By Adam Pash This Is Lifehacker's Summer Series: Block Spam Callers, Hack a Lighter, and Upgrade Your Daily Routine On this week's episode of Lifehacker, we're blocking spam phone calls and text messages to your phone, hacking a lighter for one last light, and more. Today marks the beginning of Lifehacker's summer series, where the format is slightly different than our regular episodes but the content is hopefully just as good. In all, this episode highlights: How to block spam callers and unwanted text messages on your phone. A few of our favorite ways to upgrade your daily routine How to make a transparent dry erase board for less than $6 Which credit card will get you the most rewards for shopping on Amazon The most common lockscreen PINs for smartphones (that you probably want to avoid) A clever new music sharing service called Turntable.fm Some time-saving Android home screen shortcuts A simple shortcut for more control when you're scrubbing on your iPhone Some tips for getting your family members set up with video chat without the hassle If you need to catch up on the first season of Lifehacker, you can find all 13 episodes here: Learned a little about surviving the urban jungle Upgraded our office and hid our cords Hacked our weekends with a few of our favorite outdoorsy tricks Untangled your wires and boosted your Wi-Fi Cracked Windows passwords, padlocks, and Wi-Fi Shared some of our favorite clever repurposing tricks Supercharged your camera, took better cameraphone pictures, and painted with light Customized our phones, laptops, apartments, and so on Made better coffee, cut an onion without crying, and saved time with no-knead bread Scored free money, made free phone calls, and got free space on Dropbox Set up remote access to our home computers, remote controlled our BitTorrent downloads, and set up a remote security camera Saved a soaked gadget, make the ultimate workout playlist, and stay cool this summer Build the ultimate home theater, make great homemade popcorn, and always go cheap with HDMI cables Grab it in any format you like: If you don't want to watch it in your browser right now, you can catch the show wherever you want, and in nearly whatever format you like. Visit the episode page on Revision3 to download HD or phone-friendly versions of the show in MP4 or WMV. You can also subscribe in iTunes or via RSS, watch it on YouTube and subscribe to our channel there. Block Spam Callers, Hack a Lighter, and Upgrade Your Daily Routine | Revision3 You can contact Adam Pash, the author of this post on Twitter, Facebook, or email him at tips+adam@lifehacker.com. Share this:

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