So, wait—is Chicago just an hour behind New York, or is it two hours behind? No matter how often I check, I still can’t get it straight. Luckily, help is at hand, all thanks to the humble little clock on your Windows desktop. As it turns out, you can add one or...
Ever feel like your music playlist needs a shuffle, or that your current shuffle needs a do-over? Sure you have—but maybe you don’t feel like swiping to the music app and tapping the tiny “Shuffle” button. Well, there’s an easier way to shuffle...
Danelle writes: Love your tips about Facebook. Do you know of any way to not allow Facebook friends to view other friends profiles? I have a friend that snoops and I don’t want any comments made to any of my other friends that would cause harm. Any thoughts?...
South Jersey writes: Hi Ben! I have a VCR player with some old VHS tapes I like to watch, and I was looking into getting an HDTV (my first). The salesmen told me I’d need an HDMI cable, but they didn’t know the price of the cable or even bother to ask if I had HD...
Sarah writes: Hear that whimper? That’s me. I used Clean My Mac to improve performance. I also decided (late at night) to clean up desktop. There was a folder labeled Copy Library iPhoto and decided I didn’t need a copy of iPhoto, so I trashed it. Yep....
So, you just squeezed off a series of art shots on your trusty iPhone and you’re dying to send them to your friends, but you’re not looking forward to tediously pasting each of photo into an email or picture message, one at a time. Well, here’s the thing: it’s...
It’s easy to get lost in Street View, the click-and-drag, 360-degree panorama of city streets that remains one of the coolest features in Google Maps. And if you’ve wasted as much time as I have taking virtual strolls around the streets of New York,...
Wish there were a faster way to switch your Android phone to “airplane mode,” toggle Bluetooth on and off, crank up your screen brightness, or tweak your Wi-Fi settings? Well, you could always pin a shortcut to the main Settings app for Android to your...
It’s a well-known—and highly annoying—fact that you can’t buy Kindle books directly from the iOS Kindle app. Sure, there is a way to buy Kindle books on an iPhone or iPad by navigating to the Kindle store from the Safari web browser, but it’s a...
Dolores writes (re: my recent cord-cutting article, in which I mentioned that I dumped cable TV in favor of an over-the-air antenna): But, what do you use for Internet access? We use our cable company more for Internet than TV. Hi Dolores! Well, I wish I could tell...
