With all the hacks we test every day, it’s hard to differentiate which ones are trendy, and which are real game changers.
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Author: Joel Kahn
These Are the Busiest Days to Fly During the Holidays
If you’re flying home for the holidays, get ready for lines of all kinds—according to a forecast by advocacy group Airlines for America, more than 47 million Americans will fly in the days leading up to Christmas and through January 5, 2020, representing roughly 2.6 million passengers a day.
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Author: Josh Ocampo
What’s Your Favorite Photoshop Trick?
God I love content-aware fill. At Lifehacker I frequently want to illustrate a post with an image that’s not wide enough (like above). So I throw it into Photoshop, I expand the canvas size, I select the new blank parts on the sides, and I hit my cmd+option+F—my custom shortcut for Edit > Content-Aware Fill.
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Author: Nick Douglas
To Maximize Credit Card Rewards, Transfer Your Limit Before Closing a Card
Closing a credit card isn’t always great for your credit score. If you’re closing your oldest credit card, for example, it might reduce your overall age of credit— and the credit bureaus often dole out a few extra credit score points for people who have maintained the same credit accounts for, like, decades.
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Author: Nicole Dieker on Two Cents, shared by Nicole Dieker to Lifehacker
Infuse Cocktails With Chai This Holiday Season
A holiday riff on a classic cocktail is a fine thing, but the “seasonal twist” always seems to start and stop with cinnamon. There isn’t anything inherently wrong with cinnamon—it’s accessible and uncontroversial, it reads as sweet without adding actual sweetness, and it is even purportedly good for your blood…
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Author: Daniel Casto on Skillet, shared by Daniel Casto to Lifehacker
Indochino’s Overcoats Are Just $295 For a Limited Time
$100 Off Overcoats | Indochino | Use the promo code KINJA
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Author: Tercius on Kinja Deals, shared by Tercius to Lifehacker
We Are Actually Begging You to Make Your Venmo Transactions Private
We get it, it’s fun to choose the perfect emoji when sending or requesting money from friends on Venmo. It shouldn’t be so much fun, but somehow, it is. But everyone needs to find a new way to get three seconds of joy, because you’re putting yourself at risk if you don’t have your Venmo account set to “private.”
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Author: Lisa Rowan on Two Cents, shared by Lisa Rowan to Lifehacker
How to Play Spotify Podcasts Through Alexa
As of today, all Alexa users can finally use their Alexa to play podcasts through Spotify, simply by saying “Alexa, play The Upgrade on Spotify.” If you’re partway through an episode on the Spotify app, Alexa will pick up where you left off, and vice versa. No more juggling your progress between the two apps.
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Author: Nick Douglas
Some Benchmarks for Your Pull-Up Journey
Do you want to do a pull-up? Can you already do a few, but want to move forward from here? In our series of year-end fitness benchmarks, here are several levels of pull-up oriented tests to gauge your progress.
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Author: Beth Skwarecki on Vitals, shared by Beth Skwarecki to Lifehacker
Turn Your iPhone Into an iPod With Rewound
iOS: Here’s a silly thing to do on a Friday. Download Rewound, and listen to your Apple Music library (streaming or owned) through an old click-wheel iPod interface.
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Author: Nick Douglas