March 8, 2020
Please Don't Try to Make Hand Sanitizer Using Vodka
If you’ve visited your local grocery or drug store in search of hand sanitizer over the past few weeks you’ve probably run into problems. Coronavirus concerns have caused hand sanitizer to be sold out almost everywhere, which had led to a number of people to start sharing recipes for how to make your own. Expcept that you probably shouldn’t, and especially not with vodka.
Travel
Tell Google Maps Your Dietary Preferences To Get More Customized Search Results
We all have food preferences of some kind. Maybe you’re a vegetarian or allergic to shellfish, or perhaps you just really don’t like pizza. When you’re using Google Maps to find food recommendations; however, by default, it will show you all the options out there, not just the ones you’re...
coronavirus
How to Politely Avoid a Handshake
Most of us are probably familiar with the standard coronavirus prevention advice: Wash your hands, avoid touching your face, regularly sanitize common surfaces like door handles, and wash your hands again.
Hack or Wack
Can a Baby-Wipe Lid Really Keep Your Chips Fresh?
Here at Hack or Wack, we love testing hacks from the youth’s favorite platform, TikTok. But it turns out TikTok has some older content producers contributing their best life hacks, too.
Deals
How to Get Free Conferencing Tools From Google and Microsoft for the Next Few Months
Coronavirus is a pain in the ass—to put it mildly. We’ve seen big cancelations of large group events and conferences, and your employer might be encouraging you to work from home until everything blows over. To help ease this process, Google and Microsoft are stepping up to offer free conferencing...
Email
How to Create Multiple Google Contacts at Once
Google has quietly reinstated the ability to batch-create and import multiple contacts to your Google account at once. This time-saving feature was removed when Google began switching its mobile and web apps over to the material theme design last year, and Google didn’t announce its return. That’s a shame, as...
Instant Pot
Make a Lil' Chicken Soup in Your Instant Pot
One of the main complaints I’ve heard about the Instant Pot is that it makes so much food. If you are part of a nuclear family unit, this is never a problem, but an overabundance of food can create both anxiety and palate fatigue for those of us that live...
Lifehacker Fitness Challenge
Let's Train Our Open Hand Grip
In our month-long quest to get stronger hands and forearms, we’ve trained our crush grip, support grip, and pinch grip. Now it’s time for a different challenge: open hand grip, the kind of grip that helps you hold onto large and sometimes oddly shaped objects.
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