I don't necessarily agree, but the problem with the high limits is that people tend to assume that is must be "okay" to borrow the maximum amount allowed, without actually giving a lot of thought to how they are going to make the payment.

We recently started doing some preliminary research on mortgages in the hope of relocating in the next year or two. After the housing / mortgage debacle of a few years ago, I expected standards to be tighter. But I was shocked to discover how much house the guidelines say we can afford. In my opinion, I can afford…

This will be changed by YouTube in 3...2...1...

Meh. Tried and didn't care for it. There were lots of sync issues between devices. I had to twice re-create everything. RTM is more my style. That's real minimalism and yet very powerful, and it syncs quickly and perfectly.

Any idea what might cause only Netflix to slow down dramatically? My Blu-Ray player streams Netflix, along with Amazon and other services and is connected via Ethernet (no WiFi) to my router. Suddenly last week, throughput on Netflix dropped to under 1 gbps range, making it pretty much un-watchable. Yet Amazon on the…

Really? I have lived with a sliding glass door for 50 years and neither I nor anyone else among family, friends, or visitors has ever slammed the door on a hand. How can that even happen? This looks like a very annoying solution is search of a problem to me.

Ambition is like faith — it is assumed to always be a virtue, but is it really? If one is perfectly happy and content with one's place and had no desire to change it, who says that is a bad thing?

Same here. I just tested it. I tried looking for a setting to enable it but found nothing. I'm on 4.2.2 on a Galaxy S4.

Some things are impossible. To believe otherwise is delusional. To claim that only fools recognize this is, well, foolish.

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that lots of testing over the years has revealed that dark text on a light background is always more readable than the reverse, regardless of the ambient lighting conditions. From personal experience, I have always found dark backgrounds to be taxing on my eyes. It seems to me…

Thanks for the graph. This article was screaming for some empirical evidence.

Seriously? This is a good way to make decisions? Why not just throw a dart at a board, consult a psychic, or examine the entrails of a freshly slaughtered chicken? This is beneath you, Lifehacker.

Good article. I have done all of these things. But my biggest gripe with locked down Android versions that have been adulterated by manufacturers and carriers is not so much what they don't have but what they force on us. I don't understand why we can't remove apps that we don't want. AFAIK, there is no solution to…

I was thinking the same thing. We hardly ever watch live TV anymore.

Good info, but I was hoping from the title that there might be some advice on "magical words" or tricks that might help you get out of an existing contract relatively unscathed. Probably not, since there is no incentive for the carrier to play nice if you're leaving anyway. Incidentally, I talked to an AT&T rep about…

Wow. I really hope that it isn't true that "the average Lifehacker reader knows their Wi-Fi password off the top of their head." Mine is safely encrypted in LastPass and I couldn't memorize it if I wanted to. It's a random 20 character jumble.

Ditto. And why does everything have to be a Facebook clone? I signed up based on this article — I thought it was going to help me track workouts. It added "friends" for me. WTF? How can I have friends that I have never heard of? Cancelling.

Absolutely. That's the one thing that keeps me from using Chrome on my Android. Until they do that, it's Dolphin for me.

I just upgraded and it worked great. At first it said I had a one year paid membership but when I went to my settings, it says it doesn't expire until 3/1/14. Sweet.

Totally agree. You would never see the second image in nature. So why manufacture it?