Alan Henry's posts

We all have those days where we’re really not feeling it but we have to get some work done anyway. Whether that’s…

Traveling for the holidays almost always means that if you’re the tech-savvy, computer literate one in the family,…

If you need a meeting room, conference hall, photo studio, or other venue for an event or meeting with someone you’d…

Most services you might use to save links for future reference or reading are part social network and part sharing…

Chrome/Firefox/Opera: When Privacy Badger launched a few years ago, it was already a great tool to block third-party…

It may sound like a pretty simple question, but there’s more to the decision we’re willing to bet. You may have a…

Slicing an apple or a tomato is easy enough, but serving up passion fruit or dragon fruit is a bit trickier. So is…

This week, we’re looking into how researchers determine a counterfeit piece of art is actually fake, checking out…

Web/iOS/Android: Whether you can’t wait for the next episode of The Walking Dead or you’re more of a New Girl fan,…

Even if you are building a brand new computer, odds are you have some old gear around the house you’d like to get as…

A few members of the Lifehacker staff (Alan, Andy, Eric, Thorin, and Patrick) are in New York this week, and we want…

If you live for great new music, we’ve already highlighted Noon Pacific’s great weekly playlists, filled with new…

One of the confounding problems with a number of “gaming” headsets is that so many of them look like gaming…

Ideally, your boss will communicate with you over the course of a year to let you know what you’re doing right, what…

Step-by-step guides are our bread and butter here at Lifehacker, and you seem to enjoy reading them as much as we…

Lifehacker is looking for a new voice! You’ll need experience, an eye for tech and productivity, and above all, a…

We’ve walked you through building your own computer before. In this post—which we’ll update periodically as prices…

Google’s new “Trusted Contacts” app and service makes sure your loved ones always know where you are or can find out…

Those $2 IKEA plastic bags at the checkout are near indestructible, and great for just about anything, especially if…

This week, we’re checking out some endangered English words, a real-life Fortress of Solitude-like crystal cave, how…