T-shirt just caught alight? About to jump in the pool? Blood of the queen alien burning a hole through your shirt as you take on the alien hordes with Ellen Ripley? Whatever the scenario, you want to remove your top fast. Cue the vid on how it’s done after the break…

At this point in the Life Hack series we move into another category of life improvement hacks. A set of short videos helping to save time by speeding up an activity. The first of these is a method of quickly tying shoe laces. Sprintcuts: Speed-Tie Your Shoes …my other shoes use velcro fastenings.

The digital realm of hard disks can accumulate 1000′s of files over time. Often order needs to be injected into the files to maintain an easily navigable structure. How is it possible to introduce such organisation without the tediousness of manually renaming each file? Enter “THE Rename” by Hervé Thouzard. It allows files to be [...]

Normally when a cell battery can no longer power our devices we dispose of them. If waste management systems are in place they may go for recycling. However, even though they are ‘dead’ they can still provide a useful function. What? How can a dead battery power something?

OK, so I don’t strictly mean your physical shoe size, but something similar. Your carbon footprint. It is surprising energy saving bulbs are not used more widely than they are currently. To not use them is a false economy. Here’s why…

For the reasons described in the article of phoning a loved one [lifehack #8] the same would apply to maintaining contact with family. Perhaps even more so, since the health of particularly older family members are a glimpse into the future of your own health issues that are yet to emerge on life’s horizon. Don’t [...]