It’s always a good idea to have a fully filled-in contact list attached to your email account. Names, addresses, phone numbers, email accounts, birthdays….then you can chuck those tatty paper address books away. Check out the tips on this article from MakeUseOf.com
We’re a few months into the year and you’re starting to enjoy that new laptop or desktop. Your new computer glides like a dream, but in a few months it’s going to slow down; after all, there are only three things certain in life: death, taxes, and sluggish computers after hours of Internet browsing. Check out this article from MakeUseOf.com
Do you know what attachments are buried in your inbox? Probably not. The generous storage limits email services have bestowed upon us have turned our inboxes into de facto repositories for all the files we’re sent daily. With no easy way to locate a file we need. A new mobile app called Dittach aims to solve this problem. Check out this article from PCWorld.com
Google’s Inbox app is about to get cozier with Drive.
The version 1.18 update tucks in some hints about integration to directly share a Drive file right from Inbox without the need to pop over to the Drive app and hunt for it. According to an APK teardown by Android Police, the code indicates a new permission model that lets the file’s owner grant access to others by tapping into Drive’s sharing features. More from this article in PCWorld.com
Windows 10 is constantly receiving updates, some big and some small, usually without a hitch. But problems can happen: the download getting stuck, the update refusing to install, or the system being caught up in a restart loop. Check out this article from MakeUseOf.com
Voice recognition used to be horribly inaccurate. It only worked for a handful of people a handful of the times. But now it’s actually rather good, thanks to the combined efforts of Nuance, Microsoft, Apple, and Google, who have thrown countless resources at actually improving it. Check out this article from MakeUseOf.com
Like many MacBook accessories, keyboard covers are a bit of an unknown: they seem like a good idea, but for less than $10, how good can they really be? Will they make your computer more useful, or just make typing terrible? More of this article from MakeUseOf.com