How to Understand and Set Up a Home Wireless Network
Here’s the complete guide that will teach you how to pick out the best network hardware, get to know it better, make it perform at its best, and access just about anything on your network from practically anywhere in the world.
Top 10 Products You Don't Need to Buy (Because You Already Have Them In Your Home) [Lifehacker Top 10]
I have made a few of the household cleaning agents before, including the homemade LCD/screen cleaner, but the drain de-cloggers are a good addition to my arsenal.
Shortcut Of The Day: Put Your Mac or Your Monitor to Sleep Instantly with a Keyboard Command(via @Lifehacker)
If you’re finished working with your Mac for the day and want a quick way to turn off the monitors or put your system to sleep, you don’t need to use a hot corner or special app to do it, just a keyboard shortcut.
Learn to Do Everything Faster
I like efficiency and so should you. Here is a video that teaches you some really simple tricks to performing some common, and not so common, tasks quickly:
- Dry painted fingernails instantly
- Tie Shoes with one motion
- Fold your tshirts
- Peel a boiled potato
- Remove a boiled egg’s shell
Do you have any links or instructions for doing things more efficiently?
The DIY Stain Removal Infographic Is a Quick Reference for Cleaning Common Stains
Despite how careful you are, stains happen. This handy infographic notes the most useful household items for removing common clothing stains.
Google Cheat Sheet Offers Helpful Tips and Tricks
Everyone’s talking about Google+. Those who have yet to get an invite want one, and those who are members are still trying to figure out what the heck it’s all about. Google+ user Simon Laustsen, an electronics technician from Denmark, has created a handy cheat sheet for those of us still trying to get the hang of Google+. It’s already been shared more than 1,000 times via Google+, and the Laustsen has translated it into several languages.
View original post or learn to navigate Google+ with keyboard shortcuts.
Navigate Google+ with Keyboard Shortcuts
Just discovered a new shortcut from a friend on Google+. Press the button ‘J’ to scroll down and ‘K’ to scroll up one post at a time. It is super quick and effective, saves the hassle of scrolling manually with mouse.
View the Google+ Cheat Sheet »
Do you know any secrets that you want to share?
5 DIY Ways To Deodorize Stinky Things
Something in your life getting a little stinky? No worries — it happens to the best of us. Whether it is your musty bedroom, stuffy car or four-legged friend, unpleasant odors have a way of infiltrating our daily lives. This infographic shows 5 DIY ways to deodorize bad smells no matter where they are coming from.
Quickly Access Firefox 4’s Panorama View with Keyboard Shortcuts
The newest 4.0 version of Firefox has a great built in feature for organizing your open browser windows and tabs. Pressing CMD+SHIFT+E allows you to quickly access Panorama View, showing thumbnails of all your open browser windows.
But if you want to take organization one step further, simply drag your open window thumbnails and stack them on top of each other to create tab groups. You can even label your groups, such as Things to Read Later and Social Media Sites.
So instead of viewing all your open tabs in one browser window, you only see the open tabs for the current group in which you are working. This keeps your browser less cluttered and make finding your open sites much easier.
