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The Hassle-Free Guide to Ripping Your Blu-Ray Collection
Blu-Ray may be majestic, but it also has more copy protection than any other format around, and playing it on your computer can be difficult to impossible. Here's how to rip those movies for glorious HD movies, anywhere you want them.
50 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For
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Gather These Twenty-Five Documents You Need Before You Die
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Once you've used the hand-helping, time-saving, two-finger scrolling and three-finger gestures on a MacBook, a standard Windows trackpad can feel kind of, well, dead. Here's how to get total finger control with a tiny app, or go further with a driver swap.
Get Mac-Like Scrolling and Gestures on a Windows Laptop
You may have heard about how flashing a new ROM can improve your Android experience, but flashing a new kernel is one of the best ways to improve your phone's performance, battery life, and even add some saucy new features. Whether you know anything about either, here's what you need to know to make it happen. A kernel in an operating system—in this case Android—is the component responsible for helping your applications communicate with your hardware. It manages the system resources, communicates with external devices when needed, and so on.
How to Get Better Battery Life and Performance on Your Android Phone with a New Kernel
The Best App Discovery App for Android
Even though Android users can find and download apps in far more places than our iOS counterparts, app discovery on your device is still a task largely relegated to the Android Market. There are other app stores and apps that help you find new apps you would enjoy, but the official Android Market is the only one that's been regularly updated and does the best job of helping you find apps you would like based on other apps you may have installed. Easy search tool allows you to quickly find apps you're already looking for, and browse suggestions for apps based on the names you searched for.Upgrade and Speed Up Your Computer This Weekend
It's a sad fact of life that over time, all of our computers get a little bit slower. Before you start shelling out for a new machine, take some time this weekend to perform some maintenance tasks, upgrade a single piece of hardware, or even overclock your machine for a little speed boost. Before you start mucking with your hardware, it's a good idea to perform a bit of maintenance and make sure it isn't just bad software and cruft that's slowing your machine down. If you're using a Windows machine, you'll have quite a few things to do : keep it updated, run your antivirus software, clean temporary files, and uninstall any apps you don't want. Remember, too, that you shouldn't have to reinstall Windows regularly —if your computer has slowed down, it's most likely due to crappy apps, so you should make sure you uninstall anything fishy.
You've likely found yourself in an uncomfortable conversation at a party, taken a business meeting from which you'd like to escape, gone on an awkward date, or found yourself in any situation where you wanted to get out without hurting anyone's feelings. While most people believe either honesty or deception is the solution to this problem, you actually need both. Here's why. Be Honest…Just Not Too Honest
How to Get Out of an Awkward or Uncomfortable Situation (Without Being an Asshole)
Why I Won't Hire You
If you've ever hired anyone for a job, you understand a whole new perspective on what makes an applicant stand out—and what makes you toss an application to the bin. Fair or not, blogger, consultant, and hirer Charlie Balmer discusses honestly the mistakes that can ruin your chances with a potential employer. Photo by StockLite (Shutterstock). I will be very honest with you in this post.
Do you sit in an office chair or on your couch for more than six hours a day? Then here are some disturbing facts: Your risk of heart disease has increased by up to 64 percent . You're shaving off seven years of quality life . You're also more at risk for certain types of cancer . Simply put, sitting is killing you . That's the bad news.
How Sitting All Day Is Damaging Your Body and How You Can Counteract It
Whether you've just reinstalled Windows or you need to fill some holes on your software collection, we've got everything you need in our annual Lifehacker Pack. Here, you can grab our all-time favorite downloads in one, simple installer.
Pack for Windows: Our List of the Best Windows Downloads
Whether you're stuck inside and need to break out or you've found locked outside and need to get in, having the key or password is rarely your only option.