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Set 'Custom Shortcuts' in the Lyft App For Addresses You Never Remember Over the past few months I’ve had to go to a handful of different doctor’s appointments around town. I live in San Francisco and don’t own a car, so going to those appointments always means Lyfting to them. Without fail, before each and every one of them I end up getting ready to head out the door and then realize I actually have no idea where I’m going.

Get Instagram Likes and Comment Counts Back Using This Chrome Extension Last month Instagram started hiding the likes on some posts from U.S. accounts. The idea behind the move was to allow users to “focus on the photos and videos you share, not how many likes you get.”

I'm Anil Dash, and This Is How I Work Glitch wants to do for web apps what YouTube did for videos, Flickr and Imgur did for pictures, and Twitter did for bad opinions: make them easy to create, share, and embed, and give them the chance to reach the right audience or even go viral. I talked to CEO Anil Dash about Glitch, his career, his internet fame, and how and why to run a socially responsible company. It’s a microhistory of how the internet took over the world, how the world ruined the internet, and how we get both back.

Send Yourself Notes With Chrome's New Shared Clipboard Chrome 79 adds a new “shared clipboard” option to the desktop and Android versions of the browser, and it’s a welcome feature. It’s now a lot easier to ship notes, links, or reminders between your phone and desktop—no more third-party apps or wonky copy-and-pastes in Google Drive.

Introduce Yourself Like Inigo Montoya Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. I work downstairs in business development. Can I pitch you some ideas over lunch?

Stop Grammar Policing the Word 'They'If somebody wants to refer to a person whose gender they do not know, or who doesn’t have a gender, they can use a certain very common English language pronoun. You know which one I mean. I just used it twice. Congratulations to they on being Merriam-Webster’s word of the year.

You Need the Kind of Electronic Toilet That's Popular in Japan Everyone poops. But not everyone poops the same.

How to Get a Free Google Home Mini From Spotify If you weren’t able to pick up a Google Home Mini for someone on your holiday shopping list, don’t fret—Google and Spotify are giving them away for free to all Spotify subscribers.

Why You're Always 'Randomly Selected' For Additional Airport Screening No matter how prepared you are, airport delays are inevitable. If your bag’s overweight, expect to take a few minutes just to unpack, redistribute your things, and re-pack again to appease an airline agent. If there’s a line just to check-in, well, that could take an extra 30 minutes with the family of 12 ahead of you and several strollers in tow. And then, of course, there’s the security line.

What to Do When You're Locked Out of Your iPhone What happens when someone else locks your iPhone and demands you do something in order to regain access? You freak out—rightfully so, since it means someone has access to your iPhone that shouldn’t or, worse, your entire Apple account.

These Old Phones Will Be Cut off From WhatsApp in 2020 WhatsApp will soon drop support for older versions of iOS and Android, and Windows Phone entirely. According to some reports, this means that millions of users with older smartphones will lose access to the popular messaging app.

Try These Steam Game Demos Before They Disappear Saturday The Game Awards were last night. And while we do love a pretty trophy (and are sad The Outer Worlds didn’t take top honors), there’s more to the event than pixel pageantry. Coinciding with the big day, there’s also a PC “Game Festival” going on—all on Steam—that features some great time-locked demos you can play right now.

How to Keep Kids From Bypassing iOS 13.3's Communication Limits When we got all excited about Apple’s new Communication Limits that allow you to restrict who your kid can talk to (and when), we didn’t realize Apple left a big loophole that makes it very easy for your crafty child to bypass these restrictions.

How to Work Around the Android Bug That Disables Your PIN An annoying lock screen bug has been bothering some unlucky Android users for months now, locking them out of their devices by way of a weird authentication loop. The bug has been present as far back as September, when it was originally spotted on Pixel XL devices. It remains unfixed and, worse, seems to be cropping up for even more Android owners.

How to Watch the Geminid Meteor Shower Tonight Tonight’s nearly full moon is still a visual treat in the night sky, but there’s another light show going on at the same time: the Geminid meteor shower. It’s the second-to-last meteor shower of the year.

These Are the Busiest Days to Fly During the Holidays If you’re flying home for the holidays, get ready for lines of all kinds—according to a forecast by advocacy group Airlines for America, more than 47 million Americans will fly in the days leading up to Christmas and through January 5, 2020, representing roughly 2.6 million passengers a day.

The Lifehacker Staff's Biggest Upgrades of 2019 With all the hacks we test every day, it’s hard to differentiate which ones are trendy, and which are real game changers.

How to Play Spotify Podcasts Through Alexa As of today, all Alexa users can finally use their Alexa to play podcasts through Spotify, simply by saying “Alexa, play The Upgrade on Spotify.” If you’re partway through an episode on the Spotify app, Alexa will pick up where you left off, and vice versa. No more juggling your progress between the two apps.

Turn Your iPhone Into an iPod With Rewound iOS: Here’s a silly thing to do on a Friday. Download Rewound, and listen to your Apple Music library (streaming or owned) through an old click-wheel iPod interface.

Use Google Assistant's Interpreter Mode to Talk to Someone in Their Language Next time you want to have a conversation with someone who speaks a different language, you might be able to do it using just your phone.