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Every weekend we gather our best guides and posts on a specific subject. These were our best top 10s of 2015.
Top 10 Lifehacker Posts of All Time
Lifehacker launched exactly ten years ago today (happy birthday to us)! In light of the occasion, let’s take a look back at some of the most popular posts we’ve shared with you this last decade.
Top 10 Ways to Teach Yourself to Code
Programming is one of the most valuable skills you can pick up in these modern times, whether for career prospects or to stretch your brain and create something awesome. If you’re just getting started on your coding journey, here are ten tips and resources to set you off on the right foot.
Top 10 Ways to Look Better Based on Your Body Shape and Face Shape
Our face shapes and body shapes can help us choose the most fitting hairstyles, clothing, and accessories. Here are ten tips to help you accentuate your best features.
Top 10 Gmail Labs and Features You Should Enable
As if Gmail wasn’t powerful enough, you can find all sorts of goodies and extra features in Gmail Labs. The list is pretty massive, so we’ve narrowed down our 10 favorite labs to help increase your email productivity.
Top 10 Skills You Need at Work That Have Nothing to Do with Your Job
Hiring managers make the difficult decision of who the best candidate is for the job based not just on the specific job requirements but also basic “soft skills” every worker should have, like communication and teamwork. Here are the top 10 additional job skills everyone needs.
Top 10 Mistakes We Make When Grocery Shopping (And How to Fix Them)
Buying groceries is one of those universal chores most of us could probably do better at, whether it’s saving money on food or spending less time shopping. Here are ten common mistakes we tend to make at the grocery store—and how to avoid them.
Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Monitor, the Screen You Stare at All Day
Many of us are stuck behind our desk and computer all day long, which makes the hardware we use quite important. Let’s give some more thought to our monitors, with these ten tips for getting the most out of those screens.
Top 10 Smart Ways to Organize and Upgrade Your Garage
The garage is often a neglected, messy space. With a little organization and a few handy projects, though, we can get much more use out of our garages and also modernize them. Here are our top 10 garage upgrade ideas.
Top 10 Simple Weight Loss Hacks You Can Implement Right Now
Weight loss isn’t easy (if it were, we wouldn’t have a billion different diet plans and products to waste our money on). But even the smallest weight loss tricks or mind hacks can make a big difference when it comes to sticking to your diet or weight loss plan. Here are 10 such tricks you can easily incorporate today.
Top 10 Things You Can Do with a Slow Cooker That Don’t Involve Food
The slow cooker (or crock pot) is a wonderful appliance for hands-off cooking, but the gentle, slow heating process can also be used for other things unrelated to food. Such as these ten things.
Top 10 Difficult Decisions You’ll Make in Life (and How to Make Them)
Life is full of big moments and big decisions. But fret not, from deciding where to live to finding your true calling, here’s some advice to help you along the way.
Top 10 Lazy Yet Smart Ways to Spring Clean Your Home
It’s spring cleaning time. Even if you have the urge to clean your home from top to bottom, perhaps your natural laziness is keeping you from getting started. No worries, here are ten MacGyver-ish ways to freshen your home with minimal effort.
Top 10 Uncomfortable Situations and How to Deal with Them
Life is full of awkward and uncomfortable moments. We can’t avoid them altogether, but we can handle them with grace. Here are ten situations we all might struggle with and how to relieve the discomfort.
Top 10 Essential Tips for Dating
Dating is often awkward, sweet, and challenging (sometimes at the same time). But don’t worry, we’ve got more than a few tips for surviving the dating scene and improving your dating experience.
Top 10 Ways You’re Probably Using Email Wrong
Email is the technology tool everyone relies on and yet perhaps also hates (it’s the cockroach of the internet!). Love it or hate it, we could probably all stand to improve our email skills, from managing our inboxes to sending more elegant email messages. Here are ten of the top mistakes we make with our email.
Thanks for a great 2015! And while you’re at it, don’t forget Lifehacker’s 10th anniversary celebration for even more great top 10 lists!
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A tasty sauce is the key to a great noodle dish. While this soy vinaigrette is meant for cold noodle dishes (specifically cold ramen,) it’s a super quick way to turn a bowl of any noodles and veggies you may have left over into a delicious, filling meal.
Chef Richie Nakano shares his soy vinaigrette recipe for cold ramen, but you can use it for most types of Asian noodles. You won’t need much: soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil, and some fresh garlic and ginger. You probably have most of the ingredients in your pantry already, and you can see how it’s done exactly in the video above, or at the link below.
Toss everything into a blender, then strain out the ginger and garlic bits. Pour over your cooked noodles, veggies, meat, and whatever other toppings you want. If all you have is leftover noodles, this is good for that too. If you want to make noodles to go with it, just make sure you chill your noodles in an ice bath after cooking them to al dente (this stops the cooking process and cools them down just enough for the dish,) but before adding them to everything else.
Cold Ramen | Munchies
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When it comes to celebrating the new year, champagne is almost a requirement. This handy guide to building a champagne tower can help you take your party, and your champagne consumption, to the next level.
The step-by-step guide from the folks at VinePair fills you in on everything you need to create a jaw-dropping New Years Eve display. As mentioned in the guide, the keys are using the right glasses (champagne coupes), having a sturdy base to construct on, making sure all of the glasses touch as you build, and pouring the champagne slowly so it cascades without making a mess. Once they’re all filled, let each one of your guests grab a glass and make a toast. You can find the complete instructions at the link below.
The Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Champagne Tower | VinePair
Photo by Ming-yen Hsu.
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If you’ve ever wondered why your car will sometimes give you a painful shock when you climb out, this video explains the science behind it, and how to prevent it.
In this video from the Physics Girl YouTube channel, host Dianna Cowern explains exactly why exiting your car can cause a nasty static shock when you touch the outside of it. When you get out of the car, you slide your body across the seat, and that can leave both the seat and your body statically charged. If the air is cold and dry enough, the charge will quickly and violently transfer from your body into the car’s metal and shock you. Cowern suggests the easiest way to avoid this is by touching the metal while you exit the vehicle. Even if charge builds up, it will slowly flow from your body to the metal without creating the violent “shocking” event.
How to not get shocked exiting a car | YouTube
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If you work with any sort of digital media, whether it be video, photos, vector graphics, humble PDFs, or animation, it’s almost certain that there’s an Adobe product in your workflow. So what are the go-to apps for someone who works at Adobe?
Russell Brown is a 30-year veteran of the company, having joined in 1985, and has contributed to the direction and design of every version of Photoshop ever released. He’s also an Emmy-award winning instructor who teaches design with a certain theatrical flare. As you might imagine, after three decades with the company Russell isn’t in the weeds with the code, but works more as an evangelist for Adobe’s creative suite when he’s not guiding the evolution of the software. We spoke with Russell to learn a little about how he works.
Location: San Jose, CA
Current Gig: Principal Designer
One word that best describes how you work: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Current mobile device: iPhone 6s Plus
Current computer: iPad Pro
First of all, tell us a little about your role at Adobe.
My current title at work might be a bit misleading. As a Principal Designer I do have graphic design projects that come up in my work, but currently I am more of a Photoshop and mobile computing evangelist. I really plan special events for graphic designers, art directors and photographers that introduce them to the wonders of all things Adobe.
What apps, software, or tools can’t you live without?
Here is my set of imaging tools: iPhone 6s, iPad Pro, DJI Phantom 3 Quadcopter, GoPro Camera.
Here are my software tools: Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Mobile, Adobe Photoshop Mix.
What’s your workspace setup like? Coffee shop with laptop and headphones? Home office with a standing desk?
I currently love to sit on the couch with my iPad Pro and a good cup of green tea. It’s the only way to work.
What’s your best time-saving shortcut or life hack?
Forget all the fancy cameras in the world. Going for a walk with an iPhone is refreshingly creative.
What’s your favorite to-do list manager?
Each morning I write down my to-do-list on a simple pad of paper. It’s so great to cross each item off with a real world pen.
Besides your phone and computer, what gadget can’t you live without and why?
I think this would have to be my drone copter for taking aerial photos.
What everyday thing are you better at than everyone else?
I’m the world’s best party planner. I can put on a killer event that everyone wants to attend.
What do you listen to while you work? Got a favorite playlist? Maybe talk radio? Or do you prefer silence?
I listen to NOTHING. Silence is critical during my creative thinking time.
What are you currently reading? A novel, comic book, website, magazine?
If I had time for reading then it would be a really amazing science fiction novel that takes you into deep outer-space.
How do you recharge?
That’s a simple one. I go for a really long walk, all by myself.
What’s your sleep routine like? Are you a night owl or early-riser?
Most definitely I am an early-riser. I’m writing the answers to these questions at 4am. The only time to work.
Fill in the blank: I’d love to see _________ answer these same questions.
I’d love to see the Cosmic Universe answer these same questions.
What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?
1. Never complain, explain or apologize. If you do any of these things then you didn’t do your job correctly.
2. Never buy a boat!
Is there anything else you’d like to add that might be interesting to readers and fans?
Happiness is the secret to life. All other things will fall into place if you achieve that one simple state of mind. Oh yes, travel, travel, travel and travel.
The How I Work series asks heroes, experts, and flat-out productive people to share their shortcuts, workspaces, routines, and more. Every other Wednesday we’ll feature a new guest and the gadgets, apps, tips, and tricks that keep them going. Have someone you want to see featured, or questions you think we should ask? Email Andy.
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