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Ask LH: How Can I Persuade Someone To Seek Professional Help?
Dear Lifehacker, I have a friend who who seems to have some issues that would benefit from seeing a mental health professional. How can I tell him this without being a jerk? Sincerely, Worried Wendy...
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Zones Provides Easy Time Zone Conversion On The IPhone
Your iPhone has a built in world clock, but it kind of sucks. Zones is not only a better alternative, it also packs in features Apple’s option should have. As you’d expect, Zones lets you add a bunch...
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Waze Now Lets You Record Navigation Instructions In Your Own Voice
Fascinated by the sound of your own voice? Wish you could hear your significant other whisper sweet “turn left here” into your ear while on the road? Well, now you can with Waze on Android. The newest...
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How To Choose Between A Backpack And A Suitcase For Travel
Different types of holidays require different gear, and one of the biggest choices most of us make as we head off to the airport is the choice between packing everything into a backpack or a suitcase....
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Use ‘Elevator Pitches’ To Pitch For A Meeting, Not Your Idea
Elevator pitches are a great way to condense a complex idea into a small amount of time so you can get your startup project in front of someone who matters. Author Seth Godin recommends you pitch for a...
View ArticleSave Money On Your Energy Bill With These Simple Changes Around The House
With winter in full bloom and the days getting darker, you’re probably blowing up your energy bill. There are a few simple things you can do to cut that bill down to size. The ideas here are pretty...
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My iPhone Doesn’t Need To Be Revolutionary
Each year, Apple and Google hold press conferences to show off their new mobile operating systems. These days, both are often met with a resounding “meh” followed by outcries that Apple’s just an...
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Why You Think You’re Great At Everything, Even When You Suck
As humans, we’re pretty bad at judging our own abilities. From exercising to our sense of humour, we’re all certain that we’re the best at everything we do. The problem is, in a lot of cases, we’re way...
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DIYer Ben Heck Walks You Through How To Make A Ton Of Electronic Halloween...
Halloween’s around the corner, and if you’re looking to make your own costume, Ben Heck and his crew take on a superhero costume, and in turn show off how to do a ton of different costume-related...
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Hack A Cheap Plastic Pumpkin To Play Custom Sounds When People Get Close
Plastic pumpkins are a mainstay around Halloween, but if you want to give the ubiquitous little candy holder a bit more character, Adafruit has a guide for adding lights and custom sounds. Using an...
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Why We Continue To Use Crappy Old Apps Like Flickr
I just migrated my photos off of Flickr. Yes, it’s 2017, and I was still using Flickr. Why? Because I’d been using it since 2005, it’s free, and the mobile app is… fine. But now that it seems like...
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The Best Personal Finance Tips From Evil Millionaires
Just because someone is evil doesn’t mean they can’t teach us something worthwhile, and the millionaires of the world are no different. Even though you may consider some of them evil, there’s no...
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Improve Your Sense Of Balance With These Simple Exercises
We don’t tend to think much about balance until we’re actually falling over, but the prime time to train and improve your balance is in your 30s and 40s. Thankfully, it doesn’t take that much work....
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PSA: You Don’t Need Heavy Weights To Build Muscle
If you’re new to exercising, the thought of sitting underneath a 50kg barbell is probably pretty terrifying. However, if you can’t lift heavy weights, or they just scare you a little bit, research...
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Five Survival Skills Movies Taught You Wrongly
Movies are great at telling stories, but they’re horrible at teaching basic survival skills. Here are five of the ways they’ve led us astray – from performing CPR to battling wild animals. Movies and...
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PSA: Walking After Eating Really Does Help With Digestion
It’s always been a suggestion that if you want to help with digestion (or just get over that bloat of eating way too much) that you take a quick walk around the block. As an article in the New York...
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Chrome Has A Secret Experimental Mode: Here Are The Best Features
Google Chrome is a great browser as it is, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t come with its share of annoyances and curiosities. You can fix some of these, as well as add new features by playing around...
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Make Your Bicycle Winter-Proof With These Simple Tweaks
Winter is here, and if you commute by bike or you just refuse to let the colder weather ruin your fun, there are a few things you can do to make cycling in the winter less terrible. Global Cycling...
View Article10 Dead Google Products That Need To Come Back
Google has a long history of introducing, then forgetting about, and finally officially killing off its products. Most recently, that included Google Spaces, a service that most of us never knew...
View ArticleQuickly Convert Between Fahrenheit And Celsius Without A Calculator
If you live in one of the many countries that use the Celsius temperature scale, you may not be used to dealing in Fahrenheit. But that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t pop up from time to time, like in...
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