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

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