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 …
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How to use iOS 9’s picture
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, …
Read More »How to get an Amazon Prime membership for $73 this weekend
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 …
Read More »Focus on the task at hand with Mac app HazeOver
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 …
Read More »3D printing in brief and a few printers for your consideration
Featured Video The Formlabs Form 2 is more than an expensive 3D… The Formlabs Form 2 is more than an expensive 3D printer 3:10 / Feb 2, 2016 Playlist The XYZPrinting Da Vinci Jr. 3D printer is not junior… The XYZPrinting Da Vinci Jr. 3D printer is not junior at all 3:35 Apr 23, 2015 The Cube 3 is a …
Read More »Skype to punch up its mobile app with group chats
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 …
Read More »Peach and the insatiable hunger for another way to Like
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 …
Read More »Browse Netflix’s secret genre categories with browser extension
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 …
Read More »Not already addicted to Peach? Read this
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 …
Read More »Samsung’s new metal Galaxy A phones don’t run Android 6.0
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 …
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