Geek to live, weve always said at Lifehacker. Dont live to geek. That means you shouldnt let your life hacking get in the way of your actual life. Andthe DiWHY subredditshows you why. These hacks should not exist. Theyre more ugly, wasteful, useless, or time-consuming than whatever normal product or method they replace. And theyre fun as hell to look at. Some bad hacks solve a problem no one has....
You probably shouldnt run an iOS public beta on your primary unit. But maybe you took the plunge anywayanything to get in on that sweetMemojiactionand now you regret it. you’re able to. That will keep this backup from being overwritten by subsequent backups of the same equipment. Its like backup insurance. If you have that archived backup, restoring your phone is a simple process. Connect the phone to your gear and launch iTunes....
Out of the four encrypted messages only three has been solved. The first three messages were solved within a couple of years after the sculpture was unveiled. The first message is a poetic phrase, which Sanborn composed himself. It reads: Between subtle shading and the absence of light lies the nuance of iqlusion. The misspelling in iqlusion was deliberately introduced to make the code as hard as possible to crack....
Heres how to do so in a way that is respectful of their time and energy. There are a lot ofhow-to guidesfor opening up relationships. Managing jealousy, setting boundaries, processing your feelings. Well, good for them. Theyre a person, too. Then I, a single person, can decide if I feel like dealing with it or not. Just last night, a man revealed to meduring our datethat he was in an open relationship....
If youve usedbirth control pillsfor any length of time, you may have been told to take it at the exact same time every day to ensure effectiveness. Maintaining a consistent pill schedule at home is as easy as setting an alarm on your phonebut what happens when you travel across several time zones? The good news is that if you take a combination pillone containing both a progestin and an estrogen, usuallyethinylestradiolyoure protected from pregnancy as long as you take a pill at some point every day....
Freshman year of college, my friend started a book club. We met up once, and Ive still never readUlysses. Book clubs are hard! Theyre so hard that blogs list things to talk about whenno one in the book club read the book. (Read reviews of the book out loud, and talk about those.) If your book club is really just an excuse to hang out, thats fine! But if you actually want to read and discuss some literature, try a short story club....
Find it in System Preferences > General. Some Apple apps go a lot darker than otherslike Notes, for example. If you dont needthatmuch detail, just hover over the metadata and click Show Less to pare it down. Organize your Desktop with Stacks Stacks is worth the public betas price of admission all by itself. And I have paid forDeclutter, a utility that does much the same thing.) To turn Stacks on, right-tap the Desktop and choose Use Stacks....
In this vast fertile region, civilization was born some 5,000 years ago. The first literate societies emerged, cities developed and trade and complex state bureaucracies evolved. After the Sumerians and Akkadians withered away, some of its descendants took to living in the marshlands. They are called Marsh Arabs or the Madan. Over the centuries these people developed a unique culture centered on the marshes' natural resources. A traditional reed hut called mudhif in a Marsh Arab village in Iraq....
Theres an episode ofEverybody Loves Raymondwhere Ray remembers an effective parenting method he learned from his dad: AIS. Hed say, Were leaving. 9 oclock, AIS! and whoevers ass was not in their seat at the designated time would be left behind. Ray tries it on Debra, his wife. Moral: Dont try it on your wife. (Also, yeah, I used to watch a lot ofEverybody Loves Raymonddont hate.) It is not cute....
Its also hard to get past the weirdness of speaking to an inanimate object. In fact,nearly 60 percent of Americanssay they change the way they speak when talking to a robot. But they cant actually do anything with those words unless they can make sense of the transcript. Thats what makes voice assistants appear smartthey process and understand natural human speech and respond accordingly. Speak to Alexa like shes your friend Voice assistants are trained using human speech patterns....
Its summertime and wanderlust is coming for us all. Minimize battery-draining features in advance What good is a phone you cant use? Making sure your handset is always charged up is the name of the game, especially when traveling. Dont wait until your phone pops up a warning to turn on low power mode. Take things a step further by tweaking which apps can download data even when theyre not active....
On How I Work, we like to find people with especially challenging jobs. AtPlated(acquired last year by grocery company Albertsons), that job belongs to Elana Karp. We talked to her about creating and testing recipes, shooting video guides, and her evolving culinary career. I began cooking when I was about 6 years old. I would help my mom or dad in the kitchen and it soon became one of my favorite hobbies....
Have you been wondering why youre not getting any matches on Tinder or Bumble? It might need an update. A lot of people write the about them section like its a throwaway, or theyll change it later. There are a lot of things people find surprisingly off-putting. For example, Reddit useru/Troelskihas a bone to pick with everyone out there claiming to be fluent in sarcasm. It gets back to the old adageshow, dont tell....
