When you think of an online music service nowadays, Spotify is probably near the first that come to mind, and for good reason. Being able to create, share, and take all of your playlists anywhere, across all of your devices, is something that I couldn’t live without. Unfortunately, nothing this good is free, and with Spotify Premium, users of their free service are left with very limited features when streaming on their mobile devices.

There have always been ways to bypass these restrictions, but most of those required root access or the use of the Xposed Framework, which can be a deal… more

Essentially, the Anti-Griddle does exactly what its name promises: it turns things almost instantaneously cold when you drop them on its “grilling” surface. Unlike home methods of flash freezing, its staggeringly low temperatures (-30°F/-34.4°C) allows ingredients that normally can’t be frozen—like oil or alcohol—to turn into solids in the wink of an eye. As you might imagine, this allows chefs to play with textures and tastes in a way that was previously unimaginable.

The Anti-Griddle was the brain child of Chicago-based Grant Achatz, one of the leaders in molecular gastronomy/modernist… more

For $35, there’s hardly a better value in the online media player market than the Chromecast. Taking that sentiment a step further, if you factor in the promotions Google likes to offer with it, Chromecast practically pays for itself.

As part of a Valentine’s Day deal, the Mountain View tech giant is offering a free $6 Google Play credit to anyone who owns a Chromecast. They’re presenting it as a way to rent a free movie to watch with your sweetheart, but the credit can be used on apps, games, music, or books just the same.
Chromecast: The gift that keeps on giving..
Best of all, for… more

Welcome back, my budding hackers!

This is the initial post of a new series on how to hack Facebook. It’s important to note here that each hack I’ll be covering is very specific. I have said it before, but I feel I need to repeat it again: there is NO SILVER BULLET that works under all circumstances. Obviously, the good folks at Facebook have taken precautions to make certain that their app is not hacked, but if we are creative, persistent, and ingenious, we can still get in.

Facebook is one of the most secure applications on the Internet and, despite what you might read on the Internet, it… more

With the sheer amount of photos, videos, and miscellaneous files we place on our computers, proper organization becomes necessary. Not only so that we can quickly get to a file when it’s needed, but also to declutter folders and keep them from looking like random file dumps.

When you upload photos, for instance, they usually consist of a unique directory name and number—hence the reason you get some variation of “IMG_1234” in your digital photo library. Same goes for movies.

Thankfully, Apple added several editing tools to Yosemite that allow you to quickly and easily rename multiple files… more

During class or while at work, it can take an immense amount of self-control to resist navigating over to Reddit. The link-aggregator and meme-warehouse makes it too easy to kill time… most of which you should be spending on various other tasks.

This may not be permissible at your particular place of work as your supervisor or boss periodically strolls by, so start taking necessary precautions to ensure you don’t get caught. And yes, it is plainly obvious to your superiors and peers when you quickly minimize or change tabs.

To help in your time-wasting or procrastination, developer Peter… more

Now that the Super Bowl is over, you might find that you have an econo-sized bag or two of opened potato chips slowly going stale in your pantry. After all, there are only so many bowls of Buffalo Chicken Pizza Beer Dip you can eat with ’em—and you definitely don’t want them to get so old that you have to throw them out.

Never fear. We know just what you should do with those stale potato chips, and all of the remedies are delicious! One quick note: if your chips have been around for a while, give them a sniff. If they smell rancid, sharp, or otherwise off, toss ’em—that means the oil in the… more

We all know that opening our work emails at home is a bad habit. Yet reading and responding to emails every time your iPhone dings is worse than you might realize. Not only are you extending the workday, but you are also sacrificing your ability to perform on a daily basis.

Wrap Up Your Workday Before 9PM

Hopping on your smartphone after 9 p.m. to answer work-related emails can ruin even the best night’s sleep. Michigan State University professor Russell Johnson recently discovered that smartphones impact sleep more than any other technology. Participants in his study all experienced… more

You don’t need a study to tell you how beneficial music is to helping you fall asleep. Most of you probably have your soothing playlist and SleepPhones queued up and ready to go before you get into bed and count those Zs.

But while your eyelids grow heavier as you slowly feel yourself slipping off to sleep, it’s quite a hinderance to have to pause or lower your music’s volume. Sure, you can probably find an application that’ll schedule it to halt, but the abrupt stop of the placid tunes can be a distraction in and of itself.

So, instead of ruining your sleep, allow for your Android device to… more

Deciding what to remove from your iPhone in order to free up space isn’t the easiest thing in the world. You’ve got to decide which apps, videos, and photos are worth keeping, even though in a perfect world, you couldn’t have to part with any of them.

Last year, Justin wrote an extremely detailed guide on doing just that—freeing up space on the iPhone. He covered everything from clearing the contents of your Camera Roll to removing text messages to clearing app caches as well as dealing with those obnoxious “invisible files.” That being said, the process of clearing up space could take some… more