Have you just moved to a new town? Are you a couch potato? Or have your friends decided they don’t want to do anything this weekend? Have no fear, the internet is here!  We’ll get you out of the house yet with these six websites. Six Places Online To Find Something To Do Craigslist.  …

As part of my role as Lifehack’s manager, I am responsible for moderating the comments queue. Lifehack’s back-end has a “Pending” queue for comments that our spam-catching software thinks might be spam, a “Spam” queue for comments labeled “spam” either by the software or by me, and another queue for comments that have been…

How many times have you heard stories of people who hired web firms to design and develop their web sites and either got substandard sites or the developer ran off with their money? Or what about the entrepreneur who “hired” his nephew/friend/daughter to design the site for free, and the results were disasterous and this…

Last week I talked about why a strong web site is crucial to your business. Today I’m going to talk about five components your web site needs and why you need them. Bear in mind, however, that these five aren’t the only components you need. At the end of the article, I’ll mention a couple…

There are literally millions of voices on the Internet. Blogs, Social networks, micromessaging services like Twitter, instant messaging services, email, wikis, forums, and dozens of technologies I haven’t even heard of – and dozens more to come – give us all an unprecedented ability to be heard. But with all those voices clamoring for attention, how…

Somewhere around 3 dozen people, scattered across the globe from Hong Kong across the US to the UK, Europe, and beyond work together to bring you the collection of useful tips, thought pieces, and inspiration known as Lifehack. I thought it might be interesting to our readers to learn a little bit…

Last week, I recommended over 60 productivity blogs, from the big name sites to some of the little-known discoveries I’d made in my travels through the productivity Web. At the end, I asked readers to recommend the sites that they’d come across that they felt deserved wider recognition, and this is what you came…

The personal productivity niche on the Web has grown by leaps and bounds since Lifehack launched only a few years ago. While a few sites dominate the rankings, there are lots and lots of lesser-known sites that are as good or even better than the “A-list” productivity blogs. Most of them are solo operations — the…

Famous families are all around us, from the Clinton dynasty to Mylie and Billy Ray Cyrus. They evoke in us so many things because we can relate, on some small level, to them. Not that many of our daughters are famous pop singers or that many of our parents are presidents. Sometimes…

I find Wikipedia to be a great starting point for online research, but you can’t really use it in your writing. Scholastici.us has 20 other suggestions that you could actually reference legitimately. Encylopedia Britannica – I know it seems awfully “old school” but this site is an excellent source of information and much more…

Okay, so most of us are out of school, but Schoolr can still be of great use. Schoolr is a site that ties the functionality of Google, Wikipedia, Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, Reference.com, a citation builder, foreign language translator, unit converter, and a book summary into one website. The idea is very simple…

Before deciding on a destination for your last minute trip, why not consult The Havaria World Disaster Map to make sure you’re not heading into trouble. It’s quite impressively up to date, chronicling anything like extreme weather to a biological hazard. Earthquake and volcano activity is also documented, as well as airplane accidents out of the…

zpeech is an application that lets you add comments to any Web site. All you need to do is add “zpeech.com” to the first part of a Web site’s domain name. Checkout http://zpeech.com/lifehack.org and you will see a message I left. Like I said, this works on any Web site, even Web…

What’s in a name? Does it define your website or is the domain just a placeholder? Like many others, I’m currently in the process of choosing domain names, and it’s no fun. Chris Garret simpathises in this article describing why he chose chrisg.com and what you should take into consideration when registering your domain. When choosing a…

TenantMarket is a Web site with the goal of matching landlords with tenants. As described by Emily Chang, it appears to be the “Match.com for apartments.” When looking for a rental in a new city, I had a great experience with rent.com and apartmentfinder.com. I wish I had know about this…