A humidifier is an essential purchase for certain homes, but how do you know which one is right for you, or which one can handle your space? Consumer Reports has a comprehensive video buying guide for humidifiers, with a cheat sheet for the right size for a room.
This week we learned about self-defense and how to take a punch (hey, it happens), discussed how cosplay can help confidence in unexpected ways, did some houseplant triage to prevent our plants from dying, and more. Here’s a look back.
Android/Windows Phone/Windows 10: Pomodoro. Kanban boards. Time tracking. Scheduling. If you’re into productivity and a fan of Lifehacker, you know these concepts and how they can help you get stuff done. TimeStats brings them all in one place to make the ultimate productivity app.
We’ve all had to throw away leftovers or cuts of meat and cheese that spent a little too much time in the fridge or freezer, but vacuum sealing your foods can keep them safe from freezer burn pretty much indefinitely, and dramatically extend their shelf life everywhere else.
Bug repellents aren’t all created equal—some are more effective than others. Last year, Consumer Reports named the top three repellents
from their tests but kept the full rankings under wraps for subscribers. Now, to help people who need to fend off Zika
, they’ve released the rest for free.
Spouts, pitchers, batter scoops, and other tools make it easy to pour a liquid into a tiny receptacle. But you don’t need to spend on those. Just grab a waxed cardboard milk carton, clean it out, and you’re good to go.
Nacho Cheese Doritos are a perfect junk food and, until now, my only way of getting more Dorito flavor in my life was putting them in a pepper grinder and grinding them over everything. Things are about to change around here though, as the Real American Heroes at Epicurious have come up with their own Dorito-inspired seasoning mix.
Doctors often use BMI, or Body Mass Index, to quickly screen patients for more tests. But having a normal or low BMI doesn’t mean you’re healthy
, and having a high BMI mean you’re unhealthy
. To help your doctor better assess your overall health, measure your waist size too. Here’s how.
Welcome to Hackerspace! This is the reader-run community of Lifehacker and our weekly open thread for you to share and talk about whatever you want. Well, it is not summer yet but it was about 90 here (in Philly area) most of the week and now it is a long weekend where everyone is going to the beach so it is summery enough! So, with that inspiration, what is your favorite summery beachy food? I’m not a native Pennsylvanian but man, I can appreciate a good sausage and they have some excellent kielbasa (and in Scranton, they literally have a sausage fest). Sausage, hot dogs, all those types of foods in meat casings with lots of mustard and relish are my choice but what are yours? I will also say that I like any kind of frozen dessert
, ice cream or not.
Your grill: it’s the quintessential outdoor cooking vessel, and yet it can be so much more
. From cleaning your grill to upgrading its features, here are some of the best tips and hacks we’ve seen to maintain your grill and take it to the next level.
Sig Nordal 