a post with an image that’s not wide enough (like above). So I throw it into Photoshop, I expand the canvas size, I select the new blank parts on the sides, and I hit cmd+option+F.

  • I’m Anil Dash, And This Is How I Work

    Nick Douglas

    Glitch wants to do for web apps what YouTube did for videos, Flickr and Imgur did for pictures, and Twitter did for bad opinions: make them easy to create, share, and embed, and give them the chance to reach the right audience or even go viral. I talked to CEO Anil Dash about Glitch, his…

  • Record Your Screen As A GIF Using LICEcap

    Nick Douglas

    Windows and MacOS: LICEcap is a simple app for recording a portion of your screen and saving it to a GIF. It’s very useful when you can’t easily share a video file, or when you want to post your recording on a web page, and video uploading is too much of a chore.