I forgot I had music stashed on Dropbox. With free iOS app Jukebox by thedrop.club, I was able to quickly find and import the songs from my Dropbox account to my iPhone for listening when I’m not able to stream music from Apple Music, Spotify or Pandora. Jukebox is easy to operate. After installing it, …

When Jonathan Frazen wrote “Freedom,” he did so in a spartan, rented office on an old Dell laptop that he rendered impossible to connect to the Internet. He not only removed the laptop’s wireless card, but he also permanently gummed up the Ethernet port. He told Time magazine, “What you have to do is you plug in an Ethernet cable …

Netflix has dozens upon dozens of hidden genre codes that you can enter manually in your browser to search not just for Horror movies for example but B-Horror Movies (8195) or Cult Horror Movies (10944) or Deep Sea Horror Movies (45028). If you would prefer to peruse a list of these narrow genre categories right from within Netflix instead of …

The easiest way to share contact information from your iPhone to another iPhone is simply to use the Share Contact feature when viewing a contact to text or email a vCard. A vCard contains all of the contact information you have on file for a contact, and its VCF file format can be read by most modern devices, including Android …

Before seeing this OS X Daily post, my method for finding an attachment in an email using the iOS Mail app was to scroll and scroll through my inbox, stopping briefly each time I saw the little paperclip icon to see if that was the message with the attachment for which I was searching. Little did I know that there …

The reason I use a MacBook rather than a Windows laptop might have less to do with the differences in the operating systems and more to do with the superiority of the MacBook trackpad. I have yet to encounter a trackpad on a Windows laptop that can match the feel of a MacBook’s trackpad. I enjoy the generous proportions of …

The Internet is full of all manner of hyperbole and untruths, and none more so than with user reviews. Yet when shopping for a product or a service online, user reviews can be invaluable. How can you separate the wheat from the chaff? That is, honest reviews from the fakes? If you are hunting for a hotel, then Review Skeptic …

Admit it, your digital photo library is a mess. Between your phone and dSLR camera — or just your phone alone — you have thousands of photos and are adding more by the day. It’s time to organize your photos so that they are safe and able to be easily browsed and shared. First priority: backup More important than organizing …

File this one under “Another thing I didn’t know Siri could do.” Siri offers a better way than blindly scrolling through your photo library on your iPhone to find photos from a past vacation or taken in places that aren’t your usual stomping grounds. If your iPhone photo library is as organized as mine, which is to say without any …

If you aren’t getting any bites on a dating site or are finding it to be slow going on a social network, perhaps your profile picture isn’t allowing you to stand out from the deafening online crowd. MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab built a Web app it calls LaMem, which is short for large-scale image memorability. LaMem uses …