Typing on your iPad’s on-screen keypad can be a slippery, frustrating experience, particularly if you’re trying to get some real work done. Instead, consider making the leap to a physical Bluetooth keyboard—and no, you don’t have to shell out $100...
Even the best routers can have trouble covering every nook and cranny of your home with Wi-Fi goodness. One option is to cough up $300 or so for a three-router “mesh” wireless network, like Google WiFi, but there’s a much cheaper way to go. A Wi-Fi...
Amazon Prime used to be worth it just for the free shipping, but now with instant Prime videos, the Prime Reading lending library for Kindle books, streaming Prime Music, and unlimited photo storage, it’s a pretty sweet deal. If you’re not quite ready to...
Thanks to the handy mac dock at the bottom of your Mac desktop, your favorite programs, files, and folders are never more than a click away—and once you know what you’re doing, you can make the mac dock behave practically any way you want. Indeed, you can...
Super-thin laptops like the MacBook Air or a Windows ultralight tend to be pretty stingy when it comes to USB ports. Need more? Join the club. The solution is a lot easier and cheaper than you might think: a USB hub, and this compact, four-port USB 3.0 hub by Sabrent...
Want a new tablet for the holidays? Well, the cheapest iPad will set you back a whopping $270 (and that’s not even for this year’s model). Android tablets are less pricey, but a decent one will still cost you $100-plus. Before you throw in the towel,...
So, you just tapped “Send” on an important e-mail message with your favorite email app—and the moment you did, you realized you sent the message to the wrong person, or forgot to attach a critical file, or CC’d the entire planet, or you simply want a...
Until now, the Netflix app on your Android or iOS device wouldn’t do you much good if you were on a jetliner at 30,000 feet, deep in a subway tunnel, or otherwise out of range of a decent Wi-Fi or cellular connection. All that’s changed thanks to...
Vin writes (about a previous tip on how to add arrows to pictures on the Mac’s Photos app): Thank you again, Ben! Can this be done (with iPhone screenshots) within the Photo app in iOS as well? Hi Vin! Yep, you sure can. Indeed, the markup tool for iOS is...
Want to add a little font-aided emphasis to messages composed using your mail app on your iPhone or iPad? Turns out there’s an easy way to do it. The trick? Poking around a bit in the iOS editing pop-up—you know, the one that appears when you tap and hold to select...
