Dave writes: If I don’t have a Wi-FI connection in my office, can I use my iPhone and connect to the Internet via its cellular network? If so, how? Hi Dave! Yep, you sure can. Indeed, it only takes a few taps to turn your iPhone—or your Android phone, for that...
Tired of those niggling red badges on your iPhone and iPad apps reminding you of, say, new stories in your Facebook feed, or that you haven’t played Candy Crush in awhile? Good news: it’s easy to turn off any annoying alert badges on your iPhone’s or...
Call me lazy, but I often heave a tiny sigh whenever it’s time to double-click a file, folder, or shortcut on my Windows desktop. Indeed, I much prefer clicking the buttons in the toolbar, which spring to life with a single click. So, is it that much harder...
My iMac’s one-terabyte hard drive is stuffed with close to 15 years worth of files—everything from old email messages and snapshots to manuscripts, press kits, stickies…well, you name it. Now, if you’re looking for something specific in your mountain...
Ever wonder what happened to all the handy shortcuts at the top of Google.com with links to Google Maps, YouTube, Calendar, and the like? Well, they got consolidated into something called the “app launcher”: a pop-up panel of popular Google features,...
Gone are the days when declining a call was a simple matter of, you know, just not answering the phone. Indeed, there are now (by my count, anyway) at least four ways on an iPhone to send an untimely call to voicemail. Some of them are fairly considerate, others are...
I’ve been pretty satisfied with Google Docs as a free and effective Microsoft Word replacement, but one key Word feature has been missing in action: the ability to track changes made by others. Word’s “track changes” feature color-codes any...
Not quite ready to join the tweeting masses? I can relate. But just because you haven’t signed up for Twitter doesn’t mean you can’t scour Twitter for nuggets of useful info, reactions to breaking news, play-by-play commentary from tweeting sports...
Ever wish you could set more than just one home page for your favorite web browser? Well, you can. In fact, you can set any of the four major browsers—Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari—to load as many “home” or “start” pages as you like, all in separate...
Ever try expanding a web video in the iPad’s Safari web browser so it fills the screen? If you have, you’ve probably noticed how annoying it is to shrink it again. That’s because the button you tap to expand a video—you know, the one with the two...
