8 Amazing, Life-Improving Uses for Google Now Reminders

If you own a modern Android phone, the odds are pretty good that you’ve stumbled across Google Now in the form of voice commands. But, built into Google Now is a reminder system that is far more functional and useful than you might realize. More from this article on MakeUseOf.com

Microsoft’s Next lock screen gets more secure and useful with major update

Microsoft’s Next, a customized lock screen app for Android devices, might be just the solution if you want more flexibility with what shows up on your phone.

This stock lock screen alternative got a pretty big update on Tuesday that enables it to work with your phone’s fingerprint unlock feature and perform other magic with your existing applications. You can also notify Next about where your home and work locations are, so the app can manage different unlock rules depending upon where you are. More of this article from PCWorld.com

How super-sized SD cards will eliminate smartphone storage headaches

A dearth of storage available in smartphones will soon be an issue of the past.

Smartphone makers boasted about higher capacity storage on new handsets announced at Mobile World Congress this week. The increased storage comes from SD card slots on the devices. Check this article from PCWorld.com

Facebook to begin testing its Internet drone this year

Facebook will begin test flights of its solar-powered Internet drone later this year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday. Check out this article from PCWorld.com

How to Find Which Windows 10 Apps Work With Cortana

Microsoft’s personal assistant Cortana, named after the Master Chief’s AI companion in Halo, offers quite a few useful features to Windows 10 users. As more people update to Microsoft’s latest OS, more app developers are jumping in and adding support Cortana. More of this article from MakeUseOf.com

How to Create Powerful Graphs & Charts in Microsoft Excel

The power of a good graph is undeniable.

Taking numerical concepts and displaying them in an easy to digest, comprehensible visual representation can be the difference between someone grasping your idea, and someone grasping for the phone. To call security. Because your big pitch sucked. Your potential investors didn’t engage with what you were talking about, and I’ll tell you what – you should have used a graph. Check out this article from MakeUseOf.com

The Skype Qik app was redundant, so Microsoft is shutting it down

In 2014, about three years after the launches of Facebook Messenger and Snapchat, Microsoft decided it wanted its own share of the multimedia-messaging market. Not surprisingly, its Skype spinoff, Skype Qik, never took off. Check out this article from PCWorld.com