Facebook Messenger recently reached 800 million users — that’s a lot of chatting! If you’re part of that number and find yourself juggling several conversations, Tech Recipes reminds us that Messenger offers a few ways to customize each conversation. This can help prevent you from messaging the wrong recipient, or just tune the theme to …

Receipts get misplaced, a deposit is forgotten, and losing track of your finances gets easier. Whether you’re trying to recuperate from holiday season spending, or want to create better money management habits for the new year, it’s a good idea to start tracking your finances. This selection of apps will help you keep a thorough record of where your money …

Whether you’re hosting or attending parties, spending time with in-laws, or finding the perfect gift, the holidays can be a stressful time. Maybe it’s time to give yourself a chance to relax. Coloring books for adults are not a new thing, but they have become more popular this year. By ditching the need to carry around a book and a …

Users on Android’s latest flavor, Marshmallow (version 6.0), are also likely familiar with Google Now on Tap. To summarize, this feature will attempt to provide contextual information from any screen on your device. So if a friend mentions a restaurant in a Hangouts message, you can use Google Now on Tap to quickly bring up directions or ratings. The latest …

We’ve discussed in the past how blue light from your electronics can have bad effects on your bedtime. Google recognizes this as an issue as well, and has added a new color mode to their Play Books app. The new mode, called Night Light, will use hues of amber based on available natural sunlight to filter blue light, and therefore …

Android Marshmallow launched with an enhanced version of the Google Now assistant that can work within almost any app on your device. Dubbed Google Now on Tap, it is supposed to serve as your personal assistant, getting you directions, looking up ratings or answering questions. During setup of your device, you may have skipped enabling this feature. Alternatively, you may …

Back in July, Facebook announced a simplified way to manage your account’s security settings on the Web. Now this feature is making its way to mobile devices. According to the company, “… most people connecting to Facebook on a mobile device are using Android,” so this feature is being rolled out to Android users first. Ready to check your account …

Looking for a meme image or GIF you saw a few months back? Wish you could quickly find it again without saving it in a bookmark or in your phone storage? Google understands. Now, when you search for an image in Chrome on Android, you can save it for easy access later. Think Pinterest, but without comments and re-pins (yet?). …

If you have friends who love to upload pictures to Facebook, chances are that you get tagged pretty often. But sometimes you don’t want others to be able to share pictures of you without prior permission. By default, Facebook lets friends tag you in posts, in photos that look like you, and check you in to places that you haven’t …

In the past, we’ve recommended LinkBubble and Flynx to load URLs in the background on Android while you continue reading Twitter, Facebook, or RSS. Both applications create a floating button that represents the prefetched URL, similar to opening a link in a new tab without switching to it. When you’re ready to read the link, you can tap on the …