Readers offer their best tips for dictating text on Android, wrapping your headphones, and easily removing windshield stickers.
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.
Moon shares a quick tip for Android's voice-to-text:
If you're dictating notes on Android, new line and new paragraph perform those actions. This was good to find out, because I didn't like going to and from the virtual keyboard just to do things like that. Now I can dispense with the keyboard more often. It's great for lists or anything involving plain text. It should work on any app you use for making notes. I'm using ColorNote in this case, on my Nexus 7. I've read that it doesn't work in email but haven't tested there. It probably works on other Android devices. I found about about this here.
If you don't have a connection, you may need to download offline speech recognition in order for it to work offline. It can still be finicky, though.
Daniel shows off yet another DIY headphone wrapper, with a little flair:
Headphones wraps are a great way to keep your nice ear buds in ship shape. There are plenty of options out there (from Dead Fish to Apple Cores), but if you've got $2 and about 5 minutes, I'll show you how to make your very own, two- (or one-) color headphone wrap!
You'll need 2 Pen Pals (I found several colors at OfficeMax for a buck each) and a pair of scissors.
Check out Daniel's full blog post for the step-by-step. The process is pretty easy.
In response to our recent tip about windshield stickers, pizzaazzip shares another trick for removing them easily:
In response to the tip earlier about leaving a car's window sticker a bit unstuck for quick removal, I use smartphone screen protectors to mount all of my window stickers for easy removal, because I switch cars often.
Jeffrey solves the annoyance of natural peanut butter:
Ever have a problem with all natural peanut butter because it's so "liquidy" at the top? It's a real pain to spread it without it dripping all over the place. Solution: Store the peanut butter upside down, then when you open it, it's not "liquidy" on the top and it's super easy to spread.
You can also give it a shake to mix it all together.
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