One of the messiest, most cluttered areas in any home these days is underneath and behind the computer desk. With so many people working from home at some point in the last year it might be even more cluttered as we’ve added devices, gadgets, and portable hard drives necessary to work and go to school remotely. Take a look behind…
You’ve no doubt heard something like, your smartphone has 10-times more germs than a public toilet. Thankfully smartphones aren’t as difficult to clean and disinfect as they used to be. Apple and Samsung now both say you can clean them safely, using an everyday cleaner like a Clorox wipe. A micro-fiber cloth is a dirty smartphone’s best friend. According to…
Cleaning up the desktop can mean two things. The actual desk where you work, and the desktop on your computer screen. If a cluttered desktop gives you anxiety, this spring cleaning can make you more productive. Over time, adding new software, downloading images and programs and photos, it’s common for a desktop to look waaaaay too busy. Start your digital…
Who doesn’t want to become a little smarter? If raising your IQ isn’t enough just being able to start a conversation with someone should be a good reason. But who has time to read or watch a 2-hour documentary or take an online course? The app “Uptime” is a solution. Uptime provides bite-size ideas and thoughts from some of the…
A new survey by the research group Hub Entertainment Research, reveals that around 70% of U.S households have at least 1 smart TV and smart TVs make up over half of all TV sets in the home. That’s over 86 million homes in the country with a television connected to the internet. There are obvious advantages to having a connected…
Tech in the kitchen has come a long way since the inventions of the electric can opener and microwave. While there are fancy Alexa-controlled coffee makers and microwaves, one of the greatest inventions for home cooks is the sous vide cooker. Sous vide is the technique of cooking by using water heated to the precise temperature of the food you’re…
The huge Facebook data leak that compromised user information for over a half-billion Facebook accounts brings up the question (again) of what Facebook knows and stores about its users. It’s been so long ago, many of us have forgotten that we gave Facebook our cellphone number when we signed up. To refresh my own memory, I set up a new…
A 2+-year-old data breach of Facebook information is back in the news and in terms of data breaches, this one is pretty bad. The Facebook information was taken by hackers two years ago and includes phone numbers, names, birthdates, gender, Facebook ID, and location of over 32 million Facebook users in the United States alone. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s information…
Forty years ago, a product that would soon become a fixture in homes and offices around the world first went on sale. 3M’s Post-It Notes was the first time a product was developed that allowed you to stick the paper to something and then remove it without damaging whatever you attached it to. For four decades people around the world…
A new study by researchers at Trinity College in Ireland claims Android devices send 20 times more personal data to Google than iPhones send to Apple. Even when the phone is first taken out of the box and activated. According to a report by arsTechnica, Google disputes the results of the study, stating the conclusion was due to “faulty methods…
