For those of you still Facebooking, get ready for the best news the platform has dropped in ages. If you aren’t already sick of all the political advertising blowing through your feed, you will be soon — unless you take advantage of a new feature that will hide every political…
Health insurance is the final frontier for many adults – once you’re familiar with health insurance, you get your Adulting Diploma. We’ve partnered with CUA to clarify some info around health insurance. In saying that, it’s last on the list of things to do for 20-somethings because certain health insurance…
We’re halfway through June and that means we’ve been gifted a great deal of streaming goodness already. While we can now leave the house with some sense of safety after being cooped up for months, our streaming habits will likely continue throughout the colder months. Lucky, there’s still a deal…
There are all sorts of ways to live the Lifehacker lifestyle, and not all of them look like the way I do it, which is usually to encounter a problem in my daily life and then google it (“How to cook murder hornet Lifehacker”). To paraphrase famed car-hacker Dominic Toretto,…
As far as meaty cooking projects go, ribs are a fairly easy one. Whether you’re smoking, grilling, baking or pressure cooking, preparing an impressive rack is something most home cooks can master without too much distress. But there is one thing a lot of newbie rib cookers forget to do, and it…
Just because our kids grow up doesn’t mean we stop being their parent. We still want to protect and guide them and watch them make all the best decisions for a happy, fulfilling life. But how much intervention is too much intervention when it comes to their romantic relationships? One…
I’m pleased to announce the return of Lifehacker’s Burning Questions column, in which I answer the health questions that people can’t — or don’t want to — google. As a reminder, this is not medical advice, and I’m not a doctor.
Using your phone while driving is not only dangerous, it’s illegal in most places. However, most of us rely on our smartphones for directions or for rocking out to music and podcasts in the car. Luckily, Google Maps has tons of hands-free navigation controls and helpful shortcuts and voice-integration for…
It’s getting hot outside, the damn virus rates are going down in some areas but up in others, the kids are bored, pools and bikes are sold out, and life is feeling like it will never be normal again. It’s time to bury your kid’s toys in ice.
The offer is available until 30 June for both new and existing Telstra customers.
Last week, two black trans women were murdered. Friday, June 12 marked the fourth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting, during which 49 people were shot and killed at an LGBTQ venue in Orlando. Friday was also the day the Trump administration announced it was rolling back an Obama-era regulation…
If you’re among the tens of millions of people who became unemployed during the pandemic, you have likely been dealing with more stress than just lockdowns, remote learning and social distancing have brought (and that was enough to begin with). It can be tricky to know whether — or how…
I’ve never been able to keep up a sport or activity without having a driving, maybe obsessive, reason for doing it. I often refer to these reasons as “goals,” but every now and then I have a conversation with someone who, while similarly motivated, doesn’t think of their training as…
We previously showed you a hack that unlocked custom backgrounds for your Microsoft Teams video chats — allowing you to put yourself in front of an island, a static image of a room in your house or your favourite video game. Well, you can ignore that advice now, because Microsoft…
I have about seven bottles of cocktail bitters on my bar cart, but I really only use two — Angostura and orange — when making cocktails. It’s not that the other flavours are bad, it’s just that I rarely want an old fashioned made with grapefruit or lavender bitters. But…
Retailers have tried many overt tactics to limit theft, such as signs that display images of CCTV cameras, threats to prosecute offenders, bag checks, checkout weighing plates and electronic security gates. These tactics are extremely costly and have failed to stamp out retail theft. Now supermarkets are trying a different…
It may come as a shock to many of us budding gardeners but winter time really does a number on some of our plant babies. To be proactive while you weep over your dying veggie and fruit patch, plant these fruits and veggies now in the cold months so that…
If you’ve ever seen a turtle crossing the road, you’ll help both the turtle and drivers if you can get it safely out of the way.
Along with the companies that make hand sanitiser and toilet paper, puzzle manufacturers and sellers have been doing a brisk business lately. With everyone confined to their homes for the past few months, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve had more time for slower-paced activities. If your family has hopped…
This week Netflix is dropping a ton of new content including several original films including “Feel the Beat” the story of a woman that fails on Broadway and returns to her hometown to train a group of young dancers for competition.
I don’t care how many Hitman games IO Interactive cranks out, I’ll play every single one of them, even though all of them involve doing the exact same thing: poring over sprawling levels to find the perfect spots from which to execute covert assassinations. And, in my case, scrambling to…
Dumbbells and kettlebells may still be hard to come by, but containers of water are widely available and nearly free. The trick is finding something that’s the right weight, without being too awkward. In this week’s instalment of our improvised equipment challenge, we’ll be working out with water jugs.
Your favourite music is a lot more pleasant to wake up to every morning than a blaring alarm. If you have a Google Home speaker, it’s easy to make it play a song or artist that’ll actually get you out of bed.
It’s time to bring back your fond memories of the Artemis Fowl fantasy series by Eoin Colfer as its much-anticipated movie hits Disney Plus screens on Friday 12 June. It’s also the perfect opportunity to throwback to some of our favourite book-to-screen titles we’ve loved since childhood.
Spending our days in lockdown has meant we are inadvertently spending less overall, but that hasn’t made it easier for everyone to pay off their debts and build their savings.
It’s strange even to type this but when you hit the power button on the start menu to shut down Windows 10, it’s not really shutting down. Yes, it goes through the motions and it may look like your computer’s been powered off and it sort of does, but it…
If you’re familiar with David Allen’s Getting Things Done productivity system, you already know about the importance of the Weekly Review. If you aren’t, here’s a quick overview: Every week, you take time to review not only your upcoming commitments and outstanding to-dos, but also the ways in which those…
To make iced coffee, I favour a wide-mouthed S’well bottle, because I am super basic, but also because I found the opening is wide enough that I can easily fill it with ice and perch my pour-over brewing device atop it to make a quick Japanese iced coffee. Unfortunately, my…
Onion dip is mayhaps my favourite dip, but caramelising onions is both annoying and boring. Since I am already always a little bit annoyed and loathe being bored, I am now all about the burnt-onion lifestyle, and have taken to replacing caramelised onions with scorched ones when making onion dips.
As one parent in our Offspring Facebook parenting group looked ahead to the holidays, he decided that his kids needed a purpose. An organising principle. A project. So Isaac Elias and his partner created a presentation in Google Docs, set up a meeting and announced to their kids: This holiday,…
Chrome OS has come a long way since its humble, browser-driven beginnings. You can now use the operating system to install Android apps, access Linux with a click of a button, talk to the Google Assistant and more. But just because Chrome OS is now packing power features into a…
The last few months have been rough for most of us and so we’ve treated ourselves to a little gift or two to make ourselves feel a bit better. If you’ve been neglecting getting little gifts for your furry companions too, let us help you rectify that with the best…
We all want to have the best gaming setup possible, but we can’t all afford thousand-dollar GPUs and 12-core monster PCs. Sometimes you’re a student stuck with a potato laptop, or you’re just getting by on an entry level rig. And that’s fine, because there are a ton of great…
