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...
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...
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...
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