Take some time to figure out iOS 7 for the iPhone. Here are some noteworthy new features.
It is hard to imagine the world without Facebook, but not hard to long for the day when liking something meant you had thought about or experienced it for more than three seconds.
This holiday season, what are you going to get your tech-savvy friends? Here are some ideas that go beyond the obvious iPad mini.
Alexandra Boghosian is our resident techie. She frequently answers questions from our readers about their pressing technological issues. Here, she weighs in on the ins and outs of Facebook and other social media platforms.
Last weekend I saw the movie "Jobs," about Steve Jobs and the tumultuous times of Apple. I could not help but notice the lack of women in the movie. What does Apple look like today for women? What about other tech giants?
Google decided that it would partition your inbox for you into four categories, Social, Promotions, Updates, and Forums. I might go so far as to be outraged by Gmail’s fascist presumption that everybody’s mailbox can be neatly organized into perfect little pristine boxes. Here's how to undo those categories.
“How do young people find information so fast on the internet?” a reader wrote us about conducting an online search. “How do they readily find answers to complicated questions? What’s their technique?” Our tech writer, Alexandra Boghosian, answers the nuts and bolts of online searching.
If you asked my daughter to describe my digital parenting style, she would roll her eyes and use words like “strict,” “old-fashioned,” and “unreasonable.” The phone stays in the kitchen overnight, not in her room. Internet access shuts off at 8 p.m. on school nights and 9 p.m. on weekends . . .
What to do when such a presence in our lives as Facebook sprouts near-pathological sexist features? Just walk away? Last month, some groundbreaking women had a better idea: to use a sort of jiu jitsu and startle the behemoth by using its own strengths against it.
Before you go on a random clicking spree, make sure you’ve saved your work so that you can get it back should anything go wrong (like you accidentally delete the entire novel you’ve been writing). It might even help to write down the problem on paper so that you can do some semi-targeted clicking rather than randomly tapping your index finger.
Surely it’s not too much to expect people to calculate the effect of their heedlessness, to be mindful of this absent-mindedness, even to attribute their unwitting assaults to their own half-wittedness. In short, to think before it becomes necessary (or polite) to offer a perfunctory “Sorry.”
The apps you download should reflect what you do. Here are some apps that are just plain useful. Happy downloading!