If you have iOS 15 or 14 downloaded on your iPhone, you have access to all sorts of fun ways to customize your home screen. You can switch up your app icons, take advantage of a pseudo app drawer called App Library and experiment with widgets. (Plus, rumors suggest that iOS 16, which Apple could show off at WWDC …
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New Chrome Extension Helps You Rest and Stop Being Productive
Hustle culture has convinced many people they should constantly be working on something, striving toward a goal or monetizing a hobby. This kind of thinking is promoted just about everywhere, but especially on social media. Instagram houses countless instances of hashtags like #riseandgrind, #millionairemindset and #success. Hustle culture views downtime as a missed opportunity. Selin Malkoc, associate professor of marketing …
Read More »Check Your Messages: Scam Texts on the Rise
By now, you’ve surely gotten at least one: an unexpected SMS message carrying a tiny link just begging to be clicked on. Do so and you might be handing cyber thieves valuable information they can use to swipe your bank account balance, fake your identity or even track your whereabouts. Dubbed smishing, a contraction of SMS and phishing, some texts …
Read More »Chrome Web Store Gets New Badges to Help People Find Good Extensions
It’s now easier to find the best Chrome extensions thanks to new badges Google is currently rolling out. In a blog post Wednesday, Google said that both the Featured badge and the Established Publisher badge will help give users assurance in extensions they’re installing on to Chrome. The Featured badge will be given to extensions that follow Google’s technical best …
Read More »iOS 15.4.1 Is Here and Has an iPhone Battery Drain Fix
A new iPhone update arrived recently: iOS 15.4.1. Coming on the heels of iOS 15.4, this update is relatively small but still important: It resolves a battery-draining bug and fixes a security flaw that Apple says “may have been actively exploited” on some devices. Read more: iOS 16 Wish List: New iPhone Features We Hope Apple Debuts at WWDC Some iPhone users took …
Read More »Use Spotify’s Sleep Timer to Doze Off to Your Favorite Songs and Podcasts
Listening to music or a podcast on your phone could help you fall asleep if you’re having trouble shutting your mind off after a busy day. However, if you fall asleep to your tunes you run the risk of draining your battery or (if you leave it plugged in) waking up to a rather warm device. For a simple remedy …
Read More »WhatsApp Is Launching Community Chats, Adding Emoji Message Reactions To Texts
WhatsApp is adding a new way for users to gather and chat with Communities, which is intended for organizations like schools and neighborhoods to coordinate and share media. Communities are WhatsApp’s answer to Telegram’s massive Groups and Channels, and while it’s unclear how many users can join a Community, they won’t be as much as the “hundreds of thousands of …
Read More »Elon Musk Spoke at TED Thursday About Twitter. Here Are the Key Takeaways
Elon Musk had a busy Thursday. In the morning, the Tesla CEO announced his offer to buy social media platform Twitter for $43 billion in cash, and in the afternoon he gave an interview at a TED conference to discuss what he wants to do with the site if he acquires it. One change he wants is for Twitter to …
Read More »Tweak This Setting to Declutter Your iPad’s Home Screen
If you’ve downloaded iPadOS 15 onto your iPad, you have the App Library feature on your home screen. The App Library provides a searchable look at all of your installed iPad apps, grouped by category. Tapping the search box also brings up a full alphabetical list of your apps. While the iPhone stashes the App Library neatly to the right of your …
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For many of us, getting organized and staying organized is no easy task — sometimes I still scrawl a hasty reminder on the back of my hand. The best Organization method will look different for everyone: Some prefer the tried-and-true paper planner, others take a more digital approach. When it comes to to-do list apps, I look for ease of …
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