Adam Dachis View Profile Email Facebook Twitter Google Plus RSS A pretty standard office receives a nice, clean, minimalist design with today’s featured workspace. A few chairs, tables, and large (yet short) cabinets provide plenty of room and storage without clutter. It doesn’t take much to make a functional and attractive workspace. While this example [...]

David Galloway View Profile Email Twitter Google Plus RSS If you want to staple standard office paper into a booklet you will typically need a long reach stapler—standard desktop staplers are not long enough to staple the middle of a page. Specialized booklet staplers can often cost $25 or more, but if you have access [...]

Alan Henry View Profile Email Twitter Google Plus RSS If you’re watching movies, playing video games, or enjoying your favorite TV shows to just the speakers in your television, you’re missing out. A great set of living room speakers doesn’t have to break the bank or take up a ton of space, although some of [...]

David Galloway View Profile Email Twitter Google Plus RSS Like many DIY-enthusiasts I enjoy collecting as many tools as my budget and interests allow. Whenever I undertake a new project I always enjoy adding a new tool or two to my collection. Even so, there are many tools that I’m better off renting because of [...]

David Galloway View Profile Email Twitter Google Plus RSS Reddit user frankzapra shares that hot liquids can sometimes leak from your paper coffee cup when the drinking hole in the lid is lined up with the cup seam. To avoid this, just twist the lid a few degrees so that any drops of liquid that [...]

Whitson Gordon View Profile Email Facebook Twitter Google Plus RSS If ever there was a great way to save money and reduce clutter in your house, it’s finding other uses for the stuff you already have. Here are our ten favorite multitaskers that you probably already have at home. 10. Lip Balm As if soothing [...]

David Galloway View Profile Email Twitter Google Plus RSS If you have trouble sharpening your knives at the correct angle you can give yourself an easy guide by drawing the correct angles on a piece of cardboard, mounting the drawing near your work surface, and using a flashlight or other light source to make sure [...]

Melanie Pinola View Profile Email Twitter RSS Remote start is one of those wonderful, pain-reducing inventions that keeps you from having to sit in a freezing car until it heats up. But if your car doesn’t have a remote ignition, you can build your own remote start system that responds to a text message from [...]

Thorin Klosowski View Profile Email Facebook Twitter Google Plus RSS Dear Lifehacker, I have a giant pile of important looking documents sitting in front of me, and I have no idea what to do with them. Some of them look pointless, but could be important. Which ones should I hold on to, and which ones [...]

Whitson Gordon View Profile Email Facebook Twitter Google Plus RSS Windows: If you miss the transparent Aero Glass interface of ye olde Windows 7, free tool WinAeroGlass can bring it back in two clicks. Right now WinAeroGlass is in alpha stage, and has no UI—you just double-click on its icon and it’ll make all your [...]

Melanie Pinola View Profile Email Twitter RSS Most of us learn to read one—word—at—a—time. If you want to read faster, a better strategy is to read words in clusters, groups of three or four words you can read at a glance. It takes regular practice to do this, but Bill Cosby offers the instructions to [...]

Melanie Pinola View Profile Email Twitter RSS Dear Lifehacker, I’ve racked up a lot of credit card rewards points and travel miles recently. I know I can trade these in for gift cards or flights and such, but I’m really confused about what’s the smartest way to use them. I’d rather get as much value [...]