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Wednesday, December 28, 2016
How to shop Etsy like a pro By Amanda Kooser
Etsy launched back in 2005, which qualifies it as an elder
statesman of the internet retail scene. It rose to online prominence as
a site full of quirky, cute and crafty handmade goods. It grew to
include rare and unusual vintage items and embraced buyers and sellers
from all across the globe. Today, Etsy is a massive store and savvy
shoppers need smart tactics to make sense of the sprawl.
Follow
along with our Etsy shopping tips to help you find the perfect handmade
Star Wars apron, turquoise ring, craft supplies, or one-of-a-kind
custom pet portrait.
What does handmade mean?
On its "About" page,
Etsy notes that its heart and soul is made up of its...
Easiest way to backup your smartphone By Mark Jones
Our smartphones might be the most important gateway to our digital
lives. We store so much important information on these handheld gadgets
that the thought of losing them is frightening!
If you're like me,
once you enter someone's phone number into your contacts list, it's out
of your mind forever. It seems like it would be an impossible task to
recover everyone's digits. How scary is that?
Obviously,
smartphones aren't just contact directories. We also store precious
pictures and videos on them as well as important files.
You never
know when you're going to lose your phone, or even worse, have it
stolen. That's why it's so critical to back up all of the essential...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Top Story: Backdoor malware infecting this popular tablet brand By Francis Navarro
Christmas Day 2016 has come and gone. What holiday treats and gifts did Santa bring down your chimney this year?
We've warned you before about the three things you should not buy for Christmas and we hope you took this shopping advice seriously. Among the items we mentioned were cheap tablets.
Tablets
look like the perfect gift but cheap tablets have this major flaw: many
of these may use a version of the Android operating system that's
outdated, riddled with security holes that may never be patched.
So if you happen to find one of these modest stocking stuffers among your holiday haul, you have to read this!
It
was recently discovered that the latest...
Monday, December 26, 2016
MacBook Pro is the first Apple laptop to lack a recommendation from Consumer Reports By Oscar Raymundo
The new MacBook Pro is the black sheep in Apple’s product line, at least according to a new review.
Apple’s latest MacBook Pro has failed to receive a buy recommendation from Consumer Reports,
making it the first MacBook in history to lack this stamp of approval.
Consumer Reports cites extreme inconsistencies with battery performance
as the key issue for withholding their recommendation.
Apple claims that the new MacBook Pro boasts 10 hours of battery life,
but Consumer Reports found battery life to range widely from less than 4
hours to 19 hours. Average battery life may be 10 hours, but this
average performance can’t be guaranteed.
[ There's Still Time! Go Here For Last...
Student Studying Abroad: I've Gone Through This Twice and Lived to Tell the Tale by Carl Thorne
Always, always, always go through the school's study abroad program to sign up for a program.
Forget about the semester aboard having "real" classes that will count toward their major. They are studying aboard for the experience of studying abroad.
Forget EurailPasses. EasyJet and Ryan Air are the way to travel inside Europe.
I chose not to activate an international calling plan. Facebook Messenger worked fine for video calling.
We replaced the sim card in her iPhone with a local one that gave her a data plan. She now had a local phone number that the school and her fellow students could use to call her.
"Big" purchases were made with an American Express card because there...
Quick and convenient way to transfer files By Mark Jones
How many of you have ever emailed a file - like a photo or a document
- to your Mac from your iPhone or iPad, even as you sit right in front
of your Mac? Yes, I've done it too, just like nearly every other Apple
user on the planet. That's probably because using email to move files
around works pretty well as long as your file is small enough to be
attached.
But now there's a better way to move files among your
gadgets or even among your friends. When Apple released iOS 8 along with
the newest desktop OSX, Yosemite, it dramatically improved and
simplified the way we are able to move files around.
One
great part of this function is that your Apple gadgets don't even need
to be on...
Friday, December 23, 2016
Thursday, December 22, 2016
Apple Airpods review: You're worrying about the wrong thing by David Pogue
In 2010, when a customer wrote Apple (AAPL) to complain about his iPhone 4 dropping calls, Steve Jobs himself emailed back.
“You’re
holding it wrong,” he said. (OK, what he actually wrote was, “Just
avoid holding it in that way.” But that’s not quite as much fun.)
This
week, after a long delay, Apple’s AirPods finally started shipping.
Already, the world is full of complaints about their strange, detached,
dental-themed design. But if Steve Jobs were alive today, he might say:
“You’re complaining about them wrong.”
The AirPods are pretty great. Their strange design does present some problems—but not the ones everyone’s complaining about.
Here they are: Apple’s wireless, $160...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
How Microsoft rebounded to outshine Apple By Sarah K. White
Microsoft claims that more people are switching to Surface devices from Macs
than ever before. That's a concept that would have been hard to picture
when Microsoft first released the Microsoft Surface RT and Surface Pro
in 2012 and 2013, respectively. The Surface RT suffered from a
watered-down version of the new -- and generally disliked
-- Windows 8 operating system and, while the Surface Pro featured the
full desktop version, it came with hardware limitations and a high price
tag.
In a sea of clam shell notebooks, all vying to be
thinner and lighter than the last, the Surface clumsily debuted as a
confusing mashup of a tablet and a laptop. And people didn't like it. RT
users...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
How to Receive AirDrop Files on Your iPhone by iPhoneLife
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