Expecting a refund from the tax man this year, but still no sign of a check in your mailbox? There’s a quick and easy way to check with the Internal Revenue Service about the status of your tax refund, including when it’ll arrive in the mail or dropped...
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,...
Maybe I shouldn’t be saying this, but I’ve entrusted a big chunk of my digital life to Google—so much so, in fact, that I’d be in serious trouble if anyone ever hacked my account. If a hacker did manage to hijack my Google account, they’d have...
If the scary Internet security bug Heartbleed has taught us anything, it’s that none of our passwords are ever truly safe. Discovered only a few weeks ago, Heartbleed is the code name for a gaping hole in a commonly used security protocol that’s supposed...
So, how long have you been using Google? A few years? Ten? A dozen? (In my case, more than a dozen—yikes!) And in all that time, how many Gmail messages, contacts, calendar events, YouTube videos, and more have you saved, sent, uploaded and otherwise stored on its...
Want to check your Gmail inbox without pointing and clicking? You’ll barely have to touch your mouse with these handy keyboard shortcuts at your fingertips. You can compose a new message, archive old ones, jump back and forth between email threads, and more, all...
So, one of your closest friends just emailed, warning you that someone’s posting very, very bad things about you online. Whatever you do, though, don’t click that all-too-tempting link in the body of the message. Why not, you ask? Because your pal probably...
Want to try a wireless body scale, a floor-sweeping Roomba, or even the iPad 2 at home without plunking down the full retail price? A new, online shopping site lets you do just that, provided you’re willing to fork over $25 a month. Billing itself as an online...
Delving into online coupons can be a little like getting cheap air fare for a 3 a.m. flight. At the time, you’re psyched. But sitting in the terminal with the cleaning crew at 2:00 a.m., you realize you should have paid the extra money to sleep in. Sometimes the...
Circling a new Android phone—or the iPhone, for that matter—but worried that a newer model or a price drop is on the horizon? Enter Decide.com, an online shopping site that now offers pricing predictions for dozens of the latest smartphones. The...
