For one thing, there's the start-up price. The initial hardware costs can run anywhere from $30 (for a streaming stick like the Chromecast) to $99 for a media receiver (like a Roku or Apple TV) to almost $500 (for an Xbox One). If you're the DIY sort, you can build your own HTPC (home theater PC) and the only limit on…

I use a lot of them, and some of the ones I use/used are now features built into Notepad++.

Vote: AkelPad

I love the amount of plugins available, I know I'm slowing it down a little but I have nearly a dozen plugins. Without some of them my work would be much more difficult.

This looks like a joke... is it actually for real?

I don't know when I started reading lifehacker exactly, best I can tell is sometime in 2008... which is kind of crazy to think I've been reading this site for around 6 years.

You know if you right click on the desktop there is an option to "Show Desktop Icons" if you uncheck it all of your icon will be hidden.

Well, in the last year I have made some updates to my filter; it did pick up more than I wanted. It now looks like this:

The first time I saw the headline I didn't read it carefully, and I thought it said, "If It Blends, Blend It..."

Gmail is powerful enough in its own right, but the right add-ons can make it even better, from small things (like make it easier to use) to big ones (like unsubscribing you from spam and cleaning up your inbox). Check out our list of Gmail-based browser extensions here, as well as these services that make it better.…

If you want to find good deal on PC parts I suggest checking out PCPartPicker.com.

This is a feature I would also like, I may have to buy the app if you get this successfully implemented.

yeah, that's probably the easier method, I was just trying to point out that you don't have to physically destroy the drive to delete the data.

You're not going to like this—you really can't delete files completely. "It is impossible and it's getting harder," DeMorrow says. When you decommission a computer, make sure you remove the hard drive and destroy it. That means putting holes in it or taking it to a company that shreds hard drives—going at it with a…

I'm going to recommend the Nexus 7, but as you give no details on what you want out of the tablet, it kind of seems like you're trolling...

I was just working on organizing my media collection, this looks like it will be a big help.

I don't like this post... I can live without these 8 things, but I think my life is better for most of them.

Is there a reason you don't use google calendar for your schedule? (just curious)

No, you don't have to re-import anything, it's just that in google calendar, you won't see any episodes displayed 3 weeks from now or a week ago, even if there are episodes that will/have happened in that time period.

I find it funny that 1.5 years ago lifehacker featured Smart Wifi Toggler: link