There’s nothing wrong with bringing your iPhone or Droid to Thanksgiving dinner—as long as you follow a few basic rules of smartphone etiquette, that is. Read on for pointers on how to avoid an embarrassing faux pas at the table, plus some tips on dealing with...
Got a game console like the Xbox 360 or the Nintendo Wii in your living room? If so, here’s a pop quiz: Which console game is more appropriate for a 12-year-old, “Uncharted 3” or “The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword”? Drawing a blank? If...
Linda writes: I was wanting to buy the unlocked version of the iPhone 4S for my son for Christmas but wasn’t sure if the phone was compatible with the carrier in our area. Help! Hi Linda! So, here’s the thing with the unlocked iPhone: it will only work...
Ever wish you could press “play” on any song in your digital music collection, whenever and wherever you wanted? That’s the promise of iTunes Match, Apple’s new, $25-a-year service that will transfer all your MP3s—or the first 20,000, anyway—to...
Now open to anyone in the U.S., Google Music will let you upload up to 20,000 songs to your own digital music “locker” and stream your tunes on your Android phone or tablet, or even over the web. Unlike Apple’s new iTunes Match service, Google Music...
So, you’re finally ready to take the leap and buy a tablet, but what kind of tablet? A big one like the iPad, or one of those smaller, mid-size Android tablets? And what about e-readers like the Amazon Kindle and the Barnes & Noble Nook—do they count? Well,...
Well, Google is finally in the business of selling music, with the search giant unveiling its new music store Wednesday as well as promising free storage of up to 20,000 tracks in your own, online music “locker.” Very nice, but some of your favorite...
Want to use an actual keyboard with your iPhone or iPad? Here’s a clever idea: a pair of plastic clips that snap onto Apple’s wireless keyboard and hold your iDevice at just the right angle for typing. What is it? Dubbed Wingstand, we’re basically...
A whisper-thin laptop with enough juice to last all day: it’s a promise that even the vaunted MacBook Air, with its five to seven-ish hours of battery life, can’t quite deliver. Now comes HP with its new Folio 13, a svelte, flyweight Windows laptop with a...
Smaller, lighter, and—most importantly of all—way cheaper than the iPad, Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet is shipping at last, and mine appeared on my doorstep early Tuesday morning. I haven’t had the chance to thoroughly test the $200 Fire, of course;...
