How to Set Up ‘Guest Mode’ on Your Android

No matter how clean or secure your phone is, we all experience some anxiety when someone borrows it—even if only for a few minutes. For better or worse, we use our smartphones to manage critical parts of our lives, and one errant text or accidental “I left that photo up in my list of recently used apps” can cause a…

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Author: Brendan Hesse

How to Handle a Public Toddler Tantrum

We were in the Trader Joe’s parking lot. My daughter—who was two at the time—refused to get into her car seat. I tried coaxing her calmly, and then not calmly at all. Soon, it was a scene. She screamed as I wrangled her flailing body, my foot stretched out behind me to stop my shopping cart full of groceries from…

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Author: Michelle Woo on Offspring, shared by Michelle Woo to Lifehacker

How to Make the Crispiest Tortilla Chips

I have never met a single person who doesn’t like fresh tortilla chips and, if such a person exists, I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know them. But for some reason, it never occurs to me to make them myself, even though they are one of the easiest, least splattery foods you can fry for yourself at home. It is,…

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Author: Claire Lower on Skillet, shared by Claire Lower to Lifehacker