Readers offer their best tips for skipping the messages and disclaimers before your movie, having a Band-Aid with you at all times, and making laundry easier to do.
Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasons?maybe they're a bit too niche, maybe we couldn't find a good way to present it, or maybe we just couldn't fit it in?the tip didn't make the front page. From the Tips Box is where we round up some of our favorites for your buffet-style consumption. Got a tip of your own to share? Add it in the comments, email it to tips at lifehacker.com, or share it on our tips and expert pages.
Use Chapters to Skip Annoying Warnings on DVDs and Blu-Rays
Robdawg_303 ignores the barrage of splash screens in his movies:
I have a tip for making watching Blu-ray and DVD discs more enjoyable by skipping the anti-piracy messages and studio disclaimers. When you load a Blu-ray or DVD and get to the menu, instead of pressing "play", choose "chapter" and select "Chapter 2". The movie will immediately start on chapter 2, and then you can press "chapter back" on your remote to go to the beginning of the title sequence. Depending on the movie, this can save you anywhere from 10-30 seconds of piracy warning screens and studio disclaimers.
And to skip the trailers before the menu, just press stop-stop-play!
Keep Band-Aids In Your Wallet for Quick Access
Mark Sandford shares a little survival tip:
Years ago, a coworker had a minor cut and my boss pulled a band aid out of his wallet. I thought that was pretty clever, and have done so as well for years. What surprises me is how often people ask me why. I think it's pretty self explanatory, but just in case: They're flat, they're light, and they fit nicely alongside my credit cards. Some need to be folded slightly, or have the paper that extends past the actual bandage tucked in, but it's a great "just in case" supply. I might go two years without needing a band aid, but the cost of carrying one my wallet is negligible. And every now and then, I get to be the hero.
Photo by Svetlana Miljkovic.
Use a Suitcase to Easily Transport Laundry
William King-Lewis does away with hampers and baskets:
I was doing laundry in my apartment complex today and one of the other tenets came in using a huge rolling suit case for his laundry making me feel like an idiot having bought some weird laundry hamper removeable sorting bag ironing board combo. Just using a huge rolling suitcase you already have. So easy and simple that I could have never thought of it myself.
Check out our other tips for speeding up laundry, the world's most boring chore, while you're at it. Photo by Faruk Ate?.
Make Microsoft Office's Thesaurus More Readable
Orange Exige solves a minor Office annoyance:
This is a stupid simple tip that I just realized myself and found too awesome (I'm lame I know) to keep to myself. Nothing crazy, but solves something that always bothered me.
If you're like me and use MS Word* (particularly with a zoom that leaves unused side margins) and its Thesaurus** (Shift+F7) a lot, then read on...
It always bothered me when I'd pull up the thesaurus (which I do a lot) and my document would get pushed to the left to make room for the thesaurus toolbar, which is docked to the side by default. Then I'd close it and my document would get pushed to the right, back to the center.
Well, click that arrow next to the X in said toolbox and click "Move". Drag it to the side just a tiny bit and BAM! You got a floating thesaurus that stays in your margins and is completely unobtrusive. And it stays like that when you close it too.
It's not a huge deal, but it does add a bit more flexibility, particularly if you're like me and use the thesaurus/dictionary a lot (and are OCD to a very small degree).
*Office 2007 for me, should be applicable with others.
**Other "Research" tools too, but I don't know their shortcuts, I just get to them using Shift+F7
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