Новости за 30.10.2023

I like to send little notes in my kid’s lunches, but “I love you, have a good day” gets old after a while. For my youngest, I send corny jokes instead. But I found the perfect thing for my 11-year-old: a pencil-and-paper game of Battleship.

You don’t really think about how to clean your window blinds until you have to, but when you get down to it, it’s a tedious job. You probably avoid cleaning them as long as possible, but eventually, the job needs to be done. Fortunately, there’s an easy method you probably haven’t heard of.

Welcome to Evil Week, our annual dive into all the slightly sketchy hacks we’d usually refrain from recommending. Want to weasel your way into free drinks, play elaborate mind games, or, er, launder some money? We’ve got all the info you need to be successfully unsavory.

As the temperature starts to drop and you turn your heat on for the first time, don’t ignore your ceiling fans. You can use them to your advantage throughout the winter to warm your space and save on energy—as long as they’re spinning in the correct direction.

Rosetta Stone is arguably the program that made at-home language-learning possible when it hit the market over 27 years ago—in its time, it’s been used by organizations ranging from NASA to Calvin Klein. It offers access to 24 available languages with concise lessons and speech-recognition technology for adjusting…

Welcome to Evil Week, our annual dive into all the slightly sketchy hacks we’d usually refrain from recommending. Want to weasel your way into free drinks, play elaborate mind games, or, er, launder some money? We’ve got all the info you need to be successfully unsavory.

Third-party accessories are a long-standing tradition of console gaming. Often, it’s a way to snag a controller without paying premium for the official version, or it fills a gap the console manufacturer doesn’t provide.

Last year, my advice was to ignore early Black Friday deals. This made sense at the time, given economic conditions at the time—in 2022, many retailers were overstocked due to slower spending by consumers amid an inflation-battered year, and looking to offload their excess supply with gradually more aggressive deals…

Making a cake is never easy. With all the bowls, whisks, and measuring cups involved, it can feel a lot more like a chemistry experiment than a celebratory snack. “One bowl” recipes can make the process less of a chore, but all I really want to do is just dump everything in a dish and bake it. Turns out I’ve been in…

If you’ve ever experienced even a mild electrical shock, you know how powerful—and frightening—it can be. There are more than 50,000 electrical fires in the U.S. every year, and close to 400 people are electrocuted annually. Even if getting a dose of voltage doesn’t kill you, it’s not a pleasant experience, and being…

Right now, this Seido Japanese eight-piece knife set—designed with strong high-carbon stainless steel—is on sale for $129.97 (reg. $429) through Oct. 31. Typically, western knife blades have a 25-degree angle, but these Japanese knives have a 15-degree angle, which creates a distinguished, sharper-cutting face.

If multiple people in your household use your Apple Music account, chances are your recommendations are all messed up. Since Apple Music’s algorithms use your listening history to suggest music you might like, other people can easily “corrupt” your history by bringing their preferences into your account.

Do you feel something a little sinister in the air? It’s not just the looming specter of All Hallow’s Eve: it’s Evil Week.

Longtime Lifehacker readers will no doubt recall that every year during the final week of October, we flip over our moral compasses and entertain the sort of hacks we otherwise would consider…

Curiosity Stream is a documentary streaming service with a large library of documentaries and docu-series. Normally, it costs $399 for a lifetime subscription to Curiosity Stream’s Standard Plan, but you can get it for $169.97 through Oct. 31.

Welcome to Evil Week, our annual dive into all the slightly sketchy hacks we’d usually refrain from recommending. Want to weasel your way into free drinks, play elaborate mind games, or, er, launder some money? We’ve got all the info you need to be successfully unsavory.

While there’s a lot of appeal to having a full-built desktop computer, sometimes you need something that offers a monitor and processing tower all in one machine. That’s where all-in-one computers come in. Over the years, these sleek machines have seen some huge advances, and if you’re looking to buy a great…

Digital devices, including smart TVs, are continuing to improve accessibility settings for people with disabilities. The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) passed in 2010 updated accessibility requirements, such as closed captioning, for TV programming and includes provisions for audio…

Users of smart hubs like Alexa and Google Home have long enjoyed being able to use IFTTT to connect and enhance services that aren’t natively connected to each other. For instance, we recently reviewed Leviton switches, which rely on IFTTT to create automations. The upshot of these services working with IFTTT is that…

An Apple ID is the social security card of the Apple ecosystem: It is your Apple identity, required whenever logging into a new device or to verify you are who you say you are. So if you don’t know your Apple ID, it’s kind of a big deal. Luckily, there are a few ways to find it, although some are easier than others.

This one was half easy, half tricky for me; I got the first two groups in a HEARTBEAT and then nearly PANICked trying to figure out the rest. If you’re looking for the Connections answer for Monday, October 30, 2023, read on—I’ll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solutions to all four categories.…