Screens, our favorite VNC client for iOS, comes with a major downside: it costs a lot. VNC apps tend to carry a high price tag, but few mobile apps will run you $20. For a limited time, you can get screens on sale for half off. We like Screens because it actually makes controlling your [...]

Who doesn’t love a cookie? Well, your computer probably won’t if you try to shove one into its optical drive but we’ve found a safer, digital alternative: cooke wallpapers. Cookie Chips Download this wallpaper | The Paper Wall 1920×1200 Fortune Cookie Download this wallpaper | The Paper Wall 1920×1200 MM Stack Download this wallpaper | [...]

OS X: You need only one tiny command to start a web server from any directory through OS X’s terminal. If you’ve got a web site lying around and need to test it out, this is possibly the fastest way to make that happen. Just navigate to the directory you want to use and enter [...]

Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Check out these discussions and add your own thoughts to make them even more wonderful! Discussion of the Day What happens [...]

When you want a raise, you do yourself a disservice if you don’t step into the shoes of your boss. While you may feel you deserve the money, or really need it, you don’t want your boss to question your worth if they won’t come up with a positive answer. Alison Green, writing for US [...]

I’ve set up workshops in many different places and for many different applications. The process of organizing your workshop [or workbench] is both personal and organic. Setups vary wildly depending on one’s specialty, while organization and workflow are often an organic process that can take months or years to fine-tune. Along the way I’ve come [...]

iPhone cases are a dime a dozen, but the best keep your phone safe, add features, or even make an already good-looking device look better. Last week, we asked you which cases you thought were the best. Then we took a look at the top five iPhone cases, based on your nominations. Now we’re back [...]

Sometimes payday can’t come early enough. Bills come too soon or an emergency occurs and you need money you don’t have. Advanced paycheck services allow you to get your money sooner, but they generally come at a high cost. ActiveHours provides you with your paycheck when you want it, and they won’t charge you a [...]

iPad: Painting your walls requires a commitment. You have to choose from thousands of colors, figure out how much you’ll actually need, spend hours doing the work, and hope it all turns out well. ColorSnap Studio takes some of the guesswork by digitally painting your walls and calculating what you’ll need to get the job [...]

Chrome/Firefox with Greasemonkey: If you like to watch YouTube videos without all the clutter of the side bars, userscript Resize YouTube Player can help by automatically stretching the video you’re watching to fill the entire browser window. Using this script will also automatically change the video’s resolution (where available) to a higher quality depending on [...]

Android: You may have jumped in on the fad when the highly aspirational Wii Balance Board promised to get you fit through select video game titles, but now it likely collects dust in sad corner of your house. With an app called FitScales, you can turn it into an internet-connected scale you might actually use. [...]