Posts Tagged ‘default’

Even if we didn’t have the science to back it up, we instinctively know that sitting all day is bad for your posture and back. We’ve already covered how stretching your wrists can prevent pain there, but reddit user thefalcone found this simple back stretch that can alleviate pain and tightness. More »

Link:
A Back Stretch You Can Do While Sitting [Video]

Plasti Dip, a specialty rubber coating commonly used for improving tool handles, has many other excellent uses, including fixing stripped headphone wires and rubberizing the back of your phone . Here’s a new one: protecting your floor from scratches. More »

See more here:
Apply Plasti Dip to Furniture to Protect Your Floors [Clever Uses]

Specific places instantly trigger different responses in us: sinking into a favorite chair, we automatically relax; entering the gym puts us in active mode. Using this principle and setting up special zones in our workspaces, work activities could be more effortless. More »

View the original here:
Boost Productivity by Setting Up Mission-Specific Zones for Your Workspace [Workspace]

Most of us are mired in the day-to-day management of our personal finances, and between paying down debt, saving for emergencies, getting enough insurance, and investing properly, it’s hard sometimes to see the big picture. CNN Money’s quiz can help. More »

Read More:
Take a Quick Financial Checkup Quiz to Find Out If You’re on the Right Track [Personal Finance]

Windows: Searching for files in Windows can be easy if you know what you’re looking for and infuriating if you don’t remember a file name, path, or folder location. 7Files, a free file browser for Windows 7 systems, makes searching easy by highlighting often-used files, organizing your files by date, file type, and file extension, and showing you most recently opened or modified files together for quick reference. More »

View the original here:
7Files for Windows Streamlines Windows Explorer, Makes File Searches Easier [Windows Downloads]

If you’re not the type to keep chrome polish lying around but you are the type who has a bottle of vodka they didn’t care for sitting the back of your home bar or pantry, consider using it as a chrome or jewelry polish. It works well when combined with a microfiber cloth, and lets you use something you already have instead of making you buy something new. More »

Visit site:
Use Vodka as a Chrome and Jewelry Cleaner You May Already Have [Clever Uses]

Mac: Blast is a utility that puts the files that you’ve recently accessed, downloaded, or modified right in the menubar where you can access them quickly. You don’t have to remember where you originally saved the file or where it is now: just click the Blast icon and they’ll all appear in the drop-down menu. More »

View the original here:
Blast for Mac Puts Recently Viewed Files in your Menubar [Mac Downloads]

Some passcodes are so effective that even you can’t remember what they are. If you’ve locked yourself out of your iPhone, it’s not to complicated to get back in. Here’s how. More »

Read the article:
What to Do If You’ve Forgotten Your iPhone’s Passcode [How To]

Server-side restrictions prevent Apple’s personal assistant software from running on older hardware, mobile gaming on Android will get a boost in Ice Cream Sandwich, and you’ll soon be able to merge your Blogger and Google+ profiles. More »

Taken from:
Remains of the Day: Siri Will Run, But It Won’t Work, On Older Hardware [For What It's Worth]

If you have a neighbor that’s playing their music too loudly, you can get them back by hijacking their speakers with a little DIY project. More »

View post:
Silence Noisy Neighbors by Transmitting Your Music to Their Speakers [Evil Week]

You’ll probably be carving a few pumpkins this Halloween, so why not use the leftovers to make a nice meal? Here are some great pumpkin-based recipes to turn your dinner table orange before heading out to trick-or-treat. More »

Read the original post:
Use Your Pumpkin Leftovers to Cook a Proper Halloween Dinner [Food]

We love a good cable management scheme , and today’s featured workspace has a great one. Flickr user jahue was inspired by the seemingly cable-free tables at the Apple Store and decide to make his own that has nothing but a power cord exposed. More »

Visit link:
The Single Cord Workspace [Featured Workspace]

Apple’s iOS 5 is currently jailbreakable , but only with a tethered jailbreak. That means if your phone ever crashes, or if you have to reboot it for any reason, you need to have it connected to a Mac or PC. That sucks! If someone ever wants to murder you they’d just reboot your phone and you’d have no way to call the cops. But ho! SemiTether solves this problem. More »

See the original article here:
SemiTether Makes Tethered iOS 5 Jailbreaks Rebootable Without a Computer [Ios Downloads]

Late last week Google changed the way one of their most useful (but lesser known) search operators works: The + (plus) operator. What’s that mean for you? Next time you want to make sure any single word or phrase appears in your search results, wrap it in quotation marks.

View article:
Use Quotation Marks Instead of + to Require a Search Term in Your Google Results [Google School]

Chrome/Firefox/Safari (User Script): If you’re like me, you probably avoid most YouTube links because you don’t know what’s on the other end, and you don’t want to waste time finding out. User script YouTube Link Title saves you from NSFW videos, rickrolls, and things that just aren’t worth your time by warning you what’s on the other side. More »

More here:
YouTube Link Title Tells You Where YouTube Links Lead, Lets You Watch Them Without Leaving the Current Page [User Scripts]

When I was an IT admin, I had the pleasure of dealing often with people who would submit urgent service requests and then leave for the day, leaving their office empty and computer locked by the time I could get there to help. Fortunately, I was often able to fix their problem while they weren’t there. Why? Their password was somewhere on their desk in one of these easy-to-find locations. More »

View post:
The Most Common Hiding Places for Workplace Passwords [Passwords]

Even if you’re fully decked out in reflective coating, riding a bike at night can be a dangerous thing, which is why Instructable user NEIN decided to rig up a simple system to add blinking turn signals to his bicycle. More »

Visit site:
Add Turn Signals to Your Bicycle For Less Than $40 [Video]

Welcome to Lifehacker’s Halloween special. On this week’s episode, we’re convincing your coworker that her computer is possessed, optimizing Trick or Treating with special candy codes, making movie-quality fake blood with household items, and more. Step inside for Lifehacker’s Halloween spooktacular. More »

View post:
Possess Your Coworkers’ Computer, Optimize Your Trick or Treating, and Make Movie-Quality Fake Blood [Video]

Admiral James Stockdale was held as a prisoner of war for eight years during the Vietnam War and was tortured in excess of twenty times by his captors. He was able to withstand all of this without losing his mind by employing two seemingly contradictory views: faith that he would prevail in the end no matter the difficulty and facing that he must confront the worst aspects of his current reality. More »

Continue Reading:
Utilize the Stockdale Paradox to Help Achieve Personal Growth [Brain Hacks]

If you’re trying to avoid a Costanza-sized wallet and you routinely travel by car you may wish to consider creating a second wallet to hold all of your store loyalty cards, punch cards, and other miscellaneous wallet items that you don’t use everyday. More »

Read More:
Keep a Second Wallet in Your Car for Store Loyalty Cards [Wallet]

If you’re nostalgic for your Nickelodeon, slime-infused childhood and want to bring back the memories this Halloween, Instructables user superpants can help you out with a very gooey recipe. More »

Follow this link:
Create Some Homemade Halloween Slime [DIY]

These days if you’re a web designer you know your site will be viewed on tablets, mobile devices, and televisions in addition to standard computer displays. Make sure your site appears as you wish on all of these devices easily using the free webapp Screenfly. More »

View original post here:
Screenfly Helps Tweak Your Site’s Layout on Various Displays [Webapps]

If you’re heading out of town by car and need to do laundry, here’s a simple method originally from John Steinbeck in his book Travels With Charley : Put your dirty clothes in a 5-gallon bucket with lid, cover the dirty clothes with water, add a little detergent, and secure the bucket somewhere in your vehicle that won’t tip over during the drive. More »

Follow this link:
Wash Clothes on a Road Trip with a 5-Gallon Bucket [Laundry]

Ninjas are cunning foes. The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people . Foolish Canadians learned this valuable lesson after challenging one ninja and being ambushed by scores of the deadly assassins. More »

Read more here:
Ninjas Do Not Fight Fair [Video]

I’ve daydreamed about having awesome telekinetic superpowers since I first watched Akira —you know, without the whole gigantic exploding Human Blob thing at the end of course. This new video from M83 seems to have tapped directly into my imagination. Simply awesome. More »

More:
M83 : Midnight City [Video]