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  • You Can Restore Events You Accidentally Deleted From Google Calendar

    You Can Restore Events You Accidentally Deleted From Google Calendar

    Accidentally deleting stuff is not fun. It can be all too easy to mistakenly erase photos, files, and conversations from your accounts, sometimes without even realising it. Many of these platforms, luckily, have some type of “trash” system, which allows you to save your info before it’s permanently deleted. Believe it or not, Google Calendar…


  • Why You Should Delete Your (Ancient) Foursquare Data

    Remember Foursquare? I used to use it (and the company’s other apps) to keep detailed, digital recordings of everywhere I went, which was the cool thing to do back in 2010. And while I don’t use Foursquare’s Android or iOS apps anymore, I’ve given the company a lot of information about me. Thankfully, it’s easy…


  • 11 Popular Apps You Probably Don’t Need

    11 Popular Apps You Probably Don’t Need

    If I could slap one disclaimer over every Lifehacker article, it’d be this: Not every hack, tip, or app is for everyone. In that spirit, here are the Lifehacker-approved apps that I’ve stopped using. I didn’t install them on my new laptop, and I’m curious how many of you have abandoned them too.


  • How To Nuke Your Facebook Account From Orbit

    How To Nuke Your Facebook Account From Orbit

    Let’s talk about that elephant in the room: Facebook’s recent disclosure that attackers got their hands on access tokens for an unknown number of Facebook accounts is a big deal, since it’s the kind of hack that you, a happy Facebook user, could not prevent.