Your Gmail account probably contains some sensitive information—emails from your friends and family members, information about accounts for other services, candid pictures, you name it. What if someone else has been poking around in there? Fortunately, Google gives you the tools necessary to find out. Check out more from this article on TechHive.com
Google Voice is a powerful suite of tools comprised of a dedicated phone number, call routing, caller announce, call recording, free texting, online voicemail, voicemail-to-text transcription, low-cost International calling, and more (whew!). It’s an amazing suite of features, and you can leverage this service to add these killer tools to just about any phone. Check on this article from PCWorld.com
Gmail is our favourite email service here at MakeUseOf, but admittedly, it has a few shortcomings. For one, the inability to schedule emails to send them later is quite frustrating. Plus, it would be nice to be able to know when someone has checked your message, and maybe even get reminded to follow-up with those who haven’t. Check on this article from MakeUseOf.com
With a few small tweaks, you could be getting a lot more mileage out of your Pinterest boards. Many users tend to limit themselves in how they use the Pinterest: wishlists, tutorials, gift ideas, or some combination of them all. But why stop there? There’s more to Pinterest than that. Check on this article from MakeUseOf.com
Google and Samsung have signed a “global patent cross-license agreement” that covers the companies’ existing patents and future ones over the next 10 years. Check on this latest news from PCWorld.com
Don’t let the “Scroogled”-spouting Pawn Stars guys fool you: Chromebooks aren’t useless hunks of plastic. Check on this article from PCWorld.com
Outread ($2.99) is a unique app for iPhone that’s designed to train your eyes to read content faster and not subvocalize each word you see. The new app takes a different approach to similar apps like ReadQuick ($9.99), which I reviewed last year. Get some glimpsed of this app from MakeUseOf.com