Author: Terren

Dear Lifehacker, I almost always have my laptop, iPod, and smartphone with me, but don’t always want to lug them around. Is it okay to leave them in my car if it’s particularly cold outside?

There are plenty of great Android tablets on the market now that weren’t around even a year ago. If you’re looking for one to wrap up for someone special, get your game on, or get some work done, you …

While Google’s Eric Schmidt may have once served on the board of directors at Apple, that apparently hasn’t affected his impartiality. The search giant’s executive chairman took a direct shot at App…

Toshiba’s been relatively quiet on the tablet front since announcing its Excite lineup back in April, but today the company’s making a mild comeback with a hot-off-the-press, Jelly Bean-loaded slate. Aside from packing Android 4.1, though, the newly announced (although not exactly unknown) Excite 10 SE also boasts a 10.1-inch, AutoBrite HD display and NVIDIA’S Tegra 3 CPU — all while weighing just shy of 23 ounces (22.6, to be exact) and measuri…

Watch the amazing new chapter in the Battlestar saga, Blood & Chrome, about William Adama’s rookie m

Remember that huge upgrade to Gmail for Android we wrote about last month? Looks like Google was merely putting the finishing touches on the app before releasing it to everyone. While the big new features — pinch-to-zoom and swipe-to-archive — only work on devices running Ice Cream Sandwich and above, it looks like all Android devices received the requisite performance improvements and bug fixes.
Aside from the most notable changes, Android 4.0+ …

Today is texting’s 20th birthday, and as part of the celebration, we’ve rounded up a little museum of texting slang. You may know some of it very well, you may not recognize some of it at all.

Equipped with a high-speed camera, we wanted to see a giant water balloon hit Norm’s face in slow mo

A free and open world depends on a free and open Internet. Governments alone, working behind closed doors, should not direct its future. The billions of people around the globe who use the Internet sh…

A free and open world depends on a free and open Internet. Governments alone should not determine the future of the Internet. The billions of people around the globe that use the Internet, and the exp…

The first text message was sent 20 years ago today

On your Windows PC, you can boot into safe mode to load Windows without any third-party software. You can do the same on Android with Android’s safe mode. In safe mode, Android won’t load any third-pa…

If you’re looking for a great Android tablet, there are plenty on the market to choose from—many more than there used to be, and they’re only getting better.

Details on the Pro variety of Microsoft’s Surface tablet have been hard to come by since the company first announced it, but it’s filled in some big ones today. It’s confirmed in a blog post that the device will start at $899 for the 64GB model, with the 128GB model setting you back $999. Both of those are what’s Microsoft’s dubbing the “standalone” model, which means you’ll get a Surface pen/stylus, but have to shell out extra for a Touch or Typ…

We knew this Android thing was kind of a big deal, right? Well due to the fact that no other real competitor has stepped up to try and challenge Apple and Android, the two have benefited from the la…

It’s frustrated many a Drive user, and Google has taken heed, adding on-the-go spreadsheet editing to the service’s iOS and Android apps. In addition to

FX is planning a big January. The network firmed up its early 2013 premiere dates on Wednesday, and they include the return of Charlie Sheen’s Anger Management. The comedy, recently picked up for…

The Toronto Maple Leafs, who last won the Stanley Cup in 1967, are the first NHL team worth $1 billion US, according to Forbes magazine.

Here come the Androids: Facebook employees encouraged to make the switch

Android: Smart WiFi Toggler is a free utility that automatically learns where your preferred wireless networks are located, and when you approach their location, will turn on wi-fi and join those netw…