There are a lot of to-do lists available on the Google Play store. Each has its own bells and whistles like lists, recurring tasks, missed call reminders and more. However, these elaborate management apps don’t work for everyone. Sometimes you just need a list that is omnipresent, like a Post-It Note on the edge of …

When Apple announced iOS 9 for the iPad, the company revealed a a new picture-in-picture mode. Thanks to the new feature, users are able to minimize supported videos and continue watching them while multitasking on the iPad. When minimized, the video will resemble a FaceTime window that you can move around and resize with a familiar pinch-to-zoom gesture. That said, …

Amazon is celebrating its recent success at the Golden Globes with a discount on its Prime service the company announced on Thursday. Amazon Prime provides members with free two-day shipping on most items, along with access to the company’s Prime video and music catalog, discounts on video games and other miscellaneous services. Starting Friday, January 15 at 9 p.m. PST …

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 …

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Skype will add group chats to its mobile app to mark the 10th anniversary of offering video calls. The Microsoft-owned company said Tuesday in a blog post that the new feature will show up “in the coming weeks” on its app for iOS, Android and Windows 10 Mobile. “It really has been a decade since Skype changed the way people …

Now playing: Watch this: Butt why do we need the Peach app? 2:59 On my bus ride to work in San Francisco for the past couple of months, I’ve passed by the saddest row of happy-face posters in the world. They’re advertisements for Ello, the once-buzzy social network that cropped up in 2014, billing itself as the anti-Facebook. Its logo …

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 …

Now playing: Watch this: What on Earth is Peach? 1:39 Every few months a new social network crops up hoping to sway us from Facebook and Twitter. This time it’s Peach, the newest app for sharing your life. Part Facebook, part Path and part Tumblr, the app helps you share parts of your life with friends. It was created by …

Samsung is kicking off the new year with updates to three of its midrange Android smartphones. Available later this month, the metal-and-glass versions of the Galaxy A3, A5 and A7 for 2016 have the look of a premium phone but without the cost — or hardware chops — of a flagship model. Instead, they’re made for people who want a …

Pope Francis is largely beloved by the Internet. Now, he’s meeting with one of its leaders. The pope will meet with Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet, the parent company of Google. The Guardian earlier reported the news. The meeting will last 15 minutes and take place in the Vatican in Rome, the report said. The newspaper didn’t give timing …

Have you streamed Netflix’s crime documentary “Making a Murderer” yet? The series follows the cases of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, two Wisconsin men convicted of the 2005 murder of 25-year-old Teresa Halbach. Avery was convicted of rape in a separate case in 1985, but DNA evidence exonerated him in 2003 after he served 18 years in prison. Stephen Colbert …

Windows 10 has had some issues with display scaling on high-resolution screens — you may have noticed that some of your legacy apps on Windows 10 have (or had — they’ve been slowly fixing this) minuscule user interfaces, with icons and text so tiny you can barely see them, let alone click them. Well, I have some good and bad …

Google updated its Google app, which includes the Google Now Launcher, with some small tweaks on Wednesday. If you’re using a Nexus device and haven’t installed a third-party launcher app, such as Action Launcher 3 (or similar), you’re already using the Google Now Launcher. On other devices, such as Samsung’s Galaxy line you have to explicitly enable Google’s launcher in …

Ooma, Alexa. Alexa, Ooma. (In case you don’t get the reference, see David Letterman’s notorious Academy Awards shtick.) The Amazon Echo smart speaker (which often goes by its nom de operation, Alexa) learned a bunch of new tricks at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. Among them: how to make nice with the Ooma home telephone system. Ooma (Ooma, Alexa! Alexa, …