Phones age like bananas, or relationships. Our culture pressures us to spend money on the latest and greatest (phone, not banana). you’re free to fight it. Delete apps Too many apps slow down your phone by running in the background. Clear out the ones you dont use. A useful way to do this is to sort them roughly by when you last remember using them. Clear up hard drive space Older phones come with less storage space....
Here are a few things to consider before you make the switch. One is the cost to drive your vehicle off the lot. EVs are stillmore expensive up front: $55,600 compared to an industry median of $36,600. The median cost of a PHEV is somewhere in the middle (around $46,000). Some PHEVs haveslightly lower creditsthan full EVs. Use a calculator (like the FuelEconomy.govsPlug-in Hybrid toolandeGallon comparison) to get a ballpark figure....
Some of that advice is terrible. If anyone offers you the following financial advice, you have our permission to ignore it completely. If youd stop buying expensive coffee, you wouldnt be so broke. Sure, $5 here and there can drain your bank account quicker than you might realize. Youd have about $200,000, which may be enough motivation to cut back on extra purchases a bit. Go ahead, make your next cup a grande if you dont feel like making coffee at home....
If youre a college student who is also a parent, you might not be aware that there are federal grants designed to help assist you with the cost of childcare. AsMarketWatchexplains, 22 percent of todays college students are parentsbut a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office reveals that many of these students dont know that they might be eligible for childcare subsidies: Officials at the watchdog agency said Thursday that 40 of 62 unidentified college websites they examined didnt mention theres an option to include a childcare allowance in financial aid calculations....
A friend of mine once went on a tirade about how she wouldnotraise a disrespectful kid. Thats just not happening, she said. He will not talk back. Respect is way too important to me, and I wont put up with him being rude. Her son was about a year old at the time. Mine was a few years older. So, I laughed. Yeah, sounds great, I told her. If you figure out the secret, pass it along to me, okay?...
As soon as you spot a transaction that doesnt seem to belong on your credit or debit card, your pulse starts to quicken, right? Your bank account balance is supposed to be predictable, your credit tab fluctuating only because you decided to swipe your card. But when your account activity doesnt match up with what you expected, you should quickly determine what kind of problem you have on your hands....
Thats where the similarities tend to end, however. Spotify (iOS, Android, Desktop) Oh, Spotify. Its the golden child of music streamingand for good reason. Students with a valid school email address are eligible for a discounted rate of just $4.99 per month. It doesnt have Jay-Z though, so…yeah. The on-demand streaming service works with every Apple unit, as well as on Android. If you dont want to pay for it, you might still listen to Beats 1 Radio for free....
Like Sanders, several other Democratic candidates have released proposals to tackle housing inequality in America. (Well also note if a candidate has yet to provide a housing plan.) Anyone paying more than 30 percent of their before-tax income would be eligible for the credit. Fund anti-homelessness grant programs, including theMcKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Programs, with $6 billion annually. (These programs provide individuals with resources like shelters, rent subsidies, and transitional housing.)...
Everyday billions of space rocks crash into the earths atmosphere and disintegrate before they reach the ground. This produces two main effectsone we can see with our eyes, the other we cannot. Photo credit:Sergiu Bacioiu/Flickr The second effect, the one which we cannot see, is ionization. Meteorites even as small as a grain of sand can create columns of ionized air tens of kilometers long. What if we use this ionization trails to reflect radio waves for long distance communication?...
Computers think they know who you are. Artificial intelligence algorithms can recognize objects from images, even faces. But we rarely get a peek under the hood of facial recognition algorithms. Now, withImageNet Roulette, we can watch an AI jump to conclusions. Some of its guesses are funny, others…racist. It uses data from one of the large, standard databases used in AI research. Upload a photo, and the algorithm will show you what it thinks you are....
Grief is awful, but it can also be awkward. Of course, your intentions are good and you want to make things better, not worse. Heres what you gotta know. Dear Lifehacker,This year has been a very difficult one for me. A close friend passed away and a few other people I know also lost loved ones. I never know what to say or how to act at times like these....
So you finally bit the bullet and bought that gym membership youve been talking about. You probably have a lot of questions: What should you wear? What workout should you do? How do the machines even work? Heres a primer on how to make your first gym experience awesomeor at least, tolerable. That means a couple of things. A loose-fitting, dry-fit shirt or tank top, tights or shorts and comfortable shoes should do....
A read later list is an essential productivity tool. Here are three different strategies for getting through your reading list, and the tools to execute them. Its time to either read those articles you skip every time, or let them go. Go through ruthlessly if you regret archiving an article, you could always dig it up later. (More likely, youll forget about it forever andyoull be fine.) you could only skip an item three times before the app deletes it....
