You know what's cooler than having lots of skills? Having skills you can use with one hand tied behind your back. Here are our top 10 tricks that only take 25 per cent of your limbs to accomplish.

You can read all sorts of tips and articles on how to "save time", but as Laura Vanderkam points out in her TED talk, "we don't build the lives we want by saving time. We build the lives we want, and then time saves itself." In other words, "time is a choice."

The most flavorful, full-bodied chicken stock takes hours to make on the stove — usually. Here's a shortcut that doesn't compromise on quality: add packets of unflavored gelatine to your stock ingredients and have stock in less than an hour.

Of course, you may not need all 60 of these, but knowing them will make you flexible, fast, and ready to work with whatever tool you're presented with, whether it's a Windows PC, a Mac, an Excel spreadsheet, or a Powerpoint slideshow. Plus, there are extras in here for Gmail and Chrome to boot.

Chicken under a brick isn't a new dish, and it's most often prepared on the grill, but this method from Bon Appetit combines everything I love about a 30 minute roast chicken: the time saved, the crispy skin, and of course, the hands-off preparation. In just a little time, you have a meal for the family.

Every day is filled with tiny annoyances: from bottle tops that won't open to shoelaces that keep coming undone. Thanks to the internet, someone's out solving most of those problems for us. If you want to remove the tiny frustrations that plague you day to day, here are ten great solutions to get you started.

If you use Microsoft Word for work, or on any regular basis, you know how much time a couple of quick shortcuts can save you, especially if you use them every day. This graphic runs down eight tips for Word that may be familiar to daily drivers, but still useful for students, office workers, and resume builders alike.

Boiling potatoes is the first step to getting mashed potatoes, and mashed potatoes are something that I want in my face as quickly as possible. To speed up this delicious process, Epicurious recommends enlisting the help of an electric tea kettle.

Planning out every meal you make in advance can help streamline your day, but it still takes time to do all that planning. Instead, try a modular approach to your meals that let you cook a variety of meals without as much scheduling.

Preheating the oven is something we all do without thinking, but this step can be eliminated in a lot of cases, saving you a bit of time and energy.

Meal planning is a great way to de-stress your week and save some money, but it's a good idea to plan a meal or two to skip too. Just like with a diet or other long-term goal, it's good to give yourself a cheat day so your motivation doesn't wane.

If you want to improve your life, there are a lot of clever little tricks you can use called "life hacks" to fix problems. Some are great! Some are very, very bad. These are the worst hacks that either don't work, waste your time, or cause more problems than they solve.

Part of travelling is eating out, enjoying the city and experiencing local cuisine — but eating out every night may not be in the budget, so you'll need some supplies for your hotel room or Airbnb. That's where TimeResQ comes in. They will bring you groceries, toiletries or other supplies.

For the self-employed and those who regularly work from home, routines are sacred. It's scarily easy to let your schedule slip and before you know, your productivity has plummeted and procrastination has set in. I experienced this recently and the culprit was entirely unexpected — an espresso machine.

Painting your nails is by no means a clean task, but perfecting your nail polish technique cuts down on time you spend cleaning-up. Here are some tips to get the look you want the first time with no fuss.

It's easy to get frazzled cleaning your home, especially when you're short on time. If you want to streamline your cleaning process, you need to pick a room and stay in it until it's done.

A pressure cooker is an amazing appliance with many uses, but making hearty soup and savoury broth in minutes is one we hadn't initially anticipated. Thankfully, this video from Bon Appetit shows you exactly how to do it, and in less than a half-hour to boot.

Every time you tear off a piece of tape from the roll, you're left with the perpetual conundrum of peeling it off the next time. Instead, fold the tape to the side and tear it to leave a tab for easy access later.

You don't need a calculator to quickly find the center of something that's an odd length, such as 37 5/8 inches (95cm). The smart folks at This Old House show us two ways to quickly divide a length in half using just your tape measure.