If you're tired of spending all of your time writing email, or feel like your email requests never get properly fulfilled, give this military-based system a shot.

While brown rice, with its numerous health benefits, has an obvious nutritional leg up on white rice, it also has one undeniably huge drawback: it takes a lot longer to cook. Thankfully, you can cook brown rice much faster if you're willing to do a little prep early on.

There's a reason why household chores are called "chores" -- they're tedious, unpleasant and seemingly never-ending. But of all the menial tasks that make up domestic living, few are as annoying as ironing. To help you escape the monotony, we've assembled a list of our favourite laundry hacks from the past few years: some don't require any ironing at all!

Cleaning up after a shave is a right pain in the bum. No matter how rigorously I rinse and wipe, there are always a few stray hairs that escape my notice (invariably to the vast annoyance of my wife). If you regularly find yourself in the same hairy predicament, here's a foolproof "hack" that will help to keep your sink sparkly-clean.

Hey Lifehacker, When hanging out the washing I always double-peg each item. That is to say, I use one peg per piece of clothing, and each peg shares with the item next to it. My wife thinks this is a terrible idea.

YouTube is already one of the best video services online and there are plenty of tricks to make it work for you. Some of the best ones can be done purely from the URL bar.

Clutter can really influence the way you work. If you're too disorganised, everything competes for your attention and makes it hard to work, not to mention influence perceptions of your professionalism. Here are 10 tips for decluttering your workspace and getting your office sorted.

From April, Qantas will offer free chauffeur connections for business and first class passengers on flights to Dubai and London, with other cities to follow later in the year. Is that a perk that's worth paying for?

Forever famous for playing mother Carol on The Brady Bunch, Florence Henderson is also a nifty cook with a long-running TV series and several cookbooks to her credit. We caught a handful of her kitchen time-saving tips on video.

The tally system may not seem like something that needs reinventing since you just make several marks on a page and count them up, but Redditor PeopleAreOkay figured out a better method: employing both lines and dots.

As a citizen of the web, you frequently enter repetitive information about yourself into forms. Every time you sign up for a new website with your email address or username, enter in your shipping address, or type in your credit card information for purchases, you waste precious time typing out the same information.

There are lots of variables that influence how painfully long your wait may be at the supermarket checkout line. Gigabiting offers some guidelines for how to assess a checkout line and choose the best one, such as looking for lane 13.

Back in May we ran a post discussing tactics for making self-service checkouts work better, which stirred up a fair bit of debate. Gizmodo has a similarly-themed guest post from a Woolworths staffer, offering tips on how to make your self-service journey speedier.

If you need to print a large number of files at once, having to open each one individually and then print them can be a nuisance. Speed the process up by dragging the files you need onto the printer.

Windows: Sharing files with Dropbox is pretty simple, but free utility Dropbox Linker makes it even simpler: Whenever you add a file to your public folder, it will automatically copy its public link to the clipboard for you.

Excel has long had a feature allowing you to add background shading to cells, but if you use non-standard colours then replicating them can be fiddly. Excel 2010 makes that process easier with a simple but obvious tweak: a list of recently-used colours on the Fill drop-down (the small bucket) in the Ribbon.

One of Windows 7's best features is the ability to find pretty much anything from the Search option on the Start menu. If you've got your own scripts that you run regularly, you can make these easy to find with a simple file properties trick, as Lifehacker reader Dan explains.

Hit the undo shortcut (Ctrl+z/Cmd+z) in Firefox's address bar to move through your recent history via keyboard and find tabs you've closed — sort of like a lightweight version of the Undo Closed Tab feature.

In a regular day, most of us type the same things over and over again, wasting an enormous amount of time in the process. Why not let your computer do some of that work for you? That's where text expansion comes in.