I’m a huge fan of “Do Not Disturb,” a handy iOS feature that silences your iPhone or iPad’s ring tones, alerts, and other notifications whenever you need a little peace and quiet. But here’s the thing: even with Do Not Disturb mode...
Raise your hand if you hate the spinning beach ball! Yep, I’m talking about all those times when your computer mouse turns into a spinning blue disc (on a Windows PC) or a multicolored beach ball (on a Mac), just as the program on your desktop comes to a...
Jayne writes: Is it possible to change the contact form defaults [in iOS]? When I tap to add a phone, email or address, the default label for these is “home,” but 99 percent of the time that I am inputting contacts, I want it to be “work,”...
The latest version of Android—version 5.0, a.k.a. “Lollipop”—is taking its sweet time making it to Android phones and tablets. My Nexus 7 Android tablet only got the update a few weeks ago, and my newish Motorola G is still waiting for its own flavor of...
One of my New Year’s resolutions is to find lots of little ways to save time, and this year, I’m starting with an easy one: a way to automatically add alerts to all my new iPhone calendar events. As it stands, whenever I add a new calendar event on my...
So, did you put off holiday shopping until the eleventh hour? Never fear. If the special someone on your list has an iPhone, iPad or Android device, there’s still an easy—and best of all, instant—way to put a smile on her face: give her an app. In just a few...
Recently, I wrote a tip about how to set your iPhone to alert you whenever you get email from “VIPs”—friends, loved-ones, colleagues, and other special someones you’ve nominated for very-important status. Not bad, readers said, but is there any way...
Need to know the moment someone replies to an email you just sent or received? Thanks to iOS 8, setting up an alert for replies to a specific Mail thread takes just a couple of taps. The trick: when you’re composing either a new email or a reply to an existing...
Sure, everyone pretty much knows what “LOL” means, and most of us have grown familiar with the “ROFLs,” the “LMAOs” and the “<3s.” But at the risk of showing my age (I haven’t been 25 in about 20 years),...
So, wondering why your new Windows 8 PC is taking so long to start up in the morning? The culprit might be one of your startup programs—that is, programs on your hard drive that launch the moment you hit the power button. The Windows 8 Task Manager has a nifty feature...
