While shortcuts to your Camera and third-party apps like Snapchat are great for capturing fleeting moments, it still takes a few seconds to open them and snap a photo. That means you could potentially miss a great shot if you’re not quick enough. But now there’s a super-fast way to capture and send photos without having to waste time unlocking your device.

ScreenPop Lockscreen Messenger, a free Android app from developer Locket, allows you to take, edit, share, and receive self-destructing photos all from the comfort of your lock screen—without having to unlock your phone. Note that the… more

Don’t leave your tongs out by the grill, as they are one of the most useful and versatile cooking tools to have in your kitchen. In my house, they come in a very close second to chopsticks, which I cook with everyday. Like chopsticks, they make it easy to delicately flip and turn food with precision. But unlike chopsticks, there’s no learning curve, so anyone can use tongs for easier, simpler cooking.

Besides the more obvious ways of using tongs to toss salads, pasta, and stir-fries, you can also use tongs to ream citrus, to get those hard-to-reach objects in your upper cabinets, to toast… more

It’s been over a year now since Google introduced a visual way to track down which tabs are playing audio in Chrome, something that was previously only available using third-party extensions. However, they still didn’t give an easy option for shutting those tabs up without having to stop what you’re doing.

Whether it be an annoying ad, a video that started playing automatically, or even just music that you need momentarily silenced, you have to stop what you’re doing, head to the tab with the speaker icon, then find and stop whatever’s playing the audio. It would be much simpler if the… more

Android Debug Bridge, or ADB for short, is a very powerful utility that can remotely execute commands on your Android device. This remote terminal interface, however, is not very “remote” at all. You have to be tied down to your computer to use it, since a USB cable is normally required.

But Android has a wireless ADB service built into it that can establish this same connection over a Wi-Fi network. The only trouble here is the fact that enabling this connection has always been rather difficult.

So developer Liam Williams created an app that can enable the wireless ADB service at the press… more

If you need to relieve an itch in your throat, you can try getting rid of it by scratching your ear. Or if you accidentally give yourself brain freeze while eating ice cream, you can press your tongue against the roof of your mouth and cover as much as surface area as possible to make the pain go away.

Check out more body hacks below for holding your breath longer underwater, feeling more alert when you’re tired, suppressing a gag reflex, and more.

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While my desktop is usually neat and organized, it quickly fills up with screenshots each and every day. Usually, I end up putting them in a folder or just trash them, but why not make the entire process of taking and organizing screenshots easier by changing their default save location? With the help of Terminal, I’m going to show you how to change the default save location of screenshots to anywhere you want in Mac OS X.
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Change Default Save Location of Screenshots

Choose a location, like the desktop, and create a folder called Screenshots (or whatever you’d like) where your… more

At its core, the Nexus Player is truly an Android device. This means that pretty much anything your smartphone can do, Google’s new set-top box can do just as well.

Getting root access is no exception to this rule. Legendary Android developer Chainfire has already devised a quick and painless method that will grant you Superuser privileges on the Nexus Player in no time, and I’ll outline the process below.
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What You’ll Need for This Method

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Step 1: Put Your Nexus Player into Bootloader Mode

To begin, unplug the power cable from your Nexus Player and… more

A four-digit passcode is what protects your iPhone, and the sensitive material within it, from strangers or nosey friends. Four digits are the only thing preventing someone from snooping through your pictures and posting them online for the public to see, and that’s if you even have passcode security enabled.

Since it’s so easy to look over someone’s shoulder, it’s difficult for me to place full confidence in four simple numbers. That’s why I primarily use Touch ID to unlock my iPhone. However, Touch ID doesn’t always work if your fingers are sweaty, and noseprint security might just be too… more

With all of the productivity tweaks and usability enhancements that we cover here at Gadget Hacks, it’s nice when we come across a unique and noteworthy app that’s simply about having fun.

This is the case with the latest offering from the development team at Privax. Their app allows you to spoof a phone number from many countries across the world, and even offers a free trial with a dollar’s worth of credits to call and send text messages. It’s up to you to decide what you want to do with your new international number, but I’m sure this one leaves a lot of wiggle room for pranking your… more

Mac keyboards are great when listening to music or watching a movie, since you can control what’s playing without going back into iTunes or QuickTime Player. However, when you’re using an app like Photoshop that uses the F7, F8, and F9 as shortcuts, it gets pretty annoying to have to hold down the Fn key. Why can’t you just hit the back, play/pause, and skip buttons alone?

You can easily revert those media/system keys to regular function keys in Mac OS X (go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard, and check “Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys”), but what if you want to… more