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Have you ever opened your freezer to grab one small item and caused something of a food avalanche? It doesn’t have to be like this; there is a better way. You can organize your freezer easily and efficiently by walking away from it and into your workspace. There, you’ll grab three office supplies: Binder clips, some…Read more...

Here at Lifehacker, we know scams. We know they’re elaborate and sophisticated. We know that scams cost victims their time, money, and private data, and can leave them feeling like complete and total suckers. When you hear about a scam victim, it’s easy to think, how the hell did they fall for that? But no matter how…Read more...

For an undisclosed amount of time, Subway is offering buy one, get one free footlongs when you use the code “BOGOFTL” at checkout. You can use the code as many times as you can, as long as they are different orders—but it only works at participating locations, and figuring out whether your closest Subway is …Read more...

Onions are popular here at Skillet. Raw or cooked, whole or chopped, they can bring balance and distinctly savory flavors to a dish. One of my favorite ways to sneak in the complexity of this delightful allium is in a sauce. This one is cheap, creamy (yet cream-less), and it makes any dish feel a tad bougie without…Read more...

Malware is an unfortunate reality in the digital world we’ve built for ourselves. Since all of our devices run on code, bad actors can use malicious code to take over those devices, or install programs that steal information from them. However, some bad actors don’t write this code themselves. Rather, they pay others…Read more...

It’s obvious why restaurants want you to sign up for their rewards program— you’re basically giving them carte blanche to constantly send you ads. While this can be annoying, it’s nothing a burner email or an email filter can’t fix, and its a small price to pay for what you get in return: A bunch of free food.

We’ve all been ensnared by tourist traps, those vacation “must-sees” that turn out to be overcrowded, overpriced, and inauthentic should-have-skippeds. If you’re planning your summer vacation, here’s how to avoid the biggest and worst tourist traps, whether you’re traveling in the United States or internationally.

Even before the pandemic, I never attended many conferences, food-focused or otherwise. I do, however, enjoy them. The last one I went to was a sous-vide conference in 2019, and I met a lot of interesting people there, including Cole Wagoner, who at the time was working for Anova Culinary.Read more...

Sometimes you just don’t know what you’re missing. For years I thought I was a maximally efficient suitcase-packer, and scoffed at packing cubes. How could they possibly improve upon what I’m already doing? But one day I got a set, and realized I’d been living like a fool. If you’d like to have a similar experience, …Read more...

One thing I do not like about myself is my tendency to get intensely into something, only to abandon it with little to no warning. If you’ve been reading Lifehacker for any appreciable amount of time, you have seen me do this with several columns. But I feel a resurgence coming on with Will It Waffle?. After I waffled…Read more...

AI is everywhere right now, especially in big tech. Microsoft is one of those significant players, rolling out an AI-ready Bing search powered by ChatGPT last month. If you applied for the waitlist and got in, you might have had fun exploring how AI can change the way you search the web. But it’s not just about…Read more...

Conventional (and perhaps outdated) wisdom says that “job-hopping” will ruin your resume. But where older generations could count on staying at the same company for decades, millennials and Gen Z don’t get that same guarantee.Read more...

When I was a teen, I became the kid who transferred schools. You know the type: someone who lived in transition, changing schools, neighborhoods, and friends often. At its worst, I changed high schools five times in three years. And like many things at that age, the transfers were for reasons out of my control.

My lease renewal arrived it the mail a few weeks ago, bringing with it a small but significant rent increase. I’m hardly alone: Nationwide, average rents rose by a heart-clutching 14% last year, and financial forecasts have for months been warning of additional increases in the first half of 2023. It sucks to learn …Read more...

Woot is having another of their massive sales, but one specific deals is sticking out among the rest: The JBL Live Free NC+ True Wireless earbuds are currently 67% off their $150 listing price. For $50, you can get this pair of noise canceling Bluetooth earbuds from now until April 1 (or while supplies last). But…Read more...

It’s somewhat common knowledge that I boost my baked goods with almond extract instead of, or in tandem with, vanilla. But now I’ve added a third extract to the extravaganza: cinnamon. Beyond being an exciting addition to your flavor toolkit, you can make cinnamon extract at home on the cheap, and in two simple steps.

I’ve been fooled by the headline “Easiest (meal name) Ever.” It’s wasn’t pretty. The ingredients were purchased. The prep work was done. Sadly, the joke was on me–the recipe was, in fact, not easy at all. It’s an attractive word and hard to resist, and although the recipe may have been rote for the creator, “easy”…Read more...

The Last of Us, and its subsequent remasters, are excellent games. Naughty Dog created a story and world so compelling, not only are we still talking about it a decade later, but a new audience is doing the same in the wake of the first season of the critically acclaimed HBO adaptation. While the game’s recent arrival…Read more...

Selling furniture is a great way to clear out your space and make some extra cash (which, realistically, you’ll put toward new furniture), but it’s not really an intuitive process. While there are plenty of apps out there dedicated to managing the sale of whatever you want to sell, it’s hard to know which ones to…Read more...

This summer has the potential to be a nightmare for those looking to travel, domestically or abroad. A combination of pandemic-related problems that permanently changed airlines are coming back to haunt travelers who once enjoyed discounted prices in past summers, along with inflation and higher demand, are all…Read more...

YouTube videos of unruly airplane passengers are amusing, but a real-life encounter with an unhinged flyer at 35,000 feet can be terrifying. Luckily, it’s rare: While life-or-death conflicts occasionally happen on airplanes, according to the FAA, out of more than 13 million flights in 2022, only 831 such incidents …Read more...

People like to say that weed makes you stupider, and I’m sure it doesn’t help if you’re studying differential equations or polymer chemistry (both of which I opted out of in college), but I’ve never found it hindered me in my line of work. If I’m so stupid, how did I invent a new kind of cheese fry?Read more...

A steamer is a great alternative to an iron for a number of reasons: You’re not going to scorch your clothes with it, it’s easier to maneuver, and you don’t need a big, flat space to use it. It’s a quick way to de-wrinkle clothes without taking up valuable storage space in your home. But beyond not necessitating the…Read more...

There are a couple of bag opening styles you can use when you don’t have a bowl–the fold-under bowl, or the puncture-and-twist method– but not all snacks are chips, and some come in smaller packaging that might not fare as well with those other techniques. When it comes to sharing a bag of snacks with friends in a…Read more...

In anticipation of the new The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom set to release on May 12, which you can pre-order for $20 less than the regular price, Nintendo has released The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Explorer’s Guide free for you to download. Here’s what you need to know.

It’s never been easier to scroll through third-party delivery apps like Uber Eats and order takeout from a wide range of offerings in your area—a suspiciously wide range of offerings in your area. Perhaps an impossibly wide range of restaurants in your area. That’s because one of the biggest scams in the modern food…Read more...

Here’s a familiar travel scenario: You just checked out of your hotel, but you have a while before your flight. That’s fine, because you have plenty of time to relax and explore the city before you leave. But just before you step out into the world for a fun afternoon as a tourist, you realize you have a problem: What…Read more...

It’s not often you find Nintendo slashing prices for their precious consoles—the company even mulled raising the price of the Switch in 2022, some six years after its release. Outside of highly touted promotions like the recent MAR10 Day deal, you usually need to buy refurbished if you want a discount—and that goes…Read more...

To me, a smartwatch is the ideal alarm clock. It can be silent, so you don’t need to wake sleeping partners, and also connected to your wrist, so you’re likely to feel the taps gently rise you from the most interesting of dreams. It’s nearly perfect. And yet, the Apple Watch had a fatal flaw that made using it a risky…Read more...

It’s nice to pack a little treat for yourself as you’re getting ready for a vacation. Maybe that’s a snack for the road, or an outfit you never wear at home but that will be perfect at your destination. And sometimes it’s a book you’re excited to read but haven’t cracked open. You might want to rethink that last one.Read more...

Out of all the things I’ve put in my waffle iron, cheese is probably my favorite. Pressing brie, cheese curds, halloumi, and the like between the hot, divoted grates melts it while creating crispy and crunchy peaks and valleys, for a pleasing textural contrast. I’m also a big fan of waffling frozen convenience foods…Read more...

Another new month, another raft of promising-sounding original TV series coming to Prime Video, to be thought about for exactly five minutes and then forgotten forever, probably. (I’m kidding, sort of—I definitely heard people talking about Daisy Jones and the Six for, like, a week at least.)

If you like planets, this is your week. Five of the solar system’s most celebrated satellites—Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, and Mars— will appear all at once, lined up right with the moon.

Impossible Foods is voluntarily recalling certain imitation chicken products after they received reports that “small pieces of wood” were found in them. According to Impossible Foods, 22 lots of frozen Impossible chicken nuggets produced by their co-manufacturer contractor, OSI Industries, LLC, between Oct. 20 and Nov.…Read more...

I am a bit of a grease hoarder, a habit I come by honestly. My grandmother kept a fairly substantial crock of the bacon grease right next to the stove, and every day she would top it off with the fat that rendered out that morning’s bacon. (I’m sure the grease at the bottom of the crock was iffy, but we never made it…Read more...

One of my favorite types of dinner is snack-feast dinner. My boyfriend and I will make two or three piles of different small snacks. The lineup might include gyoza, baba ganoush and bread, or mini meatball and lettuce wraps. The point is to have small bites (and lots of ‘em) with great flavor, and medium to light prep…Read more...

Like with yo-yo dieting when you try to “eat healthier,” it’s easy to find yourself trapped in a cycle of unhealthy habits with money, too. And like your relationship with dieting, your relationship with your finances runs deep—it’s never as simple as being “good” or “bad” with money.Read more...

It’s been 41 days since Apple last issued a software update for your iPhone. How have you survived in the interim? (Hopefully, you updated to iOS 16.3.1 right away, since it came with serious security patches for an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability.) Thankfully, our wait is over, and it’s finally time for…Read more...

No one wants the IRS to contact them. You hope to deal with them once a year at tax time, without worrying about audits or mistakes on your numbers. So, if one day, an email from the Internal Revenue Service shows up in your inbox, you’re bound to take it seriously. Well, don’t. In fact, you have my permission to…Read more...

According to the National Fire Protection Associations, there were 51% fewer home fires in the U.S. in 2020 than in 1980. That’s encouraging, but it’s just not good enough for me, America—there are still an estimated 356,500 home fires per year in this country.

It’s pretty clear by now that ChatGPT is not good at being creative, understanding a subject area, or pretty much anything else we associate with “intelligence,” artificial or otherwise. As I noticed when I tried to use it as a personal trainer:

After you finish spring cleaning, you might wonder what to tackle next. Now that you’ve cleaned up, reorganized, and decluttered, you might find that it’s time for a little redecorating—but where should you begin? You can start by clearing away all of the decorations currently living in your space and taking inventory…Read more...

Ring’s cheapest video doorbell just got cheaper: The Ring Video Doorbell Wired is currently 40% off, dropping from its $65 price to $39. This is the 2021 version, and as the name implies, it is wired. The Ring Video Doorbell Wired is currently on sale at Amazon, BestBuy, and Target. It is at its lowest price, …Read more...

I was once this close to buying an entirely new refrigerator when ours stopped working. As I remember it, we had a power outage during a storm, and everything except the fridge came back online just fine. We couldn’t find anything obviously wrong with the fridge or with the electrical panel in the basement. The thing…Read more...

I have never worked in a professional kitchen, but I have had relations with several people who have, and I’ve enjoyed a few brief glimpses into that world. These glimpses were rendered somewhat blurry by shift drinks, but the thing that blew my mind was how much prep work it took to run a restaurant. Beyond the…Read more...

Phone calls sound like crap. They sound better than they used to, but if you need to rely on a special alphabet system for separating B’s from D’s, it’s not looking great. A new iPhone feature aims to tackle this problem by boosting your voice and reducing background sounds. You just need to know where to find it.

Baked oats are the breakfast cake you didn’t know you needed. Barring a smidge of baking powder, you don’t use anything other than what you’d normally add to an average bowl of hot oatmeal. Finally, oatmeal that doesn’t totally suck. But there’s also a baked oat for those with a higher standard than “doesn’t totally…Read more...

This week’s Out-of-Touch Guide is a look at the widely different ways technology affects youth culture. On one end of the spectrum, constant connectedness to devices is leading to ridiculous trends like eating dog food and plastic candy wrappers. On the other, kids are using technology to help each other deal with…Read more...

I’m not surprised Paramount+ is launching a Grease TV series. I’m just surprised it hadn’t happened already. Glee premiered nearly 15 years ago; how has it taken this long to revive the OG story of peppy kids singing about their high school troubles?

You likely have some wax paper hanging around your kitchen and maybe some parchment paper, too—but it’s important to remember they’re different things with different uses. The coating on wax paper is flammable, whereas parchment paper can be put in the oven, so you might think wax paper is more useless than its peer.…Read more...