Though Facebook’s SEC filings are dominating headlines, social neophyte Pinterest is gaining traction and plenty of buzz as the newest social media darling.
The two-year old company was dubbed TechCrunch’s Best New Startup …
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Siri Tricks and Tips: Do More with the iPhone 4S Virtual Assistant
In a phone with lots of evolutionary qualities, Siri is the iPhone 4S’s most revolutionary feature. Simply by speaking to this virtual assistant, you can set reminders, send text messages, look up information and schedule meetings.
But with a bit of extra effort, Siri can do even more. Here are some tricks and tips for getting the …
How to Share a Family Shopping List by Keeping It in the Cloud
If you live with other people, you know the problem: On Wednesday you notice that you’re out of milk, but you’ve forgotten about that by the time your spouse goes shopping on Friday. Or you write a note on that pad on the fridge, but your handwriting is illegible. Or what if the two of you go shopping at different stores and both buy …
Ask Techland: Best iPhone 4S Plans by Carrier
With three carriers now selling the iPhone, your options have gotten a bit more complex as far as monthly service plans go. We’ll take a look at which carrier’s plans are best for cheapskates, big talkers, big texters, and those who want it all—voice, data and text messaging.
(MORE: Spec Spat: Apple iPhone 4S vs. iPhone 4)
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How to Organize Your Digital Photos
Summer’s over. You have a lot of happy memories, and many of them are stored digitally as photographs. Organizing those pictures will help you find the ones you want quickly and easily.
Sure, you can easily find all the photos from your Grand Canyon trip, because they’re in a folder called “Grand Canyon.” But can you just as easily …
Ask Techland: How Do I Activate Facebook’s New ‘Timeline’ Profile?
Have a question for Techland? Send an e-mail to tips at Techland dot com and we’ll do our best to answer it.
Question: I saw that Facebook announced some sort of new profile yesterday. Like, like, like and like! How do I get it?!
Answer: So sorry loyal Techland reader: As Zuckerberg said at the end of f8 yesterday, you’ll have to …
Ask Techland: How Can I Clear Up Space in Gmail?
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Question from Steve: My Gmail inbox is almost full. What’s the best way to free up some space?
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Ah yes, the Gmail promise: Never having to delete an e-mail. Everything is archived, and since people are given a (relatively) insane amount of storage space, we’d never …
Ask Techland: Replace a Lost iPhone Now or Wait?
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Question from Tim: My brother just lost his iPhone and is debating whether or not he can muddle through with a disposable until September or October or whenever the new iPhone comes out. This ALWAYS happens with the new Apple products, right? There’s a period where …
How to Tweet Like a Man (Sort Of)
Fair warning: We’re defining “man” here in a much more nerdy way than, say, the tree-chopping, Dos Esquis-swigging sense. Here, we’ll be talking about male tweeting tendencies when computed from raw data through a field of study called sociolinguistics.
The study here was originally uncorked by Fast Company and is taken from a paper …
Hug Your IT Person, It’s ‘System Administrator Appreciation Day’
What started as a joke holiday back in 2000 is now celebrated in several countries all over the world: System Administrator Appreciation Day.
The holiday’s inventor, Ted Kekatos told Networkworld, “Overnight I set up a website. It was tongue-in-cheek. I sent out an email to my friends announcing the holiday, directing them to the …
How to Make Your OS X Lion Purr Like a Snow Leopard
I know, you generally love Lion, but you also sometimes hate Lion and wish it would just settle down and respect your commands, several of which probably involve getting it to behave like its predecessor. We can help, or at least point out some of your options, say you’re partial to Apple’s prior cat.
The following tip sheet isn’t an …
