Lifehacker: Time Savers

You just hit the power button your PC, and now you've got enough time to brew a fresh pot of coffee for the entire office—because that's how long it takes for your computer to go from "on" to "rea...

Mac OS X only: Speed read through text on your Mac with iReadFast, a simple app that you paste text into so it can play it back at a speed you set. iReadFast simply flashes the text, one word at a...

Nearly two years ago, food author Mark Bittman launched an army of first-time bread makers with his no-knead, super-simple bread recipe (including a few of our helpful commenters). Now Bittman has...

In a perfect world, it wouldn't matter what a genius Javascript programmer or top-flight professional looked like. In this world, though, coming across as an unkempt schlub won't do anything good ...

Web site Splicd creates custom links to embedded YouTube videos that start and stop at any time you define, allowing you to skip straight to the good part and avoid the rest. Let's say, for exampl...

Essential time management yields increased success and productivity, according to weblog QuickSprout. By eliminating distractions, getting enough sleep (especially power napping), and maintaining ...

SlyDial, a new direct-to-voicemail phone service, blatantly pitches itself as a way to avoid conversations you don't want to have—and, in some cases, that's fine and actually productive. Sign up f...

There was a time in the not-so-distant past that launching a new application was a tedious, unpleasant task. Luckily, thanks to a handful of fast and powerful application launchers, our days of di...

The first message one could consider email was sent more than 30 years ago, and that's probably when people began associating angst and uncertainty with the words "Inbox" and "unread messages." T...

Windows only: Freeware application Direct Folders jumps quickly to any folder on your filesystem (and then some) for quick navigation through regular Explorer windows or save dialogs. After instal...