In this post I have gathered five of the lifehacks I find the most useful and which I have come to use every day. I hope they will be useful to you as well.

If you have any lifehacks you are using on a regular basis, leave a comment below and share it!

Let’s get started on the list:

1. Tie your shoes with a knot that holds all day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc4H6goKFB0

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2. Sharpen your razor blade and use it forever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ADaRIqy0Dc

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3. Peel a banana like a monkey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBJV56WUDng

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4. Create some easy to remember & strong passwords

– (where you can’t use LastPass that is)

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5. Let your kid make a mess in the dishwasher

Set a bowl on top of the open dishwasher door which should be just the right height for your toddler.  Let her help cooking by adding ingredients and stir, and the pile of flour and sugar that usually ends up on the counter will end up on the dishwasher instead, making clean up as easy as closing the door 8-)  When you clean of the counter, make sure to sweep the dirt into down of the counter and into the dishwasher, it’s easier.

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Congratulation to the guerrilla photographer JR who is the winner of the TED Prize award 2011. This award grants him $100,000 and a wish to change the world with the support of the TED community. While a seemingly unconventional recipient, his work matches the creativity and innovative spirit of TED’s community, and his art inspires people to view the world differently –- and want to change it for the better. His latest exhibition called “Women Are Heroes,” is a project underlining the dignity of women who are the target of conflict.

TRAILER ” WOMEN ARE HEROES” from SOCIAL ANIMALS on Vimeo.

JR creates “pervasive art” where he mounts enormous black-and-white photos on buildings in areas such as the urban slums of Paris, the Middle East, Africa, and the favelas of Brazil. These images become part of the local landscape and capture people’s attention and imagination around the world.

People in the exhibit communities, those who often live with the bare minimum, discover something absolutely unnecessary but utterly wonderful. And they don’t just see it, they make it. Elderly women become models for a day; kids turn into artists for a week. In this art scene, there is no stage to separate the actors from the spectators.

As he is anonymous and doesn’t explain his huge full-frame portraits of people making faces, JR leaves the space empty for an encounter between the subject/protagonist and the passer-by/ interpreter.

This is what JR is working on. Raising questions…

An interview with JR can be found at the TED site.

[TED]

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At least I just found out I have been tying my shoes using the inefficient Granny knot my entire life. Time to move on to the new and promising Reef knot! Seems like the optimal way to tie your shoes.

[Lifehacker]

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If you would like to hold a killer presentation at work, then this video is a must see. Definitely needed for optimal functioning @work :)

Slides

[labnol.org]

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