My Macbook Pro was stolen a while back and after not living with it for a while I realized that I only used a small fraction of its capability. I replaced it with a Toshiba Chromebook 2 and I freaking love it. It’s light, stylish and does everything I want. The screen resolution is amazing. The only shortcoming it has…

Why not just start your own business and get rich! Come on, it’s easy!

Pssh, who’s gonna know if you just make it all up? They’ll be all “Whitson, what a cool feature, great idea, even if I can’t actually verify that 2008 was the year Lifehacker landed on the Moon.” If all else fails, just rank them numerically.

Hoping your final Top 10 list is ranking the 10 years of Lifehacker in order from worst to best.

Eric, I’ve got a tip which could really be a whole post. Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window. It’s much faster than Right-clicking on Computer. No one I’ve shown it to has known about it.

I just bought a house and 2 of the 3 toilets in the house were leaking due to old flappers. If you’ve never replaced a toilet flapper before they are pretty easy and only require a pair of needle nose pliers to replace. It was my first time replacing the flapper and I just watched a youtube video to figure it out.

Being immersed in it helps so much, I’m glad to hear they picked it up quick! Plus, it never hurts to listen to Christina Stürmer’s music ;)

I think at the end of the day, the biggest obstacle to learning and holding on to a new language is being able to use it regularly often enough that you can become proficient at it. Note that even for the ‘Category I’ languages above, the caveat is that the half-year you need to learn the language is ‘intensive’,…

To affirm what the others are saying, German is pretty good to get into for English natives. Der/Die/Das is very hard to get straight, but a good portion of the words are pretty straightforward, make sense, and/or sound very similar in english.

Swedish is pretty easy to learn.

So I understand this is speaking in generalities and with the average person, but I have such a difficult time with Spanish and French, it’s absurd. Sure some words look the same in both of them when compared to English, but I just couldn’t follow their conjugations and sentence structures too well. I had an easier…

I’ve always believed that if what you are presently doing isn’t working for you, it might be time to switch it up. You might consider foregoing the shorts. Who knows? This might open up offers of a few positions you didn’t consider previously.

Also, the “stinkeye” is so 80’s. Try double fisting “the bird” while…

You mean my current method of handling job rejection - picketing in the waiting room in my shorts and bathrobe while giving all the employed people the stinkeye and gulping from my thermos full of spiked coffee - isn’t a good one?

The world’s first “guybrator”, though. Which leaves room for someone to make the world’s first “vibrotor.”

When my FIL was in the hospital for a month before he died, I noticed the nurses at this hospital had portable work stations connected via WIFI. The neat thing about them was the ability to raise the station (on wheels, mind you) to a standing height or lower it to a sitting position. Nursing seems to have a high…

Alternate alternate title: 4 signs you’re living within your means.

Hmmm - don’t agree. I am able to do these 4 things and I don’t consider myself rich/wealthy. I would also add that as of 5 years ago I would only be able to check off the first one (pay bills). It took a lot of reworking of my thought process and some auto saving/investing, but it’s possible.

Pools are like boats. You don’t want one. You want a close friend that has one.

Yep, stir fry like you said or “burritos”. We often have small amounts of leftover meat that I put in a tortilla with onions, whatever vegetables and starches I have around then add cilantro, cumin and taco sauce or cayenne pepper, then the magic is when those cold ingredients, wrapped in a tortilla are put into a…

Well, primarily because that particular model doesn't offer much in the way of actual surge protection. It's only rated for 450 Joules (less than most of the others above), and while it's great for shops or workbenches, it's not the best pick for electronics of home entertainment gear beyond the fact that it sports 24…