Keeping your money as your only financial cushion is the worst idea ever. Money sitting still is money losing value, constantly, consistently. The decreased value of the US dollar is the surest bet in the world these days. If your money isn't working for you, you're losing money. Unless you have an outstanding savings…

Thanks! I hope so too. We lucked out - a friend of ours had been working with a marketing company in town that outsources its web development needs, and wanted to move on to doing iOS mobile apps (mostly games). We took over for him, and also we charge a little less and are willing to take on "small" clients in the…

I am also in the same boat. I am a project manager at a large, growing, national insurance company. I have lots of non-IT business projects to do, but I'm also designated as the SharePoint site collection admin, because they didn't have anyone else to do it. So I'm kind of doing two jobs at once. We were just told…

You know, there's no reason you couldn't buy one of those Lysol automatic soap dispensers and refill one of their cartridges (similar to the swiffer hack) with lube instead of soap. then you don't have to touch the lube bottle and get it all, well, lubey. If anybody sees it in your bedroom they'll just think you're…

This is why McDonald's and other fast food restaurants take those stylized versions of awesome looking food. The actual stuff they serve is not so appetizing to look at.

If you're storage and power needs aren't already met then this is impulse purchase day for you. Grab a 4400mAh power bank for 12 bucks and/or a 16GB USB3 flash drive for nine. Doesn't get much cheaper than this.

Right, also ridiculously, amazingly, awesomely, astoundingly... there are plenty of words in the English language that accomplish the same task.

Excellent example.

I want to identify politely and respectfully that "Insanely" used this way in the title is considered by folks with mental / behavioral disorders to be ableist. It's just a polite criticism, I am not here to debate it with anyone, so save your keystrokes if you think that's being "too PC" or "relax, everyone uses it…

Plenty of good cases for the Oxford comma, and I support its use.

And you're arguing about arguing, so leave it alone already.

Perhaps you should provide sources of some credibility if you plan to spout off things like that. I would agree with you mostly for 9 or earlier, but 10 and 11, you're dead wrong. What you probably are referring to is the number of dumb people who keep installing dumb toolbars, which they'd do on any browser despite…

I am aware of ad blockers. I actually was using Maxthon at the time, though usually I prefer a hardened Chrome so it doesn't spy on me. However your criticism of IE would be more well placed back in say, 2005. It's fun to bash Microsoft, but the product made great strides by version 10. At any rate, I commented…

I'm getting those damn annoying pop-over video ads (Yeah I know, ads? What ads?) from some pivot power strip thing. I thought Lifehacker was getting rid of those auto-playing loud-ass pop-over ads?

When I was little (and I'm 30, so we're talking NES-release era) - our parents got us an NES for Christmas and we could only really afford the one game that came with practically every NES sold: Mario Bros and Duck Hunt. I vaguely remember this kid's show where a live-action guy would jump into what was essentially…

Alan, Thorin also covered this recently: http://lifehacker.com/build-your-own…

It's fun to be that guy who tells stories about the glory days of DOS and dial-up bulletin board systems, rotary phones and *gasp* pay phones and writing letters by hand.

I'm not sure if it's an age thing. I'm 30 - I use my email in a very similar fashion for the most part. I have Thunderbird for personal email and Outlook for work email - I don't check it unless I have dismissed a notification to read later. In terms of social media, I mostly wait for notifications. When I'm bored or…

We've talked about water cooling before, both in terms of pre-built units and custom loops that you build yourself, and everyone's first question is: isn't that dangerous? What happens if it leaks inside your PC? Well, I recently found out. In general, if you follow the instructions and do you job right, you should…

Tossable email account, pre-paid card or Amazon gift card, buy something cheap, send it to your neighbor or another address. Be sure to use a non-destructive capture method so you can reprogram it.