Dentists recommend buying a new toothbrush every 3-4 months, but it’s hard to remember when it’s time to get a new one. One simple way to remember is to just buy a new toothbrush whenever you buy toothpaste. One poster on reddit offers up this clever tip. A full-sized toothpaste tube should last roughly three [...]

Sometimes, you can do something the fast way, or you can do it the right way. Other times, those two things are one and the same. Here are 10 everyday tasks that you can do in 10 seconds or less. 10. Tie an Emergency Tie Knot Ever get to the point where you’re already 5 [...]

OS X: If you see a color on the web or in an app that you particularly like and want to save for later, Sip makes it incredibly fast and easy to store it for later use. Sip lives in your menu bar, but you can invoke it at any time with a customizable keyboard [...]

Everyone loves a good backyard garden, but hunching over a pile of dirt to plant all of your seeds isn’t much fun. If you want to take some of the back bending out of the equation, this PVC seed gun should do the trick. ThinkMan’s Blog shares the tutorial for this clever contraption. You’ll need [...]

Safari/Chrome: If Twitter’s web interface is a little too busy for your liking, Twipster converts it into a minimal and responsive list of Tweets, with none of the clutter. The extension automatically redesigns Twitter’s entire interface, removing sidebars, menus, and background images, leaving behind a simple, readable list of Tweets. I really love how responsive [...]

A sudden burst of piping hot (or freezing cold) water is a showering human’s worst nightmare. But what’s the cause? And how can you prevent it? The DIY experts at Stack Exchange provide a few tips. When the shower is running and someone flushes a toilet, why does the shower get cold (or sometimes hot) [...]

At some point you’ve been told to fake it ’til you make it, and that’s because with a little effort you can delude yourself into believing—and then becoming—whatever you hope to be. As A.J. Jacobs, author of Drop Dead Healthy, points out in this quote, we’re a lot more flexible and less stubborn than we [...]

If you haven’t settled on a career yet, this interactive chart from Rasmussen College can help you find the best options. It organizes occupations into four quadrants based on salary, expected job growth, and number of opportunities available. The chart looks confusing at first, since it’s a bunch of dots spread on a grid, but [...]

Exercise: most of us hate it and wish we did it more often. The key? Finding a routine that doesn’t take too long but also doesn’t try to pack two hours of work into four minutes, leaving you feel like you’re lucky to be alive. Over the last couple of years, tons of of quick [...]

AutoHotkey is a free, open-source scripting platform for Windows that you can use to automate just about anything. It’s fairly simple to use and even simpler to find existing scripts for. We’d like to see what cool things you’ve done with it. AutoHotkey is a favorite among our Windows-using life hackers. It even made our [...]

Ever wish you could send your friends or relatives one simple link and say “Here’s everything you need?” Enter FatURL to make your dreams come true. FatURL lets you enter a series of links with individual captions (just enter whatever text you’d like on each line after the link) and gives you one consolidated link [...]