I'm curious as to how well this really works. The water is going to follow the path of least resistance; in the example in the picture for instance, as it begins to freeze it will push its way higher up in the ziplock so the bulk of the volume will be outside the shoe. If you managed to somehow fill the ziplock all…

My ten years is today too actually! This is great advice that I need to apply now. Thanks for sharing this!

Congratulations! I think what you've described here is the most important part of a healthy relationship.

No, it's not. It's slightly faster and I don't need to use a mouse, but yeah, in terms of launching... Not much. However, it can script things. Run basic functions, find files and apps (faster than Spotlight, somehow)... Or you can create custom shortcuts Alfred manages and syncs across all your machines through…

Nowadays I clean alone but in my former life I owned a large private cleaning business. The reason I had to charge more was because I had insurance to pay. I had to be bonded. I had to pay taxes. I had to pay all the crap that employers have to pay for employees (ie FICA etc). I had to pay for advertising to get the…

The tl;dr: corporate cleaning companies (which shall remain unnamed) pay their people low wages and work 'em incredibly hard every day—the same is true for housekeeping staff at many motels, Wal-Mart employees, and non-professional nursing home staff (as in not nurses or therapists and such). As far as hiring a person…

I've considered whether it's worth paying $60 per visit for a housekeeper every two weeks, but I have come to the conclusion that in addition to her cleaning my house well, her arrival also prompts me to keep the house straightened up and stuff put away, which might or might not happen at all if she were not coming to…

I've wanted this for so long! Thank you so much. You've shaved minutes off of my Photoshop workflow (and believe me, those minutes matter).

you can tweak MUCH more of it using Wanam and Xposed.... might give that a try, it's awesome. Custom rows and columns, resizeable icons etc.

And after downloading this, install Wanam and Xposed installer and get the XposedGEL module. /it will allow custom rows and columns as well as let you shrink icons in homescreen,…

I have to agree. There are definitely options for some of these things at my office, but I'm in the car for at least 90 minutes each day heading to the office, not at home where many of these things can happen.

Hmm that's an interesting point. A lot of writers writing about living a better work life are indeed completely atypical because of the freedom they have.

My favorite all-time tip isn't really just one tip— It was being introduced to Autohotkey and all the tips that came after, all the ways I found (and am findIng) to make Windows tap-dance my way.

Yeah, the first few times are tricky. I cheat a little with those ;) For the example of cleaning the room for instance, I would start to clean the room with my daughter or turn it into a fun game, but when almost done, I'd start to back off so she *finishes* it. And then make a big deal about it. Over a period of…

I think it's been Lifehacked...

the app allows to customize the phrase you wake the device with, doesn’t it? so name one of'em Zacharias and another one Polly and there you go.

This was a Triumph

Good explainer, but what's missing is the really big picture: By separating Play Services from the core OS, it frees up Google to migrate users away from Android entirely.

Google's future is in Chrome devices (notice the Chromecast is entirely Chrome branded, even though under the hood it's basically a stripped-down…

Why do I do not drink coffeee at all?

I did the same thing. How is a keyboard shortcut really helping me when I have to go to the Google page to use it? I'm all about using the omnibar and rarely ever go to the Google homepage.