This Is Lifehacker's Summer Series: Remote Control Spotify with Your Phone, Save Cash at the Store, and the Google+ Cheatsheet

On this week's episode of Lifehacker, we're setting up our phone's to remote control music-streaming service Spotify (along with avoiding the wait for an invite), saving cash with club discounts without giving out your personal info, enjoying some cheap Frappuccinos, and more.

This is the fifth episode in Lifehacker's summer series. The format is slightly different from our regular episodes but the content is just as good. This week's episode highlights:

• How to set up your Android or iPhone to remote control your Spotify music playback—a little along the lines of the iTunes Remote app, but for the popular music streaming service.

• How to get discounts without giving up your privacy using "Jenny's Number".

• Making a Starbucks-style Frappuccino at home for $0.32 (the secret ingredient is xanthan gum).

• How to get started using Spotify without waiting for an invitation.

• How to do just about anything on Google+ with the help of a handy cheatsheet.

• How to turn your netbook into a Chromebook with Chromium OS

• A simple shortcut to view your browsing history on Android.

• A clever app that pipes almost any text you select into any app or service.

Hungry for a little more? Check out the episodes in our summer series:

• Episode 1

• Episode 2

• Episode 3

• Episode 4

Lastly, if you need to catch up on the first season of Lifehacker, you can find all 13 episodes here:

1. Learned a little about surviving the urban jungle

2. Upgraded our office and hid our cords

3. Hacked our weekends with a few of our favorite outdoorsy tricks

4. Untangled your wires and boosted your Wi-Fi

5. Cracked Windows passwords, padlocks, and Wi-Fi

6. Shared some of our favorite clever repurposing tricks

7. Supercharged your camera, took better cameraphone pictures, and painted with light

8. Customized our phones, laptops, apartments, and so on

9. Made better coffee, cut an onion without crying, and saved time with no-knead bread

10. Scored free money, made free phone calls, and got free space on Dropbox

11. Set up remote access to our home computers, remote controlled our BitTorrent downloads, and set up a remote security camera

12. Saved a soaked gadget, make the ultimate workout playlist, and stay cool this summer

13. 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.

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