What is Lifehacker? Lifehacker Review

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Lifehacker provides "time-saving" tips on various aspects to help users arrange and organize their work time and maximize their rest time. From the quick operation of the Firefox web browser to the earnest teachings from the faithful believers of "time management". It also often holds some voting activities, such as voting on software, voting on website design, voting on domain name registrars, etc., to make users' life and work more efficient.

The site focuses on free online tools and software. Lifehacker's advice to users covers the following categories: communication, design, money, organization, travel, work, etc.

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Lifehacker's motto expresses its entire philosophy: "Don't live for technology, pay attention to technology for life!"

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In 2004, Danny O'Brien proposed the concept of combining Life and Hacks and established a website.

In 2004, Gina Trapani and Gawker Media (the parent company) designed the personality and mascot of the website, which was an image of a tech girl (Gina herself), and the entire site was green because "the designer was reading a book called Opening the Xbox and thought the green color of the Xbox was very tech-savvy."

The website was launched on January 31, 2005, but there was no comment system for the next 8 months. Users communicated with the author through email. Gina insisted on writing more than a dozen articles every week.

In the fall of 2005, Lifehacker transitioned from a one-person blog to a magazine with an editor, with the addition of three authors. It began to display "moderated" reviews.

Between 2005 and 2010, it was exposed in various TOP blog lists by various media outlets such as Time Magazine and CNET.

As of January 2009, Lifehacker's monthly page views were 33 million.

In January 2009, Gina left the editor-in-chief position and continued to write the column, and was succeeded by Adam Pash.

On February 7, 2011, Lifehacker was redesigned with a cleaner interface.

On January 7, 2013, Adam resigned to start his own business and was succeeded by Whitson Gordon.

On April 15, 2013, Lifehacker was revamped for the second time.

On January 1, 2016, Whiston left to become editor-in-chief of How-To Geek, with Alan Henry serving as acting editor-in-chief.