20 Mar 2015
How to Get Loopy With Vine
How to Get Loopy With Vine How clever can you be with six seconds of video footage? That’s the Vine challenge, and many users of the Twitter app have undertaken it, albeit with mixed results. Some Vines are so mundane, they make six seconds take too long. Some are so obscene you might turn away
20 Mar 2015
How to Get Breaking News on Twitter
How to Get Breaking News on Twitter Twitter is arguably the fastest way to get the latest breaking news, but it requires a little know-how to take full advantage of this tool. However, if you’re willing to spend a little time building your own customized list of news sources, you’ll be able to stay on
20 Mar 2015
How to Get Music Onto Your Smartphone
How to Get Music Onto Your Smartphone Your Android smartphone can be a great music player — after you’ve jumped through a few hoops. There are basically two ways to indulge in your listening pleasure: 1) transfer music files to the device; and 2) access a service to stream music from the Web. The easiest
20 Mar 2015
How to Set Up a Microwave Internet Link Over Distance
How to Set Up a Microwave Internet Link Over Distance You too can set up a personal wireless Internet connection of your very own over distances of up to several miles. All you need are two microwave antennas; some long Ethernet cables; a couple of photographic tripods; a laptop; an old WiFi Router; and a
20 Mar 2015
How to Boost Your Home WiFi With Multiple Repeaters and Access Points
How to Boost Your Home WiFi With Multiple Repeaters and Access Points Large homes and older homes with thick walls can be a particular challenge for WiFi coverage, but one strategy is to use multiple hard-wired access points and wireless repeaters to spread the signal. Start by downloading a free analyzer app for your phone
20 Mar 2015
How to Use Social Media Dashboards
How to Use Social Media Dashboards An assortment of useful reports are available through Hootsuite’s free version, including Facebook Insights, which shows Likes by demographic, for example; and Twitter Engagement, which shows Twitter mentions and retweets. Some more elaborate reports require a subscription upgrade to $9.99 per month, while others mean purchasing analytics credits. Social
20 Mar 2015
How to Protect Your Android Device from Malware
How to Protect Your Android Device from Malware Part of keeping your Android device safe is learning to recognize questionable apps. Apply the same techniques that you use to identify rogue emails from bogus financial institutions, like pixelated, poorly rendering logos, spelling mistakes, and publisher names that don’t match the official spelling or wording —
20 Mar 2015
Build Your Own Simple Linux Banking Tool
Build Your Own Simple Linux Banking Tool In general, the numerous spreadsheet templates that are Microsoft Excel clones and load in OpenOffice and LibreOffice are digital versions of a paper-and-pen checkbook register. If you want a simple spreadsheet to enter deposit and withdrawal details to get a running account balance, these basic spreadsheet solutions are
20 Mar 2015
How to Manage Your Android Device From Your PC
How to Manage Your Android Device From Your PC It might be possible to configure your Android phone using its Lilliputian on-screen keyboard, but that doesn’t mean you have to like it. Two third-party solutions offer a nice alternative, and one of them is even free. All that remains is to sit back, relax and
20 Mar 2015
How to Use Twitter’s New Crisis Alerts
How to Use Twitter’s New Crisis Alerts Among numerous new features rolled out by Twitter in recent months, two of the most useful are crisis alerts and the ability to preschedule your tweets ahead of time. The latter, for instance, lets you schedule tweets for posting in the future rather than tweeting a bunch of