While I haven’t gotten high in a long, long time, I certainly recall the silly adventures I had when I did. This was back in college—way, way back in college—when all we had was Super Smash Bros. Melee, lava lamps, and racquetball to entertain ourselves when sampling various (terrible-tasting) edibles. Ah, simpler…

Welcome to another edition of Lifehacker’s tech-advice column, brought to you by copious amounts of DayQuil—thanks to whoever gave me the terrible cold I’ve been dealing with the last week or so. Since I still feel like I could easily pack eight more hours of sleep into my schedule today, I’ll cut right to this week’s…

I should probably stop watching that new Star Wars trailer, but I’m not going to. I have vivid memories of the first time teenage David, college-age David, and workforce David watched the first teasers for various new Star Wars movies, because there’s no feeling quite like it. Yes, even for Episode I: The Phantom…

Microsoft launched beta versions of its Chromium-based Edge browser earlier this week, and it’s been a hoot to give it a try—mainly because it feels so familiar for anyone who has been a Chrome fan. That’s not to say that Edge is simply a reskinned version of Google’s browser, however. There are plenty of tweaks,…

I might as well rename this column “The Wifi Wizard,” given how many of you have written in with wireless networking questions over the past several months. That’s fine, though. Wireless networking is near and dear to my heart, as I have wonderful memories of the three years I spent testing routers for Wirecutter—lots…

Windows: While a normal Windows 10 installation isn’t usually that difficult to manage, there’s probably a lot running under the hood of your operating system that annoys you. Maybe it’s a feature or two you wish you could turn off, or perhaps you’re concerned about what kind of data Microsoft collects on that which…

If you’ve ever built a desktop PC—and if you haven’t, you should give it a try—then you’ve probably had at least one (or possibly a number) of mishaps. It happens. Computers are still a little complex, whether you’re building a basic rig or cooling your system with scary, parts-destroying liquids.

iOS: If you’ve ever taken an R-rated picture on your phone, odds are good that you know it exists somewhere in your photo library. I’m pretty forgetful, but I know I’d remember that fact. I mean, there’s the setup process—lighting is important!—the fact that you have to at least partially undress, the multitude of…

Chrome: Not all hacks have to make you a productivity wizard. Some only need to make you happy, and add a little joy (or confusion) to those you email, too. At least, that’s the best way I can think of to describe the Chrome extension “Suggested poems for Gmail,” a brilliant little service that drops a literary bomb…

Last month, I felt a disturbance in the Force, as if millions of crappy songs from 2003 to 2015 cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. And they were. MySpace—yes, it’s still around—lost all the music uploaded to the site between these years thanks to some corrupted data during a server migration. Whoops.

My typical morning routine involves opening a handful of programs—Slack, Steam, my web browser, Discord, Spotify, et cetera. While I keep my most-used apps pinned to my Windows taskbar, I still have a few apps I’ll open from my Start menu (to help reduce clutter).

I talk a lot about wireless networking in this Tech 911 advice column. And this week is no exception. Just when I think we’ve covered everything, a reader question pops up that demands attention—partly because it’s a quirky question, and partly because I love starting my Friday mornings with a fresh cup of…

Android: Microsoft is currently testing a fun new feature that allows you to import data into Excel by taking a picture of it—preferably a data table and not, say, your cat. That won’t do anything.

Every geek worth their (Taco Bell) salt has a stash of tech gear they can’t live without. And it’s not just a pile of expensive stuff: old-school gaming consoles, a stack of hard drives, or a forgotten drawer of old smartphones. There are plenty of essentials that are worth packing into your toolbelt, fanny pack, or…

Bad news for Apple fans: AirPower is out. At least, Apple snuck that little announcement in right before the weekend to ensure that nobody would think the big cancellation was a hoax.

Between all that talk of Family Sharing for Apple’s new “Plus” services, and the fact that I finally set up my house’s shared Netflix account on my TV the other day, I think a lot about how to minimize the financial impact of my technological needs. And that always leads to a conversation with my roommates where I…

Twitter announced today that its iOS app has a few expanded options for Dark Mode, if you’d prefer to not go blind by staring at the app’s regular white background all day long. You now have two options to pick from—“Dim” mode, which combines black and darker grays, and “Lights out” mode, which sets your background to…

Say what you will about the Touch Bar, but it’s a fixture of the MacBook Pro we’re probably going to have to deal with for some time. And honestly, it’s not bad—much like the dream-worthy “OLED keyboard” that pops up from time to time that nobody seems to purchase, it’s fun to have a separate, tiny display that you…

I used to love Grammarly, the helpful browser plugin that analyzes what you type and calls out your poor spelling and grammar choices—for you to fix or ignore, depending on what kind of a writer you are. I ended up uninstalling it after a few months because it seemed to be a bit of a resource hog, and I found that…