If you don’t like the alert sounds that came with that new app you just downloaded, they’re actually pretty easy to change—and you don’t even need to jailbreak your phone. [...]

Anonymous steals a considerable amount of data from the United States Bureau of Justice, APC plans to release an Android PC system for $49 this July, and Google may be [...]

If you’re a night owl, you know how much a regular white web page can hurt your eyes when you open it up. Here are two browser extensions for Chrome [...]

To-do lists are just a nagging reminder of all the things you need to do, so actually inspiring yourself to do them isn’t always easy. Michael Pantalon, Ph. D, writing [...]

The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. More » [...]

Hosting your own blog, photo gallery, or personal website has never been easier, and there’s no reason to rely on a free service that may vanish one day (taking all [...]

Google’s $12+ billion Motorola deal is closed, and Google veteran Dennis Woodside is taking over as Motorola CEO. Now the fun begins. For a variety of reasons, this has the potential to be [...]

This quotation from scientist and popular meme Neil deGrasse Tyson is practically our mission statement here at Lifehacker. It’s easy enough to acquire information—especially in the age of the internet—but knowing [...]

Google now owns Motorola. Chinese regulators followed the U.S. and Europe in clearing the deal earlier this week, removing the last barrier. Although the acquisition opens new territory for the search [...]

Reader andy_mcname put together this beautiful yet practical home screen using just a few simple tools. Here’s how. More » [...]

Facebook’s initial public offering is believed to have created as many as 1,000 new millionaires Friday, many of them employees who helped build the world’s largest social network. Now that [...]

You have no idea what you’re doing. This is great, says author Neil Gaiman in a commencement speech at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Being unfamiliar with established rules [...]

Not everyone should learn to code , but if it’s on your list of priorities you’ve got a friend in Mozilla. They’ve just announced a program called Webmaker that aims to teach [...]

Despite the DVR market being usurped by cable companies, TiVo has managed to keep going and trying to bring new ideas to market. Today they announced TiVo Stream, which will [...]

Last night, the  SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It’s carrying a reusable spacecraft called Dragon, which can dock with the International Space Station. It’s unmanned this time, but [...]

The Facebook IPO was a euphoric moment for tech. For the first time, a social Web company had resisted acquisition, dominated the world and gone public without compromising itself. But [...]

There are plenty of stupid things you do on Facebook , but you probably wouldn’t expect that being too private is one of them. There are actually real downsides to locking down [...]

Facebook is the social butterfly of Internet society, but as a company it has been a wallflower, reluctant to share any but the barest hints of its strategies and finances. Last [...]

Every holiday brings weekend sales, but some are better than others. If this coming Memorial Day weekend is anything like the last two, we might see some of the best [...]

While shredding is a great way to dispose of the occasional document, it becomes a lot less practical when you have stacks of paper to destroy. Weblog The Simple Dollar [...]